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In folklore, a werewolf, or occasionally lycanthrope, is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction with the transformations occurring on the night of a full moon. This is my first foray into the world of DAWs and using orchestral samples. I first entered this piece into Musescore, then I exported a pdf, mp3 and midi. I took the midi and imported it as a new media file in Reaper and copied the midi data into new tracks which were assigned to the BBC SO Discover Pack string orchestra. For some reason, despite all the notes having different velocities, there were no noticeable changes in dynamics and I couldn't find a way to draw volume controller changes to the tracks... ??? If anyone can help me troubleshoot this I'd appreciate the help! As it stands I actually prefer the Musescore rendition which includes the written dynamics. Of course, I'd also appreciate any comments or critiques you have about the music or the score itself.

I've been told this piece is light and airy; but doesn't really go anywhere. Which is fair! For me it's a joyful piece; but I'm interested to know what emotion it inspires for you?

Hello Guys, This is a piano song about summer rain. What do you think?

Hello again 🙂 This is another piece I wrote for the piano, a nocturne. It has multiple sections and a repeating main theme. I would be happy to have your opinions of it if you have any, I may send it to someone and would like to know what you think. The part I'm most worried about is the transition at bars 23-24, I'm not so sure about it. Unfortunately, the audio is software generated, I haven't had the time to play the piece with all the modifications I made. Thanks : ) François

Here's a short work I began 4 years ago and reviewed and tweaked. All comments welcome and helpful! Mark

It made me laugh for some reason at the beginning, it's certainly joyful though the digital interpretation feels too much brute perhaps. Seems like a prelude to me; there must be a continuation of this. I liked it!

I'm on VI-C as well. Good site. Recommended.

Thank you Omicronrg! Can you play these songs on piano? I would like to listen to my compositions with a real piano. 🙂

I noticed this site while browsing through https://vi-control.net/community/threads/bbcso-expression-vs-dynamics-vs-velocity.103333/ The various comments suggest you need two CC channels to control volume and velocity (no problem with that except which to use for velocity). Sometimes one uses both. I found it pretty confusing but with continued use it would probably become second nature. In my sample player I set the master volume to max then adjust reaper's faders for each instrument to get a consistent mezzoforte then leave them alone and do all the dynamics though the velocity channel. Most instruments have consistent dynamics but one or two don't. I'm able to adjust the dynamic range so I can get a niente with the velocity control. It also lets me adjust the volume for individual articulations which can be useful. I think this is possible with the BBCSO player.

That seems to accord with what I remember. I have a keyboard but prefer to do the piano roll by hand as it seems more immediately controllable to produce a more realistic orchestral sound. With a keyboard I have to make further edits. Good point from AngelCityOutlaw about drawing in the velocity envelope (holding the LH button down and dragging it to the envelope shape you want. I set the grid to 1/64 for freehand drawing of notes and velocity levels and 1/32 if I want to snap to the grid. With triplets I set the grid to the appropriate tuplet note value. (makes sure it doesn't mess me up too much when exporting the midi to notation software. Four problems I had with the BBCSO freebie: - You can't assign the keyswitches and CC channels as you like - you can't place the instruments on the stage where you like - you can't turn off the reverb altogether - no solo instruments. (I must admit I wasn't aware that in some versions of the library the samples only have a single layer so altering the velocity is just altering the volume). Which limit a composer to work with what's provided. But that's an unfortunate feature of all sample libraries. A last point, Peter. You may already be aware of it but in case not. You can set the midi editor to "one midi editor per project" which allows you to see all piano roll notes shaded down with the selected instrument highlighted (usually darker but depends on settings - it's always more visible). Along the tools bar of the editor panel, click the "track list" button on. You get a list of your tracks/instruments down the right hand margin of the editor panel. Then right click anywhere in that track list and up comes a menu, one item of which is "one MIDI editor per". Hover on that and a dropdown appears with the last item being "project". I've found this so useful for checking what's going on over all. If you want to see every track in editable form simultaneously, press and hold Ctrl+shift, then left click any one of the padlocks in the track list. Useful to change the duration of notes or delete them when you have a whole (0rchestral) selection to treat. However, if you want to add new notes, be sure you've selected the instrument you want to add in the track list first. To unlock the full edit just ctrl+shift + left click any padlock.