I did everything for free, meaning that I didn't have the budget to record even a string quartet. So, let's get started!įor this tutorial I'll be using a piece of the end credits of a short-film that I composed a while ago. But if a whole orchestra is expensive for you, why don't you record one single musician? Therefore you'd get that 'heart' feeling in your MIDI orchestration. Of course, very few of us would be that lucky to afford a real orchestra recording. Maybe some of you thing that this is a cliché but it's totally true that even after working for months on a MIDI orchestration, you can't get 40% out of a real orchestra. In my humble opinion, live music can never be replaced by zeroes and bits, mainly because it lacks the heart of the musician.

For us, the film composer guys, MIDI is a solution till the time we can record a live orchestra. So, before going to the tutorial, there is no point in lying to you. This tutorial was first published in August of 2011. Every few weeks, we revisit some of our reader's favorite posts from throughout the history of the site.

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