J. S. Bach on synth - Gavotte from Orchestral Suite no. 4 in D

Yet another "switched-on bach" project in the style of Wendy Carlos. This time, a wonderful dance from the fourth Orchestral Suite, the Gavotte.

In 4/4 time, but with the emphasis on the 3rd beat of the measure, rather than the 1st, the Gavotte was a royal court favourite in the francophile countries of the Baroque period.

This piece marks the beginning of my "Soft Synth Odyssey", realizing different tracks with different software synthesizers. To start out on familiar ground, this track was realized with the Arturia Moog Modular V2 emulation synthesizer, recorded in Ableton Live.

I hope you enjoy it.

-David

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[googlemeister94]

The music in A Clockwork Orange brought me here.

[tristan01101]

Loll... This is hilarious. Thumbs down.

[EEPENI961]

Great, i have all CD's from Wendy Carlos.

[Sviolinist]

Hey hey hey, I just want to say.. . after my other comment... you really got the thrust of this piece right. The bass line really is the main point of this piece. The counterpoint shows us that. The bass is the jewel here. Still, don't mix the bass in too hard. I'm an engineer. Just be careful that the bass doesn't distort my speakers. I love it up front and loud! Bass all the way here. Good job!

[MusicInPureSilence]

Those that don't exist in the score should be softened a bit. Or how about a standard trick, which is to play the score as-is the first time, and then add the ornaments on the repeat? You can take even bigger risks if you make it clear to your audience that you are improvising with this expository technique.

7. Somehow I miss the "sustain", for want of a better word, of the trumpets. Can they sound more like wind instruments? Of course this may cause more trouble than it's worth.

[MusicInPureSilence]

5. In the Baroque era, when this piece was created, ritards simply didn't exist; playing them in Bach is simply a modern effect which sounds good to our ears. So I would recommend a much less dramatic ritard that isn't as drawn out.

6. The happiness of the ornaments is contagious, wonderful, very rare, and quite welcome and surprising in Bach performance, which is usually pretty stodgy. I would at least recommend making them seem humanly playable, though; they seem too fast.

[MusicInPureSilence]

2. The bold bass line was a huge risk, and it worked! Wow.

As your producer, I need to offer you some gentle corrections, the most serious

coming first:

3. There are several mistakes in the last four counts which need to be corrected.

4. joshd321 does have a point: several things are missing. I can't hear the bassoon at all, and I can't say I can hear the viola or third oboe either. All the parts need to be there.

[MusicInPureSilence]

Wow! Beautiful! Brought tears to my eyes for days. Thank you!

If I were your producer, I would tell you:

1. Yes, wow, this is beautiful. A worthy successor to Wendy Carlos.

Captures the depth and spaciousness of Bach very well. You could make money

on this. One of the best three Bach synth renditions on all of Youtube,

along with Elhardt (Synth Bach Carlos) and Cloudhop (Jesus Christus, from BWV 4).

[NagualElias]

i wanna hear some synth vivaldi. i haven't heard that anywhere

[SnowySaint]

Did you make the Mandelbrot set? If not where did it originate? I like it a lot and your version is very original sounding.