I'm trying to compose something in a similar vein to John Powell as found in films such as The Bourne series and Paycheck. It's a combination of electronica and orchestra. Two things I'm interested in if anyone can help. Firstly do you start with the orchetral stuff and fit a beat to it, or start with the beat then the orchestra.
Also I'm having a devil of a time getting the VSL strings to sound like the strings on the soundtracks and am wondering if the Powell strings are actually heavily processed with delays and things rather than just a little reverb.
Any pointers most welcome.
TIA
Tim