Leave Time For Love

Video and audio do not always match because I did some minor edits after recording the video.

mp3 file (may be slightly different as I remixed it in Cubase afterwards) http://dialer.bplaced.net/files/som--leave-time-for-love.mp3

I did this to see what I can do with Sonar and Cakewalk Dimension Pro. Sonar has VERY limited sequencing tools, and the few it has are too .... 'user-oriented', meaning Sonar may be well easier to use than Cubase is, and has features that make several things better but Cubase simply has the one or other possibility Sonar doesn't have (Timebase warp, or, only very long winded control about advanced midi-data). And this was sooooo bugging the hell out of me. This is my personal opinion and as for now Cubase will definitely stay my sequencer of choice.

Dimension Pro has some very decent orchestral sounds. The strings and brass are remakably good but it lacks orchestral percussion of virtually any kind (which is also why the percussive instruments used here are rather.............), as well as several more uncommon instruments. Instead, Cakewalk included a whole bunch of synthesizer stuff, which is in my opinion obsolete as Sonar delivers with a lot of other wavetable and synthesizer (in the meaning of making electronic music such as sawtooth, horrorfilm noise or whatever stuff) software. They could have made Dimension Pro a orchestra/bigband only library without the fear of missing something, but probably didn't since there are a lot of other orchestra synths out.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• leave
• time
• for
• love
• sonar
• dimension
• pro
• garritan
• orchestra
• orchestral
• original
• soundtrack
• game
• music
• hiroki
• kikuta
• mana
• fortress
• theme

[Neblung]

So does this work similar to FL Studio except with obviously better sounding instruments?

[illuminatus13]

@Neblung And also, midi sequencing with sonar is a royal pain in the ass (this is my only Sonar video, the others are Cubase). No joke, no fanboy-acting, everyone who has thorougly tested both will agree.

[illuminatus13]

@Neblung btw in case you don't understand, Sonar is the host and not the instrument. However the Cakewalk test bundle thing I got included Dimension Pro, which is an all-round VSTi featuring a wide range of fairly good instruments. I continued to use Dimension Pro in Cubase until the whole Cakewalk License expired and then got ewql so gold

[toki535]

Very nice piece! I like the complexity of it.

I'm looking into DAWs, and I can't decide between Sonar, Cubase and FL Studio. Eventually I'll purchase EWQL Gold for the sound samples and I'm trying not to find anything with 'overlapping' functions, which is confusing the heck out of me.

[illuminatus13]

ewql is absolutely great, yet requires a learning/testing-phase to use properly. And i'd go with Cubase as I wrote in the description. It's expensive (but woo I'm a student and who cares I'm studying electronic engineering), but also has more advanced technical features. This unfortunately implies that it's way harder for a beginner to understand than Sonar is.

[toki535]

Well, I have classical music background, so I guess if I can translate all those italian phrases to their equivalents on a DAW, I guess it could work?

I think I am leaning toward Cubase, after some extended conversations with the music managers where I purchased my guitar. Thanks for the suggestions!

P.S. I graduated from engineering too! :D

[illuminatus13]

Actially there is a lot more to it than translating expressions into that. You need quite a bit of technical understanding of MIDI and how vst works, and you have to find tons of workarounds to make things sound like you want them. There is no such thing as a general formula or all-purpose workaround on how to orchestrate sheet music.

[WindJesterGames]

I have loved this piece since i was a child less than half my age. here tonight you have given me the gift of hearing so many of my favorite tunes again for the first time.... it was a sleepless night and now it is splendid!

[U9B]

That.. was.. splendid.

[cccpfish]

just awesome i love your versions

keep it going