Bridal Ballad

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Bridal Ballad

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Hi, fellow Linux Musicians,

I produced a piano ballad with Ardour using mostly stock General MIDI synth and a beautiful vocal samples from https://librivox.org.

It sets an Edgar Allan Poe poem to music:
https://soundcloud.com/sg75_2/bridal-ballad

I even made a music video for it with footage from a recent trip to windy Denmark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5IOaEpc8XM

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Awesome, I really like the music and the video, they work very well together. 8)

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LAM wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:57 pm Awesome, I really like the music and the video, they work very well together. 8)
Thanks @LAM for the very kind feedback!
I got so much into the flow during production, so that I am glad that somebody finds it also 8)
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Very nice! I think the music fits the poem very well and the reader has a very nice accent.
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Thanks @Basslint :) Appreciate your feedback!
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Great work with the declaration. Being a sound fetishist, even I didn't particularly take umbridge at the GM sounds. :) If that doesn't spell excellent composition, I don't know what does. :) Simple, but expressive, spartan yet powerful! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks so much @jeanette_c :D :D :D :!: :!: :!:
Your feedback is really very encouraging!

I tweak the velocities of the GM sounds quite a bit to make them sound less sterile.
Also putting the midi notes slightly off grid helps a bit. And of course the usual portion of reverb and delay ...

But of course, nothing is better than a real instrument.

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Very beautiful, and dramatic.

Great composition.

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