Here's a little song

The composition is really good... Guitar played very well....

The processing sounds like Motif XS.. It looks like Cubase and Yamaha are sharing some effects algorithms...

Very nice. Do you mind if I download the MP3?

Do you mind sharing which patches you used in the song?

If they were user-tweaked patches I'd still be curious to know what patch you started from.

Thanks

@shakil: thanks for the comment. I used Steinberg Cubase SX3 for this song, and there the VST's "RoomVerb", "DoubleDelay" and "VST Dynamics", all came with Cubase. They're easy to use and they meet my requirements.

@sdmsec: I don't mind if you download - enjoy, but please respect my personal copyright
The patches I used where not user-tweaked, I used them "out of the box". Here's the list:

Bass : Comp 6tr Bass 1 (525 / Bass)
Piano : Stage Phaser (108 / El.Piano)
Pad 1 : Ob Airy Str (1476 / Soft Pad)
Pad 2 : Hollow SRX (1543 / Soft Pad)
Pizzicato : D-50 Pizz (817 / Strings)
Melody (Guitar) : Brt Nylon (393 / Ac.Guitar)
Melody (Sax) : Solo Sop Sax (974 / Sax)
Rhythm-Kit : G Standard Kit (001 / Drums)

I sequenced the song in studio-mode playing / recording track by track as midi into Cubase. There I arranged everything, modified some tracks manually, searched for the final sounds and then made audio-mixdowns of each midi-track (I wish, the G6 had 16 audio-outputs also in Cubase. For this step I disabled any Reverb / Chorus FX in the Fantom. After that I mixed and mastered in Cubase while my Fantom G went into it's deserved sleep

Very nice. This is the what I like to see on a forum. People making excellent use of their equipment and software.
I know that the Fantom G is not perfect but it certainly has many wonderful features and you are making good use of them.
I really like that you are sharing not only your composition but also what patches you used. This type of cooperation will make this a better forum in my opinion.

Very nice!!!!!!!!!!! Sound, mixing etc is great. You seem to be very talented

Sounds very nice indeed

if you want to hear your song on the Yammie-XS, please send the MIDI-file.

Very very nice composition. I really like it. Very relaxing Music.
Thanls.............

It's very nice, both the melody and the orchestration. Good work indeed.
The only thing I'd suggest is to choose some better sounds for the arrangment.

Hi,

thanks to all for your positive and motivating comments!! I really didn't expect this )

@SH1000: that would be a great excurse I think. Find the midi tracks in the attachment. But please consider, that there are no PC-commands in the file, I made the patch settings (which sound on which track) in the fantom itself in studio mode respectively in cubase in the patch-inspector. So the raw midi file may sound terrible, you have to "map" the patches to your Yamaha-programs. I'm very curious about the result )

@cyclops: do you mean the melodic instruments or the background pads?

tastenmann: I would mainly change the solo sounds (Ac. Guitar and Sax) plus the drum kit. The bass sound and the pads are ok. Furthermore, I would add some more reverb to certain sounds, like the snare sidestick, the triangle and the Ac. Guitar.

i think add a ARX03 or two and you're set!

good job.

Tastenmann,

I just did a quick job on my Yamaha. If I have more time I'll do a better job but this will give you an idea of the XS sound.

I only used XS-preset sounds and I've not used any other equipment/effects. Output L/R recorded on MP3 player.

I heard the song now several times and start liking it even beter. Good job.

I selected sounds which come close to the origninal idea. The used sounds are:
EBass - PRE3/B10 - Finger PBs
Keys - PRE1/B14 - Phaser Vintage
A Gtr - PRE2/D06 - Nylon Slide Vel
Pads/Choir - PRE6/D05 - Angel Eyes
Strings/Pizz - PRE4/B08 - Plucky Pizzicato
SaxWW - PRE5/A04 - Soprano Soft
Strings/synth - PRE4/D14 - Orchestronic
Drumms - B06 - Brushkit

So I took some time before going to bed.

I changed some of the sounds and note-volumes a little bit. I changed EQ'ed some parts and added a little modulation as vibrato.

Still only the XS of course

grtz
SH1000

PS I accidentely transposed the song the last time. If you want I can post the last version in the original key.

yah, both are unique arrangements. i think the G's guitar can sound as smooth as the yami with a quick EQ /filter / velocity retune.

if it was my arrangement i would add more reverb on the sax.