Youppi! My Cd is in Editor's pick of CdBaby

[Serge]

http://cdbaby.com/picks/23?skip=410 or http://cdbaby.com/style/23 ~|

Edit : Oups... The album title is Serge Daigno 12 Photos
(Play all songs broadband gives the best audio listening)

After talking music for years in forums without any melodic contribution it was time to deliver some work.

I'd like to thank people who share their experience and knowledge in this forum. And among those people Bruce Richardson gets the largest part of gratitude. Gary has also my great respect for providing his Online Orchestral course with the help of M. Belkin and friends.

The Cd has some beginner's awkwardness, smooth pieces contains background noise discovered after the all thing was done and sealed, and I hope it won't be too much terrible for ears.

The only one reverb used in the Cd was provided from Ernest Cholakis for http://numericalsound.com/ . Thank you Ernest for this fantastic jewel.

The EWQLSO Silver (No XP) was the unique library used in this Cd. But also 30 Cal scripts (used within Cakewalk HS2002) helped me a lot to achieve this work.

Honestly the final rendering is maybe not a realistic image of an orchestra but who cares, it's so addicting to try on.

SergeD

[Max Head]

Recommended if you like ...
Claude Debussy
Igor Stravinsky
Nice company :)

[danpowers]

Congratulations! A real honor!

I'll be sure to check it out later when I have more time.

[Serge]

Max:

They are my preferred composers and it's why I put their name :)

Dan:

Thank you. it's always a nice feeling when somebody somewhere likes your music.

SergeD

[david robinson]

hi,
good luck on you quest for music sales and excellence in production, serge.
i'm just about to release two cds thru CDBaby, they are great.
again good luck, and be sure you have enough new material for a follow up when this title sells.
DR9.

[Serge]

David,

I also wish you good luck, CDBaby is the place to go.

SergeD

[Hannes_F]

Serge,

I buyed your CD for download and am enjoying it very much. Very inspiring.

Since you mentioned it - which IR exactly did you use?

Hannes

[Gesticulator01]

Congrats Serge! You can really hear the french connection there - maybe a touch of Dukas for example.

I see you can either buy the CD or donwload mp3's. How do find its going for you - mainly CD's or downloads?

I ask because I might be interested in putting up an album - but I dont really want the expense of making/shipping CD's. What do you think about just having a downloadable album on CDbaby?

Thanks,
G.

[Serge]

Hannes:

Thank you, I'm very honored you like it. The IR name is 1488_44_24.WAV. You will find all about it here :

http://noisevault.com/nv/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=38&topic=884.0

G:

It's funny because after "Master Crow" was done It reminded me a little of "l'Apprenti Sorcier".

The broadband demos (Play all songs) at 128K are a lot better than the flash ones. The Mp3 files are over 200K rate as CdBaby says. Mp3 files are economic and ecologic.

SergeD

[Kaatza Music]

Hi, Serge.

Congratulations! I am always happy to hear when someone is successful or gets a big break. Best of luck!

[tradivoro]

Serge, congatulations on your release... I salute you for seeing your vision through and putting out your CD... The fact that youdidn't have VSL or some such other thing didn't prevent you from going forward... These are very charming pieces and you did a great job... I hope it does well...

[Serge]

Kaatza:

Thanks, I wish you luck to.

tradivoro:

You should rather salute my wallet vision LOL. The good thing is I had no choice to develop Cal scripts for the project. And my hope is to offer a nice and nobrainer software after holidays.

SergeD

[clanctot]

Félicitation Serge.

You obiovously know how to use orchestral colors and know how to play samples.
Your work sounds musical to me.

And thanks for bringing up CDBaby.

Continu.

Christian.

[germancomponist]

Hello Serge,

Congratulations!

About the reverb: The last weeks, because Altiverb doesn`t have a Demo for me and my Cubase4, I was searching for a new reverb otherwise. I ended up at Voxengo. The Pristine Reverb, used with great IR`s sounds very great to me. And, the IR`s made from Ernest Cholakis are very excellent!

Serge, Congratiulations again!

Gunther

[Serge]

Christian:

Merci, orchestral colors is an endless apprenticeship. Ravel helps me a lot with percussion. Vaughan Williams and Wagner are my sources for the brass. "The Ride of the Valkyries", what a masterpiece.

Gunther:

Thanks, well it's exactly what it's been used along with the Ernest IR. Really not expensive and effective. It just reminds me that in the last steps I was trying to mix 4 reverb delay settings to emulate each section of the orchestra. And suddenly a flash popped in my mind: Hey stupid, your orchestra is already on stage(Silver) don't mess with 4 reverbs. Then the Ernest IR came back in my mind and fortunately the mix with Pristine Space saved my honor :)

SergeD