the fact that there are plebes that listen to pop/rock on this site sickens me.
Landon Gomez
Is Karl Jenkins underrated? youtu.be/q_bJqv-epWE Every time I listen to him I feel like running through the african savanna naked Not many composers can do that
the opening of tannhauser is one of my favorite melodies ever
Jayden Stewart
I'm new to classical music, so I'm unsure of where to find something like this, but I'm wondering about contemporary flute concertos or contemporary music featuring flute.
Ryan Green
you can hear the pads in the recording what the fuck
Apparently it was James Joyce's favorite piece of music.
Jack Brooks
Trying to remember a piece which I believe starts on cello and then some high pitched eerie strings come in, it may be a quartet. It might have been used in some film but i'm not sure.
Jacob Stewart
>Herbert Kegel has a recording of Carmen
John Lewis
I've been looking for a piece written by a jewish composer thats about dreaming.
also can anyone recommend me some 'classic' or essential baroque operas? listened to a recording of dido & aeneas yesterday and i thought it was great and would like some more similar works
keyboard, guitar, cello (mediocrely), drumkit, voice, piva piemontese (poorly), penny whistle (poorly). I can technically play gamelan and koto as well, although I don't remember any of the koto notation. These days my main instrument is accordion though.
Began work scoring out my symphony, /classical/ - its a big project. The writing is 90% done (in DAW), but the actual score is the next step.
Mostly Martinů, a bit of Lilburn. Positive feel, lots of lydian, syncopated rhythms, lyrical melodies and lush orchestration is the main aesthetic, although it varies movement to movement. Its in 6 short movements, probably be about 25 -30 min long
Andrew Cook
what daw do you use?
Kevin Wright
A mediocre one that I'm used to and have worked with for 17+ years. (FL Studio) I have Kontakt 4 and 5 and bunch of nice sample libraries so it can at least get close to what I'm writing for.
At this stage for me a DAW is all about getting things done quickly and efficiently and hence I haven't moved to Cubase and may never unless I start doing a lot more film work.
Going back to Sibelius 6 and I'm noticing some really retarded things I would like to change - like the view jumping to the end of whatever you have selected every time you change zoom. Also jumping to the end of a whatever you just pasted. Both of these features I will try to disable as I'm doing a lot of copy-pasting (from a MIDI export from the DAW) and zooming while having a large amount of material selected. I know Sibelius well and hopefully I can turn these features off as they're slowing things down.
Juan Sullivan
>A mediocre one that I'm used to and have worked with for 17+ years. (FL Studio) you are me bro, I've been using it since 2005 I thought no one uses FL for classical excepting me, and I'm a weird nut because of this did you switch to FL 12? I didn't like it because it has a new EDM-oriented design, so I got Reaper instead
Dylan Morris
Nah I stuck to FL 11. I tend to put off changing programs as long as possible.
The mock-ups of my symphony are on my soundcloud if you want to have a listen: soundcloud.com/psllbof
They're way down the list after the million fugues - there's a "Symphony No.1 - Central Otago" playlist with 4 movements, although I have some changes planned for the 3rd movement (Better timpani parts that match the Song of Monk harp part)
Matthew Phillips
>The mock-ups of my symphony are on my soundcloud if you want to have a listen: not bad, but it all sounds too raw >Nah I stuck to FL 11. I tend to put off changing programs as long as possible. yeah, now I'm convinced you're literally me
Eli Taylor
also, what vst do you use for piano? is it pianoteq? c:
Levi Gomez
Piano is all done on Reason - its one of the Reason Piano Refills. One of the only reasons I use Reason is the decent piano samples in those refills.
Leo James
Holy shit! So you're that kiwi bloke who posted his soundcloud ages ago on /comp/. Keep on composing, fugueman.
Robert White
I suggest you try Pianoteq, it's quite amazing for a 20 Mb piano synth
Oliver Mitchell
Cheers, I'll check it out. The piano library I have at the moment is 580MB, but if PIanoteq has Steinway & Sons approval it's worth trying.
I just got some great organ libraries so likely the next fugue will be organ
Brayden Campbell
i played french horn as a teenager, now learning piano
Jaxson Sanchez
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream?
Ryder Wilson
Which version of Nabucco would you suggest?
Logan Young
I've recently decided to look for entirely synthesized instrument plugins, because I'm getting tired of humongous sample libraries Also, have you ever tried out the Synful orchestra? it's a full orchestral instruments synthesizer
Kevin Parker
How to fix the youth's attention span to music? I suggest forcefeeding them Bach and Mahler.
Cooper Brooks
Let them enjoy what they like. Who cares?
Evan Martinez
I do.
Camden Lopez
if you want a decent sampled piano, (and you don't want to pay money) you should go down the kontakt route.
i can recommend the following libraries: - Galaxy Vintage D (good all rounder. support for half and repedalling). there are a few newer releases by the same company, but they're not as nice as the vintage D. - 8dio legacy steinway 1928 - good, relatively warm, mic placement when the recording was done is not completely ideal from a playing perspective. it sits well in a mix, but the piano seems somewhat distant if you just want to sit down and play. -piano in blue - this is another steinway model d, recorded in its original studio where it was used on a number of notable jazz records. it's pretty good, as long as you're not using sustain for extended periods of time. it appears as if the the samples were run through tape introducing a relatively high noise floor. during periods of long sustain, with long notes, the noise build up can be very distracted.
the other option you have (to pay for) is: synthogy ivory range - neutral recordings, very versatile, generally considered more expressive than others.
other notable ones alicia's keys (which is better than the name suggests), the imperfect samples range (highly coloured - easy to slot into mixes, but not the greatest to play) and a number of other native instruments offerings.
Benjamin Bell
additional note: don't use the default reverbs for any of those. they're passable for when you're playing, but ideally you want to run through a good convolution reverb: altiverb is the industry standard.
Carson Morris
> a jew
Jeremiah Young
Daily reminder that if hitler had won, the only music that would exist today would be classical
samples betray their typewriter/snapshot characteristic with increasing speed of playing. pianoteq made them all obsolete. mics can be re-arranged in version 6 too. youtube.com/watch?v=sr86oHr7ZyE
Caleb Price
while i like pianoteq, it's far from a perfect physical simulation. it's superb from player perspective, not so much as a substitute for a real piano in a mix, imo.
Jayden Carter
No, but it is quite similar to that, I thought it might be another Bartok piece but I tried all his quartets and none seem to match.
genuinely interested: shouldn't a piano player have personality/style that he can put into his music? I don't get the use of these programs, because even if they sound perfectly like real pianos they will never have personality. I would rather listen to very basic stuff played by a human being than to advanced stuff played by a machine. So why don't use your time to learn to play on a real piano?
Jaxson Martinez
pianoteq has a lot of personality try it
Christopher Miller
>has a lot of personality that's my question: how can a machine have personality? it can emulate personality at best, like text-to-voice-software
i plan on trying to learn with this once i buy my piano
Landon Peterson
>I don't get the use of these programs, because even if they sound perfectly like real pianos they will never have personality what do you mean? real pianos also don't have "personality" unless you play them also, you can program them manually so they'll have personality, via a DAW. Playing like a performer or meticulously programming like a composer, which approach results in more personality?
Dylan Martin
yes, I mean if you play them. everyone who's ever programmed a piano track into a DAW knows that it's a pain in the ass. I like it much better to play directly on piano and record it, even if it has some flaws in the end. It sounds much more interesting because it was made by a human being.
Jeremiah Reed
it pre-calculates all the necessary parameters for damping, resonance or the microtuning of the unisono strings for each note, so that while the realtime synthesis is still a basic fourier series the expressional depth and coherence of the whole sound is much more nuanced than in previous synths or samples. additional realism comes from measuring real parameters on existing models. all explained here if you are interested in details google.com/patents/US7915515
Grayson Cruz
I know, it sounds like any real person is playing it, but it's only an emulation. It doesn't sound like one certain person is playing it. I find it boring to listen to something like that
Brody Jackson
I don't disagree. Actually, I have ADD and listening to Opera and long Symphonic works has certainly helped a lot.
