fantasy for strings

music for string orchestra combining minimal and conventional classical writing techniques. Should fit comfortably in certain film contexts.

fantasy for strings

i like!... the melody is stuck in my head now lol ... i can picture an adventure film of some sort, like a cartoon, perhaps?

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A very simple little melody and that is what makes it nice.

In the future if you could add the programs you are using, it will help the other members here that are trying to decide which programs to buy.

Something sounds a bit odd in this though and it might just be the samples, but they sound either a bit overcompressed or you atre using an odd reverb setting. Not sure which right now.

So it could use some work production wise, but still a nice piece.

Ron

Thanks Ron. I'm using Garritan on this particular piece and to be honest I'm not overly fond of them. But the work was done very quickly for a catalogue submission and really while I prefer vienna samples, or even better, a combination of samples and layering techniques, sometimes all the fiddling in the world I find will actually take away from the potential of the sample. For example I find Garritan samples fine, a little thin compared to vienna say, but most specifically I find their 'design' best suited to commercial / Hollywood type contexts. That's where you're hearing the "odd reverb" I think. It's like a fellow who prepares wonderful programming tutorials on this kind of thing says: 'There's the real sound and then there's the sound we get used to hearing in films, tv productions etc. and for better or for worse much of our programming is done with the latter in mind.'

thanks again!

p.s. Incidentally, reviews where this particular little piece is referred to specifically can be read at the following sites: http://www.fpcforpopularconsumption.com/bio.html and http://www.reverbnation.com/fpc

Neat melody! Simple is a good thing in music, and thankfully you steer away from being simplistic, and the simple melody really draws you in. There's not so much going on you get distracted, or feel like there's an impenetrable wall of music in front of you. Very responsible of you to do that, I think ;)

And your repetition of the main melody is nicely handled so that you change to a different melody just when it would start to become tiring. You deserve special kudos for that :lol:

Thanks for sharing, this was very enjoyable!

And Welcome to Young Composers: always feel free to share your work with us :D

This is pretty nice, J!

The mix could use some serious EQ work to clean up the muddiness, but otherwise it's not bad. Also remember to pan your instruments and place them depth-wise on your virtual stage. If you have better string samples, I would definitely recommend you spending the extra time and effort to use them instead of the Garritan strings — they're just not convincing. Writing-wise there's little to say here....it's a simple construction and it's effective. I wish you would have injected some variation or development, but I suppose it would suit certain film contexts well enough as is as long as it wasn't in the forefront.

I encourage you to comment on other peoples' work if you expect them to keep commenting on yours. Thanks for sharing this though, and good luck with future pieces! :)

Soothing melody. Good job! -Minoxor.