Jan 3, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Samples vs. Real Musicians Real musicians don’t work like samples which brings advantages and disadvantages. Musicians are people with a musical understanding and a sense of context, you don’t need to explain to them the obvious things, neither in written form nor...
Aug 24, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Midi Controller Curves in Score Sheets Just because you have drawn extensive Midi Controller curves into your sampled mock-up doesn’t mean you have to translate all that into the score sheet before you go to a real orchestra recording. Extensive micro-managed...
Jul 27, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Dynamic Shaping of Long Notes Hardly any musician in an orchestra will play a long note with a static dynamic as samples do. Even if you don’t write in any dynamics or hairpins, the musicians will shape sustaining notes dynamically on their own. It’s usually very...
