Falling Leaves (Solo, Soundiron, Heavyocity, Omnisphere)

DavidEnglish

This is a music track that I improvised on two MIDI keyboards connected to Bitwig Studio on a desktop PC. There the MIDI was routed to Solo for the descant horn, soprano singing voice, and flute; Soundiron and Heavyocity for the choir; and Omnisphere for the other instruments.

After bringing the audio recording into Vegas Pro, I applied the Lurssen Mastering Console plug-in to the audio mix.

It's titled Falling Leaves.

McD

The quality of your productions is inspiring: the instruments and vocals, the powerful reverb, the low end in this one just pulled me in and wrapped me in a blissful state.

I like the extra space you put between notes in some sections to let them decay before the subsequent note. Nice touch.

DavidEnglish

Thanks, @McD. Much appreciated.

Since the notes are recorded as MIDI notes, I try out different tempos to see what works best with each piece. I typically slow it down by globally scaling it by 150% or 175%. Then I globally scale it by 10% up or down until everything feels right. Bitwig Studio makes it very easy to readjust MIDI speeds. That's something that I wish AUM would incorporate.

McD

@DavidEnglish said:
Since the notes are recorded as MIDI notes, I try out different tempos to see what works best with each piece. I typically slow it down by globally scaling it by 150% or 175%. Then I globally scale it by 10% up or down until everything feels right. Bitwig Studio makes it very easy to readjust MIDI speeds.

Yes. MIDI is effective a recording of events against a very fast clock. After recording the events can easily be scaled, transposed, quantized, echo’ed, or creatively manipulated.

That's something that I wish AUM would incorporate.

AUM deals with audio only and the resulting file recordings can be looped, slowed down or sped up but only with pitch shifting.
Koala has pretty decent code to shift the time span of audio without changing pitch and it works inside AUM so… But pitch shifting or time stretching always changes the character is subtle or terrible ways.

Wouldn’t it be nice to see some of the better Desktop DAWs find their way onto IOS devices? The memory and process requirements have been met. It’s adding touch or the reliance on a desktop only framework that might be barrier. Of course, we expect a discounted product. But the success of Modartt PianoTeq 8 might show the way… just add IOS as a benefit to the desktop buyer or let the IOS user pay the same price. (I’m sure many are waiting for sales events).

GeoTony

Lovely choice of instruments, especially enjoyed the horn. Great visuals as usual. 🙏

DavidEnglish

Thanks, @GeoTony. Much appreciated.