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Comment on 3 Music Composition Techniques for Supporting a Melody by Witold

Witold — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:00:34 +0000

Great tips, much appreciated.

Thank you

Comment on MIDI Orchestration Techniques: Continuous Controllers by James Stuart Glavin

James Stuart Glavin — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 20:37:12 +0000

At last, somebody who has explained exactly what CC messages do, and more importantly what effect they have on the music.

Comment on 3 Ways to Use Volume Automation to Make Virtual Instruments Sound Realistic by Leonard Bourgeault

Leonard Bourgeault — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:18:38 +0000

Wonderful tips James. I love strings.
Looking forward to your next articles.

Comment on EQ’ing Orchestral Instruments by Gabor Petroci

Gabor Petroci — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:07:11 +0000

In reply to John.

As a sound designer, i know what are you talking about.
1,The high gritty sound usually a chain reaction build up.. Many sampling engineers are not good recording engineers. They even have very low level sounding rooms and speakers.
2, Using bad digital eq-s in kontakt libraries, they try to make it sounding better but it ending with digital shizzle. So turn them of.
3. Try using low pass filters extensively on every sounds. The vintage samplers of sampling art was the low pass filter, and the nice dynamics. The ear does not like dry stuff loud above 10-15khz.

Comment on Make MIDI Sound Real: Creating Orchestral Mockups, Part 2 [VIDEO + TRANSCRIPT] by mike

mike — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 14:12:41 +0000

I have east-west orchestral samples. Their section of violins to me don’t sound like the real thing even with reverb. It does not have the scratchy sound that the bow gives strings. Is there a way to make a section sound like the real thing?

I have noticed that recording engineers don’t pan orchestral instruments the way they are arranged on the stage. All instruments sound like they are coming from left and right. For instance , the violins are on the left side and the right. Strings basses are panned right and left and same with all instruments.

Comment on Logic Pro X vs. Pro Tools 11 vs. Cubase 7 vs. Ableton Live 9 by Yohan Savitskya

Yohan Savitskya — Tue, 16 May 2017 23:02:21 +0000

Nice article. I’ve tried most DAW’s – started with Logic 8 Express circa 2006 which was a nightmare but it really has changed since then. It had amazing sound quality.

Ableton is a favourite for most DJ Producers. Its so unique and unusual, doesn’t quite match Logic in sound quality but it does the job and has cool arrangement/mixer views and session views – just tab to switch!

Pro Tools, is way to heavy on the CPU and unless you’re recording an orchestra and willing to pay a ton in subscription, I wouldn’t worry about it,

Cubase really is a juicy mix of the 3 – but one dangerously seriously cool DAW is…..

REAPER : I know a lot of Pro Tools Engineers who are switching to Reaper en masse – its being used by Gamer developers in big name studios and its very cheap under $60 – Its very stable too yet immense and a genius design and it loads in just a few seconds unlike Pro Tools which I see often crash half-way through startup after 4 mins!. It also works flawlessly with NI Maschine which can be used as a plugin.

The cheapest DAW out there is Ardour (Its FREE) which runs on Linux and has an identical interface to Cubase, its pretty advanced, it works with Native Instruments Kontakt when in Wine mode and its amazing for classical. Ardour’s abilities are expandable with the help of hundreds of plugins in LV2, native VST and LADSPA

BTW @Abner Chamate – Steinberg Pro 24 came free with Atari STFM back in the day.

Comment on Make MIDI Sound Real: Creating Orchestral Mockups, Part 1 [VIDEO + TRANSCRIPT] by Midi Film Scoring

Midi Film Scoring — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 19:34:39 +0000

In reply to Leonardo. Thanks for your kind words Leonardo! Glad you're enjoying the site.

Comment on Logic Pro X vs. Pro Tools 11 vs. Cubase 7 vs. Ableton Live 9 by Abner Chamate

Abner Chamate — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 16:16:46 +0000

My first PC for music making was an Atari ST (TOS no DOS, very icon oriented like a MAC), back in 1987. It has midi ports built in. My composition teacher had an APPLE II or something like that with Finale or Digital Performer that cost like $ 5K, PC cost $ 3K my ST cost me $ 999. Cubase, only midi at that time, I use since then. By 1995 I switch to Win98 PC. A real MAC was out of the question for me in terms of price until now with Hackintoshes. Well, music software is pretty much evolved all those years, so it has my knowledge of Cubase, capabilities and its workflow, wich is the same or better than other music sequencing and scoring programs for MAC. I can say that most profesional software today follows the same rules and capabilities, but Cubase (5 to 9, not the ELEMENTS version) has very good scoring editing besides audio and midi. Cubase last incarnation runs on today PC or MAC. so machine hardware or OS is not an issue anymore. Same thing can apply to other software today for different applications including, video editing, gaming (maybe better on PC) or scientific purposes (maybe Linux too). The debate between music programs is not over, there´s always room for improvement, especially on sound manipulation, effects, soundbanks, but it reached a wall for most musicians needs, specially when you play traditional instruments. classical, rock or jazz. For dance, electronic or experimental music still Cubase is very very capable and used in many pro studios around the world, even more now that Yamaha partners with Steinberg. In any case, everyone can see good videos comparing Cubase vs Logic vs Protools vs etc, but this is my own opinion in this matter. It may take me months to master another music software allthough I tried them once in a while, and read about improvements, not to mention I have lot of files in Atari ST and Windows PC cubase format. Some works are in my youtube channel and soundcloud (free) https://soundcloud.com/abnerchamate . Thank you.

Comment on Make MIDI Sound Real: Creating Orchestral Mockups, Part 1 [VIDEO + TRANSCRIPT] by Leonardo

Leonardo — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:25:38 +0000

Thanks a lot for this transcription! Your website is amazing!

Comment on 3 Music Composition Techniques for Supporting a Melody by Leo

Leo — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 02:55:29 +0000

Thanks!