The Smitchens

Ok, here's the link to the song. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=953132&songID=9478350 Go ahead. Critique your hearts out. I've already been informed of humanizing issues. So other than that what do the whole lot of you think could use some improvements?

Guitar isn't a concern for me since I actually play the guitar. Other instruments, while I do play them, I'm certainly incapable of playing what I write unless I decide all those other notes I hit along the way need to be present for artistic expression's sake. I'm pretty new to Sonar so I'm not certain what you're referring to. But I'll look for it next time I boot the program up. In any case I do appreciate the info, guys.

Another question. Say I've got something with several chords in it. Should I spend time trying to make those notes not sound at the exact same time, but rather put an ever so minute delay on some of the notes? Or is that a bit too nit picky. When the concept of humanizing was introduced to me I'd never thought about it, so I listened to harpsichord music over and over and some people would play chords and hit the lower notes ever so slightly sooner than the higher ones and some vice versa. What I want to know is should I be spending time adding that same flare to things as well?

If I understand what you're saying properly then yeah. The midi data will take precedence over FL Studio and all tempo changes will remain true to what the midi tells it to do. And that also applies to volume changes.

Well here. Let me fire off this question. What would you guys suggest as the easiest way to go about humanizing something? For example when I write my music I write it in a sheet music program and import a midi into Fruity Loops. I'm not certain if that's the most economical way to go about it, but it's worked this far. Were you to be in my shoes (for hypothetical scenario's sake) what would you recommend as the most efficient approach? Because currently I'm looking at manually picking each and every individual note and tweak the duration, volume, and tempo. And on something that's composed for about four harpsichords that's looking to be an intimidating pain.