Candlejack Djinn

Well, to be honest, this is one of my first true attempts at creating through music. But yeah, I do understand what you mean here. It's not that I don't believe you, it's just a difficult truth to accept, I guess. But in any case, thanks, Rozovian, I do appreciate it. BTW, hope that Seiken Densetsu project comes to fruition soon. Looking forward to listening to it.

I suppose that almost goes without saying, lol. I do have the demo version of Reaper, but I'm having some problems with the audio not working properly. >__> So it's more or less just a matter of dropping into the deep end, then. Yikes. D: I'm kind of nervous about experimenting in generally anything I do, and experimenting with music seems a lot scarier than anything else. It's not so much that I can't deal with criticism, but it becomes a lot more daunting when you're not sure what to expect to hear, I guess.

At the moment, I've just been copying source material note-for-note (which, I'm aware, isn't all that impressive, and wouldn't be worth judging because of that. >__>'), but I have to wonder, what is it, exactly, that I should be doing for a song to sound 'good'? I've downloaded a few soundfonts (virtually of which were free and made available by different posters here), and I've been using only those at the moment to reconstruct the source material. My question is, I guess, is there anything more I could, or should be doing at this point to improve upon it? Should I wait until I've 're-made' the source material to do such? Should I even be re-making the source-material in the first place? Any help here would be appreciated.

Hey. I'm a guy who just loves listening to music, and who possibly wants to remix. I kow virtually nothing in the ways of music theory or software, but I've always loved to come here to see what new pieces have been added to the site.