Happy to see all the Max Richter love in this thread, I thought I was his only fan around here
It's making me want to buy the Chris Hein solo strings and give it the old college try at one of my favorite pieces by one of my favorite composers!
@ism , yours feels sonically right on the money, the tone of the sustains is dead on!
And not to spam the thread with my own garbage, but I did just release a track that's aggressively Richter-influenced. I spent 3 full days cleaning up the solo violin legato line, trying to get it to feel right. It's Cinesamples Solo (the best solo legato violin I've ever used imho). The rest is Spitfire LCO, Spitfire Solo and OA Chamber strings.
Still, I'm thinking the Flautandos in Chris Hein solo might be an interesting way to mockup On the Nature of Daylight?
No kidding on the Max Richter inspiration here! It's the delicate art of taking a seemingly infinite repetition of a phrase and giving it a sense transformation throughout the piece through changing pace, subtle variations on the run of the phrase, and layering.
I've heard great things about Chris Hein but have never hit that threshold to go purchase it yet. It sounds like a worthwhile effort to target this piece. I'm loving On The Nature of Daylight as a library challenge because as @ism said, we'll never reach the feeling of the original, but it really exposes these libraries to a delicate play style and helps people build an impression of what can be done.
We may never be able to recreate On The Nature of Daylight, but we might find that attempting to get there, we sonically register with some of these mockup attempts and the libraries used and re-inspire people to give more solo / quartet work a try in their compositions.
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