[[:|]] What did you trade!?
Just speaking of Sakura Concertino for a minute, I told Guy the first time I heard this that as a performance, and in terms of the musicality of the piece this one in that and many other ways really does excell among his demos as much as I love the others, it just feels very finished and complete, but what really got me was the string "sound" he achieved, it's really fantastic in my opinion, and despite the fact that I and many others have attributed good string sounds as being down to the mix I can saftley say that Guy proved me very wrong in this case, because those strings came to me sounding just awesome, and I found the best I could do was make sure I didn't take away from that sound rather than create it - so I was wrong, it is largely down to orchestration, use of the string sounds, and in this case, the mix itself was really just a necessary completion of the sound but not responsible for it. That hollywood string sound at the end, I just hope anyone who listens to the piece listens right through and hears that final string theme because it's 'sound' is really a milestone for virtual orchestration and it is certainly one of many sounds that I know people have been trying and wanting to achieve for some time but never succeeded like this. For me in this peice the strings are as much a feature as the Harp in fact in terms of what I am listening to.
Miklos.
