Everyone wants to be lied to. At least I do like to be lied to. A lot of people tell me for instance that they think my blog is great and that they spend all Monday evening pressing F5. Yes, it’s Tuesday today, just making sure you’re paying attention.
A few years ago I wrote two songs at the same time (A lot of people tell me the songs are great, but then again, I like to be lied to.) Although both songs are similar in many ways, they are also different. The key difference is that one has been recorded and the other one hasn’t and I guess you – being all smart and intelligent – have figured out that “Tell Me Lies” is the one that got recorded. Don’t be fooled though, because Tell Me Lies is far from finished. For instance, the lyrics were never recorded, but I might just publish those next week so you can sing along yourself and I can tell you how wonderful you can sing (see anyone wants to be lied to and I’m happy to oblige).
Tell Me Lies is part two of our adventure in modern orchestra recording, because like last week’s song The New Prometheus, it’s a song for piano and orchestra, however the recording was made on completely different equipment. First, I used Cubase SX3 as the sequencer, second, I used Garritan Personal Orchestra (GPO). This is a sample library containing a full orchestra. GPO was the first low budget orchestra library. It was used a lot by students studying composition and it even teaches the musical nitwit the basics of what an orchestra can do. It has one major downside, which undoubtedly has to do with it’s great price. That is its not so great sound. The violins kinda sound like violins, especially when you drown them in reverb, but a clarinet sounds like somebody sitting down on the high register of a mellotron in a fuzzy looking You Tube video with crap sound; something like this. If that’s the sound you’re after, that’s great, but if you’re looking for a clarinet it’s not so great. Nonetheless, Garritan still managed to keep me up quite a few nights with Tell Me Lies as one of the results.
Next week more unfinished business. Stay tuned!
