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1.NEW Synchron Woodwinds 12/16/2021 5:24:34 PM

Just watched a review and run through of the Syncron Woodwinds and it looks and sounds great. Highly recommended.

2.Apple sucks! 8/27/2019 12:15:35 PM

 

Providing you're not into insanely huge templates, (I don't ever use a template, alwasy start from scratch), I would recommend an iMac Pro linked to something like an Apollo Twin or Quad. 

3.Understanding Phillip Glass 3/1/2018 9:27:45 PM
Minimalists are always the antipathy of anything that involves melody. Comparisons of two extremely differing genres could be construed as futile.

The kind of changing pattern based constructs will seem two dimensional to many but sometimes the mathematical effect of this kind of music can be hypnotic.
4.Understanding Phillip Glass 2/28/2018 4:24:32 PM
You're all wrong and you all need to study what Glass and Reich have achieved in their chosen genre. No, I can't sit there and listen to it all on a regular basis. And there is plenty that could be called the Emperors New Clothes. But these guys more or less invented a style of music. I had to give all this stuff a listen once before embarking on a stylised version of their form of minimalism.
You may not like it, but it's good at what it does.
5.Synchron Strings I 1/14/2018 6:25:16 PM

I think this library sounds very good. Good luck to all the chaps at VSL. I just had quite a few old tracks I did some time ago using predominantly VSL App strings ect on the BBC, I was happy to see, and I think this library will take writers like me onto another sound quality level when the VSL Sync player gets sorted.

 

Cheers.

6.The alchemy of the art revealed... 6/26/2017 4:44:16 PM

The main difference between film writers from the 1930s through to the early 1970s is the fundemental understanding of harmonic structure and the build up of an orchestral score. 

Sometimes the score can be very sparce and effective, and sometimes it can be full blown and very effective. 

There's an argument that these old style scoring methods are not relevent in the 21st century. Indeed, they probably haven't been relevent since the mid 1980s. John Williams actually revitalised the orchestra in the 1970s for a while. He was very influenced by classical works and did not mind borrowing from them. A lot of his scores were also influenced by army band music. Quite strident at times and very much 2/4 march time. What he really excelled at was the writing and use of memorable melodies.

Film producers liked memorable melodies way back. One of their less understandable tricks was to stick a song in a film, almost as if it came out of nowhere. It used to happen a lot more than you would think. It's a selling tool, just as later on, John William's melodies were always synonomous with the film. You hear the music, and you think of the film. Very profitable arrangement.

Into the 1990s and suddenly films were discovered by the ostinato. The ostinato seems at first to be a mild cold, but it soon infects every aspect of filmscore writing and you soon realise this a category 4 outbreak. The ostinato is about as easy a way of scoring as there probably is, next to plain and simple noise.

Plain and simple noise is mostly what you get today. Otherwise known as Sound Design.

So that's where we are today. Sound Design.

Sound Design in film and TV scores is just another way of saying you're an untrained, uncultured monkey that can't write music for shit. What???? I hear the cry.

Well if that's not the case, then fucking prove it.

I sat through a film recently at the cinema called Life. The entire film was awash with fucking noise from beginning to end. It is the worst irritant imaginable. The film was crap which didn't help. The only people that are immune from this illness are under the 25s. 

7.James Horner. 6/25/2015 5:59:30 PM

What a great shame to hear of James Horner's death in an aeroplane accident. A Royal College of Music academic in the 1970s and later music study in the USA, he certainly came up with some memorable music.

I will always have a special fondness for his scores to Sneakers and The Name of the Rose.

8.Bang Sound in Trailer Music. Which patches from VSL? 8/12/2014 4:55:56 PM

My neighbour over the road comes from New Jersey. 

I like to to stare at her through binoculars. We're not used to people from places like New Jersey round these here parts.

I'll ask her the next time I see her face to face if she likes to bang on things.

9.Bang Sound in Trailer Music. Which patches from VSL? 8/11/2014 9:20:10 PM

I'm sorry I can't help you with the drum sound because I haven't listened to it.

i can't listen to banging sounds or trailer music.  The last time I heard trailer music Hitchcock was in the trailer personally and I then went out and slaughtered an entire community.

10.Bang Sound in Trailer Music. Which patches from VSL? 8/11/2014 5:37:02 PM

You think these are angry posts? You should have seen the email I got from one of the posters this morning. 

I only came here under fear and threat of death and destruction of what remains of our empire. 

What I think people are saying here is try and be new. Try and be a bit more yourself and original. If you can't be original - be aboriginal. 

Anything to stop these fearful, destructive, life threatening emails. And btw. Hans Z wouldn't want you to copy  him or his sounds. If I find you copied Hans - I'm warning you now - I'm going to the Police.

11.Bang Sound in Trailer Music. Which patches from VSL? 8/11/2014 3:00:10 PM

Hahah.

i just did a search of some of my previous posts. Hehehe. Did I really say that about Mike Verta? Only kidding of course. He's an excellent pianist.

soooo... Dear old Hans again. Cool

12.Basic MacPro question 4/12/2014 1:04:53 PM

Erik go to the Apple Store and I think you can buy Mountain Lion for about £14. 

I agree with you Erik. Apple has turned itself into a fucking shambles. 

The fact that Mavericks may or may not be better than ML according to different pople is neither here nor there. You should be able to access what you want, when you want, with ease and not be dictated to by anyone when you're the one that's paying.

13.Just for a little "distraction"... 4/3/2014 1:01:23 PM

Remeber reading it at the time and laughing, mostly in the knowledge that it can't get any better.

Paul Farrer can be highly amusing and it should be worth noting he's never going to get a gig as a 'motivational speaker' I'm happy to report. Some of his anecdotes are worth the admission.

14.Basic MacPro question 4/1/2014 8:53:35 PM
Errikos wrote:

By the way, did Budleigh survive the torrential deluges of late?

Not really. Part of the cliff collapsed on the Jurasic coastline at Budleigh. And Thurlestone had the same issues. I was in Thurlestone all day today and the coastal erosion is all too apparent.

The new iMacs should have all been recalled, but that would affect Apples share price, so they just deny there's a problem. 

That said, looking forward to getting an iMac one day once I'm confident like a lot of other people. A lot of people I see around the music forums are saying more or less the same thing.

15.Basic MacPro question 3/31/2014 3:15:38 PM

Mavericks is a piece of shit Eric. Do as Cyril suggests and get Mountain Lion in there. And think yourself lucky you don't have a Fusion Drive. Another piece of crap.

Upgrade to Logic X and let me know how you find it.

16.What keyboards or synths work well with VSL? What keyboards do you use? 3/18/2014 6:17:24 PM

Look - what you need to understand about elctronic keyboards is just ridiculous. I have been playing the damn things since the 1960s. First a Farfisa Combo then a Hammond L100 and then a Hammond B3 and onto a Moog in 1971 and then so on through the ages.

All these keyboards have one thing in common. They're actions are ALWAYS entirely different to the last one you had.

In short, it depends on how you play, what you want to play, what you want to put into the DAW and how fast you want to do it, basically how good you are at playing.

Over the years on the internet this question comes up time and again and it's impossible to give advice to people. I see people be very generous with their time and try, but to me it's a futile excercise. Its the same as saying to someone on the internet, THESE GOLF CLUBS ARE FANTASTIC!!! GET THEM. Without actually seeing the guy ever swing a club or knowing what his handicap is.

Bottom line probably is this when it comes to keyboards used for what we generally nowadays is this.

If you're just using an 88 for inputing notes into the DAW, then just about anything fairly good will do. As already mentioned, a second hand Yamaha, Kurzweil, Roland, etc should be good to go.

If you're interested in actually sitting there and playing when you're not inputing i.e. with the headphones directly into the back of the keyboard (could be just to play Bach or actually improvising for example) then go up a notch and get a good weighted action 88 second hand and go and see it first if at all possible.

I'm not really an expert, but I like to play around with this kind of thing on a weighted 88. It's just about quick enough and only really gets slow when playing stuff like Bach or Rachmaninoff.

http://www.productionmusiconline.com/track_detail.php?track_id=1491

17.New Black Mac Pro vs last gen 12-Core MP ? 1/16/2014 11:04:36 PM

Bill

apologize to Cyril. He was definitely trying to help you with a computer choice.

18.Almost completely befuddled 11/12/2013 12:16:53 PM

Yes exactly right. This is what you'll always get though. 'DID YOU CONTACT SUPPORT"

And yes, I will no longer be coming to this forum in future because there is no longer any point afaic.

19.Almost completely befuddled 11/12/2013 11:13:34 AM

See this is really what gets me fucking mad.

You are supposed to spend 200 EU on a download and the comapny selling it can't even get out a set of videos that expalin it to NON FUCKING COMPUTER GEEKS!!!!! And that's a fucking download. Try doing that in a shop and see how far you get without the proper backup. You'd be in court faster than you could say jack sh!t.

And so what do we then get. The fucking inevitable. Some twat on the interent decides it's time to cash in @ $75 per hour for something that should be easy!!!  AND Who the fucking hell wants to get buried in PAGE FUCKING 49 OF A PDF.

I just will NOT subscribe to any more VSL products EVER AGAIN.

20.Almost completely befuddled 11/11/2013 9:32:56 PM

Apparently yes it is.  The tutorial videos are singularly the worst tutorial videos on the whole internet regarding anything musical/computers. Apart from not actually explaining anything you will also go fucking blind.

I gave up on it after about 4 days and threw the fucking thing out of my computer.

Hope this helps.

21.A question from the movie Amadeus 10/26/2013 7:13:19 PM

Amadeus was a great film cinematically. And very entertaining. Hitcock quote - the audience will believe what I tell them. The music was great and very well performed - the opera scenes very well done, especially The Magic Flute - Queen of the Night part.

Shakespeare in Love was a fucking awful film. It was basically a Hollywood costume romcom for people who think they know something about English literature. I mean how the fuck can you hand out Oscars for that.

22.VEP PRO 5 Can't make it work 10/20/2013 6:06:37 PM

I think in my discussion here with Daryl has been perfectly polite. 

What someone needs to do is make a video for dummies is:-

(a) MINIMUM 760p RESOLUTION.

(b) One where it starts from the beginning on ONE computer .

(c) then one for usage with 2 computers.

(d) A video that shows it all layed out very in very easy to understand language and how to set it up step by step

(e) A video that is made for people that have no experience of DAWs or anything else.

This almost certainly is going to be impossible just like everything else in the music tech business. Never seen a video yet that explained anything satisfactorily.

23.VEP PRO 5 Can't make it work 10/19/2013 12:28:07 PM

I tried to download the demo again but it came up saying I had too many demo lisences. That is because the second time I tried it, it didn't work.

So that just saved me £200. I'll buy another library instead from somewhere.

24.VEP PRO 5 Can't make it work 10/16/2013 3:12:02 PM

OK thanks for the try Daryl but I can't make head nor tail out of it and have deleted the program from the hard drive. I don't think I even need it. Just one computer should be sufficient for what I do.

25.VEP PRO 5 Can't make it work 10/16/2013 12:32:57 PM

Daryl thanks.

I am downloading tracks at the moment, but the second I finsih I will get Logic up and try to get your initial suggestion first and then come back asap. Paul

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