Comments - david_Orrick

A real shame, this would have been a great full conversion. The demo was good.

Not a "Best In Sound FX/Music" to be found. Whilst I realize that this has nothing to do with the engine itself, audio has a huge part to play in all games and mods. Still a fantastic contest though, and good luck to all who enter!

Good job on the fix! Bots are enabled \o/ yay!

Rumour has it Dark Source could be back in business :)

Hiya and yep I just joined your mod! I listen to all sorts of gear from classical through to death metal and trance and back again ;)

A mixture of Atmosphere, Edirol Orchestral Vsti and some strings of a Korg sound module I had. Notice that the staging could be a lot better though, for example; placing the string section and the cello's in separate areas and the brass sections placed equally could give it a lot more impact and movement.

Very atmospheric, would like to hear this extended

Am i doing something wrong here, i cant get any bots to appear despite entering the number in the appropriate box.

Hey up cheers for the add, nice stuff you have here ;)

Yeah i think it was unless the monk lost his tongue :p Shame you couldnt be told that though and couldnt find the other monks after the jog, just the bell and the water, but great concept, very very original and a must have mod!

Excellent mod! Very well though out idea.

Get them cheap?! omg I wish I'd known that sooner :p, but yeah Omni is a good one too, Spectrasonics make some nice and tidy gear :)

Atmoshpere has some very good stock sounds in most synth areas and is a breeze to use. Tbh I cant think of a better sounding orchestral set than the vsl though the prices of the vsl range will reach into thousands and you'll need a whopping hard drive too. If your budget cant go for those check out the Edirols vsti set as there are some very nice string & brass sections there that I use at times if others do not fit - or take a trip to East West's library range too.

Yes they do! tbh its to do with the sounds your using more than anything else but think about attack, decay and release on notes. As I use the vsl (which has every imaginable string sound available)and a vsti called Atmosphere - its not to much of a problem to get the effect I want. I have used Antares auto-tune before though as it has a vibrato you can add!
Probably worth saying here and on a side note, that I use a LOT of layers for each different part of the orchestra and that they are offset timewise by a fraction of a second sometimes milliseconds to capture the effect of a real section in motion. Even the slides and trems would be offset as no orchestra would play something perfectly in time across the board. Production wise strings need a cutoff around the 300hz to sound more natural and dont cook the reverb. Just a touch with a short decay time.

Hiya :)
I tend to use Pro Tools & Cubase far more these days mainly for the better recording stage/production, but I still use Sibelius when I'm penning an idea.

well its purely for an intro - as used in moddb podcast 3 btw ;)

Ah thx for using my intro music for this podcast :)

Hey how cool, he used my musak! :)

thx guys :) how long does it normally take for uploads to be auth'd btw?

Im a new member to this group so first off hi to you guys and hi to everyone else :)
I've just uploaded some example works which will prolly take a couple of days to be updated and available, though in the meantime there is a linky in my profile to some more extensive works.
Im not working on anything at the moment since Dark Source (HL2 Mod by Tkaza) went on hold so if you need anything throw me a line and we'll see if we can work together.
Cheers

Im still here! Though only musically :p

New music has been uploaded and waiting auth ;) Check it out!

A mighty thanks for the greets to DS! Lookin forward to being on board and meeting the team.

Darrr and pieces of eight... XD