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Alright. I need your opinions and feedback!! I am nowhere near finished. I don't want to be too repetitive (although, it does repeat and build off of that repetition). It is lighthearted and happy, almost like a romantic waltz between the flute and oboe... BTW. I am fine with blunt responses. If you don't like it, or have criticisms, please... I don't get offended easily. Also would appreciate feedback on the quality of the overall audio. (Also not set on the title of it yet... perhaps it needs more refinement before a title will present itself?) Thank you for your time and effort in your responses! https://soundcloud.com/karisalclark/dance-of-the-flute-wip/s-SOQ67NxEeMu?fbclid=IwAR3dtQI8V7n6D4vrte7v573QoNwxH0VdBLC7sJjwTL3Ob2IyrQZrM3juADA

I've abandoning it latelly, but here I bring you a piece I made out of something I improvised:

You have a natural feeling for harmonic progression. This is a great piece.

Absolutely not necessary. The speed at which samples load has less to do with PC itself and more with the drive. You'll want to use an SSD to store the sample libraries on, and stream off that. If not using an internal SSD, then you can buy external ones for ~100, just make sure it's USB 3.0 I stream all my samples (at one time the composer cloud too) from an external SSD and it all loads pretty quickly. 16 gigs of RAM and any quad-core processor from the the last five years should be all you need. However, since you're going with East West specifically, you may want to max out the RAM because, at least since I last used it, PLAY was notorious for not having a Kontakt-style "sample purge" feature, you'll basically have to load all the sample from any given instrument. In Kontakt, you can set it so that Kontakt will only load in samples as you play them. You should be able to build a PC that can do what you need for less than a 1000.

You won't need to spend all that much. Sample libraries usually take quite a bit of time to load in almost every computer, as you have noted, so what really changes is the capacity of the pc to render the audio without losing quality, glitching, or god forbid me, crashing. Now, it will all depend on the music you compose as well. If you write a 200 track orchestral track with a tutti every 20 seconds, then yes, you will probably need a monster of a computer. However, my pc is from 2015, has an Intel Core I7 3.60GHz, 16gb of RAM, with a pretty decent graphics card, and I've never had a problem with it. Recently I'm only using NotePerformer, so I haven't needed that much processing power anyways. Now, if you have the option, I'd recommend getting a desktop, as you can get a whole lot more procecssing power for a lot less money. I don't know if you have a preferencec over Mac or pc, but I'm a huge fan of Dell. Building your own pc also has huge advantages, succh as a lowered price. At the end of the day, you just have to find the best deal for what you want to do, which simply takes looking at your options/budget and picking whaat seems to have the biggest value/money.

Great piece! The score looks awesome too, it's always nice to be able to read someone's music, you'll find that more people will be willing to comment with an easy to read score, so kudos to you. i like your neoclassical style, great themes and texture, I'm not a big fan of exact repeats, but that's just me. The change to the staccato notes in the left hand was a nice change, one thing that I would consider for future pieces is breathing room. The overall sound of large chunks of your piece kind of got stale in some parts, a simple change in dynamics, or maybe some more rests in the left hand could help in those spots. Harmony seemed a bit shaky in spots with the darker diminished chords. The coda was really cool, but it felt a little out of place. Overall though I'm just being nit picky. Very well written piece, I'm excited to check out more of your music!

Hello fellow composers, I hope you're well during these hard times. I composed yesterday the "2nd impromptu" of my set of small piano compositions. I explore in it new textures and new harmonies. I planned to record it soon! Meanwhile, here the video of the computer recording with the score. Hope you'll enjoy 🙂

You're welcome. Gave me something relaxing to do for half an hour this afternoon. Can't go anywhere. Have no jobs to work on. Banks are closed today so I can't commit armed robbery. Etc. Best wishes for your piece.