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Portfolio

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Commissions

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About Me!

David Karsten is a music composer, arranger, and orchestrator. Born and raised in Indonesia, David fell in love music since he was sitting on Senior High school and decided to continue his study at Pelita Harapan University, majoring in Music Theory and Composition under tutelage of Dr. Johannes Sebastian Nugroho and Renardi Effendi. David also joins a production house called Ruang Produktif as a Head Composer, specializing in film scoring, video games, and commercials and has scored some commercials ads for major brand such as Intel, Wacoal, Laurier, M231, Bank BRI (Majoo x Raya), and helped as an assistant composer on a movie called "Jentaka". David loves to arrange video game soundtrack such as Pokémon, and has written numerous arrangement for that title which you can listen to all of them on Spotify and his YouTube channel, "drazorleaf". If you want to know my gear, please click here for more details.

Gear List:

Hardware

1. AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Processor, 3.9 - 4.2 GHz.
2. GEIL Luce 32GB DDR4 RAM
3. Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Graphic Card
4. WD Blue 2TB HDD Storage
5. KLEVV 512GB SSD Storage
6. Behringer UMC202HD Audio Interface
7. Recording Tech RT-5 Monitor Speaker
8. M-Audio Keystation 61 MK3 MIDI Controller

Software

1. Presonus Studio One 6 Professional
2. Spitfire Audio BBC Symphony Orchestra Pro and BBCSO Piano Pro
3. Spitfire Audio Appassionata Strings
4. Spitfire Audio Eric Whitacre Choir
5. Spitfire Audio Hammers
6. Spitfire Audio Abbey Road One Orchestral Foundations
7. Spitfire Audio Albion Colossus
8. Spitfire Audio Olafur Arnalds Chamber Evo
9. Spitfire Audio British Drama Toolkit
10. Spitfire Audio Originals! Epic Choir, Cimbalom, Drumline, Felt Piano, Firewood Piano, Soft Piano.
7. Orchestral Tools Ore and Arbos
8. Pianobook Hearth and Hollow
9. Pianobook Tape Rooms
10. u-he Zebra2
11. UVI 8-bit Synth
12. Audiothing miniBit
13. NES VST
14. NI Komplete 14 Ultimate

Portfolio

Here are some of my portfolios, including arrangement, Commercial Ads Scoring, and others.

Commissions

Commissions is divided into two categories. Request Commissions and Custom Commissions. Request commissions is a premade service where you can request a track to be arranged and/or orchestrate by me. It's available on Buy me a Coffee platform and the limitation of this service is that I have the creativity freedom to orchestrate/arrange your requested track due to reduced price. Custom commissions consists of several services including Composing, Mixing and Mastering, Arranging, Orchestrating for your needs (Film, Video Games, Commercial Ads, etc). The price might be varied due to complexity, duration, and client needs. Please contact me for inquiry and quotation.

Request Commissions

Request Commissions is available on Buy me a Coffee platform. A premade service for those who want me to arrange certain soundtracks. As I said, the limitation is that you grant me a creative freedom to arrange/orchestrate your requested tracks. I offer three services which you can take a look on the BMC Commission page.

Custom Commissions

I offer several services ranging from Composing, Arranging, Orchestrating, Mixing and Mastering. Custom commissions is very suitable for those who wants a detailed and personalized music. To see the range price for each services, please click the rate card button below. If you're interested to use custom commission, please contact me on Telegram, and we'll discuss it further.

Terms and Conditions

BMC Request Commission.

1. This is a request Commission. By commissioning me, you are agreed to give me a creative freedom to arrange and orchestrate your requested song/music
2. No deadline specified. But usually, I work for 10-14 days (except for live recording, which might take 1 month or more)
3. I have right to refuse some requests. Refund will be processed asap.
4. The product will be delivered digitally. No physical products.
5. No refunds can be offered after commission has been fully completed.
6. You may use the music in your video, stream, etc, and monetize it. No audio-only video type upload.
7. You are not allowed to upload it to digital distribution.
8. I only allow 1 minor revision. Minor revision includes tempo changes, key changes, small audio error fixes.T&C might change in the future.