@composers
I mentioned here before that I've only used #MIDI to check my work while #composing, and never to make a presentable mock-up of a piece, much less a finished product. But now I'm working on something for #chorus and #orchestra, for which a demo might be useful. (And might be the only recording there is, if this monster never gets performed.) So I'm in need of advice from #composers who have more experience with #VST and such.
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@composers
I'm scoring in #Sibelius, and using the #Noteperformer sounds for playback. Overall, the instrumental sounds are surprisingly good, and even the vocal sounds are tolerable, though of course they don't sound like humans singing words. (I don't think there's any solution for the spoken parts.)
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There are just a few things that really bug me. Tremolos, especially. Instead of an unmeasured, sustained sound with some added intensity, buzz and shimmer, tremolos for string sections come out as an awkward beat subdivision, executed extra staccato in total rhythmic unison.
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And marimba tremolos, instead of 4-mallet chords gently sustained by rolling the wrists, are the same awkward simultaneous repeated attack, impossibly staccato, as if executed by perfectly coordinated woodpeckers.
Does anyone out there know a way around these issues? I'd like to keep things as simple as possible, and I'm sure other people have solved these problems before. Thanks!
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David McMullin
Doug MacDonald