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The song is fascinating and very lovely.
Words like classy and sophisticated come to mind.
And also fascinating was reading how you put all of this together. The attention to detail is amazing and it shows as the mix is remarkable in the way it is so textured but every track seems to have "its" place.
We can hardly imagine the time and skill it took for this production...but it assuredly paid off -- bit time.
Wonderful!!!!
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I seem to be missing from all the great reviews, do ditto, beautiful work.
Peter
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David,
Beautiful orchestration!
I agree with Tano Music.
Loved listening to how you handled the various instruments, especially the winds...thanks for sharing the background info on sound sources.
I also often experience that RT is not well rendered.
At that time, in my case I will render WAV a few more times and pick the best one.
Still, if it is not good, I cut only the wrong place and stick there from the other place of the same chord rendered successfully.
BIAB has many troubles sometime, but it's a fun work.
Enjoyed my listen a lot.
Best regards.
Shigeki Adachi
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The song is fascinating and very lovely. Thanks! I appreciate the kind words. 
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I seem to be missing from all the great reviews, do ditto, beautiful work. Thanks, Peter!
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I also often experience that RT is not well rendered.
At that time, in my case I will render WAV a few more times and pick the best one.
Still, if it is not good, I cut only the wrong place and stick there from the other place of the same chord rendered successfully. Hi, Shigeki. Thanks for listening and the advice! I've done the same thing. But since this was a pretty simple bass part and I had a comparable MIDI instrument, it was easy enough to play. Plus, I figured it's probably an installation issue, and getting the BiaB 2019 upgrade might fix the problem. So I'll just wait this one out. In a pinch, I can put together MIDI tracks for most instruments. Where BiaB is really most useful for me is coming up with ideas that I wouldn't have thought up. Thanks again!
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Hi dcuny,
lovely tune!It's very well-arranged and so full of atmospere.
Very beautiful.
Happy Holidays and all the best for 2019,
Stefan
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Thanks David for this lovely holiday feast as well as the enlightenment from Wikipedia...
I came to listen to music & walked away with an education, learning something I didn't know.
Your work method sounds complicated but it certainly pays off in dividends...
Well done!
Jim
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Absolutely beautiful and I loved it. The info provided in the introduction was a lot to digest. I don’t think you could have made this sound any better. I hope you have a great holiday, Tom
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Wow.... yep, there's definitely some gold to be found in those old PD songs.
This is so well done and a gorgeous tune. Loved the modulation in it. So many interesting things to like. The penny whistle is perfect and really sets a Christmas/Irish feel.
really well done.
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Happy Holidays and all the best for 2019 Thanks, Stefan. The same to you! 
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I came to listen to music & walked away with an education, learning something I didn't know. Yeah, I hate it when that happens. It's the constant reminder that I still don't know everything. Your work method sounds complicated but it certainly pays off in dividends... To be honest, I think I should have pared back on a lot of the instrumental doublings. But thanks. Really, it's just a way that works for me. I tend to use BiaB as the primary backing tracks, and then refine it in my DAW. Is it really worth the extra effort? Listening to what other people have done with 100% BiaB, sometimes I'm not sure.  Thanks again for listening and the feedback!
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Absolutely beautiful and I loved it. The info provided in the introduction was a lot to digest. I don’t think you could have made this sound any better. I hope you have a great holiday, Tom Thanks, Tom! I hope yours are great as well. We're working through colds in my household, but nothing serious, thank goodness. Hopefully come Christmas we'll be set to carol. I'm glad you enjoyed the listen.
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The penny whistle is perfect and really sets a Christmas/Irish feel. The last section really is my favorite, with the more Celtic feel. After I posted the song, I was playing with that pennywhistle and found it's got a lovely legato - the effect that you get when you roll your finger off a hole. Too late to use that now, but I'll keep it in mind for some other song! Thanks!
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Nice arrangement, sounds so pro through my headset, Nothing like a classical Christmas piece.
Really enjoyed it.
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"dcuny"...
Somewhere amongst the rooms and halls of my musical memory, I vaguely recall hearing this song at a somewhat faster tempo, with lyrics I cannot remember being sung by a small choir of children's voices, sounding bright and upbeat. It may even have been a soundtrack to a commercial.
Any old way, your version of "Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" has got a ton of mood rising like mists and fog out of its musical texture. It's wistful and nostalgic -- maybe even a little melancholy -- in feeling. It also possesses an air of a new morning arriving, that slowly-waking time when, as you lie in bed, you sense the warmth of the early light coming through the window and falling on your closed eyelids, as you meditate drowsily on whether or not you really want to wake-up and begin another day.
I'm sure all these impressions are partly the result of the obviously meticulous orchestration of the virtual instruments you employed in the composition. I'm listening to it again as I write this. It's easy for me to imagine you standing behind a podium, waving your baton gracefully, yet emotively while you conduct an actual orchestra. I don't know who could suspect anything else, even those with so-called "trained ears".
You deserve to be addressed as "maestro" for your efforts here.
Sincerely,
LOREN
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