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Bath, BA2 6UD. +44 (0)1225 313082
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3:42; medium 4/4; lilting, building, minimal; harp, woodwind, brass, strings, percussion
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Today’s offering features pretty much an entire sampled orchestra. Since I’ve set myself the ridiculous task of uploading a track each weekday, it’s a good opportunity to explore ways of working quickly and here I’ve stumbled upon another handy technique.
Actually there are a couple of things to share with Sonar users here. One is the use of templates, which I’ve been very lazy about setting up. I thought it would be useful to have a template set up for an entire orchestra, with all the sounds patched, routed and stored in appropriate track folders. Using Garritan Personal Orchestra, I’ve loaded the very useful pre-defined multis for each section of the orchestra, and assigned a track folder to each. The whole thing is then stored as a template for easy recall and will save an age in choosing and loading patches next time I want the full orchestral Monty.
Secondly, I’ve used Sonar’s ‘groove clip looping’ facility on the various MIDI parts, so that each repeated 2-bar phrase has only needed to be stored once. I wouldn’t actually tend to use this in a finished composition but for exploring parts and their relationships it proved invaluable, as where a new part has been added and a previous one then needed tweaking, I could go back and un-groove-clip the phrase, make the adjustment, restore the clip and drag it out over the whole arrangement again.
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Composer's Blog
Today’s offering features pretty much an entire sampled orchestra. Since I’ve set myself the ridiculous task of uploading a track each weekday, it’s a good opportunity to explore ways of working quickly and here I’ve stumbled upon another handy technique.
Actually there are a couple of things to share with Sonar users here. One is the use of templates, which I’ve been very lazy about setting up. I thought it would be useful to have a template set up for an entire orchestra, with all the sounds patched, routed and stored in appropriate track folders. Using Garritan Personal Orchestra, I’ve loaded the very useful pre-defined multis for each section of the orchestra, and assigned a track folder to each. The whole thing is then stored as a template for easy recall and will save an age in choosing and loading patches next time I want the full orchestral Monty.
Secondly, I’ve used Sonar’s ‘groove clip looping’ facility on the various MIDI parts, so that each repeated 2-bar phrase has only needed to be stored once. I wouldn’t actually tend to use this in a finished composition but for exploring parts and their relationships it proved invaluable, as where a new part has been added and a previous one then needed tweaking, I could go back and un-groove-clip the phrase, make the adjustment, restore the clip and drag it out over the whole arrangement again.