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Groves Electric String Ensemble-Little Wing (Arr. Rake)

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:38:34 +0000

This is a version of Little Wing I arranged for the Electric String Quintet. This is one of my all time favorite Hendrix tunes, I hope I made him proud. ENJOY!

Duration : 0:3:43

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Academy of Irish Music Holiday Party – My Love is in America

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:38:18 +0000

The Academy of Irish Music, led by Noel Rice, is based out of Chicago. In this set, this fine group of musicians play three tunes. Enjoy!

Duration : 0:3:19

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A Dark Knight – Arrangement for String Ensemble and Percussion

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:04:48 +0000

UPDATE: MY HIGH SCHOOL’S STRING ENSEMBLE WILL BE PERFORMING THIS FOR THEIR WINTER CONCERT!!!

Over the last month or so I’ve been arranging a portion of “A Dark Knight” from the soundtrack to The Dark Knight (originally written by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard) for my high school’s string ensemble (as well as a small group of percussionists). Because the real song is 16 minutes long, I had to cut it down a lot to keep it a reasonable length, so my arrangement is only about 6 minutes long, taking about 4 1/2 minutes from the beginning of the song, and about 1 1/2 from the end.

I arranged the song for Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, and Bass, as well as timpani and mixed percussion (bass drum, toms, and a gong). What you see here in this video is a playback of the music I created on Finale Notepad, but the audio was made by me in GarageBand (because playback in notepad sounded terrible, especially the percussion).

You can download this mp3, as well as my sheet music for the full string ensemble score and individual parts as PDFs, here: http://floatzel.net/gronnoc/darkknight.html

Enjoy, and maybe try and get YOUR school to perform this song!

Duration : 0:6:13

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Tohpati & String Ensemble Concert – country

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:56:34 +0000

Tohpati & String Ensemble Concert – country

Duration : 0:3:34

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Comparison between different string ensemble emulating software

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:47:34 +0000

In this video you can hear the difference between string ensemble emulating software. Most of them are VST instruments and where adjusted in this way to bring the “classic” string ensemble sound.

You hear 30 seconds of following virtual instruments:

1. Big Tick (r) Cheeze Machine (r)
2. Rumpelrausch Täips (r) Crazy Diamonds (r)
3. Algo Music (r) StringSynth (r)
4. Falke Music Lab (r) Stringer (r)
5. Safwan Matni (r) Strings (r)
6. Musicrow (r) Vintage Strings MkIII (r)
7. Wombat Solina (r)
8. Krakli (r) S3 (r)
9. Robert Sigmuntowski CombiString (r)
10. NUSofting (r) Strings Dream Synthesizer (r)
11. FXpansion (r) Synth Squad Amber (r)

Which instrument ist your favourite?

Duration : 0:5:48

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Mike Oldfield SOLINA STRING ENSEMBLE

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:58:35 +0000

This is one of the sound (recorded in direct line) of SOLINA, on MIKE OLDFIELD’s album at the early 70’s called “Hergest Ridge”
I love this magic sound. Mike had always used the best instuments.

Duration : 0:3:8

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ARP String Ensemble Repair

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:42:48 +0000

Demonstration of how to fix sticky action of an ARP String Ensemble and how to replace the key bushing.

Duration : 0:5:46

Technorati Tags: Arp, bushings, ensemble, keyboard, keys, Music, repair, string, synth, synthesizer, technology, vibe, vintage

solina string ensemble

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:43:39 +0000

Solina String Ensemble at its best ! Full sound, a little dramatic but very unique and a beautiful sound.

Duration : 0:3:20

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ARP / SOLINA STRING-ENSEMBLE – HQ DEMO – with Korg Minipops 7

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:20:42 +0000

The Solina String-Ensemble came out 1973 and was the first “stand alone” electronic string ensemble – the original “string machine”. It was a portable, cutdown version of the string ensemble, which was a part of the Eminent 310U organ. It sounds different to the Eminent 310U, although quite similar. It uses “divide-down” organ technology, is full polyphonic and has a very characterful sound.

The Solina was a great success in the seventies and was used by many artists on many recordings. The String-Ensemble was developed and produced by Eminent in Holland. ARP bought the rights to sell it under their name. Outside the USA the “ARP STRING-ENSEMBLE” is known as “SOLINA STRING-ENSEMBLE”. For the US market, ARP just put ARP-stickers on it…

Many manufacturers tried to copy it (Logan String Melody, Elka Rhapsody, Crumar Multiman, Farfisa String Orchestra, Jen String Machine, Siel Orchestra, just to name a few). Indeed, every organ manufacturer had one to offer…
but the Solina remains the best (or at least one of the best) with its fat, unique and charming sound.

USERS:

Edgar Froese (Tangerine Dream) used it on many records (Green Desert, Aqua, Le Park, Underwater Sunlight, etc.), Herbie Hancock (Secrets), AIR (Moon Safari), Mike Oldfield, Richard Wright / Pink Floyd (Shine On You Crazy Diamond), Elton John (Song for Guy), Nick Straker (A walk in the park), Geoff Downes / Buggles (Video killed the radio star), the Bee Gees and the Carpenters (on live performances) …

By the way: Jean-Michel Jarre never used this one on his recordings. He used the Eminent 310U, which sounds different.

Duration : 0:7:14

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Kevin Keith – Chapman Stick – Roland Guitar Synth

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:31:41 +0000

Kevin Keith of The Electronic Jazz Ensemble playing the Chapman Stick with Roland Guitar Synth Electronics.
www.ejeband.com

Infuences and great players:
Victor Wooten
Stanley Clarke
Marcus Miller
Jeff Beck
Steve Vai
Michael Hedges
Eddie Van Halen
Allan Holdworth
Stanley Jordan
Antoine Dufour
David Russell
B.B. King
Scott Henderson (lately)
Wes Montgomery
Eric Clapton
Guthrie Govan
Mark Knopler
Charlie Christian
Pat Metheny
John Scofield
Jimi Hendrix
Chet Atkins
Eddie Van Halen
Wes Montgomery
Django Go
Eric Clapton
Yngwie Malmsteen
Kurt Cobain
Tony Iommi
Jimmy Page
Andres Segovia
Michael Hedges
Carlos Santana
Joe Satriani
Guthrie Govan
Al Di Meola
Allan Holdsworth
Shawn Lane
Wes Montgomery
Django Rheinhart
Paco De Lucia
Michael Hedges
Ron Thal (how does he do that stuff)
Van Halen
David Russell
John Williams
Andres Segovia
Jimi Hendrix
Steve Vai
Stevie Ray Vaughn
B.B. King
Michael Hedges
Allan Holdsworth
Buckethead
Wes Montgomery
Prince (this dude can play)
Steve Morse
Larry Carlton
Carl Verhayen
Timothy Mirth.
Rob Jones
Daryl Barnett
Tony Williams
Timothy Mirth

Duration : 0:1:49

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