ORPHIC ENDEAVORS

Finale SongWriter and a new tune, "Evening Song"

Oh man... I got it. Finale SongWriter. It came by UPS yesterday evening. So, last night between dealing with Max and eating dinner and doing chores I started a new tune. I finished it between 1am and 3am last night. I just couldn't stop working on it. Again, there's no sound effects or any synthy stuff, just straight music. No reverb either.

As for Finale not being particularly compatible with other programs, well, I have to admit it's true. Still, the results straight from Finale are incredible, so I'm not sure that matters. I'm really going to try and somehow get enough money before next summer so I can get the bigger and better versions of the program. There's a $200 version and then there's the big monster $600 version. They give you a discount for buying the smaller versions though, so maybe that price will be considerably cheaper. (She knocks on wood.) The only real drawback to using Finale, and maybe this isn't true of the more expensive versions, is the lack of being able to use my own sounds. Finale does export midi, thankfully, so I'm hoping, even though the computer's default synth sounds and the Anvil Studio's Roland synth sounds don't work well with it, that I can open the midi up in Modplug and at least edit in my usual noise and sound effects in some of the pieces. It's complicated, but I would put the extra stuff together in Modplug and then save that track without the Finale part as a wav and then take both that and the Finale saved wav and put them together in Acid. Okay, so it's messy, but you get the idea.

So, anyway, enough of my rambling. Here's Evening Song.

Thanks for downloading and listening!
-Bonnie