[Professional artists similar to OC ReMix?]

Thanks everyone, there are a lot of great suggestions in this topic! I plan to try everything suggested. Right now I'm in the middle of listening to Zircon's Impulse Prime album via the Rhapsody subscription my family shares. It is excellent so far - exactly the type of music I was looking for.

By the way, here are a few random artists I do like that meet my previous description:

Ronald Jenkees - I discovered this guy on Youtube. He has very entertaining videos and his first album is great (second on the way). There's a lot of hip hop influence in his music, but done very well.

Ratatat - Probably not very well known. I stumbled across their album LP3 last weekend and really enjoyed it.

Squarepusher - Actually I don't think I like most of his music, but I enjoyed his most recent album Hello Everything.

[Professional artists similar to OC ReMix?]

I'm not sure if this question has been asked many times before because I don't really come to these forums.

Anyway, my experience with OC Remix is that it is better than almost everything produced by the music industry. The main reason I think this is because I don't like anything with vocals, so that rules out at least 90% of everything. Of course there's lots of nonvocal electronic music, but even then I rarely find anything I like because most electronic producers either try to be "complex" and create music with no melody, or they make extremely repetitive dance music. I like OC Remix because it has no vocals, AND good melody.

I know my tastes are odd...but does anyone think they could recommend some artists for me? I would just listen to OC Remix, but I've heard every track on the site dozens of time

[Sonic the Hedgehog 2 'Emerald Hill Zone']

I don't know much about remixing (or critiquing =P), but for someone with such limited experience in a program, I think that sounded excellent. The very beginning was kind of dull but it quickly got much better. Keep it up.

[What's the best way to make orchestrated music?]

FL Studio says in comes with the Soundfont Player, and it tells how to use it in the help file, but it doesn't tell how to actually open it...

[What's the best way to make orchestrated music?]

Hi, first of all I want to say I hope I don't sound like a n00b. I read the sticky topics and downloaded Fruity Loops, but I don't know if that's what I was looking for.

I want to make orchestrated music, like Chrono Trigger Symphonic. I know making that kind of music is a real challenge, and I won't be able to make anything of that quality for a VERY long time (if ever), but I think CT Symphonic is the most amazing thing on this site.

Is Fruity Loops the best way to start out, even if I just want to make music with ordinary instruments? I don't want whatever I make to sound like it's been made with a computer, and more like it was actually played at a symphony.

Gah, sorry, I'm really a music newb. I can read music and play piano, but I know nothing about theory or composing. >_>

Thanks for your help...