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I've heard of that, but Im' not familiar with its functioning... However, it's my understanding that the vast majority of sequencers have something akin to piano roll view, to make edits of controllers and other note parameters a lot easier... Anyway, keep posting and let us know of what your next composition is...

If you go to the northern sounds forum, garritan has a great forum there and there are a LOT of tutorials on how to get the best out of GPO... There's a lotta life in GPO if you use it right... Some people there have done extraordinary work using just GPO... They also have a course in orchestration based on Rimski Korsakov book..... To get the best out of GPO, piano roll view is your friend, you are able to edit your controllers and notes more easily in that view... What program are you using to sequence???

Hi Ben, I think you have a lot of good ideas here that can be better executed... I noticed that there wasn't legato playing in any of the phrases... using cc controllers, depending on what orchestral library you're using, you can create more fluid lines... Also, I'd like to add that you captured the feel for that type of composition for action games with your harmonies and rhythms... Compostion is a life long study, so if you don't get great reviews in some of your first pieces don't get discouraged... I would suggest as a way of hands on learning orchestration, get yourself a piano copy of "pictures at an exhibition" and then get the orchestral score by Ravel.. analyze each piece, learn the harmony, learn the melody at the piano first, and then look at what Ravel would do to convert the piano score into an orchestral piece... That would give you a good understanding of converting 'piano chords" into orchestral writing... Now I'm assuming that you have a thorough knowledge of all the instruments of the orchestra... If you don't, you can always get orchestration books that will teach you about ranges and where the instruments sound best as you analyze the piece... But I think you learn better by being able to refer to a piece of music, as opposed to just learning things as a dry scholastic exercise... Pictures at an exhibition is something you can wrap your head around easily... Anyway, keep writing and remember that each gig is an opportunity to learn something...