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Title:Destination Reached
Author:DJ MP
Genre:Hard Trance, Melodic Trance
Comment:Fast techno/trance with some minimalistic melody ;) EnJoy
Size:610 KB
File:mp-destination-reached.zip
Date:2002-05-09

Sunbuster:   Bad

First of, great track! :)
It brought back memories of years ago, tracks like "Westbam - Bam bam bam" and "Sunbeam - High adventure" come into mind when listening to this one. Happy rave, I think is a pretty good description of the track.
If this track would have been released back in 94-95, it could have been in the charts. It has this sound that was very typical for music back then. With the bpm right up at 162, those distorted 303 sounds, the strings to cool things of, and the piano...well, what can I say...nice!

Sadly, everything has a bad part (or in this case, not so good part).
Channel 04 could have used a bit more working on. As it is now, the delay causes a slight volume increase everytime the distant between the notes is 8 lines. Not a big one, but lowering the volume on those notes where the delayed sound hits to 40 in the volume
column would have evend out the sound. As it is now, these notes that get boosted stand out from the others, making it sound a bit unfinished
in my ears at least.
Another thing is the use of the stereo-delay. Alot of the channels use the same settings for the stereo-delay, so instead of putting a separate stereo-delay to each channel, you could have dedicated a couple of channels to the delay and then routed the channels that need delay to those. This should have been no problem, especially since you only used 20 of the 32 available channels. This would have made the track more friendly for slower PC's.

General usage of effects is good, though. I'm a bit puzzled as to why you don't use the automation more for fading in/out sounds. But I guess that's every mans own choice...

In cases like these I would have liked to have two ratings to give. One for the listening experience and one for the technical things. The listening experience deserves a "Very good", the technical side again would have been better of with a rating of "good". I decided to go with the "very good" anyway, because after all, how often do we listen to technical details when we're enjoying music. :)

-Sunbuster


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