Thanks William and Jos for listening.

Thanks Jos, it's nice of you.

Nice instrument indeed, i am just wondering why they sampled just one 8' alone (seems to be the front one) and not the other one. It's really a huge lack for  harpsichordist because the sound of the upper keyboard is very different. Maybe Paul could give us the answer....

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 Hi William,

Thank you for posting this superb visual and musical work. The blurring between the real and the unreal, dream and reality, themes that are dear to you. I also love the winks of Baedeker's "Handbook for Traveler" for the imaginary world of Althyria, a reference I suppose to your 2018 film. Everything is part of the mystery, up to the reverse map of Vienna ... Fantastic !
As for the music, it reminds me in many aspects of Barry Gray in Space 1999, with the use of the harp and mallets, as well as sounds like those we hear between 1:55 and 2: 40 that you realized I guess with the Juno 60.
Bravo, I love it!

Hi,

It's not usual to find the opportunity to listen solo instrument music on the forum. Therefore, I decided to make a small exception today with this Scarlatti sonata played on the superbly sampled harpsichord of the VSL. The harpsichord, an instrument very rich in harmonics and particularly difficult to sample. 

Scarlatti - sonata K 159

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Philippe

Thanks Pixelpoet1985 for listening.

In fact, this project is not mixed in Mirpro, but in Altiverb 7, Teldex Venue - 5m (and a drop of Miracle ). This is a pretty close mix in fact.I was looking for something as close as possible of the original thing.

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Philippe

Thanks Macker for your kind comment. It's always a pleasure to speak with somebody who knows and appreciate the music of Barry GRAY. Great composer, totally underrated.

For you, as a  small gift, an extract of the Space 1999 score. Enjoy !

Another time, another place

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Philippe

Hi,

Carl Philip Emmanuel is BACH !

Good to come back to one of my favourite composer.

I did some scores of him few years ago. Unfortunately, one day when I was working on a piece of CPE, I lost everything in a massive short circuit of the power supply of my PC, burning 3 hard disks in a few seconds (yes, it is possible , I tested for you ...). Four years of work gone up in smoke. In order to draw a final line on this painful event, I decided to work again on a score of CPE, as if to ward off a spell. Nothing burned. Anyway, now I store everything on a separate server ... 

C.P.E.BACH Sinfonia WQ 182 N°1 - 3rd mvt

Enjoy !

Philippe

Hi Musiksculp,

here is a full VSL Dimension Strings version, mixed in Mirpro / Synchron Stage

Century 21 Full VSL version

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Philippe

Hi Musiksclulp,

No, no sordino strings here, but the VSL strings were layered with some Spitfire strings, to try to come as close as possible from the original sound (60's ...)

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Philippe

Hi Bill,

you are right, it is Barry Gray, the faithful composer of Gerry Anderson ...

Thanks William, Lucy and Stefan.

@William. I have used the close mics positions and decreased a bit the reverb

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Philippe

Hi,

The release of the new Synchronized Solo Strings gives me the opportunity to make a new mix of the last mouvement of Brandenburg concerto N°3. i just add an harpsichord in the Mirpro / SS venue.

Downmoad the file for better quality

BWV 1048 - Synchronized Solo Strings

Enjoy !

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Philippe

Very good job Erisno. Congrats !

Philippe

Hi Icecubeman.

Great job, it sounds great !

Philippe

Hi,

CENTURY 21 was a small production company created by Gerry ANDERSON (Thunderbirds, UFO, Space 1999, Doppelganger...)

Here is the Fanfare, in an "extended version", as you can hear it in the Doppelganger movie (Jounrney to the far side of the sun)

CENTURY 21 FANFARE

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Philippe

WOW!!! Bill, i love it !!! The  organ is a geat idea . Congratulations !

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Philippe

Thanks Musiksculp.

The version i prefer is ... the third one  mixed in Mirpro . To obtain this result, the mics must be very close to the instruments ..

BWV 1055 MIRPRO Version

I used the Synchron Stage Venue. I think this full VSL version, mixrd in SS will pleased Paul Kopf 

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Philippe

Hi William,

in the first version, the Dimension Strings setup was  4VL1/4VL2/4VA/3C/1B + solo violins 1 and 2.

I have changed my mind and have made a new version without solo strings and for DS 3VL1/2VL2/2VA/2C/1B . Smaller ensemble and, i think, best results.

 J.S.BACH : BWV 1055 NEW VERSION

The mix is little closer.

When you don't use all the violins, you have to choose which ones you want to use and find the best combination, because each instrument has its own colour. Not easy... In the last demo :

Violins 1 : P1+P3+P5

Violins 2 : P4+P6

Violas : P2+P4

Cellos : P2+P6

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Philippe

Thanks Paolo for listening.

I just achieved a new version, using just Dimension strings fot the orchestra :

J.S.BACH : BWV 1055 NEW VERSION

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Philippe

Hi Tyttebaer,

thanks for listening. 

It is just V1/V2/VA/C/B + harpsichord, so 6 midi tracks.

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Philippe

Hi William,

yes, it's VSL harpsichord (8'8') + Dimension strings and Violin solo 1 and 2, IMO the best combination of strings for this kind of music 

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Philippe

Hi,

Here is the first movement of one of the most exquisite concerto for harpsichord by J.S.BACH : BWV 1055

Enjoy !

J.S.BACH BWV 1055 - 1rst movement

BWV 1055 MIRPRO Version

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Philippe

Hi Bill,

it happened to me a few times too . A simple request to souncloud and this will be solved very quickly ...

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Phili

Hi Gilp;

thanks for listening.

The first rendering was mixed using Altiverb. It was a quick done version, you can do much better with Altiverb ...

For the Mirpro version, i used the unusual "foyer" venue, The huge reverberation of 6 sec has been reduced around 2 sec , dry/wet -24%

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Philippe