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    Best Inexpensive String Library

    Cinematic Strings 2
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    Using sounds on external drive with USB ?

    I use an external SSD, USB 3.0 No problems No Latency
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    Muzzle on Daniel James?

    False. I am. All you need to know is that it's a product made by Spitfire audio with Hans' name attached to it. Daniel James made a first-impression video that went on for hours and was largely negative. Many shenanigans ensued, including Zimmer himself $#%*ing on Daniel. Various people went...
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    And the next Project SAM library will be.....?????

    Something neither orchestral nor big band, I'd hope.
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    Video Games: The Land Of Milk & Honey...or Media Sensationalism?

    The first game I ever did suffered that fate. I asked the how it was going a month or so post-release and they said "We've made just enough money to cover what we paid you for the music". I agree about getting out there 100%, but I do think there's some things people should be aware of: I...
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    East West VS Best Service

    No
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    East West VS Best Service

    There is no comparison: Get Ancient Era Persia, thank me later. You won't regret that purchase.
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    Video Games: The Land Of Milk & Honey...or Media Sensationalism?

    Maybe it's just me expecting too much, but I always kinda thought most people who want to work in the video game industry would probably realize that beforehand. Damn Probably not Well, I don't know as many indie directors as I do indie game makers, but the grandest promise that never...
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    Video Games: The Land Of Milk & Honey...or Media Sensationalism?

    Your experience mirrors mine. I'm not sure why so many game devs can't finish what they start, but I understand (and it's observable) that this is not limited to the indie sector. Look how many years Final Fantasy 15 or Kingdom Hearts 3 have been in development. How many games have been...
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    Video Games: The Land Of Milk & Honey...or Media Sensationalism?

    "Where a movie ticket costs, on average, about $8.50, AAA games cost $60, which gives games a major earning advantage." This is a common argument I've heard from gamers (I want to stress I'm not ripping on video games in this thread) to state that games are "bigger" than film: That the industry...
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    Video Games: The Land Of Milk & Honey...or Media Sensationalism?

    Bit of a long post, doin' some investigation, but hang in there: I've long noticed that on forums dedicated to indie game development, every single site is flooded with ads saying "Composer Available!" mostly from an unending stream of people all making pretty much the same music. Any ad that...
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    Learning music theory - why it matters

    Yeah, exactly. I've never known someone say they wish they didn't know theory.
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    Learning music theory - why it matters

    I've noticed over the years that there are two different, but related things people are talking about when they discuss the value of learning "music theory". The first is the literal definition, by referring to every sort of term possible to describe something in music. A large portion of this...
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    Musicians & Mental Health

    and with all respect, these aren't assumptions. I just don't see how this is at all up for debate. Societies that had/have significant labor forces, economic strength via trade, etc. went on to build the greatest monuments and lasting works of art known the world over. They built roads...
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    Musicians & Mental Health

    This is exactly the point, Greg. Would you rather live like the !Kung or similar cultures who remained in a fairly stagnant, tribal state, with little in the way of technological advancement for thousands of years... or would you have rather lived in Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, etc? Hell, if...
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    Musicians & Mental Health

    There has always been an exchange of labor for goods and services in the stead of currency and yes, every single successful civilization had a substantial workforce (slaves or paid) and trade. It's off-topic, but I stand by my point: Countries without jobs and people to do them haven't done...
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    Musicians & Mental Health

    Personally, I'm a bit awestruck that anyone is asking. :grin: Every single item you can possibly buy in a store, real or online; every service you can hire, and all the jobs resulting, are born of supply and demand. I know the cool kids like to shit on the free market these days, but the...
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    Musicians & Mental Health

    That is a really good point. I have a lot of friends who play in metal bands who do that. It's also even worse their because they wind up paying to play shows and get nothing in return from it. It's like "Oh yeah, everything's great. We're recording a new album and playing lots of shows"...yeah...
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    Musicians & Mental Health

    The 90s did put maximum effort toward painting office jobs into a very bleak picture, but those jobs honestly never seemed that bad to me. My mom has worked office jobs for over 20 years and loves it. My sister had a good job in an office until pretty much the whole office suffered layoffs...
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    Musicians & Mental Health

    You take the boat on the lakes 'round here or go out to BC?
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    Reasons to use separate sample drive(s) rather than system SSD?

    I stream my samples off an external SSD and it's pretty much the best decision I've made as far as music and hardware goes. :roflmao:
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    Would doing "a song a day" help me speed up the composition process or just result in frustration?

    The OP didn't say (s)he wanted to be a pro film composer, though — I mean, maybe they do...but still, your example is a bit hyperbolic. Anyway, to answer the question: I've overcome this issue myself by doing two things: • Only make the piece be as long as it actually needs to be. A lot of...
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    Cubase vs Reaper for composing. Is the grass greener?

    IMO, Reaper is the best DAW out there. I started with FL Studio, I've used ProTools, at the college I went to we used Logic, and I've tried Cubase a number of times on their month-long, full-featured trials. and Cubase is great, as is ProTools or Logic — I could honestly use any of them and be...
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    Do you compose wet or dry?

    Always after a shower; so wet. But I try to avoid artificial reverb, actually. I just use the microphone positions as much as possible. I just like how that sounds better. But the piano patch I use to compose with has a reverb on it by default, but since it's just for sketching out the...
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    Indie/Student Directors & The Problem Of Diegetic Sound

    Not that I disagree with the point that you're making here, I know you said "may" be important, etc. but it's that it's not my job. It's not what they came to me for. Certainly, there's nothing wrong with having a wide range of sound design skills, but I can't get behind the idea that...
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    Indie/Student Directors & The Problem Of Diegetic Sound

    So recently, I was asked to put music to this short scene from an up-and-coming director. It was supposed to be like a cyberpunk sort of deal. The issue is, they brought it to me with the sound incomplete. All that was there was some dialogue and a few sound effects. Not even footsteps in a lot...
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    Live Rock Band Sample Libraries?

    Right, this is what I'm basically getting at. Perhaps I shouldn't have used stadium examples or whatever, but they're the only ones I can think of that are readily available to pull from YouTube and stuff. I guess I should have just said "rock band instruments mic'd from multiple distances"...
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    Live Rock Band Sample Libraries?

    Neither is a Flute, Oboe, or Clarinet by itself and yet almost every woodwind library out there samples them, on a scoring state or in a hall, and have done so quite effectively. Probably not in your opinion though, but this thread isn't about your opinion on whether or not recording a rock...
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    Live Rock Band Sample Libraries?

    Okay... and the live bleed is the important part here a band is an ensemble. and an orchestra isn't? That's what they say about literally all sample libraries. Well I agree about the when it comes to electric guitars part for the most part, but that's completely not the point of this...
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    Favourite sketching library?

    Ditto
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    Live Rock Band Sample Libraries?

    Something I've come to realize about my musical tastes in recent times is my dislike of using artificial reverbs. Like, with orchestral samples, I greatly prefer just using the microphone positions. It's the same with me and rock/metal music. I hate the sound of just shoving an SM57 in the...
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    Windows 10 update sounds alarming

    So glad I stayed with 8
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    What is the most amazing thing you can do with samples?

    Not for at least a year, but in my experience what he says about the average bass player tends to be true. :roflmao:
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    My situation. Any Advice or Pointers?

    You've already made it, no deal. :roflmao: Besides, I might have to dodge airplanes on the road and stuff :grin: I'm also not actually into Hockey, but even I know that the Flames destroy the Oilers.
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    My situation. Any Advice or Pointers?

    Lol. Good logical fallacy there The information is undeniably true and as we see here; you guys love to ignore the entire graveyards of people who were just as talented, just as determined if not more so, and it never happened. Keep your day jobs folks. In twenty years, if you wind up living...
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    My situation. Any Advice or Pointers?

    It's like people learned nothing from that conversation we had about "survival bias"
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    Are Pretty Good Marvel Superhero Movies the Best Hollywood Can Do?

    Alberta represent, wooo! But yeah, she's hot as all hell.
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    Dave Smith + 8dio Sequential Prophet X

    8Dio and outrageous prices are a package deal, bro.
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    What is the most amazing thing you can do with samples?

    Have a drummer that can play on time and bass player who isn't a useless $#%^
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    Composing VS Primary job , no ideas

    I didn't say it didn't, though. I would say that the money aspect matters when you want to pursue it as a career; otherwise, it is almost by definition a hobby.
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    Are Pretty Good Marvel Superhero Movies the Best Hollywood Can Do?

    In lighter news, Antman & The Wasp looks awesome. Lovin' the buddy-cop sorta style.
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    Composing VS Primary job , no ideas

    "Whether it be movie stars, or athletes, or musicians, or CEOs of multibillion-dollar corporations who dropped out of school, popular media often tells the story of the determined individual who pursues their dreams and beats the odds. There is much less focus on the many people that may be...
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    Composing VS Primary job , no ideas

    The trouble is, I've met and jammed with quite a number of musicians older than me over the years and the thesis of my point in these conversations isn't really "get over it, loser" but more "what about the other guys?" What about the silent majority? Because like I say, most of the "old guys"...
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    Composing VS Primary job , no ideas

    I have a friend who plays in a lot of metal and rock bands, but never enough to make serious money at it. But he builds custom electric guitars, repairs them, etc. for a living. He seems pretty happy doing that. I have another friend who also played in a lot of bands, but never made it big. He...
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    Are Pretty Good Marvel Superhero Movies the Best Hollywood Can Do?

    I'm kinda the opposite. It used to be that I couldn't stand a series. I just wanted to watch movie, a self-contained story, and be done. But now I prefer series like Thrones, Black Sails, Avatar: The Last Airbender, the new Voltron, etc. because you get to spend so much more time in the world...
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    Are Pretty Good Marvel Superhero Movies the Best Hollywood Can Do?

    Have you ever made a post entering a thread on these forums that didn't start with you asserting how much fucking better you and your tastes are than everyone else? Because I haven't seen one. Anyway, Ant Man was probably the best of the MCU so far in my opinion. It was basically a heist movie...
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    Are Pretty Good Marvel Superhero Movies the Best Hollywood Can Do?

    I'm just so $#%*in' tired of Marvel. If you'd told 16 year old me, when the first Iron Man came out, that one day I'd be sick to death of Marvel Superheroes, he'd have never believed it.
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    DAW or notation first

    I always used to do notation first because that's how I started, but now I've come to realize the DAW is generally superior. Reason has to do with MIDI. With ghost notes and such it's way easier to see how the part writing/counterpoint is turning out and easier to spot problems; At least, it is...
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    My situation. Any Advice or Pointers?

    The reason I speak of projects with a sort of renown is because it's pretty unlikely one is going to be making enough money to pay their bills unless they're scoring projects that have some clout because they're the ones with the money to spend. You say you did a major film and now you like...
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    My situation. Any Advice or Pointers?

    This argument is easily backed up. Frankly, if one doubts it, I question they pay much attention to the world around them. We went over this in a thread I created about a friend who was wanting to get into this film composing stuff at age 40, with no music theory knowledge, or anything. That...
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    My situation. Any Advice or Pointers?

    I personally don't believe we are in control of our destiny; that's why it's called destiny but that's a debate for another time. I think there are a lot of factors, and yeah, a lot of it probably does have to do with age discrimination and lots of the "appearance" variety. A 40-something year...
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    Promoting Sales and Marketing over Product Creators.

    It's very simple: The free market. Don't like it — don't buy it.
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    My situation. Any Advice or Pointers?

    This is the real advice. I hate to be a Debbie downer here, and I don't mean to hurt butts when I say this stuff, but at age 34 if you're not making a living at music or on a very strong track toward doing so, it's extraordinarily unlikely you ever will. We had this discussion 'round here...
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    Promoting Sales and Marketing over Product Creators.

    Because I felt like it, and I was offering a different perspective.
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    Promoting Sales and Marketing over Product Creators.

    Whatever moral compass any of us think big companies "should" follow is irrelevant. They do what they want and the only way to "fight" it, is with your wallet.
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    Promoting Sales and Marketing over Product Creators.

    I'm sure they have nothing to do with it. Again, how is this a legitimate concern? If they shift gears and focus on marketing at the expense of innovation, that's only good for the competitors who will do the opposite. I don't care how much marketing McDonald's does. Their food is shit and...
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    Promoting Sales and Marketing over Product Creators.

    There is no way I can believe this thread has nothing to do with that fiasco; especially since the marketing of the product based on a name was essentially the whole debate. It's like saying Mike Patti couldn't have been talking about Spitfire because he totally didn't name them. It's the text...
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    Promoting Sales and Marketing over Product Creators.

    Man, you've really gotta let this thing with Spitfire go. Yeah, plenty of companies with tons of money from once great products start just pumping out crap, marketing the hell out of it, and people still eat it up. Look at every successful rock band ever. Can anyone remember an Iron Maiden song...
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    Composing VS Primary job , no ideas

    I agree. I actually know at least one middle-aged guy who's back living with his parents, unable to accept that music is obviously not going to be his life. Inevitably, these guys wind up being the "what if?" types of people. The thing is, and again overtly-artistic people tend to have a...
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    Upcoming woodwinds libraries....

    Adventure Winds, damn it!
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    Composing VS Primary job , no ideas

    I never intend to hurt butts when I say these kinds of things on here, but there are obviously a lot of "artistic" thinkers here, and the more artistic someone is, the less ability they have to think pragmatically or follow conventional wisdom as they tend to feel the world truly is as they see...
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    Composing VS Primary job , no ideas

    Crap dayjobs don't drain of you ideas, they basically drain you of life. If you work a dayjob that is just depressing by itself, I find you have less desire to do anything except get out of that situation. That being said, the quest should be to find a dayjob or career that you actually like —...
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    Celldweller studio tour

    The greatest mystery of all time: Just how old is Klayton?
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    How many hours per day do you compose?

    I hope this is where AI will be of help. Like, I hope that in the not-too-distant future, I can just take the piano sketch, and tell the computer to orchestrate it for the samples I have and set specific parameters, and it will then do exactly that.
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    Realism in Orchestral Tracks

    Fair enough. I dunno, I guess with orchestral libraries I've always relied more on the different mics for that sort of thing, but touche.
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    Realism in Orchestral Tracks

    I'm sure Mike makes a compelling argument. Regardless, I will stand by mine. There is no way that EQ makes anywhere near as much of a difference as the things I mentioned in creating a realistic performance as to go as far to say that it is a necessary step. There is no shortage of product...
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    Realism in Orchestral Tracks

    It's probably been said, but I'm not reading all the replies. But in my opinion: Good part writing, dynamics, tempo fluctuation, good reverb to send the tracks into, respecting the limitations of the instruments, and a decent sample library (most of them are) are all that's necessary. It...
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    Muserk Claimed the Rights on YouTube to Music I Wrote (Resolved)

    From a moral perspective, you are right. If the EULA states that you can use it for commercial productions, then you are completely within your rights to use it. From a pragmatic perspective, he is right. The only way to be sure to avoid this issue, is to forgo using a loop.
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    EWQL Transposing Instruments

    As far as I'm aware that is standard among orchestral libraries. CS2 is the only library I know of that has the basses sound an octave lower than the key struck. I think there is a way in most sequencers and I think Kontakt you can set the MIDI to transpose itself.
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    Orchestrating Rhythmically-Interesting Accompaniment

    Honestly thought I'd get more replies than this. But thanks all the same
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    An idea to address forum toxicity in VI-C

    I can't tell if you're serious or not. I'm going to assume you are. In which case, this is why "The Meanies" got away with firing snot rockets on people in the front row; idolatry giving celebs a free pass to be a dick. Celebrities are people just like everyone else and should be held to the...
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    Your favourite Jerry Goldsmith score

    Also, quick shout out to his son as well (RIP)
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    Your favourite Jerry Goldsmith score

    The Mummy With Basic Instinct in second
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    How Many String Libraries Do You Own?

    One. Cinematic Strings 2. Use it all the time.
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    Some good Downers / Boomers?

    1 Canadian Dollar is .78 US Quite a downer.
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    What's your fav HZ Strings thread ?

    I feel privileged to have been alive to have witness this fiasco
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    Shots fired!

    "a lot of libraries" isn't "libraries are generally overpriced" and "as much a 75%" is "just about every library is discounted by 75%" But yes, a majority of the libraries do go on sale, and some companies do so many times a year and it's usually the ones with the high prices, non-kontakt...
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    Shots fired!

    Just about every orchestral sample library on the market is discounted by as much as 75% percent, multiple times throughout the year, every year. Some devs are especially notorious for this. If you're dropping your prices by substantial amounts, several times, it's a sure sign that you probably...
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    Shots fired!

    The only "fact" I got wrong here was that there is a technical issue with the legato. There is no false advertising. But by all means, continue to quote yourself.
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    Shots fired!

    Oh my bad, nobody anywhere is pissed off because they feel they wasted 800 bucks or whatever on a product they can't resell or refund. My god. So the legato is broken and will be patched. No excuse for people not bothering to read the details about the library on the site or watch the videos...
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    Shots fired!

    Learn 2 multiquote, dude. Oh, well in that case...see my last post about pre-orders. Lots of broken video games at launch, and now samples too I suppose. But I stand by my other points.
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    Shots fired!

    No it isn't lol. I've not seen any ad that stated that it contains all articulations all across the board. Being upset about this simply comes down to not doing your research before buying. Actually, that's what all of this comes down too. I worked retail back when the Playstation 4 came out...
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    Shots fired!

    I just looked at the list on their site, and yes; it is clear from that page that left hand sides do lack some right side articulations and vice versa. So again "missing articulations" is not a valid addition to "doesn't work as advertised" and which are referring to regarding legato? and...
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    Shots fired!

    I've said this elsewhere, but it's worth saying in this thread, I think: This is a learning opportunity for consumers. I hate that I feel "vindicated" in any way about this, but I've long maintained that a lot of sample libraries are indeed over-hyped and overpriced and I've usually been met...
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    HZ Strings First Look VIDEO - Full Live Stream (w/chatroom)

    I really don't understand the complaining around this release and I don't have time to read 13 pages of stuff, but my 2 cents. Also, disclaimer: I don't even own any spitfire products. Speaking to the "I am disappoint" camp: Did you guys not watch any of the walkthroughs and stuff they put out...
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    Orchestrating Rhythmically-Interesting Accompaniment

    Being originally from the rock world, I still find it hard to shake the "rock band" mentality when it comes to orchestral music. Specifically, in making rhythmically interesting accompaniment. It's not a problem with the melody itself, of course. But I find it can be tricky to come up with...
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    Is there a list of chords, intervals, and progressions by emotions?

    Maybe at some point, but there is already AI that can compose basic music by analyzing human pieces and make recreations of renaissance-style paintings. Personally, I hope I'm dead long before AI gets too advanced; the world is going to be shit in the not-too-distant future. Automation and AI...
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    Is there a list of chords, intervals, and progressions by emotions?

    The thing that people don't realize about "creativity" is that it has little to do with "creation" and most to do with design. You cannot just sit there and come up with something that is completely uninspired by anything that came before it. Music itself is ultimately a manipulation of physics...
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    Reaper - How to add midi dynamics / expressions

    In the dropdown menu that says "Velocity or Modwheel", to the left of where you edit the velocities, click it and you will find that CC7 is "volume" and CC11 is "expression" CC7 controls the "master volume" of the plugin if you will; CC11 is the "channel volume" basically. CC1 is...
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    Is there a list of chords, intervals, and progressions by emotions?

    Late to the party, my friend. This is what I responded with as the first reply and triggered the forum.
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    Is there a list of chords, intervals, and progressions by emotions?

    Yeah, exactly. Especially since this is generally coming from aspiring film and game composers. I just don't see how you're going to effectively compose 40+ minutes of music that's both appropriate and any good within often just a few weeks if you don't have some sort of reliable musical...
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    Is there a list of chords, intervals, and progressions by emotions?

    Practice what you preach lol. Anyway, great post @NoamL :)
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    Is there a list of chords, intervals, and progressions by emotions?

    You can misread it however you want; you know full-well what I mean. If the concept is explained, and demonstrated (such as in the video) that is really the best we can do on the internet and is a hell of a lot better than being like "oh go study all these scores, blah blah" Nope. Just "Here's...
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    Is there a list of chords, intervals, and progressions by emotions?

    You're examples fail for exactly the reason the naysayers in this thread fail. Here's an alternative: • Someone TEACHES you how to throw the ball, rather than you just sit and watch and hope you figure it out? Also, I'm not sure if you've ever taken a language course. But they typically DO...
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