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  • Fine Examples of Virtual Orchestra

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    I know, I'm talking Pre-VSL here. In a few years this thread will be VERY different [:)] but.....

    Does anybody knows like the title says, "Fine Examples of Virtual Orchestra handling".
    I'm talking about: Movie scores, backing orchestra on pop albums, new age CD's, Classical remakes etc. etc.

    Maybe this thread can be useful to people who want to hear stimulating or impressive examples of what is possible in the Fake Orchestra Buisness.

    Geert.

    P.s. The J. Goldsmith Demo is really what i'm talking about
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    it´s not fake! It´s virtual [:D]

    I bet the musicians who played at the recording sessions were "dang" real. [H]
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    @Netvudu said:

    it´s not fake! It´s virtual [:D]
    [...]


    Good point! :-]

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
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    did I step on someones toes here ??

    Ok, Ok SORRY for joking here, from now on I'll be DEAD SERIOUS [:@]

    Fake=Bad Virtual=Good

    In the effort you both made to redicul my honest and nobel request, it was better to save some lives, or prevent some car crashes. snif... or....
    Try to give some examples ... ts ts

    Forever yours,

    Geert.
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    I also reacted aversely to "fake," but it's not Geert's fault - it is the fact there is no nomenclature for this new kind of music.

    But Geert has brought up something important I wanted to know what people thought about - the use of this library for pure music instead of just a substitute for a live orchestra in budget-conscious TV/film music.

    I look at it from the standpoint of a composer writing with sound itself, instead of just symbols for sound. Also, similar to having a "pallette " of sounds, like a painter has a pallette of colors. I wish that it could get beyond the subsitute-for-the-real-thing concept, and become in people's minds what it really is - a means of "writing with sound."

    Also, concerning what one does with such a work - suppose you've created a very serious recording of a symphony, which I've done, entirely with samples. Where is this sold? How is this promoted? Do you show off the fact it is sampled, when you really want people to focus on the music? Do you sell it in classical music bins along with the live orchestra recordings? Then how do you list who played it? It seems to be problematic.

    Perhaps if there were a classical recording project, that was sponsored by a company? Or competitions, etc. But it would be good if there were a permanent outlet for such individual expression that is possible now with sampled orchestral music.
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    william, exactly !!

    Will there in the near future be an extra spot in CD stores which says:

    Classical\Virtual Classics

    or,

    Electronic\Virtual Orchestras

    The following can happen also,

    [talking to Salesguy]

    Do you have the Virtual recording of the Fourth Symphony of Brahms, Virtually conducted by Furtwangler?

    [Salesguy]

    Do you want the VSL or the Vitous version? Oh no, we don't have them in house at the moment, we only have: Virtual Mozart conducts the Virtual Beatles.

    [:)]

    Geert.
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    Virtual Furtwangler - sounds like a diseased organ.