Thanx all for listening and the very nice comments.

Skyline – thank you very much for the Morricone comment. I did not have him in mind when I did this but you are right.

Tano Music – no scene in mind when I did this. I just play and let things fall where they may!

Aleck – Kontakt, http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/kontakt-5/ is a soft synth. There are many excellent third party patches for it. Solid State Symphony, http://www.indiginus.com/solidstatehome.html was a third party patch that was used for the strings and horns. It is velocity sensitive in that if you play softly you get only the strings. Play harder and you get the full orchestra. You can select what instrument(s) you want for both. I used the complete orhcestra.

You can emulate some very good horn and sax sounds in Kontakt and the Aria Player but you have to get familiar with the instrument you are playing and midi controls. In this song I just played the orchestra via a midi keyboard and I did not play with the midi controllers at all.

I posted some other information about midi and horns on another PGMusic forum just earlier today. I have CRS so I can’t remember which one

Brad - Rock Ballad w/el. Guit (65RS) BiaB style is the exact name of the style that I used

Unfortunately those mallet effects were built into the patch that I used.

Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.

64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware