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If you use the play button with the dashed box around it then it will play just the selected area(s) of the audio.

They have an amazing mic cupboard at AIR!

AIR Lyndhurst is near Hampstead Heath in London

Glad you liked it!

It’s a clone of Mutable Instruments Clouds - a granular synth/effect

@@StephenTallamyMusic Thanks

Thank you!

For a long time I was using PalleteGear which got superseded by Monogram. I’ve recently switched to using FVDE by Audio Imperia which has longer faders (you can see it in my latest video). I’ve also used the Korg nanokontrol which is a budget option that works well enough although it has quite short faders

It was actually a cold day when we visited! The main recording hall had electric heaters (which were quiet) but I can’t imagine they would have air conditioning whilst recording!

@@StephenTallamyMusic i just feels that it's a shame if such a special place lack air conditioning

Have fun!

There’s only 100 presets on the M1R so there are no banks to manage at all. You can load new presets over sysex

Yeah, sadly they have buried it a bit in the last few years, but it’s really quite impressive

If you haven’t checked out the other sound modules videos on my channel (JV1080, M1R and Proteus) then that might be an avenue and all of them can be picked up reasonably cost effectively. But bear in mind they are all tech from the 80-90s and so compared to something new they will be a long way the level of realism we enjoy today. The thing is, the rack mount module seems to have died and so if you get something newer you are likely to be also paying the expense of a keybed etc. I really like the piano on my Roland FP80 (which I’m using as a controller in this video) and you can sometimes pick it up out one of it’s older relatives (e.g. FP-4) at not too bad a price but then you aren’t going to get a particularly wide range of sounds and you’ll need the space for it.

Yes. I choose long articulations for the comparison because some of the libraries don’t have short actuations (for example Olafur Arnold’s Evolutions).

@@StephenTallamyMusic I am new to string libraries/samples, and was looking for strings for Motown and 70s Disco and understood those are about short articulations. Looking for an affordable one I find most reviews and demos are about broad 'cinematic' layers and indeed many, certainly more affordable libraries only have a few articulations, not the ones needed for the genres I mentioned. There are some Spitfire libraries mentioned as suitable for those, however. Thank you for the reply.

@@fritsvanzanten3573 yes for that style you definitely want short articulations and probably would get a most of what you need out of ensemble patches as you probably don’t need to split out each section. Also you probably would want a dry sound. This rules out quite a lot of the Spitfire stuff because it’s recorded in large halls.

@@StephenTallamyMusic Thank you for thinking along Those are indeed the things I'm in the process of figuring out (and I don't want to buy something to find out afterward). It makes that most comparison videos don't apply, but you can't tell from the title (hence my slightly frustrated comment). Spitfire's Chambers Strings and Intimate Stings are mentioned though. Another aspect is that libraries also may consist of loops/complete phrases, which I don't prefer.

@@StephenTallamyMusic Slinky Strings would be a nice (LABS?) library😉

Absolutely agree!

It was incredible!

Oooh I would love to see a photo of that rack!

Absolutely - often having too much choice can stifle creativity so it was fun to work within the constraints of only using Crow Hill samples.