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Composing in Cubasis with Ravenscroft
https://dreamingofwolves.bandcamp.com/track/moonbeams
Recorded on a Roland FP 30 digital piano into Cubasis for the iPad (Bluetooth MIDI). Utilising UVI Ravenscroft AU for the piano, complimented with Eos reverb by Audiodamage and some Waves EQ and a few stock Cubasis FX. Part of an upcoming EP of minimalist solo instrumentals. More to come soon.
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Nice, thanks for posting
RC275 has found another deserving owner! Have you tried combining different pianos?
This solo piano music style is like a warm bath for me. I can understand why it does so well commercially.
It can alter our internal state. Add an internal focus on gratitude and empathy and you're probably meditating or at least getting some of the medical benefits.
I do think it would be wise to slip in some additional synth sounds since you have that capability and
a lot of solo piano artists might not. When I was wound up at work Suzanne Ciani's piano and synth music
was like a massage to release stress. Her use of synths was always about find sounds that morphed over the life of the note and her piano playing was minimalist (at least on the CD's I was using to destress this was the case). She was a composer by training and there's a musical logic to her work and to this piece.
Solid composition ideas and tastefully played.
Nicely done. Inevitably I hear signing over the top
Lovely piece of music. Very calming. Well done
@LinearLineman
I have another song on the EP using Korgs American Ivory which you can listen to as well. But as big of a Korg fan that I am there’s no contest when it comes to a solo piano instrument. Ravenscroft has that “in the room” presence to it and hats off to UVI, if I were to by a desktop ROMPLER I might go with theirs again.
@McD
I played with the synth backing on this one but for this particular mood, it didn’t seem appropriate.
Posted below is an older track of solo piano that also features Wavestation. I think you’ll like it.
https://lucidmusicinc.bandcamp.com/track/revival
Incidentally Many of these dance tracks I produced over the years are getting the solo piano reinterpretation. Depending on how successful it is, I might go full blown production on some of them, it’s a bit of reverse engineering.
Thanks for the kind feedback @all
Nice one. You picked one of my favorite iWaveStation presets that sounds like orchestral strings.
I like this one too but maybe not as much as the solo piano so I think you have made your point
about the track not needing anything else to create the right mood. Knowing when to stop is a gut feeling.
Good call.
@McD
I’ll look up Suzanne Ciani in the meantime. Actually I got turned onto this style of music when I discovered Ludovico Einaudi on Apple Music, and actually there’s a wealth of similar artists that can found on the Apple Music streaming. I could recommend a few more names. Maybe in a separate thread.
@LucidMusicInc, I disagree with @McD (what!!). I see no reason to say the piano solo is better because it lacks any augmentation. To get into the nitty gritty, I do think your music is stronger when you are reiterating a strong theme. At 2:15in Revival it morphs into some modal wandering. This dropped my attention till you got back to it at 3:40. This separates the two tracks for me. Of course I am a fan of Philip Glass, so I can listen to music that varies very little for long periods of time.
I bet you'd love Techno music then!
@rs2000, I do, actually. Any kind of trance music usually appeals to me.
I listened to OP's track again and it's powerful. And a lot easier than moving a concert grand into a massive reverberant hall and recording it like musicians had to do in the past. These tools are amazing.
@LinearLineman trance and techno are very different. Trance is highly structured and melodic whereas techno is basically polyrhythmic and repetitive. Each genre produces its own effect, trance for example moves crowds and gets everyone excited whereas techno is like thoughtful background music. For me Revival was sketched into Gadget crudely some years ago before I had the studio set up I currently enjoy. A Revival rewrite is in the works and I’ll take your criticisms into consideration. In fact I’d really appreciate any specific suggestions you’d care to make.
@johnathanmac
I’ll keep the damper pedal in mind for next time. Thank you for the encouragement!