Been getting into programming Omnisphere's synth engine and did this short piece as an experiment (inspired by listening to some of Wookie's stuff).
 
The pads are mostly stock Omnisphere patches, the leads are a mix of standard and custom-programmed Omnisphere patches, and the percussion is a combination of various Kontakt libraries including a favorite MO8 patch called "Wood" that I've converted to a Kontakt library.
 
Musically, it's admittedly kind of aimless. It goes into a buildup at the end that sounds like it's going somewhere, and then just ends. Any suggestions regarding how I might flesh it out into a proper tune are welcomed.
 
Best enjoyed with headphones, IMO.
 
https://soundcloud.com/bitflipper/currently-untitled-work-in
 

bitflipper, This sounds really good so far. As you said it has little direction thus far and so I might suggest adding various orchestration to it in various places throughout  for some dynamic effects. So far you have an awesome background and that's a great start. Only you know the direction that you want to take this piece to, so you can add in what instrumentation you feel takes it to where you want to go. I always start out in a very similar fashion and just keep adding various instrumentations and effects sounds until I have a finished project. Then I fine tune and  master each track using Izotope Ozone 5 for depth and perception, reverb, limiting, gates and stereo width. It is a long process, but it works for me. I use Cakewalk Kinetic 2 which encompasses a lot of my major instrumentations, such as East West Quantum Leap various samples, the Cakewalk samples, and several others. I also use Smart Sound samples incorporated with my Sonicfire Pro 5 software, it has lots of great sample and loops that work great for me, as well. I have so many samples I have to have a side drive of 4 tb, so it is endless for me searching all of my files when creating a piece of music. Hope you will find the direction you want to bring this piece full circle so we can here the final production. 
 
Peace and blessings, John

Nice prog piece.  Love the organ to start w/.  And nice instrument progressions throughout.  Sounds like you had fun.  And hey, it sounds good too.

4TB of samples and you call yourself "theguitarplayer"? LOL, I know what you mean. I have trouble just recalling a patch in Omnisphere's factory library, much less all the Kontakt stuff. I've started keeping notes, in hopes that if I can't remember the patch or library name I'll at least remember which song I used it in and go from there. Some days I think I should just go back to playing piano and organ.

Thanks Bit nice to know I inspired someone.
 
As to where to take it that's out there in the ether just open up to it and let it flow through you to your finger tips.  That is how most of mine happen. (Plus several hours of patch hunting and tweaking of my Arturia Modular V and CS-80 V soft synths.)
 
I really enjoyed hearing this thank you for sharing

I can understand that, I had thought about selling everything and just playing my acoustic guitar, but then that would be stupid for me, because I'm having to much fun creating with it all. I do use my Casio keyboards to create some of my own samples as well, using all of the East West Quantum Leap software I have, mostly Complete Composer which are various EWQL software, but I also have a lot of the Sony software and samples also. It's just a never ending journey, isn't it? Your doing some great work, so just keep having fun and enjoy!!
 
Peace and blessings, John

bitflipper
4TB of samples and you call yourself "theguitarplayer"? LOL, I know what you mean. I have trouble just recalling a patch in Omnisphere's factory library, much less all the Kontakt stuff. I've started keeping notes, in hopes that if I can't remember the patch or library name I'll at least remember which song I used it in and go from there. Some days I think I should just go back to playing piano and organ.

I often feel the same... keep it simple... I did enjoy this a lot though... nice to hear from you again Bit...

I get a lot of inspiration from the folks who frequent this forum and listen to as much as I can, even though I rarely comment. I also suffer from the greener-over-there syndrome: when I hear a symphonic piece I want to drop everything and go back to doing that. Then I hear some bluesy thing by the likes of notnat or AT, or some good ol' straight-ahead rock 'n roll from batsbrew or Bob Oister, I want to drop everything and do something like that. And then yorolpal comes along with a novelty tune and I want to spend the day with a notepad and write some clever lyrics. Then I hear julibee sing - anything - and wonder why I even bother croaking out vocals at all.
 
Thanks to everybody for providing me with so much free entertainment!

Well, the good thing is at our ages we have had a great time doing what we do. I kind of like to look at it as a blessing, because we could all be laboring out in some field for pennies on the dollar. Instead, God has taken it upon Himself to give us each a special gift, and so we use it to bring others joy. It's a good thing!
 
Peace and blessings, John

hi bitflipper I really like the mix sounds fantastic great peace thanks for sharing eric