Dear Forum,
as an amateur composer I would ask politely for feedback on the following symphonic composition for orchester (basses, chelli, violas, violin I+II, timpani, trombone, horn, bassoon, oboe, flutes) :
1. sonate set
2. andante
3. menuet
4. rondo
Best regards
Stefan Welebny
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20+ minutes is a long time for strangers to sit through so maybe you have a 2-3 minute section you're most proud of or you think in most need of feedback?
A score would be useful as the midi playback doesn't illuminate what's happening very well but from what I listened to at the start the rhythm was a little monotonous. It was just a pulse without any shorter or longer notes to subdivide and keep the audience guessing.
Hello! Yes, 20 minutes is pretty long to sit through especially with those those VI samples... A shorter piece will get you more responses. I did not sit through the entire thing in one go but rather "skimmed" through it so my impression is probably a bit skewed. That said, I think there a bit too much unfocused meandering around which makes it seem sort of disjointed and strung together. It's a rather ambitious piece though and I applaud the effort! It reminds my a lot of the way I used to compose when I first started doing orchestral type compositions way back in the day... I tried to get every single musical idea I had that I thought was good and then sort of mashed them all together into a single very long piece. Keep it up though - there is some really nice stuff in there!
Thank you Charles and Daniel!
I am providing the structure with minute:second so everybody can distinguish the parts and navigate them:
00:01 - 03:48 Exposition (2x)
03:50 - 09:24 Development
09:27 - 11:08 Recapitulation
11:18 - 14:45 Andante
14:48 - 18:03 Menuett
18:07 - 20:40 Rondo
I like your ops #1, it is worth to be performed in public. Did you create that sample library yourself, or did you buy it? I am using logic pro x and the standard instruments delivered with it. I have not a deep knowledge about sound processing, but I feel to be in trouble with the logic library.
Daniel Krausz said:
Hi Stefan. Thanks for the kind words. I use Logic X as well but I don't use any of the built in orchestral sounds.
I primarily use virtual instruments by a company called East West. Specifically "Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Platinum Plus". For big dramatic drums I use their "Storm Drum 2" and for realistic ethnic sounds I use "RA" also by East West. Their VI's served me well over the years.
Their may be better libraries out their but for the price, I don't think you can beat it. 10 years ago QLSO was $1699.00. Today it's less than half that price!
Regardless of which library you use, I cannot overstate how important the actual time consuming minutia of good MIDI programming is though when you're going for realism! Even with the BEST samples!
Cheers!
Stefan Welebny said:
Thank you Daniel, I checked it out: now East West offer 1. a Hollywood Orchestra and 2. a Symphonic Orchestra (which is the Quantum Leap) at approx. the same price.
Daniel Krausz said:
uploaded Cassiopeia to SoundCloud for enabling in-track comments:
https://soundcloud.com/stefan-welebny/cassiopeia