How To Orchestrate Metal Music - Masterclass With Twilight Force
My band Twilight Force is renowned for having some of the most dense, complicated orchestrations in Metal, with hundreds of tracks and compositions closer to classic film scores than typical Metal songs.
In this bonus masterclass video myself and Alvo sit down with band mastermind Daniel "Blackwald" Beckman to go over his creative process and offer loads of amazing tips for incorporating orchestration into your own music!
0:00 Intro
4:21 What is a virtual orchestra?
12:35 Orchestration process showcase
21:07 Orchestrating a Metal song in real-time
24:00 Do you need to know music theory?
31:00 Making low instruments stand out in a Metal mix
39:38 Functions of each section
44:00 Before/after
45:11 Mixing a Twilight Force song
54:24 Using drums VSTs
58:27 Tech requirements
Comments (8)
Luca Turilli's Orchestrations for His solo projects and when He was in the original Rhapsody has always been one of my biggest influences, and the reason why I got into metal way back when Dawn of Victory came out and specifically guitar.
Bery cool ty!
I just finished the video, it was so cool and inspiring! I'm definitely going to rewatch it so I can use Daniel's tips in my projects! Thank you so much Bradley!
One thing you guys mentioned was being difficult to manage different articulations in Reaper, there is a plugin for that called Reaticulate, it does require SWS Extension which is a plug-in extension for Reaper. There are instructions on their website explaining the whole installation process, you will probably be faffing with it for half an hour to get it setup but I guess most Reaper users are used to that at this point lol And fantastic video, loved seeing Blackwalds workflow, I've been curious about that ever since I started listening to Twilight Force, Cheers!
Thanks for the recommendation dude, will deffo check that out! Stoked you enjoy the video!
This is amazing and so inspirational, thank you! More of this type of content please (song writing, composing, VST libraries, etc.)! I love being able to hear him frantically hammering the keyboard with the shortcuts! True pro!
This video is absolutely fan fucking tastic mate. Such a treasure trove of information. If either of you figure out how to add the articulations to the midi scroll in reaper please let me know
Cheers man! Seems like Ebheron in the comment above has a solution for this