The Long Night

Sound library composition. No piano roll input. All played in by hand.All done in CbB. I had to take the original song down due to an oversight on my part. I have a screen capture I'll post later on for anyone who wants to see some of the workflow that made this.  
 
https://soundcloud.com/st...starise-the-long-night
 

Interesting composition that meanders its way through the musical soundscape. It could do with a touch more dynamics but that aside, an enjoyable tune.

Wow, I really like this one. I'm picturing a nightime march in a Celtic bog, cold and foggy with weird creatures hiding behind rocks.
I think it needs a break from the relentless forward motion tho. There is a pause in the action around 2:20, but I thought it could be developed a bit more, then ramp back up to that driving march. 

Biodiode- I never liked "meanders" as a description of one of my tracks, but I must admit. It does a little and could use a lift of some kind. Thanks for commenting.
 
Tom- I plan to put up the screen shot in the future. I think I was aiming more for classical instead of epic in terms of dynamics. Seems similar to limiting and the loudness wars. If I don't make it dynamically epic it won't stand out. I tracked into the master bus at -6db or less. I used some automation. I have another example here of a more epic track I did here- https://soundcloud.com/starise/far-gale-composition-by-starise
I went too far the other way there. Thanks for your comments.
 
Bjorn- Thank you for your comments. Word about the creatures wasn't supposed to get out.
 
Bill- Thank you for listening. Believe it or not the meaning of the term "Celtic" is argued by Irish and Scots all the time. The Irish folk musicians think the genre is a made up thing. The only real Irish music in their minds is Irish folk music. Some theorize it came along with Enya and the like. Some of that is true in terms of introduction into mainline modern music. I see it more as the music that was before Irish folk music came along or they might have been companions along the line. The only connection to folk types is probably the modal types. Celtic is usually slower though. Irish folk is more like drinking tunes.

Enjoyable listen - melodic, medieval, mysterious.
 
Thanks for sharing.
 
Good Job.
 
paul

good stuff Tim - like Bob asks - which library are you using?