Actually surprising no on the first (edit oops, second) count. The procedure wasn't really based on an algo rather just feelings in my head. After painstakingl

Actually surprising no on the first (edit oops, second) count. The procedure wasn't really based on an algo rather just feelings in my head. After painstakingly going through so many samples finding the bad ones I got accustomed to their sounds. I learned the ranges of the orchestra from the ranges provided by the Philharmonia orchestra. My first attempt at composition was just tossing around notes until it turned into a blob of doom sound which I wasn't really happy with. I watched a presentation on intonation and got a better feel for why harmonics sound as good as they do. I watched the Philharmonia's presentation series on Bartok (I'm kind of a fan of Bartok) and got a better feel for where his rhythm came from by viewing the folk dance performances he was inspired by. I didn't end up with a folk dance though. I made a rhythm in F# almost like morse code and it helped me treat the composition like putting meat on the skeleton of the rhythm. After the melody was complete I was shocked at how bad it sounded compared as a string quartet to the piano version. So I shifted the one note rhythm octaves and forwards backwards fifths to get F# on B. I also ditched strings and did woodwinds and the flute and I think it sounded a lot more pleasant. That was better but the range of the melody was not taking good advantage of the pallet of instruments I could use. So it was a simple matter of selecting the notes in the piano roll for the melody and shifting them until they were in better agreement with a harmonic. The process from start to finish took about 4 hours.