Posted by: jsg - 01-09-2022, 03:38 AM - Forum: Composition
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This movement makes use of the VSL Orchestral Cube. It moves through numerous keys and combines chromaticism with some diatonic writing. It is part of a larger four-movement work.
Posted by: jsg - 01-01-2022, 07:09 AM - Forum: Composition
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If you're in the mood for a slow, leisurely, contemplative piece of music, you might want to listen to the 2nd movement of what's to be a three movement work for virtual instruments.
Sorry for my absence as of late. Been busy working on decidedly non-orchestral music for months now, and I've felt that I don't really have much to contribute with. I'm eternally grateful to everyone who keeps stopping by, keeping this place alive
I am posting the 1st movement of my 6th symphony and including the score. Though I have completed my 11th symphony this year I am particularly happy with my 6th and 8th symphonies.
If you have questions about why I don't include specific instructions in the score to players (dynamics, hairpins, bowing and breathing marks, etc.) it's not because I don't know how, it's because this piece is conceived and produced for computer-based instruments--there are no players! I have a brief statement about this here.
Enjoy listening. If you have any questions please ask!
A very short hymn on cultivating an attitude toward death. Part of a collection of Nine Hymns on Spiritual Life, which will be included on my next CD release in the fall of 2022. VSL chamber and solo strings, East West Choirs are the libraries used in this piece.
I had promised myself that no matter what, I would stick with my old passive Digital Designs studio monitors because I've had them for upwards of ten years now and I know them. Which is more important than having super-flat and super-accurate monitoring.
Problem is, they're too big for my tiny home studio. In fact, I'm not even sure they're actually near-field monitors. I can't be bothered to post pics of them right now, but they're the typical big, deep monitor variety with two woofers and a tweeter in the center, meant for lying on their sides atop a huge studio desk. They worked well enough in my old apartment where I had more room for setting everything up. Where I live now, I end up sitting too close to them, and it feels like the sound projects somewhere behind my head. So, not ideal.
Then the cheap little stereo amplifier I've been using for powering them started flaking out. I went looking for a more expensive and reliable one, and instantly balked at the prices. I realized that if an amp alone is going to set me back $100-150, I might as well get myself a pair of powered monitors more suited for small/home studio use and solve all my issues in one fell swoop.
I ended up getting a used pair of Behringer Truth B2030A monitors. I got them for around $160 and the guy I bought them off of claimed they've only been used very sparingly. I believe him, since the monitors are in absolutely immaculate condition. They're probably a number of years old, since they have the old Behringer logo, but there's not even a speck of dust on them, and they work perfectly.
Now comes the fun part though: getting to know these buggers. I could tell right off the bat they're more detailed and has better stereo imaging (which lends credence to my suspicion that the old monitors are actually mid-fields). Other than that, they sound COMPLETELY alien to me and it's going to take a lot of reference listening and experimentation before I'm able to make any informed mixing desicions with them.
Uh... help. I bought Kontakt sometime last year but I have yet to get the factory library. Really didn't seem all that interesting to me seeing as it's all some pretty dated and limited stuff, and I was mostly after all the 3rd party content.
Just for fun I wanted to install it today, but Native Access won't let me. The Factory lib weighs in at 23GB. I have less than that available on the SSD where I keep all my bigger and more demanding libraries, and Kontakt has for some reason decided that's where ALL my libs must go. What's up with this? Surely there must be a way to tell Kontakt that I have other drives with more free space on them?
