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    HE HE , thats funny !!


    I'm trying to get to Igrohn's point. He's been pushing this issue for a while now.
    not sure if its clear yet. It does involve string quartets. Maybe I'll learn somthing.
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    I recently recorded a MIDI version of my string quartet, The Amazing X-Ray Machine using the new Solo Strings with VI interface. It's fantastic... I still have to learn how to squeeze even more expressiveness out of it.


    Any comments would be appreciated. Here's the link:

    http://garyeskow.com/audio%20/X-RAYPIZZ.aiff
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    I liked the piece but not all the sounds. In one place the vibrato of the solo violin was very unnatural. The worst sounds came from the low solo cello near the end. Of course, the main problem I wrote about above is not so bad when using quick tempos. But those long notes...
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    Thanks a lot for the quick reply! Do you think the problem with the violin lies in a poor choice by me? Is there something I could have done to avoid it?

    agains, thanks much

    Gary
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    @lgrohn said:

    But my original claim was that it is not possible to choose e.g when the string instrument plays cis or dis. It should be freely selectable for all notes. That is not possible at the moment for any system, not even for VSL. That is the main reason that software instruments can't emulate string quartet playing. Articulation and style matters are, of course, also important but that was not my point this time.


    Noticed my mistake. Should have been "cis od des" ...
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    please define "cis od dis." I don't know that term!
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    cis od des!
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    @lgrohn said:

    But my original claim was that it is not possible to choose e.g when the string instrument plays cis or dis. It should be freely selectable for all notes. That is not possible at the moment for any system, not even for VSL. That is the main reason that software instruments can't emulate string quartet playing. Articulation and style matters are, of course, also important but that was not my point this time.


    Noticed my mistake. Should have been "cis od des" ...

    OK
    C sharp or D flat
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    @lgrohn said:

    OK
    C sharp or D flat


    Aha, Db the favorit key for tenor sax...

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    Interpreting the discussion I must decide, that Software Instruments seem not to be on the level needed for presenting string quartets properly. Pity ...
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    Well of course.

    The day that string samples or virtual instruments surpass the finest string quartets in the world will be a sad day indeed.

    Get real.

    Clark
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    Yes indeed. But at the moment software instruments can't properly even mock up string quartert because of the fatal flaw.

    The real string quartets do a lot of work for dedicing when to e.g. C sharp or D flat etc.

    You can't do freely the selection with the software instruments I know. There are microtunings etc. but they work only globally. In ideal case it should be possible to use sequencer's e.g. matrix representation for "tuning" string quartet sounds.
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    The day a calculator can play a string quartor, is the day I exchange my wife with a inflatable women!

    Well, it's very early in the morning, I excuse myself in advance for that one...

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    @Angelo Clematide said:

    The day a calculator can play a string quartor, is the day I exchange my wife with a inflatable women!

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    And I will do the other way round.
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    @mathis said:

    And I will do the other way round.


    Is that you on the beach in Denmark:

    http://joergklein.jo.ohost.de/images/1874_beachDK.jpg

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    @mathis said:

    And I will do the other way round.


    Is that you on the beach in Denmark:

    http://joergklein.jo.ohost.de/images/1874_beachDK.jpg

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    Angelo, that is funny, lol.

    Mathis,
    i didn't realise you were that old!

    [:P]
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    This little comix was probably the initial inspiration to "Einstein on the Beach"

    [:)]
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    @Angelo Clematide said:

    This little comix was probably the initial inspiration to "Einstein on the Beach"

    [:)]


    I think the altitude up there in beautiful Switzerland is doing you much good, with a sense of humour like that......

    Regards,

    Alex.

    [:P]
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    @mathis said:

    And I will do the other way round.


    Is that you on the beach in Denmark:

    http://joergklein.jo.ohost.de/images/1874_beachDK.jpg

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    HAHAHA [:D] You crack me up, Angelo!
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    @hermitage59 said:

    I think the altitude up there in beautiful Switzerland is doing you much good, with a sense of humour like that......


    Auf dem Berg - On the Mountain

    by Carlo Eduardo Lischetti (1946-2005)
    artist, painter, universal artist, old pal of mine.

    http://www.container-tv.ch/onmountain.htm

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