Something WAY Different...

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I enjoyed that. Nice job

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Don't you dare copy Knife Party lol ...I'm onto your games!

P.S. Shouldn't you be spending your time signing and returning the contract, and then promptly continuing work on your EP? Hrmrmmmmmmm!?

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Hahahaha yes, sorry I'll send that to you today.

I was really confused about the Knife Party thing cause I thought you meant the song lol.

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I'm sure gabby will enjoy this a lot.

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Gah! An example of why when people try to mock real instrumental music using pure synth it so often fails. That constant chorded piano thump's making me nuts.
Find some real musicians to play half those parts for you. You can always play with the sounds they gave you afterwards. Someone playing individual parts on a nice touch sensitive keyboard might be more your thing, or a zeta violin.
Only instrument I wouldn't touch is the harp/piano that comes in at 0:52. Note that even though that specific instrument might or might not be real, it swells and falls just so, either from your doing or from a really nice sound file or instrument.

It's pretty though of course, great overall vibe, chords, melody, holds together well as a song.

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What Cavernio said-- using a real instrument sample would make it so much nicer, because it's not so clean and forcefully synthetic sounding overtop of everything. Got any songs that use real pianos in them?? Sample!

I'd much rather hear samples than synthetic sounds most of the time, it gives a much more appealing aesthetic to the sound.

Not to mention it's much less generic with that kind of thing added to it.

Not hating on the song though, its 'aight

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I can play all of those parts on my piano. I don't have a good recording device.

Sampling is cheating though

This is what my recording sounds like.



For the record, lets say that that's NOT me singing.



Does this sound synthetic to you?



EDIT: Wait my instruments come from Kontakt 4... Doesn't Kontakt 4 sample instruments? Maybe the reason it sounds so synthetic is the perfect volume and perfect beat alignment.

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If I have to saynsynthetic or not to the last link, the first part, I'm going to say yes it does sound synthetic, cept the drums sound real. However, synthetic or not, it sounded good and seems the type of quality you are looking for and would work in this song.

BUT man...your piano sounds waaaaay better than the synth/sampled instrument you currently have. Even not quite perfectly tuned. (I suppose you can tune samples if you're good enough though, right?) Try it!

As an aside, I think a lot of people who generally don't like any electronica don't like it because it is so perfect sounding. (Well, I know one person for whom this is the case.)Perhaps you suffer the opposite affliction which is why you don't like your piano recordings :-p

Note: I can sing pretty good, I used to win money at my local music festival. That said, I cannot for the life of me sing decently and play piano at the same time, even something stupid easy like twinkle twinkle, and even though singing 'properly' is largely natural and second-nature to me. You might like you better if you didn't try to sing and play too. (or maybe that was recorded separately in which case...ummm....yeah...)

What did you use to record that other song though? Decent mics seem to be pretty cheap these days, faaaaar cheaper than a piano.


I changed my mind about an instrument in there too, the short quick stringed instrument sounds kinda neat. I like the way when it goes low it sounds like a woodwind even. It's the sustained string that I wanna strangle. (even if same instrument used, don't use it for sustenuto.)

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The piano was an inheritance, I have an AKG studio 100 or something like that, but my room isn't exactly idea for recording.