Hi NoamL,
Thank you kindly for your post. I was indeed hoping for a response from someone who plays the cello how they would experience this emulation. So I am glad you did!
The only issue I spotted is that the various groups of eighth notes at the end of a bar (e.g. 0:00, 0:33, 00:57) should likely be slurred together on an up bow, to be more lyrical. The library performs them as separate bows, which sounds a little bit fake or maybe a little bit like an amateur cellist.
I agree fully. As soon as the Exp1 (I hope) is released somewhere in the future I will employ more of these bowings/articulations.
Everything else about the cello is utterly convincing to my ears as a cellist... this is a great VI for sure.
This is my experience as well. I resigned letting the cello from OT FC perform from what it was not necessarily designed to do. This composition as said started with using that lib, but I couldn't make it work. Up unto the point that I thought to abandon this piece halfway. Then this cello got out, and after some playing around I could feel the music coming alive again. Whilst knowing that it will be absolutely less in comparison when played by a real cellist like yourself with all the subtle nuances and conveyance that can only be done by a human being, it still can bring something across that resembles music to me.
I love the performance nuances at 00:27, 1:00, 1:48 and 2:44. The problem with solo libraries often is that the library doesn't "know" what a note in the middle of a phrase "means" emotionally.. hard to explain... sometimes a library is over- or under-expressive in a way that reveals it's just a bunch of crossfaded samples with no overall structure. Very few moments like that in this piece... I'm impressed.
I am sure the VH guys will be so utterly pleased to hear this. I think that is why they are doing such a great job, and in their own words a labour of love.
Very nice composition btw. I think the piano works very nicely with the cello, perhaps better than a string arrangement or orchestra arrangement would work.
Reminds me of Faure's Elegy.
I think your piece could enter the cello repertoire
we love performing soulful stuff like this!!
Thank you for your encouraging comments. Creating music for me is a mixture of
1) using what I know, but in such a way that I don't want to repeat it, but use it.
2) an intuitive process that I cannot explain intellectually, like the piece "wants me to go somewhere with it" which is usually not what I could invent in my mind beforehand.
3) imagining what the nature of the instrument is I use for the composition and how it expresses music through that instrument.
Since creating music is like a compulsory thing for me, like many musicians I guess
, I am really glad to hear that you would see it as a possible repertoire for cellists. To me, In the end music is created for adding to human experience. So I am glad if this might be a contribution to that.
Thanks again for your welcomed comments NoamL!
