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11-20-2015, 11:05 AM
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Winter's Call
A lot of people say netbooks are useless, I say CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
Winter's Call
Lots of old samples: Roland strings (except the contrabasses, which are Digital Sound Factory), Miroslav harp and brass, Advanced Orchestra winds, Sonido Media and Westgate percussion.
Unfinished and very rough, but getting there.
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11-25-2015, 06:55 AM
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Some additions and alterations. Still not finished, I'm trying to work out what should happen next.
This was inspired by the strange duality of the winter season in this part of the world. On the one hand you have the seemingly perpetual dark and damp and gloom, and on the other there's the magical days of soft snowfall and electric blue twilight, like something out of a fairytale.
From a technical standpoint I know this isn't super high quality VO but still it's pretty damn amazing what you can do with REAPER on even very limited hardware.
The project has 48 midi tracks/24 audio outputs (3 instances of sfz+) and one send reverb (ValhallaRoom). And this on an Aspire One netbook with an 1.6Ghz Atom processor and 2GB RAM. Sure, the CPU is pretty close to maxing out in places but it's still very workable. I started setting up this project just as an experiment, having very low hopes, but it turned out working so good that it inspired me to compose some music on it.
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11-25-2015, 03:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cerendir
A lot of people say netbooks are useless, I say CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
Winter's Call
Lots of old samples: Roland strings (except the contrabasses, which are Digital Sound Factory), Miroslav harp and brass, Advanced Orchestra winds, Sonido Media and Westgate percussion.
Unfinished and very rough, but getting there.
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Hi cerendir, nice job just like you always do.
In all honesty I didn't want to comment on your first post because I thought the mids were just to much.
But if I'm hearing it right, you corrected a lot of that in your second post.
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11-25-2015, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Tod
Hi cerendir, nice job just like you always do.
In all honesty I didn't want to comment on your first post because I thought the mids were just to much.
But if I'm hearing it right, you corrected a lot of that in your second post.
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Thanks Tod!
Yeah I know, it could use even more strategic EQ'ing, I'm not using my regular monitors for this ( I'm not using "monitors" at all as a matter of fact) so there's a lot of guesswork involved. But I'll get that sorted eventually. I'm focusing on the fun stuff right now, writing the music that is, making it sound good comes later
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11-25-2015, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by cerendir
Yeah I know, it could use even more strategic EQ'ing, I'm not using my regular monitors for this ( I'm not using "monitors" at all as a matter of fact) so there's a lot of guesswork involved. But I'll get that sorted eventually. I'm focusing on the fun stuff right now, writing the music that is, making it sound good comes later
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Yeah, I've seen some of your posts in this regard, but you still do a pretty darn good job regardless.
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11-26-2015, 12:51 AM
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Really really good, particularly 2:00 to 2:15 that seemed to go wandering into another key but in a refreshing pleasing way, my favorite bit of a number of highlights
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11-26-2015, 02:40 AM
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Really good, listened yesterday but didn't mention the high mids either bc basically my hearing is unreliable to say the least. Very nice piece of music, cheers.
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11-26-2015, 08:41 AM
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Nice, very evocative piece. I kind of prefer the first mix, to my ear it has a rustic quality I find quite charming.
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12-06-2015, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by studio1602
Nice, very evocative piece. I kind of prefer the first mix, to my ear it has a rustic quality I find quite charming.
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Thank you studio1602!
New version here. Still very rough but structurally almost finished.
The strings have been subject to much strategic EQ'ing to get rid of that nasty screechiness; not quite there yet but better I think.
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12-09-2015, 05:05 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cerendir
Thank you studio1602!
New version here. Still very rough but structurally almost finished.
The strings have been subject to much strategic EQ'ing to get rid of that nasty screechiness; not quite there yet but better I think.
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Hi cerendir, I have to be honest and tell you I couldn't tell much difference between this cut and your 2nd cut. But I think that's me, I've lost a lot in the high end of my hearing. I've reached the point that to really scrutinize a piece of music I have to also see it with a spectrum analyzer.
The only thing I might mention is that it sounds like you have a violin pizzicato on the intro. I think that's fine, but for me it sort of gets lost because you also have another instrument playing along with it that is almost exactly the same, especially on the major beats, and it is a lower instrument. It kind of takes away from the nice sensitive pluck of the violin.
Now this is only a suggestion, and I hesitate to suggest it, but maybe a soft cello legato line underneath the violin might make it more emotional, and give it the positioning of the sound that it needs.
Like I said, it's only a suggestion and I also like what you've done just as it is.
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12-19-2015, 12:08 PM
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Getting closer...
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Originally Posted by Tod
The only thing I might mention is that it sounds like you have a violin pizzicato on the intro. I think that's fine, but for me it sort of gets lost because you also have another instrument playing along with it that is almost exactly the same, especially on the major beats, and it is a lower instrument. It kind of takes away from the nice sensitive pluck of the violin.
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Uh... there's no violin at all during the intro, it's just a harp
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12-20-2015, 03:46 PM
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Wow! Beautiful piece of music!
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12-22-2015, 12:56 PM
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Done... for now
Happy winter solstice and merry xmas!
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12-23-2015, 03:05 AM
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Sounds Great! Merry Xmas!
Zsazsi
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