And thank you so much for creating such a lovely work, and for allowing me the opportunity to orchestrate it!

@@KennyRegan stuff like this makes me love the internet again. just people building on each others ideas! how its supposed to be!

@@KennyReganI also fell in love with this piece. Thank you for the orchestration. Wonderful.

Heck yeah, I'd love to! I've always enjoyed your music. Perhaps I'll browse thru your channel next time I have some free time. Nice to hear from you, and thanks for the kind comment.

Thanks for the kind comment Bethany! It is indeed musescore, plus a little extra mixing on my end :)

For the climax, I took inspiration from Ravel's tombeau de couperin. The only instrument capable of playing as high as the piano on that figure is the harp, so I preserved the piano figure in the harp and gave as much of the figure as I could to the dovetailed arpeggios in the winds and strings. The rest of the instruments sustain the first chord to simulate the pianos sustain pedal. The horns approximate the left hand part. I love Grainger, grew up playing his works in concert band!

I just did this in MuseScore using the free Muse Sounds, though I did export each instrument's audio and mix separately :)

​@@KennyRegan Sounds amazing. I don't know how to edit sounds in Sibelius, or in Audacity, which I use to record. Several collections of sounds have been recommended, but they are very expensive. Also, I tried Noteperformer and Garritan Sounds, but they didn't sound as good as the Sibelius default instruments. I wish especially Sibelius's brass and strings were more realistic.

@@tomfuller5585 The nice thing about NotePerformer is that it is a lot better at interpreting the midi musically, though the soundfonts are indeed less realistic because it's synthesized rather than sampled. One thing you could try is exporting the individual instruments as audio files for both NotePerformer and the Sibelius sounds and then combining them together in Audacity. Layering the two playback methods together could give you something more effective overall. Add a tiny bit of reverb on top of the whole thing to glue it together

Thank you for the kind comment, haha! These are all the free musescore sounds, but I exported and mixed each instrument outside musescore :)

This is all just from MuseScore's free sound library, and I mixed it separately

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@@KennyRegan do you have any tips and tricks for mixing the music?

@@RaymondDoerr Sure, the best tip I can offer is just that you can go really far with really simple tools, it doesn't have to be complicated to sound good. 90% of the work is tweaking volume and timing. You can make MIDI instruments sound more realistic by painting in custom volume curves to taper off the releases or shape long chords. You can make articulations sound crisper by doing a little time stretching, and you can also use time stretching to get wonky MIDI samples to line up with the beat better and sync with other instruments. For orchestras, a nice trick is to pan the sections how they would be panned in a real orchestra, and then add slightly less reverb to the instruments that would be closer to the audience and slightly more to the instruments further back to give the illusion of space.

@@KennyReganwow thank you so much!!!