PhonoBrainer

Pianos are very very subjective, but I ran with ivory II as my main piano for a few years. It lacks a depth to the samples, and doesn't play super well from a touch standpoint. For 249? Pearl or Noire would be considerably better imho but that's on the yamaha side.

It shouldn't take them 18 months to reverse engineer Reaper.

This is the stuff. I loved it. Sorry to hear about the flooding. The chills vibe is strong with this one. cheers, -Tom

Like a Prog Martini Jazz. Very very interesting. What did you use for drums? They sounded good to me, maybe just a bit more fill programming in certain spots? You have a very strong sense of compositional style, I can hear it in all of your works I think. What was the musical about? cheers, -Tom

Great drum performance and mixing, and same with the guitars. That doubletime section was friggin awesome. You guys know what you are doing!!! I'm a big Rush fan from decades ago, appreciate the reference and your tribute. cheers, -Tom

Great lyrics, and the guitar parts, too. Overall I feel like the mix might be just a hair overcompressed. I dunno, it's not way smashed, just a little smashed and sometimes crunchy artifacts are a choice. On the guitars, do you have a guitar doubling the bass line? I'm hearing more overcompressed crunch on the bass than anything else. If you have a guitar doubling the bass, you might drop the guitar's volume just a hair? Total guess. "Hot Dog" came after, and it's much cleaner in the bass dept. . . . what settings did you use there? still "Blackhole" kind of sucks you right on in! cheers, -Tom

Loved the whammy bar dips. That's a neat guitar lead line. We need much more Latin jazz stuff on the forum. Your jazz guitar improv skills are legit. Cool! For a not, maybe that rhythm guitar you occasionally have panned far right could sit better in the mix, maybe drop the volume? Maybe more reverb , plate, on the horns? Thanks for that one! -Tom

Stereo MCs kind of groove. Noice!!!

I listened on headphones . . . very much liked the groove. I was missing the kick drum and the bass. I know, headphones will do that. But you might give the mix a spin on headphones, if you haven't already . . . it's a bit on the brighter side of the teeter totter. Cool little bgv ooooh adds and the piano bounces along nicely as well. A very cool foray into jazz which I thought had more funk in it and therefore the bass stuff is critical. Or should I check my headphones? Nice one! -other Tom

I'm hoarding electrons.

Plus it looks cool like my old Marantz amplifier!

Yes please post! And continue fractalling, although the tap water might catch fire.

What a trip. It's at it's best when I can hear the lyrics, but I really liked the guitar which reminded me of Fripp in spots. I especially liked the neat slinky synthy pads sliding around rhythmically in the background. I think I also in this one especially was digging your vocal tambre and style, so offhand yet it still conveys the meaning. Hearing your tunes helps me press the reset button in my musical mind. Wonderful. -Tom

Hansa Nitizer?

They should try VSTBuzz.

EZ Like Sunday Morning?

A rap sample library? EZ Eazy-E? RIP, btw

Ok for expansion 2 I found a price mentioned. 199 euro. Translates to 219 USD. So again I don't know how this is in the deals section? But it's only me that really gives a rip, apparently! And the crickets I am hearing use roughly the same kinetic motions as a violinist 😵

Yeah I've looked but I can't find what the original price was.

Is this a sale? Or a virtual sale?

Yep the lyrics are pretty special and phrases well turned. The drums are fresh and lively. I can tell more on this is coming. What's the plan for the guitar? Sounds naked and could use just a bit of chorus shimmery something. Vocals are a treat. Could come up a bit in the mix perhaps. This dude has raw energy. The arrangement is nice and unpredictable, which I always like. cheers, -Tom

Hey welcome you rawk star. The highlight is that crisp guitar riffage which is an awesome performance for sure. Vocals I could hear Rik singing just peachy. Mixwise you might look at the drums, especially the hi hats, they have a bit of flange going on which I think you could do without. It could be the conversion to mp3 if that's what happened? Did you start with a .wav and upload to Soundcloud a 128kbps mp3? Or did you upload a full blown .wav to Soundcloud? It kind of sounds like you started with a 128 mp3 and then uploaded that to Soundcloud, which might have degraded the high end a bit. Wish I could sing like that. Welcome to the medium show! Looking forward to the opus, Magnum. cheers, -Tom

OK it's 80's all day and I love it. That percolating string triplet pad in the background was killer! The chorus is so bright and poppy and great. That lead synth right at the end of the chorus comes in early, just wonderful! The theme is dark as hell and imho the lyrics are so great with the bright upbeat vibe. I think the internet can handle it no problem. Mixwise I'd say you could let some of the bottom eq of the bass and kick back in. It's pretty tilted to the bright side. This is my favorite song today. cheers, -Tom

Wow. That thing grooves hard. Vocals up would be my only offering. Well done sir! -Tom