AndrewCr's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[-Japanese Saxophone-]

I think it's really good you have FL now! I heavily recommend learning a few basic keyboard shortcuts (especially ctrl+B, ie quick duplicate. Saves so much time) A long term tip for learning is to watch tutorials for everything. There's a ton of them for genres, just look up "[genre] tutorial fl studio" or whatever and you'll get high quality walkthroughs.

Another tip that helped me a lot with music theory is to remix a lot of songs you like. You'll subconciously study how the melody and chords are made and that will help you make your own.

Objectively, the song itself is pretty average, but for a 2nd ever song in FL, it's really good. I know you already have experience with FL mobile, but most people's first song is a questionable drum beat lol

Keep learning and good luck with FLS!

Creeperforce24 responds:

Thanks so much man! Bro YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW ANNOYING IT IS TO JUST CTRL C CTRL V EVERY NOTE I WANT REPEATED TOT!

But as for the tutorial advice, listen, I’m not here to make something generic, and watching tutorials on how to make a genre, is gonna give me a generic piece of crap that goes against my music morality. I’m here to make music people will recognize, something people will remember. I’m gonna grab genres by their neck, and I’m gonna say “WE DO SHIT MY WAY AROUND HERE!”. Am I gonna watch tutorials on how certain functions work, yes, I am. but how genres work?… you think genres have a “certain” way of doing them, sure there’s tips, but most of the work should be from your creativity. If you’re gonna make techno in a generic way, then what are you even doing? Why even produce in the first place? The people come here to hear Creeperforce, they did not come here to listen to TommyMakesMusicTutorials XD.

I actually remastered an old song I made in 2024, known as Aurora with my new FLS. To the majority it’s better than the original, which I was aiming for. I still have a lot to learn, new VST’s to try in various ways, different things to learn. I’m inspired by @Waterflame, so I try my best to replicate his style whilst having my own additions to it, different samples, transitions, traditions, etc. even got EDIROL Orchestra (yes that old ass VST from the 90s XD), it sounds really amazing and I’m definitely using it more often lol.

I actually appreciate your words on how my song is for my first time, @Taintedlogic did say I was apparently a “fast learner”. A lot of help came from @Dijek as well :3

Thanks for the advice man, much appreciated:D

(Bro imagine making a response bigger then the original message… couldn’t be me 💀)

[-poizone atmos-]

What DAW did you use if not FL? Reaper?

Creeperforce24 responds:

I’m using lmms lol

[Geometric Theory]

So what I'm getting is that house + dubstep = complextro

G2961 responds:

That's right, lol!

[-Roadside Drug-]

Yo mista White

Creeperforce24 responds:

I am the one who makes phonk (repeated distorted cowbells)

[Geometrical Progression]

I'm trying to provide some criticism, don't take this as hate :)

The idea is really good, but the execution could be better. The biggest thing is the complete lack of a subbas in the drop. It would have hit so hard if... it just had a subbass. (just distort a really low sine and you're good)

G2961 responds:

Yes, maybe you're right. Thanks for the feedback!

[Suno AI]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who just lets his projects play and listens to them lol

H31072 responds:

Yeah, we're similar in that, lol

[Sovereign's Chronometer Threnody]

As that one other guy said, your melodies are pretty random. The arpeggio (basically fast notes played over and over again) at 2:07 is way better because it has structure! What I mean by "structure" is that you don't just choose a few random notes from a scale an play them. There's no way to explain it fast without taking up a few paragraphs xd

If you want to, you can watch a couple of tutorials on youtube (search up something like "how to make a melody" or "how to make a catchy melodies.") When I was at your level, I also used to look for piano covers of my favourite videogame music and remix or recreate it. After a while of this, I slowly began to understand why and how a melody works.

Don't stop trying though, anyone can do it eventually!

YourLocalMusicMaker responds:

Hark, O sagacious creator of harmonies!
Thy censure is received as a Dutch plumb-line—harsh, but true in its perpendicular verdict! Verily, I concede: those wandering notes of mine do skip like drunken Cossacks across the steppe of scales, whilst mine admired arpeggio at 2:07 marches with the precision of Preobrazhensky Guards! Structure, thou sayest? Aye—’tis the very ribwork of a frigate’s hull, without which the vessel of melody founders in chaos!

Yet know this: my “randomness” was but a scouting party sent into the wilderness of sound, akin to His Tsarist Majesty’s first botched shipwright attempts at Voronezh! Fear not—thy counsel, like the edicts of the Naval Statute, shall be engraved upon my musical soul. I hereby decree that mine ears shall audit these tutorials thou prescribest, as diligently as Peter Alexeyevich studied geometry in Amsterdam’s dockyards!

Imperial Resolution:
Let future compositions flow with the discipline of the Neva’s dredged canals—no longer as swampy rivulets, but as conduits to the Baltic Sea of Mastery! Should they falter, may they at least serve as quaint footbridges in the Summer Garden, where critics may sip kvass and mutter betwixt the statues!


I get it—structure matters, chaos isn’t always art. I’ll grind those melody tutorials. But hey, even Peter’s first ships sank!

[Hazy]

Ambient tracks really are your thing, this is some analogue horror-grade stuff!

The whole song and the gradation reminds me of this one indie puzzle game called Creaks, where more instruments get added as you solve each puzzle further and further. Your song has the exact same "adaptive music" vibe

Lumiflag responds:

Tysm ! I wish you participated in this collab lol, you would have made great bossa nova !