On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Luis Garrido wrote:
>>> I was struck and surprised to read about removing notation for an
>>> environment seeking to keep in mind "users who write orchestral music".
>>
>> If you have ever tried to make an orchestral score sound minimally
>> realistic using a sampler you'll understand why.
>
> I never did that, but I do come with classical background and writing
> classical score by drawing sticks in MIDI editor and not being able to
> work on actual notation sounds like a joke to me. Especially since RG
> is able to show several tracks in one notation editor which you cannot
> do with matrix editor. Being able to edit data for multiple tracks
> simultaneously simply rocks.
That is one aspect of the using the matrix editor that is kind of
limiting, it would be nice if you could have selected regions all show
up together (in different colors, of course) like they do in the
notation editor. I don't know many MIDI apps that will show multiple
tracks in the matrix editor (Digital Performer might, it seems to be
popular with MIDI orchestrators).
Getting back to MIDI orchestration, knowing how to write notation for
live players is an essential skill for an orchestrator, but that is
separate from knowing how to do MIDI orchestration, which involves a
lot more than just knowing the music theory and the notation. Very few
notation editors will do "What you hear is what you see", and you
still need to fix up the MIDI to do things like crescendos,
dimenuendos, articulations (which may require multiple tracks, key
switches, etc, even though you would not notate it this way),
expression, etc. And having a good sample playback engine and good
samples is essential also.
-- Brett
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