{"id":1982,"date":"2016-03-02T16:10:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2016-03-02T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:15:20","slug":"the-storm-cometh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1982","title":{"rendered":"The Storm Cometh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/composercloud.png\" alt=\"Composer Cloud\" width=\"400\" height=\"252\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; box-shadow: 3px 3px 7px #000; border-width: 0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I recently realized EastWest libraries offer a subscription service for their (otherwise very expensive) sample libraries called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundsonline.com\/composercloud\">Composer Cloud<\/a>, so I subscribed and have been experimenting with what their libraries have to offer. Here&#8217;s a short piece I recently wrote completely with some of their libraries (mainly Hollywood Strings, Hollywood Brass, Symphonic Choirs, and StormDrum):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gYMzZQ0_fkA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I still have plenty left to experiment with, but so far I really like their Hollywood Strings, Hollywood Brass, and Symphonic Choirs libraries (though I doubt I&#8217;ll have the patience to use their word builder any time soon; ooh&#8217;s and ah&#8217;s are fine with me for now). And of course StormDrum has some great film-score-ish percussion available. They&#8217;re hard to resist playing with, even though I fear they may sound a bit cliche and generic these days. Oh well, too bad, I still want my turn to play with them! I&#8217;m not so impressed with their woodwinds, though; they sound pretty bland to me. I haven&#8217;t installed Garritan Personal Orchestra on this new computer of mine yet, but I hope to. I definitely prefer GPO&#8217;s woodwinds, which sound much more lively and real to me. Same goes for GPO&#8217;s harp. I also need to put my Bela D Media Celtic Winds on this computer so I can try mixing in some Irish whistles perhaps, or uilleann pipes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, hope to write more music soon! I&#8217;ll probably write more pieces around the two minute mark. It&#8217;ll allow me to experiment a bit more, plus two minute tracks have a greater chance of being licensed I guess.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I hope you appreciate my harmony in the above composition; it may be subtle, but I tried some techniques I&#8217;ve never tried before, like going from a G# minor chord to an E minor chord for that eerie (perhaps cliche) film score-ish sound. I also use some suspended and augmented chords somewhere in there too, albeit rather subtly. Trying to expand my harmonic palette. You should be proud of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently realized EastWest libraries offer a subscription service for their (otherwise very expensive) sample libraries called Composer Cloud, so I subscribed and have been experimenting with what their libraries have to offer. Here&#8217;s a short piece I recently wrote completely with some of their libraries (mainly Hollywood Strings, Hollywood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23],"tags":[716],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-vY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}