My First Orchestral Piece

davdud101
Interesting stuff Glennbo!
Cool arrangement. REminds my a LOT of music from 90's JRPG games.
 
As far as improvements, I think the timing of things overall could be a bit tighter in some areas, generally it's okay though.
The sounds themselves in MY mind are more reminiscent of PlayStation-area role playing games like I said above, rather than necessarily being a "realistic" representation of the 'proper' classical instruments. It could do some good to learn for each of the instrument groups their tendencies for how they're arranged and how they sound when they do certain things just to get a feel for making them sound more realistically-performed. Something I'm working on for my strings and especially my MIDI-woodwinds.
 
Keep on truckin'!
 
 
p.s.
Your tune "Why Not" is killer! Like the drums and saxes+keys! I kinda dig your jazz/fusion/rock stuff too.. sounds a bit like They Might Be Giants :)

Kuusniemi
The problem with using the Kontakt built in orchestra library is the lack of legato instruments, which orchestral music direly needs. This is evident from the strings, they sound quite unnatural as the note transitions do not flow. The brass works better as they have more attack.
 
The biggest thing lacking here is dynamics. This is what orchestral music needs. Everything here is at a constant level. Some parts should be quieter than others. The other I feel need for is warmth. The orchestra sound very cold.
 
Some ways, this reminds me of some older films scores by Eric Serra.

daryl1968
not bad for a caveman drummer lol
I enjoyed this - sounds like you had a ton of fun.
Kontakt is a pretty fab sample player - some great libraries out there at reasonable prices.
Enjoy  

Wayfarer
I thought it was good Glen. I like your fusion stuff better though. You've got this Brand X kind of thing going on which is right up my alley. I really like that one called The Real Thing.

Wayfarer
Hey, whatever works and keeps the neighbors happy. 
 
I never had that particular Brand X album. The ones I liked best were Unorthodox Behavior and Livestock. Most of my favorite fusion bands were out of England. UK, Buford, Soft Machine, Nucleous etc. I think Holdsworth was in all of them at one time or another. I also liked Gong, Michał Urbaniak, Gabor Szabo, Jean-Luc Ponty and several other European groups. I liked some of the more acoustic bands too though like Passport, Oregon, the Paul Winter Consort, Pat Metheny and so on. I liked Jeff Beck's fusion period a lot. For what it's worth, in my opinion the Dixie Dregs' What If album was the quintessential fusion recording.