Composing with Hollywood Orchestrator

Watch Composing with Hollywood Orchestrator, the third in our series of in-depth looks at Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition, Hollywood Orchestrator, and the new OPUS engine.
In this video, we'll show you how to compose a brand new orchestral track using Hollywood Orchestrator, along with some individual instruments from Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition. Hollywood Orchestrator includes over 500 customizable presets across Ensemble, Ostinato, and Score categories - or you can create your own presets from scratch!
Find out more about Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition here: www.soundsonlin...

[@PRODOS]

This is a masterful demo! Not only does it show off ORCHESTRATOR in all its glory, it also demonstrates that ORCHESTRATOR (and OPUS ensembles) work best when the composer really understands mood, musical drama, orchestration, chord progressions, melody, etc. Terrific!

[@briansadler5225]

I just did a project where I was asked to put orchestral chords into a pop song in a trailer. Rather than loading a template and write each individual part, I just used Orchestrator and played the chords! Super quick and easy!

[@iresentdoingthis1550]

East West Please allow a MIDI DRAG & DROP in all DAWS, I recently bought Native Instruments Action Strings 2 and Pluigin Boutiques Scale 2 these products do what Orchestrator do whilst having the drag and drop option. This will actually elongate the life of Orchestra as routing the patterns to completely different EW instruments will stop Orchestrator from eventually sounding stock. You've got a TREMENDOUS product, don't be left behind. Please allow Midi drag n drop

[@EWQLTutorials]

We're working on MIDI Drag & Drop, will be in the next update.

[@iresentdoingthis1550]

@@EWQLTutorials YAAAAAAAY!!!!! Literally can't wait! That's Awesome \m/

[@lonelyseaproductions2337]

Please incorporate Midi drag & drop. What a wonderful product!

[@EWQLTutorials]

We'll be adding MIDI Drag and Drop in an upcoming update.

[@bigelephantproductions1293]

Thank you EastWest for another amazing product. Pro-Tip - Looking for more bite from your string section? Try a compressor.

[@johndonaldson3695]

nice pro tip, what compressor settings would you recommend?

[@kingkong6666]

Wow that opening track sounds incredible and is super inspiring. And the orchestrator looks amazingly useful. Time to add some new downloads to my CC arsenal!

[@paulstodolny3091]

Excellent Demo of an incredible Tool. Thanks EastWest.

[@atitayareynolds971]

Thanks for your time and help with your service it's amazing 👏

[@jorgexchapa7445]

WOW! Congratulations on developing such a powerful and meaningful music tool! I hope to use it to its full potential!

[@dafingaz]

Beautiful piece!

[@TheOfficialSiNN]

Keep adding more to this plugin because I’m loving it

[@SebastianAmmerlynd]

Awesome! Wonderfully inspirational!

[@Bashanvibe]

This is was awesome!!! Like watching a behind the scenes of a making a film score!!!

[@tjp1451]

Dear Eastwest - LOVE this product and thank you so much for it. Please update sometime to allow for the inclusion of passing tones in the patterns, and ‘smart voice leading’. :)

[@MrSimonjan78]

Amazing. It will be nice to have a small preset preview in orchestrator

[@davidbrussard-composer7372]

The ensemble presets are truly going to be amazing for saving time composing. I don't have this yet, but I can't wait to own it!

[@chrisridenhour]

You guys hit this out of the park - amazing price too!

[@akcel1211]

Damn, this looks really good! I wonder if I made the right choice with my Spitfire banks when I see how fast you can work with Hollywood Orchestrator.

[@ministryinsong]

What a beautiful piece that was, all I need now is a transplant of your hands and I’m ready to go!

[@bigchiefcinema9654]

amazing presentation.

[@Drfresh1402]

This is an incredible. Bought it months ago but couldn’t download. Got a Eastwest hard drive for Christmas and all I have to say is wow.

[@christopherpaul1810]

About rendering individual midi tracks with East/West Hollywood Orchestrator using Cakewalk/Sonar. Here's my solution. Create a new midi track, then record the original chord track and Opus track to the new midi track. This creates a combined midi track with all notes/instruments. Then, [Process > RunCal > Split Channel to Tracks]. Alternately, Split Note to Tracks will separate all notes from every track in much the same way if you want to isolate individual notes instead.

[@lightfusionproductions4891]

So good!!! Thank you for sharing this!

[@OttoNilssonMusic]

Great video! Is the Orchestrator good inspiration for finding new instrument combinations too?

[@michaelft78]

How much ram is in the computer that performed this piece? Great music BTW .... EW OPUS ROCKS!

[@omarsowan4780]

Hi! Thanks for a great intro. I have both orchestrators, the hollywood and the hollywood fantasy. I have two simple questions. 1. In logic, dropping the recorded loop on the DAW generates the individual tracks for each instrument. However, in logic it uses the stock instruments instead. Is this going to be solved? 2. For the scores (rhythmic patterns) is there a way to apply a "hold" like effect as in other arpeggiators so as to get rid of the ugly stops during chord changes? I noticed when you changed chords you kept one finger on while you were changing. I am not a good KB player.

[@mafbblue]

I'm starting on this, sorry for my ignorance, I just have a question. If I have sheet music from Sibelius , how can I put this sounds?

[@NeverduskX]

This would be amazing as a separate plugin with channel routing.

[@EWQLTutorials]

The Hollywood Orchestrator Mixer allows channel routing and MIDI export is also available now for those DAWs that support it. For those that don’t, MIDI drag and drop will be available shortly in an upcoming update.

[@gxdfree333]

What midi piano works best for this program? I use FL Studio currently, and plan to buy Opus as well as a midi piano used best for it. But I also plan to use it for alternative performance as well.

[@nomore6167]

How much RAM was required for that demo project? Based on the RAM usage listed in each instance of Opus, it looks like it required 64+ GB of RAM.

[@garyhendrie4001]

A bit of advice please, any help welcome. Have been looking at The Orchestra Complete 3 and have just come across this. Any advice on which way to go? Thanks to anyone who replies.

[@alainjulot3490]

Just purchased it!

[@cubicdalek8607]

FANTASTIC !

[@dandmcolletto]

Wait what??? I've got a billion questions? How did you get all of them to play together like that? You're playing 2 or 3 notes but it sounds like a whole entire orchestra is playing different melodies. Is that a setting or voodoo magic?

[@EWQLTutorials]

It’s the magic of Hollywood Orchestrator!

[@massapower]

Will I be able to import a midi score already arranged ? Thx, Frank

[@michaelpendergrass6401]

Can u drag the performance from orchestrator into ur daw so u can have everything on separate tracks for mixing

[@CorradoLoffredi]

I'd like to know it, me too!!

[@MarketGuy84]

I can't wait to build my sound studio!!!

[@digitalmirageentertainment6248]

Revolutionary! Is this supposed to make John William's job easier or to put it out of business (more or less)?

[@snarf1504]

Seems like this would be pretty nice for full ensemble sustains and shorts, with automatic 'proper' orchestration. I can imagine the 'score' presets will get old really fast, though.

[@LightWingStudios]

It's a GREAT tool for LEARNING to Orchestrate. You can also MODIFY the presets and save them as your own creations. :)

[@EWQLTutorials]

It greatly depends on how you use them. In this sense, the Presets can essentially be seen as building blocks for generating inspiration / ideas, and with the Arranger Mode / MIDI editor, it can allow users to customize their own MIDI passages for all of the parts in one go. Using this to modify the presets allows for a great range of creativity in your compositions. There's a tutorial video timestamped for Arranger Mode / MIDI editor here if you'd like any more information on that - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iavPgmlrot9-oas

[@snarf1504]

@@EWQLTutorials Thank you. For the record, I think the Opus orchestrator is a great piece of technology with lots of flexibility and options for creative exploration. My point was only concerning the orchestrator presets of particular scores. More specifically, IF many people start to use them, they would get recognizable and boring very quickly. I think most people realise this so I don't see a need to worry about such a scenario. I'm sure the score presets are still great for learning purposes.

[@fabienbourgeais1573]

Great Job !!!

[@JamesRoneyMusic]

⚠️ Video does not actually show how to activate record, as I cannot find the record button.

[@bangtoni2560]

amazing

[@wormproductions2412]

This is an amazing product with amazing programming work behind and i dont want to sound snobbish but isnt one very restricted to the presets at hand? They sound phenomenal dont get me wrong and i would have lots of fun playing around with it but i dont see the use in actually working for film. Its very, very good for quick sketching but the works i did so far regarding film had to be flexible and quick, changing through multiple emotions within bars leaving no time for a preset. Dunno, what do you guys think?

[@EWQLTutorials]

You can completely alter the structure, instruments, and voicings of any of the presets, or build your own from scratch.

[@LightWingStudios]

It's a GREAT tool for LEARNING to Orchestrate. You can also MODIFY the presets and save them as your own creations. :)

[@michaelft78]

I did a lot of scoring in the 90s and the first 10 years of the millennium..... this product and some of the libraries that Sonokinetic are putting out would’ve been major time savers for orchestral vamps and underscoring. However yes, they would be tough to utilize within a main theme but then again I would love to try.

[@AllanGildea]

Excellent!

[@JacobKraghMusic]

Thanks for a great product, and a nice informative video. Id like to copy your demo to get my grips on Opus, but I cant find the Apocalypse preset? Best jacob

[@EWQLTutorials]

In Hollywood Orchestrator, the Apocalypse presets are in Preset Browser>Ensembles>Full Ensemble Movie.

[@Jay-wr1wh]

Any tutorials on using this with FL Studio?

[@mipsroth]

Is there a way to export/convert a recorded "ensemble" Orchestrator passage into individual separate instrument midi tracks? This would be useful to start with a complex Orchestrator section, but then be able to tweak individual lines/voicings for each instrument, play them using different libraries or adjust individual parts or transitions.

[@EWQLTutorials]

Hello Martin, it is possible but it depends on the DAW you are using. If you have any questions on how to do that, you can always contact our support team here for more information - www.soundsonline.com and go to the red 'Live Chat' button.

[@randyhetlage9202]

I am going to get this Very Soon .

[@nicoroy123]

Would be nice to have MIDI drag and drop like in Sonuscore The Orchestra.

[@EWQLTutorials]

We're working on it, will be in the next update!

[@kingslaphappy1533]

Hiw many instances of the Orchestrator can you run before your computer pooches out? I have a Mac Studio Ultra with 64 gigs of ram.

[@RadenAgung]

tomorrow will buy it

[@iustingalea1547]

All good and fun. But, personally, I experience something very strange. It is not in sync with the metronome. Of course the same bpm in my daw with the orchestrator, but simply is not syncing. Any Advice, please?

[@Trimpopo]

Thank you for showing this. Are you using the sustain pedal while you are recording?

[@MarcusCunninghamPlus]

The sustain pedal doesn't have any effect in Orchestrator which is a bit of a downer - my hands don't move as fast as the guy in the demo!

[@LightWingStudios]

Looks like MOD WHEEL (left hand) at times.

[@HostileProd]

why i can't find the presets on when i use it on fruityloops ?

[@DolceMusicGroupZim]

This orchestrator is amazing,

[@nicomuziek]

Hello. When comes the next update with midi drag function?

[@phillipjones3766]

What's the man's name who is doing this video. I'd like to follow him.

[@zambu623]

Thanks for this tool .

[@dragonwarden3285]

How do you send each instrument patch to the DAW in it's own DAW mixer track and piano roll, without loading up a separate instance of the Opus plugin? I'm using Opus in FL Studio and having to load up separate Opus instance for each instrument patch and articulation patches is eating up my PC's memory. I want to be able to load up everything in one Opus instance and then route each specific one to it's own mixer track and piano roll in FL. The only thing I can figure out is how to route MIDI CC to it's own MIDI plugin channel. This allows me to control the notes and CCs on individual piano rolls, but I'm not able to route the actual audio from the individual instrument patch to it's own mixer track in FL to take advantage of FL's mixer settings and effect plugins that I can load up within the DAW.

[@MrAllimp]

Which midi keyboard do you use?

[@israelfrank4781]

I have a few questions if possible. Does it work on ableton the same way? a 32g ram computer, i7, ssd, is this enough? For each track, is it possible to export each instrument separately in midi format to rework each instrument if necessary? and reuse the same instruments? Thanks

[@frattuncbas]

What about counterpoint and related chord features? Synfire 2 does it,but ew has better phrases.

[@Starglance]

Marvellous

[@eugenekun]

I wish I could also use orchestrator with Hollywood Orchestra Gold 😔

[@LightWingStudios]

Augment Orchestrator with HOG tracks like in the video. :)

[@bbenz9750]

You can. I am. If you are talking about routing instruments to separate tracks you also can do that up to 16 tracks per single Orchestrator instance.

[@edoardoverde-pro]

hello. I would like to know if this presets in the scores menu, showed in this video, are all included with "Orchestra Opus Edition". Thank you very much.

[@EWQLTutorials]

Yes they are!

[@edoardoverde-pro]

@@EWQLTutorials thank you very much :)

[@Victor48323]

What are you doing with your left hand? Is that the MIDI controller #11 that you are controlling? Thanks.

[@CorradoLoffredi]

I think CC11 or CC1

[@richardgordon9939]

wicked

[@unfunctionalhuman]

I just purchased this... Which midi controller are they using in this video?

[@gb3496]

They are using Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S61 in the demo - and the newer version Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2 when they show the person playing on it at the end.

[@akcel1211]

Does Hollywood Orchestrator work exclusively with Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition or does it also work with Quantum Leap Orchestra Gold for example?

[@EWQLTutorials]

By Quantum Leap Orchestra, do you mean EastWest/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra? Hollywood Orchestrator currently only works with Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition.

[@PreacherAtArrakeen]

How does this work on a Native Arm mac mini?

[@toddscotdrumcovers2341]

Is there a way to download the logic file?

[@bengsynthmusic]

Does anyone know a good string for a fast arpeggiation? It seems none of them are suited for a consistent timing.

[@ContentScientist]

Can you tell me how to export MIDI from Opus to my DAW?

[@ptah23]

what system are you using

[@shmk1]

It sounds great but how does one produce a score from this or mix out stems?

[@EWQLTutorials]

There is a tutorial on using the MIDI Editor / Arranger Mode in the Orchestrator here, in order to allow the user more creative control over the components of the instruments in the preset - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iavPgmlrot9-oas and additionally, in terms of the MIDI Export procedure, there is the possibility of exporting MIDI in your DAW if it allows for a Midi track creation that can record the Midi Input from a plug-in's output (Opus included). If you have questions on how to do that, there are tutorials available that you can contact East West's support team for here - www.soundsonline.com and click the red 'Live Chat' button. Hopefully this helps! :)

[@shmk1]

@@EWQLTutorials Awesome thanks for that.

[@alberiarelax]

Whats that midi keyboard visible on the video? anyone knows?

[@LightWingStudios]

Holy Dog Blizzle Batman! :)

[@giovaniportojuliano]

Is it possible use ewqlso with this hollywood orchestrator?

[@EWQLTutorials]

At this time, only the instruments from Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition are compatible with Hollywood Orchestrator.

[@CrystalClearNM]

How do you get to where you are at 3 min 4 sec? I can't find the buttons displayed in the video (Ensembles, Ostinatos, Scores). Thanks in advance!

[@tjp1451]

See where it says “Empty” - click there.

[@CrystalClearNM]

@@tjp1451 I missed this somehow, thanks very much I'll try it later today..'thanks again!

[@Uchawibeatz]

EW vst quality is million years ahead of the rest. It's not even close

[@vewilli]

Great, greater, greatest, but I‘m not good enough to reach such results!

[@patricknaughton9322]

Would running a few orchestrators like this not absolutely EAT ram?

[@XeroHertz]

I tried this with i7 8700k CPU and 32GB of DDR4 RAM.. Unless i lower the quality i'm gonna need a better system.. Not sure if my audio interface has anything to do with the stuttering too..

[@LightWingStudios]

Not really. You have the ability to have 3 levels of "intensity" so to speak. You can also bounce the MIDI to Audio to free up RAM.

[@oravansaatana]

Is it Akash Thakkar Talking? :)

[@daniel.vega.composer]

Its an amazing product but its basically composing for you while you hold down a chord. This allows people with minimal knowledge about composing and orchestration to call themselves composers. Still trying to decide if this is a positive or negative thing lol

[@Mikesempert]

what controller is this?

[@brassphil]

NI S61 I think. Older version with touch strips.

[@nodzsound]

It is an older version of the Native Instruments S61

[@LightWingStudios]

Looks like a Native Instruments S61. I could be wrong tho.

[@Matt-ss7hx]

how did you get the "Elves World" in your orchestrator? i dont have it by default? :/

[@EWQLTutorials]

It should be in your Scores category in the Hollywood Orchestrator Preset Browser.

[@patrickriviere5363]

AI been there, they just decide to show us now!

[@entertainer9076]

I'm going to lose my job