Hi all.

Just clearing out some old files on my server and I came across these I had recorded. Some of which are very old but still sound ok.
http://www.irishacts.com/movies/

The �Forrest Gump� tune I played on a KORG OASYS.

The following are all played on a KORG Triton Studio
An American Tale
Star Trek
Superman
The Great Escape.

And Star Wars is the most recent file, thats played on a Ketron SD2.

Cheers
James

really enjoyed those James. Were these all internal stock sounds from the Triton ?

Thanks.
Yes, all stock sounds used. One of these days I'll sit down and do all those again only with my OASYS and Meidastation. Some of them are very old and things have moved on sound wise quite a lot since then. My own ability too probably.

This mix on the start trek tune is way off for example.

Regards
James

James,

Was I surprised when I read the above. I thought I was listening to an Oasys. I didn't know the Ketron sounded THAT good.

The orchestration was brilliant. I was very impressed. Did you arrange the whole thing or were you supplementing a MIDI file? How did you learn to orchestrate like that?

Lucky

Hi Lucky.



Yeah, it's a great little sound module.



Thanks. It's just some midi file I pulled off the net and altered though. Most midi files can be made to sound like that if you know what to do. Once you strip away all traces of GM and remap and mix everything, well... the end results are always better.

Regards
James

Excellent James. I thoroughly enjoyed all of them.

Gary

Great work (as usual!) James! You are a great musician and you have some wonderful equipment!

Randy

I don't know what you think 'playing' and 'recording' is, but in my humble view they are just ordinary MIDI (SMF) files with not a single key stroke of a keyboardist added.

You disappoint me!


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Hi kla4.
No worries, everyone is welcome to their opinion. Thanks for listening.

Cheers
James

It still takes a "musical mind" to orchestrate it with sounds that fit together. I admire people who can "orchestrate." I'm still amazed at how they worked that French Horn into My Way (Sinatra)!

Lucky

That's why studying 'arranging' rather than 'arranger playing' pays off in the end..

BTW, I must confess, I wish there were a different word for playing a 'found' SMF through a module to playing the arrangement yourself. It's something that happens all too often on this forum, possibly not deliberately by the poster, but still misleading. Unless told otherwise, I always assume that music posted done 'by' a member is actually their performance.

Is it possible that we could start to be a LOT more forthcoming about the source of our recordings? It would sure clear up a lot of confusion, and sometimes bad feelings, too

That's what I've been saying all along. It's the arrangement that defines the main part of the finished product.

Taike

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Bo pen nyang.

Yep, I totally agree!

When I see "I played on" and "I had recorded", I'm immediately believing the poster actually performed (played, recorded) the music with their own hands.

I suppose "re-arranging" (or more accurately, in this case, "re-voicing") a midi-file is a "skill", but it should be made more clear, in the initial post, about the true origin of the file itself.

Ian

James thanks for posting these......

great stuff....I enjoyed them all.

Hi guys.

The Star Wars theme is the only one that does not contain new sequenced note data. All the others do, and every file was stripped of it's GM mapping, volumes, effects and every other default setting.

So to be fair they are more to this than just remixed midi files.

If anyone wants to here all �me� and 100% original material sequenced entirely by me, then take your pick.
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/Track%2001%20-%20Ar%20Dtus.mp3
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/Track%2002%20-%20Leanbh%20Mo%20Chroi.mp3
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/Track%2003%20-%20Aister%20Farraige.mp3
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/Track%2004%20-%20Oiche%20Shamha.mp3
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/Track%2005%20-%20Banphrionsa%20Faye.mp3
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/Track%2006%20-%20Onorach.mp3
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/Track%2007%20-%20Aislingeach.mp3
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/Track%2008%20-%20Tirghrathoir.mp3
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/Track%2009%20-%20Neamhai.mp3
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/Track%2010%20-%20Aoibhinn.mp3
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/Track%2011%20-%20Cainteach.mp3
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/Track%2012%20-%20Athaontaigh.mp3
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/Track%2013%20-%20Cleopatra.mp3

Kind Regards
James

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Fabulous stuff, James... Very atmospheric.

BTW, I was not in any way trying to impugn you, just merely making a general comment about something that happens here a lot, by many different people. I like Ian's suggestion about 're-voiced', and strongly suggest to the forum that we use this word... Any additions can be noted at that time (as in 'I re-voiced this, then added the french horns and replaced the strings', etc.), but it does seem fair to note when PLAYED music is not our own performance.

I'd even like to see this extended to arranger demos, too... as in 'I played the RH solo sounds, and my LH is doing the string pad' or whatever. Even though this is an 'Arranger' forum, personally, I am FAR more interested in what anyone actually PLAYED rather than what the machine played. That extends to Intros and Endings, too. We have all heard many a user demo that starts out sounding amazing, then after four or eight bars of carefully crafted Intro, the ugly truth rears its' head!

But, anyway, is it possible we can all agree to using 'I re-voiced this through a (insert gear of choice)' instead of 'This was played on a (ditto)' in future? It will help dispel a LOT of confusion...

Hi Diki.



No, no, that's my fault for not bother my rear end to explain anything. To me they are just old junk files I found when cleaning out the server and before deleting them I thought people might like a listen.

So it's just me being lazy and not explaining anything because I don't have much interest in the files.



Yep I agree.

Regards
James