LA Scoring Strings

client: Andrew Keresztes

Recently I’ve been beta testing and composing demos for LASS: a sampled string library produced by my friend Andrew Keresztes.  The strings are really inspiring to work with, and definitely raise the bar for the tools that composers use.  Andrew has done an outstanding job, and I know this will be a great success for him. I wrote the pieces below entirely with his strings.


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She Was a Fair Lass :59 Drama
Reverie in G 1:53 Drama

COMMENTS (26)     

Posted by:
Willem
on 03.14.09
at 12:44 pm

Very beautiful texture, and very real sounding, especially in the crescendo. I also like the dryness of the samples, because i reckon there’s much of a difference to create with a variety of reverbs.

Thanks for posting.

Posted by:
Wes
on 07.03.09
at 10:53 am

Ever consider releasing the sheet music for that? Its very beautiful and I would love to analyze it.

Posted by:
Simon
on 07.06.09
at 4:09 pm

Great pieces and the strings do sound amazing. Can I ask, what other libraries did you use? For example, woodwind, brass, percussion, vocal etc?

Posted by:
colin
on 07.07.09
at 12:55 pm

Thanks for the feedback on these strings and the compositions.  Regarding sheet music, I haven’t thought of doing that, but if I do I’ll have Andrew Kerestez post them on the LA Scoring Strings site.  I mostly use custom samples I’ve recorded myself through the years for winds and brass, but hope we’ll have better options commercially soon.

Colin

Posted by:
Elliott Delman
on 07.08.09
at 11:31 am

Stunning.

Posted by:
Wouter
on 07.09.09
at 8:42 am

Hi Colin,

Nice music, very well done! How much effort did you put into it? I mean, how much work is it to create such realistic strings with LASS? Can you describe the process (inputting and editting notes and velocities, finetuning, CC’s, ...).

Thanks, Wouter.

Posted by:
Keith Fuller
on 07.15.09
at 10:45 pm

I heard this the other day (She Was a Fair Lass), and I really do think it is the most realistic VI string performance I have ever heard.

Obviously this isn’t just the library.  You have a great sense of orchestration.  I love how you passed the melody between the violins and cellos.  There was also a great use divisi, which really gave this piece outstanding dynamics.

On top of that the mixing was superb.  I’m assuming you’re using Altiverb, which is how you gave the mix such depth.

I wish I heard this earlier.  If you continue creating music like this I imagine I will see you on the Academy Awards some day.

Posted by:
Alan blackman
on 10.09.09
at 10:36 am

Are those real voices or samples? Wow, this is the most gorgeous piece of music I have heard in a long time. Kudos. I would love to see the score for this as well; i am just starting to learn the art of writing for strings.  again, wonderful work Colin!!

Posted by:
colin
on 10.15.09
at 12:26 am

Thanks for your comments, Alan.  The voices in Reverie in G are real.  3 female vocalists triple tracked actually.

Colin

Posted by:
Amr Rady
on 12.22.09
at 11:18 pm

You are very talented   & me 2 would love to see the score if it possible   for (( reverie in G ))  It`s Amazing .  Thank`s

Posted by:
Sham
on 12.26.09
at 6:08 pm

Beautiful… (T_T ) makes me wanna cry.

Posted by:
Julio Cesar Sierra
on 01.05.10
at 6:45 pm

Hello Collin, beautiful music, amazing, great orchestration, i like your music, i wish you succes.
The library is incredible. I follow you.

Posted by:
Carl Ashwin
on 02.01.10
at 1:12 pm

Dear Colin

I fell head over heels for this piece the first time I heard it (as I suspect most people did).

If you’ve got an album of this stuff, I’d sure like to know about it!

Carl
UK.

Posted by:
colin
on 02.01.10
at 2:40 pm

Thanks a lot, Carl.  The album isn’t done yet, but it’s definitely in the works.

Posted by:
Matthias Adloff
on 02.02.10
at 4:24 pm

Hi Colin,

I hope you make it big in the movie biz. I know this has been said already, more or less, but once more:

I consider both of your works with LASS to be THE best programmed orchestral stuff ever. AudioBro can be very happy they have you for making these, coz it is not that easy to program as it sounds… LASS is very cool, but your demo is breathtaking !!

Posted by:
Stephano
on 03.21.10
at 3:18 pm

Hello Colin

I love what you do.Thanks for the inspiration.

Can you answer this for me please ??? Do you score your strings before sequencing them everytime ???

Thank you

Posted by:
colin
on 03.21.10
at 7:36 pm

Thanks a lot, Stephano.  No, I never write using traditional notation first.  I work everything out in my sequencer.  I only deal with notation if a cue is going to be recorded live. 

Colin

Posted by:
gilberto santamaria
on 03.31.10
at 10:45 am

hello Colin, congratulation for this work in the music, very very amazing.

could you tell me? how is the process to make these projects, step by step? what do you do after the melody have been create?  from Colombia.

Thank you.

Gilberto Santamaria

Posted by:
Miguel Moerman
on 04.14.10
at 5:10 am

Indeed, outstanding job on these LASS demo’s. Well, outstanding job on all your productions you did so far, I just listened to everything on your site, very impressive stuff. I just ordered my copy of LASS, and I really hope I can get a fraction of the result you did on these demo’s. Really looking forward to using this library, I’m convinced this library will be a step up, from the VSL’s I’ve been using so far.

Keep up the good work. I’ll be looking out for your name in end credits.

A new fan, from Belgium.

Posted by:
Gabriel Rodrick
on 04.27.10
at 9:20 pm

Hey Colin i like youre work! I was hopping you could give me a tip on how you set the reverb for the strings. I guess you youse the altiverb, Todd AO setting, but i would really apreciate if you could tell me how exactly you set the altiverb parameters and pan for the strings! Thanks and congrtulations again!