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Donnie · Post by **Donnie** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 4:54 pm

I decided to do something that virtually no other developer will do. That is post an extended demo of just one instrument. This is 'Syrinx' by Debussy. Needless to say it is a VERY hard solo to pull off. I still have a couple of things to tweak but overall I am pretty happy with it right now. Comments are welcome.

24bit demo

http://www.donniechristianstudios.com/2 ... Syrinx.wav

MP3 demo

http://www.donniechristianstudios.com/m ... Syrinx.mp3

Thanks!
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Donnie Christian
http://www.donniechristianstudios.com

ztutz · Post by **ztutz** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:31 pm

Awesome! Beautiful performance, beautiful instrument.

Some serious time doing controller overdubs here. What did you sequence this with?

maximilians1 · Post by **maximilians1** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:40 pm

Wow , great, you just put a lot of flute players out of work

. That sounds really good, I had no idea samples could sound so convincing,did you use a breath controller or a expression pedal to do those swells?

boin · Post by **boin** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 10:42 pm

Donnie wrote:Comments are welcome.

A work of patience and love. Very beautiful!

A minor comment: the tempo seems too stiff for my ears; I believe that playing more "rubato" would make it sound even more natural. But again, for my ears...

Jafo · Post by **Jafo** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:11 am

superb! almost makes me wish i hadn't married a flautiste...

-- just another f*cking observer

Donnie · Post by **Donnie** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 4:37 pm

boin wrote:
Donnie wrote:Comments are welcome.
A work of patience and love. Very beautiful!

A minor comment: the tempo seems too stiff for my ears; I believe that playing more "rubato" would make it sound even more natural. But again, for my ears...

Good call on the tempo! It is randomized and there is "some" rubato but I agree with you that there could be more.

One cool thing is that there are no controller messages in this piece! No volume info/expression etc. What you are hearing is the natural musicality of the samples which is pretty cool. That was always one of my major complaints. Most samples play way to "plain" for my ears.

Thanks!

Donnie

Timfonie · Post by **Timfonie** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 2:32 am

The best samples used in this piece are those of the deformation of the piano stool (or flute stool). Are they velocity sensitive? I mean: the faster you press, the fatter the bottom on the stool? (No offense intended).

Nice work anyway.

Donnie · Post by **Donnie** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:26 pm

Uh, thanks, I think

Donnie

Debussy Syrinx for solo flute