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Old 23rd November 2012, 01:33 AM
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Originally Posted by ストロボ・EdGE View Post
Does anyone know, I don't remember where I heard/read this but isn't a lot of the orchestra or strings created digitally in Ayu's music? May be only hearsay.
Her strings? Synthesized? What? The drums in a lot of her stuff have been 'synth' drums aka programmed as opposed to played by a drummer (but it's probably 50/50 synth drums vs. a real drummer and you can reaalllllly tell when they bring in the fake drums), but the strings are almost always done by a small string group. She used to use Gen Ittetsu Strings, she seems to use Yuko Kajitani Strings now. Outside of strings, she rarely ever has brass or anything... but if an 'odd' instrument is ever brought in, usually they find someone to play it as opposed to using a sample library for it. (Don't look back had an actual sitar and tabla player, trumpet/tuba was in the Broadway section of Party Queen)

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