08-03-2019, 01:41 AM
(08-03-2019, 01:20 AM)Nayrb Wrote: For my part, I'm only using this approach when I'm working with intervals within a section. I'm not trying to build sections out of solo patches to play unisons. Maybe for a part where three bones could be playing only a two note part; but in those cases I've had just as much luck "cheating" and playing it with the section patch, with care. Sections made of solo patches might be a cool frontier for samples in the future, but like you, I just can't get anything with the samples I have that sounds as impressive as the basic section patches.
That's kind of what I meant: solo instruments can't easily be combined into unison sections, at least not with brass. If you play the same note with e.g. three sampled solo trumpets it's going to sound all phasey and weird. So if you want to use actual recorded section samples along with solo samples for in-section chords and harmonies, you better make sure those solo samples go well with the ensemble sound or you'll have some frustrating times ahead of you. That was the "layer of complexity and extra work that I wasn't prepared for at the time" I was referring to, and not the actual arraging of the different solo instrument voices (though that played a part as well, of course).
