MIDI VSL Realizations – Assignment 2

  • Module Assignment #2

Before starting your assignment:

Go to the Comp Seminar classesv2 site, find the Resources Folder, then click on it to find the Music 413b – Spring 2016 Folder for materials to download.

1. Refer to the MIR Pro Manuals:

Vienna_MIR_Pro_PreliminaryManual_v1.1_en.pdf
Think-MIR_Vienna_MIR_Pro_Manual_Add-On_Rev1_en.pdf
Read pp. 1-18; 23-30; 55-58
Vienna_MIR_Pro_PlugIn_Manual_v1.3_en.pdf
Read pp. 1-12

2. Refer to Vienna Ensemble Hand-out:

Alex’s Vienna Ensemble Routing Instructions.pdf

3. Refer to the Room-Pack Manuals:

ViennaMIR_Room-Pack1_Manual_v2_en.pdf
ViennaMIR_Room-Pack2_Manual_v3_en.pdf
ViennaMIR_Room-Pack3_Manual_v4_en.pdf
ViennaMIR_Room-Pack4_Manual_v1_en.pdf

4. Refer to the Vienna Suite Manuals:

VSL_ViennaSuite_quickguide_v1.0.pdf>
ViennaSuite_Manual_English_v1.5.pdf

5. Carefully browse the following Class Notes fromth e Adler and Blatter texts:

Adler_Orchestration_ScoringStrings_ClassNotes.pdf
(pp. 10,22,26,27,28)
Adler_Orchestration_ScoringWoodwinds+Strings_ClassNotes.pdf
(pp. 2,37,38,40,42,44,46,48,50)
Adler_Orchestration_ScoringBrass+Strings_ClassNote.pdf
(pp. 27,8,9,10,12,32)

6. Review the Instrumentology pages on the VSL website.

7. Review the VSL Reference Poster in Rm. 403.

8. Ongoing VSL Concepts:

Ongoing Use Of:

  • Note data
  • Velocity data
  • Tempo curve

More VSL Concepts:

  • Vienna Ensemble
  • Vienna MIR

9. Implement the Module #2 Logic Assignments:

Go to Rm. 403, log-in to the workstation (use the secret netID), then click on your individual folder for Logic Project materials to use.  Save your completed work in your own Rm. 403 folder.

Module #2-A: Kardeis’s Decision Day – DUE Wednesday, 4/20!

  • 1. Listen to the original Decision Day; it’s a track in your project.
  • 2. Set up all the instruments in VE Pro.
  • 3. Then configure MIR in VE Pro.
  • 4. Edit your Decision Day project: edit your own velocity data, and insert your key switches to change all your instruments’ articulations.
  • 5. Optional: add a Tempo Curve
  • 6. This assignment shouldn’t take you any longer than 4 hrs.

Module #2-B: Kardeis’s Hanibal’s Elephants – DUE Wednesday, 4/20!

  • 1. Listen to the original Hanibal’s Elephants; it’s a track in your project.
  • 2. Set up all the instruments in VE Pro.
  • 3. Then configure MIR in VE Pro.
  • 4. Edit your Hanibal’s Elephants project: edit your own velocity data, insert your key switches to change your instruments’ articulations.
  • 5. Plan ways in which you will fill out the accompaniment (mm. 6-9 and 14-17) with brass, woodwind, auxiliary and percussion instruments.  Follow Adler’s rules for combining and orchestrating the different choirs in various combinations.  Impress everyone!
  • 6. Optional: add a Tempo Curve
  • 7. This assignment shouldn’t take you any longer than 5-7 hrs.

Module #2-C: Complete the Brant 9a, 9b, 10a & 10b Scoring Assignments – DUE Wednesday, 4/20!

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