[Fmpro] grrr mixed articulation "hot licks"

[JJB]

Why not just hire a real bassoon player for a session to record what you 
want. Then double it with the mothership, or a bowed acoustic bass 
played through an Octaver pedal or whatever creates the mothership?  Why 
waste your time trying to get an instrument to sound like it was played 
by a human when it isn't?  Your local college probably has some genius 
kids who can play bassoon like nobody's business - beg borrow or rent a 
nice microphone or go to a local studio for two hours.

 - Joel

Christopher Alpiar wrote:
> Well the limitations to sequencing is always apparent when it comes  
> down to writing fast lines that have any kind of mixed articulation.  
> It really drives me nuts. For instance I have this line I am trying to  
> sequence for bassoon and contra bassoon but its more of a hmm jazz  
> syncopated line and there is just no way to make it sound even  
> remotely realistic. My girl tells me well then you will just have to  
> play it on your saxophones but she doesnt understand I want to make a  
> bassoon sound like Michael Brecker mixed with the mother ship from  
> close encounters...Man those players would worship me if I ever had a  
> live session to play this hehe... always amazing to me how much energy  
> and focus you can get in a live session when you reeally write  
> something that is for the instrument and is hard but not impossible,  
> those guys eat it up... meanwhile I am stuck with DP and the Vienna  
> Symphonic Library of cardboard cutouts of real players
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> *sigh*
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> Christopher Kennedy Alpiar
> Cinematic Composer
> www.alpiar.com
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