Completely unrelated, but I _love_ how _British_ it is to have an intro / outro far out on some natural landscape just talking to the camera. It's such a classic hallmark of British productions, and I am enamoured with that style. Charming. Great video, as was the last! Keep it up!
They know how to simply sophisticate stuff with nature and natural concepts that we don't even know how to describe exactly. Greetings from Brazil to all composers
Every instrument has to be played like an actual player.. I had always just worked each part into a piece with the goal of getting the instruments to sound realistic. Not with such sincere emotion/commitment. My goal was always the piece, not the player. But now I realize each player has to be given personality. Emotional input.. Loved this.. Huge Huge thank you, Christian.
Love love love both videos. It teach me. I do play by ear to. I'm 65 and I want to learn orchestration . Thank you so much, you're an inspiration to me. :) .
This may well have been the most enjoyable 2 hours I’ve spent on UA-cam in the last couple years. Thank you for your brilliant breakdown of your process and yes, another hour (or more) would be most welcome Christian. Cheers.
Absolutely wonderful to sit on your shoulder whilst you're at work. A privilege! So many UA-cam videos are put up by the "aren't I wonderful" crowd. You've been successful in a very tough business "without being trained". I believe this will inspire me and many others to work on our skills. Thank you!
Dear Christian, you know what I like the most in your videos? It´s personality, switching to nature, have a walk, reflect life & make the most out of it. This is to enjoy not only music making, but reflect what your doing to get inspired. Like the lately announced new Albion trip to Norway. Big thumbs up!
Christian, I don't know if you ever see this or not. What you're doing is amazing. I always wanted to see an orchestra's recording session and thanks to you I did, I always wanted to know about orchestrating and thanks to you I've learned. You have been such big help that I can't put it into words, I hope someday you see this and feel my appreciation. Thank you so much. I wish the very very best for you.
This video (and Day One) are the best explanations of orchestration I've ever seen. I'm new to orchestration and immediately fell in love with Spitfire's approach. I decided to become a new Spitfire customer and purchase Abbey Road One and BBC Symphony Orchestra. I literally followed every step of your videos using ARO and BBSCO and everything worked perfectly and sounds amazing! Thank you, Christian, for inspiring a whole new generation of composers!
Very inspiring. Thank you! And I really appreciate the disclaimer at 47:15. It would be tempting to make yourself look better by keeping the illusion of the polish flowing easily/quickly...but your honesty is most helpful. Thanks again.
I was always fascinated by orchestral music. I could never imagine that a single person could score an orchestral masterpiece by using just a keyboard and a software.
36:14 Omg that was BRILLIANT! I jumped up with excitement when I heard that! That counterpoint really feels like an answer to the question, wow! Thanks so much for these two days of lessons, I'm learning SO much!
A sincere acknowledgment for your professional candor, willingness to share, and especially for the precious time it takes to make these videos. You have helped immeasurably by sharing your history and process, and I deeply thank you. A "Day Three" video would be most welcome.
As a composer, you are ingenious. As a teacher, bringing back my long forgotten english skills you are priceless. Thx from Germany.. EDIT: By watching this episode i remembered Bob Ross. You Do with music what he was doing with paintings.
I like when he said (using my words) "this is how far I can take you, if you need more I leave it to the real experts". However good someone is, a bit of self-reflection is the best quality a person can have. A breath of fresh air, there are too many self-proclaimed geniuses, who think they are the second coming of Mozart as soon as they click some button and a beat starts coming out of a light-flashing tool they call an instrument. Technology is there to help people create, not do the creating for you. In my opinion you only create music when you play and/or invent music, start putting layer upon layer until you get a finished product, and this is best created in orchestral music, in my mind.
Christian you’re the best, man. Plethora of useful tips, choices, ideas, and the focus is on personal originality and most of all - fun. Keeping it light-hearted, low stress and FUN. Cheers to you and Spitfire for this series and your willingness to teach
It was many, many years since I last touched playing music on keyboard, what brought me back to relearn the keyboard was watching Christian in the studio with an Orchestra in London do the music for some film, I sat there for hours watching the video it and it immediately started me back on the path learning how to play music again but this time learning how to do it on a DAW. These videos are so fantastic, thanks Christian.
Im late to the party but so so glad you did a day 2, and I hope to find you did a day 3 and beyond. I'm 8 minutes in and have learned a lot already! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience so feely.
We’d definitely all love to see a “Day 3”! This has been so inspiring and beneficial. Thank you for the way you expertly break everything down and simplify the process. It’s fascinating to watch. I’m learning so much!
Wow. I really loved this series. It’s so amazing to see you take a “simple” idea and develop it into something so complex and wonderful. Your descriptions are so candid and yet vulnerable. I’ve been looking for a “tutorial” for a couple of years now that’s done what this has. Thank you so much for your effort and willingness to share. I’m inspired as hell to sit down and write again. Looking forward to more.
Your a great teacher, honest, humble, inspired, to the point. This has been an absolute pleasure to the point where after giving up music at school 30 years ago, im going to create some and have a go. Thankyou
Beautifully helpful! Your way of teaching and sharing evokes a sense of wonder that renders me having fresh ears & courage to effectively utilize Spitfire's incredible libraries.
Of all the orchestral tutorials I have seen, this is by far the best. Truly amazing with lots of qualified changes. I lack the words to express just how impressive this really is in terms of educational content. I'm glad you said this only included the finished takes and not the umpteen ideas that never made the cut. It did seem like this was all just falling from a genius mind until you said that. Glad to know you are human. - In general I usually enjoy your videos but this one, with part 1 is just super-concentrated, orchestral powerhouse of creation at its best. (seems I found the words after all) Thank you.
Just builds beautifully off Day One. This is exactly what I needed to add just a little more appetite to my orchestral chops. Yes I agree Day 3 to finish things off and have some fun :-) Many thanks Christian.
Brilliant, thank you. Definately two the best videos on this stuff out there. I've never played with tempo, (I'm a complete hobbyist), so looking forward to trying this out. Part three on mixing/reverb/eq etc would be icing on the cake. Once again, thank you for your time on this and by the way, great video production!
I've always been weary about Spitfire cause of the price (even though I knew the quality was very good), cause I didn't know much about the company. However, since these day One and Two videos and seeing your interview with Rick Beato, I have a newfound respect for your company. I now look forward to supporting you guys when I can. You are a lovely person and I wish you the best.
I like how you make it sound really simple and you explain everything in detail. As a freshman, I'm starting to learn this stuff so I have more experience for when I hopefully start making music for films, tv shows, or games like you and your tutorials are very helpful. I'm starting to get the hang of using orchestras (I play the cello and violin myself) but I will definitely keep watching your vids to help me compose with brass and woodwinds. At the time I'm typing this comment, I know nothing about using them in music.
This was immensely helpful and inspirational, Christian. Lots of dots being connected for me by your talent, humility, and sheer will to share and inspire us to give our best. Thanks a lot!!!
One noteworthy thing in this is a covert tip on productivity and workflow. Christian knows what he wants from the percussion, and knows how to get there.... around 42-43 minutes. Where I would normally make a big deal on trying to play the percussion correctly. Doing my damnedest to play it at the incredibly low velocity levels and in perfect time (often restarting because i didn't get it right) I REALLY appreciate seeing how Christian just plays the line in, and then a couple button pushes later it's exactly where it needs to be in the mix. Love these videos for the ability to see and learn the process different from my own.
Christian, thank you so much for this video and the Day One video! I'm an absolute beginner who just got Albion One and the Spitfire Chamber Strings, and these have been so helpful for learning. So many questions that I previously had and frustrations that I had with programming in general have been so clearly and concisely explained here, without all the unnecessary terminology/technical language. Your insight is so awesome, and I love your music philosophy! THANK YOU!
Somehow, it is only now (mid 2022) that I've discovered these videos, and they are a revelation in showing a non-academic approach to composition and arranging with a DAW. Thank you so much for the time you have put in along with the distillation of 25 years of experience into "a nutshell", for our benefit (while irrelevant to the learning goal of the videos, I feel the theme of the music could have been a little more appealing).
Thank you so much Christian, for your work, your effort and for sharing your knowledge. Your compositions, as always, are amazing and you deserve all the best. By the way the first transition in the editing is just mind blowing. Cheers from Paris
Just the videos alone are inspiring. It’s really overlooked how you make them. You’re cut-aways to nature while you explain things really helps my dyslexic brain gear up for the next thing your explaining. If it’s not well thought out, then you’re just naturally really good at it! Haha.
Christian, you are a truly gifted individual. Thank you kindly for your gracious presentation of these principles that will certainly help us in our production projects. All the best to you. Ron Flack, Canton Ohio
This is the video set I have been searching for. I was doing some of this by just using my ears and blind luck but now I can understand what I am trying to achieve. Thank you!
What a great tutorial in creating music for full Orchestra. Even its edited and only shows the "good" takes as you put it, this is propably the first tuorial that have really inspired me to try to move into this world, even you don't have a fancy degree in classical music composing and arranging. I believe that many "hobby" musicians like me is often too awed by the shere ammount of instruments to keep track of to be able to arrange for a symphonic orchestra, and hence don't believe we are able do this without having studied it for years. You very nicely show how a small piece of a very simple track can evolve, just by having some basic understanding for the instruments and then just let loose and experiment. Of cause you need to be able to come up with the ideas, but this tutorial really shows that you don't need to be a professor in musical theory to write big orchestral arrangements. You just need inspirations and then experiment away. Even all the fancy musical theory helps you understand why some thing works better than others, you can still create without knowing it all, cause in music there really isn't any rules and no facit list of what is correct or wrong. Big thumps of for a great video.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I finally put Orchestra music with one of my songs and it took it up a whole other level. Again thank you For sharing I learned a lot.
6:05 leaving the timecode in the video?! I demand an explanation Christian. seriously though, it's amazing that you have time to make these in depth videos and we all immensely appreciate it, as someone who hasn't purchased any Albion stuff yet and currently only has a cheaper orchestral library with individual part patches and no ensemble patches (hint: it beings with H), advice on splitting a larger composition up into the parts is immensely helpful; even moreso when we can watch you do it rather than just be told how while facing a camera.
Incredibly valuable sit-in Christian. Thank you oh so much for sharing your (sped up) processes. I agree it's not rocket science, yet as a mostly rock and roll songwriter I want to express other aspects of myself and these two vids are what I was looking for when I searched on YT. Thanks brother. Cheers!
People need to hear this. The skills im good at is best validated by my peers, and myself when im being reflective. Not by someone with official education status and i feel like this applies so much in creating music as it is a creative process. Thanks for the great video!
Very helpful Christian, thanks! I was stoked to find I'd already implemented many of these ideas after watching the first episode, including tempo changes and splitting voices. Our workflows are very similar and this has fuelled my confidence in transitioning to the orchestral realm 🙏
Lovely to see you on Arthurs Seat in Edinburgh :) Ive taken many a walk up there to gain space for my own compositional work and drumming creativity! Thank you for the great content of course!
Christian, this is fantastic - would you PLEASE do a full video on orchestral percussion. Just bought Joby Burgess Percussion and really floundering - the part in this video is helpful but I need more help!
Thanks Christian - great video! Perhaps for Day Three you could show the process of mixing, effects (EQ and compression), ambience with reverb, etc. Basically taking the Day Two arrangement and showing how you would polish it as a final piece. Would bring a nice closure to the whole process started with the Day One composition - from inspiration to mixed song.
Thanks once again for your time and sage advice. I love your honest approach which highlights that your genius is 1% inspiration and 99% hard graft. Cheers.
I'm sure we'd all like to see a day 3!
Christian really does make this a heck of a lot less intimidating. Great work Christian I can't wait to see what else you have in store!
Guys it's already out
My wallet can't take a day 3
@@efnerva664 I hear ya
Completely unrelated, but I _love_ how _British_ it is to have an intro / outro far out on some natural landscape just talking to the camera. It's such a classic hallmark of British productions, and I am enamoured with that style. Charming.
Great video, as was the last! Keep it up!
I just sent this to a friend and said the same. Reminds me of top gear. The little films. I really enjoyed it!
They know how to simply sophisticate stuff with nature and natural concepts that we don't even know how to describe exactly. Greetings from Brazil to all composers
I can't believe these videos are free. Grateful.
Every instrument has to be played like an actual player.. I had always just worked each part into a piece with the goal of getting the instruments to sound realistic. Not with such sincere emotion/commitment. My goal was always the piece, not the player. But now I realize each player has to be given personality. Emotional input.. Loved this.. Huge Huge thank you, Christian.
Love love love both videos. It teach me. I do play by ear to. I'm 65 and I want to learn orchestration . Thank you so much, you're an inspiration to me. :)
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it's been 3 years and these videos still impress me, great job Christian
This may well have been the most enjoyable 2 hours I’ve spent on UA-cam in the last couple years. Thank you for your brilliant breakdown of your process and yes, another hour (or more) would be most welcome Christian. Cheers.
Day 1 - spends $450 in spitfire library
Day 2 - spends $4500 in spitfire additional libraries
ASDFASDF
Day 1 - $400 Abbey Road One
Day 2 - $999 BBC Symphony Orchestra
Worth Every Penny!
theres BBC discovery which is free
@@blue-balance Ditto!
Absolutely wonderful to sit on your shoulder whilst you're at work. A privilege! So many UA-cam videos are put up by the "aren't I wonderful" crowd. You've been successful in a very tough business "without being trained". I believe this will inspire me and many others to work on our skills.
Thank you!
Every so often I like to pop back to these and other tutorials - a good catch up.
Dear Christian, you know what I like the most in your videos? It´s personality, switching to nature, have a walk, reflect life & make the most out of it. This is to enjoy not only music making, but reflect what your doing to get inspired. Like the lately announced new Albion trip to Norway. Big thumbs up!
Christian, I don't know if you ever see this or not. What you're doing is amazing. I always wanted to see an orchestra's recording session and thanks to you I did, I always wanted to know about orchestrating and thanks to you I've learned. You have been such big help that I can't put it into words, I hope someday you see this and feel my appreciation. Thank you so much. I wish the very very best for you.
What a natural born teacher! Great!
The second pass took this composition from "non-copyrighted music" to "AAA game soundtrack song #17"
This video (and Day One) are the best explanations of orchestration I've ever seen. I'm new to orchestration and immediately fell in love with Spitfire's approach. I decided to become a new Spitfire customer and purchase Abbey Road One and BBC Symphony Orchestra. I literally followed every step of your videos using ARO and BBSCO and everything worked perfectly and sounds amazing! Thank you, Christian, for inspiring a whole new generation of composers!
The statement at the end really filled me with confidence thank you. Leaving very inspired.
Christian: what a lovely presentation (Day 1 was a bit of a surprize!) But I watched both Days with utter fascination. What a gem!
Very inspiring. Thank you! And I really appreciate the disclaimer at 47:15. It would be tempting to make yourself look better by keeping the illusion of the polish flowing easily/quickly...but your honesty is most helpful. Thanks again.
I never realized just how much playing the MIDI automation as you do adds so much life and human feel to the music! Very cool and inspiring!
Same for free. Opened up my whole approach
What a brilliant teacher you are
I was always fascinated by orchestral music. I could never imagine that a single person could score an orchestral masterpiece by using just a keyboard and a software.
36:14 Omg that was BRILLIANT! I jumped up with excitement when I heard that! That counterpoint really feels like an answer to the question, wow! Thanks so much for these two days of lessons, I'm learning SO much!
Simply amazing...
Probably one of the best humble and useful tutorial we can find around here.
Thanks a million time for sharing this Christian!
Love these breakdowns. They really help us non-conservatory trained composers. Many thanks!
This was ABSOLUTELY inspiring! It's kind of heartwarming listen to you and your music. Thank you, Christian. Cheers to the team.
Wow, the tempo changes made a huge difference. Thanks.
A sincere acknowledgment for your professional candor, willingness to share, and especially for the precious time it takes to make these videos. You have helped immeasurably by sharing your history and process, and I deeply thank you. A "Day Three" video would be most welcome.
This was such a well put together short series of videos. Thank you Christian Henson. Thank you Spitfire audio.
As a composer, you are ingenious. As a teacher, bringing back my long forgotten english skills you are priceless. Thx from Germany..
EDIT: By watching this episode i remembered Bob Ross. You Do with music what he was doing with paintings.
I like when he said (using my words) "this is how far I can take you, if you need more I leave it to the real experts". However good someone is, a bit of self-reflection is the best quality a person can have. A breath of fresh air, there are too many self-proclaimed geniuses, who think they are the second coming of Mozart as soon as they click some button and a beat starts coming out of a light-flashing tool they call an instrument. Technology is there to help people create, not do the creating for you. In my opinion you only create music when you play and/or invent music, start putting layer upon layer until you get a finished product, and this is best created in orchestral music, in my mind.
Christian you’re the best, man. Plethora of useful tips, choices, ideas, and the focus is on personal originality and most of all - fun. Keeping it light-hearted, low stress and FUN. Cheers to you and Spitfire for this series and your willingness to teach
It was many, many years since I last touched playing music on keyboard, what brought me back to relearn the keyboard was watching Christian in the studio with an Orchestra in London do the music for some film, I sat there for hours watching the video it and it immediately started me back on the path learning how to play music again but this time learning how to do it on a DAW. These videos are so fantastic, thanks Christian.
Thank you so much! I’ve watched day 1 and day 2 many times- so helpful as I too have no formal training in music and find your approach priceless.
It's great to see the way you work and the tools that can made something seamlessly sound good. Well done.
Im late to the party but so so glad you did a day 2, and I hope to find you did a day 3 and beyond. I'm 8 minutes in and have learned a lot already!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience so feely.
We’d definitely all love to see a “Day 3”! This has been so inspiring and beneficial. Thank you for the way you expertly break everything down and simplify the process. It’s fascinating to watch. I’m learning so much!
Wow. I really loved this series. It’s so amazing to see you take a “simple” idea and develop it into something so complex and wonderful. Your descriptions are so candid and yet vulnerable. I’ve been looking for a “tutorial” for a couple of years now that’s done what this has. Thank you so much for your effort and willingness to share. I’m inspired as hell to sit down and write again.
Looking forward to more.
Your a great teacher, honest, humble, inspired, to the point. This has been an absolute pleasure to the point where after giving up music at school 30 years ago, im going to create some and have a go. Thankyou
Beautifully helpful! Your way of teaching and sharing evokes a sense of wonder that renders me having fresh ears & courage to effectively utilize Spitfire's incredible libraries.
I absolutely love this type of stuff. If there was a tv show that only had stuff like this on it I would pretty much only watch that.
I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, I've learnt so much from you.
1:56 "timbral opportunity" is a phrase i need more in my life
Of all the orchestral tutorials I have seen, this is by far the best. Truly amazing with lots of qualified changes. I lack the words to express just how impressive this really is in terms of educational content. I'm glad you said this only included the finished takes and not the umpteen ideas that never made the cut. It did seem like this was all just falling from a genius mind until you said that. Glad to know you are human. - In general I usually enjoy your videos but this one, with part 1 is just super-concentrated, orchestral powerhouse of creation at its best. (seems I found the words after all) Thank you.
Hi sir, I'm starting to learn how to compose orchestral music. Can you recommend me another UA-camr? I only subscribed to Daniel James and Spitfire.
Just builds beautifully off Day One. This is exactly what I needed to add just a little more appetite to my orchestral chops. Yes I agree Day 3 to finish things off and have some fun :-) Many thanks Christian.
Day 3 yes! These 2 videos have been fantastic, and I would love to see the "fun" one, cheers
Christian, you are a fantastic tutor, and composer! Thank you!
Great stuff Christian. Def would watch day 3. I'm a beginner with Spitfire and setting up, and your down to earth approach is invaluable. Thanks.
The creative process is so magical. Thank you for allowing us behind the curtain. Please do more!!!
Brilliant, thank you. Definately two the best videos on this stuff out there. I've never played with tempo, (I'm a complete hobbyist), so looking forward to trying this out. Part three on mixing/reverb/eq etc would be icing on the cake. Once again, thank you for your time on this and by the way, great video production!
I've always been weary about Spitfire cause of the price (even though I knew the quality was very good), cause I didn't know much about the company. However, since these day One and Two videos and seeing your interview with Rick Beato, I have a newfound respect for your company. I now look forward to supporting you guys when I can. You are a lovely person and I wish you the best.
I like how you make it sound really simple and you explain everything in detail. As a freshman, I'm starting to learn this stuff so I have more experience for when I hopefully start making music for films, tv shows, or games like you and your tutorials are very helpful. I'm starting to get the hang of using orchestras (I play the cello and violin myself) but I will definitely keep watching your vids to help me compose with brass and woodwinds. At the time I'm typing this comment, I know nothing about using them in music.
Great masterclass!
what a genius... watched day 1 and 2 and feel so inspired...thank you Christian...
This was immensely helpful and inspirational, Christian. Lots of dots being connected for me by your talent, humility, and sheer will to share and inspire us to give our best. Thanks a lot!!!
The mixing sounds so smooth so clear this is really impressive.
These videos you're making Christian are really quite wonderful. Thank you. Cheers!
One noteworthy thing in this is a covert tip on productivity and workflow. Christian knows what he wants from the percussion, and knows how to get there.... around 42-43 minutes. Where I would normally make a big deal on trying to play the percussion correctly. Doing my damnedest to play it at the incredibly low velocity levels and in perfect time (often restarting because i didn't get it right) I REALLY appreciate seeing how Christian just plays the line in, and then a couple button pushes later it's exactly where it needs to be in the mix. Love these videos for the ability to see and learn the process different from my own.
Christian, thank you so much for this video and the Day One video! I'm an absolute beginner who just got Albion One and the Spitfire Chamber Strings, and these have been so helpful for learning. So many questions that I previously had and frustrations that I had with programming in general have been so clearly and concisely explained here, without all the unnecessary terminology/technical language. Your insight is so awesome, and I love your music philosophy! THANK YOU!
Somehow, it is only now (mid 2022) that I've discovered these videos, and they are a revelation in showing a non-academic approach to composition and arranging with a DAW. Thank you so much for the time you have put in along with the distillation of 25 years of experience into "a nutshell", for our benefit (while irrelevant to the learning goal of the videos, I feel the theme of the music could have been a little more appealing).
47:41 Hearing this is very important to me, I always think I have to get it right the first time. I'm loving this series!
Thank you so much Christian, for your work, your effort and for sharing your knowledge. Your compositions, as always, are amazing and you deserve all the best. By the way the first transition in the editing is just mind blowing. Cheers from Paris
I'm only 5 minutes into this video and I've already learned a ton - thank you so much!
So honest and professional. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. I am really learning from you!
Just the videos alone are inspiring. It’s really overlooked how you make them. You’re cut-aways to nature while you explain things really helps my dyslexic brain gear up for the next thing your explaining. If it’s not well thought out, then you’re just naturally really good at it! Haha.
It's amazing how much I'm learning here, and all you ask for is a single like. Thank you, Christian, you earned your thumbs up!
Inspiration at it very best, thank you so, so much, you certainly set a very high bar for others to ascend too.
Thank you very much!
Christian, you are a truly gifted individual. Thank you kindly for your gracious presentation of these principles that will certainly help us in our production projects. All the best to you. Ron Flack, Canton Ohio
wow, this and day one are an absolute gold mine of information and inspiration - thank you so much
Superb!!
Day three please! :D This has been incredibly informative.
This is the video set I have been searching for. I was doing some of this by just using my ears and blind luck but now I can understand what I am trying to achieve. Thank you!
What a great tutorial in creating music for full Orchestra. Even its edited and only shows the "good" takes as you put it, this is propably the first tuorial that have really inspired me to try to move into this world, even you don't have a fancy degree in classical music composing and arranging. I believe that many "hobby" musicians like me is often too awed by the shere ammount of instruments to keep track of to be able to arrange for a symphonic orchestra, and hence don't believe we are able do this without having studied it for years. You very nicely show how a small piece of a very simple track can evolve, just by having some basic understanding for the instruments and then just let loose and experiment. Of cause you need to be able to come up with the ideas, but this tutorial really shows that you don't need to be a professor in musical theory to write big orchestral arrangements. You just need inspirations and then experiment away. Even all the fancy musical theory helps you understand why some thing works better than others, you can still create without knowing it all, cause in music there really isn't any rules and no facit list of what is correct or wrong. Big thumps of for a great video.
Highly recommend Samuel Adler- The Study of Orchestration.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I finally put Orchestra music with one of my songs and it took it up a whole other level. Again thank you For sharing I learned a lot.
6:05 leaving the timecode in the video?! I demand an explanation Christian.
seriously though, it's amazing that you have time to make these in depth videos and we all immensely appreciate it, as someone who hasn't purchased any Albion stuff yet and currently only has a cheaper orchestral library with individual part patches and no ensemble patches (hint: it beings with H), advice on splitting a larger composition up into the parts is immensely helpful; even moreso when we can watch you do it rather than just be told how while facing a camera.
These are the most informative videos on the net for getting productive with orchestral sounds thanks dude
Incredibly valuable sit-in Christian. Thank you oh so much for sharing your (sped up) processes. I agree it's not rocket science, yet as a mostly rock and roll songwriter I want to express other aspects of myself and these two vids are what I was looking for when I searched on YT. Thanks brother. Cheers!
Well done Christian - top notch!
People need to hear this. The skills im good at is best validated by my peers, and myself when im being reflective. Not by someone with official education status and i feel like this applies so much in creating music as it is a creative process. Thanks for the great video!
Very helpful Christian, thanks! I was stoked to find I'd already implemented many of these ideas after watching the first episode, including tempo changes and splitting voices. Our workflows are very similar and this has fuelled my confidence in transitioning to the orchestral realm 🙏
epic work Christian ....thank you again for your inspiring presentation ....cheers good Sir
Thank you so much for sharing your process! What a wonderful insight you've given us.
Just discovered your videos tonight. Brilliant Christian.
What a superb masterclass! You are a treasure!!
These are great! Please keep doing more videos in this style
I would love an every day video!!!!! For all my life. Thanks for sharing your genius
Thanks for doing these. I'd love to see a walk-through of all those controllers on your desk. ;)
Amazing !!!! Thank you for sharing your workflow with us! Bless you!
Thanks Chris...a couple of really good videos.
Really enjoyed this series. Extremely informative and I've learned a lot. Very easy to follow, also. Thank you.
Lovely to see you on Arthurs Seat in Edinburgh :) Ive taken many a walk up there to gain space for my own compositional work and drumming creativity! Thank you for the great content of course!
Christian, this is fantastic - would you PLEASE do a full video on orchestral percussion. Just bought Joby Burgess Percussion and really floundering - the part in this video is helpful but I need more help!
Thank you so much for the lovely work you do.
I liked the advice from 47:13 to 48:28. Its really helpful. Thank you for sharing this video.
Thanks Christian - great video! Perhaps for Day Three you could show the process of mixing, effects (EQ and compression), ambience with reverb, etc. Basically taking the Day Two arrangement and showing how you would polish it as a final piece. Would bring a nice closure to the whole process started with the Day One composition - from inspiration to mixed song.
I never fail to prepare a notebook with a pen whenever I watch Spitfire Audio's videos. These contents are pure valuable. Cheers!
Thanks once again for your time and sage advice. I love your honest approach which highlights that your genius is 1% inspiration and 99% hard graft. Cheers.
Thanks so much! Excellent videos. Would love to see a day 3. Maybe showing us how your mixing techniques. Thanks again.
You're epic. Period. Thank you for these two videos!