Just a quick response to the complaint about instrumentation in
sample libraries.
Whoever makes them and markets them has to decide what to include and
what to leave out, just as MM must make similar decisions about their
products. It seems foolish to criticize the exclusion of one or two
fairly specialized instruments in a package that contains most of
what most people will need.
Some of us are lucky that Gary responded to our requests for the
inclusion of the bass clarinet (for example) in the Jazz library.
But if you write for a jazz band with horns, you need GPO. I see that
as a packaging and marketing decision driven by things that are far
beyond the control of any individual end user, and I am pretty calm
in accepting that, just as I accept the fact that our 2002 Mercedes
station wagon doesn't have 4 wheel drive (newer models, for more
money, have it), which we need a couple of days a year. We are
forced to walk or rely on our neighbors in those circumstances, so we
either get much needed exercise, or welcome contact with our
neighbors, who seem to enjoy the chance to help us. Do I sound like
Peter Positive here or what?
Chuck
On Oct 6, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
I don't believe saxophone is included in an orchestra.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestra
I don't believe that the London Symphony Orchestra has saxophones
in it.
Ken Moore wrote:
dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Garritan also made money by not including some very important
instruments in their GPO product, most notably saxophones and
electric guitars and basses, very reasonably claiming that those
instruments aren't part of the standard orchestra. So they then
forced people who wanted THOSE sounds to buy an extra product as
well. Very smart marketing. And all those people who purchased
the standalone Jazz and Big Band product who still wanted full
orchestra sounds needed to buy both products. Even more money
for Garritan.
Except for the sales lost to people like me who decided that the
omission of the saxophone from the orchestra was such an egregious
rip-off that Garritan was a company with whom I would not do
business.* Look at all the 20th C. percussion they offer, and
consider that the saxophone has been a regular member of the
orchestra since before 1865 (Meyerbeer); and is used in important
works by, inter alia, Bizet, Debussy and Rachmaninov.
* I write only for human players, mostly my amateur musician
friends, so realistic play-back is not a strong requirement.
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