Messing with the sound machine

[Ganny 285]

By specific one, are you talking about the one in the first post? With the multiple instruments? Linux Multimedia Studio let you do multiple instruments? Because multiple instruments is literally the one thing that's keeping me from feeling emboldened to learn logic pro.

The boring one I wrote in LMMS. But it can do multiple instruments just as much as anything else. The sound of multiple instruments (i.e. ensemble) works in exactly the same way as the same as any other sound out there (you don't need to load multiple instruments for an ensemble sound. Just one sound that sounds like an ensemble). For the first thing in this topic, I used the Squidfont Orchestral soundfont (http://soundfonts.darkesword.com), played through Cakewalk's SFZ soundfont player (http://www.cakewalk.com/Download/sfz.aspx). If you're going to use soundfonts, what you have to do is load up a soundfont player in pretty much the same way you would a VST, then load the soundfont file you want to use from inside the player.

Another orchestral thing I might recommend is Edirol Orchestral (a VST, not a soundfont), which works pretty well.

These things can all be run in Cubase as well as LMMS, and I suspect Logic and most other DAWs would handle them the same way

[Ganny 285]

Why don't you write a theme song for me? It would really help boost my enormous ego.

a theme for Knuckle

http://k004.kiwi6.com/hotlink/jxgddv021z/knuckle.mp3

[Knuckle 484]

oh

my

cod

IT IS BEAUTIFUL

[Ganny 285]

so I did this thing today. I thought it was a pretty neat melody, so I put it down and saw what harmony I could do, and then orchestrated it. It's like a generic creepyclown thing. You know the creepyclown genre, right?

(it's a little quiet)

http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/1dline3r7p/clownenaround.mp3

The orchestrated part I think sounds pretty sloppy, so I might go in and un-messify it somehow. Overall, though, I'm pretty satisfied with how this came out, so maybe I'll develop the idea a little and use it for something in the future