ArcaneSoul's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Found]

dont worry, i sometimes have troubles not writing something dark lol.

This is like my fav song out of all your stuff btw. Really get melodies here and its haunting but in a good way.

johnfn responds:

DUDE! You are my hero. YOU REVIEW AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

Thanks man. That means a lot. Whenever I go to submit I start thinking "hmm, is this actually any good or did I just trick myself into thinking that?" So frustrating.

[Desolation]

What trick? lol

Also the melodies in here just didn't ring to me that well i dunno.

And don't worry, it is almost impossible for me now to make a 4:00 song without is going longer XD

johnfn responds:

When you do a build up you bend a string a full octave and have it finish right when the build up ends. It makes a build up much more exciting. Probably this isn't *just* your trick. :D

I agree, the melodies here are not spectacular - my sad songs usually have less exciting melodies. Something to work on. Thanks for the review.

[RPG Voice Acting]

Damn good voice here :D

You got the accent nearly perfect with this one.

Shadeborn responds:

Thank you, mate) btw, I'm Russian)...

[Honey]

Such a beautiful song. We need more unique artists like you on newgrounds.

5/5. I am not even going to crit this because its waay too beautiful to even worry about minor errors :)

Kingbastard responds:

SO, you're saying there are errors? hahaha;) Thanks for the comment man

[Anticipation]

Happy techno is always fun.

Such an uplfiting melody and the gated pads are fantastic in this one. Digging this groovy track 8)

Also, 1:43, is that autogun? If it is i had no idea other people used that plugin besides me 0:

johnfn responds:

Actually 1:43 is just a nexus piano preset, nothing too special. Thanks for the review. That review turnaround time was super fast!

[Unassailable]

Me run away? Why the hell would i do that? XD

Pro melody at 0:22. God your good at melody making ;u;
Your synths are pretty good too. Which also btw what vst's do you have? I know ive heard you use nexus a couple of times.

johnfn responds:

Haha, you're on to my nexus!!

This song is pretty much dominated by this guy's synths: https://sites.google.com/site/ddrkirby/music/resources They are fantastic for chiptune stuff. The only think I'm kinda stuck on is making decent chiptune drums. Apparently there are some good plugins that can do it. Haven't dug too deeply yet.

That melody was a delight. I wrote something a lot worse and was thinking of tossing it, then started changing it a little and was suddenly like "whoa this sounds pretty cool."

[Between caos and soul]

Such a beatiful intro.

You sure know how to express emotion well. It makes me realize how much i hate being alone somedays and wish i could be with someone again.

Anyway 5/5 right here.

NordicHazard responds:

thanks. i hope you'll find the right person one day, at the end we are not ment to be alone right?

[choral experiment FAIL]

The sounds you used are very cool but......uuhhhh the melodies sound....dissonant

DESHIEL responds:

Yeah, I wasn't realy sure how to proceed with this so everything is kind of a wild guess here ;D

I jumped into this without any research about how it should be done. ;D

[Resilience]

0:13 YOU MAKE ME JELLY CUZ OF YOUR MELODY SKILLZ XD
I recently read your review and yes i did agree to it. I just don't know how one makes leads.

Btw really good song here. Has a breakbeat feel to it ^_^

johnfn responds:

Thanks man :)

About leads. I noticed in your response to my review on your latest song (lol NG makes it hard to continue conversations) that you mentioned that you don't know music theory so you can't write good leads. I don't think music theory is as important as you think. I know a fair bit of music theory, but pretty much never use it in my songs. I just put down notes that I think are right.

What *is* important is that I usually go through a lot of iterations of melodies. The first melody that seems so simple actually came in the middle of writing that really long solo - I tore it out later. That really long solo wasn't even my first really long solo (I threw out some earlier ones). When I wrote the solo, I 'sketched it out' first to see the whole idea through, then went back and slowly refined it.

I feel like I got kind of lucky here, a lot of things worked really nicely together. You should hear my latest song, it's total crap. xD

[SmK - Climax]

NEEEEXUUUUUS :)

So far like it. Don't see any mastering issues yet. The chorus sound amazing and this lead is delicious ^.^

1:25 that build up is very awesome as well as well as that breakbeat transition. Did you make it yet or did you use a vengeance for that one?

Oh man 2:12. I can't find anything wrong with this song (or at least in my ears. Im not good at mastering ^_^').

I'm going to stop critisizing now and enjoy the song. Flat out 5/5 right here.

SKILLZmakeKILLZ responds:

Thanks, good to know that people still like my music!