Hi, Frank.

Glad to know you liked the track! I'm supposed to be working on something else right now, but I thought I'd have a go at doing a track anyway. I printed out the 10 minute template, but don't have the time or energy for that right now!

I let the "I want it" syndrome get the better of me when I got the Vintage Horns library. It turned out to only run on Windows 7, and I'm still running Vista. So I sampled all the instruments at all the articulations on a VPC, rendering in non-realtime mode. Then I split the wave files and built a bunch of .sfz files by hand. Garritan's Aria Player does a pretty good job playing .sfz files back.

I've done several iterations of this track, removing some of the recurring motifs and simplifying some parts. 32 bars isn't a whole lot of material! The more I stuck with chordal tones, the better. There are still a couple clinkers in there.

I edited out a lot of notes at the end of measures that sounded great leading into the measure that followed - but not so great with others. Grace notes at the start of the measure also seem to be a dicey proposition with recombination.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?