[Music] Drift [Quintessence Ending Theme]

My first pop-ish song. :'>



http://www.quintessence-tbv.com/Drift.mp3

Drift - <Quintessence TBV> Ending Theme
Performed by: Laura Shigihara
Composed/Lyrics by: Kan Gao (Reives)
(c) Quintessence - TBV and cannot be used, sorry.

This is my first composition that involves singing, and actually sang (beautifully)! Needless to say I was very excited when she sent me the sang tracks; I immediately sat for 4 hours mixing it, heheh.

Anyhow, enjoy! You can find Laura Shigihara's pop music site here:
http://www.mybluedream.com/

Thanks for your time.

Wow. 

That was great. I think I almost cried. ('cept I'm not emo)

How'd you get her to sing it?

I think I remember him saying that they exchanged favors or something...  Hm...  He helped her, so she helped him. 

Wow. 
That was great.

Awesome job <3

I think I remember him saying that they exchanged favors or something...  Hm...  He helped her, so she helped him. 

Sexy.

I think I remember him saying that they exchanged favors or something...  Hm...  He helped her, so she helped him. 

Sexy.

>.>...

I hope you're not imagining things.

Oh, you can't control the wanderings of a young mind.

By the way, the song sounds good, Reives. I like her voice.

Thanks guys. c: To be honest, what I helped her with was really trivial (I hosted some files for her since I really liked her compositions; back then I didn't even think that this was possible), so it was more or less just a charity from her that I am very grateful for. 

 Mr. Reives, I'm simply dying to know: what mastering software do you use? Your musics have a kind of presence; that is to say, they don't sound tinny, as though they're being played out of a box.

Mm, I use Finale 2006 and Garritan Personal Orchestra VST. This particular song uses mostly just Finale 2006 default synths, minus the violin and cello from GPO. I suspect that the "non-tinyness" or whatnot might be somewhat due to the reverb, and in this case the voice helps a lot.

 How odd. I normally wouldn't think to use something like Finale for VSTs, but then again, I suppose there's no reason why you couldn't. Still, that just makes what you do all the more impressive. I suppose I shall have to experiment with a few more reverb effects and see if I can't get something that doesn't pale in comparison to your works.

Yeah, the Finale synths aren't really that shiny, although some of them sound alright. I kinda like the guitar, although it's non-realistic.

*I've been thinking of revamping this song now that I have some actual sound libraries to work with. I have the singing tracks as distinct files, so it shouldn't be that hard. . . Might end up changing some instruments, though.