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[Iter in Saecula Saeculorum (An Adventure Medley)]

This was made in LMMS? Impressive. Just, "limiting" yourself like that. Hee hee. get it? Very "in character" of an LMMS author to post a 10 page manual about their song. But... but some parts are empty-handed! Whenever the strings drop, the track eats it a little bit. It climbs up here and there and I'd rather just see it incorporated into the drop as being part of the main element. The time changes are also a hodge-podge of inflated convolution done right. But why? Maybe LMMS made you do it...

Kysertron responds:

I've tried the string-drop combination before here: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/918959

I'll try to keep the string-drop combo in mind so I can do it again in the near future. I'm not that well making them since I use the strings as backgrounds most of the time (usually in the latter parts of drops).

Most of the stuff you mentioned was intentional, although the strings were not much so...
Also, I like how you used the term "limiting", which actually brings up a great point. Beside the "limiting" without the use of a limiter (I try to not use one since it makes my music overcompressed), I use "limiting" in reference to themes... a lot (as you can see in this song).

Sure, LMMS has its quirks, but I don't see it as a very limiting DAW by any means. In the right hands, you could do LOADS of stuff with it. Check out this song made by LMMS: https://soundcloud.com/ptchwrkmusic/blossom

Also, I've used LMMS for so long, I find it difficult to settle into another DAW (I tried Ableton in 2018, I felt like I had just started music again).

[Cosmic Jungle]

One of the few songs where I'm pretty familiar with one or two of the samples used, and it's mashed up pretty well, at that.

Monoliph responds:

Thank you I tried to make it more interesting! I believe It was the EDM starter pack from Cymatics (don't quote me).

[Anywhere But Here]

Its nice, very ambient, a lot of details where most people wouldn't notice, whole track is a little quiet, hard to focus on anything specific, but it is okay for background music :D

Iosun responds:

thank you! i replaced my laptop since the last song and didn't want to go through the process of putting it through Ozone, which is why it ended up quiet. Will probably replace the track once I've mastered it proper

[Bass World (Meme)]

Bruh. It's kool. I got invincible studio headphones.

Just a suggestion to lower the compression and you could get away with ridiculous amounts of distortion.

NoStereo responds:

Oh definitely, but I wanted it to be at least a little controlled haha

[Dark Night of the Soul]

Guitar is fine, backing track working against it, though.

theartinme responds:

Totally gotcha. Intentional for a couple of reasons. First it's representative of how the Dark Night feels, like everything should be synced up perfectly and almost is, but there's this feeling of something off kilter, like a splinter in your mind. That splinter is the ego clinging, that clinging creates a "working against" towards what is sublime. You'll notice that as the track progresses further it begins to sync up better which represents the ego turning towards surrender. The other reason is that I wanted to make more of a jam track, which I haven't done in a while. The Dark Night tends to be a very messy event, and so I felt a jam track would represent it quite well.

[Vibez]

Love your music.

RedSkiesOfficial responds:

Thanks so much dude

[Binaural Funk (Use Headphones)]

So which ones are the theta waves? Solid track by the way.

theartinme responds:

Oscillating hum that starts off the bat.

[GearWax- Stained Glass Remake (WIP)]

Nice try, but the lows are too low and highs are too high. I blame whatever speaker you're using to monitor honestly.

Iosun responds:

shitty laptop speaker. i had a bunch of mixing issues with this one and it's far from finished

[Birds/Revenge]

The high pass filter over everything kind of really gimps the acoustic range of the song, which is probably a microphone thing. I think it could benefit greatly from having two separate channels for guitars and vocals if you like to edit and focusing more on Eq more than compression. This is a good song on it's own, a bit too formulaic for my tastes though :>

TheTechnoBabble responds:

I just wanted everyone to know these songs for the most part are recorded using a kareoke mic ran through a small guitar amp and an acoustic guitar recorded by a cell phone

[hu h]

This song is how I feel whenever I am playing as Captain Falcon

messerz responds:

yes