Hello, my name is Jay (Navarone) Wollin, I am a profesisonal composer, with Epiphany 6 Studios. I wanted to post some samples up here in case anyone was ever looking for a composer. So... here we go! Action Theme (World War 2) WW2 North Africa Campaign Theme World War 2 Main Theme Normandy Main Theme Star Wars music Please excuse the quality of some of the samples as they are general MIDI and have yet to be converted to VST. Thank you. Fruny - edit: links HTMLified. [Edited by - Fruny on July 22, 2004 2:55:09 PM]

I apologize immediately as I noticed that I do not know the correct way to format links in this forum. Please excuse the sloppy post.

Use HTML tags to create links.

thanks a lot! Sorry for the screwup.

What did you say you used to create it? I am also a composer, but with some different software:

-Guitar Pro 4

-Fruity Loops

-A boatload of recording software

-CUBASE... SX i think it is

-I was looking at a more professional MIDI application...maybe Sibelius or something. What is it that you use? I would like to look into it if it is a professional MIDI composition tool.

I actually use a really cheap program for the score notation. Here's what I do.

I use a program called Melody Assistant, which is available as a trial version and for only 18 dollars full version. It works as well as Finale only without the same printing options. I swear by it personally. Here's a link:

Melody Assistant Homepage

Then, once the score is done in MA I export the file into a MIDI 1 file. Then, I import the MIDI file into a new Cubasis document. There I assign each track its patch. I prefer to use the Edirol Orchestral VST instruments, the only orchestral samples that even come close are the Garritain Personal Orchestra samples. Either way, once those are set I tweak the tracks and mix them and then export the file to a .wav file, then convert to MP3. Feel free to PM or e-mail me if you have any other questions. I love to help!

-Jay

Quote: Original post by JWollin
I actually use a really cheap program for the score notation. Here's what I do.

I use a program called Melody Assistant, which is available as a trial version and for only 18 dollars full version. It works as well as Finale only without the same printing options. I swear by it personally. Here's a link:

Melody Assistant Homepage

Then, once the score is done in MA I export the file into a MIDI 1 file. Then, I import the MIDI file into a new Cubasis document. There I assign each track its patch. I prefer to use the Edirol Orchestral VST instruments, the only orchestral samples that even come close are the Garritain Personal Orchestra samples. Either way, once those are set I tweak the tracks and mix them and then export the file to a .wav file, then convert to MP3. Feel free to PM or e-mail me if you have any other questions. I love to help!

-Jay

?? The "only" orchestral samples that even come close? Have you tried out various Gigasample libraries yet, like Vienna Symphonic? Those would be the absolute highest-quality samples you can find, and some of them are a great deal (like SAM's stuff). You can load them with numerous sampler utilities, my preferred one being Native Instrument's Kontakt. Gigastudio 3 also works :D

Fair enough, I don't claim to be the authority, I am not too familiar with the gigasamples. I was asked what I used, and I told and gave my opinion. Thanks for offering up other options.

-Jay