To Rob Elliott ,

There's only one word to sum up the "Journey To Greatness" piece, and your programming of it: PERFECT!!!

Wow - that's a very nice thing to say . This was a nice departure from a christmas album I am currently in the middle of (not sure if I will ever like Christmas music again [] )

Seriously - I really love this special brass - I knew the trpts-6 would be incredible for these types of soaring lines. What I didn't expect to fall in love with was the cornet!!! So expressive and playable - it is NOW in my template.

Thanks again for your nice comments.


Rob



edit: As usual - so good Guy and Beat. Guy, love the harmonic language on the Blues piece- of course the Cornet shines on this one. On the Superhero, how are you doing the Brass rep's - with the rep patches? Very convincing.

Beat - the trombone on Handels sound very nice (honesty haven't even gotten to that instrument yet.) Your strings programming is spot on. ops:

Wish you were in SLC to watch you 'program' something like this. The variety of articulations is seemless.

Rob- You have a real knack for the noble. Excellent piece.

Guy-- I love that vintage arrangment sound you get in "Blues and Cadenza" Reminds me of one of those great ballad albums from people like Sinatra in the 50's. Very lovely composition.

Beat-- As Rob mentioned the baroque string work on the Handel is terrific.

Keep sharing!

Best,
Jay

They are the a6's and the cornet mixed on top.


Rob

It is? Damn you! Some of us have attempted this but you're demo is the first to truly successfully showcase these trumpets. I could see in what context they work good, and a great piece of music as well. I'll take my British accent and say: "Well done!"

To answer your question it was most often upbeat rep, but sometimes perf rep.

Jay and Rob,

Thanks, I enjoy writing in that style and as Jay pointed out I did want to make it more retro, I even came close to adding brushes but preferred not to.

And 'organ'! []

Great stuff Rob. Brilliant showcasing of the trumpets!

Thanks Guy. I think you are right - heroic/ noble style of music is well suited to the trpts.

Christian and Craig - thanks also for you nice comments.

Rob

What's an Euphonium?

kidding.... []

I thought there was at least one demo of it.

I'm a brass player, trombone specifically, so I'm very picky about brass. These demos blew me away! Rob, I commented about your piece on V.I. Index but I have to underline how friggin' amazing your piece is. Love your harmonic choices and more importantly how you voiced the brass chords.

I was looking at getting the full sax library from VSL (I'm a lowly Vienna SE guy thus far) but these demos have changed my future spending choice. Awesome library Herb, Dietz, and Christian!

Excellent demos. Guy continues to demonstrate a huge range of composing chops. Beat Kaufman's was excellent and I really liked the theme on the Rob Elliot piece.

By the way, there was a mention of the euphonium. That is a tremendous set of samples, and I didn't even think of no vibrato being a problem, since the tone quality and detail is beautiful. That guy is an awesome player! The legato is wonderful, but also, the basic sustain euphonium is all perfectly looped, 4 velocity and goes way down in the range. Was that stretched? - if it was it still sounded perfect - but there may be some pedal tones in there. Anyway it is an awesome sound for that beautiful conical-bore, mellow upper-mid-range tuba timbre.