u/NoClimate4307

Okay, so I love the MuseSounds, alright? For somebody who writes for competitions and seldom has access to live instruments, its amazing. HOWEVER, the viola (solo) soundfont in particular annoys me to no end. It's INSANELY slidey, which I'd get if it had, maybe, a tenuto or something, but these are plain old normal notes here. Cute for lyrical works, hell on earth for anything else. The only workaround I've found is slapping accents on the slidey notes and hiding them.

viola (solo) being stupid

Another problem with articulations, staccatos are consistently about a whole dynamic louder than written, especially on high notes. No big deal, I can just manually lower the dynamic, but I feel like an instrument that's usually TOO quiet should have a little more consistency.

Anyways, I just wanted to vent my frustrations a little bit. I'm not too mad at Muse, because at the end of the day, they're free and AMAZING most of the time (I'm using Muse Music Box as the Celesta's soundfont and it's amazing). Just every now and then. It's also not just a viola problem; all Muse Strings are a bit slidey, but it's worst (and most unexpected) on viola.

Hi! I've been writing for a couple of years at this point, but it occurred to me that I have maybe two original piano pieces under my belt, so I decided to go ahead and write something silly to add to my college portfolio (that is, for my college APPLICATION). Anyways, I think it's coming along okay, I've been working on it for a few hours now, and I think I'm at a point where I want some peer feedback (we're peers now).

My main concern (aside from not knowing WHAT to do at 26) is the bass line at 18, it sounds too busy and too bland at the same time, but maybe that's just me. In addition, a lot of the bass line fingerings look really hard to my (non-pianist) eyes, and I don't want something so unserious to be too difficult.

Please let me know what you all think! It's at right under a minute right now, and I like to aim for 2 minutes for silly little whatever pieces, so any inspiration for the next section (I'm thinking a dogfight and then back to the original theme) would be really great too!! Thanks :)