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  • Sarabande for D - Synchron Player

    This piece for strings and harp was composed for a friend who was dying. Remixing it for the new Synchron Player greatly improved things.

    https://soundcloud.com/marnest-1/sarabande-for-d-synchron-player

    Thanks for listening!

    --Mark Arnest


  • Hi Mark

    a rather late response to your post. I just got to listen to your piece.

    I thought it was a good composition, very melancholic.

    In terms of feedback the only thing that stands out is the attack and release of the strings, which sounded unnatural to me, both in the normal and Synchron versions. The attack/release is really the 'Turing test' for realism as it is hardest to reproduce. I am sure you were aware of this as well and there must be ways to make it sound more natural you can explore....by more precisely controlling the dynamics. VSL samples are very flexible this way. 

    Otherwise its a very nice short clip of music. This will sound wonderful if played by a good orchestra.

    Cheers

    Anand


  • Thanks for your kind yet honest words, Anand. Yes, I definitely need to put in some more work on the production, with tracks soloed, etc. I haven't, because this piece already contains an enormous amount of labor that doesn't show up in the final result, namely:

    • Because the person who inspired it was dying, I produced an earlier version, and then subsequently revised the piece inside the sequencer. (More labor-intensive than doing it in the notation program, which of course also had to be done); and

    • It was originally produced on the first, incomplete version of Synchron Strings; and

    • It was later revised with the complete-but-still-Vienna-Instrument version of Synchron Strings; and

    • It was revised yet again with the Synchron Player. Many of the revisions consisted of pulling out old CC11 control changes that had been inserted to control the attacks and releases; but there are still quite a few CC11s that need to be added in different places ...

    So I need a little more time to forget about all that, and then hopefully I will do the composition justice!

    Thanks for listening.

    --Mark


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