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There are quite a few things you can do to make Cubase sound like a real orchestra. Unfortunately, they all cost money!
Depending on your budget, you could look at things like Garritan Personal Orchestra (http://www.garritan.com) for a cheap solution (about £120). Or you could get into the Gigastudio thing with things like SAM Brass or VSL library. If choirs are your thing, then EWQL Symphonic Choirs rocks - you can even type in words (either in English or phoenetics) and get them to sing it.
However, the bigger and shinier these gadgets, the more resources you need for them. Symphonic Choirs comes on 9 DVDs, taking up 38Gb of HD space. Oh, and it's recommended that you've got at least 2Gb of RAM.
If you're interested in this route, you can get some fantastic sounds. I tend to buld up my sample library slowly, saving up every now and then for something I'm missing. I'm currently using two computers linked together to help share the processing power, too.
That's the money spent - but there's more to it than that. It's really helpful to know about orchestrating for a real orchestra, and the typical starting point is Rimsky-Korsakov's Principles of Orchestration (which Garritan have recently made an online and updated version). Orchestrating for MIDI is a bit different, but the fundamental principles are the same. For instance, some people have the violin parts played in several times, to get the large, slightly messy timing of lots of players.
To give you an idea, this 30 second cue only has one live recorded instrument - the solo violin (recorded at my wife's school). Everything else is in Cubase.
http://www.ryerson-sound.com/client/Keir/Trailer2g.mp3
I'm sure others will add to this, but if you want to chat more, feel free to get in touch.
Take it easy,
Barry
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