We’d like you to compose a piece of music featuring our latest Vault instrument: Orchestral FX.
With it’s “playing styles to have your listeners headed to the back of the sofa” we would like you to scare the pants off us with your best creepy, eerie or downright terrifying tracks!
As a little extra challenge, in addition to prominently featuring Orchestral FX, we would also like you to feature (at least) one other Vault instrument randomly selected
All the details on how to participate can be found here
As you might guess from the title, I got the Shimmer Guitar as my second featured Vaults instrument.
All the sounds are Orchestral FX, Shimmer Guitar (both heavily resampled and effected), or release trigger and pedal sounds from Christian’s Claustrophobic Piano Pianobook instrument (used for percussion).
My random Vaults Instrument was Shimmer Guitar so I decided to compose this. (I had no idea how to send it directly though SoundCloud so I’m just gona put it here to make everything easier)
I also used Muse Sounds for the rest of the orchestral stuff, as well as Scary Strings and Tundra Atmos (for the high pitch glitchy sound at the end) from LABS… needless to say I went full blown Danny Elfman esque here.
does it sound like a bit of a garble? Because that might be just the shimmer guitar doing shimmer things… that and also i did go a bit crazy with the splosh… and the drive…
wait actually, hearing it back i kinda hear it too… I think it’s a soundcloud issue…
Edit: No I actually now thinkits a combiation of both shimmer guitar doing the shimmer and soundcloud being soundcloud.
yeah, for the most part I work in MuseScore (though I will say my knowledge of notation is more basic notation… in fact only recently did I learn what Microtones do… those were also used in the track), and for extra things like Vaults etc I just put those parts in through DAW (I have a very clear imagination and understanding of what I want to add etc.)
Thanks for the detail - it’s useful to know that it might be easier to work across MuseScore and a DAW than to get VST instruments working in MuseScore - which I’ve been considering trying out.
have you guys checked out dorico? it supports 3rd party VSTs but its a notation software so this back and forth thing between notation and DAW would probably not be needed i think?
Thanks Jay - MuseScore 4 definitely supports VST3 plugins (when running on Windows and Mac) - I might have cause to try it soon so was curious about Mark’s experiences.
(To everyone - apologies for hijacking this thread - if I have more questions I’ll start another topic)
Posted this early in the vain hope that I’ll stop faffing around with it …
Its based mainly around Orchestral FX and Celestatone and I resampled OrchFX in addition to using the drones. There is also the Kick and Low Tom from Studio Drums buried somewhere in the percussion mix. I used Serum to construct many of the risers - but I also rolled my own on the fly using pitch shift and then editing the volume of various elements on their actual track lanes…
This here is my entry. I was given the Dulcitone, which I took to mean the Celest-a-tone as the other Vaults to use and that was the perfect combination for me to play around with eerie sounds again. I hope folks like it:
Just a reminder that this is the final week to get your challenge entry submitted. Thanks to all who have already got their tracks in.
It’s worth noting that we’ve not had a lot of submissions thus far this time round so, if you fancy getting your hands on some new Crow Hill merch (details of that coming soon) and the next 2 product releases (whish are both very exciting, believe me), get those spooky tracks in!
Hello,
I’ve put this together for the Orchestral FX composer challenge. I’ve resampled and reversed a few bits but it is just Orchestral FX, Studio Drums and some Binaural mixing (headphones recommended).
Cheers
Jon
Hello everyone,
I’ve just joined the forum, bit of a technophobe, I’ve managed to put my piece for the latest composer challenge on sound cloud, but don’t know how to upload it to here, any help appreciated.
Thank you,
Michael