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I liked playing with Pripyat Pianos so much today that I did a second track...a little bit of jazz using a piano in the space of the top floor of a ruined hotel in Pripyat.

Everyday319-B

Tricky one today as I lent out the dongle that lets me plug in all my music peripherals so I had to make this music using my laptop keyboard...still it helps to learn some new tips and tricks, and I felt like the result had a bit of a feeling of someone uncovering a mystery so I made this picture of someone peeling back layers of colour to 'uncover' something.

Everyday349

Today I've finished my Epic composition with some mixing and a final few tweaks plus beefing up the choirs a bit. I'd be lying if I said I'm 100% happy with it...in the end some of the strings still don't sound exactly as I'd like and probably I should spend more time on the mixing, but I've put enough into this for now and it's time to move on. I started this as an exercise to try and make something properly epic and cinematic in contrast to my normal work which has a smaller scale; the main inspirations that I based it on were Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson Williams....of course it's not something that touches the music that they produce, but in terms of capturing some of that feeling I'm happy with the result.

Everyday493 - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants

I'm starting to integrae the rest of SOTSOG from Logic to Cubase and...it's going pretty slowly. I've got all the parts across but need to set up the instruments again while fixing some elements that got borked in the process and it'll all need a bunch of mixing. Maybe even I'll rewrite some parts once I've got the rest in.

Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants - Everyday662

Today's Noisevember prompt is 'Purple'...so I've used instruments with a purple interface ;)

Purple - Everyday747

Today I decided to go back and add a little more interest to the arrangement as an additional exercise. I think the biggest win was adding a bit of melody to the bass...it plays nicely with that top melody, but also extending the octaves between the celli and bass as the piece progresses adds a bit more drama, and then just a bit of tweaking of the middle parts to avoid some parallel lines brings a bit of richness to the harmony.

CC04 02 Orchestrated - Everyday919

Across Time by Jean-Gabriel Raynaud

A new music demo created using all three of ProjectSAM's Symphobia libraries, as well as True Strike Cinematic Orchestral Percussion for Native Instruments Kontakt.

Composed and produced by ProjectSAM © 2017.

Created using 48 instrument tracks on a 2 x 3,33 Ghz 6-Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro using Logic Pro X with 13 GB of RAM used to load all the desired sounds without track-freezing or bouncing.

Libraries & presets used in this demo:

***Symphobia 1***
Sul Tasto String Ensemble (new in 1.6)
String Ensemble Tremolo
String Ensemble Staccato
String Ensemble Spiccato
String Ensemble Pizzicato
Celli and Basses in Octaves Sustain
Trombones and Tuba in Octaves Crescendo
Strings with Brass Ensemble Staccato
Brass Ensemble Sforzando-Crescendo
Brass Chords
Orchestral Effects
Orchestral Rips
Flute and Piccolo Runs

***Symphobia 2***
Full Orchestrator
Violins Grace Notes (Up/Down)
Glissando to Octave Strings Effect
Horns and Trombones Combo
Horns and Trombones Cliffhanger Cluster
8 Player Horn Ensemble Staccato
Flute and Piccolo Staccato
Symphobian Drums
Legato Ensemble Horns + Violins + Violas
Legato Ensemble Bassoon + Cellos
Legato Ensemble Violins in Octaves

***Symphobia 3: Lumina***
Legato Clarinet
Legato Alto Flute
Legato Trumpet
Legato Soprano Voice
Orchestra with Choir Ensemble Sustain
Orchestra with Choir Ensemble Chords
Lumina Choir Sustain
Piano + Harp + Vibes Ensemble
Celtic Harp
Guitopia Bending Effects
Celesta
Suspended Cymbals

***True Strike 1***
Timpani Tremolo
Timpani Rolls & Hits
Gran Cassa
Orchestral Percussion Kit
Tom Toms
Glockenspiel
Xylophone
Crotales
Tubular Bells

DAWCast videos for this demo coming soon!

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Everyday493 - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants

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