Hi all
 
Excited to share my latest piece of music
 
https://soundcloud.com/ant-832623685/nightfall/s-6hCMs
 
Hope you enjoy it; any feedback is welcome

Just had a quick listen through the phone speakers and definitely enjoyed it, but I'm sure I missed a bunch of the nuances. I really liked the synth sounds you used and thought the drum part was well done. Liked the snare sound a lot. I'll listen with headphones tomorrow and try to provide some more detailed feedback.

Hi Ant

This is good... Make it a public track and get it out there

Sounds good here, what did you use to create this?

Thanks everyone.
 
It was my first outing with Omnisphere 2 (the majority of the sounds), and FM8 (the synth doing the arpeggio throughout the song, and also the slightly growly arpeggio pad that comes in around 1:54). Drums are BreakTweaker, Superior 2 for crash cymbals.
 
There's also a fairly subtle use of StutterEdit for one of the leads that come in at 1:20

I really like the composition!  

cclarry
I really like the composition!  

Thanks
 
The whole piece started off as a riff that had been stuck in my head for a really long time. I'd always said to myself that I'd try to make something of it, and recently I finally decided to sit down and do it; I'm glad it came out quite well.

Agreeable synth music. I liked the composition and arrangement. Sounds nice

I like it too! The essential goodness is the different elements coming and going, with that unifying plucky synth theme. I can tell that great care was taken in the mixing, with volume automation bringing things to the front.
 
For me, I hear the snare and other drums dip down in volume when other synth parts came to the front - well done there - but for my tastes I disliked the snare sound. It sounds so very canned compared to the rest of the instrumentation. It's a very dated snare sound, which I know fits the genre, but I couldn't help wanting something more varied, more organic, in the snare department. That's just my .02 cents and others will love the snare to death, so there you go!
 
very good piece, and welcome to the forum (if you are in fact new around here)
 
cheers,
-Tom

A few other thoughts: Love the sound you bring in around the 1:20 mark. Great drum fills, and sometimes "anti-fills" (where you take something out rather than making it busier). Nice change in chord progression around the 2:00 mark. And finally, cool drum breakdown before bringing the opening progression back in toward the end.