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I’ve had this on YouTube for a bit, but forgot to link it here.

The photographs in this video were all taken by my mom. I think she’s got the best photographs in the world, and as I looked at several of them I got the theme from the hymn “Oh the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus” in my head (especially on the picture of the bridge in the fog). So I wrote a song with that theme and set it to my mom’s pictures. I’ll call it an early birthday present for her :-)

Oh, and yeah, I always wanted to make her cry. Figure this will do it. >:-D

Okay, I know it’s been a while. It’s almost 2 weeks into a new year, and no posts from me! What’s up with that? Well, I blame Bush.

Can’t promise this will get any less sporadic, but at least now I’ve posted something in 2010! And I figure, why not post something on music?

I recently got a new VST library that I plugged into Music Creator 5, which I use for most of my composition since buying my new computer back in May. Music Creator is made by Cakewalk, and I’ve always loved their stuff. The new VST is actually not from them, however. I’m using Garritan’s Personal Orchestra library. At some point, I still want to get Dimension Pro from Cakewalk, but since that costs $250 it’s gonna be a while (thanks for all the change, Hope-ama!).

Anyway, if you wanna know what difference the VST makes, I’ve got a rough-cut version of the second movement of my first MIDI symphony uploaded (the downside is that in the near future I plan on doing a better version, so if you view this post in the archives the following vids may not exist anymore—for which you can blame Bush).

First, the regular MIDI version:

And now the updated version (which sound roughly 97.37 x 10⁹² times better, but who’s counting?

There’s still some volume issues I need to fix in the second version, as well as some orchestrations I’ll change a bit (although you may notice that the percussion line is already different, since the new VST is almost, but not quite, exactly unlike the original MIDI line, so I had to redo it). Plus, I’ll work on the other movements and get them cleaned up and more gooderer sounding.

Until then…well, I’ll try to update this blog every once in a while…but that darn Bush guy might prevent me. Just sayin.

There’s something wrong with this…

Oh yes. They sing about Star Wars…with no Star Wars themes.