Winterwind-NS's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[King's Quest]

You are far from being a poor composer. This is a really impressive song. Very eclectic, I like how you switch from one setting to another. Fantastic ending as well.

Keep up the great music.

Bosa responds:

You have been an old friend and a long-term musician on this website. It is fine to hear from you again after so long. I ask that you continue your musical pursuits as well -- this website can benefit from both of our expertise.

[Windswept]

I haven't been on newgrounds in a while, but it's nice to see that that Classical section of the AP is still in the good hands of a few fantastic composers.

Keep it up, I really respect your work.

NickPerrin responds:

Oh man! It's Winterwind! Back from the dead!
Seriously it's good to hear from you. I'm sure you've been up to some pretty cool stuff. I was reminiscing about your old music lately, actually...

Two things I must say though - I also rarely use the AP anymore myself, and in fact 90% of my latest work is not here (and there's been a good deal of it). I've only really uploaded recently thanks to the contest that this was entered in. Secondly - follow the link in the description of this track! The full version of this track is what I really meant for it to be, and definitely better than this cut! Feel free to leave another review on that one. ;)

Hope to hear some killer new tunes from you sometime. Now I want to make some solo piano work again, I'm reminded of all the piano stuff we both did years ago...

[-Pixelspace- SIK2 OST]

I was expecting orchestral music, but instead got this and I'm not disappointed at all. I can absolutely imagine this being a really fun song to listen to during a game.
It loops very well too, great job on this.

Waterflame responds:

Thanks :D yeah i messed the genres up, fixed now !

[DXM - Stop Making Sense]

Great song

Yeah I definitely heard this before you pm'd me about it, it's a great listen. Definitely sounds like there would be tons of different patterns and whatnot, where as in my "Pale Ice", there aren't nearly as many, but instead I used tons of effects and automation clips.
Again, great song.
Hard to believe it only took you 15 hours

-Winter

tijnn responds:

hehe well it could well be it were less than 15 hours, i usually don't spend a lot of time on the same song, which i should start doing

Thanks for the review though!

-DXM

[Love will be shown.]

Thanks for dropping by with the review

But honestly though, I would've felt bad if my "Pale Ice" loop placed higher than this one, I'm really liking this.
It's got a hint of various genres all in one.
Nice job and congrats
5'd 10'd fav'd

-Winter

Helth responds:

wow thanks man! i think ur is great too =D

Helth

thanks ^^,

[[oove] Heartbeats]

Incredible

Had I been a judge for this month's MAC, I would've definitely without hesitation consider you in the top of all the other submissions. This track is perfect in almost every way. What attracted me most compared to the other submissions with piano in them is how the way the piano is played here, very freely. But, near the end starting around 2:22 where the right hand livens up a bit, it loses a bit of the realistic feeling though. It would've helped much here if you stretched the tempo like you did in the beginning. I like where it was headed, when you started intensifying the momentum.
Ending was just perfect.

Goodluck in the MAC, I honesly hope you get placed fairly.

-Winterwind-NS

broove responds:

To be honest, I didn't write this song specially for MAC - it was a regular submission. When I found out about the MAC, I realised that the theme actually suits the song.
To be honest 2, I'm not good at piano (bought my MIDI keyboard a year ago, but I really got fascinated with it). There's much computer editing going on, but I really tried to make this song realistic by changing tempo, velocity and other little things. Near the end I used quantization and that's why it may lose the realistic feeling.

Thanks for the review, mate!

[-Orr- Final Encounter]

awesome

this song is great, but it sounds a bit too wet overall
the first four notes in the bass really reminded me of clubbed to death

DavidOrr responds:

Hey Winterwind!
Balancing the reverbs was pretty tough- I wanted to keep the guitar and drums in the front of the mix, so I had to make everything else a bit wetter. I'll go back and see if I can rework the reverbs for a later release. Thanks for the input, much appreciated!

[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

[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