About the "real thing" -- When you viewed Skunk's instructive video, consider that what the eyegate sees is a lucite strat copy sounding like a fiddle.

But imagine what someone just hearing a recording or a movie underscore would visualize when hearing that performance.

Believe me, a Stratocaster would not be the instrument envisualized, eh?

When working with MIDI, I always try to keep in mind that, no matter the Patch or Sample, the job is to attempt to create the illusion that the target instrument is playing. Sometimes that means intentionally NOT trying to make it play certain things that the real instrument would do easily. Such as slurred passages when using a Horn Patch that has all notes sampled with an Attack. Things like that are a dead giveaway. I have found that simply leaving such out of the track, most people won't think that there is something missing, they will just think that the guy didn't play that way for that particular passage. Unless, of course, the recordist makes the mistake of talking too much about how the thing was created. Which is another thing we should not do. The magician does not typically explain how the illusion was done, home recordists are better off to follow that lead IMO.


--Mac

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