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Eric Danger · Post by **Eric Danger** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 3:55 am

Part of Léon Boëllmann's Gothic Suite, originally written for the pipe organ in 1895. It took some work, but I think I've found a sound that's shiny and new, yet retains the dark and dank of a pipe organ. It should play nicely into your fantasies of moonlight on ruined castles and overgrown cemeteries (or blood sucking, if that's your thing).

As usual, SoundCloud's 128 kbps transcode sounds a little tinny compared to the original, so downloads are enabled for the 320 kbps version.

Oh yeah, feedback would be appreciated.

https://soundcloud.com/eric-danger/gothic-suite

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 8:22 pm

nice midi track, however the low end was somewhat muddy and the mids piercing. perhaps due to heavy brickwall limiting. This would have sounded much better with more dynamic range.

annode · Post by **annode** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 6:05 pm

The timing is all over the place...but if it was entered in real time, it's clearly a hard piece to play so I can understand.
The e-piano sounds mainly like a plug-in version of the 1970 RMI Piano.

Eric Danger · Post by **Eric Danger** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 9:01 pm

The brickwall limiting on this track was actually rather light. I went back and looked at Elephant's graph to be sure. Except for a handful of spots that reached -3 dB, the limiting never went over -2 dB.

I chased down any potentially offensive frequencies using two different headphones and an FFT analyzer. I was able to turn this up quite loud on my equipment without any ringing or sibilance.

I listened to some sound samples of that 1970 RMI piano, and I do see the resemblance. It was however a patch I made from scratch in Massive using its virtual analog oscillators and the "daft" filter.

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 9:21 pm

Eric Danger wrote:The brickwall limiting on this track was actually rather light.

hmmm. you call a 4.6 average reading on the DR meter "light compression"? ooooook.
to each his own, carry on

Eric Danger · Post by **Eric Danger** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:24 pm

layzer wrote:
Eric Danger wrote:The brickwall limiting on this track was actually rather light.
hmmm. you call a 4.6 average reading on the DR meter "light compression"? ooooook.
to each his own, carry on

THAT I call "loud". I don't use a brickwall limiter as a compressor. What is "light" is what the limiter had to squash.

rvkYoDleFool · Post by **rvkYoDleFool** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 9:30 am

Nice track.

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 1:59 am

I hadn't heard of Monsieur Boëllmann before listening to this piece, so you have scored points in an educational sense. I could imagine this being used as a score for a horror/suspense/action film, or indeed, silent movies in general. I would have liked to hear more dynamics in the volume here, not necessarily in relation to limiting, more in terms of having some volume contrasts in the music. It does have quite a full-on vibe and some more pronounced volume/pace contrasts might help to ease the tension a little.

Good work

Eric Danger · Post by **Eric Danger** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:33 pm

Thank you!

I do tend to go at a track "full on" if I don't have an actual target audience for the music (like the viewers of some cinematic masterpiece

). The uneased tension is just me leaking through. Didn't there used to be a "crazy" smilie?

Laguna Rising · Post by **Laguna Rising** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 8:53 am

Nicely done. This is perfect for this stormy morning.
It sounds creepy and dark, I'm not familiar with the author, but the synth sound you designed is effective and I guess it is an appropriate alternative to a church organ with a more edgy and modern feel.
I'm happy I stumbled into this one

Cheers

Gothic Suite: Grab your eyeliner!