![]() David uses Logic 7 on a dual 2GHz Power Mac. Two PCs are for strings, one for brass, one for woodwinds, one for piano and percussion, and one for a mixture of sounds. This is different from our friend Joel Goldsmith, who uses SO Pro XP for the music for Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis: his sampled orchestra does end up in the final product.' The library is installed on six PCs, using two 80GB drives. 'David uses these instruments to make demos for movie directors and producers - they are ultimately replaced by a real orchestra. Here are the details of his setup, in the words of his technical assistant Marty Frasu.Composer David Newman in his studio. Quantum Leap's Nick Phoenix owns such a rig, but apparently even that is insufficient to run his mixes live in six-channel surround!US composer David Newman, creator of over 100 film scores including those for The War Of The Roses, Heathers, Throw Momma From The Train, Galaxy Quest, The Nutty Professor and Serenity, also runs Symphonic Orchestra on several computers. According to Doug Rogers, a dream system would consist of eight computers, two for each module of the full Platinum Edition. To avoid the RAM and CPU ravages brought about by using thousands of 24-bit samples to emulate an 80-piece orchestra, serious Symphonic Orchestra users run the library on multiple computers. Anyone planning to buy the Symphonic Orchestra library should think first about the hard disk space required by its samples. ![]()
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