Oddly enough it wasn't raining when I first got this song stuck in my head. I seem to get the most ideas when exams and projects are coming my way; unfortunately I had to postpone this song quite a bit as a result of being much busier lately. I've been working on this since October but in actuality probably only put about a few days' work into it.

I had more in mind for this one but decided to cut it a bit short, keep the melody simple (little repetitive but eh), so I can focus more on the quality of the sound. I thought I focused too much on the melody/notes on my last song Cloudlessly and found the overall sound rather hollow (lacking power/quality). Of course, now I'm focusing primarily on just improving the sound; hopefully I'll put the two together one day lol

Primary focus was the strings and background. Initially I had a lot of trouble giving the strings a fuller sound; they always came up too sharp or thin. There's a lot of blending of multiple different string VSTs to get the effect I want. The last bit I threw in that really brought out the sound in my opinion was adding a very subtle choir to support them. First time using choir/voices, so hopefully it doesn't sound out of place. ...

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Oddly enough it wasn't raining when I first got this song stuck in my head. I seem to get the most ideas when exams and projects are coming my way; unfortunately I had to postpone this song quite a bit as a result of being much busier lately. I've been working on this since October but in actuality probably only put about a few days' work into it.

I had more in mind for this one but decided to cut it a bit short, keep the melody simple (little repetitive but eh), so I can focus more on the quality of the sound. I thought I focused too much on the melody/notes on my last song Cloudlessly and found the overall sound rather hollow (lacking power/quality). Of course, now I'm focusing primarily on just improving the sound; hopefully I'll put the two together one day lol

Primary focus was the strings and background. Initially I had a lot of trouble giving the strings a fuller sound; they always came up too sharp or thin. There's a lot of blending of multiple different string VSTs to get the effect I want. The last bit I threw in that really brought out the sound in my opinion was adding a very subtle choir to support them. First time using choir/voices, so hopefully it doesn't sound out of place. ...

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