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Jasmine / GeoSax++
An odd amalgam of instruments. SWAM Sax played on a midi keyboard. Expression added by overdubbing the midi sax notes with the GeoShred Vibrato and Growl. Microsonic Bright Acoustic Piano, Noise, iFretless Bass, SwarPlug Bansuri Flute, DRC Silk Strings and Kroncker preset Enya2 by @shinyisshiny! (the organ sound sort of)
Comments
@Max23. I picked it especially for the brightness. It doesn’t sound sharp to my ears.
Max is very forthright in his opinions. I don't always agree with him but I think he might be right about this one. Maybe it just needs a bit of 'glue' from something like MDE. Love the Sax though!
@Max23 @Gavinski. See if you like this better. I substituted the Module American D (Misnamed BeatHawk on SoundCloud) for the Microsonic. They’re different, but not sure if I prefer one over the other.
I definitely prefer this softer piano
@Gavinski, that’s good. I prefer, I think, how the Microsonic cuts thru the mix.
It still needs some glue, I think! But I really love the Sax, beautiful playing.
@LinearLineman I’m going for the Bright Acoustic which is odd for me as I normally prefer mellow. I agree it fits the track better. Great Sax sound and playing.
@GeoTony,, here’s why I agree with you on the first version...
I’ve done probably 200 tracks with the venerable Ravenscroft 275, and these days I seem to be searching for alternatives. Not because RC275 isn’t, IMO, the best iOS offers so far, but because I’m a little bored with it. Not with the sound of it.... which is great... but with my expectations. I always know what is coming with it.... especially since I always use the “Classical” preset!
In terms of expressiveness, almost all solo instruments offer a greater (less subtle) ranger of expression. The notes are just more bendable. Of course, with modern day mangling, the piano can become almost anything, but it often becomes less of a percussive instrument when doing so. With a piano the widest expressiveness as a melodic instrument comes out with the softer uses. It’s harder to put “expression” into the percussive aspect of it... which devolves to one form of “banging” over another. So, I am thinking now more of timbre when looking for variety in piano choices. Maybe the best example is when a piano app has a “Rock Piano” preset. Theykre always the same... EQd into a brash representation opposedwhat a piano “should be”. It seems obvious why that had to be. A mellow piano just can’t cut thru the volume of a rock band. That’s why I chose the Microsonic “Bright Acoustic” after auditioning Retro Piano and BeatHawk full grand first. Honkey Tonk piano is another example... the fucker is out of tune, yet people search for good ones in digital format.
What is “disruptive” about my piano choice, as evinced by @Max23 saying it sounded “awful and sharp”,is that this is a rather cruising jazz track and, historically, it calls for a cool piano sound. I agree with that... historically. But we live in a genre fluxing world and I embrace that... and am explorative in that respect.
I am willing to “jangle” when it hits my ear in just the right way... and this is such an occurrence,
It makes sense to me that Max heard it as an irritating sound. When I first plugged in the Bright Acoustic I played with the attack (Cubasis3 is great for that in that all the onboard sounds have A and R adjustments)
So, to my ears, at first, I thought there might me too much attack (@McD has complained occasionally about just this). But, strangely, even the smallest softening of the attack took away from the effect I was intuitively thinking was the best choice for the track.
The second track with Module American D sounds fine to me... but the contrast of the grooving sax with the cutting piano of the first version is just more interesting and affecting, IMO. I can understand that everyone won’t feel that way.
I prefer the second piano. And I can’t even hear high frequencies.
@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr, probably most listeners would prefer the second. A bit easier on the ears, but not as dynamic, IMO. Thanks for listening to both.