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Gentle Giant cover Aspirations
Remastered a cover from Gentle Giant, recorded in 2010.
Great band. I recorded this song in 2010 sung by my best friend Marjieta sadly died in 2010. Made a remix now. Aspirations.
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Nice mix... I had a friend that exposed me to Gentle Giant. He was involved in a Gentle Giants Tribute CD back in the late 90's. There was a track on that CD that was a real stand out based upon the voice mails of a Recording Company A&R man. I wonder if it exists somewhere out on the internet. It was very memorable.
This tune sounds like the odd metered eccentric music of Gentle Giant with a similar sounding singer... almost a Geddy Lee or Jon Anderson type of voice that exemplifies Prog Rock.
UPDATE:
I found a 5 second excerpt of "Suit Canon - Fugue of the A&R Staff"
https://www.blazemonger.com/GT/audio/sc.mp3
@McD
It is a pity that so little can be found of Gentle Giant, this band is truly unique and musically one of the nicest there has ever been. I recognize your sound sample and it is one of the most beautiful Bach like songs ever made.
Full concert here:
Regards,
frenq
I found a YouTube of the Gentle Giant tune "On Reflection" that inspired the fan's Fugue:
Great job Frenq! Sorry for your loss. He has a wonderful voice, indeed. You’ve got to miss him.
I remember Gentle Giant. An amalgam of Jethro Tull and Zappa, sort of. Great guitarist and keyboards. All the members superb.
There have been at least 3 Gentle Giant fan tribute CDs. I had a track on one of them. The guy who did the Suit Canon has since sadly committed suicide. GG are well worth investigating if you’re into intricately constructed music played with virtuosity and sheer balls. I’m on friendly terms with the guitarist, the keyboard player and both surviving drummers and they’re lovely people too.
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My favorite Gentle Giant song of all!
Loved this one. I am a Long time GG fan and still have my vinyl collection.
On Reflection is one of my favorites. Some very good midifile renditions exist.
One will need a daw that supports time signature and tempo change to fully appreciate most of these midifiles.
I personally use MTS on iOS since it imports midifiles such that the track names are preserved and has a rock solid native SF2 plugin.
Would love to here if StaffPad can handle this version of On Reflection (since you have that vocal IAP).
https://gentlegiantmusic.com/GG/File:Onreflection-geise.mid
From this site. (great resource)
https://gentlegiantmusic.com/GG/MIDI_file
Complex MIDI import into StaffPad has a very low probability of success.
But I'll give it a shot. There is a workaround of importing the MIDI into Notion and exporting
a Music XML output. Sometimes, StaffPad handles Music XML better. I'll report back.
But I've had my heart broken often in these attempts.
I did just get some chords from "Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro" in import into Staffpad
and I just assigned the chords to "Violas". Ideally I'd like to spilt the notes out and map them across the Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola and Cello. But I'm finding apps that seem to flow together
but MIDI import crashes a lot of apps. (I'm lookin' at you Cubasis 2 and 3).
I've been having some god luck with LK MIDI imports and I'm expecting Atom 2 to be
very useful. Korg Module can help others avoid StaffPad all together.
Module has a great Choir IAP... I might test that too with your GG MIDI file.
It looks like LK will add a feature to import one of many MIDI channels per import so they can be distributed across multiple channels in the Matrix IAP.
PROGRESS REPORT #1:
Midi imported into Sequence 2 and there are over a dozen tracks... 4 are vocals.
Tried importing the MIDI into StaffPad... KA-RASH.
Import the MIDI into Notion and export a Music XML copy.
Music XML imported into StaffPad... labels but no instruments assigned.
I assigned a VOXOS tenors instrument to track one. It worked!
Tried track 2 vocal... KA-RASH.
So, here's one vocal track. I need to use syllables to get more articulation
from this busy vocal line:
WAIT! A piano part, a bass instrument and some strings were assigned too. WTF. I'll take it.
Small victory... I'll keep trying to see how many of these audio stems I can get.
Really nice Frenq! GG was a band worthy of many tributes. So sorry to hear of the passing of your friend with the beautiful voice.
The guy who did the brilliant Suit Canon was the incredibly talented Kevin Gilbert. I saw him live in the Mission District in SF not long after I moved to the Bay Area. He was an inspiring performer and an amazing composer and producer. Another premature departure from this world.
http://kevingilbert.com/
Gentle Giant was one of my favorite bands in high school (mid-70s). I was blown away the first time I heard their music. Thanks for the thread.
@McD Thanks for your efforts with StaffPad. I recently bought StaffPad (your posts pushed me off the fence) and need to start getting familiar with it’s idiosyncrasies. Have already learned much from your various posts. Back on topic, it’s nice to see the Gentle Giant love here on this forum.
@McD
The file imported into Bismark just fine, although every start reset all the parts to piano. From there I just recorded all 16 MIDI parts live into 16 tracks of Cubasis 2 and set them to approximations of the original instruments. I guess I could export each track by soloing and mixing down to MIDI file 16 times if anyone’s that desperate...
I hope you're enjoying those libraries. The rendering of StaffPad is amazingly powerful but so labor intensive. It's a niche for music students and composers... so the prices will never drop to typical IOS levels.
I've been looking for easy ways to import MIDI or Music XML and the stability of StaffPad for those files is just not ready to justify the expense of the app. But I suspect it could be in 1-2 years. I think a lot of desktop composers will consider the iPad pricing to be chump change by comparison and the results speak for theselves. Most Desktop users compose in a transcription app and then generate an output to load into a typical DAW for rendering.
Since StaffPad renders well in the transcription app it distinguishes itself. Of course, Desktop
rendering in a transcription app will improve but you'd send $1000+ to have a capable set of
libraries to render in Sibelius or Finale I think.
I've had a couple experiments that have paid off:
Piano Motifs imported into Staffpad but importing Piano Motifs MIDI into LK and rendering with the usual AUv3 instruments is also viable for non-notational users.
What I need to investigate are the capabilities of MIDI apps to play in say Xequence 2 and
record in LK for playback in AUM to save extra steps. Any advice in that regard appreciated.
Atom 2 may be a huge boost in options.
I know this is off track from Gentle Giant but it keeps the page active for more GG exposure
and comment so I think that's a good thing.
Kevin Gilbert was amazing: http://kevingilbert.com/
A live version from the Rock Opera "The Taming of the True" by Kevin Gilbert:
Here's the complete mix of Kevin Gilbert's version: