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  • User demo "Dance of the Firebird"

    Kevin Kliesch sent us his version of Stravinskys "Dance of the firebird".

    A very complex piece of music, but Kevin was able to programm it, only using two gigastudio setups.
    A detailed description you will find below.

    congratulations and thanks a lot Kevin.
    Herb

    Listen to the demo:
    http://vsl.co.at/demo_classic?DP_ObergruppeID=6&DP_GruppeID=22


    Programming notes by Kevin Kliesch:

    In particular, I used the performance
    set for all of the winds (legato mode). The brass was also the
    performance set, in repetition mode. The string pizzicati and staccatos
    were in alternation mode.

    What's interesting about the legato mode on the winds is that I didn't
    need to load in the trill samples. I just played the trill manually.

    I used two gigastudio 160's on the piece. I had 1 gig of RAM in one and
    768 mb in the other. I definitely pushed the memory to the maximum! The
    first machine was loaded up to 94% of capacity, and the other had 88%
    loaded in. Boy, those legato modes take a lot of RAM!

    Even with all of this going at once, the machines didn't choke much. At
    the end of the piece when the two glissandos happen back to back, the
    clarinets in particular seemed to get stuck by not having a note-off
    sent to them. I tend to think that this was a MIDI problem, though, and
    not a VSL problem. There was just so much data being thrown down the
    cable, I can understand why they choked.

    Anyway, enjoy the piece, and congratulations once again on an amazing
    piece of work. Can't wait for the pro edition!