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 Vienna Symphonic Library: Orchestral
Samples Come Alive
Some Sound Advice: Give A Listen
to Kung Fu Hustle
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What's New
The sad news out of Asheville, N.C., is that synth
pioneer Bob Moog died of brain cancer there on Aug. 21. Besides being a
great guy (I had the pleasure of meeting him many years ago and I found
him to be warm and genuine), he was, obviously, a giant in the world of
music—a man whose name became synonymous with electronic
instruments. Anyone who has ever used an electronic keyboard to create
sounds for music or SFX libraries owes Moog at least a small debt, for
his groundbreaking work in sound synthesis paved the way for many of
today's advanced electronic tools. There are scads of cool albums that
were colored more brightly by actual Moog synthesizers (by everyone
from
The Beatles to Herbie Hancock), and even though the enormously popular
Minimoog is now generally regarded more as a piece of classic gear than
a current item, its "retro" sounds continue to enchant and be embraced.
So raise a toast to a very classy guy—beloved by all who knew
him—and put a copy of Wendy Carlos' soundtrack for A Clockwork
Orange in the ol' CD player. Bob Moog will indeed be missed.
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Inside Info
Vienna Symphonic Library:
Orchestral Samples Come Alive
Although the Vienna Symphonic Library's (VSL) First
Edition came out just two years ago, founder and managing director
Herb Tucmandl, a one-time cellist for the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
and a later a film composer, conceived of the orchestral sample library
a decade ago. Frustrated by the limitations of existing libraries, not
to mention the inferior synth string and brass patches employed by so
many film composers, he set out to improve on the state-of-the-art.
Luckily, he found an investor who believed in his ideas, and he
proceeded to create a special acoustically controllable
environment—dubbed the Silent Stage—expressly for recording
samples. He brought in top Viennese engineers to capture the sounds of
orchestra musicians playing together and individually, recorded at
24/96
for maximum fidelity to the source. The first two releases in 2003,
First Edition and the more expansive Pro Edition, were
very well-received and widely used.
One reason the library was so adaptable to different applications is
its
exclusive sophisticated software adjunct, known as The Performance
Tool.
According to the company, the software "allows users to reproduce true
orchestral techniques; [for instance] the user can play many different
articulations on a single MIDI track, without being distracted by
having
to operate key switches. Up to 12 consecutive articulations can be
pre-defined and stepped through as the user plays in realtime,
switching
automatically from one playing technique to another." To read the
rest of this article, click here.
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Set within one of the most spectacular natural settings in North
America, the eighth Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival convenes in
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industry's latest technology and celebrating the world's finest natural
history films in a remarkable week of in-depth seminars, special
screenings, and hands-on workshops with over 650 industry leaders.
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Hollywood Inspiration
Some Sound Advice: Give A
Listen to Kung Fu Hustle
I was somewhat surprised to learn that the
postproduction sound for Kung Fu Hustle—and, it turns out,
many of the big Hong Kong films of recent years, including Hero,
House of Flying Daggers, and many more that haven't hit these
shores yet—was done not in Hong Kong, but Australia, by a post
house called Soundfirm, which has studios in Melbourne, Sydney,
and, now, Beijing. At the helm of this particular film was Steve
Burgess, who acted as principal sound designer and supervisor and
spearheaded the mix. Since the late '80s, Burgess has been involved
with
film sound in numerous capacities—most often as a foley artist or
sound editor. I tracked him down at Soundfirm's Melbourne facility,
where he had recently finished another Chinese film, called Seven
Swords.
"Kung Fu Hustle was a lot of fun to work on, as you might
expect," Burgess says, "but it was done on a very low budget with a
director that wanted big returns. But we had a lot of trust in the
film;
we knew it was going to be really good." (It went on to become one of
the highest-grossing films in Hong Kong movie history.) To read the
rest of this article, click here.
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Mark your calendars for Sept. 20th & 21st, 2005 and get ready for a
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