Are you sure you're not the author of the Jazz Jackrabbit soundtrack? I mean, that bass instrument! Those synths! The song has potential, I like it so far.

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The melody/main motive is really cool. I especially like that second that first appears at 00:08.
I don't really like the heavy drum set in the beginning though.

Sounds almost like a trailer to me.

While listening I really was unsure about the third chord segment.

A, C, D, A <- good
A, C, D, A <- good
A, G, D, A <- the first A here again. I always think "oh.. again"
A, F, G, A <- good

Well, the problem is - the theme is so dominant, that it's probably hard to make a good alteration. At least I didn't manage, although I tried like 20 minutes :/. So it's probably rather difficult.

As for the arrangement, the groove is very good - very funky. The flute synth also works well. But I'm also not too hot about the keyboard: It fills in as a successor to the main-theme melody, but it only plays rhythmical notes - I think that's what the others probably think is "missing", a bit more melody.
If you use more notes, that are not chord tones, but scale tones (scale is I think A-mixolydian) - or more jumps (like in your main melody you start with a forth - this gives a strong character, and immediately sticks), the melody becomes more distinct.

If you want some creative input:
For sky stuff I always liked this effect (beginning 5 seconds), with the circulating strings. (also here in Kung-Fu-Panda). This is with strings, but it should also work with flutes and synths ;).

Hm, but maybe this will turn out too big as an effect. (but perhaps it's possible to make a "small flutter". Can maybe already be created with 3 voices - from a chord, every voice starting from another chord note). Well it's only an idea, if you want I can hack you the flutter-thing in midi, I got the full score somewhere.

Well, I'm not sure how much my feedback is helping here, for music I'm always told my thoughts are too complicated.

Any progress on this one? it would be nice to have this in the next release as well, since it seems to be nearly finished.

As a little motivation I used your first two songs in a youtube video, so that fans can already enjoy the music a bit!

Hi K-Pone,

What is the status of this song? It seems almost finished and would be nice to have in the upcoming release, so that we have three songs and a bit of variation.

Absolutely the StandardDrums one. I think - and maybe Caesar will agree - it's maybe just a µ too loud against the calm panflute melody in volume when it sets in (Also maybe: caused by too powerful bass drum?). But the drum sounds per se are fine. Once the bass guitar-thingy sets in, filling the dynmaic gap between melody and drumkit, everything fits together quite nice. I'd try to lower the bass drum volume throughout the song and maybe some subtle extra volume reduction in that intro part as not to shock the listener ;)

Standard is way better, but again I was using ear-buds (headphones). So far this is the best one yet. Good work K-Pone.

I can't describe whats missing, but I have a slight feeling that this song doesn't use it's full potential yet. Keep up the good work!

That second part instrument is a bit too christmas-y for my taste ("jingle bell" reverb?). since the title is "skylands", I'd imagine an Instrument with a rather clear sound to go better with that.