become f****ing rich so you can pay an orchestra to play what you want and throw enough money in their direction to shut them up.
I have met a few professional instrumentalists playing in big orchestras and some of them really cracked me up by either not having any taste at all (equals “I don’t care, I play whats on that sheet”) or being extremely negative about anything without having any creativity of their own. Those people are doomed if you take the sheet away. It’s like they suddenly have not the slightest idea of how to play that instrument.
Strange people.
On a sidenote, Edirol Orchestra is one of the worst Libraries I know. Although it got everything in it the sheer size of it is way too small to get anything proper out of it. If you can spend some serious money look for some of the soundfont/Kontakt based libraries, like the the one from Vitous, who did sample an entire orchestra.
I do have a suggestion when it comes to using orchestral sounds with breaks, and that’s mainly that extended string samples are not the greatest things to be using for fast melodies. What works best are “pizzicato”… that is, sounds that are played by plucking the instrument… or “staccato” sounds … which are played with similar gating to pizzicato but aren’t necessarily plucked.
Legato, however, is played quickly on the instrument, and there’s no gap in the sounds. Legato is the hardest to recreate with samples, and generally ends up sounding pretty crappy. My personal opinion (as this entire post is, I might point out) is that string samples that are long/looped to begin with should be used as pads, to create ambiance, and the short string stabs are what should be used mostly for quick passages.
there already are lots and lots and lots of staccato’s in the track
but staccato only has strength when there’s legato going on…
I live on contrast, y’know
I don’t like pizzicato, it quickly sounds like cartoonmusic…
looza: money is, alas, an issue… maybe in some future I can afford such a thing…
maybe I should email the kronos quartet, they’re into weird things
Yah, I’m admittedly a huge pizzicato fan… it doesn’t always have to sound cartoony btw, cello pizzicato sounds kick ass at high speeds. Also, many horror soundtracks use pizzicato to create tension. Slap bass is actually pretty close to pizzicato too, and that’s not cartoony at all;)
Hahaha, yeah perhaps… but a slapbass reminds me of Seinfeld, which is reason enough for me not to use it.
I’m not a pizzicato fan at all, fast or slow. Staccato is my kinda thing: fast, clean and tight. Horror often
makes use of tremolo actually, rather than pizzicato… I was thinking of adding more tremolo in my track,
but one, it gets muffled and remains unnoticed and two, I was too lazy to add another edirol instance to
get passed the 16 channels… still, that would also give me room to add a cello next time… oh well… consideration, consideration…
