Looking for Orchestral music tutorials

I am a starting Logic 8 express user and compose mainly classical orchestral music. Are there video tutorials that teach especially orchestral editing? I really would like to learn how to make a good recording of my music, professional spaced etc.

I don't know of any orchestral editing videos, but may I suggest that you take a look at numerous and very helpful Logic videos on YouTube? This guy knows what he's talking about and has a good sense of humor. There's lots to learn about Logic here.
Also, I don't think you need this, but here is a free online Principles of Orchestration course. Perhaps other people checking this thread might find this useful.

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I want it because of the good quality recording.
Greetz!

MPD rocks, runs here for months without major problems.
The client side is very flexible, you can choose many players:
http://www.musicpd.org/clients.shtml
For X, for console, etc..
Edit:
MPD supports Icecast also, to create streams.
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I'm looking for a music player that can skip forward and backwards a few seconds?

I'm looking for a music player app that can skip forward and backwards a few seconds?

MPD rocks, runs here for months without major problems.
The client side is very flexible, you can choose many players:
http://www.musicpd.org/clients.shtml
For X, for console, etc..
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Last edited by mephisto (2007-05-15 14:00:36)

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System for Orchestral Music Production?

I'm new to the current state-of-the-art in computer music production and I'm planning on purchasing a Mac Pro and Logic Pro 7 to use for creating orchestral music. I'm looking for advice from experienced composers as to what I'll need as to specs on the Mac Pro, as well as the best sample libraries, and other cards, software, and so on that would be essential.
My work goes from chamber-like passages to using the full orchestra, often with pipe organ added.
I'm looking to get five years or so out of this system, and want to burn my compositions to a master CD to use for CD releases.
Current plan:
Mac Pro 2.66, 4-8 GB Ram, 3 500 GB hard drives, USB keyboard (or perhaps a card to use Yamaha DX7 as keyboard input?), Logic Pro, VSL sample library.
Would the 3.0 ghz machine be significicantly better? Is there a need to upgrade from the standard graphics card?
It seems that Logic does well with more processors, so is it wise to wait for the quad core machines based on the recently announced Intel processors?
Any and all advice, directions to online articles and so on would be appreciated - thanks in advance!
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i can echo jonathans reccommendation regarding the esx route. the rest of his advice is bang on too.
i have had quite a bit of experience in this area. with logic you have enormous flexibility when it comes to this sort of thing.
i have a large orchestral template up on logicprohelp.com that you might find interesting as a starting point in using logic. the way i have evrything set up, i have my score appearing as a tradional score (i notate almost exclusively with step time) and making articulation switches from within 1 esx instrument. i have 1 large instrument for say violin1 with all the articualtions saved to it, and switched by cc1 (actually i convert program changes i insert in the score). using my method you can mix and match your orchestral libraries either within the esx instrument, or from within the environment.
which brings me to my next point - i would pick and choose between the libraries as much as possible. i still get a lot of mileage out of the old miroslav and siedlecek libraries and supplement it with VSL and some of my own samples. i think some of the VSL samples are appalling - completely unusable - and even some of their best ones are hard to use. in general i find VSL has to be smashed into shape - but they are extrremely well recorded and vibrant samples at times.
as for computer speed - i have run quite extensive mock-ups for large orchestra on my old G4 1ghz DP. you are waaaayy over spec unless you work extremely inefficiently. you'll be good to go on any modern system.
jonathan is correct about RAM. i run big mock-ups on just 2.5 GB and was running quite big mock-ups with less than 2GB on my old system. 4 GB will be tons - unless you are using 3rd party samplers that don't work as efficiently as the esx. if you do go 3rd party sampler YOU CAN use more than 4 GB of RAM by using AU lab. it is a standalone application in which you can load your sample libraies independent of logic but which logic will be able to access. it comes with Xcode developer kit that comes with tiger.
with regards to VSL - i would say if you just want to get one big to get started rather than fiddle around picking and choosing (and driving yourself to distraction as i have done) then it would be the one to go for.

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IMovie iOS is not able to edit different video over different video.
But this only applies to audio recorded with video.
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But you are unable to lay a second layer of video over the top of the first.
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or
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Bob, I have the guide, just didn't think of the playlist angle. I was looking for the genre/Siri thing. But hey, making a playlist worked.
Demo, yes Siri works now that I've made a playlist and say "playlist" And I'm satisfied with the fix.
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Doc

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I've been looking for this ever since I completely left windows behind, and six months later, it's killing me that I haven't found the right music player.
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Does anyone know any media player which allows this?

alex404 wrote:
Obviously, I used to use foobar2000. The greatest thing about it for was the 'facets' extension which added customizable filter panels. The MOST GREATEST THING about it was that you could combine directory and tag sorting, which means I could sort my REDICULOUSLY HUGE music library by Folder/Folder/Album, which corresponded to Genre/Artist/Album. For various finicky little reasons, sorting it by folder was much more effective than by tags.
Does anyone know any media player which allows this?
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If your library was working on your computer and then popped up empty all of a sudden then this might be what you need...
Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash
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See iTunes Folder Watch for a tool to catch up with any changes since the backup file was created.
When you get it all working make a backup!
tt2

Is there a way to lock the location of where iTunes is looking for music regardless of the itl file. I am loading a remote itl file by default ever time but then it's looking for the music on a local drive instead of a network drive.

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This way I have a fresh copy of the remote library music every time. The problem is the music location under advanced settings. I can change it every time but I would like to make this as automatic as possible. The question I guess is if there is a way to lock the music location or have it change via a script every time iTunes opens.

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Master media folder at X:\iTunes Media
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MPD rocks, runs here for months without major problems.
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http://www.musicpd.org/clients.shtml
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Edit:
MPD supports Icecast also, to create streams.
Last edited by mephisto (2007-05-15 14:00:36)

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