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Hey there Dreamcaster! (Love that name by the way)

Yeah I'd love to offer some tips. As far as that stuff I posted goes, for that album I tried to almost exclusively use samples from 90s and early 00s synths (since that's the era of PS1/2/Dreamcast). I would start with the Roland JD800 samples from this guy:

http://legowelt.org/samples

He sampled a bunch of 90s synth presets and offers them for donation based payment. He's great. I also like his Yamaha PSS samples too 

And then lots of reverb on your synths. That's key for dreaminess/ambient. 

You'll get a lot of the way there by doing that stuff

Hey there Matthias!

Thank you for listening, I appreciate the compliments!

Your art is stunning, I'd be honored to work on something together.

I love your painting of the bed with the nighttime light coming through the window, absolutely gorgeous.

I resonate with your "About" philosophy as well.

Well, I only know audio so there isn't a lot I can do in terms of coding and game design. If you start or find a team with some coders I'll gladly follow you.

But I'd also be interested in doing music and sound in tane with some other project you embark on even if it's outside of the jam.

Nice to meet you, I hope we can work together on some capacity,

Daen

Hello, another audio chap here.

I'm about to put out an album that is heavily inspired by this era of PS1/2 games music. Please listen here:

https://anakoret.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-2nd-album

I love this era of strange experimental project. So I'm rarin' to work on something inspired by LSD.

Let me know if you'd like my noises inside your pictures. 

These are some tracks I did for a previous LSD game jam:

https://soundcloud.com/daenolson/rem-digital-dreams-natural-plane?ref=clipboard&...

https://on.soundcloud.com/drgnt

https://on.soundcloud.com/JJMdK

Oooo, nice. I'm into that equal parts beautiful and unsettling string work on A Light From The Dark.

This score deserves more ratings! It's got a lot of haunting texture, great atmosphere. 

Super cool synth magic going on in A Winter's Fall, awesome.

Definitely something here from a song writing point of view. I like your choice of chord progressions and leads. All you need is a little sonic finessing (mixing/mastering) and you've got something pretty compelling! 

Those synth arpeggios that begin at 1:00 in are pretty interesting. That sort of off-putting glitchy sound could definitely be developed into other interesting tracks. It could maybe even live in the world of an avante garde game like LSD Dream Simulator. 

No problem!

Thanks for some of the behind the scenes details, I love hearing that stuff. It's always super interesting to hear how other people approach production/instrumentation. 

Hahahah! Awesome! That's not far off from what I was imagining in my head. I might have to send you a fan doodle!

Excellent! You got it! I recently discovered Casiopea and have been obsessed with their album "Living on a Feeling~Casiopea night selection" 

More detailed feedback! I love it, thank you! This game jam is probably one of my favorite so far for all the back and forth we're all having. 

Radiohead vibes, hell yeah! 

Thanks so much man!

This score is such a tasty medley of sounds. The little foley sounds here and there are super cool. You could play this in the background and someone would think you were actively playing something. 

Love all those 90s early 00s strings and bass synth. LOVE it. 

Yooo, the pause moment in "An Unusual Character" so damn clever, I chuckled out loud. 

I'm grateful that theres people who liked Notus, its not my usual style of composition so its awesome to get love for that one

Thank you! :D  Love the detective quote! 

First off, that cover art is fantastic, fits the theme perfectly.

Very pleasant score overall, sonically soothes the ears. Even Daemon, while intense with ominous notes, is produced in a way that's easy on the ears. Additionally, I like that you used plenty of non traditional instrumentation but the tracks still sound like they could easily be transcribed to an orchestra. 

1:15 on Digital Summer is my favorite part of the whole score. What an absolutely gorgeous string lead. It's sweet, sad, grand, and a whole host of other adjectives. Quite moving. 

Nice work :)    "Warm days/Summer" really captures the lazy summer feeling. I wasn't even looking at the track title and thought, "This track sounds like a lazy summer day" and so it was! 

The whole mood of your score really works great with your proposed puzzle idea. I can easily see this stuff accompanying something colorful and whimsical.

Thanks! I'm stoked that you got the vibe of the occult! Excellent!

Super diverse, awesome collection of tracks. I'm getting hints of vaporwave (like I'm analyzing a sip of wine :D) , that sort of 90s influenced, jazz, electronic, laidback style, common in PSX, early PS2 stuff, love that sound. 

I see what people are saying about Super Flower Blood Moon, very cool track. Sounds like it was complicated to put together, hats off. 

Sounding great! You've got a really pleasant modern electronic sound on this score. Well done, doing variations on the same theme, it ties the whole score together nicely while still maintaining diversity. 

Also, awesome that you used your fridge tone for some of the pads. I love use of found recordings in music 

Totally! Thanks for linking the precise song and timestamp. 

This is one of my favorite aspects of music in general. Your track and that Vivaldi piece might share notes there in that melody but you totally made it your own through changing the instruments/style of performance/and tempo. It's totally different and yet has that nice reference point for anyone that's paying really close attention. 

🤣🤣

Super appreciate that! 

Thanks! I'm going to listen to your score next, I noticed it wa getting a lot of positive feedback, can't wait to hear it 😀

Yep, you got it spot on! 

No kidding? I didn't recognize that part. I recognized some other bits but not that one. Now I'm curious to hear the Vivaldi bit that inspired it 😁

Oh yeah, Summer is luscious. At 0:53, when the music sort of drops far into the background, what a delightful effect. It just keeps going through these awesome changes and adding little phrases and synths here and there that are just a real buffet of tasty sound.

There's something about this score that makes me go "Awwww" Its very cute, and I don't mean that in the demeaning way that its used sometimes. It's nailing that sound of adorable characters.  Its full of optimism and joy.

Loving the melody on Summer of All Fun that appears at 0:07. Seriously, this score just makes me think of fat cats bumbling around in a verdant field. That's cool.  

I agree with elitestratman, this is perfect bgm. Minimalism is a powerful tool when scoring anything. It might not strike the listener on the first listen by itself, but this kind of stuff tends to work its way into your brain and then you find yourself loving it and throwing it on to listen frequently. 

Also, the track really opens up later in a huge way and totally takes a directional shift away from minimalism. There's probably a handful of tracks in this 15 minutes that could be separated out in different layers and used in a whole variety of ways within a game. This could almost be a showcase of many different moments that are scored in the game. 

Great work!

Straight up VIBING on this track. Very cool. This one stands out to me, I have yet to hear a submission along these lines (haven't listened to everything though). Kind of reminds me of Tyler Bates' stuff for John Wick which is awesome because his stuff is a little different/less conventional than your average film score. Moody dark stuff just agrees with me too. 

Yoooo, when that choir comes in on around the 1 minute mark on "Winter"! Gorgeous! Great mixing and mastering, this whole score just sounds nice and crisp, not a harsh moment the whole time, smooth as butter. Also, cool variations while still maintaining that orchestral sound throughout. 

Wooow. VERY pleasant and listenable. I could easily hangout for hours while that Shoppe Bossa Nova track plays. It really can't be overstated how lovely your guitar playing and recording quality is, just perfection really. Impressive work.

Some of this score gives me those 80s Japanese Jazz fusion vibes like the band Casiopea. I'm always envious of musicians that have the technical skill to pull that kind of stuff off, well done! You shred! 

Shout out to anything along the lines of the DX7 FM sound too! 

Exceptional work. Absolutely beautiful piano performances. The field recordings give it such texture and ambiance too.  

I was intrigued by just the game description alone and then when I heard the music that would accompany such a game I was like, "Man, I'd like to play that". 

I'm reminded of the work of Nils Frahm who is an ambient/piano artist I quite admire. This score is wistful and relaxing. 

What's the secret hiding in the backwoods!!? 😁

🤣 I'm flattered you like my submission so much. Very validating! 

Yeah, for real though, your score is another standout to me. I feel like I've lost track of how many scores I've listened to, but I'm pretty sure yours is a top 5 in my opinion. 

You sent me on a Google search to see what paulstretching is. I didn't know that's what that was called. I've always meant to look into how that effect is implemented!

Hey thanks for that detailed response, that's awesome. You felt exactly what I was going for with the sound design and the wind! I'm glad it was successful 😀

Thanks for listening and commenting! 

Damn! A comparison to Disasterpiece? I'm gonna have to do these jams more often, you're way too kind 😄

😂 I super appreciate such high praise! Spacing out that comment really got me 😄

I'm really digging this soundtrack. It's nailing those catchy retro game vibes.

The main menu track "Dreaming" is a great, moody ambient piece. I could easily see myself waiting to press start so I can listen to that loop a couple of times. 

I'm adding my voice to the praise for "You Can Somehow Control Gravity" that track is insanely catchy. That's the kind of track that makes you prolong your time in the level just so you can hear that sweet chorus loop again.  You really gotta do a soundtrack version of that so we can listen to it for a nice 3-4 minutes!

Love that little stuttering synth that first appears at 0:09 on "Run, Quick!"

Also I appreciate the shift in tone when Igor and the Others comes on. It still fits perfectly with the score but that sax synth adds a 

A whole lot of other great moments on this score. You could easily transfer this body of work to someone's game when the opportunity presents itself!

Lovely rain and synth in the intro track. There's a beautiful melancholy that permeates your soundtrack, well done! 

Your soundtrack has a nice, gentle sweetness to it. Definitely communicates a story of seasons. Great work! 

You and your collective did a really impressive body of work. It's awesome to see what a group of talented people can pull off when working in unison. The orchestration is mind boggling from my point of view, being a musician focused on ambient/industrial/minimal/rock stuff. The video of your midi layers had me like.... Whoa 😅

Oh wow, any hint of a comparison to Vangelis and is about as good as it gets. Thank you! I definitley use Arturia's software clone of the CS80 all the time. And it's solely because of my love for the Blade Runner score 😁

Thanks again, I'm humbled!