Start Your Journey: Beginner's Guide to Virtual String Orchestration

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Dive into the world of virtual string orchestration with this comprehensive beginner's guide to writing for strings! 🌟 Whether you're a budding composer or an enthusiast eager to explore, this video is your perfect starting point. We kick off with an introduction to the string section.
Next, I present a fantastic free resource: ProjectSAM's The Free Orchestra Vol 2 Sul Tasto Strings, demonstrating this ensemble patch's capabilities. Then, we dive into the basics of melody writing over diatonic chords in C major, ensuring even absolute beginners can follow along easily. 🎹
We also explore the BBCSO Discover, highlighting the seating arrangement of string sections and the diverse articulations possible. Following this, I guide you through transforming the basic melody into a full-fledged string arrangement, section by section. This hands-on exercise is ideal for getting familiar with each instrument in the string section.
Furthermore, I discuss the accessibility and professionalism of Musio, offering a 30-day free trial and an affordable subscription plan. To give you a taste of quality, I compare BBCSO Discover with Cinestrings Core using the same MIDI.
Start orchestrating your masterpieces today! 🎶
Resources:
Get free Kontakt Player - www.native-instruments.com/en...
VSL Acadmey - www.vsl.info/en/academy/
ProjectSAM The Free Orchestra - projectsam.com/series/the-fre...
BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover (Free) - www.spitfireaudio.com/bbc-sym...
Musio 1 (30 days free trial) - musio.com/
P.S.: I don't get payed by any of these up there. This is just my honest opinion.
-- CHAPTERS --
00:00 Introduction
01:22 The String Instruments - Overview
04:24 ProjectSAM Free Strings VST
07:08 Exercise 1 - Simple melody and chords
08:17 Free BBCSO Discover
09:37 Playing Techniques - Articulations
10:46 String Sections in the Orchestra
11:22 Exercise 2 - Transform Ex1 to Voicings
17:47 Musio 1 - Accessible Professional Sounds
19:14 Playthrough & Conclusion
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@renesensco 8 месяцев назад

I'm glad you mentioned BBC SO Discovery and especially Musio. These are the best option right now for beginners and generally for those who don't exactly make money from their music.

@SamuFL 8 месяцев назад

Yes. BBC SO is a fabulous educational tool. And Musio means access to an extensive reall high quality sound library for a very affordable price.

@i_jetlag 8 месяцев назад

Idk how lucky I am to come across this video. Only above 200 views and 800+ subs. God must be real. Thanks man, subscribed.

@CraigRodmellMusic 8 месяцев назад

I like your "Jingle", by the way. And your little exercise made Discover sound quite good! Pleased to see that Musio has listened to people, and is now catering to those of us who object to Subscriptions.

@SamuFL 8 месяцев назад

Thank you Craig. But it's not _me_ making Discover sound good. Dicover _does_ sound quite astounding for a free tool!

@CraigRodmellMusic 8 месяцев назад

@@SamuFL You're not wrong. Discover is marvellous for what it is.

@arturaravidi 7 месяцев назад

I love Vienna Symphonic

@sound4mations 7 месяцев назад

Keep up the Fantastic series Samuel! Love it! Michael Santa Rosa CA

@SamuFL 7 месяцев назад

I will... You like this video a lot - so I'll be doing more in this style 🙌

@cryptosecuritytools 8 месяцев назад

I learned some classical guitar and did grades, took music in school, wrote songs for my bands and my own projects for many years and have dabbled in orchestral programming but never taken it seriously. Now I have a new setup with all the right gear and sounds and Im ready to give it a good go. Not sure why other than for my own satisfaction at this point. Thanks for your video, I enjoyed it.

@SamuFL 8 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it! In my experience there are people who are just made to make music. And no matter what, they will always make music. So, if it is not for "your own satisfaction", maybe it is just in your nature.

@i_jetlag 8 месяцев назад

Could you please continue this series? I've tried over 3 or 4 complete online courses on virtual orchestration but everything is too complicated. Yours is amazing, I would love to see more. I've all notifications turned on for your channel. Thank you so much.

@SamuFL 8 месяцев назад

What a charmiong feedback! For sure, I will. I am glad you appreciate it!

@spokansas 8 месяцев назад

I like the approach of starting from an ensemble patch and extracting the individual string parts from that. For string writing it gives you a better visual for weaving and inserting rhythmic breaks to the non melody lines. I usually have just used piano, but this just looks more coherent visually. Thanks!

@SamuFL 8 месяцев назад

Glad it's useful to you. There is so much more one can talk about and consider when it comes to voicing. But, I wanted to keep this as simple as possible. For a beginner just the act of creating _some_ proper voicing is challenging and satisfying.

@spokansas 8 месяцев назад

@@SamuFL Looking forward to it!

@gianni1646 8 месяцев назад

This video was an excellent example of preparing strings for orchestration. (Is that also called “divisi”?) Thanks for the tutorial! Gianni❤

@i_jetlag 8 месяцев назад

Divisi is when you divide a section. Like if it's 14 1st violins, 12 2nd violins, 10 violas, 8 cellos and 6 basses. Divisi is to divide a section. let's say the 14 first into two or something like that, and have them play different lines. Like 7 playing a line and 7 playing something else. I'm a beginner so that's the simplest explanation I can provide. Hopefully someone who knows more will provide a better answer but if not my answer isn't wrong but also isn't the best. Try googling it or something like that. With the new beta features of Google it hopefully provides better answers than quora.

@SamuFL 8 месяцев назад

That's a perfect explanation. Divisi means splitting a section, e.g., the celli, in two halfs and have both halfs play different lines.