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August 2010 Blog Posts (6)

Two hands, no waiting.

Hi CF,

If someone asked me what was important about 2010 for digital samples I'd really only have one reply: polyphonic legato.

You are probably going to see this couplet bandied around a lot in advertising and marketing this year and I thought it might be useful to explain what it means to us as composers working with virtual instruments.

Firstly a quick recap ... what does it mean to have legato samples? It means that we can create…

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Added by James Semple on August 23, 2010 at 4:30pm — 6 Comments

A level results and uni

Well I got ABBC in my A level results today! If your not from England then A levels are what you do when your from about 16-18 years old, if you choose to go to college. I only needed 3 C's to get onto the course I am doing in September, which is of course 'Music Composition.' 3 years of writing music here I come! Hopefully i get alot better and will eventually get closer to writing music that would be viable for commercial products like TV and video games if i'm super lucky. Can't wait!!! Plus… Continue

Added by Ian Fisher on August 19, 2010 at 5:55pm — 2 Comments

Duduk

Simple field recording with the Armenian Duduk.

And of course, waiting for your comments.

Added by Arthur Hendriks on August 17, 2010 at 3:31pm — 5 Comments

In the beginning there was nothing

Greetings.

This blog will help me to sort and archive my works.

I can't say much about it. I make the music for myself, because I need to let it out somewhere...

And I want you to give the opportunity to listen to it, if you wish. Enjoy.

I created a Youtube channel to archive all my music there, I hope it grows with the time.

I'll post the newest one here, its related to John Murphys Sunshine Soundtrack "Tray".

Where are you… Continue

Added by Vitalis Stellmach on August 15, 2010 at 5:18pm — 1 Comment

My first (and probably only) blog

Hmm... dont really know how to write a blog... Oh well, ill just ramble on for a bit. Enjoy!

So the other day I finished a composition called 'War in Kryta.' If your a fan of the video game Guild Wars you will know this is a direct referece to something in the game, and I wrote the composition based off these events. Ill be honest with you, I finished the bulk of the composition over a month ago, but then got bored of it and left it to rot for a month. Then in one day of spring… Continue

Added by Ian Fisher on August 12, 2010 at 7:40am — 3 Comments

Have we become to DAW dependent or is music notation become less relivant in our computer age?

Over the last few months I have noticed a trend in the forums, especially in the music dissection forum. More and more of the comments about music posted here have been more about music production (i.e. sample

sounds used, mix of DAWs, ect, ect) and less comments about the overall music

itself. Along with that, I have seen less actually sheet music posted on this

forum, and more composers admitting that do not have any notated music to show

what so ever.…

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Added by Tyler Hughes on August 5, 2010 at 10:47pm — 6 Comments