i have composed something now what do i do?

[paulmayfield]

i have recently composed a good piece of music which i want to be made into realy music, instead o being a horrible midi on a program. does anybody know what i can do now with my melody so that it sounds like a real piece of music (like its actuly being played on the instruments i want).

thank you

[Ameria-chan]

I'm a little confused as to what you're asking. Are you looking for a better midi program that has settings to sound like different instruments?

Edit: Oh, and welcome!!! Go introduce yourself in the Intro section too, okay? ^^

[paulmayfield]

well i want to compose my music but its sounds very cheap like a midi.
i want my music to sound like realy music. 9like nobuo uematsu  makes his pieces sound like)

[Ameria-chan]

Ah..well I'm sure they use a good type of recording program for the background music played in video games, but if you want them to sound like real instruments otherwise, you'd probably have to use real instruments. ^^; I'm probably not the best authority on composing programs though.

[paulmayfield]

do you compose?

[Ameria-chan]

I've made a couple quick ones, but I'm far from a composer. ^^; I've just used MidiMaker, though I'd heard about a couple other composing programs. I'm just not sure how close they can get to "real instruments".

[paulmayfield]

for example i have created a piece for: piano, cello, violin and drums.  now i want it to be a piece of music not a midi. help me!

[Mike Charles]

You need a more sophisticated music program that can play samples, which are simply small snippets of recorded instruments which can be looped by a music program to sound like a real instrument playing real notes. For example, Cakewalk, Sibelius, etc. are music programs that can play these samples over your midi notes, so instead of hearing the archaic MIDI notes (which, by the way, is your computer's soundcard's "samples", though they arent real instruments, they just try to sound like them) you would hear nice, realistic instrument sounds. Of course, you also need the samples themselves, which are available alone on cd's (search for East-West Symphonic Orchestra, for example), or available with the music software itself...

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