Hi! It’s basically the title. I want to compose music, but I want to be able to use instruments from an orchestra. I have a piano with a few extra instruments on it, but you can’t play trumpet on a keyboard. It sounds awful, or at least it does on mine. I tried googling it, but all I found was for actual orchestras and also hundreds of dollars, which I don’t have. So do you guys know of any relatively cheap, midi-esque computer programs where I can basically write my own stuff without having to learn a bajillion new instruments? Thanks!
With the small handful of different music notation softwares, I’ve noticed that while there are some that are more popular, there are many that are quite widely used. If I was to guess the order, it would be
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Sibelius
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Finale
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Musescore
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Dórico
I would’ve just done this as a poll, but A) I can’t on this sub and B) I wanted to know why people use what they use. Was it just what they were taught? Was it because of certain features? Was just a random pick?
Edit: for reference, I have used all of the above for extended periods of time and am fairly familiar with writing in all of them.
im currently using lmms, wondered if there's program like that. or if lmms has it itself.
I have a blind friend who wishes to continue learning music and writing music compositions. I was told that Sibelius is accessible. Is this correct? Are there better alternatives? Thank you
I’m in my second year of film school, going for my BFA in video editing. I learned years ago on Premiere Pro, and in my opinion, Premiere Pro is the premiere video editing software. Far more intuitive than anything else I’ve tried. And that brings me to Avid.
This year, after pretty much mastering Premiere, I’m now being made to learn Avid, as Avid is the industry standard in most major production circles. So I’ve been at it for a few very frustrating months, learning on the Avid. I absolutely can’t stand it, even though I’m becoming relatively proficient at it. It’s unintuitive, overly complicated, and the interface actually LOOKS like it was invented by a dinosaur and hasn’t changed since.
My question is... am I wrong? Is there something about Avid that I’m not giving a proper chance? The thing is, I’m mostly just bitching. I HAVE to learn Avid, and I know it’s good to know as many programs and jobs as possible in this industry. It’s just... I don’t like it. Am I wrong? Does anybody else feel the same way? What about it can you tell me in order to let me know that I’m wrong? I just wanna have a discussion about the Avid.
My friend and I are making a game and we want it to have good music. I know I should use FL studio or such to compose something that reach my expectations. Our goal here is to get the project demo on kickstarter and itch.io, collect some money there and buy fl studio. But for now we need a free software to compose music for the demo. Any suggestions?
I would like to make music for a living. I'm becoming serious about it and I would like to begin with indie games. My favorite thing to write is big bombastic orchestrations like the boss music from Dark Souls or Bloodborne, but I am also capable of more ambient backing material (see my album 'Desporoth' for good examples of each. Try 'Chapel Perilous' for an example of ambience and 'The Apotheosis' for an example of a large orchestra). If your game is attempting to replicate that Soulsborne formula, I would love to be a part of your team.
We can discuss the price depending upon the size of the job. I have been assured by multiple composer friends that my music is easily worth the $100 per minute of music that they charge, but since I am just starting out, I would be willing to make it for less. Depending upon the amount of music to be made, I'd do it for $50 USD for one minute of finished music to loop or $100 USD if you want a full song of at least two minutes.
Here is some of my work - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk6KKlYC9AZpwDP0W9HjKeA
This is a question that I’ve been wondering for a while now. As a person who grew up in band classes, reading music, and now learning to compose, I always thought the go-to writing platform was a notation software like Sibelius, Finale, or even Musescore. But the more and more I look into composing for film, it seems as though people almost exclusively write into DAWs with midi controllers and sample libraries. Is this how most composers do it nowadays? In your guys’ opinion, what’s the best way to go about composing music like this?
I’ve been so blessed this past year to work on some amazing projects with Disney & Pixar’s SOUL and Verve Records to show you all a new side to my music. My new album WE ARE is now available for your listening pleasure. Ask any and all questions you have!
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Proof:
https://i.redd.it/pg9jpxjb3xv61.jpg
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I'm giving serious consideration to making my next project a spiritual successor to Black & White.
You can't even buy it anymore. You can get the disks and run a VM of windows XP but who's gonna go through all that?
Last I was able to play a legit copy it crashed after trying to load through the first Edin portal. In the last abandonware copy I played, the creature didn't grow throughout the whole campaign and the ending broke the game.
So, I can't scratch that itch, ya know?
Does this kind of game interest you?
What would you add or change about the source material if it were your game?
I was talking with my mom and she was so sure that you could click and hold a tree from a forest to pull a stream of wood out of the forest, that's not a feature but maybe it should be, maybe you should also be able to move amounts of water that grow the longer you hold the right-click button, maybe you should be able to suck steams of villagers into a big twitching mass in your floating hand to toss as a unit or mass assign to a task.
I'm primarily an artist and I am looking for someone or someones to help me create this project, I have no shipped titles but I'm plucky and I've got spunk.
To be clear this is not a paid offer, I won't hire you, your freelance studio, your design company, your marketing firm, nor your consultancy agency.
I'm working on this for free and I have a lot of needs to see this game completed, if you are able and willing to fill that need and this game makes money, which it might not, then I would be happy to discuss how we share that money before any work begins.
If you want to know more about the development aspect and more about what I offer to a team then read on, otherwise:
TLDR;
So, who am I to be talking about remaking 20-year-old cult classics?
I mean Lionhead, the original designers, and EA don't see the value in rebooting the franchise, so I, some rando on the internet suddenly think I have what it takes to pull this off?
Well, hi, I'm Robin, I bet those devs have all moved on with their lives, some to MUCH bigger things.
Lionhead got bought by Microsoft and sure Microsoft *could* task a new group to make a spiritual successor, but they would need a pretty huge financial incentive to do so, there's no reason to believe a modern audience is chomping at the bit for the resurgence of a game that didn't merit a 3'rd followup from almost 20 years ago.
The same goes
... keep reading on reddit ➡I am experimenting with mathematical techniques to create sheet based music, and have searched but found little around composers who use math/algo techniques to compose music.
Do you use maybe this style of composition and what techniques do you use and how do they sound?
Thanks for your help.
(If you are curious, here is a piece for 5 pianos I have written in Python: https://musescore.com/user/37663311/scores/6655514
Two pieces in youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HabMjOkAlSA&list=PLfnNHqLVzcnJLsyrBLQV507vH31ID4fW6
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I'm designing my own software that does this, and I'm hoping to make it more accurate and cheaper than what's currently available. If this is something you find interesting, or something you already use in some form, I'd really like to hear what you think. I've listed a few points below, but feel free to discuss other aspects as well!
- Accuracy can be higher if you're willing to wait longer for the software to process the PDF file. What's a reasonable maximum time (say in seconds/ minutes per page)
- Are the scores you need converted usually badly scanned (for example, images from a phone camera, or low resolution pdfs, etc)? Or do you have access to 'nice' pdfs that look like what you'd get if you 'export as pdf' from Finale/Musescore etc
- What do you use the software for? (This would be really useful because I need to know what kind of users I should target my marketing towards)
- I've already made a really nice playback feature which currently works only as a piano sound, but it plays a digital sheet music file adding in expression and dynamics, beyond what's actually written out in the score, so it sounds more like a human performance. Is this something you'd appreciate, or might even use if sold separately (basically a musicXML playback for piano scores)
- Roughly what pricing should I aim to sell it at? And is a monthly or yearly subscription better than a one time payment?
- Do you already use similar software? Are there aspects to them you'd specifically like to see improved?
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Hi,
after some struggles I could successfully connect the Avid Artist Mix in the EuControl which is the only controller. Now my questions is how do you link it with Media Composer? I'm pretty new to working with and setting up mixers in NLEs, so sorry if the answer seems obvious. Unfortunately, I cannot find anything on the net.
I'm using MC 2018.12.12
Thank you in advance
Good day, as the title says, I need a software, possibly free or unexpensive, to create my own music for personal and non commercial use.
I need something that's easy to use, that doesn't require you to be a professional composer or a sound engineer, without too many options, just like the earlier releases of Fruity Loops.
Most importantly, it should be able to synthesize an instrument and let me compose the music, rather than merely mixing audio files.
I just want to have fun composing little tunes for the background music to use in my personal videos, nothing pretentious.
Could you please suggest me a software to try, or eventually if there is a subreddit dedicated to this kind of questions?
Edit: I already tried the latest Fruity Loops release and it's scaringly hard to learn for me. Really too complicated and with tons of options that I don't even know what they means or what are they supposed to do. That is to give you an idea of my lack of expertise.
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