May 9, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Varispeed For Tuning By now, most film scoring studios have the technical possibility to use Varispeed to compensate for the standard a= 442 or 443 Hz tuning of a normal orchestra by recording at a slightly higher sample frequency and tempo than what the actual...
May 8, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Influence of Sample Limitations on Composition A lot of what defines today’s style in commercial orchestral music is actually defined by the limitations of samples. Certain things clearly can be pulled off more realistically with samples than others. This was even...
Apr 19, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Excessive String Divisi Many composers coming from the sample world tend to use massively split up string sections. Things like triads in the violas alone, several different violin movements at the same time etc. are very common. While this might work in the sample...
Apr 10, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Real Musicians and Rhythmic Complexity One of the most common reasons for slowdowns in recording sessions with real musicians are (unnecessarily) tricky rhythms. As a composer/orchestrator you should always be sure that real musicians are not sequencers that can play...
Apr 5, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
“Bells Up” on French Horns For French Horns there is quite often seen in score sheets a request to put the “Bells up” which is supposed to give them some extra volume and brassyness. Even some sample patches are available that cover this technique. Among...
