Brilliant! This is exactly the kind of guidance I was looking for on creating templates. Thank you so much! I'm going to use your suggested pattern to start creating templates of my own. 🎉🎉
would also recommend to have the order of instruments the same as in written orchestral scores, piccolo at the top to double bass at the bottom (woodwinds, brass, perc, piano/harp, strings)
I find it interesting that those are the colors you chose for the specific sections those are the exact colors I chose for those sections naturally when I built my template.
Not bad, but you didn't cover checking instr delay, nor volume balance between the instruments. This is especially important if you use different sample libraries from multiple manufacturers. MIDI flags helps with this also. And there is a pre-Gain feature in Cubase (console) to use for balancing the volume of each instrument. Also, many Hollywood composers use parallel compression on the orchestral instruments.
Yep, absolutely. You have to think as someone who never did that before. At some point you have to draw a line. If I would include the negative delay, then I probably should include send/returns, room physics, gain staging, (insert 100 other features) and suddenly we would be back to the overkill video that people would turn away from :)
Do you mean kb buffer in Kontakt? If yes, I would first start off with the default level and then try to half it down and see when your hardrives starts struggling.
@@gracelosianiga9808 BT probably has a few remote machines as Tom Holkenborg does? If you are on a single machine it helps a bit but it is also a lot of fiddling around. I had a template with 1200 tracks using VEP but it was too much chaos, especially if you have instruments loaded into VEP but suddenly need additional stuff (externally loaded, set up busses etc vs internal additional instruments) The "better" solution at least for me is that I can set up a template within Cubase and technically have 5000 tracks without using that much memory if I disable the tracks and only enable the tracks I need with a single shortcut. The amount of loading time easily compensates the loading time of VEP in the very beginning. To make it short, with today's machines, the difference isn't really that much anymore. What I am currently doing is not care too much about templates at all. Import a bit of basic stuff that I always know I need and that's it. I am probably at roundabout 50-100 tracks and that's it. If I had huge templates, technically I only needed 20% of the stuff, 80% of the time. So I don't mind additionally loading or drag and drop important stuff that I only need 20% of the time.
Brilliant! This is exactly the kind of guidance I was looking for on creating templates. Thank you so much! I'm going to use your suggested pattern to start creating templates of my own. 🎉🎉
well done!
Awesome! This is exactly how I have my template set up. It’s a great simple hybrid approach (as opposed to using VEPro, which is super convoluted)
would also recommend to have the order of instruments the same as in written orchestral scores, piccolo at the top to double bass at the bottom (woodwinds, brass, perc, piano/harp, strings)
Yep, if you orchestrate everything yourself including writing the score for the orchestral sessions.
Hey Alex, great idea to remove the group tracks from the composing window, I never realised that you could do that ! Thanks !
I find it interesting that those are the colors you chose for the specific sections those are the exact colors I chose for those sections naturally when I built my template.
Great video, clearly explained. Thanks
@@rudedude3267 thanks so much! 🙏
Superb video. I am absolutely going to follow along to build a template that works for me, thank you.
Hey Ryan, thanks! Keep in mind that you can directly download it as pointed out in the video description. It is free for you :)
Exactly what I needed! Thanks!
Thank you Shawn!
Best video on YT😊
Haha, thank you so much!
@@AlexPfeffersAudioArtistRise I wish you had a playlist on music production on cubase...would really help
Not bad, but you didn't cover checking instr delay, nor volume balance between the instruments. This is especially important if you use different sample libraries from multiple manufacturers. MIDI flags helps with this also. And there is a pre-Gain feature in Cubase (console) to use for balancing the volume of each instrument. Also, many Hollywood composers use parallel compression on the orchestral instruments.
Yep, absolutely. You have to think as someone who never did that before. At some point you have to draw a line. If I would include the negative delay, then I probably should include send/returns, room physics, gain staging, (insert 100 other features) and suddenly we would be back to the overkill video that people would turn away from :)
Thanks for sharing!
I am having difficulty accessing your website.
Do you know at which Kb should I load m'y kontakt instrument, by défaut ? Or at 6Kb ?
Do you mean kb buffer in Kontakt? If yes, I would first start off with the default level and then try to half it down and see when your hardrives starts struggling.
Thanks, i'll try that Alex, I got a new cpu and m2 s, this method seems good for a first try 🙏 @@AlexPfeffersAudioArtistRise
not cpu friendly
Exactly what is not CPU friendly?
kontakt instances ... bt using midi channel with VEP or Audio Gridder helps a lot
@@gracelosianiga9808 BT probably has a few remote machines as Tom Holkenborg does? If you are on a single machine it helps a bit but it is also a lot of fiddling around. I had a template with 1200 tracks using VEP but it was too much chaos, especially if you have instruments loaded into VEP but suddenly need additional stuff (externally loaded, set up busses etc vs internal additional instruments)
The "better" solution at least for me is that I can set up a template within Cubase and technically have 5000 tracks without using that much memory if I disable the tracks and only enable the tracks I need with a single shortcut. The amount of loading time easily compensates the loading time of VEP in the very beginning.
To make it short, with today's machines, the difference isn't really that much anymore.
What I am currently doing is not care too much about templates at all. Import a bit of basic stuff that I always know I need and that's it. I am probably at roundabout 50-100 tracks and that's it.
If I had huge templates, technically I only needed 20% of the stuff, 80% of the time. So I don't mind additionally loading or drag and drop important stuff that I only need 20% of the time.