Originally Posted By: Rustyspoon#
David,
very beautiful and meditative piece. Grabbed me right in. You always put a lot of thought behind the process of creating, and very careful not to over-soak composition with the goodness of all the sounds we have at our finger tips. I admire that very much!

Hi, Misha.

Thanks! One think that's great about BiaB is having some really wonderful sounds to be able to place into compositions.

When I was working on this, I'd started by playing the NI Session Acoustic and found a nice chord progression. I then went into BiaB and picked a ton of RealTracks. I had a fairly good idea of what I wanted, but some (like the slide guitar) took me in some directions I hadn't expected.

The end bit is more sparse than I'm really comfortable with, and I was really tempted to add a bit of solo acoustic guitar on top. To be honest, one reason I didn't was because I was having trouble with Reaper's MIDI editor. I might go back and play with it a bit... then again, I should probably call it a day and move on. wink

The squeak you mention is a "feature" of the guitar VSTi that's triggered at high velocity notes. I thought I'd caught them all, but obviously I missed that one. If I re-render this at some point, I'll remove it.

But I only have the free version of SoundCloud, which means I'd lose the nice comments that some folk have posted. cry

Thanks again for your careful listen and comments!

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?