This is nice Caleb, your graphic makes me think of the pond by his house.... Nice work here. You know he liked listening to movie soundtracks?

. - Dad

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That was definitely a creative choice among all the orchestral violence.

Niggle: your orchestra seems to consists only of violins and trombones.
Throw in more instruments. This needs to be a wall of sound. Good
percussion parts though.


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Thanks for the suggestion. I did hold back a little on this one. I'm looking into buying a better orchestal sounds pack for reason soon.

--Caleb

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I really enjoyed the strings. And the drums were cool too. A cool piece.
By the way...to get the orchestra and drum sounds, did you use reason?

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Thank you. Yes, I used 100% reason for my virtual instruments. The NN-XT is my sampler of choice. The stock orchestral percussion is sort of lame, so I used a snare sample from one of my 'Reality Drums' upgrade for all of the snare parts.

Thanks for stopping by!
---Caleb

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I can imagine this is what the angels play as they open the gates and welcome us home, thats a beutiful veiw from your window of the swan
thanks 4 the jam

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Loved the persistent piano. The melody sounded a somewhat Asian. Was
that you intention? There was slight discord in it, which gave it added
interest but took away somewhat from the theme%u2019s beauty. A very strong
piece. You've done you're grandfather proud.

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Thank you for your kind comments. Yes, the slightly Asian chord progressions were intentional. They seemed to evoke a mysterious discord (which was appropriate in this situation) so I decided to keep the string's melody. The snare section gave it a military-like mark, which I felt balanced it out.


Thanks again,
-Caleb

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The memories of my grandparents hold special appeal to me, and I see through the eyes of your music that yours do for you as well. There is great power and beauty in this music... the 3/4 time gives it a kind of lilting grace, and the pentatonic scale adds a little exotic mystery. To have the military cadence come in at the middle, then have grandfather's theme brought back as a more ethereal pennywhistle was a nice touch... very evocative. Definitely would benefit from better orchestral sounds, and beefing up the orchestration more in the middle. Nice photo of the black swan too.
ttfn,
Drakonis

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