[LAU] Music made with linux: Or how an infinite number of monkeys came up with this.

Julien Claassen julien at c-lab.de
Tue Nov 2 05:22:17 UTC 2010


Hello Andrew!
   I suppose improving your brass - and woodwinds - is due to playing. You 
might distribute your brass across the stereo spectrum. If you have chords 
break them up, not in the middle, but in a nested sort of way, something like:
C G
eb c
   If you want it even more lively than that, when changing chords, do it not 
all at once - if it feels good at the time -, but drag the notes one by one. 
Or when you hit the new chord, start with a sus4 and from there go to the 
minor chord.
   I found the staccato clarinet part in Infinte nice. It sounded real. perhaps 
it was just played as a real clarinet player would do it.
   Oh another short thought: I think you had a lot of octaves in the brass, 
avoid them a bit more. I can't help myself, but especially when sampled 
libraries are used, this sounds extra canned.
   These are just thoughts, opinions I gained by simple experience over time. 
They may not really fit your bill or there maybe other better suggestions. I 
suppose mainly it comes down to: Think of what the instruments can play and 
how they'd do it and roll with it.
   Kind regards
           Julien

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