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  • Chamber Strings and my Pop'n'B song

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    Hi folks

    this is the song I'm currently working on.
    Paradise (Because I love you)
    http://www.winksbbs.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1207.0;id=260

    I just added the e-guitar, the strings and the orchestra strikes and I'd be
    happy to hear from you how you find the elements fit together.
    It's just a short passage of 1:02 but sounds kind of complete for that
    passage already.
    Thanks in advance for suggestions and comments.


    tele

    P.S.: What I used
    Cubase SL 1.06
    UAD-1 and Sonalksis Effects
    Steinberg Hypersonic: BD, Snare, Orchestra Strikes, Talkbox Guitar
    Groove Agent: Other Drum sounds
    Vienna Symphonic Library Chamber Strings
    VGEE: Electric Guitar

    and finally one real thing - my voice [:)]
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    comments welcome

    tele
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    I think it really sounds 80s. Don't know if YOU are happy with that, but I'm quite fond of the 'alternative' 80s sound.

    Concerning the strings... I do like what they're doing, but are they meant to sound pizz or staccato? As they sound now, it feels like sustained notes played too shortly.
    Anyway... it fits the 80s feeling.
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    @Another User said:


    Concerning the strings... I do like what they're doing, but are they meant to sound pizz or staccato? As they sound now, it feels like sustained notes played too shortly.
    Anyway... it fits the 80s feeling.


    Hmmm, funny. I'm using the string section staccato patch from my VSL Chamber Strings. After the vocals are over, I beefed it up with an orchestra strike. Maybe the string parts after the vocals is what you're feferring to?
    Maybe if I start using single patches for contrabass, cello, viola and violin, then impression is gonna change.
    Any hints what exactly to change to make it sound more like staccato? I could try and shorten the notes of the orchestra strike and reduce it's verb?

    tele
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    @Another User said:

    Maybe if I start using single patches for contrabass, cello, viola and violin, then impression is gonna change.


    Perhaps that could help. I just listened to it again. Those strings feel rather 'mechanic' like those silly sounds from onboard soundcards, because they sound exactly at the same time.

    Before I got GigaStudio I played every layer live and recorded them one by one. If I wanted to have a certain (synth)instrument to sound like it was an entire group of them, I layered them in Cool Edit just with a tiny offset (the second layer starting just one 100th of a second later, the 3th somewhat later, etc) and sometimes I would filter it very slightly to get a few layers sounding just a bit different.
    That would get me a full sound.

    But that was usually only for my synth-instruments. And since I'm only working with Giga and samples since a few weeks, I'm quite hestitant to recommend anything.
    Hope this is useful in some kind of way...