Thank you to all who have voted, reviewed, and listened to my songs lately! After posting my first song on NewGrounds about two years ago, I finally am starting to get some exposure. :P
I was pleasantly surprised last week to find that my song, "Flowing Waters" was listed as #13 on the Best Tracks Ever list (located on the audio portal's front page). In days, it went from 200 listens to over 2,000. O_O I had multiple reviews pouring in daily, and had several different people PMing me about my music. And this week, my song "Ambient Evening" is listed as #23!
Again, thank you all so much for the support. It is wonderful to see so many positive reviews ratings. School us out in a week from tomorrow, and I should have plenty of free time to pump out new music over the summer. Keep the reviews coming! :D
-BlazingDragon
Jebbal
Hellooo! Just a quick question. I've used Finale before so I'm familiar with it, and I was really close to buying Garritan about 6 months ago. You said you write the music in Finale, but do you use instrument samples from the Garritan program? I don't remember the samples in Finale being very good, although I've only played around with 2004 if I remember correctly...
BlazingDragon
The standard sounds in Finale aren't good by any means. HOWEVER, Finale 2007 and 2008 include a small set of Garritan samples. It isn't the full Garritan Personal Orchestra, but it comes with a decent amount of orchestral instruments.
The only song I've posted using those samples is "Winter Dream", and the rest are just from free soundfonts I've found on the internet. Also, I made most of my music with a demo of FL Studio.
I would suggest checking out the Finale (MakeMusic) website if you want to know more. :)