Suite Jabez

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Here is an orchestral piece I did a while back. Easter gets me in the mood for this one.

The prayer goes as follows and you will know where it is to be sung:

"Oh that you would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory

That your hand would be with me and that you would keep me

From evil so that I may not cause pain."


http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=3771981&q=hi
 
Wow, what a journey into symphonic nirvana! Sounds like something I would hear on the CD sent into outer space to share Earth culture with aliens. I don't know how you did it . . . oh . . . wait . . . yes I do . . . I did it.:)
 
Pretty cool stuff Xeries. It suits a medievel theme movie - guess it's the winds that are moving me in that direction. Full of lots of really well played and great sounding parts. What keyboard are you using to generate those sounds?
 
ido1957 said:
Pretty cool stuff Xeries. It suits a medievel theme movie - guess it's the winds that are moving me in that direction. Full of lots of really well played and great sounding parts. What keyboard are you using to generate those sounds?
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Thanks much, ido, They are from a Roland XP-30 Synth. I have a lot of fun with it. It's 1998 technology, but it has some pretty good sounds.:)
 
Xeries said:
Thanks much, ido, They are from a Roland XP-30 Synth. I have a lot of fun with it. It's 1998 technology, but it has some pretty good sounds.:)
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I have two songs I'm doing for a lady that call for lots of orchetral stuff, and I'm scared stiff... I don't even know where to start. Pray for me!
 
Nice job.:cool: Some observations:

1. All the dynamics seem to be at the same level. In orchestral recording like this, one has to figure out what is essential for the listener to hear, then put all the other tracks way down in the mix. Right now it sounds a bit chaotic.

2. On some of the noisy patches, try a high cut. It will give you more of a pure sound and less synth noise.

3. I assume this is quantized, but its not always together. Different patches have different attacks, strings tend to sneak in and have a later attack. What I do is slide the parts back. In Sonar its very easy to do, you just select the track and slide it by ticks or do it manually.

Nice job, stuff like this is hard to pull off.:)
 
DavidK said:
Nice job.:cool: Some observations:

1. All the dynamics seem to be at the same level. In orchestral recording like this, one has to figure out what is essential for the listener to hear, then put all the other tracks way down in the mix. Right now it sounds a bit chaotic.

2. On some of the noisy patches, try a high cut. It will give you more of a pure sound and less synth noise.

3. I assume this is quantized, but its not always together. Different patches have different attacks, strings tend to sneak in and have a later attack. What I do is slide the parts back. In Sonar its very easy to do, you just select the track and slide it by ticks or do it manually.

Nice job, stuff like this is hard to pull off.:)
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Thanks, David, quantized, no, not really. Everything I do is just audio straight to a click. That's why you can hear some mistakes here. It's a lot to keep track of. Thanks for the tip about the high cut. Not sure I understand but I'm thinking that if I do an eq cut at about 12k when stuff gets noisy, it will sound more natural. I'm still pretty much a noob at this stuff. I rationalize by saying that I'm just the writer. I appreciate your kind words.
 
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