Pieter Schlosser composes music for TV, film, and video games. His credits include titles such as The Lying Game (ABC Family), The Client List (Lifetime), Desperate Housewives (ABC), the Transformers movies, as well as the video games Gears of War 2 and Gears of War 3. He is experienced in music production and audio engineering as well as film scoring.

Tuesday morning bump: the count is now 196. The target of 250 will likely be reached before Friday. Wouldn't that be cool - a new library or two for the weekend.

Only six days into the group buy sale and we're already at 197 people! That means we only need 53 more people to reach the 50% OFF discount tier!

Someone posted this video in another forum. It's the audio of an Orange Tree Samples customer performing part of Dream Theater's "The Count of Tuscany" featuring Evolution Acoustic Guitar - Steel Strings and Evolution Electric Guitar - Strawberry. I love it and wish he played the entire song! 
 

I hope Greg's server is up to handling 250+ multi-gigabyte downloads all at once. The last time I participated in a group buy for a sample library it took me 11 hours to download it.

We're now at 205 people in the group buy, 45 people away from the 250 needed to attain the highest discount level of 50% off. 

Here's a demo of Evolution Electric Guitar - Strawberry, primarily performed in real-time, that is an excellent example of the realism of this library, which I find, surpasses that of any other electric guitar library or VST on the market. 

http://www.orangetreesamples.com/audio/ElusiveBlues.mp3

The demo contest has only been announced a few hours ago, and we already have two entries!

I can't wait to send the winners copies of our new library--I'm really proud of how it turned out. We've worked hard to keep it a secret, and it's quickly become one of my favorite acoustic sample libraries.

I'm always interested in learning more about others who share the same love of music making as me. For anyone who's game:

1. What is your main instrument?
2. Do you play multiple instruments and if so, which ones?
3. Share a little of your musical background. How long have you been playing? Self taught or formal training?
4. What styles of music do you write/perform?
5. Who are your greatest influences?
6. Do you play professionally, semi-professionally or just for fun? 
7. Do you have any goals for your music or yourself as a musician. 

For me, my mother was a professional musician and music teacher. My siblings and I all played an instrument. I started with piano lessons, then organ lessons, then drums lessons, but drums were the instrument I loved the most, so I stayed with them. I played drums in my family band as kid -- and would regularly perform at night clubs sitting in for adult drummers -- and played semi-professionally for around 12 yrs. I haven't played out in many years, so these days I play music purely out of love and even write and play songs for my kids entertainment. I've been writing music since I was 4, easily thousands of songs, and I just don't know how to stop! My influences are all over the map, from Stevie Wonder to Chopin to the Beatles to Radiohead to early Genesis to Nirvana to Yes to Billy Joel and a ton more. My goal is to record some of really good quality original songs with my kids playing and singing and have it be good enough where other people truly enjoy it. I also want to start entering song contests. 

edrummist
I'm always interested in learning more about others who share the same love of music making as me. For anyone who's game:

 
What the heck, I'm procrastinating doing some work in the studio already<G>..

1. What is your main instrument? -Guitar, yup, definitely guitar... did I mention that guitar is my main, and favorite instrument? Although when I say guitar what I really mean is almost any stringed instrument, although violin/fiddle continues to elude me - heck, my dog runs away when he sees the violin case! Extending that thought, I also like guitar controlled synthesizers, and stomp boxes, and pedal steel - a former teacher used to refer to the pedal steel as the harmony synthesizer, and lap steel and resophonics and basses and mandolins of all sizes. So yeah, guitar!
2. Do you play multiple instruments and if so, which ones? - Like most music addicts it all started with piano lessons, and I continue to dabble with keyboards, but I lost the use of two fingers on my right hand when I was fifteen, and that discouraged me sufficiently that I never returned to serious study. I did study french horn for about 10 years, and if I had the cash I'd love to buy one and play it again, but I'd probably be pretty bad, it's been along time! I also studied upright bass for a short time, and played one in pit bands for a while. That's another "if I had the money I'd buy one" thing, except I might not embarrass myself. Do synthesizers count as instruments? I've never figured that one out, but I do have a couple old analog semi-modular synths that I use from time to time.
3. Share a little of your musical background. How long have you been playing? Self taught or formal training? - I've been playing some musical instrument or another for 48 years - geez that's a long time, you'd think I'd be better!! I have been fortunate to study with some really remarkable teachers, but I've also spent time teaching myself, and I find a mix of the two to work well for me. Not big on regrets, but I do wonder what in the heck I was thinking when I selected a college that didn't have a music department... on the other hand, a friend and I ended up writing all the marching band drills, so I guess it worked out ok.
4. What styles of music do you write/perform? - Hmmm... I'd have to say mine??? It's a hodge-podge of the pop and rock music that I grew up with, folk music from any era, blues, celtic, bluegrass, jazz of all types, and even some classical, although as much as I enjoy listening to classical stuff I have very few outlets to play it, and even fewer to write it.
5. Who are your greatest influences? - since we were just talking about classical, Barber (who grew up in my home town) and Copland are by far my biggest influences, followed by a bunch of 20th century composers, and of course the usual suspects. The rest are primarily pop and guitar oriented at that - CSN&Y, Allman Brothers, Croce, Fogelberg, the Who, Dire Straits, Chicago, BS&T, TOP, EW&F, all the 60s british folk guitarists (some amazing writing and playing there), Kottke, Fahey, Lang, Richard Thompson, Nanci Griffith (an amazing musicologist as well as a talented writer and performer), Emmy Lou Harris and all her great guitar players, Chip Davis (more an arranger than writer, but clever as heck), Peterson, Pass, Hines (love his left hand stuff) anyone named Bernstein, Morocone, Hermann, and a ton more I'm just not thinking of. This is one of the advantages of ADD I think!
6. Do you play professionally, semi-professionally or just for fun? Semi, and ALWAYS for fun. Someone once pointed out to me that I play and write because I have to. That might sound odd, but I think it is true. Good thing I enjoy it!!
7. Do you have any goals for your music or yourself as a musician. I'd love to get more work as a composer and/or arranger, and I really should play out more often as well. I'm also fascinated with the intersection of music and technology, so there's another avenue.

I'm itching to be the 250th person to sign up.
 
I'm sure that means I get a two fer, right?

Hey Bapu and Bill, thanks for sharing! I'm always curious and really enjoy learning about others in forums. I mean, we clearly share the same deep interest in music making, so it's fascinating to me to learn more about my fellow forum members. Funny,now that I know Bapu plays bass, Bill plays guitar and I play drums -- I say we form a band! GregJazz is a superb keyboardist (bass player too, but we already have that filled). Now we just need a vocalist!!!

Wow! That's cool Bapu. I'd love to start collaborating. At the moment, I only have a really old machine with an older version of Sonar (I had a newer system but the main hard drive died and the motherboard is in bad shape). I'm planning to get a new DAW machine before Christmas and want to upgrade to the latest version of Sonar -- although the news on the company being purchased is giving me pause and I'm wondering if I should pause before updating or consider a new DAW. I hate the prospect of Sonar going away. I realize no one here has the answers. 

Okay, back to the Group Buy. We're at 233 people. Only 17 more people and everyone gets 50% everything Orange Tree Samples makes!

http://www.orangetreesamples.com/gb/

We are now at 242 participants in the Group Buy. That means after just 8 more people join, we'll reach the highest discount level, 50% off of every library and script that Orange Tree Samples makes.
 
Any guesses on how long from this post it will take us to get there?
 
Join Orange Tree Samples Group Buy today!
http://www.orangetreesamples.com/gb/

I say in less than 3 hrs.