Hey /r/Doom, I made an arraignment of the '93 end music. How did I do?
Posted Jan 31, 2018, 5:08 PM UTC
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Pretty cool!
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Thanks! This has definitely been a fun one to work on and listen to over various sound systems for me.
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Posted Jan 31, 2018, 5:08 PM UTC
Pretty cool!
Thanks! This has definitely been a fun one to work on and listen to over various sound systems for me.
Kudos on doing Not Another Doom Metal Cover(tm). It's always nice to hear someone coming at it from another angle. Is it software, real instruments, or a mix?
Thanks! Doom is definitely ripe of metal covers, and its no wonder why, but there are several songs from it that are much more orchestral in nature, and this was definitely one of them.
As much as I wish this was a mix of real and software instruments, it is all software for this track. However, some of them were live played to piano roll, such as the solo viola instrument. Maybe I went a bit overboard with that one, but I made it a personal challenge when making this to pay a lot of attention to tuning: modulating from just intonation for each chord through pythagorean intervals and even an occasional equal tempered phrase.
My hope was that through doing this I could capture just a little bit of the feel that a real solo string player would bring, and the fact that someone even asked if there were real instruments used I guess means I was at least partially successful in this undertaking.
Yeah, if I'm being totally honest, I suspected the viola was software, but your "real feel" modulations worked well enough that I couldn't be sure. Still, no shame in software, especially if you're playing things live to the piano roll! Out of curiosity what plugins did you use?
If I had the money to hire an orchestra to play this, I wouldn't hesitate a second.
My DAW is FLStudio, but this track was done primarily using Kontakt 5. There are many, many libraries out there, though I'm rather fond of stuff made by Impact Soundworks. Even still, the parts all have some fairly heavy processing done to them after the fact.
There are also some background synths buried in the mix as well, which is sort of a stylistic thing I've carried over from sound effects and Foley work to accentuate an element's "fullness".
Have you tried the Session Strings plugin for Kontact? I picked it up for my girlfriend during an NI black friday sale some years ago for around $50, and it allows for a lot of the live playing accents that tend to be missed in most other sample packs. Now she uses it in almost every track.
I'm more of a synth guy myself, so I've never got too into sample librabries, but will use acoustic/orchestral sounds occasionally. In those cases, a patch off Omnisphere or ny JD990 will usually suffice, but I'm always curious to hear what other people are using.