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

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