The Guide to MIDI Orchestration 3rd Edition
The Guide to
MIDI Orchestration is the first and only book written to help musicians create
extremely realistic orchestral compositions when using samples and MIDI.
This book is
written for composers of all levels. Game composers, film and television
composers, classical composers who want to hear their works in progress or
produce a finished work in lieu of an orchestral reading. Even the serious
hobbyist. Putting together an orchestral mix is complicated and this book is
intended to help simply the process.
The Guide to MIDI Orchestration -
Thorough
The book is a
comprehensive text and comes in hardback. It comprises over 700 pages that progress from an
overview of orchestral history to in-depth discussions of each section of the
orchestra. Printed in colour throughout. This is the third (and latest) edition
of this book.
The Guide to MIDI Orchestration - CONTENTS
- The String Section
- The Woodwind Section
- The Brass Section
- The Percussion Section
- The Harp and Piano
- Orchestration Basics
- How to Begin
- Introduction to Sequencing
- Sequencing Techniques for Strings
- Sequencing Techniques for Woodwinds
- Sequencing Techniques for Brass
- Sequencing Techniques for Percussion
- Sequencing Techniques for Harp and
Piano
- Creating Tempo Changes
- In Search of a Hall
- Effects Plug-Ins
- Software Samplers
- Using Sampled Voices
- The Mix Process
- Broken
Pony Studios
- Interviews
- Achieving Specific Moods
- Introduction to
Orchestral Libraries
- Orchestral Libraries
- Piano Libraries
- Appendix
A: Instrument Ranges
- Appendix B: EQ Graphic
- Appendix C: Resources
- Index
The Guide to MIDI Orchestration - About the Author
Paul Gilreath is a composer and author living in Atlanta, Georgia. His music
career has taken him from one side of the United States to the other and back
again. In 1983, he earned his Bachelor of Music in composition from Stetson
University in DeLand, Florida, after which, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue
film composition studies at the University of Southern California.
During his four-year stay in L.A., he scored the music for five feature
films, three of which were for full orchestra. He also composed music for
several television shows, feature film trailers and commercials. Although
traveling up a seemingly successful path, he longed for the simpler life he had
known in the South. He left L.A. in 1987 at the age of 25 and returned to
Georgia.
Over the next decade, Gilreath continued writing commercially
in Atlanta and was often called on to produce orchestral scores for various
projects, including television shows and national advertisements. In the
mid-1990s, as budgets tightened and sampling technology grew, he translated his
talents at real orchestration into this new technology.
The first
edition of The Guide to MIDI Orchestration was written primarily for his
composer friends and colleagues, but it soon became a best-selling “underground”
book among professional composers nationwide. A year or so after this initial
release, Gilreath completed the 2nd edition of the book. It was released in 1997
and sold over 20,000 copies worldwide before being replaced by this 3rd edition
in the summer of 2004.
Gilreath continues to compose commercially,
scoring regional and national projects. He is often called on to help beta-test
new orchestral sampling products and has been used in an advisory capacity for
several new library productions.
The Guide to MIDI Orchestration -
UK ONLY
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