zuuku
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hey everyone, my first real post on the forums is the first release i ever put out under my chiptune project, Decnals.
It's called Lvl. Dew, and it's a free, four song EP. I wrote all of it using Reason software.

http://decnals.bandcamp.com/album/lvl-dew

I also have two singles for free on my bandcamp. At this point, I am learning to use
LSDJ and every release from now on will use that.

Feel free to leave me feedback here or on my facebook below!
Facebook is where I update all of my stuff and it honestly means the world to me when people like my page.
(More likes = more inspiration to write music). Enough self-promotion though, download it and let me know what you think! Thank you! smile

https://www.facebook.com/Decnals

Americantoploader
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Great work man!

zuuku
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Americantoploader wrote:

Great work man!

thank you very much!! means a lot!

SketchMan3
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NC in the US of America

You did a pretty good job with the getting "authentic"sounding sounds, man. The compositions are nice too.

I don't know what others have to say, but I say don't feel like you have to "legitimize" yourself by moving on to only LSDJ forever. Plenty of artists use a variety of formats and systems for their music.

I seriously doubt you'll be able to live up to that statement of "every release from now on will use that [LSDJ]", hehe. There's so much more stuff out there.

The only thing I'd say is try to employ a few more tricks* to create more texture in your sounds and, considering you weren't as restricted in variety of waveforms, It would have been okay to use more than just square waves.

I thought the compositions were really good, if sometimes repetitive. Just the vanilla sounds get tiring after awhile and makes it feel a bit sterile.

Edit: That being said, I really enjoyed listening to this. It was fun smile I think Typhoon is my favorite, and the kick in code red is pretty sweet.

I can definitely hear the influences in your music. Keep it up.

* I personally like leads with some soulful vibrato, but that's just my preference. Also, block chords usually sound pretty good with some volume swells going on. Straight constant volume square-wave chords usually sound blah. Usually.

Last edited by SketchMan3 (Jun 10, 2013 1:29 am)

dsv101
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Medina, Ohio

You got some cool sounds as well as progressions going on here, best of luck on future works dude!

zuuku
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SketchMan3 wrote:

You did a pretty good job with the getting "authentic"sounding sounds, man. The compositions are nice too.

I don't know what others have to say, but I say don't feel like you have to "legitimize" yourself by moving on to only LSDJ forever. Plenty of artists use a variety of formats and systems for their music.

I seriously doubt you'll be able to live up to that statement of "every release from now on will use that [LSDJ]", hehe. There's so much more stuff out there.

The only thing I'd say is try to employ a few more tricks* to create more texture in your sounds and, considering you weren't as restricted in variety of waveforms, It would have been okay to use more than just square waves.

I thought the compositions were really good, if sometimes repetitive. Just the vanilla sounds get tiring after awhile and makes it feel a bit sterile.

Edit: That being said, I really enjoyed listening to this. It was fun smile I think Typhoon is my favorite, and the kick in code red is pretty sweet.

I can definitely hear the influences in your music. Keep it up.

* I personally like leads with some soulful vibrato, but that's just my preference. Also, block chords usually sound pretty good with some volume swells going on. Straight constant volume square-wave chords usually sound blah. Usually.

Thank you very much for listening, and you're advice is super constructive! I really appreciate you checking it out! I like how you totally understood my reasoning behind moving to LSDJ without me even saying it. LSDJ seems like the best step to take to avoid all of those "fakebit" criticisms that some people throw around. I wanted to write something but I wasn't familar with LSDJ yet so I just wanted to put some stuff out to kinda learn my own style of music and what my sound is gonna be like. Who knows, It could all change once I unlock the capabilities of LSDJ yikes

SketchMan3
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NC in the US of America

No doubt, man. No doubt. I look forward to seeing what you can do with LSDJ. LSDJ got so much soul, man. For me, it's so much easier to inject feeling into music with trackers than it is with DAWs.