Transformation on the VSC

I've done another new recording of my 17-ET "Transformation", this time entirely on the Edirol Virtual Sound Canvas.

http://home.comcast.net/~teamouse/Transformation-vsc.mp3

There are still some glitches in the tuning, but these were in the original AWE32 version as well. I've cleaned up the worst of them. This version takes advantage of the chorus feature and the variety of string sounds in the GS mode of the VSC to end up with a more interesting string section than the AWE32's General MIDI.

Just for fun I tried sequencing the start of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" on the VSC (one of the more interesting things that's been done with 12-ET), since a couple of web sites for orchestral plugins have used this as an example.

http://home.comcast.net/~teamouse/sacre-vsc.mp3

The opening bassoon is pretty awful, I have to admit, even with a fairly low setting for the brightness. It almost seems like it makes a better English horn, and the English horn that follows makes a better bassoon. I could spend a bit more time balancing the parts as well.... But the brightness control allows me to make a distinction between the clarinets in A and the little D clarinet, and the VSC also has a fairly nice bass clarinet which is outside of the General MIDI bank (listen for it from 1:16 to 1:22). I also use the brightness control to make the alto flute a little darker than the regular flute.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Herman Miller <hmiller@I...> wrote:

> http://home.comcast.net/~teamouse/Transformation-vsc.mp3

There seems to be a visible link to only one piece on
~teamouse.

Gene Ward Smith wrote:
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Herman Miller <hmiller@I...> wrote:
> > >>http://home.comcast.net/~teamouse/Transformation-vsc.mp3
> > > There seems to be a visible link to only one piece on
> ~teamouse.

That page is a placeholder; I haven't put together a web page to go there yet. My main music page is at:

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/music/index.html

I might as well start filling in the Comcast page, since that's where I intend to put up most of the large files like mp3's from now on. I just put up a new version of the 5-ET "Daybreak on Slendro Mountain", which replaces the General MIDI instruments of the original with kawala, nay, "barafon" (Japanese for "balafon"?), log drum, bonang, gender, chamber strings, cello section, and a combination of bandoneon and detuned electric piano for the bass (all using the Edirol VSC).

http://home.comcast.net/~teamouse/daybreak-vsc.mp3