petertos

I have noticed that many of us are composers of our own original music. This topic is for you. There are currently some recorded VST orchestras on the market to use for creating music. One of them is the East West Orchestra, and they claim to have that 'Hollywood Sound'. This sound, which is in my opinion the current 'Hollywood sound', with an epic aura and modulated instruments (especially brass). Well. The fact is that the current 'Hollywood sound' is not 'JW sound', in my opinion. JW likes to use a more Vienna orchestra with a more european approach. This is due that probably he started creating music for films when the current 'Hollywood sound' wasn't like this one. Do you have any opinion on this? Have you tried the East West orchestra and do you have any opinions? What is better, the current 'Hollywood sound' or the 'JW sound' (in case they are different). In my opinion I prefer the 'JW sound' or a more european approach (perhaps a little older) to orchestral music. I hope you like this topic and most important, have an opinion on it. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can compare the EW sounds here http://www.soundsonline.com/Symphonic-Orchestra (look for DEMOS tab) and the JW music you love. Is it the same? Is it better? Is it worse?

I must say that I'm listening to the soundtrack (Tintin) for the fifth time and I'm starting to like it, although it's very different from what JW uses to compose, in my opinion. I've been able to use a premium Spotify account and works super fine for me! There's a lot of JW there

The Empire Strikes Back. I think, if I'm not wrong, that we have a winner!!! It is one of the bestest scores ever composed, IMHO

First of all, say two things: as you may see, I'm new to the forums and I'd love to join the conversation as I'm a true JW fan and, I'm a demi-professional music composer. My opinion on Tintin's OST by JW: Although is a great soundtrack, compared to other non JW soundtracks, it lacks of memorability overall. I've listened to the first and second tracks three or four times and I can't remember the melodies (:-S) I think John Williams is a great composer because is a master in orchestrating themes but I guess he is famous by having brought to us a bunch of the greatest melodies of all times (like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and others). So this album is greatly orchestrated but lacks of recognisable melodies (:-S) It's a great jazz album but not what I expected, I'm kinda disappointed. I'm listening to it in Spotify and the album is kinda hard to find, it doesn't seem to be very popular compared to other soundtracks by John Williams there.