Simplify Your MIDI Export in Hollywood Orchestrator!

The EastWest Hollywood Opus Edition has an update for its Hollywood Orchestrator! In this video, we’ll go over some of the benefits of this new drag and drop MIDI export feature and who the update is really for.

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0:00 Biggest Concern for the Hollywood Orchestrator
2:32 Loading up the Orchestrator
3:57 MIDI Export Update
5:08 Pros and Cons
8:05 Testing the MIDI data with individual instruments
11:24 Overall Thoughts

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I found a soluce with Logic Pro X... Create your first track with Opus Orchestrator Stereo. Record with it. Then, create another Track with Opus in Multitimbral 16 stereo channels. Open the Orchestrator with the same Patch (of course). On each instrument on the left, assign it to an Opus X & y different (Opus 1 & 2, opus 3 & 4...). Then, in the Mixer, click on the "+" at the bottom of the fader to create as tracks as needed (each one will have the entry name Opus 3 & 4, Opus 5 & 6, ...). The first One "Named Opus" is Opus 1 & 2. Select all tracks from Opus 3 & 4 to your last one) and Ctrl+T to create the respective instrument tracks in Logic. Then, use the first Stereo Opus Orchestrator to record... then Drag and Drop onto the first track (Opus 1 & 2) of your multitimbral instance... and that's it !!! All parts appears in all tracks of the the multitimbral instance of Orchestrator. You can mute the Stereo instance and compare ! You can make a new video with this... everything is fine, now

[Notmehimorthem]

It would be good if EW produced a proper tutorial on this, or described it in the manual. Here are a few things I have discovered. When you hit play on a part Opus listens and records the track. If you stop and hit play again, it replaces the first recording. Second, in Cubase 12, the MIDI parts all default to Halion - which is not what is desired. To alter all of these tracks in one go to Opus MIDI outputs, select them all, go to the mixer window find the selected tracks, then holding down alt and shift, change the first track's MIDI output - this will change all selected tracks to this setting.

[krbuys]

I haven't read all the comments here so maybe someone else already posted about automatic assigning of instruments instead having to reassign each one as you suggest in this video. I use Cubase Pro 12 and before you import the midi tracks from Hollywood Orchestrator using the little "record hand" you should click on Edit--> Preferences--> Midi--> Midi File--> then under Import Options Choose the Destination (drop down window) and choose "Midi Tracks" and click apply and OK at the bottom. Now when you import the midi data from the little record hand in Orchestrator, the track will come into Cubase already assigned the correct EastWest Opus instrument sounds. Give it a try.

[paulstodolny]

AMAZING!! OH MY GOD, as much as I LOVE orchestrator, this was my biggest problem with it. So THANK YOU!!! EastWest Heard the cries, and addressed the concerns. Thank you for making this vdieo. I even tried it out in Garageband and it works flawlessly. THANK YOU for this video Robert.,

[kingslaphappy]

To help solve the cut off problem try recording extra 4 -5 bars of your 8 bar section before dragging it into your daw. ( record 12 bars of it) That way, even if it cuts your last bar off( as it did for you) you still have recorded plenty of extra. You can then cut off any extra bars in your daw just leaving the 8 bar section that you originaly wanted to record.

[studioryde]

Excellent tutorial, very interesting. Congratz for your way to teach. This trick is a total game changer. All the best Robert.

[ChristofUnterberger]

You would be much faster by creating a multitimbral (16 parts) Opus instance and then just drag the midi capture.Probably you must drag some midi regions to the dedicated instrument, but most times it works well, so you save a lot of time instead of reloading each instrument.

[petekrostag]

Thank you for being very clear about how you did this! It works in Studio One.

[fwscoringmusic]

Amazing. Thanx a lot Robert for this tip. I will update my orchestrator right now. You rule man 🙏👍😉

[LightWingStudios]

Found a BUG in Studio One under Win 10 Pro...looks like after the D&D, SOME of the Left Hand Bass notes are being cut off. Had to edit the MIDI. Also you need to assign the SAME Midi Outputs to the Tracks as are in the Orchestrator. Try going into the "Play" panel and select "EPIC". Also, go into the "Mixer" Panel and that allows you to Sub Mix each instrument including any effects. All-in-all I'd give this update an "OMG!" :)

[christianetchepare]

Hi Robert,
do you think this same export MIDI is possible with Reaper?
Thanks in advance,
Christian

[FirstMonument]

Great - that was my question: how to geht the Single Instruments in my DAW! Thanks Robert!

[phillipjones]

Even when I go track by track and load Opus (Black Knight or whatever score I'm using) the midi data still does not play the score you hear in the original Opus track.

[fairuzhussaini]

6:57 actually it's not bad at all hahaha! I mean it's like a remix version of a suite motif you did with the orchestrator

[davidmurrray]

Hey Robert,
Thanks for the info. One point I would make from a viewer standpoint. The head light behind your head, back in the corner. You may want to lower it or move it closer to you. Your lighting is great, but that back light is bothersome when you move your body to the left. When you do lean to your left my eye goes immediately to the light and off of the is you. Just an easy to fix needed distraction. I will subscribe after sending this. I may already be as I got your email telling about the upgrade. I also echo the level of customer support at EW. Have a great year Robert and all the best in 2022.
David

[Notmehimorthem]

Really useful. As far as chopping off the ending - just play more redundant chords. I think this is a useful learnnig tool to learn new orchestration techniques.

[patpatpat]

Anyone using this with Cubase? When I do the click-and-drag-record function, It creates most of (but not all) of the instrument tracks. Orchestrator never seems to use more than 16 MIDI channels, so that doesn’t appear to be an issue.
2- If I try to do it twice, it creates the instrument tracks in an instance of Halion SE and fill in with GM sounds????
Any ideas or resources would be appreciated.

[thebarrylurveshow]

Fully agree about how helpful EW peeps are.

[scent_from_another_realm]

hi there, can external sounds say from kontakt be routed to ewqlso opus player to match reverb and panning so that they blend in with ewqlso?

[pakipoli]

Hi from italy....is Hollywood orchestra diamond in standalone?