Nothing beats a live orchestra even if the composer is a absolute master at virtual orchestration mockups.

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Orchestra VS Oscillators

It’s hard to believe that the 1980s are now more than a generation in the rearview mirror, yet those bright neons and inspiring synths are ever-present in our cultural landscape. From Wonder Woman to Stranger Things, the 80s never really went away… although we’re glad the hairstyles did!
Growing up in that era, the team at Sonokinetic have always held the work of television and film composers of the 1980s in high regard. Movie soundtracks from legends John Carpenter, Jerry Goldsmith and Alan Silvestri went on to inspire lesser known TV musicians such as Mike Post (Magnum PI / The A-Team) and Stu Phillips (Knight Rider). Technological advances in music-making energized these genius composers to experiment by combining synth sounds and orchestral instruments. The results scored our childhood, with memorable themes ringing out from cathode rays and sticky-floored cinemas around the world. From Total Recall to Tron, vintage sounds are an important piece of soundtrack history, with as much relevance today as in our misspent youth. With this firmly in mind, we present “80”, a full orchestral neo-80s toolkit…
For those already acquainted with our other orchestral phrase libraries, 80 will be both familiar and shockingly different. From the retro digital interface to the electronic performances, we’ve landed squarely in this decadent decade. Embracing the vintage tech of the era, orchestral phrases are doubled with FM synth lines, recorded on location in our concert hall for effortless blending. Strings, woodwinds, brass and synths collide in an effervescent eruption, sure to hit the right nostalgic notes 
Of course, all the features you know and love are present, including major and minor phrases playable in any root key, a suite of randomization options, 4 mic positions and comprehensive playback controls. Our new “Retrofier” faders make it easy to introduce analog synth flavor to many performances. Producing 80 was an experience that rekindled our love of vintage synths and we hope that when you hear it, you’ll feel the same way.

We, at Sonokinetic BV, are very proud to introduce 80 to you and can’t wait to hear the amazing things you, our valued customer base, will produce with it.
Sonokinetic has established a name as one of the best value & quality sample producers and with this product we’d like to underline that statement. We stick with our unbeatable pricing module and high quality sampling.

80 Demo - NineteenEighty2 - By Firoze And Kaizad Patel

Re-recorded version of the 2014 soundtrack for "Till Death Do Us Part" performed by Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, recorded Feb 2023.

composed, orchestrated and mixed by Sascha Knorr, all rights reserved.

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As It Used To Be - Live Version

composed, arranged and produced by Robin Hoffmann

(c) 2023 by Robin Hoffmann. All rights reserved.

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This example is using non-final (but close to final) samples with close + decca and noise RX wasn't complete with this version of the samples. External verb was used.

Fluid Shorts III - Solo Cello & Bass - Staccatissimos Example 1

Berlin Main Series Collections (Black Friday Trailer) - Emmanuel Jacob

Ok, I'm really not sure how I feel about this. I knew of AI's capability of generating non orchestral music but I didn't think the nuances and complexities of orchestral music could be handled by AI just yet. I was wrong.

I spent the last few hours prompting AI (Udio.com) to generate this orchestral film music track.  I didn't compose a note of it. I didn't arrange it, I didn't mix it, I didn't master it but I did prompt and re-prompt many times (almost a hundred times), created many remixes and edits. Its not perfect/great by any means. Its a little generic sounding. There are glitches, there are questionable bow changes and weird musical choices among other things but overall, this blew my freaking mind. I have no idea how this works under the hood. But one thing I kept thinking about is its just a matter of time for developers figure out how to create sample/ai hybrid orchestral virtual instruments that can be molded exactly how the composer wants. And they will sound like the real deal, if properly composed, arranged and balanced of course.

This is wild. At this point I'm not sure yet if AI will replace composers in the future (that's a whole other intense topic) but I know it will provide them with amazing new tools to compose music with (not prompt but actually compose). Like how when full frame digital cameras made high quality film-making accessible to a lot of people. People still needed to learn how to use them and they needed to be creative and know what they're doing though to produce good results. New, more sophisticated and cheaper tools are around the corner! Maybe there will even be AI assisted composing tools (like AI assisted industrial design, AI assisted learning etc...). Cubase co-pilot?

But I could be wrong. What do I know.

Even the image I used for this track is AI generated.

AI Generated - The Love of AI's Life

Excerpts from a score written for Warner Bros. Pictures' ShoWest  Exhibition.

Warner Bros. - The Sound of the Movies (Live)

Official Demo for Junkie XL Brass by BowsToHymns.
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Another Life (by BowsToHymns)

Just for fun, I orchestrated and re-arranged the same melody 70 different ways.

1 Theme, 70 Orchestrations

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As It Used To Be - Live Version

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