I am a composer and pianist. I have worked with Genelecs for several years (after all, they are made here in Finland, 200 km from where I live), so I've heard and worked in different projects with a lot Genelecs here in different studios, and especially 8030's. My professional friends say that Genelec's upper mids are really bright and Genelecs are really good for clear vocal or instrument editing. I agree with them. But, my friend who has worked as a producer for 25 years, said that after recording and mixing with a pair of ADAM A7's he got the enjoyment back. He saves Genelecs for tight edits but mixing and mastering goes with ADAM. He told me to go with it, absolutely. After listening to them all I can say is yes to ADAM.

Just my humble opinion,

Hannu

Hi,

as Conquer wrote: "I was just trying to emphasize how important it is to make the notes overlap to trigger the legato intervals."

Being a classically trained professional pianist but now more towards pop/jazz, I find no problem at all to execute the overlapping playing technique. The trick is to play "deep" legato, where your fingers are kind of glued to the keys so that you release the previous key "late."

Then the VSL approach towards legato makes sense.

I don't mean to be mean, but just a notion that it is possible to play it well.

All the best,

Hannu 

Hi!

I am really sorry if you know this. I do not think you are stupid, but your situation sounded all too familiar, hence my humble response:

Have you thought to bounce your ready project as a stereo file?

My PowerBook G4 1.25 GHz with 2 GB RAM does not take even near that many plug-ins as you mentioned.

So, as I work, I use only one VI software instrument, route its output to Bus 1, create new audio track and select its input "Bus 1", record Vienna tracks to that audio track and create more new audio tracks as needed.

When I use Ivory piano or some other software instrument (RA, Miroslav), I right-click next to right side of the track name in the Arrange window, select "Configure track headers...", select "Freeze" to be visible, set the end locator of the song, click the snowflake symbol next to track name and click play.

The computer calculates an audio file offline and stores it inside your session folder into the folder called "Freeze Files". They are essentially AIFF files that computer plays back from there, although they seem invisible in the session. You can change track volumes while frozen, nut if try something else, computer asks you to unfreeze track. After you've done your edits, click snowflake again and press play, it is calculated again.

My friend did not know this while mixing an album on MacBook, and this saved his day.

I would suggest that you just bounce the whole song out and play a stereo file to your friends. That's what I do.

All the best,

Hannu Ala
VI SE & SE Plus
Finland