Back to ear training. Have been admiring a choral piece that was featured on Hearts of Space recently (Iver Kleive's Kyrie performed by a norwegian ensemble called Skruk). Found a screenshot of the first page of the score and will use that as the basis for attempting to transcribe the rest of it by ear. Of course these first 12 bars are the easy part… and I can already tell even they are not precisely what was recorded (the Skruk version has the solo voice sung by a soprano and it's sung a half step higher than written (it's sung in F# - the score I found has it sung by a tenor and is written in F and the solo melody isnt even the same!). Either way I'll have some trouble emulating the "solo" lines - my sample library is choir sections only; not solo voices. (for now emulating the "solo" by using "close" mic for the solos and the "tree" mic for the choir – not super effective). Assuming I get that far, I'll probably also use this as a sandbox for learning to better articulate this choral sample library. Learned a bit more about slicing and dicing audio in Logic - adjusted the original track down a semitone so it's easier to compare. Getting it to match tempo is harder - the performance is not to a click, so the tempo is a bit fluid. For now I'm just aligning each 4-bar phrase and time stretching the audio to match the project tempo.
Here is the first page, more or less corrected to match the Skruk performance. (solos are correct; need to more closely review the backing parts).