Pingu's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ghosts]

Nice beat for a potential lyrical hip hop track. It isn't too in your face, so it won't override any potential vocal stem. It does need a slight adjustment to loop seamlessly, but that should be an easy fix if you wanted. Good work!

KnockVoltage responds:

Thanks!

[Corkscrew - Rigel (Orion EP)]

Lovely blend of piano with DnB. The pacing was fast and upbeat, bit it had a nice breather midway. I liked how it rebuilt back up to the same level instead of just shocking into it. As the final notes came, I found myself wanting more. Good work!

ItzCorkscrew responds:

Thank you very much <3

[Don't Know What to Call This]

I'd suggest "Time marches forward" for a title. The beat has a bit of a marching theme to it, it's upbeat. I can picture a character moving along a forest path towards a distant castle.

Roydley responds:

That's a good suggestion. I can totally feel that. All the songs that I made were supposed to have a cool adventurous feel to it.

[You've Reached The End]

I like the mournful piano opening. It was interesting to hear the odd processor sound coming in on the right side of the balance, I don't think I've heard one in a while that seems to split the stems like that. Many people just do a back and forth, and I think this worked out well!

The simple introduction of the chiptune was nice, I found it helped ease into it. Chiptune doesn't generally come to mind when I think of ambient music, but they way you worked it in worked really well. Congrats on the frontpage, short as it was!

FateModified responds:

Hi, thank you for the review!

I've been experimenting lately with placing different instruments in different positions in the panorama in order to get a more interesting and clearer mix. I think maybe little by little I'm starting to get a better feel for how panning can improve my mixes.

When I started making the song, I didn't plan on the chiptune, but I stumbled upon the setting in Massive and found that it fit really well. It's funny because the way I make music is just by experimenting and trying different things until something sounds good to me.

Cheers! :D

[Hope for the Future]

Open source programs are great. Cakewalk by Bandlab is now free (down from $500) so maybe look into that, though I found it a computer process hog.

This is a nice ambient track, I didn't find it sounded abrupt. It had a nice soft open, muted ambiance throughout, and it didn't just cut off without a little trail at the end. Good work! I'd say keep doing what you're doing.

VortexSupernova responds:

Ahhh I tried Cakewalk, but -- Fucc... my happiness is completely disintegrated when I knew it is only for 64 bit. T___T I'm trying out a wide variety of DAW's and audioware including OpenMPT (tracker) and Finale demo & MuseScore (notations).

And also thank you, never knew even unscouted this did get noticed and got nice comments :)

[Abstrackt Traum]

Nice build up to the drop! There's a nice variation in the track between going all in and giving a recovery space. Anime-sounding injects were an interesting touch. Good work.

charliux210123 responds:

Thanks for the feedback :)

[endK - Automaton Squad]

Very upbeat! I have to admit, as I watched the inspiration and read the description for it, I was really hoping for some kind of "acquired the floppy disk" sound. I know that would be out of place with the track, but the music went so well with the art that I briefly thought I was watching an animated short. Good work, good luck on AIM!

endKmusic responds:

It worked! :D
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. :)