Thanks Colin!

I found Guy's demo very helpful, sonically luxurious and musically inspiring. What reverb is that on the solo instruments Guy?

Conquer,

I used SD Schubert Hall, 17.5 M, I like the sound of it, but often as soon as I say that I'm off to a different one.

Apotheosis - very good sound. Well done.

The bass flute sound - could be of a great deal of interest.

thanks for the kind words. great pieces everyone!

hi jay - i trained on the instrument but i'm not really an organist anymore. these pieces were worked up for performance many years ago so it was intuitive to just play in the manual parts. i don't keep my pedal controller hooked up anymore so those lines had to be played separately (which made things more difficult if anything).

hi william - indeed the konzerthaus organ is extraordinary and as you say, registration is an important part of the art. the bach was obviously straight forward but duruflé, like many french composers, called for specific stops as a part of the score. in the end, every stop in the library was used and enclosed divisions had to be simulated for the choir and swell dynamics. because every stop was done individually the working file took the same form as a very large orchestral piece; just over a hundred tracks with couplers.

Thanks Guy. 'SD Schubert Hall, 17.5 M' - is that a Sound Designer preset? Can't find it in my Logic IR list.

@Conquer said:

Thanks Guy. 'SD Schubert Hall, 17.5 M' - is that a Sound Designer preset? Can't find it in my Logic IR list.

Sorry, got confuse for a sec here, it's ALTIVERB not SD.

great set of demos [:D]

Very good work by everyone and what a treat to hear such a sophistated work by a serious minded 17 year old. I'm anxious to see William's instrument list. Some of that low brass stuff was just killin'.

thanks Dave and Dave

The low brass was normal, 3 trombones and tuba. But one thing I have started doing since hearing about DVZ is maintaining strict player numbers. this piece had a lot of unisons going to chords, so I used for the 4 parts tuba, bass trombone, solo trombone, and trombone ensemble, treating each one as if it was only one instrument. So if they came together on a unison, you still heard the 6 players total, and if they each played a separate note, you still heard 6 players. The same with horns, which had only two parts, with a lot of unison, but I used epic - 8 - horns and when they split went to orchestral 4 on separate tracks since they were all legato.