This particular product is quite incredible. The company East/West recorded every instrument of the orchestra in a world class studio doing every possible articulation. They also did this for the piano and spent months and months editing all the samples. There were no other companies that had really put together a MIDI sound set that sounded this real, but these guys have done the closest thing by just taking the time and budget, and just doing it right. Pretty much anytime you hear orchestration in TV shows or lower budget movies, this is the program they use. Its an interesting disconnect between the body and the music, because technically someone played that exact note and articulation that you are programming, but they did it in a different order and a different place. Its like you're given a bunch of legos, each one representing a specific recording of music.
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ReplyDeleteMy post centers around a youtube clip of a live art exhibition in London:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Kz8Nxb-Bg
This scene powerfully expresses the power technology has had on the impact and creation of music. The electric guitar, and specifically the sustain that came with it, really changed the way a single not can stimulate our senses. Those overdriven notes that the bird plays unintentionally almost sound like the opening to a LED ZEPPELIN song. Technology in music has made such timbrel adjustments crucial to an artists sound. In turn it adds another layer to the listener's appreciation of music. With such a new range of ways to manipulate the physical characteristics of a sound wave, an artist can further manipulate the physiological reactions that people have to music.