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From the film 'Princess Bride'. Short piece done this morning in Sony Acid Pro 6. Orchestration from Zero G Orchestral sample libary

Ovation bowlback electro acoustic. Played for one of the 13 red stripes on 'Old Glory'

http://www.box.com/files/0/f/0/1/f_1930616883#/files/0/f/0/1/f_1930616883 *******Changed the location to play on Box.com

http://www.4shared.com/music/PXnoRIDx/Princess_Bride.html Box link doesn't work so sit through 40 secs of adverts on 4Shared please

Check out the original soundtrack by Mark Knopfler--it's on Spotify.

Bri

Great track Brian, well played with nice acoustic sustain. K

Very nice Brian. I see what you mean about having to view the ad before you can listen...time to cancel my 4shared account and switch methinks.

Martin

Lovely one Bri, I,ll loved it

Bye

Fred

As 4Shared has played the advert game then over to Box.com

Bri

Yep! Agree with that.

BTW...did you do the backing track yourself or use a midi file with virtual instruments? Really nice sound regardless.

Martin

Hi Martin, every part of the orchestration was taken from the folders within the parent project file which I made from various loop libaries and assigned to each instrument type folder as you can see.

If you look at the whole list of projects which I've done in Acid there's quite a lot of work on that hard drive, each one full of vocals; percusion; basses; pads et al. All done as Princess Bride was in Acid Pro. I've enough music there to launch several albums of different genres.




No midi at all, they're .wav files from actual instruments.

I realise there's an element of ''me'thinks he doth protest too much'' But here's the shortened version playing as I've posted in Acid. I think that the GUI in Acid is much clearer that Adobe Audition--that programe is far too gloomy from what I've seen of it. Much prefer Acid with Sound Forge as the wav editor, and it's paid for .

Bri.

Thanks for the explanation Brian - I must admit I'm not familiar with either Acid or Sound Forge so I had to read your posts a couple of times to get the gist of what you were saying, but things started to slot in place in my tired old brain and I think I understand now what you were doing. A lot of work though!

However I believe once one becomes comfortable and knowledgeable with a piece of music software it's pretty easy to zoom around and put things together fairly quickly. It's the learning curve that can be intimidating...........

Martin

Anyone having problems clicking on Brians link with 'Box'