Hey...i just wrote this...my first attempt at writing orchestral music so i wanted all your opinions...this is my first time posting something to this forum but i have been reading and listening for awhile and most of you have really good pointers...anywho here''s the link http://home.comcast.net/~breton.ross/online_storage/orchestral_thang.mp3 Any comments at all are appreciated...composition, mixing, orchestration...blah blah blah... thanks... BretonRoss

Great sound canvas, what is it? As far as the tune, you really really need to make use of quantization, it makes notes match to intervals of a measure, the harp and strings at the beginning kinda muddle the song bad but the music isn''t bad at all. After about half way it sounds pretty good, the only complaint about that is the violin''s attack rate, you may want to speed it up for melody notes like that.

So the main points:
1) Quantize so the notes are on the beat
2) Make sure lead instruments don''t have that "start" for every single note

Nice first try ^.^

not sure what you mean by sound canvas...i''m guessing you mean synths and sound modules?...well i was using a Roland Synth at my school, XV-3080 i think and i have Unity Session on my computer...thanks for the tips tho...i was totally have trouble with the violin attack times, b/c for some reason i couldn''t mess around with the attack times in unity...so that might also explain why the things don''t sound quantized...partly because of the two different sound modules, Unity for the strings and the Roland for everything else...and also because the 16ths are quantized and the melodic stuff i ended up playing in so it wouldn''t sound as stiff...much thanks for comments

-BretonRoss-