Reaper guys, I need a hand

[ginormous]

I'm trying to finish a project, but I need some backup.

Anyone who can do good horn parts? I need a section -- tenor and alto saxes, trumpet, trombone, and (just maybe) a flute on top, to double the trumpet part an octave higher.
I'm going for a sound similar to this:



Here's what I've got so far. Needs vocals, but I'm fighting a wicked sinus infection.



Working on lead sheets, and I'll send a zip of my Reaper project file if you have anything to share.

 

[Lazarus1140]

Re: Reaper guys, I need a hand

I can't do it, but if I could I know I would be able to orchestrate better horn fills as counterpoint to the vocal melody.

Good luck with the project. The keyboard part sounds great!

 

[ginormous]

Re: Reaper guys, I need a hand

Laz, I've heard some things affirming your comment. Unfortunately, my sinuses won't let me cut even a scratch vocal.
I sound like Eddie Murphy doing Buckwheat when I'm clogged up. I'll have to wait a few days.

 

[Lazarus1140]

Re: Reaper guys, I need a hand

Laz, I've heard some things affirming your comment. Unfortunately, my sinuses won't let me cut even a scratch vocal.
I sound like Eddie Murphy doing Buckwheat when I'm clogged up. I'll have to wait a few days.

I completely understand. The #1 thing I hated about gigging was having to sing when I had a cold or otherwise felt under the weather ... anything that would compromise my ability to sing as well as I normally would (which in my case, really wasn't very well).

 

[zenmindbeginner]

Re: Reaper guys, I need a hand

You can't cover those horns with harmony guitar parts?

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Reaper guys, I need a hand

Is that you playing the electric piano on the song? If so, can you not use soft synths and arrange the horns yourself?

I am not a Reaper guy, but would be willing to help w horn parts. There are a bunch of ways we can do it. PM me if you're interested.

 

[ginormous]

Re: Reaper guys, I need a hand

Those keyboard parts and drums were input one note at a time, one mouse-click at a time.
My right index was spasming after a week, from all the clicking I did.

The virtual horns I have (samples and rompler VSTs) don't quite get there.
Added to this is that I don't have a friggin' USB keyboard.
It's a royal B trying to get a sax sound to bend, or glide up to the note, if all you have is a mouse.

(Old guy on the porch: "Excuses, excuses. You kids and your computers... when I was touring with Sheena Easton, all we had was a cassette 4-track PortaStudio!")

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Reaper guys, I need a hand

Hehe, roger that.

Well, I have an actual education in music and would love to put it to use.

 

[ginormous]

Re: Reaper guys, I need a hand

Hehe, roger that.

Well, I have an actual education in music and would love to put it to use.

Cool beans! Let me get some kind of ½-a**ed scratch vocal on there, so you can hear what I'm aiming for.

I can re-do it when I get unclogged.

 

[jtougas]

Re: Reaper guys, I need a hand

Those keyboard parts and drums were input one note at a time, one mouse-click at a time.
My right index was spasming after a week, from all the clicking I did.

The virtual horns I have (samples and rompler VSTs) don't quite get there.
Added to this is that I don't have a friggin' USB keyboard.
It's a royal B trying to get a sax sound to bend, or glide up to the note, if all you have is a mouse.

(Old guy on the porch: "Excuses, excuses. You kids and your computers... when I was touring with Sheena Easton, all we had was a cassette 4-track PortaStudio!")

*nods* That's why I picked up a MIDI pickup... Now, if only I could figure out which guitar to mount it to...

Song sounds great... bass could be brought up a hair...

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Reaper guys, I need a hand

MIDI sequencing and ROMpler sound sources are fine for developing an arrangement. Transfer the finalised parts to manuscript. Have humans play the parts.

Sometimes, a mixture of ROMpler and human is enough to fool the ear.

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Reaper guys, I need a hand

are you after a chart so you can record real horns?
Id like to help out. it would be great if you can do a guide melody first tho, bad vocals or guitar are fine and ill write the parts around it.
Im not much good with midi, but sheet music i can definitely help out with.

 

[ginormous]

Re: Reaper guys, I need a hand

That's a great start, gibby... I'll lay down some "drowning cat" vocals today.

FF, good call. I've seen and heard doubling of horn parts with all kinds of things: Hammond organ, harmonica, analog synth, samples, even live violins.

My sheet music software is too "dumbed down" to transpose the MIDI part I did for the Rhodes into the proper key.
It only reads as open G clef (=concert C), even though the tune starts in F Major, and modulates to G Major in the coda.

I pulled back on the synth bass, so it wouldn't swamp over everything else. It's a freeware Minimoog plugin, and it's as good as anything I've heard from the big guys.