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.