KVR Audio

Drhitman702 · Post by **Drhitman702** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:16 pm

What's up!

I bought Garritan Personal Orchestra a couple of months ago, and I love it.

But one thing is bothering me. Last night I decided it was time for me to produce something new, and it required strings...the kind Garritan Personal Orchestra can provide.

So here's the deal.

How can I make my strings...using a combination of reverb, chorus, delay (or whatever's needed)...etc... sound like the Strings in Madonna's song "Die Another Day" or Rob Dougan's "Furious Angels" and "I'm Not Driving Anymore."

All I'm wondering is how I can get my strings (using Garritan Personal Orchestra) to sound like the strings in those three productions (Die Another Day, Furious Angels, I'm Not Driving Anymore).

*If you don't know what the songs I'm talking about sound like, but know how to use Garritan Personal Orchestra to it's full extent, here are the links to audio files (see below).

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Audio Samples

Here is the Audio Sample for "Die Another Day."

Link 1 for "Die Another Day":

http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserv ... 24-2459008

Source Link for "Die Another Day":

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006 ... nce&n=5174

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Here is the Audio Sample for "Furious Angels."

Link 1 for "Furious Angels."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserv ... 24-2459008

Source Link for "Furious Angels."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009 ... nce&n=5174

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Here is the Audio Sample for "I'm Not Driving Anymore."

Link 1 for "I'm not Driving Anymore."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserv ... 24-2459008

Source Link for "I'm Not Driving Anymore."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009 ... nce&n=5174

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Any and all help is appreciated.

*Also, if you know exact effects settings that I could use in conjunction with Garritan Personal Orchestra to get that sound, or resources where I can find out, feel free to post.

Garritan · Post by **Garritan** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:10 pm

Drhitman702,

You should be able to acheive these sounds fairly easily in GPO. Use the Sustain & Short patches and make sure you use the sustain pedal for legato mode of the flowing passages. Pedal up for accentuated stacatos.

The examples you cite seem to use a great deal of reverb, so use the Ambience reverb which is available for download at the www.garritan.com site (under downloads).

There are a couple of tutorials in using the GPO strings that may help. Check out the Master Class tutorial at: http://www.garritan.com/tutorial/Master ... rings.html
and the Ensemble Building Tutorial at: http://www.garritan.com/tutorial/String ... orial.html

Hope this helps.

Gary Garritan
www.garritan.com

StrangeCat · Post by **StrangeCat** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:57 pm

well that's cool that Mr. Garritan replyed to your post but honestly your talking on the wrong forum for this you should be on Norhern Enclosure I mean Ooops!

Northern Sounds and talking with DPDan as he is a wizard for engineering when it comes to GPO seriously! get on NSS read the posts in the Garritan subjects on GPO.
Good Luck!

TrekStar · Post by **TrekStar** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:47 am

sorry but the audioquality of these samples is THAT bad that its impossible to say something about the soundconsistence. all I hear are mp3 artefacts. not even sure if these are real strings.

Drhitman702 · Post by **Drhitman702** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:23 pm

Mr. Garritan himself posted on here. I gotta say, I respect that a lot. Thanks for the tips. I'll have to check those out.

StrangeCat- Thanks for the reply. I tried signing up at the forum, but they don't accept emails from web-based email services (hotmail, yahoo...etc). Maybe I'll find another way around.

TrekStar- Yeah the quality wasn't that hot, but I could make out enough of the track to know the sound I wanted. I figured someone else would be able to, too, or perhaps they may have already heard these songs and would know what I meant. Anyway, I'll try to see if I can give you a better representation of the strings from the songs. Thanks 4 the reply.

Drhitman702 · Post by **Drhitman702** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:18 pm

Alright, I've figured out how to write the notes that'll make it possible to get the sound I want.

Now, all I'm wondering is what are the best settings to use reverb/delay/chorus etc... with strings.

I want to make the strings have a wider sound, so, using what effects, how could I do this?

Thanks

Where all my Garritan Pro's at! How can I acheive this sound