What a great track! A lot of nice places, some great orchestration, and a strong sense of direction. Honestly reminds me a lot of some of the music for 0 A.D., which I've been helping out on lately with sound and some music; I'd be curious about possibly submitting it to the team when you are happy with it, if that would be of interest to you. 
I recognize some of that percussion.
Try layering VSCO 2 + EW Hollywood brass sometime, it's fun! The 'main' mics are also better than 'mid' to me for the entire Hollywood series, and greatly redeem it vs. the 'mid' mics, but I think the only way to get the other mics is with Diamond. I think they intentionally put the poorer sounding of the mic arrays in the Gold so it would encourage people to upgrade. (definitely don't bother with the Hollywood woodwinds, I am not much of a fan, which is very impressive as woodwinds are usually very easy to sample well)
(Honestly I still use the EWQL SO woodwinds from time to time despite being like 20 years old, and same with the strings even haha)
HW brass is quite good when using Legato patches. Definitely an improvement on EWQL SO! It just wants a very, very particular way of playing I think, which is not always fitting of every situation. Try out the true legato solo vibrato trumpet sometime, one of my favorites for slow, gentle melodies. 2-horn is also useful vs. 1-horn, pleasantly fuller without that "big horn section" vibe. I used that a lot in Airscape.
I recognize some of that percussion.
Try layering VSCO 2 + EW Hollywood brass sometime, it's fun! The 'main' mics are also better than 'mid' to me for the entire Hollywood series, and greatly redeem it vs. the 'mid' mics, but I think the only way to get the other mics is with Diamond. I think they intentionally put the poorer sounding of the mic arrays in the Gold so it would encourage people to upgrade. (definitely don't bother with the Hollywood woodwinds, I am not much of a fan, which is very impressive as woodwinds are usually very easy to sample well)
(Honestly I still use the EWQL SO woodwinds from time to time despite being like 20 years old, and same with the strings even haha)
HW brass is quite good when using Legato patches. Definitely an improvement on EWQL SO! It just wants a very, very particular way of playing I think, which is not always fitting of every situation. Try out the true legato solo vibrato trumpet sometime, one of my favorites for slow, gentle melodies. 2-horn is also useful vs. 1-horn, pleasantly fuller without that "big horn section" vibe. I used that a lot in Airscape.
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