I personally find this a much better use of VSL samples than creating sampled renditions of masterworks, but each to their own.
Hi Dave, indeed, each to their own. I personally like the efforts people do to create renditions of masterworks. It is a way (not the only one) to explore the possibilities of making music with samples. For people it can be also a way to play and work with the music that they love (and have the access to the sound of all the wonderful instruments of a whole orchestra for this). Perhaps we can compare it in a way with the quatre mains culture of the nineteenth century, where people were playing the symphonies of Mozart in their homes at the piano (just a thought that comes now in my mind). And for them that was most of the time the only way to hear them. Because: when could somebody hear a symphony of Mozart??.. But they played the music and had a lot of fun.
And the work that Steffen does is something I appreciate very much. Much of his renditions wouldn' t be heared in this time, when he didn't do that work.
And so we go on. (For me it is still always something very special, you living in the USA, I live in the Netherlands, and we see and hear something of each other on a regular basis...) Greetings!