Magic Quadrant

[AndyR]

Thanks so much for your kind words.   I really appreciate it.  I am actually seriously considering getting a few pieces together and submitting them to a library or two, just to see what happens. It would be a blast if somebody gave me 20 quid for a piece of music!  I'll carry on doing a bit of research and see what happens. 

Yep, do it!

(Btw - I've put a question for you in the "taking the plunge thread" - I started it here, but it seemed more "on topic" there )

[Flash Harry]

Fab Paul, it's got a middle eastern feel, good choice of mode.

I like what you're doing with these libraries, I must keep away from them...

[Frank53]

This is great. Very creative composition and arrangement. Great use of samples and synth voices. Could definitely see this in the soundtrack of a sci-fi or suspense/action film.

[tonyc]

you always seem to get a fantastic sound paul . this tune is brill very catchy . top stuff ..... cheers tony cee

[pjd1]

The sound is very inventive and instantly likable when you hear the track , i have no idea who you use the samples through a keyboard i presume , but its very catchy and  inspiring to the ear , i am intrigued to know how you get on with the "libary" side of things and how all that stuff works .

Great stuff

Dunny 

[chapperz66]

The sound is very inventive and instantly likable when you hear the track , i have no idea who you use the samples through a keyboard i presume , but its very catchy and  inspiring to the ear , i am intrigued to know how you get on with the "libary" side of things and how all that stuff works .

Great stuff

Dunny

Hi Dunny
Yes you play them on a midi keyboard in pretty much the same way as any other software instrument - you open a track, put the vst instrument on it , select a sound and play it.  The only difference between an orchestral sample library and- say - a hammond organ vst is that many of the better orchestral libraries have lots of different articulations.  You don't just choose a first violin, you also choose from the available playing articulations like pizzicato, legato, col legno, sul pont etc.

Not being classically trained, all I usually do is play the violin parts using legato on one track. If I think the middle note would be better if it was pizzicato I copy the whole track onto another track and put a pizzicato sample on it, then delete all the notes except the one I want plucked.  Finally I go back to the first track and delete the legato note that I want to sound plucked.  Hours of fun!

Paul

[pjd1]

Thanks Paul that has opened another box for me to think about in the future, you get a great sound and the options must be endless in recording music , great stuff and thank you

Dunny 

[Johnbee]

Quite an impressive library you have there, and you use it well!

   John B

[thetworegs]

Excellent a spy movie for the blind loved it

[Mike_S]

Really inventive Paul... definitely lends itself to the world of intrigue and that takes some doing to create that feeling with music. Everything blended nicely together. Great stuff.

Mike