Finally put some of my photoshop skill to use for myself.  It's a bit harder though than designing for a group, since then you'd have a theme to be working towards.  Me? No idea what my theme is so I have a default one, a more colorful/flashy one, and a more peaceful Christmas-y one for the holidays.

The more colorful ones are from the Moviemakers Club obviously.  It's such a waste to see all that work go unused otherwise.

But as far as general usage goes... hmm which one to be the default card?  

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Really liked the string arrangement by the composer Angelo Badalamenti and couldn't help playing it on piano today. Of course, it's nowhere near as nice as the original, but I haven't heard it in piano before and couldn't find any others.


Someone who actually plays piano can probably arrange this much better though.
 

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This one's short but slower than what I usually make.  I was just really bored today, which doesn't really make for good inspiration but it's better than none I suppose.


Nothing special but give it a listen if you ever have some time.  I might build on it - or I might not.  Depends if I get more ideas.  Suggestions welcome though.

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Another song finally done.  Took a lot longer than I expected to on this and it's not quite as powerful as I wanted it to be, but it's probably one of my better ones in a long time.


As mentioned previously, this is a remake of the climax of a song I started about 3 years ago.  At the time, I didn't really know what I was doing (I still don't) nor did I have very high quality instruments (VSTs) to work with.   It took a long time to figure out what new samples to use as opposed to the Edirol VST I had in the original Darker Stormy.  A lot of the sounds I wanted to use I didn't know the names for and as a result, the song still isn't quite what I had in mind.

Those more musically inclined, I would love to know what instruments I *should* have used instead, so feel free to suggest.    For example, most songs probably don't use piano as their primary baseline so that definitely needs swapping.. if only I knew what to swap it with.  

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I've been wanting to remake this one for a long time... It just took a while (and still taking a while) to figure out what new samples to used as opposed to the Edirol VST I had in the original Darker Stormy (which was not that strong, especially in the climax).

Here's a taste for now - the sound should be noticably different, perhaps a littler darker.

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