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Classica[WIP]

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My first crack at classic music, it's still a work in progress, so comments and help would be nice! :D
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quite good!

Quite a nice score for the most part. This all has an early nobuo vibe, like something from FFIV or V

Piano is a little drab, like the other guy said. I didn't like the solo melody sections, none of them really felt like they were necessary because they didn't go for very long at all. See if you can elaborate on them a bit.

I'm not going to let the soundfonts change my score, but I think you should really consider getting some good orchestral samples because the ones you're using aren't great. EastWest have some very good ones and so do Edirol, but you'll have to pay out your ass for the more complete packages because they are incredibly expensive. For piano you should check out Pianoteq, it's a modelled piano with incredibly versatile tweaking options.

Keep it up, this is quite nice :D

Jibronyx responds:

The vibe and sound could be put somewhat in that genre yeah, I played a lot of Zelda as a kid, and it the vibe/sounds are probably a bit inspired by that too.
I'll try working more on the piano. I wish I had played a piano when I was younger, but one can always learn.
Thanks for the tips and response, I'll try looking into more samples/refills. There are a lot of free reason refills, so maybe I can find some good ones there.

Jib

Here's my two cents

Very nice start! I can definitely hear the electronic influences here...

Mostly in the strings. They start off too loud, which might be good for catching the attention but if they don't go anyway else volume-wise, it might starts sounding like a synth more than strings. I'd suggest starting them a piano and then raising to a forte. You can adjust velocity in Reason, can't you?

The piano sounds very nice, though, maybe if the strings backed off a little bit you could pick it up better. The bass part is difficult to hear for me.

But composition-wise, excellent job. It reminds me a lot of Egypt, and the floods that happened every year. I don't know what your goal was, but the song gave a sort of destructive, drowning feeling. Then there was a line I heard around 2:37 that sounded like it came straight from a desert folk song.

Keep on the great work!

-Lamp

Jibronyx responds:

Thanks for the comment, really love it when people actually get a feeling out of a song.
Indeed it starts of too loud, guess it's a left over from my synthmusic state of mind ;)
And yes, in Reason velocity can be adjusted, I'll try that out.
The drwoning feeling was what I tried to implement in the song, so that worked out well I guess :)

Jib

Not bad

Some parts are inspired - given this is your first attempt to do classical music.
But the whole lacks of structure, and the piano part is minimalist, in a bad way.
Also lacks of tempo and velocity variations. Would have been better if contrasted a little more.

Jibronyx responds:

Thanks for the tips. Seems like I have a lot to improve, no matter though, I like evolving in my music making.
Tha piano part, could you give me a tip how I should improve on that, like, more notes/second piano lead/different piano patch/etc.
Thanks!

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Jan 16, 2009
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4 min 47 sec

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