On Sunday 18 December 2005 15:15, Dave Phillips was like: > Very ambitious stuff ! I'm currently listening to #3, so my comments > are a bit provisional at this point. Your composition skill is evident, > the piece hangs together well so far. You've obviously made extensive > use of your available materials, but that's also one of my primary > criticisms: like in my own stuff, the soundfonts just don't sound very > good. As I listen to the work I keep thinking how great it would sound > with better sounds. What you've used isn't godawful, it's just that the > composition strikes me as deserving a better realization. I'm wondering > how it might sound if the orchestral sounds were replaced by some > high-end GIG files played through Linuxsampler. Maybe a collaboration > could happen with one of the LS users on this list ? Absolutely, I couldn't agree more. The soundfonts are not ideal, for one thing I'm finding I want more control over the various parameters, which may push me towards realising the next piece using something like Csound. > ? The realism that can be achieved with modern sampling technology is > awesome. Some time ago a fellow Csound user posted a piece that used > samples that were so realistic I was sure he had the piece performed and > recorded, but I was told that all sounds were samples. > > ? Of course, you could also just sell everything you own, take a out a > personal loan at high interest, and hire a real orchestra to read > through your piece once. ;-) Actually, even everything I own probably won't even cover printing the score out. ;) Also, the piece would need completely rescoring to make it playable by a real orchestra, I have taken too many liberties with the sequencing and voicing. > ? So far, I give it 10 out of 10 points for your composition, 5 out of > 10 for the sounds. On to the next section... Thanks for that perspective, that tells me that I've achieved what I set out to do and the next stage of the learning curve is well mapped out. :) > ? And thank you for letting us hear more of your music ! :) And thank you for listening and providing such useful feedback. -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
