Happy to hear that more free time is coming!

Nitpick: you compressed the piano pretty hard so the reverb is ducking when you're playing harder. For solo piano pieces you want less of that final maximalization to avoid that.

Happy to hear that more free time is coming! Nitpick: you compressed the piano pretty hard so the reverb is ducking when you're playing harder. For solo piano pieces you want less of that final maximalization to avoid that.

That was a rather beautiful piece of music you noodled.  It always seems to go back to video games for me but that opening minute made me think Resident Evil 1, maybe Code Veronica X as well.  Nicely done, hope you enjoy your music/down time.

That was a rather beautiful piece of music you noodled. It always seems to go back to video games for me but that opening minute made me think Resident Evil 1, maybe Code Veronica X as well. Nicely done, hope you enjoy your music/down time.

congrats on making it through the woods! and on these tasty noodles

congrats on making it through the woods! and on these tasty noodles :D

Weekly ate my comment from earlier in the week apparently? Bleh. Anyway my exhausted brain read this as "nocturne in cm" and actually it's more delicious as noodles. A noodle nocturne in Cm.

The wonderful thing about noodles like this is that they sit in an even-tempo, fairly "safe" space of notes that makes them fantastic for tossing into other things. I save a lot of noodles like this then throw them into granular plugins or Morphagene or just chop them in the M8 - you already work a lot with textural elements in your music, I'd love to hear some of your noodles chopped refried and sauced up in some of your other tracks!

Weekly ate my comment from earlier in the week apparently? Bleh. Anyway my exhausted brain read this as "nocturne in cm" and actually it's more delicious as noodles. A noodle nocturne in Cm. The wonderful thing about noodles like this is that they sit in an even-tempo, fairly "safe" space of notes that makes them fantastic for tossing into other things. I save a lot of noodles like this then throw them into granular plugins or Morphagene or just chop them in the M8 - you already work a lot with textural elements in your music, I'd love to hear some of your noodles chopped refried and sauced up in some of your other tracks!

This is super pretty!!! I'm loving all these sad reverb-soaked piano tunes being submitted to weekly beats, one of my favorite genres =P

Also, congrats on making your way out of the hectic work-related nonsense! Wishing you a handful of music-making-filled weeks!!!

This is super pretty!!! I'm loving all these sad reverb-soaked piano tunes being submitted to weekly beats, one of my favorite genres =P Also, congrats on making your way out of the hectic work-related nonsense! Wishing you a handful of music-making-filled weeks!!!

Enjoy your window of free time! Beautiful noodle, can't wait to hear what you create with your time off

Enjoy your window of free time! Beautiful noodle, can't wait to hear what you create with your time off

Pretty noodles! Enjoy the time and transitions, congrats.

Pretty noodles! Enjoy the time and transitions, congrats.

I was listening to this and thinking it had a "Nocturne" feel to it and then I see in the URL that it may have been originally titled "Nocturne in Cm"! Yeah, you got that feel for sure. And the fact that this is just you noodling is even more impressive! Looking forward to hearing more!

I was listening to this and thinking it had a "Nocturne" feel to it and then I see in the URL that it may have been originally titled "Nocturne in Cm"! Yeah, you got that feel for sure. And the fact that this is just you noodling is even more impressive! Looking forward to hearing more! ;)

Thanks for the tip.

Thank you, and yeah, a LOT of my sound is informed by game music... particularly Japanese composers, so I'm always thrilled to hear that my noodling is evocative of composers like Takeshi Miura or Sanae Kasahara. 

Thanks... yeah I've been very Nature Boy about it all week...

That's a good idea, I have a big "ambient" project planned, that might be something I incorporate.  I'm just very bad about even remembering that things I have completed exist.  This is a pretty deep cut, but I think Raul Julia's character from The Gumball Rally may have had an out sized impact on who I am as a person...

I'm glad you liked it... and yeah it does seem like there's whole little sad boi piano club on WB this year... I'm also for it.

Thanks so much, I'm really excited about getting to dig into some things with more than a few hours to work on them...  though it seems (after this week) having hard time pressures is actually more useful to my process than I thought. 

Thank you, thank you. 

Yeah, I think I might have original called it that, then shied away from it because my brain went it to a pedantic music nerd spiral... because it's really more of an Impromptu than a Nocturne...  but then Impromptu is just fancy book learnin' talk for noodle... and so noodle it became.  I'm glad you liked it though, I do enjoy writing these kinds of pieces. 

[quote=rplktr]Happy to hear that more free time is coming! Nitpick: you compressed the piano pretty hard so the reverb is ducking when you're playing harder. For solo piano pieces you want less of that final maximalization to avoid that.[/quote] Thanks for the tip. [quote=lament.config]That was a rather beautiful piece of music you noodled. It always seems to go back to video games for me but that opening minute made me think Resident Evil 1, maybe Code Veronica X as well. Nicely done, hope you enjoy your music/down time.[/quote] Thank you, and yeah, a LOT of my sound is informed by game music... particularly Japanese composers, so I'm always thrilled to hear that my noodling is evocative of composers like Takeshi Miura or Sanae Kasahara. [quote=jwh]congrats on making it through the woods! and on these tasty noodles :D[/quote] Thanks... yeah I've been very Nature Boy about it all week... [img]https://media.giphy.com/media/OqQvAbonGGzew/giphy.gif?cid=790b7611hg82whoyaqwvq1u0yym2zl5tjwrkzkgn3bkq7dxz&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g[/img] [quote=neon liminal]Weekly ate my comment from earlier in the week apparently? Bleh. Anyway my exhausted brain read this as "nocturne in cm" and actually it's more delicious as noodles. A noodle nocturne in Cm. The wonderful thing about noodles like this is that they sit in an even-tempo, fairly "safe" space of notes that makes them fantastic for tossing into other things. I save a lot of noodles like this then throw them into granular plugins or Morphagene or just chop them in the M8 - you already work a lot with textural elements in your music, I'd love to hear some of your noodles chopped refried and sauced up in some of your other tracks![/quote] That's a good idea, I have a big "ambient" project planned, that might be something I incorporate. I'm just very bad about even remembering that things I have completed exist. This is a pretty deep cut, but I think [url=https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-U9oo3nuOe0jNi--6z3ENOfojNnsSkvR?si=f7pQUGh7KgG-0LDm]Raul Julia's character from The Gumball Rally[/url] may have had an out sized impact on who I am as a person... [quote=jegasus]This is super pretty!!! I'm loving all these sad reverb-soaked piano tunes being submitted to weekly beats, one of my favorite genres =P Also, congrats on making your way out of the hectic work-related nonsense! Wishing you a handful of music-making-filled weeks!!![/quote] I'm glad you liked it... and yeah it does seem like there's whole little sad boi piano club on WB this year... I'm also for it. [quote=SQF]Enjoy your window of free time! Beautiful noodle, can't wait to hear what you create with your time off[/quote] Thanks so much, I'm really excited about getting to dig into some things with more than a few hours to work on them... though it seems (after this week) having hard time pressures is actually more useful to my process than I thought. [quote=miraclemiles]Pretty noodles! Enjoy the time and transitions, congrats. [/quote] Thank you, thank you. [quote=PeterM]I was listening to this and thinking it had a "Nocturne" feel to it and then I see in the URL that it may have been originally titled "Nocturne in Cm"! Yeah, you got that feel for sure. And the fact that this is just you noodling is even more impressive! Looking forward to hearing more! ;)[/quote] Yeah, I think I might have original called it that, then shied away from it because my brain went it to a pedantic music nerd spiral... because it's really more of an Impromptu than a Nocturne... but then Impromptu is just fancy book learnin' talk for noodle... and so noodle it became. I'm glad you liked it though, I do enjoy writing these kinds of pieces.

I personally love the sound of that piano.  It sounds so powerful and evocative as it floats through the verbage.  A pretty melody in one of my fav scales.  Enjoyed how that last chord verbs out.  Glad to hear you're out of that work scene and can concentrate on your classes and creations   cheers to da weekends!

I personally love the sound of that piano. It sounds so powerful and evocative as it floats through the verbage. A pretty melody in one of my fav scales. Enjoyed how that last chord verbs out. Glad to hear you're out of that work scene and can concentrate on your classes and creations :) cheers to da weekends!

Thank you, and yeah that's Alicia's Keys.  It's my favorite NI piano for sure.  It's the piano I use as my "default" sketching instrument in most of my Logic templates. 

[quote=Tone Matrix]I personally love the sound of that piano. It sounds so powerful and evocative as it floats through the verbage. A pretty melody in one of my fav scales. Enjoyed how that last chord verbs out. Glad to hear you're out of that work scene and can concentrate on your classes and creations :) cheers to da weekends![/quote] Thank you, and yeah that's Alicia's Keys. It's my favorite NI piano for sure. It's the piano I use as my "default" sketching instrument in most of my Logic templates.