Orchestration Prep TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Feb 26 2018 | 81 MB

So you recorded your MIDI score and can’t wait to hear it played by a live orchestra. What’s the next step? Join music composer in this course, and learn how to transform your MIDI data into a usable score for orchestra. Nowadays, orchestral music recorded with MIDI in a DAW can sound fantastic, but there’s nothing like music played by real musicians. In this second instalment of the Orchestral Session series, music composer Olajide Paris covers the special preparation work needed to transform your MIDI score into data that a notation program can use. In this course,  covers essential techniques and strategies to speed up your orchestration prep work. Topics such as when to use region-based vs. event-based quantization, how to deal with dedicated runs libraries so they correctly translate to the score, or how to consolidate MIDI parts are all covered. Olajide also discusses how to create individual parts from ensemble patches, what important housekeeping steps need to be done before exporting, why you should know about the alternative music XML format, and more…

The Study of Orchestration CDs

P2P | CD Set Untouched | 4.01 GB

Learning Orchestration

The third edition of this high successful orchestration text follows the approach established in its innovative predecessor: Learning orchestration is best achieved through familiarity with the orchestral literature; this familiarity is most effectively accomplished from the music notation in combination with the recorded sound. The text has been revised to reflect the most informed reactions to the first and second editions, as well as Professor Adler’s revisions. For comprehensiveness, conciseness, and contemporaneity, The Study of Orchestration remains without peer.
The third edition of Adler’s essential text on orchestration and instrumentation contains expanded treatment on the trombone, the harp, the orchestral percussion section, and string techniques. A chapter is included for transcribing orchestral works to the various combinations of instruments used in public school music groups.

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to

Arranging and Orchestration

PDF | 304 pages | 20.16 MB

There are few books on arranging and orchestration, fewer yet that are recent, and none that explain the process easily in a fun-to-read fashion. This book demonstrates how to take a simple composition and arrange it for different types of instrumental and vocal ensembles. The same song is used as an example throughout the entire book, and a variety of different types of arranging are covered.

Professional Orchestration Vol.1:

Solo Instruments and Instrumentation Notes

PDF | 801 pages | 116.55 MB

Professional Orchestration™ Volume 1, Solo Instruments and Instrumentation Notes is the first orchestration book to be written on the scoring stages in Los Angeles. It’s 800-pages, 8.25 x11 with full page/full score examples. Volume 1, called the First Key to Learning Professional Orchestration, covers all the main orchestral instruments, and percussion, with electronic scoring notes. Where available, nearly all the book’s examples, by instrument, are organized by demonstrating the instrument in its low, medium, high and very high ranges. This method of organization is followed in each succeeding volume. As a result, you’ll learn from common practice how and where specific devices and combinations work best.

Broadway LITEs 2.0.24 KONTAKT

P2P | 09.06.2019 | 11.85 GB

Broadway LITEs is a virtual instrument with an attitude. A fusion of sound, music, and technology. Powered by Kontakt 5 player, it features 15GB of multi-sample content, with over 20,000 unique samples of saxophones, trumpets, trombone and clarinet. It offers all of the same groundbreaking patented technologies, as well as a select portion of instruments and audio content used in critically acclaimed Broadway Big Band. Broadway LITEs provides an affordable introduction to the best-sounding and most realistic emulation of contemporary wind instruments to date, and is suitable for high-end studio work.

Isobelle Austin Cello KONTAKT

P2P | 20 December 2023 | 8.38 GB

Cello Foundation offers a unique blend of traditional orchestration and contemporary electronics, featuring 20 playing techniques and built-in sound manipulation effects. With an XY pad, you can blend up to 4 techniques at a time, including your own sounds, and apply global sound manipulation effects. For even more creative flexibility, the secondary effects processing page allows you to shape and apply a vast collection of sound manipulation tools per individual playing technique. Check out our demo tracks and walkthrough videos to explore the endless possibilities of this library.