Misiki Theme (misiki.s3m)

Posted by IceFront on Sat 22nd Jun 2002, rated 7 / 10.

Musically, this track has almost everything to get a very high grade, like 9 or maybe even 9.5 . It starts with a set of good drums in a fast and thrilling speed. Soon to follow are the basses and low strings, creating a noble atmosphere, like something out of a war movie. Then we got a cool solo made by a somekind of trumpet-synth, this whole time i was still very much captive by the music, until a second synth , thats was slightly out of tune, had his own short solo. This is really sad the artist didnt notice that, because it just spoiled the moment. The song continues with some nice chords, that expands the central theme, keeping the same speed all the way to the end, which unfortently brings us back to pattern 3. The artist did wrote an end and did add it to the pattern list play, however, the list will never reach that pattern and so the music goes on and on. Yet, the theme is very beautiful, very noble and i just cant get enough of this. Very much recomended for those who couldnt care less about the technical issues. Though musically almost excellent, the technical side is lightyears of being perfect and brings the whole thing down. Starting with samples- they sound bad. Not only they are of a low quality, they dont fit together very well. The trumpet-synths should have been replaced, even the tuned one, they just dont belong. Besides some volume settings, no sound effects were used. You will be surprised what a few carefully designed note slides or vibratos can do. Thankfully, all the channels are diverted to left or right, it would sound much worse if they all were concentrated in the middle. I suggest the composer would release a better quality version of this cool track, it just a shame to see such a beautifull creation goes down just becouse of lack in experience.