Really liked the dark intro my goal is figure out what did you use that is not organic and what is since you mostly use real stuff all the time XD. At 2:14 I like the violins build up especially at the minor 2nd but I would've kept the minor 2nd longer and add different instruments going from mid to low frequency because I think the patern you did was too predictable I already knew what was coming up next. 3:00 part - I like the bassoon run, I think adding a cello and double bass together doing the ostinato would have been nice, you kinda did but very much later on and not enough presence imo but the chord progression feeling like the requiem or what you told me it was that I don't remember the name. Overall its really nice, if you could put some of the intro vibe in the end mix with what you actually did think could enhance so much more, anyway well done :)
Yes, I did figure out the cello on top of the double bass at the end when it was too late to go add that to what I already had! Heh. I'm actually not super experienced with orchestral scoring. I wouldn't call it my first attempt, but after doing all this writing with real instruments, it definitely is something that I think I can return to now with a lot more confidence.
At 214 the violin VST I used I just used a slow attack time. What I did was play my live cello with it for the melody and pitched it down and octave to put it in the double bass register. I actually used the cello VST and the double bass VST after 3:00.
The live instruments make it so, so much easier to include some orchestral dynamics, because if you swell with one instrument, it kind of sounds like all of them are swelling.
The middle section is something I would flesh out more if I had more time.
At the end, most of it is orchestral VST stuff, but the lower vocals are me. I get really irritated when instruments sound like MIDI, it's something I'm super sensitive to, so I think perhaps that's why it's naturally harder to tell the difference between VST and real with my stuff.
I'm excited to apply what I learned here in the next jams, of which I'm going to try to get three released. You heard it here first, now that I said it, I have the pressure to do the writeups for all three, one each month to the next official OST in January.