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Can someone PLEASE help me find 32-bit pad/backing sounds?

Dear Anyone.  

For years now (cue sad violin music!)  I've been looking for pad/backing sounds like these...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaRrq7cYu84

or... (and, even!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbJXxuoJXUM

or....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y

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Scorevideos and how to do it?

Is there anyone here who have experience making so called scorevideos? Where Sibelius, Finale or something else is rolling on the screen same time with the music and you can follow the score?

I`ve always liked to watch those kind of videos because it`

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Who would write reviews about my sheet music ?

Hi : I have recently published two sheet music books, "Six Waltzes for Piano 1 and 2". I am interested to know, who / which magazine or other instance would be interested to write a review ? -  Antti / Antti Samuli Hernesniemi, Finland

 

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How to write a song easily?

Hello everyone!I created a tutorial on how to write a song easily. I give you 5 tips to help you.
This tutorial is in french but you can activate the subtitles easily by clicking on... subtitles 
Hope this will help some of you. Bye bye

https://yout

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Chord progressions/ sequences.

Personally, I feel folk put too much emphasis on the melody at times & often do not consider the power of chords.

When writing, one could have a basic melody in their head & try to make it: <better?>' by changing the melody..

IMO, the chords underne

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Free score hosting site

can anyone suggest a free score hosting site alternative to scoreexchange ? They now charge for everything including work in progress. Cheers mates.

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VSL Konzerthaus Organ - good price.

In case anyone's interested, VSL are offering this instrument at 30% off.

I couldn't resist the temptation (though I've been hoping it would be promoted for a while now).

It comes with a comprehensive pdf listing all the stops (at least 50 including

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Best VST for string runs..?

Hi!

I'm using Cinematic Studio Strings atm and havent yet quite figured our how to make the that runs I want.. (working on it)

What's your favourite library for creating stringruns?

Obviously cineruns comes to mind since it specializes on just that :

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How to write a Melody

Dear community at Composers´Forum

My colleague Gisela Paterno and I, in the edition, have released a fairly comprehensive article on 

6 techniques for songwriting and instrumental composition

The idea behind this material is to consolidate a truly

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Help choosing an orchestration/instrumentation book.

Hi there, I just got paid and wanted to invest some money in books for orchestration/instrumentation.

The trouble I have is that there are a lot of good books out there and I can't decide which one to choose, especially because they aren't particular

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Orchestrating for beginner

Hello fellow composers,

one problem has struck me hard the last couple of month. I've started to put emphasis on realistically orchestrating my music for actual musicians and have started to read books on the topic. I've started to gain knowledge on

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Trying to create a printed score for Animal Contest entry. Help?

Hello fellow musicians!

So I’m basically self taught and never really explored printing out sheet music. Using Logic X for many years now, I normally live 100% in “piano roll” view when composing. 

In light of the Animal Music Contest, I really wou

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Behind the scene of rendering a composition with a DAW and spitfire audio

Hi All,

I just published this video which is a detail overview of how I orchestrated and rendered my latest composition in cubase, let me know if you find it interesting

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This is the original composition

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Basing a play on my album?

Aside from the musicals that review recording artists' repertoire, are there musicals where the book was written after the songs? I believe Avenue Q was one.
I'm working on a collection of original songs about coming of age in the 1960's and 70's. Any

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Orchestral Composing and Mixing Views

I watch loads and loads of these type videos on youtube and one of the best I have seen is how Junkie XL composes his scores.

Ok, like most film score composers, they all use the libs to make the mock ups which in themselves do sound pretty damn goo

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Hello. Farmer George Here - Searching For Honest Critique

         Hello.

  I just became a member here and am trying to get a few ears on my original compositions from those who do create  themselves without breaking proper protocol or getting tossed out for an improper introduction. If this is the wrong p

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Novice composer looking for advice

I'm an aspiring composer who is completely new to composition. I have some background in piano, but I am barely adequate on it now as I've been out of practice. I've only recently come to realize how much creating music means to me, as I've been gett

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Sound quality versus songwriting

Hey everyone, first proper post here, aside from entering the HEAT contest, which i may have to forfeit from due to the thing i'm about to spill out in this post.

I'm Patrik, 28 years old from Sweden.

I have been writing music, everything from meta

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