Swan Lake Selections - EWQLSO on Sibelius 7 w/ Manual Sound Set

Two abbreviated selections from Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake': including 'Dances des Petits Cygnes', and the 'Scene' opening act 2.

I did this using Sibelius 7 notation software, using East-West-Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Platinum as the sampler for playback. I've been working on it for about 2 weeks, as an example piece while I construct a manual sound set and personalized playback configuration around it.

My System:
I'm using an Intel iCore 7 (6-core 3.2GHz) computer running Windows 7 (64-bit), with 24GB of high-speed RAM, and EWQLSO Platinum installed across 4 Solid State Drives (one per choir) to eliminate bottlenecks in sample retrieval. Using Sibelius 7 (a 64-bit program, allowing me to access all the RAM I need) means I can load heavy keyswitching instruments and high-quality samples & reverb into the playback configuration without overloading Sibelius.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• EWQLSO
• Sibelius 7
• Avid
• East West Quantum Leap
• Symphonic Orchestra
• samples
• sampler
• orchestral
• music
• Elliot Wright
• Platinum
• Tchaikovsky
• Swan Lake
• suite

[crow32868]

Very nice; I like this. Does that software have the sheetmusic built into it or did you insert that? Can you print it if you wanted to? If so....a very nice tool....might have to look into that. Thank you for sharing....I enjoyed this.

[ElliotWrightMusic]

@crow32868 I'm using Sibelius 7, which is a notation program, so I inputted all the music myself :) I can print out the score, adjust absolutely any object or parameter, print individual parts, it's a really great program. In this video I've used a third-party piece of software called EastWest-QuantumLeap Symphonic Orchestra to help Sibelius play back the score with fairly realistic sounds; I discuss the system a bit in my other vids. Glad you liked it! :D

[MikeyIV]

Is EWQL the best sibelius sound library? What would you recommend?

[ElliotWrightMusic]

@MikeyIV I guess I'm kind of biased on that one :P I like EWQLSO because it lines up with what I want to do with Sibelius, but depending on what you want to do with your music, you may want other libraries, or a combination of several. It's really up to you. If you want to work with Sibelius and get a decent audio mock-up as you go, I guess EWQLSO is a solid start, other libraries to look at are LA Scoring Strings, CineBrass / CineOrch, and others, check them out too. But EWQLSO's my favourite.

[chuchitoRE]

Did you left out the percussions?

[ElliotWrightMusic]

@chuchitoRE There is no percussion in this particular piece actually, which is good, because I made the example a few weeks before I got the percussion to work anyway lol :P I actually also left out the Trombone, which I didn't get to work until about 5 days after the example was released.

[ElliotWrightMusic]

@peacefleetcollective Thank you so much!  I'm glad you liked it :) I hope to put out more examples and transcriptions in the near future.

[peacefleetcollective]

You know, this is one of the only demos of an symphonic VST that was able to pull of a convincing facsimile of a large orchestra. I knew the technology had arrived, but it seems that precious few people are composing via notation software; You simply can't achieve high audio fidelity with these instruments by bashing away at a midi keyboard.

This isn't a perfect match for your local Philharmonic (and we'd all be foolish to expect as much!) but it sounds fantastic. Thanks so much for sharing! :)

[Snokone3000]

@Scarbogn all film composers(John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman) borrow HUGELY from romantic composers like Tchaikovsky. The music we hear in movies is mostly from 19th century in general...not that theres anything wrong with that. there's a section in beethovens 5th, 1st movement, that reminds me of EVERYTHING John Williams has ever done... nice find though.

[Scarbogn]

@ElliotWrightMusic BTW great work you did there :D