ADR3-N's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[So cold]

WILD to hear Aalasteir rapping. Made me smile from ear to ear!

[SHOTS]

Really interesting idea for a beat. I especially like the intro. I think the 808 could use swapping out though for another stronger one. I have a bunch of these in a free sample pack I made. You can download them wholesale from my gumroad or grab them individually off the left hand panel of my profile under "my samples"

[DrumNCrash]

Wasn't sure about this when it got started, but the base of the full drum beat itself sounds cool. I would totally sample it.

LMMS is really hard to mix in and get quality sounds. I would probably recommend exporting your stems and mixing them in another DAW.

FantasistEldrun responds:

Thanks !

I've been using LMMS for years now, however I dont really know any other plateform that I'd be capable to use for the same situations... Do you have suggestions for that ?

[- Space Warrior]

Hip-Hop. Just add an 808, kick and snare, and you have a decent beat starter

[Touch of the Wind]

I'm floored at not having found your music sooner -- this stuff is right up my alley! Loving the breaks and more IDM style production! Thoughtful, lively atmosphere with unintrusive motifs. In general, just real nice

8-BITek responds:

Thanks, I’ve got a few IDMs on Newgrounds

[Yamaha PSR-400-500 Song]

I'm here for that ting-ting-tong agogo, and no one can take that enjoyment away from me. Without removing said agogo.

This got me wondering if the PSR-400 sounds are substantially different from the ones loaded in my girlfriend's keyboard. I was thinking of making a sample pack of the different patches. If they're not too different, though, I may recommend this soundfont and record some interesting modulations instead. (EDIT: I checked and she has a PSR 423, so no wonder the patches sound familiar!)

This composition is a bop btw.

ALSO, I just thought of this since you mentioned Casiocore in your tags. Not long ago I put out a CasioTone 2400 sample pack with some soundfonts. From this track, it sounds like you could make it bang! Check my profile if you're interested in that sort of thing.

8-BITek responds:

The PSR-423 has different sounds and additional filters that weren’t present in the PSR-400. You can listen to the PSR-400 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce6iYByAqxk - completely different sounds.

By the way, speaking of Casio, my first keyboard was the Casio CA-401. To this day, I’m still searching for a soundfont with those sounds. If you happen to come across one, let me know!

[F-777 - Deadlocked (Cover)]

Not sure why this has such a low score. It's a perfectly serviceable chip cover and doesn't sound bad at all!

[Quantum Ooze]

That happy-go-lucky intro, amens right off the bat, followed by that drop. Nicely varied, just the right amount of crushing and clipping. Very well deserved frontpage. Really takes you on a journey! Only one item of critique: the drop growls don't translate very well to laptop/phone speakers. Giving them a bit more high mid or experimenting with clipping/reso may help in that regard. Otherwise, fantastic

[alone with a friend]

This is just gorgeous. Minimal? Yes, but that's the charm. It feels like a window into an intimate ceremony, something we're not ordinarily supposed to see but do. There's a magic to skin heads (no, not those kinds of skinheads -- I mean olskool actual skin drum heads) that you don't hear anywhere else. It's raw, natural, and real, and I'm here for it.

[Oinks - Brainfuck]

Don't have headphones on to properly appreciate this, but I LOVE the grooves going on here up through 1:39. Whole track is just weird in a good way :)

01NX5 responds:

I think I mixed this track exclusively for headphone, which was a mistake of mine cause I did master this track only in headphones and without speakers, even though this was made on mobile and phone spekaers aren't the greatest, but maybe I shouldn't fully rely mastering on headphones.

But mastering aside, I'm glad you enjoyed the track, it was, for me and my sakes, risky cause I perfer to write more complex tracks whereas the minimal and repetitive approach I had on this track, I like how it came out and I appreciate your comment! :D