Previews: Orchestration Recipes 1 & 2
Every recipe starts with a 
…then detailed 
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Previews: Volume 4 (new!)
Examples from Volume 4
Step-by-step walkthroughs of all examples below are included in the Vol 4 videos.
All examples use readily available sample libraries, out-of-the-box—there’s nothing in the effects chain, beyond a splash of reverb on the master output. Effects, the libraries you use…it’s all icing; the notes you choose are the cake.
Examples using this spice:
Examples using this spice:
Examples using this spice:
Examples using this spice:
Previews: Volume 3
Out now
2 hours of fully narrated videos
Walkthroughs, illustrations and loads of fresh musical examples to explore, in a new, brisk, fully narrated format.
Packed with orchestrated examples & ideas to try
Start with the videos. Practice building versions of your own, until you don’t need the videos. Then the sound is yours, to summon, whenever you need it.
Some examples from Volume 3
Spices inspire orchestrations. Notice just how different two cues with the same spice can be—thinking harmonically with spices can smash through writer’s block, and inspire orchestrations of your own.
All examples use readily available sample libraries, out-of-the-box—there’s nothing in the effects chain, beyond a splash of reverb on the master output. Effects, the libraries you use…it’s all icing; the notes you choose are the cake.
Walkthroughs of all these examples included in the Volume 3
videos…plus another 18 examples not listed here.
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About the Orchestration Recipes Chef
Philip Johnston is one of music education’s best selling authors, known for presenting complex ideas in simple, engaging formats. Classically trained, he has a Masters Degree in Music from Indiana University and has recorded for Warner Music as a pianist/composer.
Philip has been working with orchestral sample libraries since the Gigastudio days. (You can still hear some of Philip’s Gigastudio demos at VSL’s website—created in 2003 on a PC that has worse specs than your phone…it’s all about the recipes, not the gear)