Consona
Senior Member
Assuming those examples were all from the same MIDI and not played in separately, you can hear some notes falling off the beat in a very off-kilter way in the Cinebrass example that doesn't sound anything like John Williams' real orchestra you posted. The horns a4 patch in SStB does have some looseness between the individual players so they aren't in robotic lockstep, but the notes still hit the right beats, which is what one generally wants when programming MIDI, and you then have the freedom to humanize the performance as you see fit if you want it a bit looser. In the Cinebrass example, there are several repetitions that are very clearly not on beat. Listen to the actual score from North by Northwest and you should be able to hear why the Cinebrass example above sounds so sloppy. (EDIT: Whoops, I posted the wrong recording, but it still works as an example, and the correct version was shared below.)
Mock-up the Throne Room with SStB, I'll do it with Cinebrass, let's see how those demos compare against each other and the real thing. I think that could be really interesting.
https://moviethemes.net/music/Star_Wars/EP4__The_Throne_Room_and_End_Title.mid
Agreed. It sounds like a keyboard patch. It's just too tight. But I'd like to hear an attempt to make it sound more lively. With CC automations, time stretch, etc., to see how stiff or not the library really is.Yeah, they really don't sound good to me. The Cinebrass are not perfect but sound more realistic as brass instruments.
What articulation is this?