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    all TV and Film music sounds like VSL samples [:)] héé did I hear that tremolo Cello sample.....?

    oops !

    When everybody got his ordered package and it sounds and acts like promised, it could become awfully quiet in here.

    [:D]

    Geert.
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    Technology marches on.....20 years back or so, EVERY pro had to have a DX7...now the expectations are (already, with Vitous/Garritan etc) that oerchestral music sounds authentic. Excellent musicians will do excellent work with VSL, but if you want to stay ahead, the samples alone won't do it.

    Hmmm...maybe I'll just start using my Kawai K1 as principal sound machine again...now that would be radical!

    [[;)]]

    Nigel
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    maybe it's cool to say:
    Well I waited whole my life for something to appear like VSL, now it's here i'm not going to use it, no I'm switching to Country music.

    [[:|]]

    Geert.
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    I see what you're saying, that as soon as we obtain perfect samples that then we will turn to completely artificial sounds. Yes, I can see that happening as the ultimate irony in this field. (After all, Bob Moog has just released a new pure analog synthesizer. Now that is a classical instrument in itself.)

    But on the other hand, I can also see something happening I wished had happened long ago - that the use of sampled sounds would stop being a technological marvel, and instead become a way a composer can do pure composition and orchestration. When you do those honestly, the playing field suddenly becomes much smaller. You actually have to know something about orchestration, and actually have to have a good melody or harmonic idea, instead of doing "that digital sampler sort of stuff." I think the whole focus should be upon the creation of pure music on a high artistic level, instead of acting as if you are extremely "cool" because you have the latest state of the art sampler equipment. It would be wonderful if this library would be the last one you had to purchase, because it actually created the true sound of the orchestra. Then you could just COMPOSE! What a concept!
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    William, that's a good and noble sentiment - maybe we CAN become less "gear heads" and more *musicians*.

    Every era has its sound and fashions: I remember hearing an old Commordores track on the radio a while back- I was fascinated by the direct, dry, cymbal: you could SEE the guy playing!

    If our musical intention has no need to be disguised by tons of reverb, over-use of polyphony or any other tricks, perhaps we can have a shorter,purer chain from inspiration to creation.

    Nigel