Orchestration programs.

[Endrik]

Guys and gals, wich are some great orchestration programs? I want to make some REALISTIC orchestration tracks. I'm not gonna do 24 caprices or something like that with computer, I just want to do some great powerful "backing tracks" you know such as some movie soundtracks are (Batman etc.). My purpose is to mix it with rock to great some very ass kickin' tunes (something similar to Extreme's IInd part of the 22 minute track form the III Sides To Every Story, Coheed And Cambria's "Welcome Home" or even Zep's Kashmir). The quality should be TOP NOTCH and I want that it's easy to use. There must be all the instruments: strings, flutes, oboes and shit. Some of the progrmas only run with Cubase, I don't want those, I want a totally separate thing.
I've heard good things about Native Instruments orchestration programs.
What are your suggestions.

Thanks!

[Newc]

Re: Orchestration programs.

Guitar Pro 3 or 4 and a good outboard MIDI-capable synth like the Alesis QSR and some of the Q-Cards.

You can program the QSR to get really great sounds out of it. Because the memory in it is limited, you can either set up a "pretty good" quality patch that has everything in it, or a superior quality patch that only has one or two instruments in it.
Then it's just a matter of recording each track and layering them in your editor.

Since it's all computer-controlled, alignment is easy (start with click-in to get the MIDI stuff synched though, I've found that the first note is almost always delayed slightly, so use a click for that so it's straightened out by the time you get to the music).