I've watched lots of your excellent newer videos, but for a beginning film or tv composer this sort of video is incredibly helpful to see how you go about your work practically.
The hour 10 thing is because in the olden days of tape, if you started your sessions at 00:00:00:00, you might end up rewinding back to 23:59:59:24 or whatever, and the tape would then keep trying to rewind, even though 0 is ahead of 23:59:59:24. If your session starts at 10 hours (or even 1 hour), that never happens.
Hey Christian, when you need to set a bunch of tracks inputs or output automatically in Logic Pro X, you can select them and hold shift+Option (alt) plus select the first bus you want, in the popup menu list. And Tada ! Logic automatically sets the selected track up with increasing bus numbers, starting by the first you chosed. This is really neat when working on templates ! Take care. ;-)
This is something I'm going to have to learn more about as I'm still very much a beginner in this sense. I can write music, have been studying towards a degree in Songwriting but composing to picture is a whole new game (and I love it so far!). Thank you so much for this incredible tutorials (there are some parts I didn't understand but I'm sure I'll grow accustomed to this language as I learn more) and thank you ever so much for the template download! Love your work Christian, I look forward to watching more of your vlogs.
Oh... my... god... Christian thank you SOOOOO much for this. I'm literally giggling to myself over the awesomeness of the time and learning curve you've just saved me. I've been playing around with some of the Spitfire libraries recently and wanting to get into some scoring eventually. I'm the kind of person to just hack my way into a piece of music and my logic files are always ugly and messy. This is so amazing that you let us download your template file. I will now use this template for everything I do with orchestral sample libraries. It has been a dream of mine for years to write beautiful cinematic video and the work you're doing with Spitfire is making that possible for me to start. Thank you again, so much. I would love to meet you in person someday and possibly work together down the road if I become successful. I can't thank you enough for this. -Grant
As I watched, I said to myself, 'Oh, it would be so wonderful if you made this available', and then there it is in the doobly-doo below. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
If you haven’t already worked stacks out yet Christian, here’s how to do it.add your sections. Select all of the ones you want in the track stack, right click. Click “create track stack” and choose the one that isn’t file (can’t remember what it’s called this early in the morning). Click ok and your instruments will be stacked together (a bit like a bus, except you have control over the instruments more directly). I hope that helps!
Great video Christian, but I still don't understand why you don't create Summing Stacks for each pf your Instrument groups. That way you would get a bus, put some reverbs and delays on aux's and route the back to the group bus and you bounce all of your stems, at the same time, offline out of logic. Ok if you would work with your hardware reverbs I would understand it, but as you don't use it in these template?! Don't get it. Would love to hear that answered :) I am completely enjoying your channel and I am a huge fan of all Spitfire stuff. You guys changed my life as a composer! Your samples have balls and emotion. All the best!
There’s an undocumented way to have nested folders in logic. Makes template organization way better. Basically put a summing track in a folder and then logic will allow you to drag additional folders in also.. Then rinse and repeat!
LOL - Was directed here via Luke at Spitfire, so grateful to him for that... Just had to pause after 45 secs, to ask I suppose the inevitable, which is if Spitfire customers want to be on camera, how should they go about proposing that..? :-)
Great stuff Christian! Although I use Cubase, this still has lots of great info - I need to watch it again on a large screen, and keep pausing it to check out the small details. Shame I can't use the zip file you've provided... :-( Can you do another Blog about how Sibelius fits into the overall picture please?
3.06 - It's funny you bring up the subject of sight I've just 'been to Specsavers' (literally - the Strand store) and we worked out from photos of my home studio, what glasses would best suit me for working. That now means I have three pairs of specs, which I'm assuming is just one of those 'mid-life markers...'
Thank you very much for the video, Christian! I use instrument tracks in Cakewalk Sonar that combine midi and audio in one track. And again route them to buses according to their groups. Do you think it's a good idea?
Did you get a drone!? Also, showing a bit of ignorance here but could you briefly define an under dub? Also, THANK YOU so much for sharing the project file, you're truly a legend!
He showed his DJI Mavic Pro in the previous vlog, likening his 'walking mid-life crisis' to that of Casey Neistat. An overdub will be recorded after a scoring session; the underdub is seen as the reverse, i.e. that it will be recorded to be played under the orchestra while they record. His recording session at Air Studios (Behind the Curtain series) on the Spitfire channel demonstrates this. Hope this helps
Please, if you will, explain "Sync Plop" ? ! ? Also, not quite understanding the why's of using an Aux and Audio tracks.. I know the Audio's are for printing (?) but the Aux's are for Monitoring (?).. a little more depth on that would be amazing if you dare (I'll pay you....[not really])
I think the idea with the Aux to Audio tracks is that e.g. 100 Strings Longs is an umbrella to more tracks (e.g. 101 Violin1, 102 Violin2, 103 Viola, 104 Celli). As the audio tracks can only take one input, the multiple midi tracks that make up 100 Strings Longs will be bussed first before being outputted to the single audio track
And sorry, last comment: am looking to upgrade my 8 yr old iMac this year. It's a 2011 i5, and I pimped the RAM from 8 to 32, replacing the original hard drive with a new 1T SSD. However, I'm still having to freeze every track after only a few mins of working, and toggling the buffer as Apple suggest doesnt seem to make that much difference. Was curious as to a) what the spec is of the computer you're using now is, and b) looking at the current iMac Pro specs (www.apple.com/imac-pro/specs/) whether you would encourage an off the shelf, or go for a bespoke model, as some have suggested to me, shifting the emphasis away from the visual and graphic side of things, towards the audio side? Thanks in advance, Christian..
Hi - forgive my total ignorance, but I wonder if anyone could help me with a problem I've been having with this template (which otherwise has been a total revelation - thank you, Christian). The problem is this: when I create the audio stems from the midi tracks they don't seem to have the reverb on them. Is that because the reverb is re-added later in Pro Tools, or is it simply that I've screwed it up? I'm going to bet it is the latter... Any advice would be very gratefully received! Thanks!
Thanks Christian for this tutorial! Why not using track templates? Self made ones I mean! Like 101_Sable Flaut , already routed and with the appropriate sends... So you have all flaut patches at your fingertips.
Do you basically mean 'user patches'? You can save individual tracks to the logic library (on the left) under "user patches" so you can recall them quickly?
Christian, will you please help me with what video capture software you're using for your tutorials etc., with logic pro? I've been trying to use a software called OBS but have had the worst time of recording my Logic session as well as my mic for the commentary. None of the advise thusfar has gotten me past this hurdle. Thanks in advance for your time.
The software I use is Screenflow 2, but I wouldn't trust recording audio into it so either re-route audio back into a secondary DAW (ie if you're doing a Logic tutorial re-route audio out of interface and back into pro-tools) or use a secondary device to record both your computer audio and voice.... we've been doing this for over 500 vids and its the only way! I use an old battered laptop with a fireface babyface as the audio interface. Maybe getting some seriously smashed up old gear is the way to go?
thank you so much for your prompt reply. The only actual audio I'd be technically recording is my mic but I believe this is actually recording in OBS or whatever capture software. As far as Logic, I am currently composing or breaking down (explaining) a completed composition done with software instrument (Spitfire etc.), but cannot hear the audio from Logic when recording / playing back the video recorded with OBS. Are we still talking about the same thing? Please forgive my ignorance but vlogging it is new to me.
@@TheCrowHillCo hi Christian, did you by any chance ever get around to making a template FROM this template? I'm trying to figure out a good way of going about this
This and Stefan Guy's vocal templates (which are here ua-cam.com/video/r7cbHKkBBjc/v-deo.html) are the two most comprehensive and useful tutorials I've seen so far, massive thanks for this!
Praise be to CH! There is some unbelievably useful info in this one for us Logic guys. Thanks for doing these, and thanks for the template file.
I've watched lots of your excellent newer videos, but for a beginning film or tv composer this sort of video is incredibly helpful to see how you go about your work practically.
Really loving your videos Chris! Thank you for sharing!
The hour 10 thing is because in the olden days of tape, if you started your sessions at 00:00:00:00, you might end up rewinding back to 23:59:59:24 or whatever, and the tape would then keep trying to rewind, even though 0 is ahead of 23:59:59:24. If your session starts at 10 hours (or even 1 hour), that never happens.
Whoa. Still relevant all these years later. Thank you, Christian!
Christian, Thank you so much for this one. It's probably the most useful thing I've watched in years and it inspired me to improve my workflow.
Hey Christian, when you need to set a bunch of tracks inputs or output automatically in Logic Pro X, you can select them and hold shift+Option (alt) plus select the first bus you want, in the popup menu list. And Tada ! Logic automatically sets the selected track up with increasing bus numbers, starting by the first you chosed. This is really neat when working on templates ! Take care. ;-)
Would love to see the pro tools stem machine counterpart to this!
I just want to say 'HUGE thanks' for being SO generous with your knowledge and experience. LOVE your doc/editing style too. : >
This is something I'm going to have to learn more about as I'm still very much a beginner in this sense. I can write music, have been studying towards a degree in Songwriting but composing to picture is a whole new game (and I love it so far!). Thank you so much for this incredible tutorials (there are some parts I didn't understand but I'm sure I'll grow accustomed to this language as I learn more) and thank you ever so much for the template download! Love your work Christian, I look forward to watching more of your vlogs.
Oh... my... god... Christian thank you SOOOOO much for this. I'm literally giggling to myself over the awesomeness of the time and learning curve you've just saved me. I've been playing around with some of the Spitfire libraries recently and wanting to get into some scoring eventually. I'm the kind of person to just hack my way into a piece of music and my logic files are always ugly and messy. This is so amazing that you let us download your template file. I will now use this template for everything I do with orchestral sample libraries. It has been a dream of mine for years to write beautiful cinematic video and the work you're doing with Spitfire is making that possible for me to start. Thank you again, so much. I would love to meet you in person someday and possibly work together down the road if I become successful. I can't thank you enough for this.
-Grant
As I watched, I said to myself, 'Oh, it would be so wonderful if you made this available', and then there it is in the doobly-doo below. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
If you haven’t already worked stacks out yet Christian, here’s how to do it.add your sections. Select all of the ones you want in the track stack, right click. Click “create track stack” and choose the one that isn’t file (can’t remember what it’s called this early in the morning). Click ok and your instruments will be stacked together (a bit like a bus, except you have control over the instruments more directly). I hope that helps!
Great video Christian, but I still don't understand why you don't create Summing Stacks for each pf your Instrument groups. That way you would get a bus, put some reverbs and delays on aux's and route the back to the group bus and you bounce all of your stems, at the same time, offline out of logic. Ok if you would work with your hardware reverbs I would understand it, but as you don't use it in these template?! Don't get it. Would love to hear that answered :)
I am completely enjoying your channel and I am a huge fan of all Spitfire stuff. You guys changed my life as a composer! Your samples have balls and emotion. All the best!
There’s an undocumented way to have nested folders in logic. Makes template organization way better. Basically put a summing track in a folder and then logic will allow you to drag additional folders in also..
Then rinse and repeat!
Hi Christian great video have been looking for a good video on Templates for a while, thank you, Barry Walshe
Thank you very much!!! You are very generous.
LOL - Was directed here via Luke at Spitfire, so grateful to him for that... Just had to pause after 45 secs, to ask I suppose the inevitable, which is if Spitfire customers want to be on camera, how should they go about proposing that..? :-)
Great stuff Christian!
Although I use Cubase, this still has lots of great info - I need to watch it again on a large screen, and keep pausing it to check out the small details. Shame I can't use the zip file you've provided... :-(
Can you do another Blog about how Sibelius fits into the overall picture please?
Very, VERY helpful template tutorial Christian - I doff my virtual cap to you! (p.s I too am a sustain peddle slag - glad to hear I'm not alone!)
3.06 - It's funny you bring up the subject of sight I've just 'been to Specsavers' (literally - the Strand store) and we worked out from photos of my home studio, what glasses would best suit me for working. That now means I have three pairs of specs, which I'm assuming is just one of those 'mid-life markers...'
And you'll love the LP 10.3.2 update. Much better looking GUI! Less skeuomorphic. Simpler and really snappy!
Thank you very much for the video, Christian! I use instrument tracks in Cakewalk Sonar that combine midi and audio in one track. And again route them to buses according to their groups. Do you think it's a good idea?
Did you get a drone!? Also, showing a bit of ignorance here but could you briefly define an under dub? Also, THANK YOU so much for sharing the project file, you're truly a legend!
He showed his DJI Mavic Pro in the previous vlog, likening his 'walking mid-life crisis' to that of Casey Neistat. An overdub will be recorded after a scoring session; the underdub is seen as the reverse, i.e. that it will be recorded to be played under the orchestra while they record. His recording session at Air Studios (Behind the Curtain series) on the Spitfire channel demonstrates this. Hope this helps
Please, if you will, explain "Sync Plop" ? ! ? Also, not quite understanding the why's of using an Aux and Audio tracks.. I know the Audio's are for printing (?) but the Aux's are for Monitoring (?).. a little more depth on that would be amazing if you dare (I'll pay you....[not really])
I think the idea with the Aux to Audio tracks is that e.g. 100 Strings Longs is an umbrella to more tracks (e.g. 101 Violin1, 102 Violin2, 103 Viola, 104 Celli). As the audio tracks can only take one input, the multiple midi tracks that make up 100 Strings Longs will be bussed first before being outputted to the single audio track
Dan Keen makes sense. Thx
And sorry, last comment: am looking to upgrade my 8 yr old iMac this year. It's a 2011 i5, and I pimped the RAM from 8 to 32, replacing the original hard drive with a new 1T SSD. However, I'm still having to freeze every track after only a few mins of working, and toggling the buffer as Apple suggest doesnt seem to make that much difference. Was curious as to a) what the spec is of the computer you're using now is, and b) looking at the current iMac Pro specs (www.apple.com/imac-pro/specs/) whether you would encourage an off the shelf, or go for a bespoke model, as some have suggested to me, shifting the emphasis away from the visual and graphic side of things, towards the audio side? Thanks in advance, Christian..
Brilliant video. Could you explain what an "underdub" is?
ua-cam.com/video/0ZUWkMG3r7Y/v-deo.htmlm9s
Hi Christian, could you elaborate a bit more on what a "Sync Plop" and "Underdub" are?
ua-cam.com/video/0ZUWkMG3r7Y/v-deo.htmlm9s
Thank you!!!!
Hi - forgive my total ignorance, but I wonder if anyone could help me with a problem I've been having with this template (which otherwise has been a total revelation - thank you, Christian). The problem is this: when I create the audio stems from the midi tracks they don't seem to have the reverb on them. Is that because the reverb is re-added later in Pro Tools, or is it simply that I've screwed it up? I'm going to bet it is the latter... Any advice would be very gratefully received! Thanks!
Possibly very dumb question but here goes. What is Sync Plop?
Great video. What's the groovy track playing during the montage?
Its from an old porn movie... (not one of mine)
lol
Just in case some of you wants to check a template with stack I have put mine on DBox::www.dropbox.com/s/9y7anvv9lojv3zh/YB%20template.zip?dl=0
Thanks Christian for this tutorial! Why not using track templates? Self made ones I mean! Like 101_Sable Flaut , already routed and with the appropriate sends... So you have all flaut patches at your fingertips.
Sounds like an interesting approach but don't quite understand how to do it?
Do you basically mean 'user patches'? You can save individual tracks to the logic library (on the left) under "user patches" so you can recall them quickly?
Ross Gilmartin Yes. That's the Logic way of creating track presets.
Christian, will you please help me with what video capture software you're using for your tutorials etc., with logic pro? I've been trying to use a software called OBS but have had the worst time of recording my Logic session as well as my mic for the commentary. None of the advise thusfar has gotten me past this hurdle. Thanks in advance for your time.
The software I use is Screenflow 2, but I wouldn't trust recording audio into it so either re-route audio back into a secondary DAW (ie if you're doing a Logic tutorial re-route audio out of interface and back into pro-tools) or use a secondary device to record both your computer audio and voice.... we've been doing this for over 500 vids and its the only way! I use an old battered laptop with a fireface babyface as the audio interface. Maybe getting some seriously smashed up old gear is the way to go?
thank you so much for your prompt reply. The only actual audio I'd be technically recording is my mic but I believe this is actually recording in OBS or whatever capture software. As far as Logic, I am currently composing or breaking down (explaining) a completed composition done with software instrument (Spitfire etc.), but cannot hear the audio from Logic when recording / playing back the video recorded with OBS. Are we still talking about the same thing? Please forgive my ignorance but vlogging it is new to me.
Thanks so much for the template. So if I got right, you will use one instrument per Kontakt and add more on purpose?
yes... i'll do another film when I make a template from the template template!
Thanks a lot CH!
@@TheCrowHillCo hi Christian, did you by any chance ever get around to making a template FROM this template? I'm trying to figure out a good way of going about this
what are the specs of your Dustpan?
I apologize in advance if I was not right to put it in here Christian!
What are 'Underdubs'?
No worries! I got it: ua-cam.com/video/0ZUWkMG3r7Y/v-deo.htmlm9s
This and Stefan Guy's vocal templates (which are here ua-cam.com/video/r7cbHKkBBjc/v-deo.html) are the two most comprehensive and useful tutorials I've seen so far, massive thanks for this!
Not learnt stacks 😂 no learn, just use. (In you case non summing)
Oo! Thanks for the download!