The Orchestra by Sonuscore

[bigcat1969]

This is interesting. It seems like the next step in make music quick with chords and arps. Any thoughts from the brain trust?

[Paul Battersby]

This will certainly make it a lot easier to create something realistic while barely having a clue how to piece together an actual score for individual instruments. Watching the video and seeing how easily good results are achieved, I wonder, why am I doing this the hard way, one instrument at a time?

[bigcat1969]

The same reason a great cook prepares a wonderful meal by hand, while I pop a Marie Calendars meal in the microwave and think this it is tasty? Pride of workmanship.

Thanks for adding in the video.

[kmlandre]

(06-23-2017, 07:10 PM)Paul Battersby Wrote:  Watching the video and seeing how easily good results are achieved, I wonder, why am I doing this the hard way, one instrument at a time?

Because the style and manner of orchestration is 1/2 the art.  It's not just the notes, but which instrument and when and to what effect.  

This sounds great - for a certain style of music.  But I'll bet dollars to donuts it couldn't - for instance - do a convincing Bollywood string orchestration.  Or that it could handle the delicacy and surprising intricacy of Ravel's Bolero, or the cacophonous urgency of Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony.

It's a great tool, but it's just a sketching gadget as far as I'm concerned...

K

[Paul Battersby]

(06-23-2017, 07:40 PM)bigcat1969 Wrote: The same reason a great cook prepares a wonderful meal by hand [...] Pride of workmanship.

(06-23-2017, 09:42 PM)kmlandre Wrote: Because the style and manner of orchestration is 1/2 the art.

I agree. I should have ended my last post with a roll eyes smiley .

With this library I could put something together rather quickly but I don't think it would be any more fulfilling than piecing together orchestral sound clips and calling that a composition. I don't even use my own library full strings or full brass or full woodwinds patches except to quickly work out ideas. Then I rework it for the individual instrument tracks.

But, if I were working on sound tracks for T.V or for cartoons or something, this new library is something I might want so I could work quickly and meet deadlines more easily.

[Mattias Westlund]

I actually found Sonuscore's Orchestra Chords freebie really useful for quickly roughing out ideas and blending with separate instruments. And I certainly wouldn't mind having a bit more options like staccato articulations, more chords beyond major/minor, some control over which instrument groups are part of the chords and so on. But I would never ever pay $399 for a package like this. It seems to be geared towards people who want to compose generic-sounding music and are too lazy to learn how to do it the proper way. I mean it literally seems to create rhythms and melodies all on its own? Wow. Technically impressive, but lame.

If Sonuscore comes out with some cheap version with only the basics I might consider getting it though (provided that it can be loaded into another sampler and isn't encrypted).