Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Op. 67: III. Allegro

A few weeks ago I bought Miroslav Philharmonik, an orchestral sample library, and to test it out, I programmed the third and fourth movements of the Beethoven Fifth in SONAR. Here's the third movement. I'll post the fourth tomorrow.

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posted by NemesisVex (4 comments total)

Nice work on the programming; it must have taken ages! Did you start with a score, or did you find an existing MIDI file and polish it? Impressive in any case. Does the library include nice solo voices, or does it only concentrate on giving the sound of whole sections? The only thing that stuck out to me as sounding unnaturally stiff was the tympani roll at about 2:20.

I have an unfinished first movement of a symphony in classical style (more like Haydn than Beethoven) that I really should finish off and give it a nice treatment like this!
posted by Wolfdog at 6:52 AM on July 19, 2010

(And the roll at the very end...)
posted by Wolfdog at 6:52 AM on July 19, 2010

I had the score and entered each note. I figure it would be good practice to reading all the clefs and to get inside Beethoven's head, as it were. The timpani "rolls" are just 16th notes. The roll sample in the library isn't useful, so it had to be faked.

Miroslav Philharmonk actually includes both sectional and solo voices, so everything in this recording are the sectional samples (except for the piccolo.)

It took about a week or so to do this movement. The fourth movement took much longer.
posted by NemesisVex at 9:37 AM on July 19, 2010

I had the score and entered each note... to get inside Beethoven's head, as it were.
I did the same with the first movement of Op 95 once, and found the immersion very enjoyable, but that's far fewer voices!
posted by Wolfdog at 9:42 AM on July 19, 2010