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Hello,
I used also Sibelius with VSL but for a few reasons I'm switching to Dorico as Expression Maps in Dorico 3.5 can lead to possibly better results than Sibelius (waiting for Andi's Dorico expression maps for Synchron-ized SE).
Macker, is a NotePerformer performance like the following one sounds still not very good to your ears?
Star Wars Suite-Note Performer 3
Best regards,
Gil.
However I wonder, being that you understandably prefer the final sounds to be those of VSL , why not start with VSL, why bother with NotePerformer?
When just entering notes, NP can be the quickest way to prelisten. It's light, requires no configuration, makes an expressive and musically meaningful playback. Immediately dealing with the final sounds sometimes forces you to lose time on the details, instead of completing the rough draft.
At the same time, lately I've been composing starting with VSL's BBO libraries. They are relatively light, very expressive, and inspiring. In that case, (when composing and not just transcribing), I find that having the right sounds under your fingers is mandatory.
Paolo
Paolo, your use of NP as a rapid-prototyping or rough-drafting tool makes sense to me. I've sometimes used synths for the same purpose - though not as a regular thing.
I guess you're not at all put off or distracted by NP's sounds, just as I'm not put off or distracted by synths. Alas, lol, I know I'd suddenly have to veer off-course to try to fix some weird-sounding articulation-change etc in NP, so it wouldn't serve me as it does you. But there we are, we each have our own ways. Oh and amen to your last sentence.
Paolo, your use of NP as a rapid-prototyping or rough-drafting tool makes sense to me. I've sometimes used synths for the same purpose - though not as a regular thing.
Yes, these things are like the old "let's try it at the piano". They let you hear a wireframe of the actual composition.
Paolo
… I still can't Identify with you in respect to first doing the framework on an inferior sounding library . I must be honest. I feel. Why compose on a rickety old piano if you have a Grand Steinway right beside you? I would say the Steinway has the right sound under your fingers.
Create-Compose,
The BBO libraries are ensembles. The Free Basic, Andromeda and Black Eye are Tutti, the others are separate sections. The most recent Phoenix and Quasar are solo percussion instruments, as a bridge toward the full Synchron collection. They are a bit particular, and more than as main libraries they are intended both as sketching tools, and as an additional source of great sounds.
I can only speak for me, as for the chosen composing process, but I adapt my workflow depending on what I'm doing. If it's transcribing/composing a piece of classical music, NP is a perfect pre-listening tool to let me immediately catch errors in the harmony, and devote my attention to details at a later phase. If it's a more textural piece I'm composing, the actual sound can't be replaced, and I have to use the sounds that are nearest to the desired ones.
Advanced sound libraries are very heavy. With the computing power advancement, things are going to be easier year after year. But at the moment even a powerful computer can have issues with full libraries, and all their dynamic layers, articulations, microphone channels, and modulation data streams. So much that an external computer connected to the main one, and exclusively devoted to samples, is still very much used in a professional context.
Paolo
I've just downloaded Reaper trial version. Looks interesting. I see it is connected to Sibelius. Iv'e managed to make it open Sibelius with Rewire, but that's as far as I got. Is there a video that describes step by step how to import all tacks from a Sibelius score in midi to be able to work on them in Reaper? By the looks of it is is not as complex as I expected.
Thank you .
Hi Paul
thanks for your suggestion re. plugin, I am looking into this now. Couldn't open your youtube link
as it said it was private. Possible to get the link that works?
regards
Dan
Hi Dan
The video link I posted is now out of date, as the plugin has been updated to version 1.2, and as such I've hidden it as some of the functionality in that video has been improved.
You'll find some info on the developer's website Here,
Fair disclosure moment!
I'm a huge fan of this plugin, and since my original post, I have become a reseller for this plugin through my website
To avoid any forum rule-breaking the link above is to Santiago Barx's website not my own.
Have fun with it mate, as it's brilliant!
Kindest regards
Paul
Hallo again..
I've been looking at the VSL's BBO libraries, are they all Tutti?
No. see image below, Ganymede (Choir); take eg, bass out of the picture, there's no bass voices.
The thing about notation is, notation is a shorthand to give to performers. What we do in a DAW is literally the duration we specify, not a suggestion to someone that's going to handle that in performance. Notion is a kind of hybrid of where there is the bars visual to stretch or shrink for actual durations. I don't know about this other thing, afaik it's Notion under a new name, but Notion did not have the sounds for what I wish to do and it's not a thing for me anyway for some time.
