Jerry Gerber

I use Cakewalk exclusively, I've been using it as my sequencer/DAW since 1991. I use Sibelius for scores/parts. I don't play any parts in. I used to do that when I was doing commercial scoring, but I've gotten very fast at using the mouse to enter parts and editing all the needed CCs that I don't bother playing them in. I still play piano though all the time!

Yes, all of the videos are here: https://www.youtube.com/@astromusicvideo

Thanks a lot Treesha! I am glad you enjoyed the music video. Jerry

Thanks Matthew!

Thanks Nigel! Glad you enjoyed it..

Thanks Martin, I'm glad you enjoyed the music video. I've been using the VSL Symphonic Cube for over a decade and will continue to use it until I die. It has so many great samples, quite a few that I haven't even explored deeply yet. I also use: VSL Appassionata Strings, VSL Solo Strings, Vienna Choir, Requiem Professional Choir and East West Choirs (with their word builder software) Jerry

Thanks Steve!

A new astro music video, #13 in an ongoing series.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0B5BNR7zuw Enjoy! Jerry

Thanks Martin!

Thank you for watching & listening Treesha.

An astrophotographic music video featuring the gorgeous astrophotography of Timothy Martin WATCH

I think Martin was right. I forgot to add the volume envelopes to the piece. The dynamics are better now..

Hi Martin, I am pretty sure the dynamics are right for the piece. I'll go back and take a listen to see if I really want to change anything. There are crescendos & decrescendos, I have no idea why you're not hearing them. The movement has a dynamic range of 8.03 dB, which is, I admit, a bit lower than many of my symphonic movements. When I listen to it at a moderately low level, it sounds fine but if i crank it up too loud, it does seem a little flat dynamically. When I master the entire symphony I'll mix this movement at a lower amplitude. The lack of dynamics in the score has nothing to do with the recording, which contains all the dynamics in the MIDI sequence. I don't put dynamics in the score (nobody wrote out dynamics until the 19th century) because there are no players. Same with string bowings and wind/brass breathing marks. If there were players I'd put them in. I know how to do that. But for digitally produced music they're redundant. I wrote a brief article about why I don't put these marks in the score, which irritates a lot of composers who write for live players, but I am not concerned with that tradition: https://www.jerrygerber.com/markings.htm Here's the waveform, you can see it has dynamic range:

This is the slow movement of the new symphony I'm currently working on. It may also become the soundtrack to my next astro music video. It took me quite a while to begin liking this piece as I know the pitfalls of writing an adagio and had to work hard to overcome them. If you want to look at the score, remember to open it in a new tab or it will cut-off the playback of the recording. Jerry https://www.jerrygerber.com/symph13mvt3.htm

Thank you Steve!