"Quick Start" Templates

[jmazzei]

I've been starting to put together templates and was wanting to construct a template for quick sketches and idea starters.

That made me think that maybe a thread on how others handle this situation may be enlightening to the group, so here it is:

Do you have a template set up for roughing in your ideas? If so, what instruments/articulations do you use?

I use Platinum but I don't think it matters since there is a lot of overlap in articulations among the versions.

Thanks, looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

John Mazzei

[shnurgle]

ks patches for 18 vlns, vlas, celli, and bases, winds and brass. minimal percusion (timp snare 1 crash and 1 sus cymb at most)

All that can easily be loaded into two instances of kompakt (8 patches/instance) and will give you more than enough for rough sketching.

[michael c]

Anybody else want to share their templates with Platinum XP? Just got the full library and because I don't know all the articulations included with this vast library, I can see I am going to spend a lot of time just getting a session together.

Any suggestions for great sounding & useful templates?

[rimskykorsakov]

Just got the full library and because I don't know all the articulations included with this vast library, I can see I am going to spend a lot of time just getting a session together.


At first I've listened to and played each single articulation and KS-Multis .
Without knowing the sounds it is impossible to create template sessions.

For the case that you run multiple computers , you can simply load all basic articulations
of the instruments ( ... legato , stac , ... ). And voilá: there's your template.

But I run the library on one computer , sometimes two . Therefore I have to make
a choice , which articulations can be loaded.
I'm writing score music , so my approach is focused on more or less stereotype
moods ( ... Romance , Chase , Action ... ).
So I've built different "Romance"-setups , "Action"-setups , etc. , ... and
according to the scene that I score I decide which setup is the best .

Of course building setups takes lots of time , and actually I'm always adding new templates to my
setup-library, when I've found useful setups during a production process.
Meanwhile my workflow is very fast ( ... because of these setups ...) , although I'm working with just one computer.


So ,
enjoy listening to all the articulations !;)

Best regards

Gerd