16th CGEmpire Music Competition - sponsored by the sample modelling

Okie!

Ladies and Gentlemen! Here I am again! Like every month, or so ;)

I am very excited to be able and let you know about the 16th CGEmpire Music Competition. For 2 reasons! :D

1. The theme. This time the theme is a bit... anorthodox. At least non expected if you will!

Location: the space.

Surroundings: inside an old spacecraft

Time: the future

You are called to compose:

The Darklord theme. The ultimate evil theme. The final boss theme.

2. The sponsor is the newly formed company Samplemodelling by Giorgio Tommasini and Peter Siedlaczek.

Giorgio and Peter are offering this:

Not the youtube page (why would you want that?)

Not the trumpetist (because you don't need him! :D)

The new, very exciting, and simply single most realistic VSTi trumpet you've ever heard! Sample Modelled Instruments - The Trumpet

For more demos please visit: Sample Modelled Instruments - Demos

Hehe...

16th CGEmpire Music Competition - sponsored by the sample modelling - CGEmpire

Linky to the actul competition above... sorry...

I really disliked the video - if it is sample modeling, then the line between real and virtual instruments are highly blurred. In my interpretation, it would be a real instrument played by a virtual player (the computer). But again, that's wrong, because the actual notes were played by the players. So without the trumpet player in the first place, you wouldn't have the modeling after the trumpet sound at all.

So it's a kind of trap question, badly phrased.

In any case, I have no interest in virtual orchestras/instruments (yet), so it doesn't really tell me much.

Oh, without straying too much from the topic :P

Yeah, the competition looks interesting. I bet Williams' theme of the bad guys would get 15/10, as it's terribly evil and very effective :P

All I could think of when hearing "future - space - evil boss" was ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US! The internet has ruined my phantasy :(

I really disliked the video - if it is sample modeling, then the line between real and virtual instruments are highly blurred. In my interpretation, it would be a real instrument played by a virtual player (the computer). But again, that's wrong, because the actual notes were played by the players. So without the trumpet player in the first place, you wouldn't have the modeling after the trumpet sound at all.

you probably don't know much about this kind of thing...

Exactly this is the idea. They give you a live player visually, but the audio is being done by "the trumpet", made by the sponsors!

It is amazingly impressive, to anyone who uses samples, or simulations, or computers in general, since the trumpet is one of the few instruments which are damn hard to sample and replicate succesfully.

What you are talking about is a bit nonsense, since there is a huge industry going on with samples in the first place. And what you mention is not specific in the trumpet but into every sample in the whole world.

This is the purpose of the samples, and computers ultimately. To help emulate as much as possible the "real" sound. Not everyone has an orchestra in their pocket...

It's not a real instrument played by a robot. It's an instrument specifically made for a computer, which, btw, emulates the trumpet in this case. It's the same with all samples, whether it be EW, VSL, Garritan, etc...

All I could think of when hearing "future - space - evil boss" was ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US! The internet has ruined my phantasy :(

hahahahhaa!

I know! I'm the same! Struggling to think of an idea to take part! I'd love to get my hands in that trumpet... ;) But still no good...

I just said I didn't like how the video put it :( Because it says "is it a man? is it a robot? OR IS IT SAMPLING?!", and basically sampling is a man's sound played by a robot. Otherwise it's a synthesized sound, in which case it's really the robot playing, but it's not sampling. I never said I disagree with sampling.

And yet, I didn't say that I don't want a virtual orchestra because I can find players here or I have my own orchestra, but it's just that, for what I compose right now, I don't need anything like that - if I did film or computer music, I'd definitely need it, but now right now. :)