Calling Harp Players
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duskalways
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http://www.garritan.com/tutorial/GPO_HarpTutorial.html
hope that helps. there's something about glissando notes a couple of paragraphs down. :wink:
hope that helps. there's something about glissando notes a couple of paragraphs down. :wink:
teraslasch
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woah, very useful indeed, 8)
Cheez
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Hi duskalways, thanks for the GPO link. I've read that before, but I just couldn't understand it. Anyway, I had a read again this time in its entirety. I think I got it.
So correct me if I'm wrong - it all depends on how the strings are tuned. So effectively, we'll almost always have some foreign notes in a glissando when played by a harp, and sometimes some enharmonic notes depending on the pedals.
Is that how it works?
If that's so, then realism for sequencing takes another form, even though I doubt many will hear the difference of a few foreign notes especially if it is in a mix. I've got to think more like a harp player when writing for harp in the future...
So correct me if I'm wrong - it all depends on how the strings are tuned. So effectively, we'll almost always have some foreign notes in a glissando when played by a harp, and sometimes some enharmonic notes depending on the pedals.
Is that how it works?
If that's so, then realism for sequencing takes another form, even though I doubt many will hear the difference of a few foreign notes especially if it is in a mix. I've got to think more like a harp player when writing for harp in the future...
ephyra
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duskalways
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er.. cheez, that's what i understand from reading the write out too. but i don't play the harp and so, cannot help more. :?
however, i should think it is correct to say that one should think like a harp player when writing for the harp, as likewise in thinking like a guitarist, when doing the guitar parts. i learnt this, when i had a friend who was a pro studio person, and he would stop in the midst of what he's writing or sequencing, to simulate the actual sounds on the guitar when he moved from chords to chords on an actual guitar! that is authenticity in its purest form! :smt025
however, i should think it is correct to say that one should think like a harp player when writing for the harp, as likewise in thinking like a guitarist, when doing the guitar parts. i learnt this, when i had a friend who was a pro studio person, and he would stop in the midst of what he's writing or sequencing, to simulate the actual sounds on the guitar when he moved from chords to chords on an actual guitar! that is authenticity in its purest form! :smt025
teraslasch
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yea, think like a harp player when u write a harp lol, but HOWWW we're not harp players haha, looks like we gotta buy a book on " how to play harps " ^^..
