secantwave's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[-Dog in space-]

Indeed similar, but still good.

I agree with Kaelon that this song is very close in tune to your Race trilogy, but I appreciate the sounds of this one more. It does have a very spacey feel. I find your happy songs better than your dark ones.

[-Chaotic-]

One of two best.

I am undecided about whether I like this or Time Machine better. This one has a better tune, but I like the sounds of Time Machine better.

[-Time Machine-]

I agree, one of your best.

Even my brother likes this one, and he dislikes most techno. This is really a stellar accomplishment.

[-Race around the moon-]

Nice!

Upbeat, nice tune, great synth bassline, and the snatches of violin in the later song are really good especially. While I don't hear any moon in it, it certainly sounds like a race.

[{Blaze}]

More Energy=More Better

Makes smoke come out of my ears, in a good way. Only problem is in the middle, when it is sped up so much that it seems to become sort of cluttered, but that could just be the fact that it is moving so close to the speed of light that the mass of my ears increases and causes me to feel sick.

[Danger Ahead]

Excellent.

This is definitely the best loop I have ever heard. Not much to say beyond that.

[Fractal]

Amazing pattern

I'm fascinated by the pattern you used for the baseline, boosting a step by powers of two. It reminds me of the Sieve of Erastosthenes, a method for generating prime numbers, where one crosses out multiples of the numbers that still remain in the sieve instead of just the powers of two. If one applied your method to this particular sieve the results would either be bizarrely dissonant or really cool.

Sorry for getting overexcited about this, it's just that I'm a mathematician and I found your pattern fascinating. The melody was also good, if a bit repetitive, and the pattern does give the bassline an interesting harmony. Did you have to restrict it so that the number of notes was a power of two to make it come out even?

So, good song, great number-theoretic elements, super overall!

[PVC Ride]

Excellent!

This is a great piece, but especially good for someone new to the field! I hope you'll be able to hone your skills even more in future and produce more stuff like this. I do agree with Raikuga that the ending is somewhat bizarre, but apart from that the melodies were good and the edgy saw-wave sounds you used were superb.

[ParagonX9 - HyperioxX]

Not your best...

The beat and high tempo I thought were nice, but the slow piano bit at 1:37 seems somewhat shoehorned in and unnecessary. It might be better to focus on layering more different melodies rather than slowing down. Also, at the beginning the clashing of the different layers seemed somewhat cluttered, but it got smoothed out later, so that's not a big problem.

[ParagonX9 - Defection]

Another one of your excellent works.

It's very different from my favorite piece of yours (Chaoz Fantasy) and yet it still ranks very highly for me. I especially like the "restart" at 0:49.