Is there any synthesizer that would sound like a real violin?
Recreating Daft Punk's Da Funk with Overtone and Leipzig
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Re: Recreating Daft Punk's Da Funk with Overtone and Leipzig
#52You're right. It's funny listening to this. They're playing the same song, but it's not even close to as good as the Daft version. The daft version is loud and has a bite. This version just sounds lethargic and boring.
I think the author is more concerned with hacking and exploring than perfectly duplicating the existing track.
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#53You're right. It's funny listening to this. They're playing the same song, but it's not even close to as good as the Daft version. The daft version is loud and has a bite. This version just sounds lethargic and boring.
the daft version is clearly mixed (eq'd, compressed, etc.) and probably done so in a nice "easy" to use DAW. i doubt he could get that sound (without working long hours) when hardcoding everything.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tablature is another common notation system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablature
For those that don't want to learn how to read proper notation, usually.
I disagree; guitar has multiple fingerings for each note or chord and it's not necessarily clear which one will be the simplest to use when given regular staff notation.
There's a huge jump in the complexity of how you need to reason about translating the music to the instrument with staff notation. Tabs solve this by explicitly telling the musician what fingering to use.
Guitar players should still learn to read music because it's useful, but anyone who wants a guitarist to play their music (especially by sight) should use a notation similar to tabs, but with rhythm indicated as well. Good software to convert between the two could be generally useful, but I imagine there is a bit of nuance to what fingerings sound the best.
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#55You're right. It's funny listening to this. They're playing the same song, but it's not even close to as good as the Daft version. The daft version is loud and has a bite. This version just sounds lethargic and boring.
the daft version is clearly mixed (eq'd, compressed, etc.) and probably done so in a nice "easy" to use DAW. i doubt he could get that sound (without working long hours) when hardcoding everything.
The Daft Punk version is pretty much the raw direct sound you get from the synthesizer. Maybe a touch of reverb, a hint of EQ but nothing that changes the sound.
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#56You're right. It's funny listening to this. They're playing the same song, but it's not even close to as good as the Daft version. The daft version is loud and has a bite. This version just sounds lethargic and boring.
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#57It is pretty cool that you can program a song in code, but it looks awfully verbose. Do people really compose this way?
no.
well, live-coders do by definition .. but for everyone else, it's just an ineffective way to work, even if you are a good programmer.
people really do use graphical programming tools like max/msp.
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#58You're right. It's funny listening to this. They're playing the same song, but it's not even close to as good as the Daft version. The daft version is loud and has a bite. This version just sounds lethargic and boring.
You're not wrong, but it was needless to say. It's like going into a freshmen physics class and pointing out that a frictionless vacuum is hardly a valid simulation of reality. You're missing the point.
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#59You're right. It's funny listening to this. They're playing the same song, but it's not even close to as good as the Daft version. The daft version is loud and has a bite. This version just sounds lethargic and boring.
I don't feel that way, it's close enough to my ears. And I take my ears are very well educated in that department.
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#60Well that's opened up a fascinating new world to me. Is there a name for that regular logarithmic by linear music notation in the first image? I suddenly feel like a whole lifetime of musical enjoyment has been denied to me by the utterly utterly ridiculous staff notation system.
If you like the idea of making music by "drawing" it like this, and you have access to a Windows Machine, I'd recommend playing with FLStudio. With other DAWs I've found that it is more difficult to make music with just a mouse, not requiring real instruments, microphones and (maybe multiple) MIDI controllers.
I've been a Mac user for almost ten years now, but the lack of FLStudio for OSX makes me question that decision every six months or so.