How to use virtual instruments well: learning by comparison

The idea of this thread is to analyze virtual instrument orchestral music productions not just by talking about them, but by actually making a comparison production of the piece in question in order to demonstrate the points one wants to elucidate in the analysis. As the subtitle says: learning by comparison.

Contributions by other forum members are more then welcome - if you wish to make this kind of comparison (of any orchestral music production made with virtual instruments) for analysis and learning purposes and post a video of it here for discussion, don't hesitate to do so.

In the first episode of the series, I am taking a look at an excerpt from Kevin Olsson's piece "Winter".

Here is just the music first (the original and then the new version next to each other):
 

...and here is the comparative analysis:
 

And here is the first video of the Episode #2 - introductory remarks and the music of the two productions (Jay Bacal's and mine) of the opening theme of John Barry's Out of Africa:

Out of Africa - Learning by comparison, Episode #2 (music and introductory remarks) - YouTube

Edited April 20Apr 20 by GoranTch