Dane Aubrun replied to ZeroZero's discussion What will MIDI 2 bring to orchestral sounds? Discussion....
"I've downloaded the specs and am gradually working through. I'm mostly concerned with the midi editor in my daw and how that will react to the changes. Much of it seems to be about expanding control and bi-directional messaging (all wrapped up in…"
Mar 11, 2020
Timothy Smith replied to ZeroZero's discussion What will MIDI 2 bring to orchestral sounds? Discussion....
"I guess we could split hairs over this. If you didn't have midi nothing else would work.

I will be interested to see how the multiple levels of increased control will influence the actual samples >sound. Too early to tell just yet. When we play a…"
Mar 10, 2020
Victor Eijkhout replied to ZeroZero's discussion What will MIDI 2 bring to orchestral sounds? Discussion....
"Not *everything*. Midi starts the sample. It has no say over what happens inside the sample. Timothy Smith said:
Victor the midi controls the samples.Midi has everything to do with that."
Mar 10, 2020
Timothy Smith replied to ZeroZero's discussion What will MIDI 2 bring to orchestral sounds? Discussion....
"Victor the midi controls the samples.Midi has everything to do with that."
Mar 10, 2020
Victor Eijkhout replied to ZeroZero's discussion What will MIDI 2 bring to orchestral sounds? Discussion....
"You seem to be mostly concerned with issues that are really sample playback. I'm not sure that any improvement in MIDI is going to help with that."
Mar 9, 2020
Timothy Smith replied to ZeroZero's discussion What will MIDI 2 bring to orchestral sounds? Discussion....
"I read about this when it was announced at NAMM. I don't claim to know everything about it yet. As with any new technology there will be nay sayers and supporters. As time moves along the nay sayers will drop like flies one by one.
The main…"
Mar 9, 2020
ZeroZero replied to ZeroZero's discussion What will MIDI 2 bring to orchestral sounds? Discussion....
Mar 8, 2020
Gavin Brown replied to ZeroZero's discussion What will MIDI 2 bring to orchestral sounds? Discussion....
"Thanks for sharing this important information, ZeroZero!"
Mar 8, 2020
Scott Miller replied to ZeroZero's discussion Finding good scores
"You can find lots of scores at imslp.org.  You can download them and scroll through the pdf's as the music goes.  This might not be exactly what you want, but if you just want a place to find FREE scores of tons of stuff, that the place."
Dec 10, 2011
Anthony Berlin replied to ZeroZero's discussion A good source for violin technique for the composer
"Great resource! Thanks man! :)"
Dec 7, 2011
Michael Staff replied to ZeroZero's discussion A good source for violin technique for the composer
"Thanks for the excellent resource. I'm not a violinist either so this will help a great deal!"
Nov 20, 2011
ZeroZero replied to Simon Godden's discussion Cubase 6
"I am glad you are sorted out, but your comment about using one instance of Play per instrument - is this right?
I use one instance of Play per instrument group  - e.g woodwinds, strings etc. For each instance there are sixteen channels available.…"
Nov 16, 2011
ZeroZero replied to Simon Godden's discussion Cubase 6
"A core i7 is an intel CPU which set a certain standard - comes in may flavours, but at time it first hit the market it was faster than everytthing. There is now a processor called Xeon and the i7 range has now got six core processors.
The core i7…"
Nov 14, 2011
ZeroZero replied to James Mulvale's discussion Quickly sketching compositions with Cubase and Miroslav Philharmonik
"Hi John  I think expression maps are also in Cubase 5, though there are a few minor bugs - when looping for example - they are worth checking out. As for Cubase score, you will get much better results when you use display quantise well, but working…"
Nov 14, 2011
ZeroZero replied to Doug Lauber's discussion Choose Your Best Samples
"I recently went through all my Omnisphere patches, it took three days! I also have many other VSTs including quite a a few orchestras.
Even say choosing a flute means loading various VST's searching through EWQL, VSL, Garritan, Halion , Kontakt,…"
Nov 13, 2011
ZeroZero replied to Simon Godden's discussion Cubase 6
"Speaking as a long time Cubase user - 15 years or so,  I always found working with big orchestral stuff problem laden, until I upgraded to a core i7 working in 64 bit.
I dont know what your budget is like but this is the real way to solve your…"
Nov 13, 2011
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