Voyager wrote:
Personally first time i launched Reason i knew this would be the daw i'll work with.

Same here

Lots more people use Pro Tools, Logic, Ableton, Cubase and FL Studio I'd guess, but it's likely that more people use Reason than Bitwig, Reaper or the other various DAWs. And yes, I think it's absolutely due to Reason's plugin policy. Interesting - do you mean to say that Reason was far more popula...

Brasted Upright makes me feel a lot of nostalgia, it has the exact same sound of an upright piano that was in a friend's livingroom. It was terrible, never tuned, abandoned, nobody cared it at all... It gave me tenderness to touch it, play it... and I used to play it for hours. It was pretty much li...

Yes, EWQL is a great thing! Symphonic choirs seem to be an amazing VST but I don't have it, nor test it at all... I find Reason pianos pretty good, specially the middle notes that are thick and hoarse, and the best of Reason Pianos (specially the Steinway D Ambient) are the higher notes, are thick s...

jam-s wrote:for super-polished hyperrealism or futurism

I appreciate the dirty thing, and to recreate the rustic thing, the sampling is the best choice.
I don't like polished things at all.

ion this scenario "best" is highly dependent on the kind of music you want to create. for fake realism sampled instruments might be better , for super-polished hyperrealism or futurism physical modelling might work out better. After all it's a matter of personal taste and/or artistic vision. LOL

I want to lie in my bed, look at my nightstand, with my closed laptop... and say before sleep: "Sweet dreams orchestra, see you tomorrow" And wake up in the morning and say "Hi orchestra!! Let's travel to somewhere on vacations today and let's compose and record there in the woods!!" And no musician...

The thread point was: "What to use NOW in order to achieve the highest possible realism" If realism is your major concern then nothing beats hiring a professional session musician and a fitting instrument, a recording engineer and some nice environment to put all of these in. But... didn't you read...

Nothing wrong with establishing semantics. In the context, I can see where Carol was going, which was really to drum in her point about a "sample" of any quality being able to capture the realness of a performance or instrument. My point was really about showing how you can't judge a technology by ...

Besides that, I've never said the Physically modeling technique would NEVER be realistic. I just said it might be some day. But not today. I said that the sampling with the correct sound articulation is the best choice today. The physically modeling technique is surely the best path, but it's not th...

I'm sure people said the same thing about sampling back when samplers were much simpler. They'd press the keys of the latest sampler and say, "this doesn't sound realistic, therefore sampling will never be able to sound realistic." The reasoning is not "sound". Again... If a make an awful recording...

I see that those keyboards sound very similar yes. But, seriously... don't you think that both are too clean and plastic? I mean if you compare them with a regular piano. have you got an upright piano in your house or in a friend's house, or a grand in the music school to make a test? You kind of m...

FIrst of all Intelligence is intelligence. What a dog can show about it, or what a houman can show about it, or what an ET can show about it is related to their limitations. But computers are not showing any intelligence at all, just mechanical responses with some interconnections between given pro...

FIrst of all Intelligence is intelligence. What a dog can show about it, or what a houman can show about it, or what an ET can show about it is related to their limitations. But computers are not showing any intelligence at all, just mechanical responses with some interconnections between given prog...

or this one as well:

I see that those keyboards sound very similar yes. But, seriously... don't you think that both are too clean and plastic? I mean if you compare them with a regular piano. have you got an upright piano in your house or in a friend's house, or a grand in the music school to make a test? Don't you thin...

For now, a well articulated sampled system is the best choice for accoustic instruments. The same way you can open Photoshop and make a lot of variations of an actual photograph, from subtle to extreme, the same way you can tweak the audio samples in order to articulate them in a natural behavior, a...

Of course! I totally agree with you
That's why I said "But not today".

We process vision in much more detail and complexity than audio. For the contrary, the sense of hearing is quite more ancient than the vision, and it is far more "debugged" than the sense of sight. Anyone, an average person (with no musical skills) quickly detects the artificiality in Pianoteq, and...

I don't think the " uncanny valley " is quite as pronounced with audio though. Well, IMO it is. Pianoteq is a quite artificial thing, by the way. It's just a mathematical approximation, but it's not the real shape of the piano sound. It is an "ideal" piano may be, like a stylized instrument. But st...

These days the physically modeled instruments are appearing as dazzling, and a lot of musicians tend to think that the sampling technique is a thing of the past. Less memory consumption, high level of instruments customization, etc... But the real thing is this: Physically modeled thing: https://s4....

What is your honest opinion about Facebook?

It sucks.

I can lend a hand

I think these times, if you want to make money you have to do something else beyond the music. You have to perform a product composed of Music+Character+Media. When I say "character" I'm talking about a theatrical performance, a personage, a weird thing, a controversial thing that is suitable to att...

I was thinking... We are rating the drones as music or not just considering only the sound... and it's a blurry line between "it is" and "it's not". But, if we have a scene in which is needed that sound to create a certain amosphere or climate, that is indeed music, as it has a certain emotional imp...