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@@markelvinstudio yeah violin harmonics with quarter tones tend to elicit that response

I have Dune 3 and OBsession from Synapse audio and love them all. The Legend of course can obtain some very authentic classic tones and is great to double with orchestral instruments for media scoring.

@@soundtreks Thank you for sharing your opinion!

@@markelvinstudio thanks for listening! 🙏

@@MahlonBouldin 🙏

@@winknotes thanks! I eventually need to cobble these ideas together for a proper piece. :)

@@alontrigger under accidentals you can go into More menu and there are lots of quarter tones.

@@soundtreks Thanks so much. Are the instruments sampled this way or is it manipulated by Muse Score?

@@alontrigger I think they are just pitch bent to be honest. I doubt any developer would go to the trouble and expense of sampling quarter tones. But I think they come off decently. Even shifting quarter tones sound okay to my ears.

@@soundtreks thanks. I enjoyed your music!

@@alontrigger Thanks! These kind of playing effects have long eluded me in a notation context so I'm pretty stoked that MuseScore is opening the floor up to these mid 20th century type of techniques

@@soupcanltd2603 the new MuseHub has all of the expansions currently on sale until the end of July.

@@jade8538 there is curated Berlin Orch expansion for MuseScore that has been ported over from Staffpad. It’s a fraction of the memory footprint as the full blown libraries and has all articulation mappings built in. It’s currently on for $10 per orchestra choir until end of this month. No brainer. Those same expansions cost me $140 each for Staffpad in 2020.

@@soundtreks Wow! I'd not heard of this ... where can I find the Berlin Orch expansion pack you speak of? Do you have a link for it? (I Googled it but nothing comes up ??) Thx!

@@jade8538 it’s available in musehub which got updated last week.

@@winknotes thanks Steve! I will likely return to my Yokai piece since I have the most ideas for that but this was a nice tonal distraction. I’ve had this concept and figure in my head for some years now and I wanted to get it out.

Thanks Jade! Yes, MuseScore playback requires a fair bit of taming and even still, I have to make compositional choices that I normally wouldn't if I were working in Dorico with NotePerformer. But I like the sonic splendour that MS 4 offers, especially in cases where it's not assured I will get my music played by an orchestra. I have the sound expansions for these libraries offered via MuseHub rather than using the full libraries from Kontakt, SINE, or MUSIO. The benefit of the bespoke editions is that they are all pre mapped. Just plop notes in, articulations and dynamics and you are set. :)

@@soundtreks Thx for the info! So, just to be clear -- it sounds like you used a combination of MS 4's 'MuseSounds', in addition to loading in Spitfire strings, Berlin Brass/Winds and CinePerc samples as VSTs for certain instruments. Is that correct?

@@jade8538 I used a couple Muse Perc sounds

I love Dorico Pro and use it for all my commissions. I rely on NotePerformer because it provides the best preview of proper orchestra balance. My last piece sounded very close to the NP mock up which tells me it is doing something right. I use MuseScore Studio and its sounds mostly for this kind of writing because it's what I like to compose and I haven't found an easy way of attaining these sounds in Dorico even with NPPE. But MS is slower to move around on than Dorico and I don't see that changing anytime soon. I tend to write pieces in MuseScore that I don't think I will get a live performance so I want better mock up/performance. If any of my pieces were to be requested to be performed, they would be imported into Dorico for engraving.

@@GlennScottLacey nope I just put the quarter tone accidental in and MuseScore does the rest. I find using a slur sometimes helps make it smoother. I also like the gliss/port playback on the bones. Those are the Berlin series expansion. The Musetrombones don’t glide nicely. But they do play back several jazz arts

@@soundtreks Yes, the trombone stuff is great.

@@GlennScottLacey very much inspired by Japanese composer Sei Ikeno. And my penchant for trombone writing since I used to play it. 😎

agreed. Will this make you look at Staffpad again?

MuseSounds still have a way to go before they are really solid.

I would guess 99 British pounds I’d thinkn

It cost around $200 in Canadian funds but that includes shipping and import duties.

Dorico scans VSTs when it boots up. You could go to the Play tab and then insert them there

The low end I used in finished pieces. It sounds great to my ears. :)

I think the NotePerformer sounds are the most accurate in terms of balance. Synchron has nicer sounding winds but I think the balance isn’t quite as close to the real thing.

my screen capture apps are all messed up since I moved to the Mac Mini M2 Pro. Not sure why but I'm still trying to figure out what happened. Once I do, I will get back to the playthrus. thanks for asking! :)

Thanks. The link to the finished piece is in the description. :)

they used this when Koichi is flying the Shinden to lure Godzilla out to sea. It's also used when he's trying to track down Tachibana. And finally, the choral statement is recapped when he flies his plane into Godzilla's mouth.

ITS ON NETFLIX SO SOME PEOPLE CAN SEE IT AT ANY TIME

Thanks! This is the most abstract the piece will get. It’s a commission so it’s largely going to be tonal. I wanted to evoke the sense of wonder and portent in this establishing movement.

Thank you for listening and your kind words. It is part of a multi movement choral commission. :)

Thanks Steve. Much appreciated. For this movement no it’s just wordless choir like Ravel Daphnis et Chloe. There will be text for the other movements however.

@@soundtreks got it. that seems exactly appropriate based on your demo.

Glad you enjoyed it!

This version was incomplete. I hadn’t finished the entire work yet.

Thanks Steve. This was a case of adrenaline guiding me as well as some material I've been chipping away at for decades for a proper ballet on Musashi.

@@charliev906 thank you for your kind comments. 🙏 the trumpet figure in the last section was inspired by Ives’ Unanswered Question but I can see how it evokes the sonorities of Adam’s’ Anfortus Wound from Harmonielehre.

Thanks Max! Much appreciated!!

Thank you for listening and commenting! 🙏

Thanks Dave! This is just the beginning of the piece and more or less establishes the mood . It will get louder and more dramatic.