Song of the week - Tribal Transcendency

[lightdarkness]

Song Name: Tribal Transcendency
Song Author: Prophecy
Stepfile Artist: aperson
Length: 2:55
Style: Techno
Difficulty: 9
FFR Sectionance
Date Added: 5/272005
Song Artist Bio:
Prophecy has been quite the treat to have create songs for FFR. His unique blend of crisp, clean drums and lush, melodic soundscapes give all of his songs an undeniable recognizable touch.

He has been creating music for many years, and has had various pieces featured on popular websites such as ocremix.
Stepfile Artist Bio:
Coming soon

[korny]

i love the song. the steps are very good. great job aperson

[-Fallen-]

The song is not too bad.
The steps frankly, are really not that great.

[aperson]

Originally Posted by -Fallen-

The song is not too bad.
The steps frankly, are really not that great.

Give me a break douchebag, those are some of the better steps you'll ever run into.

[Darkaldar]

Okay song. Different. That in itself is pretty good. lol, didn't exect it to be that long the first timeI played it ^^

[-Fallen-]

Originally Posted by aperson

Give me a break douchebag, those are some of the better steps you'll ever run into.

What are you kidding me? Honestly, that's probably one of your best stepfiles I'll agree, but you managed to create garbage at the same time.


Ld you made a booboo.

[Tank101]

Go Aperson!

Down with opinion!
Up with flaming!

Seriously, way to be an ass about someone's comment.

The song was cool, steps were good, not much else to say.

[banditcom]

Originally Posted by -Fallen-

What are you kidding me? Honestly, that's probably one of your best stepfiles I'll agree, but you managed to create garbage at the same time.

So what you're saying is that all his stepfiles are garbage.


I really enjoyed this file. It flows nicely, the steps are great, and the song is great.

[talisman]

the first few steps go to nothing or something too inaudible for me to hear. I would have waited til like the twenty combo point or so to start. especially since this gives the "ready" thing time to go away.

[lightdarkness]

Originally Posted by talisman

the first few steps go to nothing or something too inaudible for me to hear. I would have waited til like the twenty combo point or so to start. especially since this gives the "ready" thing time to go away.

AP told me that when flash compresses the file, the sounds that the beginning steps went to became inaudibal.

[Draigun]

I personally don't like the steps, either.

[Reach]

I didn't think it flowed very well at all

on ffr anyway.

would probably play nicely on sm. end was dragged out a bit . song is very cool.

[drake_legendz]

*points out the fact he pointed out the error to robby* and that the stepfile sucked and the song is very very low AP usally makes great stepfiles this one however hit the sh*t bin

[Knavish]

The song isn't really my style (...as in I didn't like it); the stepfile was O.K. I'm looking forward to the next song.

[Fcloud7F]

This week's song was a disapointment for me. I didn't like it at all. Mostly because of the steps. The song was ok i guess...

[ckj846]

I liked the steps, it is just that they are a little bit random in a sense that it somethimes didn't go with the music that well... I really enjoyed the song though!
O_o

[sonic_13]

I dont think this song is that terrible!

and i dont think the steps are that bad either =) I enjoyed this song, thank you AP

[Freak83]

I don't like the music or the steps.

[[Prophecy]]

Originally Posted by lightdarkness

AP told me that when flash compresses the file, the sounds that the beginning steps went to became inaudibal.

Yes. That would be correct. Whenever you compress a song file, you simplify the frequencies and create "averages". What this means is that the most complex frequencies are the ones that get affected the most while simple frequencies are virtually unchanged. Since sound is made up of vibrations, the most complex frequencies are the ones that have the most vibrations. These are high frequency sounds. Think of Hi-hats, Flutes, breathing, etc. Low frequencies are essentially bass and the backbone of tonality.

Because the song begins with nothing but the highest frequencies in the song only, and slowly filters in the lower frequencies, an obvious problem would occur with large degrees of compression. I was going for a subtle intro with minor compression. Instead, it seems to me to be more of a non existent intro with alot of waveform compression. How did this happen?

When I originally created this song, I made it for the purpose of use in R2 which uses little compression. I even tested the song at the level of compression that R2 uses. Naturally, it gets used for R1 =) This is really only a minor problem. If AP,LD,etc are willing, I could very easily make a new version with a milder frequency cutoff in the intro. I suspect that the majority of the complaints regarding the steps in specific are in reference to the lack of musical counterpart from the outset of the composition rather than overall quality, accuracy or abuse of artistic liscence. I don't see this as anyone's fault but rather a general oversight.

I'll make an educated guess that the rest of the complaints are coming from people who consider complaining to be an engaging and rousing hobby.....even perhaps a path to a lucractive career. To such fun loving people, the subject of a complaint is irrelevant, only the complaint is.

As for complaints on the song, I'm very well aware that some of the music I make is more artistically abusive than generically excessive. I'm not going to try to invalidate any of them, but rather to satisfy the underlying source of the complaints. I've done alot of work and worked with alot of people (including some you may have heard of such as POD). I'm providing a professional service for free. Perhaps ethnic progessive house is the wrong genre though. I could post some hiphop that I've done for local groups, or maybe some instrumental or ambient pieces from my musical, "Snowflakes" or maybe some plain old fashioned trance. Take your pick. Its free.