Winterwind-NS's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Quest of Eve Main Theme]

Beautiful

Reminded me of the 'beautiful' motif in the King Kong OST by James Newton Howard. Lovely melodies and the modulations were appropriate, although I would suggest using it a bit less frequently. The portrayal of your story was right on.
Good job and good luck

-Winter

Bosa responds:

James is a very good composer. He's worked on some very popular and high demanding films, it's hard to believe one of my works reminded you of such a great composer as he! Someday I may reach to that level, but with work and patience only then.

-Bosa

[Symphony of the Night =MEDLEY=]

Brilliant

This knocked my socks off
I really got into the song at about 0:51, that flute thing around there was damn cool. Piano solo part was pretty boss. The tutti at then end wasn't abrupt, which was nice.
I'm not too fond of the music from this game series at all, but now I kind of wish I was. The ending segment kicked my ass. I loved those chromatic runs between the flute and clarinet. In reality, that would be damn hard to play, almost impossible, especially for the clarinet.
Great job dude, I really enjoyed this.
now I gotta find my socks

-Winter

[Victory! (8-bit Chiptune)]

awesome

I've been listening to this for a loooooong time on loop, and I can say confidently now that I'm familiar enough with the song that I can whistle the entire thing.

Way to go chap

-Winter

NickPerrin responds:

Haha I'm waiting on that acapella version to be uploaded soon then.

Cheers man. My love for 8-bit games had to eventually cross over into my love for music. I may do a few more 8-bit tunes before working on my orchestral stuff that lies half-finished at the moment... It's actually a pretty interesting compositional exercise to make 8-bit. You work with very limited "hardware" and have to be creative not just in terms of making maximum 3 voices work as a song, but also in terms of technically attaining the timbres and (fake) effects that each wave and pulse can do by manipulating the use of the notes and MIDI functions/controls. Fun stuff.

Thanks for the review. I should have more new music coming than usual since I'm doing this 50 songs 90 days challenge. Just, no guarantees on quality, just quantity haha...

[Khuskan - Chromatic]

chromatic?

I don't think I heard a single bit of chromaticism
the progression from i to VI was nice but I was expecting more variations.
the guitar sample was great and the effects on it was set perfectly
A good title would've been Solfege, since that's what she's singing.
Which I realized, the samples were singing the solfege based on the a minor scale, rather than the C major scale, which my keyboard does. Pretty cool, nice job finding those samples
nice song buddy

-winter

Khuskan responds:

The name is derived from the original format of the vocal samples, which was a chromatic scale from A3 to A4 - a sequence which doesn't occur in the song.

The guitar sample is also just a processed Reason sampler, it's not even live

Though I envy your ability to analyse this track in such depth :O

[Carvellas Castle]

organ

The intro was pretty awesome
i love the step down from Dm to C#m that you do throughout
some parts got a bit corny, and the drumset got boring quickly
and why is this labeled under "Classical"?
the only classical instrument in this is the organ
nice

-Winter

[Sea Stars]

5/5, that's one more than 4/5

Awesome job dude
nice octave switching haha
I didn't recall there being backup vocals, which was an awesome addition.
I think I like sea stars now

-Winter

MusicalRocky responds:

Lolol why can't it be 6/5? :[

Yeah dude I had to do that higher octave stuff cause I couldn't sing it lower lol. I suck.

Yeah I didn't write background vocals, I just decided to do it and improvised it on the spot lol.

that's good lol. I need to record my sea turtles song.

Thanks yo,

-Rocky

[Nocturne Ab Min. No.2]

incredible

Amazing song dude!
I love it.
The part where you have that big major chord, then the diminished chords and then the follow up trill sounds so much fun! (0:56)
Please DO send me the sheet music to this piece
I totally want to learn this song.
Can't wait to hear the first nocturne

-Winter

NickPerrin responds:

Thanks man. I probably should have had that #1 Nocturne up ages ago... and I realize now that this piece itself hardly qualifies as a Nocturne (in the traditional sense/feel of a nocturne) haha... but hey. Whatever. I'll get that sheet music to you as soon as I can!

[Isolation (preview Only)]

lol

IT WAS GOOD
haha jk, I'll reserve a real review when it's complete
amazing song though, almost ambient.

-winter

[.:( In The Arena ):.]

snap

yeah at first I was a bit skeptical, but I took your word for it.
and this is pretty intense.
The part that really got me going at first was at :48 i believe.
I didn't expect this kind of song from you haha
I hear you have a choir sample of some sort.
is this a soundfont? east west?
if it's east west, do you have the word builder?
because if you do, you need to compose a choir piece
that'd be really interesting.

nice one nick

-Winter

NickPerrin responds:

Yeah believe it or not my roots lie in this style of videogame music. I thought I'd revisit that style now that I at least know what I'm doing a little bit. I also learned a bunch of new stuff about audio production so this is also an experiment putting that new knowledge into action.

If ONLY I had word builder! Although I hear that sampler is really system-intensive which wouldn't be good considering all the other symphonic instruments I'd want loaded up at the same time. What I actually have is "Voices of the Apocalypse", It was a precursor to EW Symp. Choirs.

The samples are great, Men's choir and Women's choir, and DO come with word articulations, but I got the samples Giga format which converts to EXS24 in Logic, and as such I'm not sure how one would use a word builder with them. So I just use the "aah" "eeh" and "ooh" etc. I'm going to look into it (I probably should have a long time ago), a choir piece would be really interesting to do.
Thanks for all the reviews!

[.:( Orion's Belt ):.]

Brilliant

Film music with so much thought behind it.
It makes me want to take back what I believed about it for a long time.
it's just that no one has really proven me wrong about it till you came.
2:14 is amazing especially the transition after it with the glocks and the harp with those descending arpeggios.
Oh and good job on having it play that section once more, familiarity is an easy thing to catch on to for those who don't understand classical well.
ending was creative
Throughout you have this great dreamlike feeling that the listener gets, which is very suiting. Your unpredictable chordal progression is a very good attribute.
I'm really glad you're here lol

-Winter