Whew, I've finally wrapped this up somewhat. Sorry for the long delay; it is not good for the creativity to lay off something and then continue later on, you get out of sync...
I've spent quite a while getting this into a somewhat loopable state; the solution relies on overlays and hence requires some additional code to function properly. Not to worry though; I've written a dba include file that takes care of that, along with a small demonstration on the playback. These files can be found in the
archive containing the music. Take note that I didn't get the pause function to work properly (using it will freeze the program... either I might solve it at a later time, or you can probably do it yourself, if you even need it. I'd recommend lowering the volume to zero while playing an eventual second song, so that the looping will go on, thus having the song fade back in at a different position next time).
Anyway, some notes on the actual music then.
When playing through the track as a loop, I noticed that the gong at the transistion back to the beginning... well, it doesn't sound too good. Also, the erhu part in the last few bars seems to have a slightly too loud volume. Perhaps it should rather be removed alltogether; the last part seems a tad cluttered. Also, I didn't normalize the track properly, so the amplification is a bit low in places.
Furthermore, the reverb is rather excessive. I could easily lower it if you like, but I find that it emphasizes the mysterious vibe to the song. However, this makes the taiko's reverb outshadow everything else if you use a subwoofer. It sounds as it is intended to through my (stereo) headphones though, so it should hopefully be fine for most uses.
So, tell me what you think. I might as said make some minor touchups to the parts mentioned.
Quote: "I'm actually using your track as intro track"
Wait a minute... does that mean that you want an actual ending to it? (After all my hardship with the looping aspect...
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Well, either way, let me know
If you find this unintelligble, it's most likely tiredsomeness induced