making a woodwinds section patch?

[Paul Battersby]

(11-11-2016, 10:38 PM)Samulis Wrote: CE. I just loaded up four solo instruments in ARIA slots, panned them out, [...] and set the MIDI input to the same for all four.

Did you deal with the volume differences across the keyboard? When I made the strings and brass section patches it was easy. I just cross faded where there was overlap, ensured only 2 instruments ever overlap in any one area so the cross fade automatically takes care of the volume. With a woodwinds section patch, if I just let instruments play and overlap wherever they happen to overlap, I'm sometimes going to have 1, 2 or even 3 instruments playing the same note depending where I am on the keyboard so I'd imagine various areas of the keyboard would have different volumes given the same midi note velocity.

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(11-11-2016, 10:41 PM)Mattias Westlund Wrote:  If I want something generic that that covers all octaves and lets me just work on the chords, I'll use a piano or some warm synth pad type of sound.

When I was composing with Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra, I had made myself a patch that consisted of cello and 1st violins. For brass, I'd just simply use a French Horn patch, play any chords and then split that up into other brass tracks.

When I discovered the sfz key range cross fade opcodes, I realized I could make a proper section patch like I've seen used in some Youtube videos of quick orchestration using section patches. I'll have to go back and try to find that video to see if some sort of woodwinds section patch was used.