Tags : | Orchestral | 2.50 MB

Description : I linked my mom this song and she said I should name the track after her. Formerly [untitled].

Oboes are fascinating. I wrote this piece around an oboe loop I made when I was bored.

The oboes are a soundfont with about 200 staccato notes and a sytrus synth. The trumpet is from a similar soundfont bank, all short staccato bursts. Beats are a sliced orchestral dum kit I arranged by hand and an orchestral kit from PC51d soundfont. The strings are two sytrus voices and DSK Stringz. The plunky pads are sytrus ambient pads. The piano is a DSK Akoustik Keyz. The tenor sax is another DSK voice.

Most of the parts were played on a MIDI keyboard while recording the input. Minor tweaking and cleaning up, scaling note levels and such, but it's mostly natural playing. I used no loops I didn't create for the track (other than a drum loop I sliced into individual hits and used as a kit).

The track has no reached the "done-ish" phase (it has an ending, a rarity for my tracks). Any recommendations on what needs tweaking would be appreciated.

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  1. Mayz
    Mayz on Sun 28th Mar 2010 - 14 years ago

    this is really nice, I can listen to this and become inspired into my own music, love everything about it!

    JHolmes
    Reply by JHolmes

    Thanks.

  2. BigJoWezy
    BigJoWezy on Sat 14th Nov 2009 - 14 years ago

    NICE ARRANGEMENT IT JUSDTA flows together perfect God Bless and keep up the good work

  3. codymeiser
    codymeiser on Wed 4th Nov 2009 - 14 years ago

    Nice arrangemet. Good musical ablility. Good job.

    JHolmes
    Reply by JHolmes

    Ty. Short review. Short reply.

  4. jfw
    jfw on Thu 17th Sep 2009 - 14 years ago

    Nice change of title your mum will appreciate it.

    JHolmes
    Reply by JHolmes

    She did.

  5. victormusic01x
    victormusic01x on Wed 16th Sep 2009 - 14 years ago

    this is obviously a labor of love with such meticulous preparation..there is something Philip Glass like about it but only a little i think! would really like to hear this again when more rested in the morning...i'm on a sort of funky hip hop crusade right now myself, but i'm also well versed in the classical and jazz disciplines and would like to hear your composition again when completed...then again is anything ever really completed?? i'll leave you with that...lol!!
    thank you for sharing your work!

    victormusic01x.....pondering all this technical talk but appreciating the outcome nonetheless

    JHolmes
    Reply by JHolmes

    I actually just acquired a bunch of Philip Glass from my roommate, but haven't gotten around to listening to it yet. I'm channeling him on some unconscious level, I guess...

    I feel like I've actually spent less time on this than I usually do, at least in terms of composition. I recorded most of the instruments on my first take, with minor adjustments to timing and occasional reworking of the parts by hand, leaving the note velocities as they were but changing timing/volume/volume ratios.

    I appreciate the review. If you get any ideas on a fresh listen, please don't hesitate to share them.

  6. bcway
    bcway on Wed 16th Sep 2009 - 14 years ago

    This is a great track. I can't explain this next bit very well, but, some of it reminds me of Glass ( can't remember if it is Peter or Philip...?? his best album is Glass Works ) which is a good thing. Too bad I could not download it. Again, well done.

    JHolmes
    Reply by JHolmes

    I'm a fan of Philip Glass' work, but I only really recall his score from The Truman Show.

    The download option is now available.

    Thanks for the review.

  7. MCLift
    MCLift on Sat 12th Sep 2009 - 14 years ago

    Wow! This is such a fun track. Love the voice of wind instruments. And you incorporated it in such a playful way. Great job! I want to hear the full arrangement when it's done.

    JHolmes
    Reply by JHolmes

    Thank you for the review. I should have some time this weekend to work on it, and I feel like the part I have done is as fleshed out as it should be, so the next update should lengthen it significantly.

    The song is now finished-ish.

  8. jfw
    jfw on Fri 11th Sep 2009 - 14 years ago

    Oboes are indeed fascinating and the people who play them more fascinating still. Who would deliberately select an instrument that looks like a huge elephants trunk with a chrome doodad stuck on the side of it? It's good to see that someone out there is experimenting with such sounds - good stuff.

    JHolmes
    Reply by JHolmes

    You typically only have a single oboe in an orchestra, 'cause you can *always* hear them when they play. So, naturally, I used two.

    Now I really want to learn to play one. There's something about playing "an elephant's trunk with a chrome doodad" that just seems like something I'd do.

  9. n0mad23
    n0mad23 on Fri 11th Sep 2009 - 14 years ago

    My first musical memory is "Peter and the Wolf" and I've never really recovered from initially hearing the oboe and French horn. Hearing how you've used soundfonts really gives me encouragement to keep experimenting with these, as you've been far more successful than I have. Seeing you've used DSK Akoustik, I'm wondering if you've tried DSK Stringz, and if so what you think. I hope you extend this one.

    PS(16 Sept) - Man! I really dig what you've done here, and reading others' comments I can see the Phillip Glass connection. Since you're one that actually wants suggestions (refreshing that) might I suggest you give this one a Title? Faved without hesitation.

    JHolmes
    Reply by JHolmes

    I took your oboe/french horn as a challenge and worked in a sax/oboe section after where I'd left off before.

    I found/downloaded every DSK VSTi I could find. Stringz is nice; I added in a channel that comes in with the tenor sax and synth oboe.

  10. khrimson
    khrimson on Fri 4th Sep 2009 - 14 years ago

    The clarinet (?) melody is nice and the piece has a trppypoppy (again, ??) feeling. It's short but I liked it but.... the strings are distant and and should be an octave lover IMHO, why not try to replace them with a cello solo melody? There's good public domain soundfonts for strings (Cadenza is good for violin for example).

    See you,
    k

    JHolmes
    Reply by JHolmes

    The melody is an oboe soundfont.

    I lowered the strings at the beginning (they're pretty terrible sytrus voices still though) and it definitely helps. I couldn't find the Cadenza soundfont anywhere, although I did find a DSK strings rompler I used later in the song.

    Thanks for your input. I've added to the song considerably since you reviewed it, so if you have a few minutes, I'd appreciate another listen.

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