More updates: a bit more music going into production libraries, as far as I know nothing's been used yet. I finally finished a setting of Sidney Lanier's poem "A Ballad of Trees and the Master" which has already been picked up by a local professional singer and which is going to cause some flutters because it beats hollow all the settings I've heard so far!
Notation Composer strikes again: used to write the music (no fuss) Used to generate the vocal score and the lead sheet. No fuss. Used to hurriedly transpose everything a tone down at the singer's request and re-generate the score and lead sheet. No fuss. ALso, with Garritan Personal Orchestra, used to produce the instrumental realisation which is temporarily available at
http://fawm.org/songs/6402/
We did get to Mozart's C minor mass by mistake, in Vienna Cathedral, en masse as it were with the Cardinal presiding; full orchestra, choir, two pipe organs, cast of thousands as it was actually Sunday Mass. Complete with a good Lutheran hymn which made me blink slightly. Fascinating to listen to the literal buzz of the harmonics of their biggest bell beforehand.
I now have a small but growing Egyptian fan club ;) I'll bring out an album on iTunes I think, "What I did on my holidays". You can catch the Cairo Marriott Crow, the Strangeness of Salzburg, and the River Nile at night at Esna Lock, on
http://www.youtube.com/flyingtadpole And other strange holiday activities are temporarily on
http://fawm.org/fawmers/timfatchen/ (until June 2009). Yes I did indeed fall into a pyramid. But I survived. I keep mum about that.
I continue to use Notation Composer as my sole notation and almost sole sequencing software. Why change to something less adequate?? ;) And it's still the ability to play music in for hundreds of bars and then press a button, and have it so accurately notated, AND keep the performance quirks which give extra life distinct from the formal, ready-to-publish notation.
Still Cakewalk/Sonar Music Creator for sound engineering. When does the new Composer launch, Mark?
Tim Fatchen
http://www.myspace.com/timfatchen
http://www.myspace.com/flyingtadpole2