I liked it. I think you should very your beat a little more, and add something else to your leads. Looping is fine, but it was just a tiny bit repetitive I thought. Toward the ending it got better.
Yeah the habit of repetition comes from other genres I'm in to influencing how I make this. Usually I like to keep things longer to jam on for a bit but I've been starting to realize it's not always the best idea for stuff like this. As I've been doing more I've been cutting back on looping the same parts too much.
This is a pretty cool track. I'm not super into the snare as it sounds a bit harsh to me. I think that people on this board are not super interested in sample heavy stuff or perhaps faux in general. What did you make this in?
Hm. Interesting comment on the snare. I've always been into harder snare hits as opposed to subtlety out of preference. There's a lot of percussive chip elements I'm not a big fan of so I went with a simple kick/snare and focused more on composition of melodies. It's been noted, though.
I use FL Studio as a daw with a couple plugins, famisynth and magical 8-bit. I tried to familiarize myself with other chip programs but I've been working with the daws I'm comfortable with for so long that I chose familiarity over authenticity.