Hi all, thanks for responses.
>couldn't what you said about the different attack rates of instruments actually be a help in keeping it from sounding quantized?
In theory yes, but in practise usually no, as it tends to make instruments sound a bit out of time with each other!
>In a live performance, wouldn't the strings attack be slower when played soft, and faster when played forte?
In general yes, though you can have fast-bowed quiet notes.
>the notation programme will let you listen to every single note correctly played in the correct place. It can be a revelation.
Absolutely - and getting back to Steffen's defence of the score as the traditional vessel through which orchestral musical ideas are expressed, clearly a perfect rendition of every nuance of a score can be a desirable thing. Computer-rendered scores are a great time-saver, if Steffen had played in every note by hand we'd still be waiting to hear the results!
>It is however perfectly possible to tweak every every aspect of the performace, indeed you can tweak every parameter of every note as much as you want. A good musician will create a good human performance.
Yes - however, I've found it impossible to 'create' a performance by tweaking a mechanically-rendered line; I have to first get it sounding half-decent by playing it in live, after which I can tweak the timing, note lengths, dynamics etc. (Maybe if I was a better programmer I could do the whole thing on screen without touching a keyboard?)
>couldn't what you said about the different attack rates of instruments actually be a help in keeping it from sounding quantized?
In theory yes, but in practise usually no, as it tends to make instruments sound a bit out of time with each other!
>In a live performance, wouldn't the strings attack be slower when played soft, and faster when played forte?
In general yes, though you can have fast-bowed quiet notes.
>the notation programme will let you listen to every single note correctly played in the correct place. It can be a revelation.
Absolutely - and getting back to Steffen's defence of the score as the traditional vessel through which orchestral musical ideas are expressed, clearly a perfect rendition of every nuance of a score can be a desirable thing. Computer-rendered scores are a great time-saver, if Steffen had played in every note by hand we'd still be waiting to hear the results!
>It is however perfectly possible to tweak every every aspect of the performace, indeed you can tweak every parameter of every note as much as you want. A good musician will create a good human performance.
Yes - however, I've found it impossible to 'create' a performance by tweaking a mechanically-rendered line; I have to first get it sounding half-decent by playing it in live, after which I can tweak the timing, note lengths, dynamics etc. (Maybe if I was a better programmer I could do the whole thing on screen without touching a keyboard?)