Tag: Composition 音樂創作

Since Sibelius 8.0.0, Avid changed the installer, and it has a serious bug -- it assumes you have a C: drive before letting you choose the installatio...

I was commissioned by Tim Deighton early this year to write this piece for his viola ensemble. It was a fresh arrangement for a famous Taiwanese Folk Song. (Over the years, this piece was performed multiple times in American Viola Society 's competitions. It was also performed in Taiwan a few times.)

A friend asked me to recommend a scorewriter and I'd like to share some of my personal experiences. I had used various scorewriters, from a very early...

Some keys (G2 - C3) on my old 61-key Yamaha PSR keyboard quit working so I spent a Sunday afternoon fixing it. It took me a while to figure out what t...

Over the years of working with various musicians to perform my works, I have learned some very practical experiences that I wish other experienced com...

Finale has come a long way since it was first introduced. For me, it used to be only a typographical software -- I used to compose in a sequencer and...

I've been composing for a local flute ensemble. They have a quite particular instrumentation -- two piccolos, about ten C flutes, two alto flutes, a b...

I've been hoping to share my own experience in the music studio, but as time goes by, very little was done. However, my answers to friends' questions...

An English language after-school consulted me for a low-cost solution to record their classes for students to review at home. They are using a dual-de...