Smart, I'm going to ask you to read this whole post before getting angry, because I took away a positive experience and I don't want you to lose that.
First, I didn't really like this as arma music, sorry. I could go into detail about why, and you could fix it, and for some reason I don't think we'd end up at a point where we'd be in agreement. If you want me to work with you to develop this into a music pack, I'll be happy to do that, and then you can just tell me to go **** myself while you release your music pack and people love it.
However, I did find lots of things I liked. So naturally, I'll tell you why I didn't really like it. First, I don't like the way techno tends to ebb and flow, and come to quiet single-instrument sections (usually some keyboard noise), and you do that a lot. That's probably just my personal taste, since techno bands do it so much and obviously people like it. I like movements, and I'm a big fan of classical/symphonic music, believe it or not, and I like music that moves the way the old stuff did. But the important part is that both links are motifs. There's some interesting stuff going on, and some cool melodies, but the songs themselves are motifs. I know from experience that motifs are boring for in-game music, and can get really annoying otherwise. The most common complaint about motifs is that they "just do the same thing over and over". Well, yeah, duh, that's what a motif is.
You did a good job, though. I actually enjoyed the music, even if my negative criticisms (which I always give first because I'm an evil prick) might indicate otherwise. I don't normally enjoy techno music that much, but I wont' lie and say I really loved it, because I didn't. But I did decide something else.
I want to make music with you. I thought that your melodies were very nice and very interesting, and I wanted to hear them developed, and in many parts I could feel my own fingers twitching, wanting to give some accompaniment to the melody. I think that if we were to throw in together without killing each other, we'd put out some pretty good music together. Are you interested? I'll be giving rock/metal guitars and bass, and we'll probably fight over the drum track, but if we can work out our differences, I think there's plenty of room for a good, positive collaboration, independent of arma music. What do you think?
