canon_in_d (CANON.MOD)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Fri 14th May 1999, rated 1 / 10.

Ok, I'm going to start off by saying why this song got a 1 instead of the lowly .5 it deserved. I like classical music, and Canon is among my favorites, so the fact that it was tracked at all is a good thing.. BUT... What it sounds like me is that somebody found some low quality synthy samples and grabbed the sheet music and just churned it out. I believe this was done with every tracked version of Pachabel's Canon found anywhere.. there is a big problem with this. Usually, with sheet music, a Musician is eventually going to play it.. and most musicians have the ability to breathe some life into any piece of music through thier instrument, with electronic music, it is very different. Your computer doesn't know how to play with feeling, so the human reading the sheet music still has a responsibility to be meticulous with the sound of his/her music. If you want to hear what a direct copy sounds like, listen to this MOD, but otherwise, buy the CD. Simple isn't always bad.. but it isn't always good either. I love the soft, stringy, flowing melody of Pachabel's canon, and what I'm hearing here is a half-assed rendition being played by 3 8-bit samples that give me a headache. there is a lot of noise in the samples, plus the fact that they are hard on the ears. They give the song a hard edge that is not supposed to be there.