I wonder where Mr Soule, and the orchestrator on this project, Larry Kenton, drew their inspirations from. I know there's a lot of John Williams, but the orchestration feels a bit different to me. If someone knows how to do it - would love to hear your advice.Īlso if someone can point me to similar pieces - that would be very helpful. Maybe it's just the limitation of the vst instruments. Or maybe I'm overthinking it, and the horns just play unison, and it's the room reverb ringing out on the lower notes?Īnyway, I've been trying to mock up this line, and can't get it to sound close.

It's definitely horns, but I wonder if they are split divisi and half of them don't play the higher notes, and let the lower ones ring out, and the other half do the smooth legato/rip to the higher note? Or maybe there's another instrument doubling on the lower notes? Doesn't seem like trombones, as they are introduced in the second half of the line, and they don't sound that smooth anyway. I'm trying to figure out the opening line instrumentation. I'm not very experienced in transcribing orchestral music, and there's no score available, so I thought maybe someone from this wonderful community can help me out.

Total annihilation intro