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 the Wing Fortress Zone music from Sonic 2. I wanted to stay close to the original. I'm going to add Requiem choirs once they've downloaded and I'll post an mp3 download link.

FL Studio 9.1, Kontakt 4 WIVI2 Brass and Woodwinds, Project SAM True Strike 1, LA Scoring Strings, HollywoodWinds.

Sonic 2 - Wing Fortress Zone Orchestra

I know, I know. This is about the 5th time I've remixed the boss pieces. I just haven't felt that I've captured the theme in all it's evil glory yet, so here's another try. This time  it stays quite true to the originals and utilises the new CineBrass album to give some epic brass crazyness.

We'll just have to see how happy I am with this one and whether I'll attack it again at a future date :)

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 4, Cinesamples CineBrass, HollyWoodwinds, CineCrash & CineSnare, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings, Project Sam Symphobia, Symphobia 2, True Strike, Spitfire Percussion.

Flight of Robotnik - The boss theme orchestra

This is a little Zelda remix though. I've wanted to do one for a while but never known which track to actually do. This is the Darkworld theme and then an encore of the Zelda motif.

Used: 
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 4, Cinesamples CineBrass, HollyWoodwinds, CineSnare & CineCrash, Tonehammer Requiem, Spitfire Percussion, Sonokinetic Arpeggio & Felt force One, Project SAM Symphobia, Symphobia II & True Strike, Private Orchestral Library

Zelda ALTtP - Dark World Theme

An original piece composed by Blake Robinson - This tells the story of the menacing magical hat owned by the mysterious mystical man. Used for evilness all of its existence, the hat is stolen by a group of adventuring children and used for the powers of righteous goodness. Or something like that.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 4, Wallander WIVI Full thing, Cinesamples CineBrass, VOXOS, HollyWoodwinds, Spitfire Albion, Symphonic Strings, Chamber Strings, British Woodwinds, Percussion & Harp, Project SAM Symphobia & True Strike, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings, 8dio Requiem Pro & Liberis, Orchestral Tools Orchestral String Runs, VSL Orchestral Cube Pro, Various private orchestral libraries

The Mystical Man's Magical Hat

An original piece of music I composed after some random inspiration today. Hopefully this conveys some kind of epic sea-faring, pirate-filled craziness. 

From initial tinkerings to the final piece posted on YouTube, it was around 3 hours work. The video includes the original piano sketches I made to start with to give an idea of how the piece evolved from start to finish (other than going from 4/4 to 3/4). 

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 4, Cinesamples CineBrass, Voxos, HollyWoodwinds, CineSnare & CineCrash, 8dio Requiem Pro, Spitfire Albion, Harp, Percussion, Symphonic Strings, Chamber Strings & British Woodwinds, Project SAM Symphobia, Symphobia 2 & True Strike, Orchestral Tools Orchestral String Runs, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings, Kontakt 4 Accordion, Various private orchestral library bits, FL Keys for the rough mockup

Sea of Storms

This is an orchestrated version of Song of Storms 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.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Albion, Symphonic Strings, British WoodWinds, Great British Brass, Harp & Percussion, Cinesamples CineOrch, HollyWoodwinds, VOXOs, Project SAM Symphobia & True Strike, Tonehammer Liberis, VSL Orchestral Cube Pro, Private Orchestral library.

Zelda OoT - Song of Storms Orchestra

An original piece of music I composed today during lunch again. 

It's roughly an hour or so of work so it's nothing mindblowingly crazy - just a little orchestral tinkering based around the idea of a storm. Woodwindy runs and epicness ahoy.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 4, Cinesamples CineBrass, Voxos, HollyWoodwinds, CineSnare, 8dio Requiem Pro & Liberis, Spitfire Albion, Harp, Percussion & British Woodwinds, Project SAM Symphobia 2, Orchestral Tools Orchestral String Runs, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings, Various private orchestral library bits

Destructive Nature

An original piece of music by Blake Robinson. This was just me working on something and fiddling about with various sample libraries. I was playing and experimenting with an old melody of mine to tune/fix up some sample bits. The original was very Tim Burtony but this has a little more Dummeh in it, hopefully.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Abion, British Woodwinds, Percussion & Harp, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings, Cinesamples CineBrass & HollywoodWinds, EWQL Symphonic Choirs, Project Sam Symphobia 2, Dummyworld Shhh, Orange Tree Samples Evolution Acoustic Guitar, Tonehammer Emotional Piano, Private Orchestral strings library

Boogie Man's Reprise

An orchestral cover of the Marble Zone music from Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog. I've neglected the series a little lately from discovering so many other great soundtracks, so I had intended to make a Sonic 1 medley. However, it ended up turning into this. I'm posting it as is, as I can't imagine having much more time to work on it.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Albion, Percussion, Harp & Great British Brass, Cinesamples CineBrass, HollyWoodwinds, CineOrch & CineSnare, Project Sam Symphobia 2, Private Orchestral String library

Sonic the Hedgehog - Marble Zone Orchestra

An orchestral cover of Dragon Roost Island from Zelda The Wind Waker. It might be a little too epic and bombastic to fit the theme and it loses the windy-feel of the original, but that's just how it turned out. 

Used: FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5,  Spitfire Albion, British Woodwinds, Percussion & Harp, Cinesamples CineBrass, HollyWoodwinds & CineSnare, Project Sam Symphobia 1, Symphobia 2 & True Strike, 8dio Requiem Pro, Private Orchestral String Library

Zelda WW - Dragon Roost Island Orchestra

An original piece composed by Blake Robinson. This time there's no bombastic brass, cymbal smashes or epic timpani. I wanted a more intricate peice without falling back onto blasting horns and bones in your face as I always seem to. This is sort of based around my Boogie Man ethos, though it's only a passing inspiration. I've decided to start a little project that I'll be posting more about soon.
Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Albion, Percussion &amp; Harp, Project Sam Symphobia 1 &amp; 2, Cinesamples Cinebrass, HollyWoodwinds &amp; CineOrch, Various private orchestral libraries


At night we get out and play

An original piece of music by myself. This is a rework of a piece I wrote as a kid (around 1998). Back then it sounded super crap (I did it in a mod tracker wth 100k of samples on my Atari ST. Those were the days). I didn't listen to the piece before making it - just went from memory to make sure I wasn't just pure remaking.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5 & library, Spitfire Albion, Solo Strings, Britith Woodwinds, Harp & Percussion, Fablesounds Broadway Lites, Cinesamples Cinebrass, Cinebrass Pro & HollyWoodwinds, Orange Tree Samples Evolution Steel strings & Core Bass Pear, Project Sam Symphobia II, VSL Orchestral Cube & Performance set, Tonehammer Emotional Piano, Custom orchestral & piano libraries.

Floating Away

This is my interpretation of the main theme from the survival horror 'Rule of Rose'. It started off as me mucking about with the piano and went from there. The original soundtrack has this amazing sounding string quartet that I wanted to keep the feel of, but also bring in the whole string section at one point. I think it all came together in the end. 

There might be some melody mistakes as I went from memory/guessing on this piece. This was also a bit of a self-challenge. I normally mix and match a lot of libraries but with this I decided to only use Spitfire commercial products. Everything used to make this piece is available to the average consumer.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Piano, Albion & Solo Strings

Rule of Rose - Theme Orchestra

"I found the person I want to be with for the rest of life, but he's not ready either. And the best part about being with him is the fact that I can look into his eyes and know how he feels about me: it's not in a sexual way; it's in a way that he loves me so much. And when he's ready and I'm ready - we'll be ready together."

So glad to hear that you've found somebody who has a genuine interest in you, rather than your body. Thanks for calling.

Love Isn't Just Sex

An original piece by Blake Robinson. This is a medieval sounding piece of music written randomly today. From start to finish it's probably around 2 hours work (I'm not good at Medieval stuff so it was good practice).

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Kontakt libraries, Spitfire Albion, Symphonic Strings, British WoodWinds, Great British Brass, Harp & Percussion, Orange Tree Samples MesaWinds, Cinesamples CineSnare, CineBrass, CineOrch, HollyWoodwinds, VOXOs, Project SAM Symphobia, Symphobia 2 & True Strike, Tonehammer Epic Toms & Requiem, VSL Epic Horns, Private Orchestral library.

Welcome to the Kingdom

An original piece of music by Blake Robinson. An older piece I've finally decided to release. Feel free to use it in your video or video game (all I ask for is credit and a link).

Battleaxe

A detective's work is never done

An orchestration of Song of Healing from The Legend Of Zelda - Majora's Mask. 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!

Zelda Majoras Mask - Song Of Healing

This song was written for a video collaboration with my good friend, Machinima artist Joe Zazulak.  I composed the music to fit the video.  It's an emo little lullaby about death.  ^_^
Mastered by Jon at smallfishrecordings

http://vimeo.com/62253532

~Lyrics~

comfort distaining
the night is waning

black eyes
nightshade encircles my mind
the fingers black entwined

cold rain on my skin
the eidolon within

look to the moon
wind rising

as I fly in darkness tender
my corvid soul to keep

On a sea of pins and feathers
I lay me down to sleep

On a sea of pins and feathers
I lay me down to sleep

VG

Steve Patoine