[LAU] Coral - music from Studio D

Will Godfrey willgodfrey at musically.me.uk
Fri Jun 26 08:22:57 UTC 2015


On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:58:39 -0400
Dave Phillips <dlphillips at woh.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> On 06/25/2015 06:33 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips at woh.rr.com 
> > <mailto:dlphillips at woh.rr.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     Four instances of the Angelina synthesizer, a Windows VST plugin.
> >     I use it Bitwig via the Airwave utility. Two instances use the
> >     same preset, the other two run two other presets.
> >
> >
> > For once I'm going to be the Debbie Downer. I liked the composition 
> > but really didn't like the "voicing". I found it to be "trying hard to 
> > be vocal, but missing by a country mile without any apparent awareness 
> > that it was doing so, and thus not playing to the strengths of the synth".
> >
> > Usually love your stuff though Dave, and the composition remains strong.
> >
> 
> That's the second time today that I've encountered the qualifier "Debbie 
> Downer", once in realtime conversation and now here, though in different 
> contexts. How bizarre.
> 
> I always appreciate the honest appraisal. However, in my admittedly weak 
> - pitifullly weak - defense, the SC page includes the disclaimer :
> 
>      "Fake choral music."
> 
> Well, okay, it's no defense at all. I admit I liked the sounds, just 
> please don't cancel my subscription to Ardour, okay ?
> 
> I've placed the MIDI file online here :
> 
>      http://linux-sound.org/midfiles/Coral.mid
> 
> Let the revoicing begin.
> 
> Btw, the original tempo is 48 bpm, slowing to 35 bpm during the last 
> three chords.The file was exported from Bitwig, so I loaded it back into 
> the program to see how well it would import its own exported file. It 
> got the tracks right but didn't import the tempo information. I loaded 
> the MIDI file into my antique DOS sequencer, it got the tracks and tempo 
> but not the ritardando. Today's build of A4 got the tracks, not the 
> tempo. So whatever sequencer you're using, good luck with all that.
> 
> Best,
> 
> dp


Challenge accepted! :) 

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.


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