EricC

Yeah, I have to say I listened to this several times. I think this is a piece to be proud of.

Some time back, a company I'm with (as a programmer) was working on an iPhone game tentatively called "Letter Rip," which basically played like Meteos but with letters instead of colored blocks. Anyway, it was later canceled, but before it was, I tried my hand at writing a theme for it. This is it. I spent a bit of time yesterday moving it over to some more modern samples, and so I thought I'd share it with you kind folks. Let me know what you think.Made with Logic Pro 9 and EWQLSO. Letter Rip

Great! Now do one with just the Logic Studio string samples. :D

The percussion is probably the part I'm least happy with. I just couldn't get that NES fuzz/noise sound out of it. Oh well.

I don't know anything about FL, but I'd suggest you start with a google for "fruity loops automation." Automation is essentially what you're talking about, you can record/manually write in the lowering or raising of volume, pan, or a great many other things. When you play it back, those gradual (or not so gradual) changes will play back as well. Sample is just a general term meaning any small clip of audio used in a piece of music. So yes, it could be a segment of another song, but in this case it means the actual recording of violins, piano or whatever else that you're playing back with each note. You can get higher quality samples, but they're not cheap. Hope this helps.

I like this. The piano part is really nice, even though your samples aren't that great. My amateur suggestions are, firstly, work on the dynamics of your instruments. The whole piece is pretty much the same volume throughout, which is cool for a sketch, but I think you'd be really surprised how good this would sound if you put an hour or two just into volume changes. Secondly, I was hoping for some percussion to come in at some point. It never did, and I was left wanting. Good work, though.

I really like the mood here. It sounds like a dreamy piece, like I'm flying low to the ground looking down at maybe...a small town or something? I don't know, too short to tell. If you could make it longer and develop it out a bit more, I would very much appreciate it. :) My only suggestion would be that the guitar sounds a little too same-y. A variation in the pattern or even just in the velocities used would be good. Give the ears some breathing room.

Thanks for the kind words. :) It's project-less, I just felt like playing around. It was made exclusively in Logic 9, using just the ES1 synth. That was the closest I could get to an authentic 8-bit/NES sound without spending hours tweaking stuff (which is usually what I end up doing when I work on a piece, so easily distra...shiny things!) Edit: I just wanted to add that I wanted to keep it pretty "pure," so I did a very minimal amount of mixing (just some EQ correction when I couldn't get the sound I wanted from the synth) and stuck to just the 4 instruments.

So, having been busy working on a start up and studying music, I decided to spend a couple of hours actually writing music. I’m not sure if I had it in mind from the start or if it just evolved that way, but it’s an 8-bit-ish “chip tune.” It’s the kind of music Mario would make if his 8-bit self joined a power pop band.Enjoy! Go

I completely agree with everything you said, and thank you for the welcome. I fully intend to be an active participant in this forum, especially as my knowledge of composition expands and enables me to offer words of wisdom rather than just an "I like it," or "I don't like it" comment. Thanks for listening! P.S. Editing initial posting to include software used.

I liked this. My only criticism is that once that synth cymbal/hat comes in, it's there for the rest of the piece. Might potentially sound good to drop it if only for a few measures at some point.

Well, I have to say that was not necessarily what I expected from a title of "Chocolate." I did enjoy it. However, I really felt like the voices coming in every so often to tell me about chocolate were a big distraction. I was more interested in hearing the rather melancholic (for a piece about chocolate, you don't like chocolate? :P) but beautiful music.

Even drunk comments are welcome, so thank you. :)

Hey everyone. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on this piece. It's inspired by the picture below, and I'm reasonably happy with it. Anyway, let me know what you think. Thanks. As requested, the sample library used for this piece was exclusively EWQLSO Platinum, and was scored and sequenced in Logic Pro 8. Click for the musics

Hey everybody. I present to you my first "finished" piece. It's a very short composition for violin and viola. I named it "First Piece of Cake" for two reasons. First, it's my "first piece" (har har), and second, when I listened to the finished piece, it brought to mind a scene of an old man, having spent his whole life eating his vegetables, enjoying his first piece of cake on his last birthday... Bitter sweet, and melodramatic. I hope you like it. First Piece of Cake