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  • E.Elgar op.20+58+70 - Sy-Str. with EQ-Experiment - "back to original Signal"

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    Here are three Compositions for Stringorchestra by Edward Elgar.

    Two aspects were interesting for me:

    1) Slow very expressive movements:

    E.Elgar (1857-1934) is a tremendous Composer for melancholic singing very expressive late romantic Stringorchestra and ethereous slow movements which is a nearly completly different task to program than the more lively compositions I programmed before (As it seems to me an idiom often very close to some cinematic Sterotypes). Meanwhile I don't have any "cinematic" ambitions at all I still hope I haven't done it to ugly.😐

    2) Set back the EQ's towards the presumably more original recorded Stringsound

    His often very light ensemble-Sound made me experiment with the inbuild EQ's and guess what. I found that the default setting of all those cute little EQ's in each Microphone channel of the 1.+2. Violins, Violas and Cellos.has until now always damped all Bands for the lower ranges just a different amount for different instruments but all raised the 5th band for the high ranges notably.  So I just took the 5th Band back to 0db and if I am right this would bring me the stringsound nearer to the Ratio of the original recorded sound.  This might be insteresting since in some threads the very light character of the Synchron-'String-sound was discussed. This could be an explanation. However for Elgar it seems to me appropriate to balance Elgars penchant to light stringsounds with moderating the inbuild EQ-emphasize of the higher Ranges. This does not change the in my opinion pretty attractive characteristic String-overtonestructure of those Samples but it tempers their domionance a bit.

    So here are the three Compositions by Edward Elgar recorded with Synchron Strings I (Divisi with Synchronized Chamberstrings):

    - Serenade op.20 (a Part of the Larghetto has been already discussed in another Mix in a previous Thread here)

    - Elegy op.58 (the composition should be played completly con sordino, I used the LPF12 =0 to get that effect)

    - Sospiri op.70 (demanded are both con sordino and senza sordino - again realised with LPF12-Settings)

    (Again those are not "Demos" in any sense of the word. They are just another step for me of exploring and becoming familiar with the Library and its new Player - instead of judging - and of course fuirther Steps like that will follow 😊)