Click Track and Gradual Tempo Changes

Jul 11, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical

Click Track and Gradual Tempo Changes Ritardandos and accelerandos are very tricky to do with a click track that live players need to record to later. Especially the standard tempo changes that DAW’s offer with a constant slowdown or speedup usually feel very...

Loops, Prerecorded Phrases and Presets

Jun 13, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical

Loops, Prerecorded Phrases and Presets The use of loops, presets and prerecorded phrases is seen very controversial among the community of composers with some people using only their own individually programmed presets and loops. There are of course two sides to this:...

Fingers Off the Pan Knob

May 30, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical

Fingers off the Pan Knob The standard panning knob (or balance on a stereo signal) works in a way that it simply changes the levels of the right and left channel according to where you set it. Therefore, on stereo signals it only seems to change the direction of the...

Natural Phrasing of Brass Sustains

May 23, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical

Natural Phrasing of Brass Sustains Orchestral Brass players will always execute a natural decrescendo on sustained notes unless otherwise indicated by special dynamics. Many sample libraries come with absolutely flat sustains on the brass (in order to be loopable) and...