Forever Today Strings (a how to maybe)

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Posted by BOOsTER on May-05-2005 13:28:

Forever Today Strings (a how to maybe)

Hello
I thought of making myself a remix of Forever Today with the same intro as Tiesto has and some piano improvizing and so on...

anyway here's the problem...how did Tiesto get his strings sound so good? or are they live recorded? anyway my try from Reason: I realized that there's propably the most work on the envelope of the sounds...

Sample here

I'm still thinking if anyone could give me a hint? ... yo and I am software based ... so please don't tell me which hardware synth can do it I'm looking for a software way

Though I believe my try sounds quite ok, I believe someone can come up with something better...so?

Posted by BshidoHEAT on May-05-2005 14:49:

I thought it was made by an orchestra.
But then again, it wouldn't be the first time I'd be wrong.

The sample sounds good btw.

Posted by Zombie0729 on May-05-2005 16:06:

yeah, i know i tried this monthes ago. i couldn't figure out whether the low end of it was percussion or a bass. i remember noticing how sharply i changed the envelopes on the strings according to that bass/percussion. when i get off work i'll see if i can dig it up

Posted by BOOsTER on May-05-2005 16:17:

BshidoHEAT: Thanks, I made it in Reason 2.5 with only the Factory bank sounds...

DJ: I believe it's a bass...just has sometimes different envelope...like those booooms you know what I mean any advice will be welcome...thanks mate

Posted by open-mind on May-07-2005 13:03:

naaa, it's not an orchestra! We can hear it! it's not very "deep".
And the volume variation sounds it was made with the hand.
If you want to make a sound like this, use somee plugin like Edirol Orchestral.
And if you want to hear what you can do with the one, d/l my synthetic melody part 1, 2 or 3.
And if you want to hear my remix of Forever Today, go on website

Posted by IDarkISwordI on May-08-2005 17:53:

Hey. Not suggesting that Tiesto used it but with some EQing and mastering, you could do that exact same thing and very convincingly with Edirol Orchestral. Very easy to use and powerful plugin. If you want to shell out for it, the best right now is EW/QL Symphonic Orchestra. Basicly it comes with a custom version of NI Kontakt and it sounds as real as you can get right now.

Cheers,
Zac

Posted by BOOsTER on May-08-2005 18:24:

Thanks to you all at first...

2990 bucks for a Kontakt Ensemble? oh my...

hmmm...I will try and see...more suggestions welcome though

Posted by IDarkISwordI on May-08-2005 19:05:

Hey. I just posted the link to the fullest package. Yes, $3K is a lot of money but quality, as we all know, comes at a cost . They make tons of other realyl awesome sample cds and many of them come with a custom version of Kontakt geered to make using thier samples easier. In relation to this post, they make three versions of Symphonic Orchestra:

Platinum (comes with all samples including surround channels)
- $2995

Gold (cuts out surround quality samples [stereo only])
- $500

Silver (cuts out a lot of the articulation [velocity sensitive] samples and surround channels)
- $200

East West/Quantum Leap

Cheers,
Zac

Posted by Project 7 on May-08-2005 19:45:

quote:
Originally posted by open-mind
And if you want to hear my remix of Forever Today, go on website

I would love to hear your remix, but its in your dead links section!!!, any chance on another upload?

Posted by open-mind on May-14-2005 10:02:

here is the link:

---LINK---

Posted by Dickie-T on May-14-2005 11:05:

quote:
Originally posted by open-mind
here is the link:

---LINK---

hehe, you gave a cool twist to that song, i like the lead

Posted by BOOsTER on May-14-2005 15:07:

how to open .opm file?

Posted by Dickie-T on May-14-2005 16:17:

quote:
Originally posted by BOOsTER
how to open .opm file?

rename to mp3

Posted by BOOsTER on May-14-2005 17:43:

ROFL
how cool thanks

hmm listening right now...sounds good though I miss the intro with the strings...though you got very own cool twist to the song...which is good...

the clap sounds a bit too sharp to me..

breakdown is also very nice...but I would switch the supersawish sounds for the strings but that's more a personall taste thing

nice job on it open mind!

Posted by carl-b.mine.nu on May-18-2005 07:05:

quote:
Originally posted by BOOsTER
BshidoHEAT: Thanks, I made it in Reason 2.5 with only the Factory bank sounds...

DJ: I believe it's a bass...just has sometimes different envelope...like those booooms you know what I mean any advice will be welcome...thanks mate

naa its a pizzcato