Today we're going to take a look at the free plugin Sonatina Orchestra by bigcat instruments. This is a Windows only plugin in 32 or 64 bit.
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00:00 hi i'm anita potter from anita potter
00:02 productions and today we're going to
00:03 talk about the free instrument plug-in
00:06 sonatina orchestra
00:16 sonatina orchestra is by big cat
00:18 instruments
00:20 and let's take a look at it i've already
00:22 got a track ready i'm going to click on
00:25 effects
00:27 add and i'm going to go down to my
00:29 orchestra which i've already
00:31 selected
00:32 and i'm going to find
00:34 sonatina orchestra
00:36 it has two in 32 out i don't usually
00:39 deal with those unless that's for rack
00:41 gear
00:43 i don't know i just have this
00:45 so um
00:48 i should say that this plug-in is
00:51 windows only as far as i know
00:54 and i'll leave a link in the description
00:56 below on where to download it
00:58 so we have our interface here and my
01:01 mouse is acting busy
01:03 for no reason other than to be busy we
01:06 have
01:08 our instrument selection which there's a
01:10 whole bunch of instruments down here
01:13 you have a volume control and a panning
01:15 control
01:17 i believe that's attack
01:19 decay
01:21 sustain
01:24 i think that's release
01:28 possibly
01:30 i don't know i just wanted to think it's
01:32 like resonance but no i'm pretty sure
01:34 that's release
01:35 so we have our instruments we have the
01:37 violin and i'm going to go ahead and set
01:39 up my track to
01:40 take midi so i'm going to
01:43 click on this
01:45 input
01:46 midi and i'm going to go to my oxygen
01:48 since it's over here
01:50 i'm going to right click
01:52 okay and make sure
01:55 it's set properly
01:57 i'm gonna hit record arm and seeing as
02:00 it's already on the violin
02:02 i'm gonna just play a couple of keys
02:05 there we go
02:06 ah that's that's where it ends
02:10 that doesn't have anything on it so
02:12 neither does that
02:13 i guess we start
02:20 and then you can like do a chord
02:26 but it seems like when you go in and do
02:29 more than one
02:30 or maybe let's try two
02:36 when you start getting into three or
02:38 more in your chord
02:40 it might sound a little
02:42 fake
02:44 at least that's what it sounds at least
02:46 that's what it sounds like to me so i 02:48 just might as well just leave it at one
02:50 or two
02:56 i'll let you make that decision here's a
02:59 c major
03:00 complete three
03:01 triad
03:06 then
03:10 just those two and then
03:15 it all depends on your preference so
03:17 that was the violin and you got a viola
03:20 cello double bass trumpet horn trombone
03:25 tuba
03:26 flute
03:27 oboe clarinet bassoon
03:29 harp
03:30 choir chimes glockenspiel
03:33 timpani xylophone percussion and then
03:37 piano
03:38 i don't think we're going to take a look
03:39 at everything you can like explore these
03:42 on your own
03:43 but i want to hear the horns
03:47 so i'm gonna hear the trumpet and then
03:49 it loads and i'm back
03:51 reaper decided it wasn't gonna have any
03:53 of it and crashed on me so i got
03:54 everything reloaded and set back up so
03:57 let's take a look at the solo trumpet
03:59 because usually
04:00 um
04:01 instrument vsti instrument horns
04:05 don't sound good
04:07 but if you don't try to like make like a
04:09 whole
04:11 trumpet section
04:13 it might be okay so let's listen
04:16 [Music]
04:20 let's try a chord
04:23 [Music]
04:23 [Applause]
04:28 [Music]
04:32 it doesn't sound terrible
04:34 i'm wondering what this horns one is
04:37 i'm not sure what kind of horn it is
04:40 maybe french horn
04:41 [Music]
04:43 yeah french horn
04:44 [Music]
04:52 now i do believe this is the one the
04:55 flute
04:58 this might be the flute that i used for
05:00 meadowlands i cannot remember it's been
05:02 almost two years
05:12 it doesn't sound bad you can
05:14 you can actually hear the uh
05:18 like when you're actually playing with a
05:19 flute you
05:21 blow your breath you can hear that part
05:23 of it
05:24 [Music]
05:30 though sometimes it might just be a
05:32 little too much especially if you're
05:34 trying to um
05:36 play uh
05:39 uh what is it
05:41 slurs or legato
05:44 it's been a while since i've been in
05:45 band but
05:47 it might get a little
05:50 [Music]
06:00 i i forgot how to play it anyway
06:04 that's basically all there is with these
06:07 there's
06:08 timpani's
06:14 it's actually oh timpani roll
06:18 [Music]
06:21 and what was the other one
06:24 i wanted to see
06:26 where is what was i going to look at
06:29 the percussion
06:33 okay
06:35 so
06:37 oh crud hang on let me change the octave
06:44 [Music]
06:52 [Music]
06:59 some of these i haven't listened to and
07:01 i've had this plug-in for like ever
07:07 [Music]
07:13 okay
07:14 all right i didn't mean to hit that
07:15 again
07:26 i might need that one
07:29 [Music]
07:32 and i just went the whole entire
07:36 range of my uh
07:37 oxygen here
07:40 probably be best to have like on the uh
07:43 the casio but my microphone is like in
07:46 the way and i'm further away from my
07:48 piano now so
07:49 that's not gonna happen but that's
07:51 basically
07:52 what all is in here in the piano
07:56 [Music]
08:01 that's and let me see here oops wrong
08:04 way
08:05 [Music]
08:08 [Applause]
08:13 ah that was terrible
08:15 [Music]
08:22 it doesn't sound they don't sound bad i
08:24 mean you can do a lot of things um with
08:27 it after you
08:28 [Music]
08:32 turn it into turn it from a midi track
08:34 into a
08:36 a wav file
08:38 eq compression you can like
08:41 mess with it make it sound just a little
08:43 bit more realistic with um
08:45 reverbs and delays you can make fake
08:48 rooms
08:49 and delay it a little bit time delay it
08:51 a little bit so it sounds like it's in a
08:54 space
08:56 lots of things you can do to help make
08:58 it
09:00 sound just a little bit more realistic
09:01 now there are better um
09:03 better uh
09:05 orchestra plugins but
09:07 if you're just starting out this is not
09:09 a bad this is not a bad one just to get
09:11 yourself
09:12 getting in and creating music
09:16 what orchestra library do you use let me
09:18 know in the comments section below and i
09:20 will see you in the next video bye-bye
09:21 for now