Kurzweil Versions - Making of The Discarded Instrument
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00:00 - The Path (Moon)
06:41 - The Union (Mercury)
11:12 - The Ruin (Venus)
16:40 - The Tribulation (Sun)
22:51 - The Rose (Mars)
28:19 - The Ecstasy (Jupiter)
35:00 - The Prison (Saturn)
41:40 - The Hope (Traveler/Earth)
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This is a collection of early tracks from The Discarded Instrument. I'm releasing these to showcase the process of creating them, and so that people can see just how much iteration the album went through throughout its year-long creation.
The Discarded Instrument had four distinct "eras" of production:
1. The Sibelius Renders, which were my initial versions straight out of notating them in Sibelius. You can find these versions in a different video on my channel.
2. The "Mock Masters" which were my placeholder versions using EastWest's Steinway piano VST. These versions were made while I was acquiring a Kurzweil, and served the purpose of allowing me to map the sustain pedal and early work on the tempo maps. You can also find these on my channel.
3. The Kurzweil versions, which were made using the Kurzweil K2500 and featured a variety of edits from my original Sibelius scores, as well as over 100 hours spent making small changes to the performances. These are those versions.
4. The final versions, rendered with the Ivory Piano VST, which featured little changes from the Kurzweil versions. These are the versions I released on August 31st.
All in all, this project took over a hundred hours of work, almost all of which was spent on automating the performances.
For the record, these are the versions I was expecting to use for 95% of the project's life. We knew this was the OG Halo piano and that Marty often drafted his music on it, and I was more than happy to go with this take, and then at the very last minute, while doing the mastering for these (which we didn't finish), we discovered the Ivory piano VST by complete accident and realized it was the one in ODST, Reach, Marty's videos, the MotS Game Informer video, Destiny 1, and Destiny 2, and at that point it just made no sense not to pivot to it.
For whatever it's worth, I still strongly prefer The Ecstasy on the Kurzweil. Everything else is way better with Ivory though!
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THE DISCARDED INSTRUMENT
"Music of the Spheres" composed by Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori, and Paul McCartney.
Original orchestrations by Mark McKenzie.
Adapted for piano by Owen Spence.
Production assistance by Xavier Scheetz.
Artwork by Owen Spence and Matt Farrell.
"Music of the Spheres" © 2012 Bungie, Inc. and MPL Communications LTD.
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
“Hope for the Future” composed by Paul McCartney, Ben Foster, Martin O’Donnell, and Michael Salvatori.
Original piano arrangement courtesy of Hal Leonard.
Additional arrangement by Owen Spence and Xavier Scheetz.
Vocal performances by Paulo Clayton.
"Hope for the Future" © 2012 MPL Communications LTD.
Included as part of Track 08 "The Hope" with permission.
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