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  • A short piece for Horizon Solo Strings

    It started life as a keyboard improvisation, then I divided it into four parts and scored it for string quartet. Rendered in GS3 with GigaPulse (two instances). Comments of any kind are most welcome.

    http://www.buist.org/david/StringQuartetteVSLGP.mp3
    (playing time: about 1 min; file size: 2MB)

  • Very nice piece. I like the voice leading. Some of the higher violin passages are a little revealing of samples but compositionally, this is a very nice piece.

    Great work!

  • Good piece. Compositionally, I might add more interest in the viola, 'cello -- many places where one might imitate the violins, or reflect on their gestures... Sonically, it has some of the same problems that my use of vsl solo strings plus gigastudio gpulse has -- a kind of metallic, or glassy, area in the harmonics of the higher violin notes. It's also odd, at about 1:11, how the timbre of the cello resonance changes. Is this a new articulation, or a change in the gigapulse parameters?

  • Thanks everyone for listening, and especially to dcoscina and Gugliel for your comments. Certainly the higher notes of the violin can sound a little excessively bright at times. Actually, I should mention that I EQed the violins -- the first and second differently in an attempt to make them sound like different instruments. Different EQ settings might help. And, as you say Gugliel, gigapulse adds its own colouring too. Some adjustments there might also help.

    I cannot hear the change in the cello timbre you mention at 1:11. The only thing at that point is that the viola takes over the leading line (very briefly). Is it perhaps the viola you are hearing, not the cello? If so, is it a problem with the panning making the viola sound as if it is in the place of the cello? I used the same GP instance for both the cello and viola, but with different position settings in the mixer.

    My next idea for experimentation with this piece is to play around with the tuning (a la Gugliel). I would imagine that this would contribute significantly to producing a more authentic solo string sound.

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