Hello everyone, I'm new here *and* a newbie, so I apologize up front!
I'm a musical theatre director, with a fairly strong music background. I'm getting ready to move across the U.S. and I'm preparing for the expansion of my office/studio. Here's what I am hoping to be able to do... hopefully, someone here will be kind enough to fill in the blanks!
Part of my job will be to stage musical theatre performances utilizing young cast members. This, coupled with a lack of musicians has led me to think about pre-recording the orchestration for rehearsals and possibly some performances. I use ProTools, and will shortly be updating to a ProTools HD system.
Now, I don't play piano so my original plan was to input the orchestrations into Finale and then dump the MID. files into ProTools to playback, via midi connection, into synth racks, etc and record that feed back into ProTools. Then I would take that mix and edit/all that fun stuff.
Unfortunately, the audio quality of that idea is...lacking to say that least. What I now think would be better (?) would be to somehow (?) take the files in Finale and export then to have them playback using the Vienna Symphonic Library samples and record those into ProTools.
Here is where my lack of experience kicks in. I know next to nothing about how to do this. What should I do, in easy to understand stupid-person language, to make these recordings the highest caliber possible? Money is not the deciding factor here - quality is. It's imperative that if I do use these recordings for some performances, that they be as close to "The real thing" as can be achieved by these means.
Essentially, just give me your suggestions on how to record these orchestrations, what type of setup, equipment, etc. Which VSL products should I purchase? I think I understand that to run them, you need a sampler installed on one of the machines... which would the best be to use in this situation? Obviously, I'm lacking here! Any and all information is truly appreciated. Feel free to respond on here, or via my email (listed below.)
Thanks so much in advance, everyone.
Charlie
charliepiane@gmail.com
I'm a musical theatre director, with a fairly strong music background. I'm getting ready to move across the U.S. and I'm preparing for the expansion of my office/studio. Here's what I am hoping to be able to do... hopefully, someone here will be kind enough to fill in the blanks!
Part of my job will be to stage musical theatre performances utilizing young cast members. This, coupled with a lack of musicians has led me to think about pre-recording the orchestration for rehearsals and possibly some performances. I use ProTools, and will shortly be updating to a ProTools HD system.
Now, I don't play piano so my original plan was to input the orchestrations into Finale and then dump the MID. files into ProTools to playback, via midi connection, into synth racks, etc and record that feed back into ProTools. Then I would take that mix and edit/all that fun stuff.
Unfortunately, the audio quality of that idea is...lacking to say that least. What I now think would be better (?) would be to somehow (?) take the files in Finale and export then to have them playback using the Vienna Symphonic Library samples and record those into ProTools.
Here is where my lack of experience kicks in. I know next to nothing about how to do this. What should I do, in easy to understand stupid-person language, to make these recordings the highest caliber possible? Money is not the deciding factor here - quality is. It's imperative that if I do use these recordings for some performances, that they be as close to "The real thing" as can be achieved by these means.
Essentially, just give me your suggestions on how to record these orchestrations, what type of setup, equipment, etc. Which VSL products should I purchase? I think I understand that to run them, you need a sampler installed on one of the machines... which would the best be to use in this situation? Obviously, I'm lacking here! Any and all information is truly appreciated. Feel free to respond on here, or via my email (listed below.)
Thanks so much in advance, everyone.
Charlie
charliepiane@gmail.com