[LAU] Coral - music from Studio D

[Rui Nuno Capela]

On 06/26/2015 02:58 AM, Dave Phillips wrote:
>
> On 06/25/2015 06:33 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
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>>
>> 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.
>

sorry Dave, Coral.mid has no other tempo information but the initial 48 
bpm (1250000 at 960tpqn)...

bitwig is probably scaling events along the timeline, hard-coding 
ritardandos

just my 2c diag.
-- 
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela