Track From Scratch - Re-Orchestrating The Force Theme from Star Wars - Episode 1

Hey there Omer, this is just for my own organization, in truth Bass and Cello are the "Low Strings" patches. Violas and Violins are the "High Strings" patches. I just treat them as those instruments, so for example, on the Cello channel I will write only in a specific range (C4 to above), and in the basses I'll mainly stick to octave 3 for example. I also mix them a bit differently, but yeah in the end they're the same patch really

Hello Alex first of all this is just great and I hope to learn a lot from your tutorials, I wanted to ask please, I see that you have in your templates channels such as "Basses ARK #1", or "Violas ARK #1", but as far as I know ARK 1 doesn't have strings sections, just high/low strings. I'm guessing you divide those low/high into artificial sections by settings limit on notes? Or something else? Thank you very much in advance, Omer

I tried that for a few songs but always reverted to using the events controller. I wish it was done better too though

Makes perfect sense, thank you. Also I'd like to experiment a bit with controlling dynamics by automation inside playlist in oppose to using the one under the piano roll. It could sound more artificial but less frustrating for sure! I believe that Image Line should give more attention to 'edit events in piano roll' option in the future updates

Cyberwave

Hey! My workflow goes in phases I'd say. 1) When I'm just sketching the main idea / outline of the track, I work in one single pattern to use the ghost notes as you said. 2) Once I want to orchestrate it better and add details to the sketch, I will usually use the split by channel function and regroup the patterns either by instrument family (strings pattern, brass pattern...), or I do that by single instrument (1st Violins, Cello, French Horns, Bass Trombone...). This makes it easy for me to narrow down my focus on those specific instruments or groups when I'm adding details to those.

After setting up my template and trying to compose a bit, my appreciation for your skills went from high to extreme haha It's damn hard at first, but fun! I see here that you are writing everything in one single pattern and use the playlist just to add some audio clips and automation if necessary. It's the only way to make use of the ghost notes which are extremely helpful to me. Making separate tracks in playlist for each instrument would be nice visually but then I'd have to write only one instrument per pattern which would be kind of confusing I guess, and no ghost notes feature. I've been trying to understand your workflow better but through your vids you had several approaches and I'm interested in knowing which one you prefer these days?

Cyberwave