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Hi all! Today I come with a piece I have been working on. I have titled it "March of the Pumpkin Moon." In my mind, it tells the story of creatures, brought to life by someone with dark magic to do evil. At one brief moment they seem innocent...but they quickly turn to their true purpose of darkness. But even in that moment of innocence I tried to convey some uncertainty with the strings behind it. Overall my goal was to do something more grand, while still trying to tell the story of these strange creatures brought to life in the autumn moonlight. And show some conflict and tension with a dark edge. I hope you enjoy the listen and I am looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts! The VSTs I used for this are Spitfire Audio's Intimate Strings, BBCSO Discover, and Epic Choirs. As well as Amadeus Symphonic Orchestra. All put together in FL Studio.

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What is the halloween submission? It definitely sounds like the cartoon Halloween scores, but I would say that the flute is way too high, strained and piercing. The piece also could use a lot more low-end with the double basses, particularly toward the end, and there is not enough resonance in the orchestration; even when you have a lot of things happening, it feels empty. It would also benefit from thickening the melody lines. The other thing, which I can't really fault you on is BBCSO Discover. I loathe Spitfire for releasing that VST it just sounds bad due to only having one dynamic layer and iirc no round robins. 90s synth patches had a more pleasing timbre.

Yep! It's a mistake. I have to fix it.... the name of the chord.

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Thank you soo much for all this advice. I will make the changes and completely finish my piano sonata.

Thanks for listening! It's rare for suites for a solo instrument not to have a Courante or a Gigue, but orchestral suites seem to have been treated a little more freely. There are plenty by Bach, Telemann, and Handel that omit them.

This is how I felt when Personal Composer was discontinued. Personal Composer was about as good as Finale, and for me, easier to use and format the playback (ahem, this is where most of my inspiration comes from btw). The reason I think Finale is discontinuing is because the cost of their engineering team is most likely offsetting their profit margins. My educated guess is that the engineering team is costing Finale several million / year. And this is coming directly from their website...they are just unable to keep up with customer demands these days. In other words, their codebase is too hard to maintain, and making changes is too difficult. Sometimes a complete code rewrite is required, and for some reason, Finale didn't feel the need to rewrite their codebase. This is definitely something I'd have to consider down the line myself.

Perfect for the Halloween submission. Nice percussion throughout the piece, and my favorite parts were with the bells. The choir towards the end though was a nice touch. Very haunting indeed!