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Mix wise it does sound like there is just a tad to much reverb on the "trumpet" compared with the rest of the instruments.

Same here.

Sorry to hear of your friends troubles, I have been witness to the toll chemo takes. Wishing you, him and his family all the best Dave.

Thanks for the listen. I considered myself a synthasist, meaning someone who makes music with synthetic instruments or synthesisers. Consequently I use synthetic strings etc. I don't have any sample libraries of Orchestral instruments, though I do have synths that have samples or particals of such instruments like the M1, Rapture Pro, Synclavier, and the samples on the M-Tron Pro IV from GForce and Melotron from Arturia. I use those if I want a more "realistic" instrument sound, but mainly I look for more synthetic sound. I belive it was Tomita who once said, try to get close when synthesising instruments but always add a twist, so the listener knows the truth or something similar. Again thanks for the ears, time and comments.

First I would recommend only posting one track per post you are likely to get more listens. OP sounds pleasant, what did you use, synths, samples etc, to my furry ears the strings on the left seemed a tad more forward then the others of your orchestra.

I found the vocal a little forward and seems slightly separated from the backing track. are you using a different reverb on the vocal? The overall mix of the backing track is not bad. as noted above perhaps over compressed.

Nice Mark, this is the first third party track I have listened to using the ARC Studio room correction Box.

Let's hope so furry paws crossed

Wrong forum.

I did say I won't ask ???

@Tim Smith OK I won't ask ?

It seems the trend these days is very much to use triads on only three strings, I see so many rhythm guitarist playing the G & D strings.

Yes!

@Brian Walton Audiority do one call Big Goat, which is nice for 20 Euro's

It looks like a big muff distortion plugin.

Nice

Nice clean vocal, mix seems OK, I did find the bass in the opening minuet boomed a little but that could be my room, I am currently working on that.

Thank you, nice to know you found it cool. There are lots of sounds and most synths can make most sounds. But some are better at some than others the trick is to learn what each synth is good at. Then decide on what you are looking for, bass, lead, pad, purcussion, etc then limit your palette. Presets are good starting points, but always need tweaking to fit the tune and the mix.

Are you on a MIDI track? I know that sounds a bit strange but I found that the best way to get it to work, presumably synths respond to the keyboard?

Correct, Arturia do this, if you watch the installation process 70%- 80% of that is installing all the graphical content. Creating a large installation footprint on your drive. Perhaps the decision has been taken to reduce that footprint for Cakewalk Sonar, I have no idea if that is the fact, but using this new method will do that, as the very basics and simplistic of a vector, is a start point, a finish point and a line weight. As to theme making I have little idea as I have not really played with them, as I have found the supplied adequate to do what the primary function of the software, which is to make music. Prior to the introduction of a theme editor in S-Plat it was not a big thing for me, though I am aware it was something that was high on some's agenda.

Have you tried Infected mushrooms Wider, it is free. Nice tool to add width.

I am aware, many plugins, that are scalable, use vector graphics, but it is apparent from the little I have seen it is very much a work in progress perhaps a little patience is needed. There may for all you and I know be a reason for a flat graphical style, it does reflect the same graphical style used in other Bandlab products.

Nice wide intro, Oh that shut down to very much in the middle once the drums, bass and other bit kicked in. Was that your intention? Basically nice tune but became a bit narrow after the intro for my furry ears.

Suitably Grungy.

Nice nothing else needs to be said.