Flight To Neverland - Hook (Sibelius Ultimate, NotePerformer 4.5 NPPE & Cinematic Rooms)

This is a software performance and not a studio recording. No DAW software involved in its creation. Just Sibelius Ultimate and NotePerformer 4.5 with the new NPPE Engine running a layered mix of Spitfire Audio BBCSO Professional, Spitfire Symphony Orchestra 2024 and Cinematic Studio Series.
This is straight from printed score, typeset by hand into Sibelius Ultimate and audio playback with NotePerformer 4.5. In order to be able to fully test NotePerformer’s AI engine, I’ve tried to maintain all dynamics and articulation exactly as it appears in the score. In only a few cases have I adjusted an articulation or dynamic to achieve a more [objectively] musical performance.
Goes without saying that it sounds better with good headphones/speakers ;)
Let me know what you think in the comments below.
Techie Stuff
Avid Sibelius: www.avid.com/sibelius | Wallander Instruments NotePerformer: www.noteperformer.com | Macbook Pro
About me
I’m a classically trained musician (piano, double bass & clarinet) and composer with a love and fascination for orchestral film music (Golden Age of Hollywood, John Williams, Erich Korngold, Max Steiner, Alexander Desplat, James Newton Howard, Thomas Newman, Alberto Iglesias, Disney, Pixar) as well as 20th Century orchestral music repertoire.
I’m typically quite old-school when it comes to my own composition workflow. I like to write scores from sketches for real instrumentalists - with notation rather than using DAWs. The problem is, having regular access to a symphony orchestra is just not feasible.
So up until recently, I was making do with Sibelius’ sound output until I came across NotePerformer. I find programming MIDI such a buzz-kill so NotePerformer has been an absolute godsend. I can now simply think about the creative aspect of composing instead of drowning in midi messages and key-switching…yawn.
Social
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Disclaimer
These demos are created by me for educational purposes only to test the capabilities of NotePerformer. I have no affiliation to Wallander Instruments or Avid. No infringement of copyright is intended. There is a huge resource for music scores online - paid for and in public domain. My go to sites remain Hal Leonard (www.halleonard.com) and IMSLP (imslp.org)

[@symphonytf]

Wow, great job! Also really good sound as no DAW was involved! Thanks for upload!

[@TinkerInTheShop]

Noteperformer has been my best purchase of anything music related... I would say the NP Piano is "ok" and the strings could also be better but it's still amazing software and very cheap. I'm looking forward to future releases. I've used DAWs and VSTs which are great but so laborious. I might eventually try the NPPE engine. Thanks for sharing.