leslieq
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I wanted to try something a little different in NotePerformer focusing on orchestral texture and colour so I turned to two extracts from some of my favourite impressionistic works by Debussy and Ravel.
"Daybreak" Lever du Jour - Daphnis et Chloé (Ravel)
Someone [I forget who - maybe Simon Rattle] once described this as: "what you see on the page are the grains of sand; what you hear in your ear is the whole beach"
Jeux de Vagues - La Mer (Debussy)
Almost all the dynamics were copied verbatim from score to Sibelius. The one thing Debussy often does is he'll direct an overall feel/change in dynamic e.g. a really long gradual crescendo (getting louder)...and real musicians know exactly that he means still preserve lyrical phrasing, just be getting louder with it. However, if you put that in Sibelius, you sure do get a long gradual crescendo, but it's not very musical sounding. So my workaround (only in one small section) was to bypass the long crescendo during playback, but added hidden crescendo/diminuendo for better musical phrasing but still gave the impression of a long gradual crescendo.
Not bad at all for AI performance. Oh, and also started fiddling with Altiverb... pointers gratefully received.
"Daybreak" Lever du Jour - Daphnis et Chloé (Ravel)
Someone [I forget who - maybe Simon Rattle] once described this as: "what you see on the page are the grains of sand; what you hear in your ear is the whole beach"
Jeux de Vagues - La Mer (Debussy)
Almost all the dynamics were copied verbatim from score to Sibelius. The one thing Debussy often does is he'll direct an overall feel/change in dynamic e.g. a really long gradual crescendo (getting louder)...and real musicians know exactly that he means still preserve lyrical phrasing, just be getting louder with it. However, if you put that in Sibelius, you sure do get a long gradual crescendo, but it's not very musical sounding. So my workaround (only in one small section) was to bypass the long crescendo during playback, but added hidden crescendo/diminuendo for better musical phrasing but still gave the impression of a long gradual crescendo.
Not bad at all for AI performance. Oh, and also started fiddling with Altiverb... pointers gratefully received.