Yanni VSL or EWQLSO

[wlahc1]

Wich would would be better for yanni style music. And opions woudl be helpful.
Thanks

[evaclear]

Wich would would be better for yanni style music. And opions woudl be helpful.
Thanks

have a read of the EWQL vs VSL thread. you'll know what you want after that. (or like me you will be totally split down the middle). Will you me mixing the work yourself? VSL sounds like it requires more engineering ability.

I'm probably going to purchase the VSL opus 1 after long hard reasonings with the two libraries.

[Scott Cairns]

For Yanni style music? umm.. 80s synths? :p

[Nick Phoenix]

QL Colossus

[evaclear]

For Yanni style music? umm.. 80s synths? :p

cruel but funny.

[Bill]

And a VERY rich gilrfriend...

[Garritan]

"The Garritan strings have become the basis upon which I build all of my string textures. I look forward to bringing these sounds onstage as well as in the studio. Well done!" - Quote from YANNI
http://www.garritan.com/endorsements.html (http://www.garritan.com/endorsements.html)

[midphase]

Easy on the Yanni bashing....one of the regulars here is a lot closer to Yanni than you might realize! And he's probably got the definitive answer!

[Scott Cairns]

Easy on the Yanni bashing....one of the regulars here is a lot closer to Yanni than you might realize! And he's probably got the definitive answer!

hehe, no offense intended, my wife is Greek for starters, and last time I checked, Yanni had sold a few more records than me. :)

[Garritan]

Yanni had sold a few more records than me. :)

Scott,

Maybe just a few more. Yanni has sold over 20 million albums. http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/images/smilies/eek.gif

He has received 35 Gold and Platinum Awards and his television specials have reached more than half a billion people around the world. He is also the recipient of the United States Leadership Award for Excellence. Yanni's best-seller, Live at the Acropolis, is one of the best-selling music video of all time. Yanni was the first Western artist ever to perform at the Taj Mahal and China's Forbidden City. Yanni's concerts draw sold-out audiences in places ranging from the Royal Albert Hall, to China, Europe, Australia, South America and North America.

[handz]

OK, but I still think there is at least 1000 better musicians than he... :-p

[wlahc1]

I am sorry for asking this question. I did not think that yanni was so bad, i mean he is a composer weather or not you like his music is subjective. I thought more of this bored before I encountered such reply's . Thank you garritan i had not thought of your product and was not familer with it. So thank you very much for mentiong it, I will honestly take a look at your product. And I think its great that you have an endorsment from him. As these guys can have pretty much any libaray in the world they want, endorsing your product really does say somthing. And I also like the fact that weather or not you like his or anybody else's music, you are proud to have them on your site. And to the guy who said easy on the yanni bashing, thank you. I like all kinds of music from yanni to enya to classical to full on metal. I guess there is a difference between a real musican and thoughs who claim to be one. I can go see a band play live and i can honetly say i hate there music, meaning i dont like the style, but at the same time i can say they are great musicans and sound excellent, just dont care for there style. for all the real musicans who can respect and appericate all music styles and recognize the hard work all of us put in to our music. I say thank you.

[Scott Cairns]

Well I dont usually make flippant remarks so I apologise for that.

I personally havent heard any of Yanni's music in recent times, that why I associated him with the huge outdoor concerts Id seen footage of in the eighties.

But its quite understandable that he's still very popular. And hey, Im not even gonna tell you whats in my record collection! ;)

[scores4film]

He uses GOS, SI and QLSO currently. The samples are usually layered with live players.

Colin

[Lazul]

Scott,

Maybe just a few more. Yanni has sold over 20 million albums. http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/images/smilies/eek.gif

He has received 35 Gold and Platinum Awards and his television specials have reached more than half a billion people around the world. He is also the recipient of the United States Leadership Award for Excellence. Yanni's best-seller, Live at the Acropolis, is one of the best-selling music video of all time. Yanni was the first Western artist ever to perform at the Taj Mahal and China's Forbidden City. Yanni's concerts draw sold-out audiences in places ranging from the Royal Albert Hall, to China, Europe, Australia, South America and North America.


Yeah but he still makes lame ~~~ cookie cutter music for the masses. :)

[josejherring]

Yeah but he still makes lame ~~~ cookie cutter music for the masses. :)

Nothing wrong with making music for the masses. Sometimes you do and sometimes you don't. I like it when people like my music. I'd love to sell 20,000,000 records. Hopefully someday I will.

We've all composer bashed in the past. But I think I'm not going to do it anymore. Just sour grapes if you do. All the best to us all.

Cheers,

Jose

[robgb]

Scott,

Maybe just a few more. Yanni has sold over 20 million albums. http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/images/smilies/eek.gif

He has received 35 Gold and Platinum Awards and his television specials have reached more than half a billion people around the world. He is also the recipient of the United States Leadership Award for Excellence. Yanni's best-seller, Live at the Acropolis, is one of the best-selling music video of all time. Yanni was the first Western artist ever to perform at the Taj Mahal and China's Forbidden City. Yanni's concerts draw sold-out audiences in places ranging from the Royal Albert Hall, to China, Europe, Australia, South America and North America.I have to confess that I have never heard a single Yanni tune or performance in my life. He's a handsome sonofagun, tho.

EDIT: Okay, I just went over to Rhapsody and listened to Ultimate Yanni. And to be honest, I found nothing particularly offensive about his material. In fact, I found it to be a pleasant experience. Right now I'm listening to an uptempo piece called You Only Live Once and I have to say that if someone here had written and performed it, I'd be congratulating them on a job well done.

Does every piece of music have to move us before we'll call it worthwhile? Apparently Yanni manages to move a lot of people -- at least enough to open their wallets, which is saying a lot for instrumental music, which nobody but a selective few seems to give a damn about.

Of course, as I listen to this I'm thinking, geez, I could peel off a few tunes like that in a couple of days.

Now all I have to do is grow my hair long.... :)

[Lougheed]

Yanni is very very clever about surrounding himself with outstanding musicians. I liked his earlier keyboard-based albums.

[Journeyman]

Does every piece of music have to move us before we'll call it worthwhile?
Ummm.....isn't that the whole point?

[robgb]

Ummm.....isn't that the whole point?

Not always.

[Journeyman]

Dare I ask you to elaborate?

[Seq]

Well, I respectfully submit that out the 20 million cds or so that he's sold I gather at least some of those people were moved by the music... and it seems that every time he rolls into town to do a show it sells out almost immediately. So, I imagine those people are buying tickets because they are moved by the music.

[bye]

I heard that Yanni only listens to his own music, so to not sound too inspired by someone else. I wonder if that's true...

My mom has the "Live at the Acrapolis" video and I always thaught it was cheesy. Good... but just not my thing. I have watched it a couple times though. My favorite part is when he almost uncontrollably blows a kiss to the conductor and the drum solo is pretty funny. It's an entertaining show actually.

[bye]

Oh yeah, Jimmy Buffet is sorta the same way, selling out in like 5 minutes. He recently had a show where it took something drastic like 2 hours to sell out and Jimmy Buffet and co. got all weird about it. heh (we recently did some a/v work)

[robgb]

Dare I ask you to elaborate?

Not every piece of music I listen to moves me. I may find it pleasant enough for background music, not annoying enough to turn it off, but it doesn't necessarily move me.

The Beatles move me. Chopin moves me. A lot of music moves me. But not Yanni. It's pleasant. Sometimes very good, but....

This is NOT to say that Yanni's music doesn't move millions of people. Like I said, they buy his records for a reason. I certainly don't think he's bad or cheesy.

[Lazul]

I heard that Yanni only listens to his own music, so to not sound too inspired by someone else. I wonder if that's true...

My mom has the "Live at the Acrapolis" video and I always thaught it was cheesy. Good... but just not my thing. I have watched it a couple times though. My favorite part is when he almost uncontrollably blows a kiss to the conductor and the drum solo is pretty funny. It's an entertaining show actually.

The only thing missing would be a wind machine to get his hair flowing. :)

[evaclear]

Oh yeah, Jimmy Buffet is sorta the same way, selling out in like 5 minutes. He recently had a show where it took something drastic like 2 hours to sell out and Jimmy Buffet and co. got all weird about it. heh (we recently did some a/v work)

Insecurity... the artist's disease.

[mschiff]

I just saw Yanni live in Orlando (for the second time), and his show is awesome. He was called back for 3 encores. He does surround himself with musicians of the highest caliber, and the show is very exciting.

-- Martin

[robgb]

I just saw Yanni live in Orlando (for the second time), and his show is awesome. He was called back for 3 encores. He does surround himself with musicians of the highest caliber, and the show is very exciting.

-- Martin

Okay, I saw part of a John Tesh special one night and I have to reluctantly admit that he was pretty damn good, too.

[akisd28]

hehe, no offense intended, my wife is Greek for starters, and last time I checked, Yanni had sold a few more records than me. :)
I'm Greek myself and I haven't even released my first CD yet, but I still don't think Yanni's music is anything to write home about. :rolleyes:

[scores4film]

Please kill me said the thread

[dpc]

I got a phone call from my mother one night: Yanni was on PBS. She said, "Are you watching PBS? What is this?!" She was aghast.
But then she's always had such impeccable taste my dear mother.

Dave Connor

[Rod@1]

In South America Yanni is very popular in the elevators, I'm from there!
Rod

[TARI]

The are a lot of music of Yanni I really like. Very sensitive. Not everybody makes music for soundtraks, that's the magic of the orchestration. :)

[ddarwin7]

Hello all, just though I'd drop in

I also like and appreciate all kinds of music (But I am not a big fan of Rap). I listen to music ranging from country to Jazz to yanni to heavy metal to pink floyd to enya to classic rock to secret gardens. But lately I've been listening mostly to large symphony orchestra's, but again primarily to learn ochestration techiniques and sounds, to help me with the CD I've been working on.

I also enjoy the music of yanni, but mostly the instrumental ones, and I can play most of his music on the piano. Most of the people laugh when you tell them you'r going to a yanni concert, because they think, its just a dude with long hair playing a keyboard. But most people do not realized that he tours with a good size symphony orchestra, and he puts on a dynamic show. In fact I just went to his concert about a month ago, and took some friends with me who were doubtful that they were going to enjoy the concert. But now my friends are asking me when he is coming to town again. He puts on a good show and he certainly surrounds himself with some of the best musicians from around the world. The music is very enjoyable and relaxing, and so I can see why some may consider it monotonous and boring. But again its a matter of personal preference and taste.

Many people try but only a few succeed, Yanni is definitely a success story. And anybody who works hard enough to achieve the level of success yanni has, I believe deserve it. You may be listening to Yanni and may not even know it. All the opening theme songs for the Olympics for the past 10+ years, Guess who???

In fact, the CD I am working on currently is going to be a combination of music styles of Yanni, David Lanz, some jim brickman, and classical piano with symphony orchestra, etc.

wlahc1, the software I am going to be using to do my CD are these

The Piano libraries I have are the Bos290(PMI), Old Lady and Vintaudio C7 Yamaha (GS3) version. I am eagerly waiting for the Art vista's Virtual Grand Piano.The orchestral libraries I have are GPO, EWQL silver, Gold, Kirk hunter solo strings, and GS3 orchestra stuff. What I have here is a little limited with articulations. I do not have GOS, wish I did. Out of cash right now, I spent way too much last year on music software.

Hope this helps