"Working with virtual instruments gives an insight into the possibilities of instrumentation - without much prior practical knowledge."
A laptop and a DAW are often all you need to produce music - without expensive musicians or studios. On the face of it, this sounds fantastic. The fact is that many people in the world today are capable of making music. People who have a background in music and a feel for it are particularly good at it.
What professionals say:
“I find it unfortunate that the world of DAWS has had so much influence in the way composition is done. In other words, a lot of composers write what sounds good on a DAW rather than what is possible to do with live players.”
film composer
"Poorly orchestrated music can only have a poor sound. Even the best DAW can't prevent this."
tv and film composer
"I think that there are composers who like tweaking and reprogramming sounds as they feel that those tweaks are what will “make the music”. For me it is the melodic and harmonic content that count so I would rather just get a group of sounds I like and keep them as my palette."
award winning film composer
Dynamic_Scores is made for musicians ...
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who do not want to miss out on virtual instruments when working on sheet
music,
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who do not understand instrumentation as a process of "trial and
error",
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who are looking for a "refined sound" rather than a
"Hollywood sound",
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who
want to use experience from the field of instrumentation for their own projects.
What will you expect?
Scenarios with different musical characters
are presented, discussed and worked through using musical examples. This will
always be done on a "before and after" basis, accompanied by musical
notation and audio examples. Here are the first 3 scenarios:
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Scenario 1 - A musical
idea is elaborated using the notation software's built-in tools
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Scenario 2 - An
instrumental passage is optimised for a mock-up
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Scenario 3 - A finished interpretation is
"recreated"