This is getting back to your "nicely polished" enjoyable
works! I liked the 3-part style, with the slow movement in
the middle... if you used a different faster tempo & melody
in the 3rd movement, it would almost be considered a
short 3-movement symphony! Fun stuff. There were a
couple of places (like near the end with the "rattler") where
the percussion didn't quite line up with the music. But
your use of orchestration and dynamics were quite nice. I
can't tell whether the crackling sound is clipping (due to
high volume) or just some weird interference/distortion
with some instruments... it almost sounds like the latter,
because it sometimes happens when the music's not too
loud... I wonder if there's a bug in GB, or if you're hitting a
CPU/disk horsepower limitation with so many
instruments. Maybe you could try bouncing a few tracks
of instruments at a time out of GB, then recombining
them as real tracks, to see if that eliminates the static?

Anyway, fun piece!
ttfn,
Drakonis


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Lovely opening with the brass. You do an excellent job of
orchestrating and mixing. Very solid. Again, this has the
ring of a Gustav Holst march. (See Military Suite in F) Do
you listen to his music?

Third movement, has a beautiful low brass choir sound.
Nice bells. Excellent.

Piccolo trumpet?

I hear the crackling...just sounds slightly over modulated
to me.

All in all this is another great piece. I am amazed most of
all at how you are able to keep cranking these out. You
live in an active, colorful, musical digital world.

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This is another amazing peice from you. It is very energetic, and lively. I especially loved the solo drum section that ties the peice back together. I would love to hear this played live. Do you write your music out on paper? For a kid with not much training you are wonderful and just imagine if you had the training, I really think you could have great things happen to you in life. *smiles*

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I am glad you guys liked it and I really enjoy reading your comments. I'm going to have to research a little more into this "crackling" because I can't seem to find the source of where it is coming from. I lower all the tracks and I still get it. So I don't know where it is coming from. I have heard Suite in F from Holst, among some other compositions. I like his use of orchestrations.

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...after listening to several of your pieces is that you must
be a fan of Holst. I enjoyed this work very much. The
British march style sounds very much like the kind of work
my high school band director loved and we played all the
time. This would have fit right into our repertoire. Very
nicely done.

as for the crackling, I kinda go with Drakonis' theory that
it could be because of interference or distortion of some
of the instruments in the Orchestra pack. I've noticed a
couple of times that some of the instrument voices either
interfere with one another or, in some cases, cut each
other out all together. I don't know if this is a bug or just
the limitations of the software.

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