I'm interested in rendering some organ works electronically. The first step of course is to get the music in the computer, e.g. in MIDI format. The piece I'm working on you can see at http://www.xmission.com/~fugalh/in_dulci_jubilo.pdf I can play this piece well enough. I don't have a MIDI pedalboard but the pedal line is easy enough to add later. But as you can see the music is in multiple voices, and I would like to instrument each voice differently. I have tried recording them one at a time, in an ensemble style, but even when I follow a metronome it ends up sounding like trash. I have decided that either I need to work on my ensemble playing or I am going about it the wrong way. Maybe I should just record the manuals and try to separate out the parts into separate tracks as a post-processing task. That's going to be a problem when I try to do something else that requires more than one manual since I only have one MIDI keyboard. Also, as much as I'd like to, I don't have the time to learn each piece I'd like to render to the point of perfect performance like I have this one. What do you all do in this situation? The same issues naturally apply to other styles of music as well, e.g. choral or orchestral. -- De gustibus non disputandum est.
