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Writers block...

The Seventh Insignia was a bit more on the brutal side.

The Eighth Insignia, I want to be more of an unholy, purgatory, requiem type of sound and I'm not sure if I am acheiving this effect here so far so I'm asking for opinions. 

What do you guys think of the sound I'm going for? What instruments are best suited for the feeling I am trying to portray? Also I'm not sure what should come next.

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I rather like it and can see what you're going for. Your inversions of your major seventh chords can result in very awkward sounding chords at first, which makes it sound wrong, when it isn't... mix it up a little bit, perhaps. Also, for your sound effects, I think you forgot that they're still based in pitch, and I can hear the unwanted dissonance they create against the tonal harmonic progression.
I think you're doing a pretty okay job getting that feeling. Mozart's requiem might be a good tool for you to listen to if you need further help. It's admittedly not very "unholy" as you put it, but the cinematic quality it has along with it mostly covers for it. I just think it could be more dramatic; i.e. with bass tones in root position sometimes. 

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13 minutes ago, LostSamurai said:

When you say mix up the major seventh chords a bit do you mean putting the notes in different pitches?

 

That's an awkwardly phrased question. Granted, I feel like I misspoke; mix up the inversions, I mean, so it feels like it resolves enough and isn't to continuously angsty. 

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Ahhh ok gotcha. 

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Alright so following what you said, it turned into this...

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Without a score, I'm having trouble discerning much difference, but to what I hear I think it sounds clearer...? Keep in mind that the overtone effect you have has a pitch. On your A-flat chord and E-flat7 chord, its pitch is an A natural, for example, which is not what I think you want. 

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Yeah I'm having trouble with the sound effect. I'm...not really sure if I should play the sound on a different key or change the pitch of each one.

I'm also having trouble with the main melody. At 1:00 is that considered a counter melody? Or I'm not sure if I should continue the high pitched melody since I believe I had it going from the start all the way to 0:59

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