I know you said in your initial post that you liked the Live Space and Live Stage features based on the videos you saw of Dorico. However, the Live Stage and Live Space features are in my view more eye-candy than anything, a bit of a gimmick. A lot of libraries these days are already recorded in ambient halls, and so this feature is not very helpful for those ambient libraries. It is more useful for the dry libraries you find out there, but really even in those cases there is a lot of variability in terms of how much âroomâ even dry samples come with - they can be recorded in nearly anechoic chambers or just in small rooms without much tail. Thereâs a big difference. Two samples without much tail could seem a different distance away when put through the same reverb settings and same positioning, if they were recorded in slightly different spaces. So in some cases you may have to move one virtual instrument back behind the other one in order to make it seem like they are around the same distance away, and then the nice âmapâ that the live stage/space gives doesnât really accurately reflect your perceptions of the distance and layout of the instruments from hearing the sound. So if you have to move things around to weird positions on the map to get them to sound the way you want, and those donât even seem like the locations/distances they are actually coming from, having the map with the exact positions of the instruments becomes less useful in the first place. You also need to do some EQ to simulate distance too, and the live stage/space doesnât handle this, to my knowledge.
If you want this type of positioning for dry samples, but more powerful, look at VSLâs MIR 3D Pro or the cheaper MIR 3D Pro 24 (the lite version). It is a more powerful and useful solution because you have independent control over positioning and wet/dry amount, and it also does the EQ to simulate the distance.
Yeah, I get what you say, but at the same I would say that those things are a bit of what I was talking about, like an assistant of sorts. Sure, you can always change the balance for each track, then raise the reverb or go between dry and wet, but this is a tool that simplifies that.
But I agree with you in that to be useful, it needs to be done with dry libraries, and even then, all the instruments have to come from the same library, because âdryâ is relative, so whatâs dry for Spitfire might be different than what it is for Eastwest or Orchestral Tools and so on.
Well, 24 instruments normally wouldnât be enough for me, and the full version is a crazy 745 âŹ, so Iâll have to pass on that. But well, I own Cinematic Rooms Professional and a lot more reverbs, so at least I have plenty to choose from.
I really think that Dorico will be better than Cubase for learning music.
In cubase you can play and record.
The score is really bad.
In Dorico, you can do the same with a really good score.
But the most interesting for you should certainly donât play and record.
Take a different way : sing what you want and try to write it note by note in Dorico.
You can play it after writing to ear and compare to make corrections to have exactly what you want.
In this way, you practice as w traditional composer who use music paper but you have the chance to play and be sure that the idea writen is correct.
You will practice and see your progression like this.
Itâs a real opportunity for learning and practice composition.
Try slowly, note by note, sentence by sentence, idea by idea.
You will be like a painter with is color.
Write a idea , melody at the up part,
After, a second part down,and this part will be a bass.
I am sure âgradus at parnasum â written by Fux can be a good start for you.
But you need to know the note in two key for that.
If you read in french, here is a version with a CD and the left hand is in F clef and not in Ut like the original book.
You can find easily free pdf of the original version translated in English but this version should help you with a easy way for the score part.
Sorry this is not a Dorico part, but if he buy Dorico and practice, perhaps he will be a great composer
And for the best way for the midi part: choose to use NotePerformer.
Itâs the best product for the lowest price you can find.
I have many expensive samples library as spitfire orchestral and other but i always come back to NotePerformer.
Itâs simple: you write your music and NotePerformer in Dorico play it as itâs written.
All part, articulation and level is respected. It is the best way to be sure what is in your score if you print it for a orchestra.
For the mix : no fader, and other: write the piano, forte, crescendo and other on the score as a composer do on paper â et voila â
You will ear what you write because NotePerformer is build with a lot of classical orchestral score and be abble to be really your best tools.
Dorico and NotePerformer will be your best friend for many years.
With a traditional music education, yes of course.
But if some one have not this experience, should he stop to take pleasure and try to understand? I am not sure.
And it is now I will have a lot of enemy
When you go to school, you learn reading and writing in same time .
In music, you read around 20 years, and after this time, you will be able to learn how to write music ( if you have motivation after this time).
All autodidact composer, with talent, should dream of NotePerformer and Dorico tools
Of course, every body is not a genius, but every person who feel happy using this possibility is a person free to use an expression.
Thanks Dorico team for that.
So many great composer had so many problems to analyze the rythm he feel in same time they improvise , we are lucky in this time.
The grammatical aspect shouldnât stop the ideaâs quality.
Gipsy and jazz musicians know that
To be honest, Cubase is the perfect program for those who canât read or write (in score) music.
By all means, there is nothing wrong with experimenting with scoring programs.
I just think it is pointless attempting to write a musical score, when one doesnât know how to read said score and doesnât know how written music works.
As I said, recreationally, by all means, but beyond that, I just donât get the pull to go down that road, especially when there are incredible programs like Cubase, that offer a plethora of tools, not only to compose but to also produce, with equally, tutorial videos on production in plentiful supply,
Again, my point is that programs like Dorico are not in existence to teach people how to read/write and compose music. They are created so that music composers who have the know-how , how to do this, can use them to work recreationally, or professionally.
