Sleep on the autumn night

[psyocean]

Good night, LinuxMusicians!

I finished work on new composition "Sleep on the autumn night".
First study - creation melodies in Musescore 3, than exported midi-file was "upgraded" in sequencer Muse, where addition to track controllers, velocities, final balanced, etc.

Listen|download audio on page:
https://www.neizvestniy-geniy.ru/cat/mu ... tml?author

[jeanette_c]

Hey hey, assuming/hoping that there was only one song linked on that site, I loved it! I enjoy the heavy depressive atmosphere. Which piano have you used? It sounds a little mechanic, which is very unfair to the song. Have you tried one of the free LinuxSampler pianos linked from linuxsampler.org ?
Once again: a beautiful little piece! I'm looking forward to the next part set in winter.

[psyocean]

Jeanette_c, thank you for feedback! Mechsnical taste appears because its not alive play, only sequencer-work, without humanisation, unfortunately. LinuxSampler - my favorite, and many years I used it with SFZ-instruments. Many different pianos over 1 Gb... But, it stoped, project KX-Studio, where I get LinuxSampler from repositories, was freeze. I try download LinuxSampler from offsite and install it from source code, but it very problematic for me, so many issues on compile and install it. I stopped work with LinuxSampler, and last year sounded own track via hardware sound module - Roland XV-5080.

[turbidh20]

Very nice composition. I agree with the piano sounding too mechanical but that's easily remedied. The composition is the important thing and it's good I enjoyed it.

[oscillator]

Nice song with some interesting chord turns in the middle of the song!

I could easily imagine this with someone singing the synth flute part!

As you, like me, are using MusE, check out the Midi scripts for humanizing the piano. I plan to write some Python scripts which will make humanization even easier.

[jonetsu]

The composition is nice and goes where it's expected to go. The drawback really is the mechanical piano. I was wondering, it it has to sound that much mechanical, why not use a harpsichord ? Or some other instrument that's known for not having much tonal inflection, like a vibraphone for instance.

[Rainmak3r]

Interesting composition and ideas as usual! I hope you enjoyed experimenting with MuseScore: I know I did when I first started!

I have to agree with the others on the piano being a bit to mechanical, but I can definitely relate: with everything written down rather than played, it's indeed hard to humanize it in an automated fashion, even more so to make the humanization believable. One thing that might help, though, would be to use softer dynamics for the piano rhythm (e.g., a p or mp in MuseScore), and maybe a sustain pedal to let the notes live a bit longer to give more air to the whole thing; enabling "una corda" mode can help make the sound softer too. In the past I used the Salamander SFZ to render the piano, and it did help in that case: if LinuxSampler is complex to install in your setup, you may want to start playing with sfizz, which is very lightweight and should be easy to integrate in any Jack-based project.

[psyocean]

Hello, dears, thank for comments!

Turbidh20, MuseScore no able recording midi-parts in alive mode, may be it should again recording alive in Muse.

Oscillator, thank you, I took your advice about script humaniszation of parties

Jonetsu, thanks, good idea - using haprichord.

Rainmak3r, I agree - Musescore is perfect soft But it no able recording in alive-mode. Using sustain-pedal - good idea, thanks!

[Basslint]

Beautiful atmosphere as usual, psyocean

[psyocean]

Basslint, thank you, dear, namaste!