Psalm 148 - orchestral

That's pretty interesting stuff. I'm not sure I understand how you did all of that...but it's cool! I would like to hear it again if you get a full orchestra to play it.

Very nicely done and some nice textures and voices throughout. Nice mix for being straight out of the box. Good one!!
Wonder want this sounded like when David played it on his harp? Praise in the Lord from Creation- Psalm148
 
Peace and Blessings, John

This is beautiful.  I hope you can get an orchestra to play it.  I think that would be fun!  

loads of work involved in getting an orchestra on it, but well worth it. Hope you get it sorted. :)

Yes Ben BUT the big question here is did you like the jonas arrangment. That is far more important than virtual instruments in fact. My ears tell me the arrangement sounds good and would translate over to a live ensemble very well.
 
The most important way to make any virtual instruments sound as good as the real thing is to get them doing the same sort of things that they would do in an orchestral setting. It is not about the sounds/production techniques so much but more about what they are playing.
 
Also it is great to listen to classical performances live a lot as well. You can learn a lot from doing that. I still think the real thing is hard to beat though. Whenever I come out of an amzzing classical performance I always think OMG that was amazing. It would be just so hard to do that with all virtual instruments. There is just so much human input it is quite incredible. I also often think too that musically classical music represents the ultimate art from and nothing really very good has happened since 1900. 
 
(except for electronic music of course! )
 
Tangerine Dream are coming to Melbourne. Now there is a band! They are doing two gigs in one week and I am booked in for both. OMG! They have not been to Australia since 1975 would you believe. And I saw them then too.
 
 

BenMMusTech
I've started dabbling in orchestral stuff and in particularly virtual orchestration...I think we need to stop worrying about "real" orchestral musicians personally, the virtual stuff can do the job these days.  I'm not sure about the sounds, I use notion which is suppose to have the superior sample set over Sibelius.  I also do a lot of audio engineering stuff to improve the sounds too, you'd be amazed at how a little transient shaper can make things pop and zing.  I tend to take all the individual orchestral sounds and give them their own track either via rewire or bouncing.  This allows me to use better verbs and in most cases two verbs for a realness you can't get with the orchestral propriety verb.  Then slap tape sim an console sim.  I'm only just beginning too, there is arguments for double tracking as well.
 
Ben     

Notation capabilities are the more important than the sound, so Sibelius is the definite choice over Notion.  Also, what you're hearing isn't Sibelius' sounds.  It's Note Performer.  It does a vastly superior job of "interpreting" the mechanical notation (it prefers "mecahnico" input, which is the stiffest MIDI imaginable), into something that sounds roughly like how humans would play it.  In that regard, Note Performer stands alone.  I do have several of the high-end libraries (Cinebrass, LASS, VSL) which sound infinitely superior, but the labor to play those parts and navigating all the 'niggles' of those libraries isn't worth it unless it's to be used as a final product.

Very nice. Befitting for a real orchestra to play. This is a winner all the way!

Jonas,
 
Nice work, the orchestration and arrangement is really well done.   Enjoyed the listen.

Regards