Oct 25, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
True Legato and Portamento Sample Overuse One of the most overused things in midi mockups are true legato and even worse: portamento patches. With many people using these patches overly extensively the result is very often a piece that sounds like chewing gum. Be...
Aug 29, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Mockup Quality to Justify Real Orchestra The quality and also availability (more sample content creators, smaller price tag) of orchestral samples has increased dramatically over the last 10-15 years and while back then they were easily to distinguish from the real...
Aug 22, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Modern Score Sound Esthetics Some sound esthetics that are practically not possible to be reproduced by acoustic instruments are nowadays “style defining” for a lot of film music. So, often a large amount of manipulation is being done on the music. Apart from the very...
Aug 8, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Learn Your Tools Working as a composer for commercial media requires you to stay up to date regarding technical and stylistic developments. This means, it is part of the job to more or less regularly get accustomed to a new piece of soft- or hardware. This could be...
Jun 14, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Mutes on String Instruments Using mutes on string instruments has some important things to consider and remember. Mutes as seen on this picture have no influence on the vibration of the strings but simply alter the way how the vibration of the strings is transmitted...
