Hello people of the Ichigos Forum :)
I've been lurking quite a while now in this forum and decided to take the step and enter the de-lurk mode. ^^

About me:
Well, I won't go very far on this. I'll just say for now that I'm 22 and that I'm studying biology. :)
I've been composing songs since I was about 14, back then I used the guitar and sometimes the piano only. From this time I have like only one song left anymore (recorded, I mean)
Now, I compose all of my songs on piano/keyboard. I then transfer the notes to my notation programm (Noteworthy Composer), add whatever other instruments I want/like and save them as Midi. I go a step further: I load my Midi into Cubase SX, a really awesome programm (and it swallows more CPU than my poor laptop could ever give away... :cry: ) and basically put over each midi track a sampled instrument over it (or something like that..... :unsure: ), making my songs sound more of like a recording than Midi. I just started with this programm and since it never fails to crash on me everytime I use it, I'm learning quite slowly. Which means many of my songs are actually still quite MIDI sounding. Nothing against MIDI-like sounds but for my compositions I think I can become a weird perfectionist -wanting my songs to sound as "real" as possible without investing tons of money in hiring an orchestra or other people and a sound studio. ^^""


Phew. Quite long introduction in the end. ^^"
Anyways, you can download my songs from my site. Here's the direct link to the page containing all songs:
Songs here (http://www.kyouki.org/?page_id=3187)
Most songs are short and thus low on MB.
As for "type" of music I compose; well it's sort of slightly melancholic, easy listening/background music stuff. This is what I want to specialize on, btw. ^^
My weaknesses are rhythmic things like adding percussion or making songs really poppy like banging chords on the piano for more than 5 seconds...has always been my weakness, sadly T_T ...so you won't be finding much of that from me.

I would be ever so grateful on improvement tips, or any other friendly comment :)

wow those are amazing....

what program did u use. or did u record them urself?

If you'd read my first post more thoroughly you would have known ;)
I'm using Noteworthy Composer AND Cubase SX (with Kontakt)

Thank you for liking them ^^

The pieces sound like they use pretty good samples, but as you've said, just recording with good samples (without tweaking much from the MIDI version) won't automatically make things sound better... I've listened to La Masque Creux (which doesn't really remind me of Bleach, but then again, I haven't been keeping up :() and Spring Rose (it's clipping some, so you might want to re-record it). The first one sounds kind of nice, but there are parts where the flow kind of skips rather abruptly, as if parts of the music accidentally got chopped off. The piano riff could develop some more, and overall, I believe a slower tempo would make things sound a bit more appropriate. The second one sounds like there's lots going on in the background, but I can't really make it out with the lack of panning and balancing - maybe you can try to turn down the reverb a bit more too if things still sound too muddled. Also try to slow down the pace a bit more; give more resolution to each phrase and maybe even a slight pause before moving on to the next - I'm not saying that you should always do that (sudden transitions certainly can have a strong effect), but you should try not to jerk your listeners around too much ;). Anyways, this is some pretty neat stuff - I kind of like the light classical/electronica hybrid sound of your pieces, and even the pseudo-"stream of consciousness" flow of your pieces does add a little more humanized feel to the pieces, albeit one a bit lacking in discipline :P. I'll try to listen to the rest if I get a chance - oh, and welcome from lurking :)!

Heh thanks a lot for the comment! Highly appreciated.

Yeah, well the Masque Song...well I just had watched too much Bleach that's all lol :D

I actually intended a lot of chopping off/weird moments but I guess I went too much overboard there...I'll try out with the slower tip you gave me for my next songs. ^^
Spring Rose actually is panned o.O
I guess I can't use Vegas much for mixing :(

Ok ;) heres the run down on what I think of your songs~!^_^

Spring rose-Good it started off good and ended good to I likehow you used the other insturments..They blended well together so I will say great choice.

Le Masque Cruex [all]- It was good the choppyness gave it its unic (sp??)ness.I've never seen "Bleach" so I can not give a comment on that but all in all I like it it sounded goot but my proublem is "Busymusic" or thats what I call it.Its when I think to much is going on if you play them together I dont really like them but alone and each by themselfs ^_^ souunds GREAT but I must say when played together it sounded ok...it could be better though IMO

Into The Dawn-It makes me think of a game called Chrono Trigger...It would have fit it so knwoing that ^_^ I bet you can easyily make songs for things I liked this one a LOT it sounded great one of my faves

Silent Plan- Well im sorry but this song... I guess you can say didnt float my boat it sounded like you repeated everything and then switched up a bit in the mid and then went back to repeating...but it was new to hear drums...but I hear them all the time so I guess that took away from the specialness...

End Of a Fairytale-Sounds like a good Neopets backgound music....and it mays me think of seeing something bad happening and then the protaginist gets over it and fights on through his heart ache.. :cold: sounds so pretty...and could make a great song...O_O Not that it already isnt I mean >_< >.> I think you get it right ^^;;

EOAF-the paino style link dosent work...

The sun somewhere- also THIS link dosent work... >_< and the title was so great I wanted to lisen to this one VEERY bad&#33;..oh wel

I write and draw so I had a challange for you...if you up to it I will PM you and you may take as long as you want to make the peices...

oh woops&#33; Fixed the broken links.

Thanks for the comments kariekh&#33;

Percussion is my weakness so that&#39;s why "Silent Pain" kinda is the only song with percussion (because...somebody helped me do them...gosh such a cheater lol XD).
I might try to do something more techno-y because I recently got hooked to all the Ragnarok Online BGM after playing 6 hours straight :blink: