[music] orchestral arrange for maiden's cappricio?

[gammaraptor]

I'm going to try arranging an orchestral arrange for maiden's cappricio... should i do it for a full orchestra or just cello + violin(s) ?

[flamezero16]

Awesome mang, ill be lookin forward to it. Id say go for the full orchestra, plus some choir voices, plus lots of electric guitar. Or whatever ya wanna do brah =p

[DX7.EP]

I prefer a chamber arrange personally (4-5 parts at most...maybe 2 violins, a viola, cello, and bass/piano). Of course, this is coming from a former violinist, so....

Hopefully you have the right tools for the task, though! (Just TRY using the MSGS built-in synth violins in this...!)

[gammaraptor]

haha chamber it is =D

[DX7.EP]

haha chamber it is =D

I'd be interested in the results, preferably also with a MIDI for further remixing down the road.
Which programs, instruments, etc. are planned for use? It'd be nice to know.

[gammaraptor]

I'd be interested in the results, preferably also with a MIDI for further remixing down the road.
Which programs, instruments, etc. are planned for use? It'd be nice to know.

Currently, no idea =D. I just thought i'd like to try my hand at music arrangement. I'm going to try to make some sheet first, then perhaps use a program similar to garageband for windows to do it. heh... maybe i'll find a few performers and we could try to perform it... =D

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any good suggestions for programs?
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how's rosegarden?

[flamezero16]

I'd recommend Magix Music Maker. If your get the Vita content pack, you can make some really authentic sounding stuff.

[Dark]

If you're willing to fork out around $700, you can get FL Studio + Edirol HQ-Orchestral, the latter of which uses authentic recorded sounds.

[Romantique Tp]

Nah, HQ-Orchestral is decent but outdated and overpriced. It's out of print too, so finding a seller would be a pain in the ass

[DX7.EP]

Nah, HQ-Orchestral is decent but outdated and overpriced. It's out of print too, so finding a seller would be a pain in the ass

Plus I'm strangely having difficulty getting it to work (along with Super Quartet) on a 64-bit Win7 system. Well, you're an XP user by the looks of it so no problem there.

Hm...I'd love to recommend Sonar X1 Essential or Cubase Elements 6 (once it arrives). I occasionally use the former (for MIDI stuff since I use lots of softsynths and VSTs that don't work under my primary DAW Logic) and I like its similarity to the Logic interface at times. ZUN uses Cubase on the other hand.

As for sound patches, Sonar comes with the TTS-1 softsynth (see the TTS-1 Remake Project thread for examples), which is based on Roland synths. Cubase arrives with HALion instead as a sampler, though I don't know the full details of such.

In regards to free stuff, there's always Anvil Studio (free to use, accessories cost extra) and OpenMPT (flexible but uses tracker notation, and MIDI functions are iffy at best). If I were heading for a freeware solution I'd go with the latter, several instances of SFZ+ (a free download from the Cakewalk site last time I checked), and have each run SF2s of the instruments that will be used (search the web).