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donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:24 pm

I f**king love that song!

Anyway, found some shoddy midi file and had a go just using the 'romance strings' patch from sonic synth 1 - my fave pop strings sound ever

bittersweet

Sounds fairly good to me.

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:35 pm

I thought Andrew Loog Oldham wrote and owned the rights to the string section which the Rolling Stones used originally and then The Verve later...could be wrong though.

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:58 pm

how much did romance strings cost? also what sample format is it

RonC

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:03 pm

rpc9943 wrote:how much did romance strings cost? also what sample format is it

RonC

Well, it's one of the patches in Sonic Synth from sonic reality, They recently had a group buy, but I think they've stopped selling it. I'm sure symphony strings will will have something similar though;

http://www.esoundz.com/sounds.php?k=orc ... nstruments

3*s · Post by **3*s** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:09 pm

I remember reading that The Verve actually licenced the string sample, however it was from a label that no longer owned the rights to the recording. The guy who arranged the strings was actually credited on the album. The result was a really big, stupid legal battle that ended in some guy getting 100% of the profits from a chart topper. 100% for an original song with a 2 bar string sample? What about the lyrics? The guitars/drums/bass? The performances? The band's image? The promotion? The idea that that sample is responsible for the song's success is obvious bs. Sounds like a case of some oppertunist recording exec trying to get rich for making a phone call to his expensive lawyer, and succeeding. This is the recording industry folks.

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:10 pm

meh then id have to like pull out like $594 for sampletank and $203958 for strings

I'd rather wait for this guy to post strings!

RoNC

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:11 pm

rpc9943 wrote:meh then id have to like pull out like $594 for sampletank and $203958 for strings

I'd rather wait for this guy to post strings!

RoNC

Nay, you get sampletank LE included in with the strings.

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:17 pm

ill consider it someday (in meantime no $)

any other free sf2's?

RChler · Post by **RChler** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:19 pm

CypherOne wrote:I thought Andrew Loog Oldham wrote and owned the rights to the string section which the Rolling Stones used originally and then The Verve later...could be wrong though.

true..it`s part of a song from Oldham's Orchestral albums of Stone's hits...i think it was "The last time"

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CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:20 pm

RChler wrote:
CypherOne wrote:I thought Andrew Loog Oldham wrote and owned the rights to the string section which the Rolling Stones used originally and then The Verve later...could be wrong though.
true..it`s part of a song from Oldham's Orchestral albums of Stone's hits...i think it was "The last time"

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lo3q · Post by **lo3q** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:06 pm

CypherOne wrote:I thought Andrew Loog Oldham wrote and owned the rights to the string section which the Rolling Stones used originally and then The Verve later...could be wrong though.

I recall hearing that The Verve got no composer's royalties for that song - it all went to Jagger/Richards/Oldham/Lawyers. Apparently, a small part of the string arrangement in Bittersweet Symphony was sampled from an orchestral version of a Rolling Stones song, and in the end, that cost them a lot of money... nasty business

wanting cheap/free lush strings like verve's bitterswt symp