[Music] lol castlevania-y

http://www.slyph.org/tabit/files/Midnight%20Stirring.tbt

I love the flute
and the piano

the drums fit so well.

Nice!

LOL awesome

I've been touched by a Marlin!

:3 Glad you liked it, I guess that means I've improved somewhat!

New piece, started and finished in an hour, but I wanted to keep it fairly simple. :3

Wicked Child~

 It seems you are a man of many talents, Mr. Sparrow. Your songs have a very authentic feel to them; all of these seem to be on par with the best that video-game music has to offer (melodic, catchy, nice progressions, etc.), thus making them better than most everything else that I've heard from the professional MIDI school of music.
 I'd be very eager to see what you could do if you ever got your hands on some more advanced music creation tools since, as I imagine, if you can properly utilize the [arguably] low quality sound of most midi synthesizers, you would undoubtedly be a contender for big time production companies.

Forgive me if you knew this already, but I just want to point out that the second piece is a remix of an old official castlevania song. :3 I never mentioned that in the post I linked it in, forgot to because I was tired. >_<

THANK YOU though. I really appreciate that compliment. I've been trying to move into more professional software but I keep running into one recurring stumbling block- I can't find anyone to teach me how to use the software D:

No, stay on Tabit so that you can just put up .tbts and they won't eat up my hard drive. XD

EDIT: Okay, "The Wicked Child Reborn" pretty much is Castlevania. XD But good job on making it your own. Of course, the only way I know what it sounds like is from the Minibosses. Anyways, get arl to teach you ?_? I think he knows some pro stuffs.

I tried once, but he's a pretty guy. Plus, I don't like bothering someone who's so much better than me, because like, any time he spends teaching me anything, he can't spend writing his own stuff, and I'd feel like kind of a dick keeping him from his awesome. >_<

And yes, I know that sounds lame, but I'm being honest.

Started another one, the Penultimate Toccata~

This is a completely original piece.

Dude, seriously, check out the tabits I made about theory that I made a thread about here, and feel free to IM me any time I'm online, because whenever I'm on AIM it means I have nothing better to do, so you can go ahead and IM me




edit: except when it's 2 am, because that means I'm drunk. In which case, plz IM me anyway because LULZ could ensue.

I actually have all of the music theory tabs saved- I was the one that suggested making the topic, if iirc. :3 And I will definitely add you on AIM first thing tomorrow.

 I don't know which software you intend to use, but I'm pretty knowledgeable about Cakewalk/Sonar/VST plugins (using midi, of course) and whatnot. Not sure if that helps <i>you</i>, but, like Marlin, I would also proffer my arguably limited knowledge on the subject.
 About Penultimate Toccata (which was nice to listen to- the first half sounded reminiscent of Final Fantasy, at least): I've been listening to a lot of songs on these boards lately, and while it doesn't happen too often, I notice that sometimes the .mid files have extended periods of silence after the song proper ends. While I don't know exactly why this occurs, I know at least how to fix it. If you open your sheet music view (or page or bar or whatever your program calls it) and go to the last note, you might find that it's exceptionally long for some reason. Just replace it and (for good measure) stick a rest in there. That's usually what works for me, anyway.

I know what the space at the end is from.

If you open TabIt up, it gives you 100 or 200 or so bars from the start. You can add more or take them away, but whatever. Now, not all midi instruments/patches ring out, but when midi sees a note ON it waits for a note OFF, and that note OFF might not come until the end of the midi data.

So, you know, it won't stop until it gets to bar 200. It doesn't matter if you chose an instrument that doesn't ring out, if you don't stop the note it'll keep going (stay ON) until it reaches that last bar because the last bar tells everything to stop. That's why there's all that empty space at the end.

Yeah basically it's because I didn't just clip it off, and left it on. Thank you though, I'll try to look up some info on cakewalk today.

Wow, I like the "Penultimate Toccata." :3 You would do organs.

>:3

Of course. I <3 them.