Was this done with a real orchestra? If not, that is one fine VST plug in (and probably very expensive).
Depending on the intent, you could bring the lows a little heaver to give it some thumb. People really like to hear their subs in movies
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Nice piece.
Wow, thanks man really appreciate the kind words. Yeah, with TV mixes you have to be a bit more conservative with bass (unfortunately--I've got some pretty serious Waves Rbass going on in the bass section when I write for film
). The first time I ever wrote for TV I got an e-mail from the composer I was working under saying, in no uncertain terms, "less bass!" lol...
And yeah, it's all VST's except the oboe. I used to be a full time session player (sax, oboe, irish whistle primarily) and then found out I could make more money from my bedroom. Quite honestly, the VST market has gotten so competitive you can get everything I used in this piece for around $4000, which isn't nearly as bad as it used to be. Granted, you'll need a machine that costs about that much to run them, but still...alot cheaper than hiring out an orchestra every time.
Now what is "expensive" is the amount of time you have to put into editing the MIDI stuff; there are anywhere from 3-4 layers of expression data (e.g. vibrato, expression--which is a combination of volume and tambre, simulating the strength with which a string player is pressing down on the strings--milliseconds between legato note transitions, etc.) that contribute to the realism. East West's stuff--which is about 70% of what I use, the rest being a combination of 8dio and Native Instruments libraries--gives you almost too many options with the articulations and expression data layers, but it's really worth it to learn it.
East West puts out GREAT stuff, and I'm a big fan of their PLAY interface, although it is a RAM hog. This session was using about 29 GB
Not sure I quite understand...
