Orchestration Techniques

Tips on making your orchestration library samples more realistic.

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Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this!

Thank you. Good topic.

No doubt -- really well done! Thank you.

He hasn't heard my sloppy piano technique :runs:

I'm usually midi composing with my mouse putting down the notes first and worrying about the attack and dynamics later. It's just too hard wrapping my head around 20 parts at once otherwise.

I also use a different individual trumpet for each part and play then individually so they're not going to sound at the same time anyway. Another thing is if you're using chords, make sure you don't select "section" for the chords because the entire section will play each note. You'll end up with 6 french horns on each note. Just a warning here. Use the solo french horn.

Also if you're using a score editor and scoring. You're going to need to quantize a copy of it so that notes come out at the right point in the in the score. Otherwise you're looking at a mess in your score.

A book I'd recommend is the Gilreath book on Midi Orchestration.

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"Gilreath book on Midi Orchestration" Good book.
Alex Pfeffer. Vids on templates etc.
http://www.youtube.com/user/alexpfefferdotnet/videos

Daniel James/ Tutorials and revues
http://www.youtube.com/user/dazexus/videos

Hugo Tromp. Some little gems hidden here
http://www.youtube.com/user/YourVisualDesigner/videos

Midi CC List
http://nickfever.com/402/production-tips-and-resources/midi-cc-list/

Principles of Orchestration On-line. Great resource
http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php/77-Principles-of-Orchestration-On-line

Nutti wrote:Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this!

More good tips here
http://www.vi-control.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10417