Hey thanks so much for listening and for the feedback!! You're absolutely right about the drumset, I don't usually use drumset as that kind of music isn't really in my wheelhouse, so I only had a few kits that came with Studio One. As for the long pauses at the end of the tracks, I went back and listened and... yeah those weren't meant to be there?? I left long pauses between tracks within my DAW, then when I made the bounces I trimmed them down to a few seconds max. So not sure how that happened. Yeah that's bad, there's some with like 30 seconds of silence... thank you for pointing that out so I can fix it, though there isn't anything I can do now.
for the drum set u can try using steven slate drums, which has a free version thats still quite a good library (tho i havent used it much myself) spitfire labs and piano book also both have some drum kits that r pretty good, tho not as comprehensive as steven slate drums
as for the silence, that is a bit strange. i do know that this often happens when u have reverb on stuff that leaves an inaudible tail that the daw still exports. so i sometimes do an automation on the master volume at the end of tracks to make sure that it goes to complete silence where i want it to end. maybe thatd work? o well, better luck next time ig lol. it didnt take away from the quality of the submission anyway
Thanks for the drum recommendation, I will have to give those a look! I might also be getting something with ComposerCloud that I haven't checked out yet...
And the weirder thing is, that's exactly what I did with each track! I faded the master volume down to zero... I think it's just something to do with how Studio One does bounces based on markers in the program, even though I thought I had adjusted everything for the final mixdown... but you're right, it's nothing to stress about!