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Action & Tension

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Benjamin Botkin Music Portfolio

Epic

Soaring Strings Demos - by Musical Sampling

Soaring Strings

An official demo track I wrote for Orchestral Tools' "Tallinn" sample library.

Seraphim (Official Orchestral Tools Tallinn Demo)

An epic cinematic track featuring Cello solos by my lovely wife Audri. :)

Dauntless

In which I take Igudesman Solo Violin (sample library collab with Orchestral Tools and Aleksey Igudesman) for a spin, share what I think it's great for, and break down the official demo I wrote for this library, "Elementary Perceivers". Library Link: https://www.orchestraltools.com/store/collections/igudesman-solo-violin

Elementary Perceivers - Igudesman Solo Violin Demo

An otherworldly track I composed as an official demo for Orchestral Tools' "Andea by Richard Harvey".

Moonscape (Andea By Richard Harvey Official Demo)

This modern-flavored hybrid track serves as the intro piece to "Building the Machine," HSLDA's new documentary on the Common Core.

Building The Machine

This fun track created for NCSOFT'S Lineage W is a reimagining of a piece composed by Changbeom Kim.

NCSOFT 2022 All Rights Reserved

The Thrill of Competition (Lineage W - Rearrangement)

Includes film Bat-Stinger, the "Super-Flap" noise, and the Batman Begins "Batmobile Chase" and "Back Up" ending. The middle is basically the same.

Hans Zimmer - Batman Chased (Film Version)

Tree Of Life

Something To Believe In

Our Flame Shall Endure

Here is another hymn arrangement that the Lord gave me a couple of days ago. I made this arrangement based on two hymns, Oh Love of God, and Oh Love that Will not Let me Go. These two hymns are some of my favorites and I hope to make them yours as well. 

The Love Of God

How Great Thou Art

This is an arrangement I made a while ag.

When Morning Guilds the skies

Epic sound with lots of orchestra. Big choirs, neck breaking percussion, dramatic cellos, wonderful vocals… A pure blast of epicness indeed.
Composer:Devesh Manhar Sodha
Vocal: Uyanga Boldbaatar
Cello:Ting Guo

Exusia

MACHINA (ACTION/ADVENTURE HYBRID)

Here's a new hymn arrangement that I created this week. Hope you all enjoy it! 

The Church's One Foundation

Soaring Strings Teaser - Aaron Sapp

Maria's Prison - Ian Livingstone

To access and study the MIDI from this VST-ONLY track, check out the MIDI Study pack for this piece, which comes with MIDI (and Cubase Files--bonus if you're a Cubase user), reference audio, and a multi-page PDF for guided composition and orchestration instruction and assignments. https://store.fortecomposeracademy.com/midi-study-pack-1-commanding-the-fleet

I wrote this adventurous track as a demo for Musical Sampling's debut sample library, "Soaring Strings," which has won a spot in my template due to it's ease of use, solid sound, and the most fluid, agile legatos I've ever used. Programming and performing with this library is remarkably easy--there are a few spots in this track where the melody line remains almost untouched since my first pass at inputting it via keyboard and modwheel. With a ridiculously low retail price of $249 (and an introductory price of $199) this library demands a look: http://www.musicalsampling.com/soaring-strings/

Also used in this piece:

Berlin Woodwinds Main and Ex B
Berlin Percussion
Metropolis Ark 1 (choirs + brass)
Cinebrass Core 
CinePerc Core (timpani)
Hollywood Brass (6horns legato)
Spitfire Harp

LICENSE

Commanding the Fleet (Soaring Strings Demo)

Anakin's Theme (Soaring Strings Mock-Up Test)

Hans Zimmer - Wayne Manor

Hans Zimmer - Speak of the devil and he shall appear

To learn how I create music like this on a computer, consider checking out my online course about How to Compose with MIDI and Virtual Instruments: https://store.fortecomposeracademy.com/how-to-compose-with-midi-and-virtual-instruments

Benjamin Botkin began composing music for film and visual media projects in 2005.  Since then, Benjamin has composed the music for multiple feature, documentary, short, and promotional films, written demos for leading sample developers, lectured about film scoring at film festivals, and is creator and head instructor at Forte Composer Academy,  a site dedicated to helping composers succeed in the new music industry. 

Benjamin lives in the greater Nashville area with his beautiful wife Audri and three sons: Ethan, Elliot, and Philip.