Just a demo of Symphony Series by Native.

I made some screen shots of the Task Manager to show RAM use!
 
 
 
Just a normal project with every Symphony Series instruments freezed:

 
Violin 1 open. This uses the whole violin 1 sound pack, (not just half the group, and not just some mick packs):

 
Also the Violin 2 pack is open:

 
Also the Viola pack:

 
Here with also the Cello open:

 
Here also with the bass open:

 
I dont think I can open any more without hitting my 32 GB limit.

burgerproduction
Cool demo.
Some of the strings and drums sound a little too artificial for my tatstes, but I like the guitaring. Is that you playing?
The kick could really do with humanizing - sounds like my old 505.

Thanks.

I play it all myself. (exept female vocal)
 
I will look into the drums. And the strange thing is that drummers wants to play as even as possible, and we programmers want to make the drum sample use as many samples to diverse the hits as much as possible. But I will look into that.
 
The Drums are Superior Drummer 3 and the "Modern Metal High" preset. So I think it must be something in my programming and not the sounds. Maybe put down the velocity some?
 
And the 16th beet on the kick cam have two different goals. You have this accent of the 1-2-3-4 and the other is as even as possible to make this as a even stream of kicks. both is cool in their own way. The even one is maybe used most in extreme metal, but the one with accent is more used where 16th beat is not that common? Some extreme metal programmer use all hits at max completely quantized.
 
Half an hour later..!
 
Found out my midi on that project (not the one you hear in that mix because every instrument was freezed) was somehow quantized to 8th beat with duration. Every Midi track was damaged. I was sweating like crazy… But I remembered I have sent this project to a friend for demo a month ago. That project had the good Midi files. And I now have pasted the “backup” midi into the main project. And now its saved. Yeah.
 
But I tried to take down the velocity of the drum track. I took all down “8”, and all the drums sounds more easy to listen to. They were not at 128 but I think I remember I put on a “+ 20” vel sometime. And a drummer cant hit that hard on faster things. Especially blast beats. That is later in the song.

eph221
I could never get those NI symphony series to sound any good.  You managed it well,.

Thank you.

I liked it a lot better in the context of the band. Things fit together very well.
 
Bill

If that was you playing in the band song, I thought you played quite well myself. I'm not sure what you could have done better.

Well. Have to put in that Zarg did work on two songs for me for free. I dont think he do that to anyone, so dont say you too have to get work free, just because he helped me out.

Thats good.

Yeah.
It should be fun. If not your doin it wrong.

And i think the NI sounds best in a mix too. And blended with orher instruments they can sound ok. Alone you can make some sound tracks. But i dont think you can make a Bethoven symphony sound that great.

I am a little crazy here. Giving you the whole song. It is long. I wanted to record the song with all the lyrics. And the German lyrics from before 1600 had 9 verses, and the Norwegian guy translated putted on a 10^th verse.
 
Anyways. You hear the Symphony Series in context.
 
I didn’t want to much of if, because the song then wouldn’t be the same anymore. At least I didn’t like the too much repetitions on the verses I showed above. The orchestra could stand alone as a Preludie tho. I have full Symphony on the 3 verse. But no percussion. That didn’t fit. And just violin 1 and 2 on verses 2, 4-6 and 10.
 
I have to add that there is some difficulties rendering this. I had to do the violin 1 and 2 one more time before making this mix for instance. Its because the long notes on the last verse was choked. I guess that’s a known Cakewalk bug. And non of the instruments are paned out of the box. You have to pan them yourself. If you don’t, it will sound wrong. I guess that the stereo image on the track take in account that the violin 1 on the back and left has another panning than the violin 1 guy on the right in front. So giving the violin 1 a 40 to the left will spread them out in that aria. Many of the sounds need to blend to other sounds to sound ok. And on its own I guess the Symphony Series is to clean? You need to ad some noise or “sound” to them. But that’s what I like with them. They blend perfectly to a mix with a band. They don’t ad to much other than just enough of the sound they represent.
 
I don’t know if this makes any sense. But here is the link anyways.
 
https://soundcloud.com/oyvind-skald/882-eg-veit-i-himmerik-ei-borg-0105