Ask and ye shall receive. I'll gladly roast your HTTYD mockup... although I think would be more appropriate to call it a TTSIA mockup, which stands for "The Three Stooges In Arabia".
When I saw all the notes scrolling in the piano roll, I thought it was going to be an interesting, comprehensive track. But when I started hearing the music, I realized that must have been your cat walking across the keyboard (not your healthy cat, but the injured one with the bum leg.)
Lots of percussion in this track. I didn't even know Garritan Personal Orchestra had a percussion patch made from sampled Lincoln Logs.
What really stood out were the woodwinds. They took me back to when I was a kid at a concert watching Zamfir play his pan flute. He had a sudden sneezing fit. Within three minutes the venue was infested with seagulls.
Interesting choice of string libraries. One suggestion: When you denoise string patches, don't forget to bypass the "Monitor extracted noises only" button before mixing down.
I like how you infused the orchestral instruments with an oriental sound, although I couldn't quite tell what part of the orient you were trying to achieve because it sounded like a blend of Japanese, Bollywood, Gypsy music from 19th century Romania, and Volume 7 of the Cartoon Network Sound Effects Library.
The mix sounds like it was done on a scoring stage. And by scoring stage I'm talking about the Brady Bunch studio set where Barry Williams scored with Florence Henderson.
Overall, the sound was quite balanced. Almost as as balanced as Britney Spears on TikTok when she goes off her medication.
I think you should submit this track to an orchestral mockup competition. And then buy a lottery ticket to vastly increase your odds of coming out a winner.
But honestly, I enjoyed listening to your track. It filled me with the same sense of excitement I felt that time I went to a demolition derby for wheel-less cars.
I'll just say the violins in the final section are a bit too loud for my taste but I've never listened the original track. Good programming!
