oChron1cTQ's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[House and Home (feat. im-leia)]

Are there any chords/rhodes? If there are, what VST did you use?

Same with the melody and layers, they are super nice!

Bass is smooth!

Drums are nice, with really nice counter-snare/hat patterns, although I guess the snare could have more rolls/fills, which would create more diversity.

Entire song is mixed well.

Arrangement is simple, but nice!

9.5/10

im-leia responds:

the rhodes were from FL Studio FLEX, i believe
a lot of those melodies were preds! he did such an amazing job on them

[TheFatRat - Still Here With You]

Really nice strings, what VST did you use for that? Did you use a preset, or make your own?

Drums are nice and soft, and mixed VERY well.

Vocals are confident.

Bass is smooth and clean, what VST was that?

The entire song is mixed very well. 9.5/10!

[Casino Clash - 2nd Phase]

So fire~!!!!!!!!

What VST did you use for the piano?

Horns are fire on life no cap.

Saxophone sounds better with this song than Jazz Carson.

Crazy bells. Very nice drum pattern.. (although it isn't very jazzy).

Arrangement is very unique.

CicloOfficial responds:

Thanks! :) I used Neo Piano vst (Piano One). It's free and easy to use, one of the best piano vsts out there imo

[Meuny - Afraid of Love.]

What VST for the chord progression????? It sounds so whimsical, and peaceful. The drums are nice simple, and soft. Arrangement is extremely simple, but the just ads to the peacefulness. Mixing is nice.

Meuny responds:

It is a Rhodes vst called 4front R-piano.

I've added some effects in it like a small bit of delay, reverb and other things as such.

Also

I used a soundfont from the game Supermario. You know that piano that plays in the main melody? So, that's what's playing in the background, very softly, to give the main piano some "body".

And, finally.

There's another soundfont. A choir this time. It is there to work as a sort of drone. It is playing the root notes, just so you won't get lost whilst listening to all this jazzy shinannegan i've made lmao.

[MrKoolTrix & Miss Lina - Whole New View [Exobolt Release]]

OMG FIRE

Drums are simple, with a nice ride cymbal in some sections, but that gives space for... omg....

The chords are huge, what VST did you use? The melody works so well with the vocals, which are mixed VERY well.

Arrangement is so unique, even better than Herobust!

And the Bass,, dawg that has so many layers! It's very busy as well, will a really nice rhythm.

9.5/10

[No Time (ft. Junior Paes & Rose)]

fire

What VST/Midi did you use for the bass? It sounds very large.

Mixing is done quite well; the arrangement is simple yet powerful. Hearing the bass, I think the drop would benefit from a false start.

Drums are simple but nice, focuses on bass and ear candy which is nice.

Seyrnox responds:

Directwave, I guess

[lone]

What VST did you use for the Chords? It sounds very angelic and nice..

Super chill, the main melody has very nice FX and sound design on it.

Would benefit from some gritty drums.

Vosh responds:

Only serum)

[Wondrous]

WOAH

The second I heard those chords, I was like: what VST? Where's the tremelo from?? HOW?????

And really, where did you get the Tremelo? It sounds godly!

The entire track is mixed quite well with really nice arrangement.

The reason this track is 9/10 and not 10/10 is because the drums a little too simple for the rest of the song, or for a DnB track. Also, there is not too much ear candy, but I think it's fine because the arrangement makes up for it. Overall, great track!

N0B4nn responds:

Yes, dnb isn't the biggest genre I make, so it was a little difficult to produce for me.
(For the chords)
VST: Nexus 4
Tremolo: (updated) I slapped on some Kickstart and set the shape to the weird two-peak one, the far bottom right shape, and turned the speed up to 1/8. It sounded very nice with the original speed, and the slowed down version still fit with how I wanted it to sound.

[Contemplation (Prod by Hikari)]

Super nice beat, what VST/midi/sample did you use Hikari?? It's really nice..

Vocals are nice and confident, but not mixed..? Is that intentional..?

Hikari responds:

Early Summers Ryo Fukui. Bass is Sytrus (FL Studio) and the drums are sampled from the same album as the piano cut.

[In The Rain]

Ok, you NEED to tell me what VST/One-shot/Midi or whatever you used for the chords and main melody! I am addicted!

The drums are very gritty, sounds sort of like the vintage drums from Spitfire Audio's LABS.

Arrangement is simple, but I think it's a smart choice as it puts the spotlight on the ear candy and FX/Ambience. (which goes hard by the way.)

I love the style, you earned yourself a follow!

EDIT: Omnisphere? How did you afford that? Especially with the hardware? Lol I don't have any paid plugins..

Aalasteir responds:

Hi @oChron1cTQ

BPM of the song is 95, scale is D minor, and the chord progression goes:
D min - Csus4 - Bb maj - Asus4 -

Background melody -- Roli Studio - Mellotape Strings, played using a Seaboard RISE 2;
no quantization.
Synth main melody -- Omnisphere 2 - Big additive Keys 1, played using a computer keyboard;
no quantization.
The Fluggelhorn main melody is by @sorohanro

The chords and bass are built from the chord progression - D min - Csus4 - Bb maj - Asus4 -

Chords:
Omnisphere 2 -- Choirwerk 3
Omnisphere 2 -- Mellotron Cello
Omnisphere 2 -- Smoked Lep Steel Harmonics

Bass:
Omnisphere 2 -- SYT1 - Covert Op

Drums:
Ableton Live 12 -- Ableton Pack Breakbeats by KutMasta Kurt - Uprockable Kit

Yes! Absolutely! Spitfire Audio's LABS are super awesome!

Thank you so much!