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DunkSquad

Another original piece this time. I just finished a massive project today so took some time out to practice composing. Post-lullaby-adventures in your sleep, battling dream goblins and saving imaginary princesses and all that jazz. It quite heavily feature's Orange Tree Sample's new Evolution Steel String library which I can definitely recommend to anyone needing acoustic goodness.

Used:
FL Studio 9, Kontakt 4 library, Spiritoso, Cinesamples CineOrch, Orange Tree Samples Steel Strings, Spitfire Percussion &amp; British Woodwinds, VOXOs, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings, Alicia's Keys.


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Adventures in your sleep

This is an orchestrated version of Temple of Time from Zelda Ocarina of Time.  I'd never paid much attention to the Zelda music until recently. I wish I had gotten into it much earlier as there's so many good pieces of music hidden behind 8bit blips and blops.

Anyways - the choir. Meh, I am a bit of a perfectionist so I'm never ultimately happy, but they were a nightmare to work on with this. Hopefully they sound ok to everyone.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 4, Spitfire Albion, Symphonic Strings, British WoodWinds, Great British Brass, Harp & Percussion, Cinesamples VOXOs, CineSnare, Project SAM Symphobia 2 & True Strike, Tonehammer Requiem, My awful chorally voice. Private strings library.

Zelda OoT - Temple of Time Orchestrated

Esta es la segunda vez que uso este medio para compartir musica con todo el mundo :)

Pokemon Black and White Music-Elite Four Battle

Grand Theft Auto 4 Theme Song

An original piece of music by myself. This was posted before but never had its own video. It's kind of dreamy and soft and was made back when I first got Wallander WIVI.

Used:
FL Studio 9, Kontakt 4, Wallander WIVI Brass & Winds, Cinesamples CineBrass, Spitfire Albion & Percussion, Project Sam Symphobia II

Sleep while you can for tonight I steal your soul

An original piece of music composed by Blake Robinson. These are some older pieces from the Deadbound soundtrack (another game I will finish one day - honest!). This is the game's intro piece followed by atmospheric ambience that's (blatently) inspired by Akira Yamaoka's Silent Hill soundtrack.

Used:
FL Studio, Kontakt, TASCAM Gigastudio, Various soundfonts and libraries

Deadbound soundtrack

An orchestral cover of Zelda's Lullaby from Zelda Ocarina of Time. I'd never paid much attention to the Zelda music until recently. I wish I had gotten into it much earlier as there's so many good pieces of music hidden behind 8bit blips and blops. I tried to keep faithful while adding a little of my own style. 

Used: FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Albion, Solo Strings, Percussion & Harp, Cinesamples CineBrass, CineBrass Pro, HollyWoodwinds, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings 2, Orange Tree Samples Evolution Guitar & Mesa Winds, Project Sam Symphobia II, Orchestral Tools Symphonic Sphere, VSL Orchestral Cube & Performance set, EWQL Symphonic Choir, Various Private Orchestral Libraries

Zelda OoT - Zelda's Lullaby Orchestra

This is a little mini improv theme tune I made up after watching FreddieW's video about Milk Man, the super hero. It's inspired by what's in the video but composed from scratch. I'd have to say he's probably one of the best superheros though, not the worst.

Want to find out for yourself? Check out freddiew's Milk Man video on his sweet, sweet channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eFDra1XimA

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Cinesamples CineBrass, HollyWoodwinds & Cinesnare, Spitfire Albion, Symphonic Strings & Percussion, Orchestral Tools Orchestral String Runs, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings 2, 8dio Requiem Pro, Various private libraries

Milk Man - World's Worst Superhero theme tune

This is a mini orchestral cover of the shop theme from Zelda Ocarina of Time. I'd never paid much attention to the Zelda music until recently. I wish I had gotten into it much earlier as there's so many good pieces of music hidden behind 8bit blips and blops. I tried to keep faithful while adding a little of my own style. 

Used: FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Albion, Solo Strings, Percussion & Harp, Cinesamples CineBrass, HollyWoodwinds & VOXOs, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings 2, Project Sam Symphobia II, SoundIron Mars, VSL Orchestral Cube, Horizons & Performance set, EWQL Symphonic Choir, WIVI Wallander 2 Brass & Woodwinds Various Private Orchestral Libraries

Zelda OoT - Shop Mini Song Orchestra

This is an orchestral cover of Hyrule Castle Courtyard from Zelda Ocarina of Time. I'd never paid much attention to the Zelda music until recently. I wish I had gotten into it much earlier as there's so many good pieces of music hidden behind 8bit blips and blops. I tried to keep faithful while adding a little of my own style.

FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Guitar Rig 5, Spitfire Albion, Solo Strings, Percussion & Harp, Cinesamples CineBrass, HollyWoodwinds & CineSnare, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings 2
Project Sam Symphobia II, 8dio Requiem Pro, Native Instrument Alicia's Keys, Impact Soundwords Shreddage X, Orchestral Tools Symphonic Sphere, Various Private Orchestral Libraries


Zelda OoT - Hyrule Castle Courtyard Orchestra

This is an orchestral cover of Overworld from Zelda A Link to the Past. I'd never paid much attention to the Zelda music until recently. I wish I had gotten into it much earlier as there's so many good pieces of music hidden behind 8bit blips and blops. I tried to keep faithful while adding a little of my own style. 

Used: FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Sonokinetic Vivace, Spitfire Albion, Solo Strings & Percussion, Cinesamples CineBrass, CineBrass Pro, CineSnare, CineOrch, HollyWoodwinds & VOXOs, Project Sam Symphobia II, VSL Orchestral Cube, Horizons & Performance set, Orchestral Tools Orchestral String Runs, Various Private Orchestral Libraries

Zelda ALTtP- Overworld

Main Theme for I Am Alive

Composed by Jeff Broadbent

Developed by Ubisoft

I Am Alive Theme

This is an orchestral cover of the Select Screen from Zelda A Link to the Past. I'd never paid much attention to the Zelda music until recently. I wish I had gotten into it much earlier as there's so many good pieces of music hidden behind 8bit blips and blops. I have a 'making of' video for this piece of music that's coming as soon as I chop it up!

Used: FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Cinematic Strings, Spitfire Harp, Albion & Percussion, Cinesamples CineBrass & Piano in Blue, Project Sam Symphobia 2

Zelda ALTtP - Select Screen

An orchestrated version of the The Royal City of Light from the Tales of the Abyss soundtrack. This was Mostly to stress test some sample library updates and put my current setup to the test. This is the first track I've managed to get note drop outs on my machine with, though I was using 18gb of ram and crazy polyphony.

Used:
Kontakt, 8dio Liberis, Requiem Pro, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings 2, Cinematic Samples Cinematic Strings 2, Cinesamples CineBrass, CineBrass Pro, CineOrch, CineSnares, HollyWoodwinds, Piano in Blue, VOXOs, EWQL Symphonic Choir, Orchestral Tools Orchestral String Runs, Symphonic Sphere, Project Sam Symphobia, Symphobia II, Sonokinetic Vivace, SoundIron Venus, Spitfire Albion, British Woods, Chamber Strings, Great British Brass, Harp, Percussion, Piano, Solo Strings, Symphonic Strings

Tales of the Abyss - The Royal City of Light Orchestra

Kirby's Return to Dreamland Last Boss

Alan Wake ReOrchestra

Kirby’s Return to Dreamland - Starcutter Boss Theme

Kirby’s Return to Dreamland - Desert

This is an original piece by Blake Robinson. It's a wiggly little original composition written almost exclusively with Orchestral Tool's fantastic 'Symphonic Sphere' library. It features some Spitfire percussion and some percussive bell things at the end. Posted as a thanks for 20,000 subscribers on my YouTube! Not a subscriber yet? Feel free to drop by http://youtube.com/dummeh

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Sytrus, Spitfire Percussion, Orchestral Tools Symphonic Sphere, Cinesamples CineBells, Various private orchestra libraries

Imaginary Friends

This is the instrumental from a collaboration between Brentalfloss and myself. He pitched me the awesome idea of Bioshock themed 30s/40s tune and pinged me an awesome piano track and I diddled about and came up with this. 

You can find the finished YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIwC9_VCZCY which features vocals from Brent, Andrew Dobson drew the cartoon stills, and Joe Skinner mixed and mastered this song to give it an old timey feel.

Used:
FL Studio, Kontakt, Fablesounds Broadway Lites, Sample Modelling Tuba & French Horns, Orange Tree Samples Core Bass Pear, Cinesamples Piano in Blue, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings, Various private libraries

Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea

GTA 4 Theme Song

Previews from the upcoming Chrono Trigger Symphony album by The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra. Find out more over at http://thechronosympony.com or follow on facebook at http://facebook.com/chronosympony

Software Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Albion, Loegria, Solo Strings, Percussion, British Woods, Harp & Piano, Cinematic Strings 2, Cinesamples CineBrass, CineBells, Piano in Blue & VOXOs, Orchestral Tools Berlin Woodwinds & Orchestral String Tools, Project Sam Symphobia II, Orange Tree Samples Evolution Acoustic Guitar & Tiny Box, Various private orchestral libraries

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Chrono Trigger Symphony : Volume 2 : The Last Day of the World Orchestra (Full preview)

A reorchestration of the Game of Thrones theme. I made it from scratch to test some new sounds and mainly practice. Hopefully I kept the feel of the original while adding my own spin to the piece. It's definitely a lot more brassy than the original but hopefully that works okay.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Loegria, Albion, Percussion, Harp, Solo Strings, Symphonic Strings, British Woods & Felt Piano, Cinesamples CineBrass, CineBrass Pro, HollyWoodwinds, Piano in Blue, Deep Percussion Beds & VOXOs. Project Sam Symphobia II

Game of Thrones (Re)Orchestra

A new piece of singy original music about life, love and restraining orders. Thanks to the Fenni for writing half of, and featuring on this song. If you like the track please, please, please share it with as many people as you think that would also enjoy! Lets get this song out there and mass listened to!

Some call it stalkin', I say walking... just extremely close behind.

On Spotify!

An unhealthy obsession

Ao-slamonoclast - Quad City DJs vs. KOTOKO

This a remix of the song played at the end of the games Pokemon Black and White. Please give me feedback on what you think. Original song by Pokemon-Nintendo 
You may use this song in your videos or anything else as long as you complete these requirements.
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Remix: by Gold64kyc
Gaming Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/gold64kyc?feature=results_main
Music Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Gold64kycMusic
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/gold64kycsmusic

Pokemon Black and White Credits remix

Previews from the upcoming Chrono Trigger Symphony album by The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra. Find out more over at http://thechronosymphony.com or follow on facebook at http://facebook.com/chronosymphony.

The full album will be released on August 22nd, 2013!. Want to be alerted as soon as the album has been released? Head over to the site's email signup page and pop in your details - http://thechronosymphony.com/email

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Loegria, Albion, Percussion & Symphonic Strings, Cinesamples CineBrass, CineBrass Pro, CineOrch, CineWinds, CineWinds Pro, HollyWoodwinds & CineSnare, Sonokinetic Vivace, Orchestral Tools Berlin Woodwinds & Symphonic Sphere, Project Sam Symphobia II, Various private orchestra libraries

Chrono Trigger Symphony : Volume 1 : Frog's Theme (Full Preview)

A wiggly orchestration of 'Oh Bubblegum' from Adventure Time. Rebecca Sugar's song was too catchy not to orchestrate. I might tackle the other half of the demo in a later release.

Find more of the Synthetic Orchestra on the sites below:
Facebook: http://facebook.com/syntheticorchestra
Twitter: http://twitter.com/syntheticorch
Google+: http://plus.google.com/b/116523306548488804710/
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/blaketothefuture/
All my orchestrations: http://syntheticorchestra.com/all/
Site: http://syntheticorchestra.com

Lyrics:
Slime Princess you're alright,
Flame Princess you're okay
Wildberry Princess could be better
All of the princesses are pretty alright but...
Oh Bubblegum... You look like a lot of fun
I'm right outside, and that is how I know
Hey Princess did you get my text?
With the picture of my awesome gun show.
I'm also working on my pecs,
If you'd like I'll send a picture of that too
Oh Bubblegum... I really need someone
or anyone... Pretty much anyone
I'm so alone.
Will somebody tell me what's wrong with me?
Anybody?!
Anybody?!
Anybody?!

Find Rebecca Sugar's other Adventure Time music:
http://www.youtube.com/robsugar

Used Software:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, ymVST, Massive, Spitfire Loegria, Albion, Percussion, Harp, Harpsichord, Symphonic Strings & Solo Strings, Cinesamples CineBrass, CineBrass Pro, VOXOs, Piano in Blue & HollyWoodwinds, Orange Tree Samples Pineapple Ukalele, Evolution Acoustic Guitar & Tiny Music Box, Sample Modeling Horns & Tuba, Fablesounds Broadway Lites, Project Sam Symphobia II, Various private libraries

Adventure Time - Oh Bubblegum Orchestra

A short, straight remake of the Pokemon season 1 TV show intro. I was making it to use it for a project, but  scrapped the idea.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5 & Library, Orange Tree Samples Cherry Bass, Evolution Electric Guitar, Evolution Acoustic, NI Studio Drummer, Cinesamples Piano in Blue, Spitfire Loegria and Percussion, Impact Soundwords Shreddage

Pokemon Instrumental

An original piece of music by Blake Robinson. A little ditty I wrote as a demo for Spitfire's Albion 3 to show that Iceni can pull off the softer side of the orchestra just as well as the loud. Everything in the piece is Albion 3, Iceni, from the Strings to the Brass to the Percussion. It's still on sale until the 4th of January over at http://spitfireaudio.com

Enjoy my music? You can find the first Synthetic Orchestra Originals album over on my Bandcamp! http://syntheticorchestra.com/originals1. It includes three extra tracks not available online (total of 16) and four Synthetic Orchestra wallpapers as a massive thank you to everyone that does buy it.

Find more of the Synthetic Orchestra on the sites below:
Facebook: http://facebook.com/syntheticorchestra
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/syntheticorch
Google+: http://plus.google.com/b/116523306548488804710/
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/blaketothefuture/
Site: http://syntheticorchestra.com

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Albion 3 : Iceni

Looking out the window

Just a little remake of Lullaby of Resembool from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood's awesome soundtrack. I've been working on a sample library recently and not had any time to compose so I figured I'd have a quick play with it. Made in roughly an hour or so from start to finish.

Didn't think I'd have to put this, but ::Disclaimer:: This is not a demo of Sable and is not made to demonstrate it's capabilities - there will be plenty of demos on the Spitfire site showing what it can do. This is simply me playing about with a new toy I helped make to recreate a piece of music I love.

You can find more of my FMA:Brotherhood orchestrations here: http://syntheticorchestra.com/all/?search=fullmetal

Find more of the Synthetic Orchestra on the sites below:
Facebook: http://facebook.com/syntheticorchestra
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/syntheticorch
Google+: http://plus.google.com/b/116523306548488804710/
Site: http://syntheticorchestra.com

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: Lullaby of Resembool (Re)Orchestra

Just a little remake of One is All, All is One from the Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood soundtrack. It's mostly faithful to the original but has little bits of Blake-Spin in it. It's a bit rough around the edges but I didn't want to spend too much time on it, so this is about 45 minutes of work.

You can find more of my FMA orchestrations here: http://syntheticorchestra.com/all/?search=fullmetal

Find more of the Synthetic Orchestra on the sites below:
YouTube: http://youtube.com/dummeh
Facebook: http://facebook.com/syntheticorchestra
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/syntheticorch
Google+: http://plus.google.com/b/116523306548488804710/
Site: http://syntheticorchestra.com

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Sable, Loegria, Percussion & Solo Strings, Cinesamples Piano in Blue

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: One is All, All is One (Re)Orchestra

An orchestration of Hyrule Castle from The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker. It has been a while since my last Zelda orchestration. This one stays pretty true to the original.

Used:
FL Studio, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Audio British Woods, Albion, Loegria, Iceni, Sable, Percussion, Harp, Solo Strings, Cinesamples CineBrass Core & Piano in Blue, SoundIron Mars, Venus & Mercury, Project Sam Symphobia II

Zelda tWW - Hyrule Castle Orchestra

Heavy Rain - Main Theme

A singy orchestration of the other half of Rebecca Sugar's awesome 'What am I to you' from Adventure Time.

Adventure Time - What am I to you Orchestra

A little wiggly ditty based on the Luteces from Bioshock Infinite. They have awesome theme tunes that feature when they make an appearance throughout the game and I wanted to recreate and play about with it a little.

Used:
FL Studio, Kontakt, Spitfire Sable, Loegria, Albion, Iceni, Percussion, Harp, Harpsichord, Orhestral Grand Piano, Accordian, Solo Strings, Symphonic Strings & British Woods, Cinesamples HollywoodWinds Sonokinetic Vivace

Bioshock Infinite - Heads or Tails (Re)Orchestra

An orchestration of 'The Way it Was' from 'The Last of Us'. Gustavo Santoalalla's soundtrack was awesome and I really wanted to experiment a bit with a nice simple orchestrattion.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Felt Piano, Loegria, Albion, BML Horns, Percussion, Hg2O, Harp & Solo Strings, Project Sam Symphobia II & Lumina

Last of Us - The Way it Was Orchestra

An original piece of music by Blake Robinson. It's a taster of some music from 'The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra Originals Volume 3'. It started off as a 10 minute doodle to test a new string library I'm working on, but I ended up spending an hour or two turning it into to a full piece.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire BML Horns, Sable Vol 1,2,3a, Albion, Loegria, Iceni, Great British Brass, British Woods. Percussion, Harp, Piano & Solo Strings, Project Sam Symphobia & Lumina, Various private orchestral libraries

The World Below the Waves

I've been tinkering with music since I was a kid, composing tunes for fun. Nowadays, I mainly write orchestral scores for video games. Alongside this, with an extensive career in the games industry as a tools programmer I've now focused my skills on developing next-generation sample libraries and music software.

Alan Wake ReOrchestra

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