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Here's a song I finished up last night. I uploaded it here to submit to the Game 3 (Battleblock Theater) thread. Let me know what you think!

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Sigh... it must have been over a year since I've rated one of your pieces. Well, OpenLight, it's been a while. Just going to say a few things about this.

It's pretty amazing how fluent this is compared to things that you've done in the past. From the resonance of the piano to the minimalist drums, it all just seems less rigid and more like a steady stream. I also noticed that you included some tunes, styles, and rhythms from past works. (I was surprised to find some parts of my Passion remix buried within the beginning. Maybe you did that subconciously?)

You've become so much greater of a composer since 2010, when I was first viewing your music. An arguable thing is that the drum came in a bit suddenly in 1:10, but it's cool because a rhythm was already established. However, I'm not sure this would be very fitting of a game. I don't know much about Battleblock Theater, so maybe I'm wrong.

I think you overlooked this because, the more you listen to this, the less slow it feels, but for people listening so intently for the first time, it's a bit too slow for a game. That's the only reason you didn't get a 5-star rating.

I'm definitely going to download and loop this music. It really is exceptional; something that can easily be compared to the top weekly audio. I hope this review could do your piece justice.

-Drew

OpenLight responds:

I was psyched to see that I got a review from you. Of course, thanks to the new site design, it's harder for me to figure out when people review my songs, which sucks, so I just now saw this.

Thanks for the review! I'm always improving I feel, and that comes at the price of songs being harder and harder to finish. I'm glad you liked this song though! And yeah, I was pretty much just trying to get in BBT in whatever way possible since The Behemoth is AWESOME.

I'll keep in mind everything you said. Thanks!

This is really good, I hope it gets put in game 3. I like how the in the beginning the song kinda just builds up and gets better. May I ask what you used to make it with?

OpenLight responds:

Thank you for the review, and I really hope this or another song of mine can make it in too!

I used FL Studio 8 as my main program and the synths were almost all made with 3xosc. The piano was a soundfont I found online, as was the orchestral synth at the very beginning. As for the drums, I don't know where they came from for sure (I got them from a friend), but I think the kick was from Spacewhale's 500 kick drum pack (I don't know where to find it personally).

Hope that helped!

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Faves:
7
Votes
5
Score
4.26 / 5.00

Uploaded
Feb 24, 2012
2:29 PM EST
File Info
Song
8 MB
3 min 31 sec

Licensing Terms

Please contact me if you would like to use this in a project. We can discuss the details.