Decided to write a symphony version of my album

[ahjteam]

I was listening to one of my older clips and thought that it might sound pretty bad-ass as a classical music version, so I checked out the IK Multimedia website, there is the buy 1 get 5 virtual instrument group buy, so I just bought IK Multimedia Miroslav Philharmonic after listening to the clips.

Impulse buying ftw. :hotjump:

Clips will follow in after I get to download and install that shit, it's like fucking 10GB or something. And maybe I'll use a few more moments to figure the program out first...

 

[ahjteam]

First test here:



Only Miroslav, nothing else.

 

[Sam Bottner]

sounds great man, nice work

 

[SentencedToBurn]

i dont know if you care that it doesnt sound real or not? sounds like a video game. specifically an rpg.

 

[ahjteam]

sounds like a video game. specifically an rpg.

I think that is a positive thing.

 

[zvish]

like music from Nes, or Snes ;p

 

[Perishh]

Sounds very cool dude!

Hans Zimmer FTW!

 

[Damphire]

lush strings sounded nice, the rest sounds kind of fake. The composition is great though ;-)

 

[ahjteam]

lush strings sounded nice, the rest sounds kind of fake. The composition is great though ;-)

I love that vibraphone sound on the Miroslav, but yeah, they do sound kinda fake (especially the snare sounds are horrible), but most of it I blame that I had used the program like 20 minutes more than I used to make the song. I know that I can get a lot better sound from the thing after I go thru and tweak the sounds a bit more.

 

[wibi08]

could we hear the real version?

thx

 

[ahjteam]

could we hear the real version?

thx

That one has a mix of parts from these three clips:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338211/ahjteam/ahjteam_floating_v05.mp3
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338211/ahjteam/ahjteam_accell-02.mp3
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338211/ahjteam/ahjteam_knucklehead_v06.mp3

 

[Black neon bob]

As stated before, it does sound too fake right now. try working with expression and velocity a bit more.

 

[Mago]

sounds like a video game. specifically an rpg.

Yeah and I think that's a cool thing!

 

[ahjteam]

I sent the clip to my teacher at the uni who teaches us surround sound, arrangement etc. He said that the beginning sound good, but after halfway it starts to sound like shit. Then he said to try to play all the sounds with piano sound, because that way you can hear the "raw harmony" and if there is something wrong. Then I noticed that I had really overloaded the "middle c" area, it was all stuffed. Then I did nothing else but just move and remove some the octave ranges and the different was massive. It sounded clearer and louder eventho I didn't touch any of the volume knobs.

Listen to the difference between the piano version (the version 1 a bit quieter, but don't let it bother you):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338211/ahjteam/ahjteam_serenade_v01_piano.mp3
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338211/ahjteam/ahjteam_serenade_v02_piano.mp3

and here is the new version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338211/ahjteam/ahjteam_serenade_v02.mp3

Once again it seems that more is less.