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Hi all, this is one of mine earliest compositions which I have reviewed and tweaked these last years ... more recently today. The years have improved the eye and ear. So this is the latest version; although, I am still open to work on it! So all feedback most welcome. Mark

Welcome to the world of samples! BBCSO Discover is awful, even if free just FYI! However! You can change the dynamics with the modwheel, which is MIDI CC1. If you don't own a MIDI controller, I really, really recommend you get a controller keyboard, one with a few faders on it (I recommend the oxygen pro and pro mini) as playing in the notes and controller information live always yields much better results than MIDI import. That being said, you can still draw in the dynamics with the mouse. Double click on a MIDI item on the timeline, and in the bottom left, you will see a dropdown menu that will say "velocity" by default and you can adjust the velocity parameters here manually. Click that menu, and you will see "01 Modwheel MSB" as an option. Click it and set the snap/grid to at least 64th notes. Then, in the blank area where the velocity sliders were previously, you'll find that you can draw in modwheel data if you hold down left click. The closer you go to the top, the louder it will be. However, why BBCSCO Discover sucks, is that it only contains 1 dynamic layer per note. So there are no more recordings of actual louder and quieter dynamics as there should be, and as a result this does nothing more than increase the volume of the individual sample as per Discover's scripting. =/ Also, just so you know, MIDI CC 11 is called "Expression" which normally controls the channel volume of the virtual instrument. A handy trick if you get samples with more recordings, is to use both MIDI CC 1 AND 11 at the same time to control dynamics. Many find it helps add a bit more range to the samples as many libraries struggle with el niente and therefore can suffer from hard stops and starts. I personally use the modwheel (always midi cc1 by default) and the fader next to it on my keyboard mapped to cc11. I have another fader mapped to CC2, which controls vibrato in many libraries. Anymore questions about samples, making mockups and Reaper — you know where to find me. I've been using sample libraries for decades, and Reaper since about 2012 or so.

Beautiful, I really enjoyed it. I also like the change of the key at the end, and the duplet melodic motive.

I do like your pieces man, they're beautiful, they're in "easy to read" tonalities, and the melodic motive is played enough to be reminded but not too much to bore me out. I like your development and in this particular case, the accelerando you do sounds cool! Thank you for sharing this, I think I like this one a little more than the nocturne, though the end felt a little brusque. By the way, I have also listened to your "Summer rain" via soundcloud. I would rate it over this two I've seen here. Kind regards ^^!