Fantastic realisation, Jay: very well done indeed.

Incidentally I have the DVD of Cocteau's "La Belle et la Bête": what a wonderful film that is as well...

@herb said:

Another marvellous piece produced by Jay Bacal: ....

Hi Jay
Very well done!!! I already know your qualties...

...but I'm surprised at the room settings - how you did the mix with Altiverb?

The Strings sounds great. How did you manage them? A combination of Orchestra Strings and Solo Strings / Apassionata...? A special EQing? (I know you have an EQ-phobia - sorry [[;)]] ) Could you "unravel the secret(s)".

Once more: Thank you for taking time and your talent to show the prefences of VSL's samples.

Yours
Beat

jamriding - it seems something is wrong with the email address in your forum-profile. the nameservers are reporting: johnamriding.demon.co.uk does not exist
christian

Oustanding Jay - as usual. What - CBA for something other than 'bass doubling'???? [:D]

Just beautiful - no one gets close to VSL's ww's. I agree with Beat - shed some light on your mixing of the strings. For me, I am still having fits with VSL's strings.


Rob

This is really great. One of the very best pieces done with VSL, VI, anything. Jay has a real affinity for Ravel. And this is very significant, since Ravel and Debussy are to me the ultimate masters of orchestration. Their use of the orchestra is transparent, and of the utmost delicacy, with none of the thickness and crude layering of sound that samples are normally associated with. So it is remarkable that the VSL samples can do this ultimate test of orchestration perfection, in the hands of the Master-samplist Bacall. (Is that the correct term? We are inventing things here as we go, so I am not sure...)

Beautiful programing Jay! Your ear is in sync with what you do. Congratulation!

I just realized from that last post I'd better supply my credentials.

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www.williamkersten.com (website down - no money)

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Hahahaha, William: you really are a wit. Hahahaha; excellent stuff.

Jay, how did you find programming Ravel with all the infinite details as oppose to other composers? Was it more difficult?

Fine, fine work, BTW, Jay. Beautiful realisation.

Very pretty, very pretty, very pretty. Great sound.

Thanks everyone for listening and posting your reaction. Much appreciated!!

@Another User said:

how did you find programming Ravel with all the infinite details as oppose to other composers? Was it more difficult?

I am extremely interested in the colors of the orchestra and Ravel is perhaps the supreme colorist. So while it was a ton of work, it was mostly a pleasure. If anything it was perhaps easier since Ravel can achieve (as William notes) so much more with so much less. But I am cursed with the desire to make each performance more expressive than the previous, to wring an extra drop of emotion out of the cold hard samples. So each piece often takes more attention to detail than the previous. But I'm hooked on the challenge. If it ever becomes too easy, I'll probably lose interest. [:D]

Best,
Jay

Helo Jay,
Thanks for sharing your talent..Sometimes ago I posted a topic about a passage of Ravel's works I can't reproduce..so if you have some advice?!!

Is that possible to do the effect of harmonics like in the sonata for violin and cello from Ravel:
It's on the second part ( très vif) section 5 in 3/8 ( on my record it's at 35s from the beginning of this mvt. The harmonics on three strings of the cello.
I tried but I can't reproduce it , it doesn't do a beautiful background!
I upload the music passage and the scan of my partion (also the exept) at this adress:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/66krzc

Could be great to have an answer from a specialist or a lot of specialists

Best regards
Dup

BRAVO! Jay... and VSL! (...and Ravel, of course!)