Karl Garrett
05-15-2004, 09:26 PM
Here is the Digital Performer file for Waltz for Bert, which, in a thread below, I said I would post even though no one asked. Hope it\'s not seen as being too forward. There aren\'t too many DP files floating around this forum. If you are a seasoned DP user, this file may not be too enlightening, but if you are just getting started with DP it may shed some light on how to make your pieces sound a little more natural. I don’t want anyone to think that it’s as good as a real piano player recording it, and I haven’t given it time to rest in my mind in order to go back and clean it up. But for what it’s worth here it is. The intent was to make it sound about as good as I could play it with about 6 months practice. Or to put it another way, like an almost good barroom piano player in the late 1900s after he’s had a few too many beers. Maybe in the big band edition of GPO coming to a dealer near you real soon, /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Gary will include ambient nightclub crowd noise, people laughing, glasses clinking, waiters dropping trays etc./ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
DP might ask you what happened to the plugs and such that I used (reverb and such) but just ignore it. You may also have to manually reload the GPO piano in the instrument track that accompanies the midi track. It might ask you for a soundbite, which of course you don’t have. Then again it might load with no difficulties. I\'m not sure what it will do.
What I had was a hand written piano rendition that I wrote when sequencing software existed only in the imagination of a couple of programmers. Yesterday I typed the piece into Composer’s Mosaic in O.S.9, which it appears MOTU is letting die a slow painful death. The midi file was then imported into DP. The process took about three and a half hours. There were four steps taken to breathe, what I hope was some realism into this sequence:
<ul type=\"square\"> Adjusting note attacks so that the notes in a chord don’t fall exactly together. (no human is as good as a computer), and to add some natural arpeggiation at key points.
Adjusting note lengths so that they allow, for instance, the pianist’s hands the time to get from place to place on the keyboard, when, if the damper pedal is not down, there will be a slight break between the notes.
Adjusting Velocities with strong and weak beats as well as to reflect the general ebb and flow of the phrasing and dynamics of the piece. Remember that even when a chord is played, the melody is usually a little stronger than the supporting harmonies. Also, no human can play a chord with every note having the exact same velocity.
Playing with DP’s superb tempo controls to get a more realistic performance. [/list]
Well, that’s it, Hope someone gets something out of this.
WALTZ FOR BERT.dpfile (\"http://www.mydocsonline.com/pub/larkg/WALTZ%20FOR%20BERT\")
WALTZ FOR BERT.mp3 (\"http://www.mydocsonline.com/pub/larkg/Waltz%20for%20Bert%203.mp3\")
DP might ask you what happened to the plugs and such that I used (reverb and such) but just ignore it. You may also have to manually reload the GPO piano in the instrument track that accompanies the midi track. It might ask you for a soundbite, which of course you don’t have. Then again it might load with no difficulties. I\'m not sure what it will do.
What I had was a hand written piano rendition that I wrote when sequencing software existed only in the imagination of a couple of programmers. Yesterday I typed the piece into Composer’s Mosaic in O.S.9, which it appears MOTU is letting die a slow painful death. The midi file was then imported into DP. The process took about three and a half hours. There were four steps taken to breathe, what I hope was some realism into this sequence:
<ul type=\"square\"> Adjusting note attacks so that the notes in a chord don’t fall exactly together. (no human is as good as a computer), and to add some natural arpeggiation at key points.
Adjusting note lengths so that they allow, for instance, the pianist’s hands the time to get from place to place on the keyboard, when, if the damper pedal is not down, there will be a slight break between the notes.
Adjusting Velocities with strong and weak beats as well as to reflect the general ebb and flow of the phrasing and dynamics of the piece. Remember that even when a chord is played, the melody is usually a little stronger than the supporting harmonies. Also, no human can play a chord with every note having the exact same velocity.
Playing with DP’s superb tempo controls to get a more realistic performance. [/list]
Well, that’s it, Hope someone gets something out of this.
WALTZ FOR BERT.dpfile (\"http://www.mydocsonline.com/pub/larkg/WALTZ%20FOR%20BERT\")
WALTZ FOR BERT.mp3 (\"http://www.mydocsonline.com/pub/larkg/Waltz%20for%20Bert%203.mp3\")