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This would be very nice, just to see the thing from someone else's perspective. Take your time and when you're ready, just send me a PM.


 
Hey Alpha
Sorry for the delay but have kind of half made a template so if you haven't already worked it out you can have a look at mine.
It's only five tracks that I've assigned and I've left it to you to add effects from sonar if you wish.
I just used the ones within philharmonik.
 
You should be able to download it from here
 
 
 


Ah no problem man, I almost forgot about it since I'm on vacations :P I did work it out by myself a little bit but I find your template clean and ordered. It is a good idea to make each track narrower since we got a great mess of them! When there is panning and volume automations to do, are you applying them to the midi track or to the audio track?

Panning and volume automation I would always do in the audio track effects too but the ones that come with philharmonic are usable.
I don't do much classical but sometimes rather than use verb on each track in philharmonic it's a good idea to create an auxiliary bus and route all your audio tracks to it and then use a nice room verb on the auxiliary bus to make it sound they they're all being played in the same room.
 
Automation inside philharmonic looks like a PITA to be honest and I've not used it at all but I don't use so much classical
and orchestral sounds in my music as I was a few years ago. Gone back to basics
 
Steve
 

Got it. I usually create a single auxiliary bus for my instruments but since I mostly use Kontakt 5 (Philharmonik was only used as a sample, although I use it sometimes), the reverb is often pre-added/pre-calibrated so there is not much work to do in 2013. However, I still create a reverb bus for Kontakt exceptions and other VSTIs. As far as I am concerned, I set the reverb individually for the drums in order to get some specific sound feelings.
 
I might come up with something by the end of summer (if I kick my butt a lil'bit!)
 
Thanks again.

Just remembered something I wanted to ask, when you load this up do the strings play properly on yours ?
Mine are almost inaudible and it's driving me mad. It's like there's some volume reset but I don't see how and it certainly wasn't me who put one in.
 
I take it you recognised the tune ? Sadly it's not mine but I spent a very long time recreating it
 
Steve

Yes, strings are playing properly on mine. However, the "Strings 2" are, for some reason, real low in volume, even though the gain is at +6.0! (is that what you were talking about?). Well, I think I found a culprit. If you look at the piano roll view, you can notice that the notes velocity is real low. Therefore, I just increased the velocity value of the whole track and the sound came back to normal. Somehow, when you wrote the partition with your mouse, the velocity was set to a low value (can't tell you why though).
 
After all, I think it doesn't sound bad because they're like playing a second melody in the background, if you know what I mean :P