Jurassic World Evolution soundtrack released
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Richard Wilkinson
Wilx
I kept hearing snippets of this in the run-up to release and wondered who did it. Fantastic job J - really nice work. Sounds like Jurassic Park, but doesn't sound like you're just trying to copy JW. A tricky tightrope to walk and you nailed it 
joannapena
Active Member
I kept hearing snippets of this in the run-up to release and wondered who did it. Fantastic job J - really nice work. Sounds like Jurassic Park, but doesn't sound like you're just trying to copy JW. A tricky tightrope to walk and you nailed it
Thanks! I knew going in that trying to mimic JW would be a failure. I tried to write the way I do normally while keeping the nebulous Jurassic Park "feel" in the back of my mind.
A.I. is my favorite John Williams score (and one of my favorite scores in general) so it's inevitable some influence would creep in from there.Wow! Congrats Jeremiah!!
"The Science of Creation" - very cool... JW influences circa A.I.?yet your own original voice.
edit: "Raptor Hunt" WOW.
whiskers
Perpetual student
I was gonna say, if not, it's one of the most convincing mock-ups I've ever heard
joannapena
Active Member
It's all samples.
whiskers
Perpetual student
I know you probably used a lot of them but what were some of your go-to samples in the album?
joannapena
Active Member
CSS is the backbone of the strings in the score, with Soaring Strings layered in for more presence when needed. There's occasional moments of Ark 2, Albion V, Hollywood Strings, and others, but it's probably 70-80% CSS. A track like "A Careful Step into the World" wouldn't have really worked with anything else.
The brass is a combo of Berlin Brass and Metropolis Ark 2 and 1 (but Ark 1 very rarely, only for brief moments in the action music).
The main orchestral winds are Berlin Woodwinds (legacy), with Spitfire Symphonic Woodwinds for stuff like alto/bass flute. I used Ark 2's bass and contrabass clarinets all the time.
Hans Zimmer Percussion for the timpani (HZ mix), bass drum (JXL mix), ethnic perc and such. Cymbal rolls, glockenspiel, chimes, vibraphone, marimba, etc, are all Hollywood Percussion. Oh, and Auddict's Drums of the Deep Unleashed, but not for big drums like you'd expect. Almost all of the drums have a few patches with brushes, and those were fantastic for creating a low level rhythmic drive. The track "Escape!" is a good example of this, and it's written in 11/16 for a lurching feel.
TheSigillite
Active Member
Ditto
marclawsonmusic
Senior Moment
This is fantastic. Great work!
hibhardwaj
New Member
Thanks a ton for sharing your work and also giving us insights on the samples used. Such inspiration to see someone doing A class work with some of the known tools.
Time to put the inspiration into work!
~Himanshu
Hi Jeremiah @jeremiahpena ,
When are you doing your next screencast/ live composing stream? Looking forward to it!
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