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2009-08-10
By: ArtificialWonders
Posted in: How To's: EWQL

Figured I may as well post this one up too. Moondude asked me what I used for my orchestra in Anti-Realitat, and I found out that was a rather complex question to answer if it was actually gonna have any use to him, haha.   <table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" width="90%" align="center"><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">moondude wrote:</td></tr><tr><td class="quote" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #444444; line-height: 13px; background-color: #fafafa; border: 1px solid #d1d7dc;"><table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" width="90%" align="center"><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artificial Wonders wrote:</td></tr><tr><td class="quote" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #444444; line-height: 13px; background-color: #fafafa; border: 1px solid #d1d7dc;"><table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" width="90%" align="center"><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">moondude wrote:</td></tr><tr><td class="quote" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #444444; line-height: 13px; background-color: #fafafa; border: 1px solid #d1d7dc;">Hi,  Am new to this kind of thing and have just finished a new track and am working on another tonight and will post the link. Can you please tell me what you think about it?  The song is called "home and dry"  <a style="color: #006699;" href="http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=7889905&q=hi&newref=1" target="_blank">http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=7889905&q=hi&newref=1</a>  Thanks  James</td></tr></table> Man. You submitted this in like, July..... LOL.... Sorry for the huge delay dood. I really got to thinkin bout how Wake said to humanize Protagonist. Even though what I said in response to his review of Anti-Realitat was true, I looked back over it, and he still wasn't that humanized.... So here I am... like... 8 days later.... <img src="http://board.soundclick.com/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" /> (Review omitted from mixposure blog, see <a style="color: #006699;" href="http://board.soundclick.com/viewtopic.php?t=306510&start=280)" target="_blank">http://board.soundclick.com/viewtopic.php?t=306510&start=280)</a></td></tr></table> Hi Dude,  Thanks for the review, I am impressed by your view and the level at which you take to go into the track. I will take on board your comments as the tracks are still works in progress and will implement your changes as I believe that you are very correct in you analysis particularly on the loud voacl and also with the ending. Thanks you  The drums are superior drummer but the thing is soo memory intensive but does sound great does it not, shame it makes my computer want to explode when the mouse goes near its name to load up haha 600mb in memory for the standard kit.  I know what I am doing is not anything like what you do which makes me respect the opinions even more but thanks for the major detail.  The rchestra part on Anti-Realitat is awesome would love to know what you used as the sounds and what plugin. The way it builds up wow!!  Anyhow I'm going to do you head in now I've been playing with this track which is a silly big production and has around 15 vstis going on at the same time. Was going for a real electronic descolate mood on it to capture the mood of the song, I know its not finished but is close and is on my drive awaiting completion. If you could give me some feedback to help me find the flaws I would be eternally grateful.  The song is called lucid and is driving me mad at the moment as I know it can be the most awesome thing  <a style="color: #006699;" href="http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=7876657&q=hi&newref=1" target="_blank">http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=7876657&q=hi&newref=1</a>  Many thanks from Liverpool and get some sleep dude,  James</td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" width="90%" align="center"><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">moondude wrote:</td></tr><tr><td class="quote" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #444444; line-height: 13px; background-color: #fafafa; border: 1px solid #d1d7dc;"> Many thanks from Liverpool and get some sleep dude,  James</td></tr></table> Sure thing man.  About Anti-Realitat.... Lol. I'm getting rather mixed reactions on the way it builds up. I'm guessing the only parts that really need work are the very first bits of choir, which are a little off in the timing, and that bell hit that comes after the silence part doesn't have near enough bass.... There's also the fact my choir is just barely passing, but, I can't really do any better than I'm already doing with what I have.... I'm glad this game is sci-fi, and the fact it's a game.... Maybe I can play it off as purposeful when I'm doing some big ego-booster interview... LOL.  But as to your question about the orchestra, I use EWQL Symphonic Orchestra Silver. So far, I haven't been too limited by it, given that the realism, is just WOW. I have to put forth very little effort to get the massive amount of power out of it. Just a soundgoodizer, a widener, extra reverb, and some basic EQ'ing, and I'm literally set to go, after I've tweaked the VST settings themselves.  In Anti-Realitat, I use the Spiccato violins/violas/cellos, and I use the Quick Up/Down preset for the double basses, that gives me those quick staccato strikes. I leave the built-in reverb off, and then I channel it to FL Studio's native Fruity Reverb 2 plugin, with a variation on the cathedral setting.  I use the QLegato setting for the legato strings, (I haven't used the sus legato articulation outside of layering it with Qlegato yet) and then I tack on the Dark Abbey reverb. In a song as loud as Anti-Realitat (I know, you're thinking "WHAT?! I have to turn this up 20db above anything else I listen to, and you say this is LOUD?!"), you don't want to use the master button for the reverb except for when actually making the song, or else you will hear some clipping when it isn't even hitting the red zone of the volume. If you're layering in some extra articulations in another instance, it depends on how many instruments are going to that master reverb channel for that instance.  I left the master still off for the sus legato, but I probably would have been alright leaving it on, since I was only layering the violins and violas in the string lead towards the end of the song, right before the choir section goes crazy.  The percussion just uses the bass concert drum, and its only provided articulation. (I don't know if gold/platinum have more drum articulations. I don't want to know. My wallet might suddenly become thin. <img src="http://board.soundclick.com/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" /&gt It's got a lot of velocity layers, which is great. It almost sounds real as it is, but I'm slowly getting better at using it. I love all the little pre-provided drum rolls that I've struggled to do manually in the past. You can get lots of uber-powerful effects by using one of their drum rolls and then taking some of the single hits and carefully syncing it to whatever part you want (So far, I've just used it to change the end of the drum roll to make it more or less intense), to create a new little sound of your own. I use the Sinatra Chamber reverb and channel it to the Fruity Reverb 2.  The huge drum hit with the delay right before that glitch choir effect, is not EWQL though. That's actually a heavily modified version of FluidR3GM's Power Drum. Lots and lots of EQ'ing, transposed everything down 2 octaves (and the hiss is also really annoying, so I just use it as the occasional "boom" effect.)When it came down to the export, I turned off all the other plugins, and exported all the non EWQL stuff as one .wav, then each instance of EWQL separately (all instruments within the instance active) (with the individual sets of instruments within the instance having their own reverb setting (with the master button set to OFF)), then compiled my different versions and sync'ed everything again in Audacity. (Lovely software, that. V1.3.8 doesn't work for me, but 1.3.6 seems fine.)  600mb? Jeez. Those are some serious drums. Whatever gets ya by, man. <img src="http://board.soundclick.com/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" />  I'll take a look at the song when it comes up in the queue. Drop one in any time you want, dude.  As for my sleep.... I tried to goto sleep. Didn't have any luck.... Went straight back to writing more stuff for AURA.... Then I added insult to injury by taking advantage of no noise/no annoying roofers to test run some voice acting.... then I cleaned it up and refined it for several hours.... ..... Then I realized I had spent 6 hours, telling myself "Just one more line, then I can goto sleep" <img src="http://board.soundclick.com/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" /> Hopefully, this means I should be sleeping pretty hard tonight... <img src="http://board.soundclick.com/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif" border="0" alt="Razz" />

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