Hi and welcome back to the Big Bang
Orchestra Series! And this series is
growing!! We started with the Big Bang
Orchestra, the Free Basics, available for
everyone, the Big Bang Orchestra:
Andromeda, with more essential articulations,
Big Bang Orchestra: Black
Eye, with phrases and FX that are
super useful, and now the Big Bang
Orchestra: Capricorn, with ostinatos and
riffs in different BPMs: 120, 130, 140 bpm.And I have loaded
in the Symphonic Riffs All preset,  so
you have everything
we recorded in one setup.  You can see how
it's organized: You choose the tempo, you
choose which kind of release you want to
get, and here you have three riffs that
you can combine, and we're gonna talk
about that right away. From C3 to C5 it's
the main riff that you choose right here.
It sounds like this:
So it is a four-bar riff, all of those are,
and you can decide which one you want to access.
In this case (not) the keyswitch
is not on C but on D (!!), so I'm using
these keyswitches down here to switch
between the Main Riff 1, Main Riff 2,
Main Riff 3, and of course you can
combine those different styles.
So you get the idea: You always can
choose between different releases.
On A0, you have the "Cut release" so when you
release the key - let's just switch to
another riff here - see, it cuts out right
away. If you have a "Note release",
it actually gives you  the ending note of
the phrase, so you always have an ending.
And you can combine those any way you
like.
So this is the main riff here, in the
main area of the keyboard.
Another important thing, you can see that right
now, (I'm actually) I see the whole mixer
that I have in here and I'm playing the
Room-Mix. Don't forget that you have
those mixer presets available. Room-Mix
means that we've recorded all the room
microphones in one stereo channel, but
you can get of course more detailed
results and of course a different way to
influence the sound if you go with a
Stereo Decca Tree or with a Surround to
Stereo mixer preset. That means we're
loading in more samples here in the
background, and you have not only the
Decca Tree but you have the High
Surround microphone mixed in and of
course that gives you much more of a
huge sound from Synchron Stage Vienna.
I'm always using this little Korg
controller here... You can emphasize
different sections and just say: I want
the woodwinds to be louder here.
Or I want to emphasize the low
strings or high strings...
...and bring in two horns a little bit more...
As always with my examples I'm overdoing
it a little bit, but you get the idea:
Whatever you are working with...
let's go to Main Riff 2 - and just see
what that does...  If I bring down the
trumpets a little bit, and the horns...
You can influence the mix and of
course
everything here is MIDI, so you can
automate whatever you like, don't forget
about that. Don't forget about the mixer
presets, lots of options in there.
Okay, back to the samples! You have those main
riffs, lots of different choices there,
starting at D, that's something to
remember... Let's just listen to the Main Riff 7 again:
In my odd mix :-) See,
that's something where it really comes
in handy to say: I want to go back to the
classic Surround to Stereo mixer preset,
or to the Wide Surround to Stereo. I get
a more distant sound or you can take
advantage of the dynamics: piano and
forte of course.
so you have a lot of options there it's not just loops
it's really a whole experimental
environment, and now we're going to go to
the low and high riffs that are
available from C6 to C7, and you always
hear two riffs up here: The low and the
high riff together, so that's Low Riff
1 and High Riff 1:
And the keyswitches for the low riff are from D5 upwards, so
I'm switching between those different
riffs, and I can also say: Hey, I don't
want the low riff to sound, but I want it
to be silent. And now when I play in this
octave I only hear the high riff:
And up here in the highest region, you
can see it here, you see the key switches
for the high riffs, so now I can go
through those different high riffs:
Some of them are just ostinatos, others
are actual riffs.
And now I can choose which low riff
would fit. (It's) The same number always fits.
So it's also the dynamic of the whole
orchestra when they are playing at the
same time:
So we also decided to release little scoring examples, and just to
show you here, you can download them from
the tutorial sections at MyVSL, so every
riff, you have one example where you see
the woodwinds, brass and the string
sections and what they are doing with
those different riffs. And you see, at the
touch of a finger, you actually have a
lot of orchestration knowledge going on
for the main riffs, for the high riffs,
for the low riffs, and you can see what
kind of "orchestration tricks" we used to
get that fat a sound... And just explore
what's behind the Big Bang Orchestra:
Capricorn. So the cool part is always in
the mix, so let's just mix it up a little
bit and just go... let's combine the Low
Riff 6 with the High Riff 4 and see what
that does...
Or just see what I'm doing with just the
low riff:
So you get a lot of movement in here and it's a great, it's more or less
like a drum loop for for a pop song.
You can really get things going but it's a
whole orchestra doing that work for you.
And now it's really just about
combinations of those different riffs.
Or here.
So you get the idea: Having 8 x 8 x 8 combinations that you
can use any way you like, and then
additionally play around with the mixer
and of course with the dynamics. And
we've prepared a preset, the Velocity
XF preset, for you and that kind
of sums it up: You have the different
articulations, you have the different
releases, you have different tempos that
you can choose between, and of course you
have the mixer that lets you access each
section separately. You can influence the
microphone setup here and just say you
want the High Surround a little louder, the Surround maybe a little lower and
the Main Decca Tree a little louder...
Everything influences the sound a little
bit, and you can automate all of those
faders very conveniently and just play
around with the sound this great
Orchestra makes. Let's load in the
Velocity Xfade version. With the
Velocity Xfade preset, we have
switched velocity crossfade to CC1, so
your modulation wheel can be used to
switch between piano and forte:
So you can play around with those
options, same for the high riff of course:
And don't be afraid of mixing up
different Synchron Players, different
Synchron Player instances, use
different loops in one instance, other
loops in other instances, separate them
a bit, use the velocity crossfade and
dynamic movement, use your own ideas and
mix it up with the Big Bang Orchestra: Capricorn
