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 Magical Sounds From Harry Potter
4
EW/QL: Any Way You Spell It, It's
a Quality Orchestral Sample Library
What's New
"What's New" is the New Year! It's hard to believe we're
already on the down-slope of whatever the hell it is we're supposed to
be calling this decade—I kind of like "the aughts," but no name has
really caught on. And what on earth are we going to call 2010-2012, "the
tweens"? Well, we have a few years to work on those maddening
conundrums. But for the moment, forget your cares and party down! I'd
volunteer to be your designated driver, but then you'd end up in
jail, too!
But seriously (as we're fond of saying around here), we hope the New
Year brings you happiness and health and plenty of inspiring and
creative work that makes you boatloads of money ... but mostly
the first two. See ya next year!
—Blair Jackson, editor blair@blairjackson.com
SFX Update
Magical Sounds From Harry
Potter 4
Last month in The Sampler, I was raving about the
SFX work for the most recent film in the Harry Potter series, Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire. At that time, I wrote that I was
going to investigate further and report back on what I learned. Well, I
did successfully track down the film's sound designer, Oscar-winner (for
The Incredibles) Randy Thom, and his co-supervising sound editor,
Dennis Leonard (who was out on the road mixing front-of-house sound for
former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh's band).
You'll be able
to read about some of the major FX work on Potter 4 in the
January issue of Millimeter, but as a special treat to our
faithful Sampler readers, here are some of the "extras" that were
left out of the main article for space reasons... more>>
Music Library/Sound Effects News
EW/QL: Any Way You Spell It,
It's a Quality Orchestral Sample Library
Remember back in the late 1960s, when the Mellotron was
decried by some as the villainous box that was going to put orchestras
out of business? That instrument, you'll recall, contained actual tapes
of string instruments that would play when a corresponding keyboard key
was touched.
No one ever confused a Mellotron string section
with the London Symphony Orchestra, of course, but the Mellotron was a
nice textural element when used well. As far as we know, no string
players went to the breadlines because of the Mellotron craze (such as
it was). But 35 years later, string players have a reason to be afraid
...very afraid. And ironically they are perhaps contributing to their
own downfall.
Previously in this space we've reported on the tremendous technical
strides that have been made in the last few years by the makers of
orchestral sample libraries. With higher bit rates, improvements in
every part of the digital recording signal chain, and the increased
power and storage capabilities of home computers, musicians (and even
non-musicians!) can now have at their fingertips incredibly faithful
orchestral sounds unimaginable even 10 years ago. more>>
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