(mysterious orchestral music) - [Narrator] It began with
the forging of the strings, equal parts beautiful and dark. Then the brass, raw power
filled with fire and fury. And the winds, divine
masters of magic and color. Then the percussion, crafted
from the most sacred materials. And finally, the voices, wild spirits from the ether
tamed by our necromancers. But now the time has come
to release one product to rule them all. With Hollywood Fantasy Orchestrator, you can create entire
fantasy score
s in seconds. With hundreds of presets crafted by the most skilled bards in the land and the ability to customize
or create your own, you'll have the power to
instantly produce music in the style of Hollywood's
greatest soundtracks. Only one question remains, what will you create? (powerful orchestral music) - Ryan Thomas at EastWest here. And welcome to the Official Walkthrough for Hollywood Fantasy Orchestrator, which is the final chapter in our Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra series. And this rea
lly is the grand finale that this groundbreaking series deserves, because it so beautifully
unifies all these libraries in such an inspirational way. Now, if you're not familiar with how the Orchestrator engine works, it basically allows you to produce full soundtracks in seconds, just by playing a few
notes on the keyboard. And this iteration of orchestrator is using all the instruments
in Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra. So, it just has this beautifully
modern fantasy flavor. Now we have so much t
o cover, so let's go ahead and just dive right in. Now, when you load up Orchestrator, you have a few different options. You can either start building
a preset from scratch, which we'll show you how to
do a bit later on in the video or you can load up one of
the preexisting presets that you'll find across
these various categories, which we'll also explain a
bit later on in the video. So to load up a preset, just click on the category and then choose the specific
preset that you want. So, let's g
o ahead and
load up Ancient Myth 01 and give it a listen. (suspenseful orchestral music) And then these keys down at the bottom are just keyswitches that
allow you to mute or unmute the various instrument groups. Now, we'll get more into how to program these from the ground up, a bit later on in the video. But for now, let's go ahead and start checking out the ensembles. And these are basically instrument stacks that have been very carefully arranged. So, the chords are voiced
very intentionally
. And let's go ahead and
start with the Strings and Choir Sustains. And this is really just a magical sound. (suspenseful music) Now, this next one is one
of my absolute favorites. It's got just such a vibey sound. Could be ideal for everything
from comedy to suspense, and even has kind of a piratey vibe to it. (bright music) And this next one, I think is just a great all
around workhorse preset. It's gonna be ideal for
establishing that chord for other instruments to work off of. (powerful orch
estral music) And Full Orchestra Tremolo 01 is gonna be ideal for suspense. (suspenseful music) And let's go ahead and do one more. This legato patch is fantastic when you need a really beefy melody. (powerful orchestral music) All right, next, let's
check out the ostinatos. And these feel pretty good on their own or you can spice them up with
some string or brass melodies. And let's just start with
the straight 16th Notes. So, here is the 16th Notes 01 preset. (powerful orchestral music) And th
is next one is just
gonna be a 6-8 variation. (powerful orchestral music) Now, this one is one of
the accented patterns, so you get a bit more
rhythmic color with this one. (powerful orchestral music) And these Eight Note
patterns have a bit more of a relaxed pace. (powerful orchestral music) And let's do one more. This is one of the triplet ostinatos. (powerful orchestral music) Alright, next, let's check out the scores. And these are really the heart and soul of what
Orchestrator is all about.
These are designed to be
fully fleshed out soundtracks, so lots of color, lots of
variation, very dynamic. And they're just a super effective way to absolutely rip through a project and end up with incredible results. Now, these are gonna be ideal for film, television, commercial
soundtracks, whatever, but I also think they're
really well suited for video game composing. And as you can see, you just have a ton of different
presets to choose from. So, let's go ahead and start
with Blood and Sand
s 01. This is one of my
absolute favorite presets. This one would be ideal for
anything from pre-battle music to some more adventurous travel music. (powerful orchestral music) Next, let's check out Fortress 01. And this one has kind of a
dangerous, perilous feel to it. So, it could be ideal
for a village raid scene or something along those lines. (powerful orchestral music) Next, we have Journey 05, and this one is gonna be great for those big epic travel montages and just has a generally
adven
turous feel to it. (powerful orchestral music) Now, I should point out
that most of these presets are naturally going to favor
certain kinds of chords or playing styles. So for example, the one that we just did, features those really
prominent high string sustains on the middle note of the chord. And you can essentially
play that like a melody. (powerful orchestral music) Whereas something like the
Dwarven Secretes 01 preset, works really well with just an
open fifth in the left hand, while the
right hand plays a melody. (gentle orchestral music) So, that's just something to be aware of. Definitely play around with these. Try some different
chords and playing styles and figure out what works
best for each preset. So next, let's check out Nightfall 05. And all of the Nightfall
presets are just pure magic. They really kinda capture
the essence of fantasy. (mysterious orchestral music) All right, next, let's check
out Secrets of the Forest. And this one is pretty
dark and mysterious, so i
t might be well suited
for a scene where a dark tale is being told by the village mystic. (suspenseful orchestral music) Now, just to show you
how incredibly quickly and effectively you can
score an entire sequence, using Hollywood Fantasy Orchestrator, I've gone ahead and prepared
this video game clip and you've just got some gameplay here of the main character
defeating this one enemy. And then it looks like he runs into a rock golem boss
fight kind of thing. So, we're gonna start
with Out of
Bounds O2. This is a great preset for battle music, for action music in general. And let's go ahead and
mute the sound design. (powerful orchestral music) And then for the boss fight, let's go ahead and switch
to Out of Bounds 01. So, this is just going
to keep the same feel, but it's gonna give us a
little bit of variation to keep things interesting. (powerful orchestral music) And then let's add some Wagner tubas from Hollywood Fantasy Brass
just to get more of a buildup in this section. (powe
rful orchestral music) All right, and here's the entire sequence with the soundtrack we just made along with the sound design. (powerful orchestral music) All right, so now what I'd like to do is build a preset from the
ground up in real time, both so that you can see how easy it is and so that you can get
a feel for the process. So, the first thing you're gonna wanna do is load an empty preset, and then I'd just like to
take it one section at a time. So, let's go ahead and load
the Womens Choir
- Sustain Ah and the Mens Choir - Sustain Ah, because I just want this to be pure magic. And we're just gonna put the
Womens Choirs up the octave. Now, let's head over to the strings and I'm gonna load up
the 3 Dulcimer Sustains. We're gonna have these on the lowest note. We're gonna bump 'em up an octave. And I want some movement in the dulcimer. So, I'm gonna turn on the sequencer. And we're gonna pencil in a
pretty simple pattern here. We just want an ascending sort
of arpeggiated movement h
ere. And then let's go ahead and
have it descending here. And then we're just going
to copy and paste this into the last half of this phrase. Now, let's go over and
load up some high strings. I just want these on a sustain as well. And I'm gonna put these on
the top note of the chord. So, basically this is making
it so that I can play a melody with those strings, just by changing the top
note of what I'm playing. (gentle orchestral music) Now the dulcimers, were just a little bit too prominent,
so I'm gonna go ahead and
turn those down a hair. And you can also adjust the velocities. You can do that globally or
you can do it individually. So, I'm just gonna adjust
these down to about 25. Now, let's go ahead and add some lutes. And let's just go ahead
and select the sustains. We're gonna have these on the
lowest note of the sequence. And I wanna turn on the sequencer, 'cause I also want some
simple movement in the lutes So, we're just gonna do a little bit of up and then we're gonna be d
escending. And once again, I'm just going to copy and paste this into the second half of this phrase. And then finally, to
round out the strings, let's add our low strings. And we're just gonna
have these in Free Mode. They're gonna be playing
the lowest note of the chord and we're gonna have
these two octaves down. And then let's also go ahead and just turn the lutes down a bit, because I do want this preset to be on the more delicate side. So, let's give it a listen. (gentle orchestral music)
Alright, so I think we're getting close, but I want to add some sparkle and some shimmer on the high end. And I'm gonna reach
for the crotales first. These are really just classic fantasy and we're gonna have these on the lowest voice in the sequence. But I am gonna bump
these up by two octaves. And I do want movement in the crotales. So, I'm gonna turn on the sequencer and I actually wanna go ahead and just copy and paste
this data from the lute. So, I'm gonna copy all of it and we're gonna go
over to the crotales and then we're just going to paste it. And that's pretty much it. Now, let's head over to the winds and I'm gonna load up some
staccato high Irish whistles. We are going put them
on the top two voices and bump them up by an octave. And then I want these playing a sequence similar to the dulcimers. So, I'm going to head over to the strings. We are going to copy all of this and we're gonna go back and
then we're gonna paste it. But I actually want these
to be repeating 16th No
tes. So, I'm going to change the
subdivision to one 16th Note. We're gonna select all of these and I'm going to shorten them. So, now these are just 16th Notes, and then I'm going to copy all of these to the note right beside them. So, you're gonna get this
really cool 16th Note pattern. And because we have two voices, I'm going to again select all of these. I'm going to copy them and we're gonna head over
to voice two and paste them. So, now let's go ahead
and give it a listen. (gentle orchestr
al music) So, that is Hollywood Fantasy Orchestrator and we really just barely
scratched the surface of it in this walkthrough. There are literally hundreds
of other presets to explore. We are periodically adding
new preset expansions, and the flexibility of the engine itself is just endlessly inspiring. Now, just to be clear, Hollywood Fantasy Orchestrator
is not a standalone product. All five Hollywood Fantasy
Orchestra libraries are required in order to run it. And all five licenses must be a
ctive. So, you can either purchase the Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra Bundle and the Orchestrator license
will be included with that, or you can just become a
ComposerCloud+ subscriber. And it really is just on the bleeding edge of modern fantasy soundtrack composition. So, if you liked this content, don't forget to like the video, drop a comment, subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell, so you don't miss any future content. That's all for now. Thanks so much for watching and I look
forward to seeing
you in the next video. (powerful orchestral music)
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