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All of the compositions were made with a program named Reason created by the Propellerheads company. Reason is a software studio, comprising samplers (used to mimc real instruments or to import and recorded sound, synthesizers for emulating the sound generators of early electronic music, and a sequencer, which records the information needed to play the samplers and synthesizers.

All the sounds you hear in each composition, even if they sound similar to a violin, cello or piano, were played with a keyboard using samples of real instruments. While the samples in Reason can't duplicate the sound of the 'real' instruments, to me the Reason sounds have their own character and attraction.

Flash Programming Information:

.xml
The song titles and information are loaded by the player from an .xml file that resides on the server along with the .mp3 files of the music. XML is one of a variety of text formats that are used to feed information between programs. XML can be read by Flash, Dreamweaver and even Microsoft used XML as the basis for its file format in the latest version of the Office suite.

XML is helpful for a Flash program that needs to access information that changes frequently, such as the music in a player or the images in a gallery, because rather than having to change the Flash file itself if you add more music or pictures, you can simply edit the .xml file in any plain text editor.

MP3 Compression
".mp3" is a common "lossy" music format, meaning that in order to make the file size smaller, it 'loses' information, so that what you hear in an ".mp3" is a recording that has been reduced in quality in order to balance quality with file size.