Klarinet Archive - Posting 001088.txt from 1998/07

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Brahms 4th Symphony, 2nd movement
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 01:23:45 -0400

From: Sherri <sheba@-----.net>

On 26 Jul 98 at 11:36, Mark Charette wrote:

>> Dear Sherri - please don't change the instrumentation on a public file!
MIDI
>> audio output isn't standardized, so what sounds bad on your synth might
be
>> great on someone elses. I've spent hours re-orchestrating perfectly good
>> MIDI files because someone customized them for their board - the
>> instrumentation was totally messed up. (I dinstinctly remember one where
>> accordion replaced oboe/english horn - and it sounded just a little
>> strange - but not too bad :)
>>
>> You might want to provide 2 files - the standard orchestration, and one
with
>> a note saying it sounds better than the standard one on an _XYZ_ card.
>
>Did you listen to the file?? If so does the "pizz" not sound right?
>
>I have listened to the file on other computers and it sounds really
>good. On any computer the pizz does not "ring". I love Brahms and I
>believe those pizz notes sound really good with the harp sound. To me
>it doesn't sound like a harp but a really good string section.
>
>>From the way your message reads, it's almost as if you are saying
>that my midi sounds really bad because I changed an instrumentation.
>It's been done before with good success you know.
>
>P.S. And I don't think you've listened to the file.
>Judge for yourselves.

Sherri - you missed my point. I didn't say it didn't _sound_ good in your
instrumentation, only that it's difficult to put it back into the correct
instrumentation. I have my own patches on my synths (4 - 2 external). My
harp _really does_ sound like a harp, not pizzicato strings. My pizzicato
strings (on an external synth) are good samples (very small interpolations).
I was just asking that you provide one with the original instrumentation - I
made no comment on the quality. In fact - I would _never_ make a judgment on
the _sound_ of a MIDI file, since MIDI involves no sound at all, only
timing, very limited volume, patch, effect, and pitch information - in a
pretty crude and slow format.
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Mark Charette, Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
charette@-----.org
"There can be no freedom without discipline." - Nadia Boulanger

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