Single Cell Software

Hey... be easy on yourself! Perfection is an admirable attribute but as Levirobbie said SCloud compresses stuff and it definitely affects mixes. Not that I know much about that shit on their end the only small advice I have is to make sure you upload the wav file. I used to think if I compressed it myself to a 320 Kbps mp3 that it wouldn't get compressed on their end so I had more control. Subsequently I've realized I was wrong.

From my perspective and likely others as well, the composition to me is far more important as it's the one thing you can control. When I listen to songs posted here I may generalize how I find the mix but ultimately I know this isn't being delivered to me in the way the composer is hearing it at home.

Also I think that with all the technological improvements we've seen over the years we fall into thinking we should be the master of everything - we should wear all the hats with equal skill, from composing to mixing to mastering to delivering, and that's probably not realistic.

In the end you wrote a really cool and original piece, it's not a cookie cutter type song that, even if perfectly produced, just gets lost because it's generic and without character (witness 95% of the crap that gets released on Netflix etc.). Movie soundtracks for the past decade have often become so impersonal albeit well produced because composers are using the same generic sample sets so that even cheap B grade horror flicks sound so well produced but they seriously lack in melody (to this day the cheap and relatively sparse Halloween soundtrack is still effective in it's context) ; cartoons - don't me started, they're patchwork quilts of generic sound effect samples pieced together with no cohesive relationship to the visuals and little creativity. Remember Bug's Bunny back in the day? Still awesome.

I have some great DAW's and sample sets which I rarely use at the moment because I realized that I was eating up inordinate amounts of time sorting thru stuff to find the perfect reverb plugin (I have like 30!), the exact kick sample, layering patches 4 times each, trying out 200 presets to find the perfect one.... in the end that's why I love using Caustic. It's dramatically improved my ability in terms of sound design and really taught me to take advantage of each and every available tool. As you've seen I'll just do something like challenge myself to compose a piece using a single ModSynth. Limitation challenges force me to think more creatively and to really focus on the composition, not the production.

I can't speak for everyone but I'll take original and well thought out entertainment over the generic over produced junk flooding the market every time.

So I get you on one level but on another don't let it get you down and continue focusing on just expressing yourself the best you can.

Sorry, trying not to sound preachy so forgive me if it comes out that way.