09-27-2018, 05:57 PM
(09-27-2018, 05:24 PM)Michael Willis Wrote: Hi Terry, it took me a while to get to this one, but I do have some feedback.
I think the dissonant harmonies do a good job of capturing the feeling you're going for... sort of an exhausted-to-the-bone disappointment of returning to a violated home.
I found it curious that the piece fades out in the end; that's not usual for orchestral pieces.
It's intended as a piece of videogame music - it loops at the 2-minute mark, you may notice. My intention is to become a composer for media.
By which I mean film, television, videogames (heck, YouTube series, podcasts, audio dramas if they'll have me) - I realized that "composer for media" may obfuscate more than it clarifies!
Quote:Michael Willis
I also wonder if you could get more depth by either adding reverb (or increasing if it is already present). Are you using an existing reverb plugin? Admittedly I tend to get reverb settings all wrong, but Mattias's articles about orchestral positioning are a good place to start if you're new to using reverb:
https://mattiaswestlund.net/?page_id=29
I'm using an instance of Hibiki Reverb. You are correct, I am indeed new to such. I plan eventually to put out a new version of the piece taking what Mattias' has written into account - part of the issue is that this was written without any template. But after two months on it, I wanted to get it finished... one day. I still need to create a template, actually. I just wish I had soundfonts for the SONiVOX strings instead of that horrible VST. Oh well. Make do with what one can and such.
Certainly when creating a template, Mattias is going to be something of a model for me to work off of (I hope he doesn't mind) - everything he's written makes a good deal of sense to me and he's the only composer I know of to have written so extensively about such things, particularly with regards to working off of a shoestring budget. (In my case, it's a shoestring budget, and someone else is wearing the shoe!)
Thank you so much for your thoughts! I appreciate them.
