Four pieces, or a piece in four movements, for cello duet — or more accurately, to test out some of my virtual instruments…!
I have a whole heap of virtual instruments by now… I haven’t bought many new ones in many years, but honestly (while obviously a whole lot is always going on in terms of things getting nicer and more fancy and more useable all the time!), I think the level of quality producers had reached in say 2008 for orchestral banks and such… still holds up really well in general. And a lot of the difference is going to be in how you write for them and what you fiddle with anyway.
But yeah the other thing is that I feel like solo, acoustic, classical instruments are gonna be a lot harder to get away with — a solo cello vs a big string section/sound… Also, even as a wind player, I feel like strings are harder to do than wind instruments. I have a couple solo cello patches — one I bought, on massive sale yay, from LSS Solo Strings, which is the first you hear here; the other is the FREE pocketBlakus cello. My aim here was to try and make a demo of them sounding… kinda realistic? As realistic as I could do in one sitting anyway.
I also added in some background noises I had recorded from a real concert … does that aid in the illusion?