Ensemble Patches vs Individual Sections | Orchestral Programming

Have you wondered what the differences are between ensemble patches and individual sections? And when to use each one? That's what I'll cover in this video.

Some of you asked me to cover this topic, so here it is! Let me know if you have any questions :)

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:32 - Orchestral strings section
00:55 - Sketching & Ensemble patches
01:08 - Playing the ensemble patch & using the mod wheel
02:55 - What is an ensemble patch?
04:43 - Other articulations
06:00 - When I use ensemble patches
07:11 - Individual sections & legato
07:55 - 1 difference between sections vs ensembles
08:11 - Violins other articulations
08:49 - Using sections vs ensembles
10:41 - Layering ensembles with sections patches (use different libraries when layering like this)
12:22 - Conclusion & Outro

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[TomHawkComposer]

I hope you find this tutorial useful! And let me know, how do you use ensemble patches?

[CyberwaveOrchestra]

Thank you Tom, well explained workflow!

[cinematicmusicbox]

Great video and explaination. I think exactly like you, you can add much more expression and detail to your track using individual sections. With Ensembles it will sound bigger after a short time, but its worth it to work longer and detailed because the result will be even more amazing. (When you are talented like Tom)😁.

[mt]

all the audio imperia libraries have the "S.Start" setting at -125ms everytime they start up and I don't really know what it's for, but for me it just introduces a stupid playback latency in FL Studio. Yours is still set at default so I'm wondering if this causes any problems for you?

[petertremblay]

Individual is the way to go at least if you are using East west the ensembles always sound off chart at certain ranges. Good for testing idea or mock up.

[tom]

Where do you think Nucleus stacks up with the competition in the all-in-one beginning orchestra category?

[adameusmusic]

hey tom, why do you have just Nucleus in your Kontakt as you normally use many other libraries?

[joe-vzhx]

great but you didn't start at square one, i.e. what IS an "ensemble" vs a "section?" I wouldn't assume everyone knows.