Forever (forever.mod)

Posted by Cooth on Tue 2nd Jul 2002, rated 6 / 10.

A nice, soft ballad with a synth lead and a piano playing together. A nice idea, but... Well, I guess the piano was supposed to play background, and the synth - lead melody. In that case, the volumes are definitely inappropriate, because the piano is much too loud and the synth too silent. I would also suggest using dynamics with the piano, it would sound far better! There are only two piano motifs, which are played over and over again, completely unchanged. The lead melody is just about marvellous, but lack of variety appears here as well. The drums, together with the bassline, are pretty cool - the accompanimet is very nice, soft and mild; simple, but very good. The general idea for a song (structure, melodies) was great, it's a shame it wasn't developed better. Well, this is a .mod, but not a 4 channel one, it actually has 8 of them and they are used well. Unfortunately, apart from that, the technical side considerably lowers the overall rating. Whereas the musical aspect of the piece is good (excluding monotony), technical flaws make it sound amateurish. I've mentioned the problem with volumes and dynamics. Another thing is that the piano sample is not good for the high notes it plays here. Oh, and one more thing - there are 20 seconds of silence at the end - isn't that too much? ;)