Mountains, Mountains, and Clouds (Original Orchestral Music)

Testing out a new video format! (This one took a total of ~ 6 hours to edit, so I can't guarantee I can be up to this standard every single time, but it's an interesting idea I think)

[@Imakemusicandstuff333]

Sublime. Mysterious. Good job, you created some really interesting textures

[@TheRealUlti]

ahhhhhh realized i never commented!! Good Job!!!!!!!!!!

[@hoyboy6150]

This is awesome, I really like the tutti melody
just some constructive critisism, make sure your reverbs dont cause chords to bleed into each other
otherwise really cool though

[@dystopia-user181]

Relistening to the tutti section again... I think it has more do to with musescore being weird and playing some of the notes slightly offbeat. (I'll definitely figure out how I can fix this)

[@hoyboy6150]

@@dystopia-user181 yeah that would make sense, musescore is a bit special sometimes

[@ridel3515]

which program are you using?

[@dystopia-user181]

Here's my whole workflow:
- I do all the composition in musescore. It's quite intuitive to use if you are familiar with music notation, though do be warned it has some performance issues.
- I export the score to a midi file and do some editing in midieditor to make things look nicer.
- I record the midi playback in two applications: piano from above to emphasise melodies, and MAMPlayer to give an impression of the overall texture. OBS is useful for recording.
- I usually do editing with openshot, but it's bad at adding captions so I used canva in this occasion.

[@ridel3515]

@@dystopia-user181 the playback sounds really fire, that's why i asked what type of program are you using. I'm using musescore as well. so you're playing it on midi keyboard or whatever it is (electronic piano ig?) and changing the playback sound using it? did i get it right? i've heard that someone is using Audacity and etc

[@dystopia-user181]

I add the notes directly in the score. Midi imports in musescore tend to mess a lot of things up since the program can't do much more than guess how the midi file should be notated. Programming notes directly also gives the advantage of having more control over the dynamics (especially single-note crescendos) and special effects (e.g. Tremolos, rolls, trills, glissandi, and harmonics are all in this thing and not possible with midi only. It's worth noting that accurate tuplets aren't available using midi either)

[@ridel3515]

@@dystopia-user181 thank you so much! can you btw record a tutorial of this? im pretty sure that im not the only one who is impressed by this playback sound in your videos

[@dystopia-user181]

Sorry, forgot to reply. I just don't think this is something worth making a video over as it basically sums up to "download musescore, a bunch of midi visualisation tools, something to convert pdfs to images, and a video editor". I'm still refining my workflow on the musescore part as there are certain musescore instruments whose sounds I really dislike (like the solo violin) and I'm trying to use muse fx to even out the rougher parts of musesounds.