Orchestral Mixing Explained®

SYNTHiC4TE | Nov 09 2018 | 809 MB

In this video tutorial series, DAW pro presents a video series all about mixing orchestral music and instruments. Learn how to approach this artful task and get results that sound both realistic and incredible. Gary welcomes you to the series and discusses the approach to take when mixing orchestral instruments, as well as explaining the different sections of an orchestra, the different microphones used and why, standard orchestra positioning, and the differences in sound and qualities of an ensemble section versus a solo player. Next, you’ll learn about the foundations of orchestral mixing such as how to balance the different sections and creating reverb sends for the different instruments. Gary then focuses on mixing techniques for the different ensembles including Strings, Brass, Woodwinds and Percussion, plus extra orchestral instruments like Piano, Harps and Choirs. Moving on you’ll explore how to enhance the dynamics of your orchestral mix with VCA Automation, and the steps to take to finalize and master your orchestral mix, including what mastering processors are usually used.

Iron Scores WAV

DiSCOVER | April/10th/2017 | 490 MB

Knight up and revel in the hoof-pounding excitement of battle! Wander, not lost, through still and dewy forests. Draw back the silks to uncover a secret world of mystical pleasures. No matter what kind of royal adventure awaits you, enter here to build the perfect orchestral soundtrack with ‘Iron Scores’. This Royalty-Free collection of audio loops and Construction Kits brings cinematic clash to fight scenes and a powdered softness to love scenes. Soaring strings and thunderous percussion allow your audience to taste the feast and fear the famine, all the while being cloaked in awe. Turn your stories into sagas with the magic that is music. Mount your steed nigh and raise your crown to epic!

Stripsound Comedy & Romance

Team MONO | 05.09.2008 | 500 MB

Laugh and swoon to a range of brilliantly composed orchestral tracks by the legendary Ray Davies covering the classic romance and comedy genres.

Orchestral Horror Vol.1 MULTiFORMAT

AUDIOSTRiKE | 07/03/2015 | 502 MB

WAV MiDi REX AiFF

Be afraid, be VERY afraid. Orchestral Horror V1 is here and it’s got everything you need to make spine chilling theme tunes, sound tracks and scores. With dark and haunting string melodies, blood curdling music box riffs and menacing horns we’ve put together 10 scary movie concepts to inspire your inner Hitchcock. This 731 Mb monster of a sample pack includes 165 loops of pristine 24-bit audio. As an added bonus we’ve also included the MIDI arrangements that we put together for the initial composition concepts just in case you wanted to replace the sounds used in our loops with your own virtual instruments.

Classic Bollywood Vol.1

Team Krock | 26 April 2012 | 813 MB

ACiD WAV REX

‘Classic Bollywood Vol 1’ includes the first six construction kits from Classic Bollywood. This library captures the ‘TRUE’ sound of Bollywood Movies and it was composed, recorded and produced by celebrated Bollywood Film Composer, Gaurav Dayal. This beautiful library was recorded on location in New Delhi, India, home of the Bollywood Film industry, by celebrated soundtrack composer, Gaurav Dayal. ‘Classic Bollywood’ includes extremely useful and magical music loops, percussion loops and vocal phrases for music producers around the world. All 100% royalty-free…In addition to the percussion loops, this library features the exotic sounds of an Indian string orchestra (recorded live) along with lush melodic male/female solo vocals and chorus phrases. All vocals have been sung in native languages rather than just alaaps. These loops will work beautifully with any genre be it mainstream World, Pop, Hip Hop, House, Electronica, Orchestral or any other style.

Prosonus Orchestral Brass KONTAKT

DiSCOVER | 22 NOVEMBER 2012 | 283 MB

Solo, section and full orchestral strings

Prepping for Live Recording TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | July 04 2018 | 143 MB

In this third installment of the Orchestral Sessions series, music composer Olajide Paris covers the preparation work you need to do before any orchestral recording session. In any recording session, the most important work happens before the session even begins. This is even more true for orchestral recordings. Because so many musicians are involved, good preparation can save you a lot of time, and time in the studio equals money! In this course, music composer and producer Olajide Paris covers essential tips and workflows to make sure your recording session runs smoothly. Orchestral musicians usually rely on their conductor as an indicator of tempo, but for music that has to be synced to picture, recording to a click track is a must! Olajide covers different ways to set up a click track in various DAWs (Cubase, Logic Pro X and Pro Tools). He explains how to best deal with tempo changes, count-in, and the odd time signatures that are frequently used in cinematic music. You will discover why you should change the default click track in your DAW to the classic Urei metronome sound, and how to do it. You will also learn how to export tempo maps, create and export stems, how to create a Session Tracker file, and more…