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 30, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Balance of the Harp In a real orchestral tutti, there’s hardly any chance for the harp to be heard. The only thing that might have a chance to cut through are quite strong and expansive glissandos, but any figuration etc. gets lost already in a mezzoforte tutti. Most...
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 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...
Aug 2, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
DAW Orchestration vs. Real Life Orchestration Just because you write orchestral music does not mean that you can orchestrate when it comes to working with a real ensemble. I’ve come across many composers who write excellent music in DAW with virtual instruments and...
