Hi Everyone,
 
I just finished a new song with Sonar X1, using electric guitar, Omnisphere, and EWQL Symphonic Orchestra.  
I've been experimenting more with orchestral arrangements to accompany my guitar parts and it's been great to get more into this side of arranging to get more familiar with writing these parts.
http://crazycomposer.com/music/
You can hear the song on my website at the following link.  Thanks to anyone who listens to the track.
--Jim Pfeifer

Hey Jim,
 
The arrangement is really cool, how did you input your MIDI data? Did you play it in? What sounds did you use from Omnisphere? Really cool track.
 
Amine

Thanks Amine!
 
I first recorded the guitar part with a click track so that I could play with the other midi parts and and swap out various sounds to see how the arrangement would go with the guitar track.
 
I input the Midi data with a standard keyboard.  I'm not that great of a keyboard player but I can usually do enough to bang out the part then edit the midi data to fix wrong notes, etc.   I made a lot of use of the different articulations available in the orchestral library, where you can get different kinds of note attack, swells and various other effects that string players use, but using the appropriate articulation on each part.  These articulations are controlled by hitting some other keyboard note ahead of the part you want to play.   This really helps to make the orchestral parts to sound more realistic and less like sampled sounds that play the same way all the time.  I worked a lot on the articulations to find just the right ones to use for various parts to get the effect I wanted from the different string parts.
 
I used Omnisphere for the vocal melody sound.  I'm still not sure if I like it or not.  I may re-record that part with a real female singer to see if I like it better.  But I did like the Omniphere patch because it sounds kind of mystical even though you can tell that it's a sampled voice.  I don't recall which patch that is in Omnisphere but I found it under human voices, "eeh"  sound, or something like that.
 
Thanks again,  --Jim 

Sounds quite nice here there are a couple of points where some parts come in and they sound a little clicky like they have had the very first few milliseconds cut off, perhaps remove silence was a bit to enthusiastic.  I could of course be talking a load of furry rubbish because you never use remove silence.
 
Nice tune thanks for sharing.

 
 A very creative musical piece you posted , I like the sounds in this instrumental song . Would work very well in a christmas movie NICE !
 
James

Great job, really made me feel like I was in a secret garden with Peter Pan and tons of fairy tale characters.

I love this! Very nicely arranged.

Very nicely done and arranged. Great sounds throughout and very nicely mixed. Great tune for a winter days stroll through the forrest. Nice work.
 
Peace and blessings, John

Very nice! One thing you can do with those Omnisphere vocal patches is blend more than one at a time and narrow the stereo spread. Then add delays/reverb in Sonar rather than use Omni's. Altogether, this can really help create a more realistic vocal. Overall, I really liked the song and it sounded well thought-out.
 
Regards,
Dan