Thanks everyone for your appreciation and encouragement.

To clear the MIR question, no, I did not use it. 

The piano is Vienna Imperial, and I added some exciter to it from the vienna suite. The Vienna Imperial can be processed in so many ways, I'm starting to discover that.

William,

First off, thanks! I hear you about your first comment. I guess they turn out more concert type pieces because I'm not scoring the music, and I know my style doesn't fit all styles of films, that is true, but I'm still learning from the best film composers around, so maybe I could compromise more in time, without going Zimmermania...

As for your question: 

I did not use cross fade for the Epic horns. I worked with the natural dynamics when possible and a lot of velocity fader. On some articulations such as pfp I sometimes added a staccato or sfz on the attack. I haven't used crossfading for a while, I just adopted other ways that worked better for me.

Yes - nice tracks and nice sound. Have you spllt the same track into two parts?

I liked the two previous tracks you did. They were old school and would never have  much chance of making it into films these days because thet were too good - meaning - you would instantly divorce yourself from 99.9% of film directors and producers of the modern age because they wouldn't understand them - in the context of a film watched by people that suffer mainly from obesity and major concentration issues.

That was what LOTR was really all about. It was made specifically for obese people that want to sit for 9 hours on a sofa stuffing things into their faces while watching fairies prance about the screen - no thought required  -  and ever since then, film makers have jumped onto that particular band wagon. Why just the other day someone said to me on the interweb how awful the weather must be where I am. Not at all I said.  Workers in the CGI industry see weather 10 times worse than this every day. Music either on TV or films or game videos is completely homogenous and that's and end to it.

The first track here would work well though - has a faint wiff of John Barry about it without being derivative in that sense.

Nice sound.

@JSAntares said:

Your criticism of TLOTR seems shallow.

Which part? - the obesity part? or the concentration issues part?

So at the end of the day is there any hope for me?[:(]

That made my day! Now I shall not read anything on any forum until monday to not ruin this moment. :)

 JSAntares - One of the few things I don't agree with PaulR on is LOTR as I love it. Though since PaulR is a Limey he may look at it differently.  Maybe it is a cross-cultural (as opposed to crossdressing) translation.  Like the inconceivable, horrific fact of the French loving Jerry Lewis.  This is one of the most insoluble and profound mysteries of life. 

But anyway I think the LOTR films are amazingly good.  With them you see an astounding amount of creative work, all of it put together seamlessly.  It is like about 10 Erroll Flynn/Korngold Robin Hoods all put together.  At first i didn't like the music but it seems to grow on you, and be very good in the long run.  Obviously a huge undertaking, doing that score, and extremely impressive that Shore did the orchestrations as well. 

However I absolutely agree with Paul R about Guy in his statement that he is too good for film music.  I was saying that in my previous edited rant (the editin being part of my New Year's resolution to be Kind and Gentle to All).  No one will notice all the good things Guy does with his melodic motifs, brilliant orchestrations, imaginative contrapuntal accompaniments etc. in these days of Troglodyte-Block-Chord-Hip-Hop scores, but nevertheless Guy must continue to serve as a beacon in the coming Dark Age of Zimmerdor.

@William said:

 JSAntares - One of the few things I don't agree with PaulR on is LOTR as I love it. Though since PaulR is a Limey he may look at it differently.  Maybe it is a cross-cultural (as opposed to crossdressing) translation.  Like the inconceivable, horrific fact of the French loving Jerry Lewis.  This is one of the most insoluble and profound mysteries of life. 

It's because you're prematurely turning into a senile old Yank sitting out on your f**c*** porch -  and you've forgotten all you've learnt about films.   [<:o)] [8-)]

This is an English story! Turned into some dreadful Hollywood, sickly, vomit -ridden CGI fest. I don't give a sh!t about the music. It could be the best music ever written for film for all I care. If the film I'm watching is drivel, the music could have been written by Mozart and I wouldn't notice it!

 Well, I see that The Limey has his dander up.  Watch out when that happens. 

however, I do know that one could do different interpretations of this great story.  I did miss the "quiet spots" in the books.  It was as if everything had to be intense/dark/ultradramatic all the time.  That is not really like the books, which often are like sitting down with a cozy fairytale.  And this was lost in the movies.  So The Limey has a point I admit.  Though they are great films nonetheless. 

The one way you could do a remake is with a mini-series.  That left absolutely NOTHING out, including Tom Bombadil which was one of the best spots.

Sorry Guy to hijack this from your music, though you must admit it this irrelevant delirium keeps it at the top. 

The BBC radio production was better than this shit.

I remember when we were all hippy types in the late 60's and waiting to go to university. We all had jobs in that summer  doing deckchairs on the beach and all that sort of thing. The only thing that mattered was women - and having a copy of LOTR. That's how shallow we could be in those days.

However, years go by and WHAT I DON'T EXPECT to see when the film comes out amongst other things is FOR EXAMPLE - the characterization of Merry & Pippin on screen like two jerks that have just fallen out of a Glaswegian gay bar for MIDGETS!!! They played the parts like they were total imbeciles. That's not in the story. No ending to it either. Where was the 'scouring of the shire'? F***ing nowhere that's where.

And Frodo. He sounded like he just had lunch at a Manhattan restaurant. And then all of sudden all the other little hobbits start running around sounding like they've just escaped from a Cornish mental asylum (or basically just Cornwall).

The book is not the greatest book in the world lets face it - but if you're some half assed New Zealander that's decided to do LOTR - at least make it somehow English and catholic - because that is what it is.

Yeah - nice music once again Guy.     [:P]