I just released a new CD (1st in 9 years) of solo piano pieces. I'm usually into bigger production writing and arranging, but this was the most practical (read: affordable) way to re-enter this part of my life. However, what started as practical became inspiring.
Everything except mastering was in DP. Some of the tunes started as improvisations I recorded with MIDI only on an Alesis QS-7 years ago, hoping I'd have a better instrument eventually. I now get to use a Yamaha S90ES, and decided to edit these MIDI recordings and add some new tunes to round it off.
However, the Yamaha still sounds like a really good digital piano trying to be a real piano. My mastering technician lent me his Windows machine with Gigasampler and a beautiful Bosendorfer virtual grand. I re-edited some of the velocities to fit the new instrument, and was thrilled with the results. Yeah, it's not a real piano, but it feels right to my ears now.
Most of the reverb was a Waves plug-in added at mastering. But two tracks have some added FX from me ("Stars" uses DP's Stereo Delay, and "Dawn" uses Apple's Matrix Reverb). I'm particularly proud of these two...
The link below takes you to my samples page, which has 2+minute samples of each song (although in medium resolution MP3).
http://www.neilpatton.net/page11/page12 ... age15.html
This link is a complete song ("Toccata") that I'm giving away free on my home page.
http://www.neilpatton.net/audio/freeaudio/Toccata.mp3
My MySpace page has four complete streaming songs, plus two more from my first album.
http://www.myspace.com/neilpattonmusic
If you have some time, check 'em out. I hope y'all like 'em. (If not, that's OK, too...
)Thanks,
n
Very encouraging...
