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The only thing I was not fully on board with was using the pluck-synth theme as is again after the break at 1:27. It is used a lot in the tune and also right before the break. Also I think it is too high-energy for the post-break part. A reduced version of it would have fitted the post-break part/ outro a little bit better in my opinion. That being said, I really liked basically everything else about the track. Great work and again great sound.

The structure of this tune is great. Buildup is working nicely and the release after the break works very well too. Nice :)

Sweet. Drums (especially snare) get drowned out by the synth sounds in some parts (at least on my speakers). That being said the sound design itself is very nice overall :)

Its a great idea to join a jam with your whole band. I like the lead guitar in this one a lot. Good job.

Good choice of sounds and very fitting thematically. I liked it quite a bit :)

This one fits the theme really nicely. The piece is also quite well structured in my opinion. For it’s runtime it could have used some more variation but overall: Well done :)

I found the bass to be very overpowering on my speakers as well. I also think the choice to give the piano no room reverb or at least much less than the accompaniment would suggest makes the first part of the track spatially inconsistent. That being said, I liked the harmonic content of the piece. I just found that some of the production choices did not really work for me.

Thank you for your kind words :)

I have similar feelings on how the horn part turned out. It was done really quick due to time constraints and I should have probably reworked it.

Thank you for your feedback and the kind words :) 
Regarding the horn I agree. I think this was a first take thing because I was short on time and I wanted to do something extra since the last part is really similar to the first part. In hindsight I should have redone it or done something different.

I really like the OST of Outer Wilds so it is nice to hear that this reminds you of it. Thank you 😊

This one is great. One of my favourites so far.

This one sounds vey nice. Lead is a little bit loud in the mix on my headphones. Apart from that everything fits together really nicely.

Very nice production. Really round and professional sounding mix.

This is really nice :)

Hello everyone,

I just discovered this weekly jam a few days ago. This is a great idea. The other audio-only jams are (in my opinion) rare and hard to find in the jam overview.

I have a question regarding this jams "difficulty" selection. What is the effect of choosing between beginner/intermediate/advanced? I chose beginner since I just recently started composing more broadly even though i have been playing music (mostly guitar) on and off for many years.

@emscottish : If this can be done without too much work, having a link to next weeks jam in the description/text of the current weeks one would be super nice. Then one would not have to search for it in the list of jams every week and could just move from weekly jam to weekly jam. If this is too much work never mind. Just some feedback. Thank you for hosting these jams :)

Best regards

This is great. Fits the theme of the jam perfectly.

Ok nice :D Did not expect to hear some dial-up metal today.

That one is short and sweet. Could see that being used as a real startup jingle. Also I am always impressed when I see people working in Renoise. I was never really able to get into trackers.

Nice melody.
Gives me similar vibes as some tunes in the soundtrack to Eastward by Joel Corelitz. 

Hey pixcele,

thank you for setting up this Jam. It was really nice to hear all the other submissions and get some feedback on my track as well.

Overall I really liked your track. I have one comment on production and one loosely related memory that came up when I heard your track:

I find the difference in space the background drone and the piano in the very beginning occupy a little bit irritating. The drone feels very spacious and the piano feels very brittle and claustrophobic. I guess there are cases where such illogical acoustic spaces can work but here I think I would have preferred it if both parts would have felt a little bit more „in the same space“.

Your (reversed) poetry reminded me of a track I did with a friend a long time ago. We reversed some spoken sentences, memorized how they sounded and recorded us saying them „in reverse“. We once more reversed that and got some really striking otherworldly but understandable spoken passages. It’s a really fun trick we stole from the TV series Twin Peaks. If you never tried that before I recommend giving it a shot if you need some really unsettling voice lines some day.

Super nice tune. I actually get some Breath of the Wild vibes from some of the harmonies. I think a lot of memorable stuff in that soundtrack is based on stacking 5ths. I tried to play along to some parts in your track and I think that there is also some emphasis on stacking 5ths at least in a few places? Was this a deliberate choice or was it just happening by playing around? In any case I really liked it :)

Thumbs up for going for something a little bit more experimental. I am quite a bit into drone/noise music so I think it is really cool to have it represented in this jam.

What I look for the most in this type of music is a unified aesthetic when it comes to the sounds used/produced. For my taste, the track lacks a little in regards to this cohesion. When listening I do not get a clear picture in my head of where the track is supposed to take me. With regards to production I would argue that there could be some more low-end rumble in the louder parts to give them some more weight. Apart from that, I really like it.

I liked the atmosphere of the track very much but also agree that maybe adding some bass instrument or low octave keys would fill some empty low-end space. Also just adding some simple low frequency material e.g. half way through the track can help to give a sense of forward motion to the piece. Also (at least on YouTube) the overall volume seems to be quite low. Apart from that I really think the track fits the chosen category nicely.

The result sounds great. I will have to try that myself sometime :)

This is super good. Great composition and production. I just checked your DAW screenshot. Did you really layer 3 pianos for the main piano sound (not a Nuendo user)?

Thank you very much for your feedback :)

I agree that the track is a bit more on the repetitive side. I tried to counteract this by throwing in new ideas every 4-8 measures and mixing even and odd numbers of repetitions for melodic themes etc. For my taste, especially due to its short length it still works fine as an unintrusive background/soundtrack piece, but that of course is a matter of personal taste :)

Thank you :)

Hello everyone,

I get that the rules for this jam are quite loose but I still have a general question:

Do you make your track(s) loopable for this one?

I never played Minecraft myself but I probably listened to the soundtrack (especially the two initial C418 ones) for at least a few hundred hours. I just now watched some footage of people playing the game and from what I have seen I think the songs are just fading in and out so I would opt for "not loopable" similar to the OST versions. Since I have no experience in playing this game I just wanted to get some feedback on that to be sure.