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Here is a place where everybody wears rose colored glasses.. Definitely easy listening. The guitar patches are Real Guitar, and UVI's Sunbird, you can choose the guitar picking pattern, but they are not able to be displayed as notes, so their display is not note accurate.  Other instruments, (non pitched, vague pitch, I displayed on one line cliffs, to save space.

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The second C major chord you use after Em was weird since you use the 4th instead of the 10th; careful. (It may have been an F∆7 but that means where would have to have been a 9th, which doesn't make sense.)
I would also be careful about timbres now since you have such a distinct style. Make sure that everything blends well especially since your style is so serene. Sine waves square or saw waves for example, with different instruments.
The sections also kind of go by fast for me. A new gimmick seems to be thrown quickly in each one and detracts from the whole thing a bit. You sometimes return to them but it's still kind of awkward.
Overall, I echo Luis's praise. It's uniquely peaceful. 

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Thank you Louis..  Thank you Monarcheon..  I can understand your points, and and willtake them to heart.  (actually assign them to a more important data path to the brain)..  In my haste to create variety, I have to also concentrate on continuity and pacing..  I have discovered in real life, (I'm not a 'young' composer anymore, physical and emotional pacing is everything.. I'm beginning to understand how much music (the sounds, harmonics, and resonant factors of these machine created instruments) is more complicated sometimes, than strictly using traditional instruments.. 

It took the symphony 100's and 100's of years to evolve to it's sonic  palette. new instruments introduced, others phased out, number of particular instruments of the same genre added or subtracted to keep a balance.. it evolved through hundreds of thousands of performances of all kinds of works..  Also the introduction of more playing techniques.. 

The symphony orchestra is really a huge 'organic' synthesizer.. 

In DAW virtual instruments, the addition of 'artifacts' and ability to switch between different articulations of notes, for a much wider variety of sounds

Ample Sound recently updated their acoustic bass, and add 'a human breath' note artifact, to accommodate the fact some some jazz bassists make human sounds along with their notes..  While it's going to probably be used very rarely..   I often take 'guitar artifacts'  thumps, squeaks, buzzes, of a guitar patch and assign them to a bass, or just use alone as a very subtle percussion track in another piece (because most of the artifacts are unhitched)  

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