Spitfire BBC Symphony Orchestra - Eleanor Rigby a bit more 'big'?

[rob aylestone]

I've got a new whiz PC in the video studio (for video editing really), but I put Cubase on it so I can do odds and ends, so as my internet super wizz fast broadband there is VERY slow - thanks TalkTalk Business, the only library I could download was BBC Symphony. So with that one library I thought I'd see if I could knock up something. I do use it, but just for a few sounds. This forced me into working with just this sound set.

I decided I would do a Beatles song - but the only one that came to mind was Eleanor Rigby, but that's really a string chamber orchestra - just 2 violins, viola, cello and bass - so I figured I'd do a bigger version and see how it worked.

What do you think? I had to listen a few times and hear what George Martin had come up with and then arrange it to make it more orchestra and a bit longer.

 

[BTStudio]

That all sounded very realistic and authentic to me. A couple kettle drum rolls and a few cymbal crashes and they will be playing it in every elevator in the UK
Guy

 

[rob aylestone]

I tried it today when rigging a flown PA system in a theatre. If you add the amp labels (as not really proper watts) it was 15Ks worth of amps. The double bass made the building shake! The high strings though were ear slashing - they really were too much.