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Points: 15141 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2009 at 10:21
I also am not a big fan of the MIDI sounds, I prefer real guitar. I did like your compositions though, apart from the MIDI sounds!
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Points: 4079 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2009 at 09:36
Originally posted by theBox theBox wrote:

Real guitars please....in fact...you need real drums and bass too. I ,like you, write prog music using midi but I don't like the sound particularly (even with reallistic vst). I just listen to them and envision them in a real band context. Ah...that would be really great but I simply cannot find anyone in greece who is remotely interested in the type of Anglagard/Wobbler kind of style that I write in....:-(


P.S. And while we are at it.... If anyone of you happens to be a keyboard player living in Athens and is in fact interested in the above mentioned type of music...please send me a pm!!! (I'm a guitar player myself...)


Soundfonts have helped the sound quality improve vastly, but then again, I don't have any high tech instrumentation. 

Here is a link to two songs I have written.




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Any of the MIDI songs I have written have the cheesy guitar sound. But I don't know anyone who can play the parts I have written.  Unhappy
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Points: 3144 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2009 at 08:33
Realistic guitar. Better use the feel if any.
Trendsetter win!

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Points: 427 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2009 at 07:09
Real guitars please....in fact...you need real drums and bass too. I ,like you, write prog music using midi but I don't like the sound particularly (even with reallistic vst). I just listen to them and envision them in a real band context. Ah...that would be really great but I simply cannot find anyone in greece who is remotely interested in the type of Anglagard/Wobbler kind of style that I write in....:-(


P.S. And while we are at it.... If anyone of you happens to be a keyboard player living in Athens and is in fact interested in the above mentioned type of music...please send me a pm!!! (I'm a guitar player myself...)



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read first: 

I'm about to work on two songs. Now that progressive rock almost  doesn't exist in my country, I can surely lower the standards. -- I don't even have any instruments. I'm just sequencing some midis and mixing them with my vocals. Wink The style is prog nontheless, at least according to my definition of prog. 

Because I'm using MIDI, I have a vast diversity of instruments to choose from. Thus the question: should I use the realistic electric guitar sounds, so that it resembles actual prog, or should I use something unique to MIDI that doesn't exist in the real world? 

You may say, "well you are the musician, why don't you decide?" But I have good reasons for both choices:

1. I want to create a different kind of sound, that has a "fantasy" texture to it. (Potential) fans will be asking, "Where on earth did you get that guitar?"

2. But I also like the good ol' sound that real electric guitars make. It's old but I never got tired of it. Fans will be saying, "Hey, that's some traditional guitar work right there."

Whatever the decision is, it will be applied to both songs for consistency. Which means, if one song has realistic guitars, the other song will have them too, and no "fake" guitars will be used anywhere in the songs.

Finally, I hope this is the right forum!



Edited by paganinio - July 14 2009 at 06:15
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