Nandel

Thanks Marius! You're a life saver!

I was wondering if anyone knew of a good Ethnic, and classical (with emphasis on the ethnic) percussion library? preferably UNDER 10 GB, And Kontakt formats are preferred, but not necessary. they usually take less ram using the Direct to Disk function. It needs to have the following types of percussive instruments, ordered by importance: 1. African instruments, such as djembes, dundun's, and kalimba's (Important to have a large variability, or different recording of the same instruments due to heavy interlock) 2. Arabian instruments, such as Darbuka's, Riq's, Framedrums, etc... 4. CLASSICAL percussion, woodblocks, triangles, all that. 4. Brazilian Instruments, Surdo's, Pandeiro's, and other bosa nova, and samba percussion. the first two are especially needed, the 3rd and 4rth aren't crucial. Other types of ethnic percussion isn't needed. I've searched google like crazy but found nothing. I'm in dire need of a percussion library, If any of you can recommend any for me would be swell.

Touché, my friend. Touché.

I can't be anymore clear on the distinction, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I do not agree. And I can't find any papers in the internet that scientifically confirms this.

Music IS sound, there is a distinction between letting a plant hear an amount of HZ, rather than giving him a musical sentence. there seem to be only research about the effect of sound, and the effect of certain symphonies and pieces. While researching the effect of different scales, sequences, etc, etc. on plants can be an interesting discussion, this is really off topic, and really, really far from my original point. Music has an effect on everything, certain forms and percussive elements cause people soothing and relaxing effects, other create violence and anger, which isn't good or bad, but it's a fact. Music effects everything therefor it can be used for both "good" purposes and "bad" purposes. The plant example was just that, an example. I didn't have the time or energy to give more examples, which seems to be a good thing, seeing that every reply I got was under five lines long. Also you can argue that death metal causes you a soothing effect and classical music pisses you off, but this can also be a psychological effect, This is why I took a plant as an example, it's much more primitive than humans and can serve as an objective point of view. it's still primitive though.

http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5421613_do-plants-react-classical-music.html This is exactly why I didn't expend on that point. My point is that music has an effect on everything, you can't get into the original question without questioning what IS good and evil, the author of the original post was specific about not doing just that.

I was actually talking about bach

Music can be used in both a positive and a negative way, let's start from there. by positive I mean that it creates an effect that gives a human being joy by negative I mean that it creates an effect that creates agony on a human being. using these statements I'm restricting my point to the effect of music on humans. However: There was an experiment. scientists took a plant, and put it in a room with nothing but a stereo system. the experiment was divided to two different attempts in which they tried to effect the plant by music. the first attempt featured classical music (I think specifically Bach) The second attempt was some sort of metal music. they found out that when they let the plant "hear" Bach the plant grows closer to the stereo system. When they let it "hear" metal, it tried to grow away from the stereo system. This is very interesting, because this proved that music has an effect on the world OUTSIDE the human psych. if we take this into regard, and we look at some certain metal music concert and the way that the crowd often "fogo" with each other, we can definitely see that the music causes a violent effect in these humans. Personally I believe that any sort of violence is a "bad" thing. however, I don't believe that metal IS "bad" you can see all sorts of metal that causes good effects on humans. So now my point is devided to two parts: 1. Music has a both positive and negative effects on humans 2. Music has a both positive and negative effects on Plants It's pretty safe to assume at this point that music has an effect on everything. You can experiment and scientifically explain it in many way, but the simplest way is to just watch. music evolved everywhere in the world, so it truly has an effect EVERYWHERE. My final point is: Music can be used in many way, and it obviously has an actual effect on the world. it can be bad, and it can be good. good and evil are a very delicate matter, and very, very subjective, it's truly difficult to argue the specifics of this. It can be indeed used as a weapon, as we've seen in history But we've also seen how it can cause great joy. Finally, I belive, that since humans, can not exist without music, it's not up to me to decide, if it is good or "bad" it is almost (and in a way is) a force of nature, I cannot doubt the wind, or a volcano. It's just there.

Hi, I don't think anyone remembers me, I was here shortly about a couple of month's back. I was really busy with college and didn't have time for anything. Anyway, I'm really curious about this. everybody seems to have a different approach to this, some learnt from the Internet, some from books, some from teachers Etc... Where have you guys learned Music theory and the art of composing? I had a bit of knowledge from various places, Mainly books. but I knew so little that you can say I didn't know anything. without proper ear training, and only other music to inspire me and give me ideas to reinvent my music, my music began to be repetitive and uninspired. eventually I went to a Preparatory course in collage and got the basics. What's your story?

great funk groove there. really cool. What sax library do you use? what sampler?

Awesome swing piece, very enjoyable! I added this to my favorites

Hi, Thanks for the comment. Yes, I already visited the introductory forum and introduced myself, I posted this track to further introduce myself in a way that my musical style would be more clear :) The trumpets are sampled instruments from the Kontakt 4 library (Orchestral) The sound of the guitar IS a bit annoying, next time I open the project I'll see what I can do about it. The drums are basically monotonic by choice, I don't want to make them more dynamic. but you have a solid Idea, it's possible that in the future I'll redo the drums, not sure. I LOVE the tuplets there I think they add color, don't you? Modulation is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure yet, this track is fresh out of the oven, I want to wait a bit before I tinker composition-wise. Thanks so much for the comment!

Excellent, I like the changes, I like the atmosphere, it starts well, it has good motifs, it ends well. also great mixing. What synthesizers did you use?

Hi, Nandel here.Since I'm new here, I thought uploading a track to introduce myself would be necessary in such a community like this.so here it is, My latest creation - Frying Energy.I've been having a composer's block for quite some time, And this is my first finished track, in about two months.I hope you enjoy it (: Frying Energy

haha, prog rock with some jazz always does the trick. I love the changes, and the sounds fit very good, some of it I would expect from a mini-moog, fits the genre very nicely. very good job, looking forward to listening the the whole track.