Originally Posted By: dcuny
ffffff is a bit tiring to listen to after a while, but fortunately MIDI doesn't really go that high.

Ligeti must have been smiling when he wrote that. I imagine him saying, "This one goes to eleven!"

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With the violin on top, I didn't really notice the "climbing" effect that's in the original music. Weird.

I can explain, I think.

1) BIAB doesn't know its bass from its treble, in terms of which end of a piano is being played and what the soloist should do. I didn't want to transpose the violin to follow the piano range (I tried, yuck) so it doesn't climb the way the piano does. My conceptual solution: the piano is the staircase, the fiddle is the feet flying up it.

2) I couldn't find where (if anywhere) Apple says what Logic's "Japanese" scale is, so I experimented and found it to be, for the key of C:

C – Db – F – G – Ab

Some pretty big holes in there, considering we're coming from a chromatic composition, so this quantization makes for some jumpy jumping vs. smooth ascending.

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The middle section was so different, it didn't seem to fit at all.

That's fair. I think perhaps I will try not dropping the pitch quantization, for that part, just the rhythm.

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Cool experiment, nonetheless. laugh

Thanks for listen + comment, always much appreciated.

Last edited by Mark Hayes; 02/15/22 07:07 AM.