'orchestra'

[maxit]

Ciao! Inspired by chapperz I stressed my old pc till it crashed LoL. But here it is, just 10 tracks but a lot (I hope) of great VST sounds (you should recognize a telecaster and a yamaha C7). Let me know!

[alfstone]

Buono!!!

Echoes of good old Mike Oldfield here...

Alfredo

[Farrell Jackson]

Very well done Maxit! I have no idea how to do use these kind of tools to make this kind of music...amazing!

 Farrell

[chapperz66]

Brilliant Maxit.  A beautiful piece that continues to drive and build.  Well worth driving the pc into the wall for it!  The piano sounds great (and the tele of course).  What VSTis do you use? And DAW?

And I'm honoured to be any kind of inspiration.

Paul

[maxit]

Here's my setting:
DAW: mixcraft8 (commercial)
Yamaha C7 grand piano: https://neovst.com/piano-one/ (free)
Jingle jangle Telecaster, drums: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/labs/ (free)
Funk Bass: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundles/komplete-start/ (free)
Strings: https://sonivoxmi.com/products/details/orchestral-companion-strings (demo)
In the packs there are synths too, but I think I'm still not ready LoL

[chapperz66]

Thanks for the info Maxit.  I really thought the telecaster was real!  I mean - wood.  I think I have that Spitfire audio labs vst - I must try it out.

[Ted]

I love how many surprises you squeezed into a four-measure ostinato. Anyone can layer on new sounds (cello > banjo > pan flute > jaw harp). But you added entirely new moods. In particular, at 1:34 and 2:15. And I particularly like how it ends with a bass breakdown.

In a weird way, this is similar to what I find attractive about a lot of African pop – the ostinato thing: The progression doesn't change, but everything following the chords is constantly changing. I have never attempted it – insecurity starts to nag me and tell me that I need to add a B section or people will find it boring. But when it's done well – as you have done – the listener is drawn in and doesn't want it to end.

Blackout Bump - week of 2 March, 2020

[Redler]

What a relaxing piece of music! Everything has put so well together.

Thanks for the bump!

[StephenM]

glad I am hearing this!!!!
lovely, beautiful, mesmerizing track.  The sound just keeps pulling me in....closer and closer... and closer... kind of the way Alan Parsons does but this is not that .... it's like a music box that is such a delight to find.... you look at it, and it is wonderful...you open it, and it hypnotizes you.... and does not let go.... and then the tune is forever etched in your mind. 
and then, you smile.... and then you are happy... and it lasts

[maxit]

Thanks friends, and ted now that i think about it, you are so right. Despite being classical music, it uses quite an opposite logic, staying on the same simple harmony and building on different rhythms and interplay of the parts, quite african, really. Telecaster now seems an african banjo now lol