For all of you that are in producing epic orchestral tracks and haven’t read this article yet - very informative and usable information about how to take your orchestra pieces to the next level.
This is quite informative to say the least. I’ve recently got into composing epic orchestrated trailer music so the timing of you posting this is spot on Thank you. But! I try to avoid tutorials on composition as much as possible not to get restrained by so called “rules”. I believe that’s the key to making memorable, unique music and if it is of high quality enough it will find it’s buyer eventually even if it doesn’t sound “Batman begins” enough
Olexandr We can compuse guide for beginers, about instruments sets\synth
plugins for epic track.
For example you can use:
Albion I (Strings\Brass\Perc)
Albion III (Bass Arp\Action High Freq Arp)
For Spiccato I love (Lass 2 ) but you can use Albion I
Solo\ Background Piano - The Giant (NI Instruments)
Some SFX Design For Tracks: Boom Library - Trailer Kit
PLUGINS: Reverb - Art Acoustic Reverb
Waves Bundle (but its very expensive for beginers)
Fab Filters (EQ, Multiband Compression) i etc
thank you so much for posting this,i was just about to ask what vst instruments to use for orchestral tracks because orchestral samples like Vienna are sooo expensive
I myself just got heavily into producing epic orchestral tracks as well. I use Kontact as my host, and I use Action Strings, Session Strings, and I use the stock brass section from the factory library. I have epic percussion as well and it’s OK I guess. If you are going from realism it’s pretty tough.
I’ve been gone a while and I can’t remember if this counts as self promotion but here’s my latest track, and it’s the first track that I’m honestly convinced it sounds real. I’m always able to hear a little of this and that that sounds fake in synth orchestras, but I really feel like I got the hang of it on my newest one:
Tell me what you think! A lot of it is programming the different voices such as spiccato, sforzando, staccato, sustain, etc.
Daniel James reviews on sample libraries gives also a lot of other tips than just the library. Very nice videos with a lot of info: https://www.youtube.com/user/dazexus