Great stuff, your music tells a detailed story. Exciting!

fantastic and gentle, fresh track. harmonies are also very good!

captures the mood of the title perfectly 

This is a collection of selected pieces I have composed as official sample library demos. Included are demos created for products by Orchestral Tools, Musical Sampling, and Embertone.

Sample Library Demos

Here's a short little tune for you all! I hope you enjoy it!

Safe

Quintessence

This fast-paced track is an official demo I wrote for Orchestral Tools' new flagship percussion library, Berlin Percussion. Every instrument in this demo save for the brass (combination of CineBrass Core and Hollywood Brass) comes from an Orchestral Tools library. Percussion patches used:

Toms
Dresdner Snare 13"
Bass Drum 40"
Roto Toms
Xylophone
Crotales
Glockenspiel
Celesta
Cow Bells (More!)
Zildjian Cymbal
Piatti 20"
Tamtam 130cm
Anvil and Brakedrums
Triangle 1
Seashell Tree
Metal Chimes 1
Ship Bells

Strings: Berlin Strings Main Collection
Woodwinds: Berlin Woodwinds Main Collection, Expansion B.
Percussion: Berlin Percussion Main Collection
Brass: CineBrass Core (primarily), Hollywood Brass (for the FX)


Race to the Ocean (Official Berlin Percussion Demo)

This epic track I wrote as a demo for Orchestral Tools' new, monumentally loud sample library, Metropolis Ark 1. Everything you hear in this track is from Metropolis Ark 1--everything. I cannot wait to blend this library with the other instruments in my template... :)

LICENSE

Into the Nebula (Official Metropolis Ark 1 Demo - Lib Only)

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

Commanding the Fleet (Soaring Strings Demo)

This cinematic track that evolves from sorrowful to heroic is a demo piece I created for Orchestral Tools' latest instrument Library: "Nocturne Cello." http://www.orchestraltools.com/soloists_series/libraries/nocturne_cello.php

Orchestral Tools libraries also used in this demo include:

Berlin Strings (I used some Soaring Strings as well)
Berlin Woodwinds
Berlin Woodwinds Ex. B
Berlin Percussion
Metropolis Ark 1 

Defending the Village (Nocturne Cello Demo)

The Upward Call (Official Metropolis Ark 2 Demo - Lib Only)

A demo of our Tiny Music Box library for Kontakt, available from http://fracturesounds.com/tiny-music-box.html

Will Bedford - Memory - Blueprint Music Box

Official demo for Berlin Orchestra Inspire by Snorre Tidemand.
All you hear is made with Berlin Orchestra Inspire.
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Road To Olympus (Snorre Tidemand)

For licensing, please contact will[at]willbedfordmusic.com

A Glimpse of Hope

This is a demo I wrote for Embertone's Joshua Bell violin sample library. More info here: http://www.embertone.com/instruments/joshuabellviolin.php

As The Years Pass (Official Joshua Bell Violin Demo)

The Great Quest

Saga

The Second Star to the Left

The Second Star to the Left (Berlin Woodwinds Demo)

An official demo I composed for Orchestral Tools' new library Modus - Jess Russo.

Orbit: Official Modus - Jeff Russo Demo

Origins

Heart of Savannah

A festive demo track for the new Sleigh Bells library by Fracture Sounds. You can donwload the library for free at fracturesounds.com/product/sleigh-bells/

'Tis the Season

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.

The Second Star to the Left (Berlin Woodwinds Demo)

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