Well then.

This is my first real attempt at orchestral music.
You might want to increase your volume slightly; I have yet to learn how to make a loud but clean mix.

First off, I want to thank the people that convinced me (actively or passively) to buy EWQL Symphonic Orchestra! I've had lots of fun working with it these past days :D

As you can probably easily notice, this track is HUGELY inspired by the music made by @Step (even if it isn't even close to reaching the level of awesomeness in his tracks).

I was also inpired by tons of other people, including but definitely not limited to @Mattashi and @Dem0lecule.
Seriously, if I had to name everyone on Newgrounds that made me want to aim high and compose orchestral tracks, I could easily come up with 20 names off the top of my head, so if you think you might be among such people, you most certainly are.

Now, this is just a practice track, even if I spent a lot of time on it. I didn't aim to make it sound realistic or anything like that. I wanted to try out most of the basic features of EWQLSO, which is why the structure makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. This also explains why there are so many transitions so close to one another; I don't have all the time in the world, but I wanted to do a lot of different stuff :3

This track also features a not so smooth transition between time signatures...

As you will notice, the mixing is pretty terrible. I will still have to practise for many years before I can learn to get it anywhere close to a level of quality. I used too much reverb, and I crammed some places far too full with none sense making EQing.

I wish I was good with percussion :/ I guess it'll take quite a few years for me to grasp that too XD

My melodies, chords and arrangements (well, everything) in this track were all made on the fly, so they are not too impressive. I still like some of the segments though! :D

I had quite an irritating amount of technical difficulties when making this. The most irritating of all is that all the panning in Cubase is reversed for me! And I can't find the issue o.O My inputs and outputs are all right :/
Basically, I had to pan everything in reverse, and it sounded wrong while I was making it, so I had to hope for the best (as the rendered version came out with the right panning). From now on, unless I find a solution, I'm just going to pretend that left is right, and vice versa, and just stereo flip the track afterwards
That's way easier.

-_-

Also, my intruments had a tendency to get stuck all the time, which wasn't too pleasant, as I had to go change the channel and change it back to get them to work again.
The Steinway B piano also was a bit weird; it sounds great, but it didn't do well with quanticed notes, nor too fast ones either, but perhaps that is just because of my setup?

Also, I still have a limited version of Cubase, so I had to create and export this in 3 different rounds (my version comes with a limitation of 16 vst intruments at the most). On the last round, I used some MIDI ports though, as an additional 8 of those are allowed, and EWQLSO works quite well in that mode.
I also had to render half of the intruments at a time, as they were at the verge of demanding too much of my computer. Fun stuff.

Other than that, I guess that everything is fine :) I think I already learned some things! Now I've got a lot of other stuff to do...
Oh, and as this was mostly for practice, I had to do a very none fitting, johnfnesque ending ;) (+ points to those who get it).

TL;DR:

This track was made entirely by using 'East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Silver Edition', with some compression, distortion and equalizing in Cubase.

Enjoy!

P.S: Sorry Dem0lecule; I needed to get this out of my system before I could focus on our collab :p