Experimental Mendelssohn

[dave2002-lmms]

I wanted to see if I could generate anything passable using LMMS. The jury is still out on that - I think this is marginal.

https://soundcloud.com/user-977473438/m ... scherzo-v1

The string sounds are really rather poor. I exported each track separately, and then - as I rather expected, LMMS stalled and had to be abandoned. This seems to be a problem with running on Macos Catalina. Nevertheless the tracks seemed complete - it was only the last track which stalled - which could always be used as a trick to ensure the other tracks are rendered properly. The tracks were then remixed using Audacity - sometihng which I'd never done before - though I have used Audacity many times over many years.

We used to have a really good 78 rpm recording of this, which was more enjoyable - even with the scratches - but this at least shows that it is feasible to make a work this way. The ambience is not good in this version - though I did add in reverb - probably both in LMMS and also Audacity.

I'll probably redo this using another DAW to see if I can get better results. Perhaps better virtual instruments would help.

[dave2002-lmms]

Here is another version, done using Logic Pro X - https://soundcloud.com/user-977473438/o ... hn-scherzo

I don't think I like either of these versions very much - either the LMMS one or the LPX one.

There is a version of the original 1825 version here - https://youtu.be/_0lSdJnKNX4 and that is something very different. The version we mostly know is here - https://youtu.be/9JTH4ZdJcjk (the Scherzo is about 22 minutes in - and it's faster there).