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Sweeping Sad Strings.wav

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BuytheField

December 31st, 2017

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Soundscapes > Synthetic / Artificial
Music fragments

A sweeping, sad, orchestral strings sound.

This was a MIDI improvised at the keyboard with a synth pad voice to give my fingers the right touch for strings. Should have played right into the daw with a MIDI cord because there was lots of distortion translating the MIDI to the daw voice. I used the All Strings orchestral voice in Music Maker's virtual synthesizer - compression and wider stereo helped, then I lowered some of the overbearing bass and brought up the mid-range.

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cello
cinematic
dark
deep
dramatic
moody
mournful
movie
orchestra
orchestral
sad
slow
soulful
strings
sweeping
tragic
viola
violin

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

3:24.844

File size

34.5 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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vampiroteuthus

1 year, 11 months ago

Thank you! My animation project has a brief clip of a conductor doing some emotive rubato cuing and this works perfectly!

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amygwatkin

4 years, 3 months ago

lovely :)

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Danieru21

4 years, 4 months ago

Amazing!!

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crze

4 years, 6 months ago

wow!!!!

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Paulfox

7 years, 6 months ago

Very well composed! Thank you for sharing!

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