synth orchestration

Perhaps one can go beyond just making interesting MIDI sounds. One can
really orchestrate for MIDI in interesting ways.

One can construct "metatimbres". Like in Stravinsky, Symphony of PSalms,
1st movement, there's this ostinato in the oboes, A#-C#-B-D, and
Stravinsky orchestrates it with one oboe playing legato, and the other
playing very secco stacatto. He, in effect, creates a
new instrument out of the combination of two oboes. It sounds cool.

I would think that this kind of orchestrational thinking is a way of
getting even the most recalcitrantly lame MIDI timbres to make interesting
music.

Ultimately, we need to think about these issues.

The number one complaint we hear about microtonal music is, "Well, it's
impractical." "But you can use computers and MIDI." "But then it sounds
lame, canned, cheezy and machine-esque."

Let's work to change that.

It would be nice if there were some high-level tools that "nuanced" MIDI
notes in a score one would write. Putting very slightly varying
amplitude, and pitch envelopes (via volume and pitchbend) on every note,
for example.

Maybe FTS or Scala or one of those programs already does this, I don't
know (I don't own a PC.).