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Antonín Dvorák, Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) Mov. 1 MIDI Mockup [Incomplete]

This sounds great! Wow! I can listen to this mockup of it and enjoy it, just like as if I was listening to a recording of it. Can’t really point to anything that “sticks out”; to my ears everything sounds nicely balanced.
 
I *love* doing exercises like this. It helps with orchestration but also learning your tools and the sound of an orchestra. This is really nicely done. I agree with Henrik, absolutely nothing sticks out, so that might be my only suggestion: some things sound just a touch too clean like the stabs around 1:10 and the overall perfect synch between the players. I think it works really well for most of the mock-up though and if you got cheeky and popped this onto my Spotify i probably wouldn't question it.
 
Sounds great! Love a bit of Dvorak. Is it all Cinematic Studio Series? What is the percussion? Sounds incredibly realistic to me... there's a moment in the cc in the low bowed strings around 1:16 that doesn't sound quite right where it seems like it spikes just before a legato, but that's literally the only thing I noticed... incredible work!
 
liquidlino said:
Sounds great! Love a bit of Dvorak. Is it all Cinematic Studio Series? What is the percussion? Sounds incredibly realistic to me... there's a moment in the cc in the low bowed strings around 1:16 that doesn't sound quite right where it seems like it spikes just before a legato, but that's literally the only thing I noticed... incredible work!
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Thank you! Yes, it's all Cinematic Studio, except for the percussion. The percussion is all Cineperc. I noticed the spike you mentioned on the low strings and i'm on my way to fixing it right now!
 
Nice job, particularly the strings sound like an actual performance for the most part, which is incredibly hard to pull off with samples in a classical piece like this and would definitely fool an average listener. If I may - 2:42, you're hitting D instead of C in the first violin, which really hurts my ears and feelings:) I would also suggest listening to a few recordings and pay closer attention how different conductors and orchestras work with all those tiny tempo changes, they basically let it breathe a bit more. But as I already said, it is very impressive overall.

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lumcas said:
Nice job, particularly the strings sound like an actual performance for the most part, which is incredibly hard to pull off with samples in a classical piece like this and would definitely fool an average listener. If I may - 2:42, you're hitting D instead of C in the first violin, which really hurts my ears and feelings:) I would also suggest listening to a few recordings and pay closer attention how different conductors and orchestras work with all those tiny tempo changes, they basically let it breathe a bit more. But as I already said, it is very impressive overall.

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Thank you for the feedback! I can't believe i missed that C, i feel ashamed of myself now 😅
 
Emanu1674 said:
Thank you for the feedback! I can't believe i missed that C, i feel ashamed of myself now 😅
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You really don’t have to, I know I’m gonna sound like a broken record, but you’ve been doing great! I’ve tried several times to do something similar and I remember exactly how much effort you have to put into this. It is a very tricky and tedious process. Still remember working on one of Dvorak’s incredible string quartets (breathtaking compositions btw). I gave up on the third page:) Solo strings are even trickier in general. We’re maybe there sonically, but the performace, that is something much harder to get right. Composing for samples is much easier, right?:)
 
The overall is pretty good! Does it have reverb? I think that some of the short notes needs a little bit to sound just more natural.

Also, the horns at 1:00 protrude too much above the woodwinds. Idk if its because of CC Dynamics or that it does also need a little bit more of reverb. But the strings in that part sounds perfect to me! At least pretty close to the real performance that I'm comparing your mockup to.
 
Emanu1674 said:
Just an exercise i'm currently doing to improve my orchestration skills. It's not complete, not mastered, not anything.
Feedback more than welcome!

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Fantastic job, @Emanu1674 ! I concur with all the others above that this is a very convincing and enjoyable mockup. I’m particularly impressed with the sound you got out of CSS. May I ask what mic positions/levels you used? The strings sound unusually clear for being CSS.
 
Kalli said:
Fantastic job, @Emanu1674 ! I concur with all the others above that this is a very convincing and enjoyable mockup. I’m particularly impressed with the sound you got out of CSS. May I ask what mic positions/levels you used? The strings sound unusually clear for being CSS.
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Thank you! I used the default mic and levels that come with the instruments, they sounded fine to me as is. Maybe something to do with the subtle EQ i did in the mid frequencies? Strange
 
Emanu1674 said:
Thank you! I used the default mic and levels that come with the instruments, they sounded fine to me as is. Maybe something to do with the subtle EQ i did in the mid frequencies? Strange
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Interesting, thanks! Yeah, they tend to sound a bit muddy out of the box, so your midrange EQ must have cleaned that up. Well done!
 
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