Dark Souls inspired piece

Maybe the introduction progression is the most interesting part of the piece. I found it the other day and I probably took inspiration from Gesualdo.

About the rest of the piece I tried to convey the imagine of a knight who has been defeated in a Souls-like universe. I wanted to portray the feeling I got from the music when I first played these videogames that I love so much.

I hope you enjoyed it and see you next time!

Beautifully melancholic.

Reminds me of Bach, as it seems to contain hints of the Baroque style. 

A complete failure, really.

If you want to get that Dark Souls sound, you need much, much crappier string samples; perhaps from a '90s children's CASIO keyboard. This is much too high quality and musical for Dark Souls.

In all seriousness though it's a great, short piece. My only suggestions would be that I personally yearned for a bit more movement in the bass and felt the violin line could've been at a higher dynamic. You're using Musescore? I'm not sure if you've got the Berlin First Chairs, they're fairly cheap (at least when I bought them). I'd try the violin on that for the 1st violin here; I bet it would be great.

Other than that it could benefit IMO from just a SMIDGE more reverb tail to really go with that isolationist feel of Dark Souls. 

The only thing I would say actually disappointed me about the piece, was that ending chord. I really think a darker harmony at the end would really drive it home.

15 hours ago, AngelCityOutlaw said:

I'm not sure if you've got the Berlin First Chairs

This library seems to have a very low approval rating. Interested to hear what you think of it, in comparison to the free solo instruments in MuseSounds?

7 hours ago, Alex Weidmann said:

This library seems to have a very low approval rating. Interested to hear what you think of it, in comparison to the free solo instruments in MuseSounds?

 

Definitely better than Musesounds. 

19 hours ago, AngelCityOutlaw said:

Definitely better than Musesounds. 

I decided to go with Cinestrings Solo, since it had much better ratings. 
It has some annoying bugs though, where some notes are much louder than others.

The available articulations are very limited also.

11 hours ago, Alex Weidmann said:

I decided to go with Cinestrings Solo, since it had much better ratings. 
It has some annoying bugs though, where some notes are much louder than others.

The available articulations are very limited also.

 

Those bugs are a problem across musescore and that's why I don't use it very much, but I found less bugs with Berlin.

And yeah, I can't recommend Cinesamples, even as a company, in good faith to anyone. I only use them presently for the woodwind trills and the odd legato patch from the brass. Other than that, it's one of the few libraries I regret buying over 15 years.

Their samples are simply not very good, there are many imbalances between articulations, and very few dynamic layers for what market themselves (and are priced) as big league libraries. Their customer service is also the worst I've ever had to deal with in software. The 1.8 update to Cinebrass for me would not detect the samples on any other mic position than the default. I did everything they said to try, and when it didn't work, they straight up ghosted me. 

I confess I have no idea what Dark Souls is, but THIS is a very fine muscal idea!

   I agree it's a little dry and would benfit from a small amount of reverb.

Wondering how wonderful it would be with a string quartet and the different tibres, colors of the insturments?.....

  Worth expanding on, for sure!  

     I can only once again recommend Vienna Symphonic Library for solo strings--and pretty much anythin else.  The special editoins V1 is now one package (not v1 and v.1 PLUS) and you can get it at about 40% at least once a year when there is a sale.  They are well supported and work with Dorico, Sibelius, etc...

  The new SYNCHRON SOLO VIOLIN is excellent--very expressive with a nice but not intrusive vibrato.  Articulations are extensive....