Variorum Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 I've been working on remakes of some GPO5 demos I made for my YouTube channel a few years ago. This is the first (and probably only) one I've managed to complete. It's based on the original GPO5 version, but I supplemented/replaced some instruments with free VST's that I've acquired over the years. I also put a lot more effort into it Most are still free, but Epic Strings is long past its free promotional period and costs $29 now. Watch the volume... it gets loud. Stuff: Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 Spitfire Audio BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover Spitfire Audio Epic Strings Spitfire Audio LABS - Strings 2 VSL Big Bang Orchestra SINE Player - Rotary SI-String Section 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack c. Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 outstanding.jack c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Variorum Posted July 21, 2023 Author Share Posted July 21, 2023 Thanks jack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSband Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 Sounds like a movie sound track, good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Variorum Posted July 22, 2023 Author Share Posted July 22, 2023 Thanks for the feedback KS! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bajan Blue Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 Always loved this piece of music and do listen to it quite regularly. This is an excellent rendition and must have been an enormous amount of work Liked this a lot Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Variorum Posted July 23, 2023 Author Share Posted July 23, 2023 Thanks Nigel! 12 hours ago, Bajan Blue said: must have been an enormous amount of work There are so many events, Cakewalk's Event Viewer locks up when I try to view them... ? Could be my poor underpowered computer. My 12 gigs are almost used up just by loading the project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 I like this; it's the kind of thing I am trying to learn how to do (orchestral arrangements in general), but I would probably have to run multiple computers each with it's own copy of SONAR and the various plugins, and split the project up between them, synced over a network, to do that heavy a project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelJohn Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Fantastic! The dynamics and quality of the instruments is amazing. Best trumpets I've heard. Which orchestra? I think I heard Holst reference the theme from 1st Suite in Bb for just a moment. Gave me the chills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Variorum Posted September 2 Author Share Posted September 2 Trumpets (and brass) are mainly GPO5 with VSL Big Bang Orchestra and SINE Player - Rotary for support. The idea was to use all freely available VSTs in addition to GPO5. Pretty soon I'll spend a bit of money and remake it using 8Dio instruments. They've been having some ridiculous sales lately and I'm hoping for a big one this Black Friday 😁 Of course that means I'll have to buy another SSD to hold them 🙄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Thanks for posting that--I googled 8dio, and found something I will have to save up the money for (all their sales seem to have just ended yesterday, of course the day before I found out they existed!); I love making vocal stuff (not necessarily with words) but was provided a useless uncontrollable and mediocre or worse voice by nature (you can hear it in a very few of my projects, post-massive manual adjustments and corrections inside SONAR; I'd name / link them but the rules say we're not supposed to in other people's threads?) ...anyway, these https://soundpaint.com/products/forgotten-voices-cait https://soundpaint.com/products/forgotten-voices-barbary https://soundpaint.com/products/terrie are what I *wish* I sounded like and would create music with. Unfortunately the way the site is setup, it doesn't really let you hear what individual stuff is available in it or how it "works", but the demos, assuming they were created using *only* that sound, indicate it would probably do at least some of what I want. (I've used the Gaelic Voices from LABS and some other free "operatic" samples plus Hunter Rogerson's free Spellsinger from the PianoBook website in one project that's in another thread here*** but none of them are really what I wanted; just what I had. ) I also like texturing instruments like the https://soundpaint.com/products/braahms-horn-generator ***I was just going to link to an existing thread here for it but it shows a huge preview of it; I just wanted to put a tiny unobtrusive link in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Here's some cover art for your track If you don't like it I can remove it, but a whimsy struck me, and google has this AI art thingy (that sorta kinda does what you ask for, in a way), and I had MSPaint and a few sleepless minutes... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Variorum Posted September 4 Author Share Posted September 4 On 9/2/2024 at 2:39 AM, Amberwolf said: Here's some cover art for your track Cool! I slapped it on the project page. I don't have that many keyboards, but I'm pretty close on the monitors 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 If you want to experiment and generate a different version, this is the link to the AI test kitchen and the text used to get that output. https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/tools/image-fx/75ei259rog000 "Cartoon Green Zombie with missing teeth and brown hair wearing glasses playing keyboards and synths all wired together on various shelves with monitors showing sequencer software on a spaceship orbiting Mars in a huge viewscreen in the morning" Or I can do it, if you prefer, just tell me what to change in the description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Carroll Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Very well done! sounds very much like a movie part. There does seem to be some parts that go on without getting to the place it feels like it should. Without seeing it in a movie, it's hard to understand the tension you created Comes to a good close. Cheers, Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 9 hours ago, Terry Carroll said: sounds very much like a movie part. There does seem to be some parts that go on without getting to the place it feels like it should. Without seeing it in a movie, it's hard to understand the tension you created Comes to a good close. I don't know Holst's The Planets well enough to know if any of the arranging/etc was changed (Variorum will have to answer that part), but if not, then the original was created by Gustav Holst a little over a century ago (before movies with sound existed ). It has been used in some films/videos, however, including a visually well-made BBC series about the solar system. https://www.bbcearth.com/shows/the-planets If it's helpful, this page has more info on the suite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets and this google has links to various orchestrations and performances of it. https://www.google.com/search?q=gustav+holst+mars . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cakeboy Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Great stuff. I really like the classical music style here and was not scared by the length of this piece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookiee Posted September 7 Share Posted September 7 Ya gonna hate me, yes it is well done, but as a regular BBC Proms listener it sounds just a tiny bit life less. sorry. I did stay to the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Variorum Posted September 7 Author Share Posted September 7 I don't hate you for that... I hate you because you shed all over the carpet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookiee Posted September 7 Share Posted September 7 7 hours ago, Variorum said: I don't hate you for that... I hate you because you shed all over the carpet! We don't shed, regular use of Shake-n-Vac, with a quality vacuum cleaner ensure we don't shed. 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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