NEW CHALLENGE: CAN YOU DISTINGUISH between REAL and MIDI?
Dear Composers and Virtual Orchestrators from all over the world!
In our continuing efforts to push the boundaries of conventional libraries, we decided to offer the possibility to win our instruments by participating in this unique challenge to celebrate the upcoming Samplemodeling Solo, Chamber & Ensemble Strings v2.02.
We hired a string quartet and asked them to play a piece of music from Sergei Rachmaninoff, String Quartet n.1. Then we performed the same piece with the new Samplemodeling Virtual Instruments, trying to get as close as possible to the real performance. So we decided to create this unique challenge:
You will hear a series of music snippets, some taken from the real string quartet, some from the mockup done with ‘Samplemodeling Solo, Chamber & Ensemble Strings’ Virtual Instruments.
We switched seven times between the REAL and the virtual quartet and vice-versa (we don’t reveal how do we begin ). We did some short cross-fades (about 200ms) to make any change not too obvious and we eventually synchronised the resulting audio file with the video of the performance.
>>> INFO & RULES <<<
- You can try to hear the difference between REAL and MIDI by pressing ‘play’ on the video found in the challenge page (link here) : https://www.samplemodeling.com/challenge or by watching the same video posted on our Social Network (Youtube, Facebook, Instagram or Vimeo).
- You can participate in the challenge by filling out the form and pressing ‘SUBMIT YOUR ANSWER’
- The piece starts at 00:28 and ends at 01:17. Fill out the blanks with the timecode (mm:ss) corresponding to the switches you hear. A small tolerance will be accepted (e.g. 1-2 seconds before and after the cut). The important goal is to get the section. The more accurate you are, the greater the chances of winning :)
>>> AWARDS <<<
- The challenge will end on February 26th, 2022 at 11:59 pm (CET).
- We will select the 3 participants who come closest to the correct answer. In case of a tie, the first who gave the correct answer would win.
Your Samplemodeling Team
Comments
Has the performance with the sample modeling library been played live or is it programmed in Midi or is this a secret ?
-Michael
It's very very VERY close, but after all the time working with the library I believe I can tell the difference.
Michael, this will be disclosed on February 26th ;-)
Well, the amount of reverb doesn't help, and the way the string quartet is playing, by imitating the samples (same vibrato, music score that doesn't require much flexibility) makes it almost identical.
Playing something like the Schindler list would have been a totally different story.
leboisjoli,
"imitating the samples" is an interesting concept. 😀