Hello ,
I often have the problem of knowing how to quantify the number of virtual instruments, digital or analog in my compositions.
The problem in orchestration (for my part) is not only the number of instruments linked to a Symphonic Orchestra (since I have S.O Core) the addition of other instruments and effects (Pads, rise, Hits …), but also the capacity of the computer support.
Apart from the fact of the Hardware that you generally have, how many virtual instruments do you use for your compositions for harmony and counterpoint reign over them?
Musical Friendship.
I’m entirely ‘in the box’ with no hardware synths. So my projects can have as little as four or as many as 30+ virtual instruments. Not all playing at once. That would be a cacophony.
VSTs differ from recording actual instruments in so far as each midi track can only be assigned to one VST. Of course there isn’t that restriction if you’re recording audio. You can record anything on an audio track: technically it could have a Mini Moog bass for half the song then a different bass-tone for the rest, although you could argue that wouldn’t be great recording etiquette these days when track-counts are more or less unlimited. Among my projects is a copy of the original multitrack recording of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, all 24 tracks of it, and boy is that an absolute scene, with the majority of the tracks flipping between guitars and punched-in vocals wherever there was a spare space on the tape for the odd Galileo.
So kind of ironically, projects like mine that are made up entirely of VSTs can end up with more tracks than those made mostly of audio recordings from physical instruments.
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Hello @Jon_Vincent
thank you for your answer on your way of setting up your compositions.
For my part, my recordings were live for my Zoom, B.A.R. Zoom effects guitars Corts .
I am not a keyboardist, and I try to play today in an acceptable way because I want to be honest with those who are than to assemble notes with my mouse.
I would like to have the possibility of owning a multitude of keyboards as I have seen in the sharing of photos, but would I really be up to their uses.
A period the LS Paul from Gibson or an Electro acoustic from Takamine would have made me happy, but there too would have been up to the task of really enjoying it.
But I am lucky to be able to enjoy virtual emulation of instruments without emptying my savings plan (which I no longer have by the way).
My questions are certainly credulous but it is the only way for me to stop composing haphazardly so that it really lives up to a beautiful listening experience.
Thank you in any case for letting me benefit from your experience.
Musical friendship.
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@Jon_Vincent ,
I’m browsing your profile on Youtube, the track layout is amazing.
How did you manage to separate each of the original tracks from Keep Yourself Alive and which ones did you program and play yourself.
I really like the version in homage to Vangelis.
Hats off, thanks for sharing.
Musical Friendship.
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All ten videos in my Watch Me Mix series use audio from copies of the studio multitrack tapes. I haven’t played anything on those: just mixed and mastered them. The other stuff such as the Vangelis covers are played/mixed/mastered entirely by me.
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I too live inside the box. but I don’t know if your comment of “each midi track can only be assigned to one VST” is true. That is really dependant on the DAW or even the software plugin that you are using.
Like in Logic you can do all sorts of interesting things. A single midi track can have multiple midi channels inside of it that can be directed to different VST if you understand how to use the audio midi setup program on the Mac.
Likewise I am using UVI Falcon/Workstation that will allow you to load in mutiple sound patches into the single track and have each of them trigger off their own midi channel. so you can technically have up to 15 different instruments all running and playing different notes on a single midi track
Now given that it is possible, the real question would be more of why would you really want to. Id even go as far as to say in some sense of music production, you are not even limited by the number of simultaneous plugins your computer can support as its just as easy to bounce the tracks out to a wave file inside the DAW. So the real question is how many individual auto tracks can be mixed simultaneously on the computer.
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Hello, here is a template that I set up on an Orchestral base.
