Watrox Productions Rachael Gladwin Harp WAV

In the late 90's I downloaded waves of perfect ready-made arpeggios from an authentic harp, I was very upset because it was impossible to produce such subtleties and delicacies in any keyboard. Even working the repetitions of string frequencies in the step time record sequencer, it never sounded a delicate blonde hand. I felt like Beethoven who never used a harp in his music because the harps of his time were cruel and only produced few effects, as in the keyboards in the 90's.
I don't know if you knew the last big harp banks like: Orchestral Tools Symphonic Sphere for KONTAKT and others with visual pedal script, we can do all in real time to fit our music just playing the white keys after mounting the proper pedaling in the harp, so will be produced the all repeated strings of the natural glissandos of the natural physics of the harp.

If you still have that concept of harp from the FAILED PCM keyboards of last century, then I agree, it was impossible to even on the harp, even more so if it was Roland, Yamaha., worst, they still produce such bad keyboards.

To this day I haven't met a musician who can easilly work with read waves, * .wav, because it never fits your musical ideas, the worst is the synchronism between what you did and the pre-recorded wave clip recorded by a professional harpist, when neither ready string runs fits in time, worse the timbre gets different from other we use. If you think in Hip-Hop, no problem, just drop some harp passages.

The good thing is that in the past we could make any perfect drum track, because one shot percussion even on old keyboards simulated the drummer, better today, the same for other percussion instruments like the piano, but this was impossible with any other instrument, especially blows that have overproduction of harmonics such as saxophones and violins.

Today, the concepts are different, I agree with you that it is better to invite a saxophonist or a violinist to the solos on top of your MIDI, as we have not yet achieved the level these professionals.

Beware that our ear can deceive us, today using MIDI, it is definitely possible to write a whole concert for harp, including solos, runs, arpeggios, solos sur la table, bisbigliando etc, it will sound at the level of a professional harpist, in such a way that any harpist will be deceived, however, it would be impossible to deceive a violinist or saxophonist, although big bands work very well.

But the human ear is the same for both the layman and the professional, with the difference that the musician educates his ear and even after 3 years of long training he is always mistaken, at the end of his life descending intervals are confused, therefore no ear is reliable, and any human being knows how to identify the basis of everything: the major or minor chord, but only musicians will be able to explain, but the ear hole of both receives the same information.


The harp is an adaptive fixed tuning instrument through its pedals that ranges from 1/2 to 1 tone, although it's tangled strings don't produce frequency slides. So today, 2018, it is possible to fit any musical idea without having to lend something that will never be yours, like these 'prêt à jouer' harp waves.