Designing Cinematic Orchestral Templates
In this Groove3 video series, DAW guru Gary Hiebner reveals the steps to take to build a powerful Orchestral Template that you can use time and time again, as a great starting point when creating cinematic orchestral type productions.
Videos
• Introduction (06:55) - Gary welcomes you and discusses why you need a template for Cinematic Orchestration Compositions and how it can help your workflow. Software and Hardware requirements are gone over, plus get a look at what will be covered in this series.
• The Options (02:51) - Look at using VEPro and how it can help your template designs on a single machine or if you want to run a multi-computer network setup.
• Setting up VEPro & Loading Instruments (08:57) - Explore how to setup instruments in VEPro and how you connect to these VEPro instances in your DAW.
• Cubase & Few Instances (07:31) - This video takes a look at the best way to run VEPro with Cubase. Cubase prefers few instances with many instruments loaded in each instrument. Also see how to create MIDI tracks in Cubase that route to the instrument within VEPro.
• Logic with Many Instances (05:18) - In this video we take a look at how the VEPro setup differs with Logic. In Logic it prefers to connect to many instrument with single instruments loaded within them.
• Building Up the Strings in Cubase (13:35) - Learn how to setup your String Section in Cubase, with the different articulations spread out across MIDI tracks.
• Building Up the Strings in Logic (09:19) - See how to setup the same stringed instruments in VEPro with Logic, and how to switch between these different articulations with an articulation switching tool.
• Building Up the Brass (05:32) - Here we cover how to setup the Trumpet, Trombones and French Horns for the Brass section.
• Building Up the Woodwinds (03:27) - This video takes a look at how to add Woodwind elements to your template, like Clarinet and Flute Runs and so on.
• Building Up the Percussion (08:53) - Discover how to build up your percussion section which can include your typical orchestral percussion, plus more hybrid percussion elements into your mix.
• Adding Choirs to the Mix (03:50) - See how to load Choir tracks to your template, and how these types of sounds can add to the epic-ness feel of your track.
• Adding Hybrid Elements (07:01) - Now explore adding hybrid elements to your template, such as Synths, Pads, Soundscapes, Whooshes and Impact sounds, as well as an emotive Piano.
• Balancing Your Volumes & Panning (13:25) - Discover some good techniques on how to balance all your instruments together so you can get a cohesive sound across the different tracks.
• Adding Reverbs (05:47) - Learn how you can use two different Hall Reverbs to help gel the different instruments together.
• Template Optimization Techniques (08:17) - See the different ways that you can get better performance from your templates, such as purging samples, disabling tracks, and decoupled instances in VEPro.
• Conclusion (01:47) - Gary sums up all you have learned about Designing Cinematic Orchestral templates in this series.