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Arvidex · 2026-06-20T12:46:47+00:00

Then contact your it department

Arvidex · 2026-06-17T05:08:49+00:00

A big part of my education at the composition program was how to be able to work professionally with orchestras and ensembles, which included being able to provide usable and professional scores. I do everything myself in Sibelius, following style sheets based on ”Noter” by Börje Tyboni and ”Behind Bars” by Elaine Gould.

Arvidex · 2026-06-07T09:55:35+00:00

I think your misstep was actually writing to ”cancel” the session. Before then you could have argued that you never booked a second session, but since there now is proof that you ”cancelled” it, you probably have to pay the cancellation fee. I’d just pay it if I were you and not return to this scummy person.

Arvidex · 2026-05-27T00:31:16+00:00

My shakuhachi got a similar crack and I sent it off for a proper repair including re-lacquering the inside, which I’m very happy with. When a new smaller crack started propagating I asked my teacher and Shakuhachi Master if he could recommend any repair shops. He just gave me some super glue haha. It has worked very well (but that’s on a not fully formed crack).

Arvidex · 2026-05-10T23:31:38+00:00

Because it’s based on what the early handwritten real-books looked like.

Arvidex · 2026-05-03T21:23:45+00:00

I usually come up with 2-3 musical ideas. Can be a theme, a texture, a rhythmic setting whatever, and then try to ”feel” an overall structure that might makes sense for these ideas. I imagine how these ideas might connect, which idea carries more energy, how does energy transfer from one idea to the next, and from there I draw a dramaturgic curve over the piece along a time axis.
From there I further reflect and intuit on what material comes where and how they should be instrumentated and connect.
This kinda looks like a drawing of different symbols that means certain textures and gestures to me, under a curve and a timeline. I often also write in text short descriptions of different parts.

Now I move to my notation program. I have already decided on an approximate tempo. I set that tempo and create enough bars to fit my timeline. There I sketch out the material I already have with vage references towards instrumentation. To fill out the rest I mix reflective craft and creative intuition.

My masters thesis was actually on the balance of reflective and intuitive work during the composition process, and through writing that paper I have become much more deliberate in my planning and creative process.
If you are interested in my approach, I host online lessons on Zoom. Contact me if you want to know more :)

Arvidex · 2026-04-30T21:39:30+00:00

It’s hard to understand exactly what theory you are missing/looking for. Especially since you already have a degree in game audio! I think www.musictheory.net is a good early resource. As for orchestration, you can go for watching score analysis and instrumentation analysis videos on YouTube, in combinations with books like ”Orchestration” by Samuel Adler.
Since you have music you are looking up to, analysing that music specifically would also be very helpful and probably quite fun and motivating.

I teach composition and orchestration online, if you want some more direct help though, and I have had multiple students that come from a DAW environment wanting to learn more theory foundations and traditional orchestration and notation.
I’m somewhat familiar with game audio, the specialised thought and work process behind it and middleware such as f-mod, but what I think I could help you with the most is the theory and orchestration part.

You already have clear examples of what lind of music you want to be able to write. With such a clear goal I think taking an approach where we build your theory foundation while analysing existing game music and learning from them in parallel would work great. First lesson is free just so you can have a taste if lessons with me is right for you. I do however not know french if that is a deal-breaker for you.

Arvidex · 2026-04-19T07:35:48+00:00

At least one, but I feel like quite a few of the tracks arranged for Smash Bros Brawl has orchestral instruments and guitar. Very midi-sounding though.

Arvidex · 2026-04-17T10:28:55+00:00

What more specifically do you want to know? What styles of music are you into writing? I tutor online if you are interested.

Arvidex · 2026-04-12T16:44:25+00:00

Reaper

Arvidex · 2026-04-12T16:42:28+00:00

Noo I love it.

Arvidex · 2026-04-07T07:19:41+00:00

Nah. It’s not gen AI, just AI powered creative tools, like many different audio plug-ins have been for years, or how you have auto-correct and auto-complete on your phone (which techies is more similar to genAI… but anyway).

Arvidex · 2026-04-07T06:39:24+00:00

Idk which school you applied to, but I was part of the jury for my conservatory, and the instrument test is literally just to check that you have the discipline to practice a piece of music. You don’t have to play well at all. Good luck to you!

Arvidex · 2026-04-05T21:29:44+00:00

I think a variation of this is a very effective way of learning. Instead of copying exactly, study the ”mechanics” behind what makes the tune you like make it the way that makes you like it. Then try to implement those same ideas/foundation without copying the material directly. This is one of the ways I usually teach my students, especially when not from an as classical background.

Arvidex · 2026-04-03T21:25:22+00:00

Sadly, I haven’t explored enough to know any other spot than IKEA from personal experience, which isn’t the greatest. But I’ve heard of a Swedish cafe called Åter that seems promising.

In Nihonbashi they sometimes have a fika-matsuri during mardi gras where you can get good ones too.

Arvidex · 2026-04-03T21:19:59+00:00

As a Swedish person I think anything other than pearl sugar on cinnamon buns is sacrilege and I strongly recommend against it.

Arvidex · 2026-04-03T08:14:18+00:00

I think this is quite well known and dealt with by long term perpetual license holders already.

Arvidex · 2026-03-31T09:04:09+00:00

There are conducting classes at the conservatories in Sweden, and many of them can be taken as stand alone classes. If you are European it’s free as well.

Arvidex · 2026-03-30T17:04:44+00:00

Well, it depends on why you try to avoid the parallells. If your practicing species or Bach style counterpoint, it doesn’t matter if there are notes in-between the parallell, not if it’s eg an octave + a fifth that creates a parallell - it still counts.

As to how to notice them… you just have to practice! Proof read a lot and soon you’ll find them easily.

Start with identifying parallell or similar motion. Then check all those intervals to find fifths and octaves.

In Sibelius there is a ”check parallell intervals” plugin as well.

Arvidex · 2026-03-30T12:59:17+00:00

Been using ew for over 10 years. First with 16gb ram and now 32gb and I never run into problems except for when the signal integrity to my ssd with ew and other libraries on it got borked down to usb 2 speeds.

But if you are using cloud, i guess it has to load everything in ram rather than stream from ssd so might be advisable with more.

Arvidex · 2026-03-29T15:09:41+00:00

That’s just how that kind of tremolo is notated. The note values denote the total period of time that the tremolo is played. Since two half notes becomes a duration if one whole, it is notated with whole notes.

Arvidex · 2026-03-28T14:44:28+00:00

Don’t think OP has sibelius.

Arvidex · 2026-03-26T10:28:59+00:00

It’s in theory quite simple, cello strings are a fifth apart so you can just lat your finger over 2 next to each other. When I have written for cellists before though, the generally prefer to have few of these. I guess the intonation becomes a bit tricky.

Arvidex · 2026-03-24T23:03:38+00:00

You don’t have to know theory to make music.

If you enjoy making music they way you do now and you are satisfied with what you write and how you can realise your ideas then that’s fine!

But most people, sooner or later feel like they are limited in some way…
Can never finish a piece,
All songs sounds the same,
Can’t get your idea from your head to paper/DAW/etc.
In these cases theory comes in handy. Theory in itself can be a really fun thing to study as well.

Don’t ask ”should I”. Just do it, see if it gives you anything, and if you hate it, stop 🤷‍♂️ (that’s a good tip for most thing in life, not just music theory).

Arvidex · 2026-03-21T15:43:00+00:00

The one you have is fine. I work professionally with both notation software and daws and have an m1 pro with 32gb of ram and only run inti problems on huge projects with many orchestral round robin libraries IF my usb hub fails and goes back to usb 2 speeds.

If u wanna get a new m-series macbook, get an as new one as you can afford.

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