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“Butterflies”
Something light hearted from Staffpad.
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Light hearted? This is downright joyful. Jubilant even. Keep this up and we may have to revoke your membership to the Curmudgeon Society.😉
I’m going to have to add this to my favorites.
Hi McD,
Light hearted, compared to your usual creations. This one is a beautiful gem of music, a truly relaxing and melodious song.
This song makes me happy, like MadeofWax, said, very joyful and jubilant!!!
Thanks for sharing this lovely song.
Rene
Thanks. I’m careful not to join organized groups because they are too hard to control.
Favorites on SoundCloud? I “hearted” something there once and it came up #2 in rotation and it was my own music. I had to delete it to change the alto rhythm to “surprise me”. Then it surprised me with the same #2 based on number of plays.
I think I need to switch to BandCamp but the SoundCloud embedding is drop dead simple. I just wish they didn’t break the audioshare automatic log in feature. Still loading via SoundCloud is not a big change in workflow.
Sad, happy, tense, cinematic… just more colors in the paint box. And more RX’es for the listener.
3 !’s.
That’s high praise indeed. Borderline ecstasy. Not a word to bandy about with a deeply religious person but cool to contemplate for my skeptical soul. I’d like to believe in heightened states of consciousness. The best I can summon are audio hallucinations where I hear someone (my wife most often) call my name. Hardly ecstatic because it triggers an irritation to be interrupted and asked to do something.
Your StaffPad compositions are sounding more natural these days. This is a good one with a strong melody
I bought the Staffpad Pipe Organ so expect something different this year. I think orchestra with pipe organ and Voxos Choir. There’s a Ralph Vaughan Williams piece for ideas or a “pastiche”.
Great orchestration!
Shanks. Lot’s of cut and paste going on to avoid the Pencil entry of various motifs. I’m efficiently lazy to a fault.
Orchestrating (or trying to) on my desktop is one of my main interests. The sound of 'real' instruments is what feels most expressive to me.
It’s the most expensive for me. I was afraid I would buy all the libraries and I’m about 1/2 way towards collecting them all. Each library is $50-100. The cheapest library is a terrible $10 guitar collection that doesn’t have any electric guitars.
Absolutely sublime. Do more like this. It's very, very good!
The original goes on for 6 minutes but it’s a lot of just adding more instruments and passing it the motifs and I simply edited the length in AudioShare. I’m too lazy to make B sections, bridges, etc.
Any composer who takes the time to score individual notes with a pencil is not lazy.
I often get burned out on a track and am tempted to just finalize it. Instead, I've started putting them aside for a few days. When I come back I hear new things. There is no reason that a composition has to be done in one sitting. You should consider giving it a shot. Just decide that you are going to do a piece with at least 3 parts (A, B, and C). I often do them on separate days with little or no consideration of the other parts. The fun part is trying to make them work together. Sometimes you have to force it! It doesn't always work, but when it does it's pretty cool.
Very light hearted and uplifting…
Listened to this after @Svetlovska ’s ‘Angels’ track… talk about two ends of the musical spectrum 🌈
Free advice from the construction master… Will I do it? I do tend to aim to please those that provide feedback so probably.
It will be a challenge. I like facing down challenges just to prove to myself I can change on purpose because I change on accident all most constantly. I don’t even make lists generally unless there’s a deadline… like someone coming to visit and I need to make the place livable. That’s on the docket this week. Tricky when I’m visiting the hospital for 10 hours a day. Mostly I sit and read my iPad or make something on it.
This feels like the opening credits from a Miyazaki move! Wonderful stuff.
Making music is the least of your challenges. I've had a few hospital experiences in my life, but nothing like what you are going through. All we can do is keep you both in our thoughts, and hope for the best outcome. There will be time for music.
On a lighter note, I see that StaffPad is on sale. I told her about the Apple Pencil. She said... $130 for a frigging pencil? Have you lost your effing mind? (she didn't actually say 'effing'). I told her I might be able to continue using a piano roll editor and import into StaffPad. That pencil is dead in the water. What do you think? If I told her 'McD thinks it's a good idea', she might relent.
I really liked 'Howl's Moving Castle' and 'Spirited Away'.
This is very cinematic - I can see the scenes playing out as I listen.
Nicely done, my man.
I really like it. Sounds good. Makes me wish I picked up staffpad when it was on sale. I bet it’s fun making cool little arrangements like this.
Does your iPad need a Pencil 1 or 2?
I could imagine that. It’s high praise for me, of course, and for that I thank you. It provides energy to keep at it.
It’s hard work but the joy is in the sound engine… nothing on IOS comes close for taking a hack at the traditional orchestral composer’s role and with the new audio track feature you can just fold in synth audio made in a traditional DAW.
StaffPad is a DAW with a handwriting control scheme. You can sneak MIDI in with a high error rate. Some MIDI just crashes the app.
This really lifted me up @McD !
I thinking about seeing if there’s an app to play the midi in reverse and get people back down.
Getting lazy I see? I figured you for writing a Mosaic script for that.
Unfortunately Mozaic cannot reverse the arrow of time…
BUT… I’d have to store the notes into an array and then dump that array out with proper time stamped spacing.
I’ve done that for the forward direction of the array and I learned @Brambos has limit on 256 notes in a single batch.
Still, 256 is a lot. I called that script “Recordist”. You hit a pad and it starts recording and hit to stop and hit once more for playback. I never posted it but it’s shows promise for many MIDI uses cases. I support I could post the array in reverse too.
Anyway… the ideas are the easy part. And I have more ideas than I have pennies. And trust me I seem to grow pennies,
Paul, tell her McL, who has won a Dramatists’ Guild Award, published over 60 albums and just got interviewed by a major online jazz site says she’s holding back an original creator who deserves the tools he needs to create and share his art with an audience who loves his stuff.
Paul… and tell her @LinearLineman has been married many, many times and spends all his money on music hardware. Take his advice at your peril. I also know you probably get significant gifts as appropriate. Musicians never make enough money to afford their toys if they don’t have the most amazing day jobs. I opted for a much better day job and that has made all the difference for my purchases late in life. All that stuff about compound interest is true when you’re spouse is the CFO and controls where the “company” invests. It wasn’t in my musical “career”. Of course, I was ever willing to do the work required either. I had a “I pretend to work” type of job and I was really good at it.
I'll tell her that tonight. Just in case... can I sleep on your couch?