Alex can u please tell me where u get thouse instruments? i will have to dowload them ,or its from the Fl Studio 12? im gonna be doing a movie and im responsible for the soundtrack ,so i really need thouse intrumement.
Hello! Alex is probably very busy so I figured I would help answer your question! So before I get started, I am going to warn you that this can get expensive! What you are looking for to start with is Kontakt 5. FL Studio is a DAW, but it is not a Host for Sample Libraries like Alex listed. Basically you use Kontakt 5 within FL Studio to hold and use your instruments. You can find it here (As well as Damage) within Komplete 11: www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundles/komplete-11-ultimate/ Komplete 11 Ultimate also comes with basic Symphonic Sample libraries that could save you some money. Finally, Metropolis Ark can be found here: orchestraltools.com/libraries/metropolis_ark_1.php Its a lot to get started on, so let me know if you have any questions.
I think it's worth noticing these packages are aimed at big score production. If you just want to create orchestral pieces, less "epic", then there is a variety of packages that give you similar results. Take a look at Varazdin Orchestral suite on the FL plugins page, for a fraction on the price.
Lesson Summary: * French horns are an instrument to write basic and clear melodic lines. It is the best instrument to write melody within the brass section. But it is not enough since the freq. spectrum isn’t full yet. * Bass trombone and cimbassi are brass instruments that broaden the spectrum and fill the low register. But bass trombones are cluttered so this is why we can’t write melodies with It. * Bass trombones are great to write root notes because they are cluttered in such a way that the French horns aren’t. * Double bass can help the brass section fill the low-mid register. Some times it is needed to be in low volume. * Beginners tend to forget that brass is played by humans and they need to catch a breath. Small pauses are needed inside the piano roll. * After every pause, the next note will sound huge thanks to the absence of the sound. * MOD - Usually determines how hard the player blows. EXP - Allows to fade the volume over time to make it sound realistic. * In high registers, the articulations should be versatile to add movement, contrary to the low registers. Single notes are the best choice as root notes.
Don’t be afraid of trumpets and cornets. Clarinets can double as trumpet melodic orchestration as it was designed to be a wooden trumpet in the clarion register in the baroque period. Flugelhorns are good for alto lines needing more smoothness and less power than French horns.
Short summary (because I know I will come back to this video): -Layer your sounds. (f.e. root note of chords for a bassey brass, mind the sounds' frequency range/type to find a suiting melody or it will sound cluttered) -Small pauses (for breathing and making contrast to the next note) -Vary the "blowing" of the player (through volume and expression; change volume for accents, lower expression as the note goes on for imitating less air coming through)
One of the best tutorials I have ever saw. You are explaining your thougths very well. These informations are very useful. You can be sure I'll watch every one of your videos from now. :) Great job sir! Keep it up!
Your understanding of the dynamic interactions between instrument and player is amazing; I am amazed at what level you have taken FL Studio - - I HAVE DEFINITELY SOLD IT SHORT OF ITS POTENTIAL - - YOU'RE GRAND :)
Hey Alex, your tutorial is GREAT !!! I'm beginning in Epic music writing, and your tutorial is the best I've ever come through, thanks !! You won another subscriber 😁
never thought about the freq spectrum when arranging/choosing instruments! thanks for this man :) I actually prefer t-bones out of all brass instruments (aside from tuba but on that I'm biased because I play it xD)
Basics are as important as advanced stuff. For ppl as me who never played on instrument from brass section its rly helpfull. Specialy how to make instruments pull together in lower and higher section.
My sincere compliments to you! You are very good at explaining things, especially nice for people who are beginners and not so technical yet. Interesting video's, interesting content, well explained. Congratulations!
I think trying to put breaths in your melody works great in many cases. Even a piano melody will sometimes sound way better if you just put some spaces in the melody to take a breath of air.
Honestly, in my experience as a musician who uses FL Studio, I have found that it is better to follow what you want to hear and feel. Studying some of your favorite classical artists as well as modern ones can lead to great inspiration when you are creating music. I personally enjoy video game orchestral music from artists like Nobuo Uematsu, Yoko Shimomura, Kow Otani, Trevor Morris, and many others. You should find your inspiration, drive your path with it beside you, and then you'll come up with really great music.
Hey Alex, great lesson as always. In the next lesson can you explain to us how to create space between instruments and place instruments in their own position?
I talked about those things in this tutorial here: ua-cam.com/video/hG0dXm3esPA/v-deo.html Even if it's mostly about Reverb, there are some notions about positioning too. (Reverb is actually a great tool to use to position instruments inside your tracks).
I love how your step sequencer is set up with the whole orchestra instrument sections layed out. How did you achieve this, as far not just adding samplers and changing names but do you already have plugins loaded in those areas or is it blank and you just add the plugins as you go. If so, either way, how are you able to run soooo many instruments at one time with no latency or cpu usage clipping? Are you like running an instance of kontakt or philharmonik or something and just have each midi output channel from each sound within kontakt attached to a step sequencer tab?
I am a horn (french horn) player and I can confirm that I am human and I blow into the horn and must breath... joking aside, you can orchestrate separate horn parts to spell (fill in for) each other so breathing can be removed as an impediment. So horns 1 and 3 starts and doesn't play one of the other notes while 2 and 4 play that missing note. Alternatively, professional orchestras have assistant horns that help fill in and spell other horns for breathing.
tanks for your video, as amateur i try to figure out how to do this kind of stuff, to be sure to understand everything, the modwheel effect is the dynamics on the bass trombone ?
I just discovered you. I’ve been struggling with finding the sound in my head for a theme for my cartoon. Thank you. Also is this demo using basic tools or are you using expansion packs loops etc?
also a good tip: get a good library :). Btw, how did you change the mod wheel and expression pattern inside the midi window? I dont find those parameters.
Yes yes yes, can't stress enough how having a good library is the first step. But I forgot to mention it here haha. Anyway, the thing you asked for: I explain that in this tutorial here -> ua-cam.com/video/ekReYnYA5a0/v-deo.html
Hey there. Really nice tutorial! :) I have one question: What would you take as your favourite orchestral plugin/library and cinematic pack. I have just recently started to do some cinematic music, but I don't want to spend too much money, since it won't be my main style of music. I'd like to get a little more into it though and experiment from time to time, so I gathered myself some free packs and instruments, but it's not 100% what you would want (unlike this gorgeous french horn for instance). I mean it's really good for free products, but it can obviously not compare to professional stuff. That's why I wanted to know if you think that there is a go-to plugin/library for orchestra and a go-to sample pack for cinematic hits/percussion/fx etc. and what that would be. Greetings from Austria and cheers to you.
Umbrohs you can torrent libraries to try them and see which ones you like, then when you have enough money you can buy them. For instance you can get Octohorn from auddict. Its an amazing french horns library, it costs 90£. Albione one is a complete library, it has everything you need but its $500
Umbrohs, get Composer Cloud from EastWest. Going to make a video about it later on, but in a nutshell, costs about 30$ a month, gives you access to EVERY library of EastWest's catalogue.
The problem I'm facing is, when I increase the sound of french horns over a certain threshold value, it starts distorting.. and it is starting to piss me off now. Any ideas? I use Bravura scoring brass
aad kliklaminaat it does, but for orchestration, is probably better to spread those chordal parts to other instruments like French horn if you were to do chords. That way both instruments contribute to the sound and color, thus will likely sound better.
I would very much like to see a detailed video on how to allow some space for other instruments not to clash with each other in EQ. I find it weird that almost all the percussion I try to play, always sound good at high frequencies. So do I boost all of them at that same level? They would collide, right? I'm trying to come up with drum pattern like Junkie XL.
Um there is a brass instrument that's even lower than the Double Bass. It's called the _Tuba_ ! Depends on the orchestral color you're going for, of course, but it's worth being aware of. A great resource for instrument ranges: www.orchestralibrary.com/reftables/rang.html
+TheAudiocrat By letting them play the very highest notes of all the brass section, especially short notes. Check our my Apocalypsis Noctis cover, there's quite a few trumpets in the brass. Not sure how much of that is hearable tho 'cause they are a bit in the background.
Hey alex great tutorial as always i just have one question. U said that u play in melodies with a midi keyboard what settings do you use when quantising the things that u play in?
6:46 I thought you were going to say Contrabassoon. Don't you think it would work best with the Brass section, or are you aiming at a bigger section that consists of several players instead of a one player playing the Contrabassoon? Or even better... Most of the Orchestral sheet music I read have the Bass Trombone playing a note and the Tube playing the same note one octave below it. Have you considered that?
Hello Alex I have a lot of libraries which is making my pc slow so what Files i suppose to move my external hard drive can anyone help me too please..... thank you so much all
How are you controlling the mod wheel within FL-Studio? My VSTs require a mod-wheel to be really effective, but I do not own a keyboard with one on it. Thanks.
Hey Alex ! I'm 15 and I'm french. I was just find out your channel and it's great ! Could you make a training about fl studio to make commercial music 'cause i really will like begining about that.
That's what I'm already doing on this channel with tutorials, basically. :D For more in-depth and personal questions or requests, I do offer private lessons.
Useful tutorial. Nice horns sounds from Metropolis Ark1!! I just got it. What kind of drive do you stream your MA1 samples from? HDD or SSD? Just wanna make sure my system is fast enough. Thank you
Thank you. Just got two of them too. If I may bother you with another question. What's more critical during playback? Is it the RAM or the SSD? I get that SSD determine the speed of loading the patches.. not sure what determines the performance of the playback.
It depends. If you're using DFD (Direct from Disk) patches, then SSD determines the performance other than the speed. Otherwise, it'll be determined by the RAM. On top of all that, the CPU also plays a big part into the performance of the playback.
I didn't learn from a single source, back when I started there wasn't one single course that could teach all of this, so I learned a bit from everywhere and by composing for a crapload of hours. But if I were to get started nowadays, I'd definitely check out Evenant's Cinematic Course as that's the most complete and modern blueprint for orchestral music right now. -> courses.evenant.com/p/cinematic-music-from-idea-to-finished-recording/?affcode=22931_u2flmxmo
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So I shouldnt write a Melody on Cello in an orchestral piece because it's more mid and not high frequency? I'm a bit confused, please help 😅
Norman Dück there's nothing wrong with writing melodies on mid-timbre instruments like cellos, but if you have lots of clutter in your mids, using melodies on the higher octaves with sharper instruments will give you a much better result. Check my melodies tutorial from a couple weeks ago for a more thorough explanation.
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thanks a lot, discovered you 2 days ago and watching all 24/7, really sad that I haven´t fpund you earlier, your explanations save tons of time of trying and failing
Yeah it is, seems like there aren't many shortcuts or function that make it really easier,so when I have to draw complicated CC curves I personally just use automations to be honest.
I've been working at this a bit more, and find "insert / delete space", "interpolate", and "scale levels" are the keys to fast editing/cleanup. Insert and delete are especially easy to overlook, if you're used to working with piano or audio clips, but it gets you that "slide" option that makes automation curves easy to extend. Patcher is also the bees knees for controlling brass overlays and mutes in a single piano roll, but that's another topic.
Libraries used & PC Specs:
- Brass: Metropolis Ark 1
- Percussion: Heavyocity Damage
- PC Specs: 3.4 GHz i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, 512 GB SSD + Extra HDD
- DAW: FL Studio 12
Alex can u please tell me where u get thouse instruments? i will have to dowload them ,or its from the Fl Studio 12? im gonna be doing a movie and im responsible for the soundtrack ,so i really need thouse intrumement.
Hello! Alex is probably very busy so I figured I would help answer your question! So before I get started, I am going to warn you that this can get expensive!
What you are looking for to start with is Kontakt 5. FL Studio is a DAW, but it is not a Host for Sample Libraries like Alex listed. Basically you use Kontakt 5 within FL Studio to hold and use your instruments.
You can find it here (As well as Damage) within Komplete 11: www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundles/komplete-11-ultimate/
Komplete 11 Ultimate also comes with basic Symphonic Sample libraries that could save you some money.
Finally, Metropolis Ark can be found here: orchestraltools.com/libraries/metropolis_ark_1.php
Its a lot to get started on, so let me know if you have any questions.
I think it's worth noticing these packages are aimed at big score production. If you just want to create orchestral pieces, less "epic", then there is a variety of packages that give you similar results. Take a look at Varazdin Orchestral suite on the FL plugins page, for a fraction on the price.
my PC config: i7 3.40 ghz, 16GB ram, 500GB ssd and + HDD
Lesson Summary:
* French horns are an instrument to write basic and clear melodic lines. It is the best instrument to write melody within the brass section.
But it is not enough since the freq. spectrum isn’t full yet.
* Bass trombone and cimbassi are brass instruments that broaden the spectrum and fill the low register. But bass trombones are cluttered so this is why we can’t write melodies with It.
* Bass trombones are great to write root notes because they are cluttered in such a way that the French horns aren’t.
* Double bass can help the brass section fill the low-mid register. Some times it is needed to be in low volume.
* Beginners tend to forget that brass is played by humans and they need to catch a breath. Small pauses are needed inside the piano roll.
* After every pause, the next note will sound huge thanks to the absence of the sound.
* MOD - Usually determines how hard the player blows. EXP - Allows to fade the volume over time to make it sound realistic.
* In high registers, the articulations should be versatile to add movement, contrary to the low registers. Single notes are the best choice as root notes.
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Don’t be afraid of trumpets and cornets. Clarinets can double as trumpet melodic orchestration as it was designed to be a wooden trumpet in the clarion register in the baroque period. Flugelhorns are good for alto lines needing more smoothness and less power than French horns.
what about tenor trombones?
Tenor trombones are way better
@Sound Engineer Тень no, he wants people to actually watch the video.....
Short summary (because I know I will come back to this video):
-Layer your sounds. (f.e. root note of chords for a bassey brass, mind the sounds' frequency range/type to find a suiting melody or it will sound cluttered)
-Small pauses (for breathing and making contrast to the next note)
-Vary the "blowing" of the player (through volume and expression; change volume for accents, lower expression as the note goes on for imitating less air coming through)
Great video man! This was exactly what I needed.
Thanks bud! Always glad to help fellow musicians out. :D
Wow, didnt expect to see you here, guess you use some orchestra
Oh hi mar- Xtrullor
So that's how your songs so melodic and epic in the spanish sense of the word.
Xtrullor HAHA This made my day for some reason. Xtrullor, you are the best !!
Your videos are epic mate. It's absolutely amazing that you're offering this information free of charge.
Awesome stuff! Now I can be the next Hans Zimmer :)
GOSH i completely SUCK at brass and before watching this i had no clue how to do brass at all, thankyou so much god bless you man lmao
One of the best tutorials I have ever saw. You are explaining your thougths very well. These informations are very useful. You can be sure I'll watch every one of your videos from now. :) Great job sir! Keep it up!
Your understanding of the dynamic interactions between instrument and player is amazing; I am amazed at what level you have taken FL Studio - - I HAVE DEFINITELY SOLD IT SHORT OF ITS POTENTIAL - - YOU'RE GRAND :)
Haha, thanks!
FL is great indeed. :)
Why are you so Legendary
Hey Alex, your tutorial is GREAT !!! I'm beginning in Epic music writing, and your tutorial is the best I've ever come through, thanks !! You won another subscriber 😁
These videos are truly instant classics of the education in this field.
I play the french horn and love its huge range, but bass and contrabass trombones are awesome, great video and channel
That's cool!
You should definitely try to incorporate your live playing in your tracks if you're not doing it already.
You are a legend alex, i have watched all your tutorials, you are my favourite composer on youtube. Thanks for all your tutorials
never thought about the freq spectrum when arranging/choosing instruments! thanks for this man :) I actually prefer t-bones out of all brass instruments (aside from tuba but on that I'm biased because I play it xD)
You are my no.1 music channel. You always give us the best tutorials. Tutorials that come from the heart. Thank you, Alex!
Basics are as important as advanced stuff. For ppl as me who never played on instrument from brass section its rly helpfull. Specialy how to make instruments pull together in lower and higher section.
Man, all your videos keep showing up in my watch list, and i wasnt looking for them. But i havent been dissapoited even once. Youre awesome
Dope explained about the breathing of the brass player, cheers!
Mean bro just opened my ears to what i've been lacking with my horns. Subbed👏👏👏
Thank you. This was helpful. Learned a few basic things like the instruments and modifying the mod and exp wheel.
My sincere compliments to you! You are very good at explaining things, especially nice for people who are beginners and not so technical yet. Interesting video's, interesting content, well explained. Congratulations!
jeez sounds amazing earned a sub great work :D
Just come across your channel. Subscribed straight away. It's incredible.
dam your so on point. I've never looked at brass like that before. thank you for the tips! keep up the great work!!!
Glad this helped you Phil!
I think trying to put breaths in your melody works great in many cases. Even a piano melody will sometimes sound way better if you just put some spaces in the melody to take a breath of air.
iam new to orchestral kind of music but after that i feel like i can do much ...... that was so helpful bro......
Start small!
Best thing you can do.
thanks broh.....+ ur teaching style is awesome...
I learnt a lot, thanks for teaching
thank you man! i really love your tutorials, i hope to see more vids soon! cheers :)
Hey Alex, just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed this video. Thank you sharing, and I'll be checking out more of your videos and subscribing :)
Really good information and lesson... Thank You!
I was looking to learn that today, done! Subscribed 😉
You are good man! Keep doing! I am on your side!!!
Thanks!
Thank you for the tutorial. Very informative.
I was part of those who thought french horn are awesome and i'd put it everywhere xD. Thanks for your advice.
:D
thanks for the tutorial man! Keep progressing
I needed help with my brass orchestration as a percussionist
BIG inspiration brother! keep up the good work!!!!
Thanks!
yessirr!
I really learned a lot so thank you very much.
I knew that but i like your approach
Heavy brass scores are the best, sound the most badass
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Damn, Metropolis Ark 1 for 550? That's damn expensive, but it sounds sooo good!
So happy i found u!
wow, thank you for the tutorial! 🤗
Amazing video once again.
Put this in a Marvel movie because that sounded great!
Excellent... Thank You Alex!!!!
Root notes : Bass trombone or low octaves from french horn
Chord melodies : French horn on high octaves
Hey Alex if possible can you make a tutorial on structure of orchestral music. As a beginner idk when to add Melodies,harmonies,counter Melodies etc.
Honestly, in my experience as a musician who uses FL Studio, I have found that it is better to follow what you want to hear and feel. Studying some of your favorite classical artists as well as modern ones can lead to great inspiration when you are creating music. I personally enjoy video game orchestral music from artists like Nobuo Uematsu, Yoko Shimomura, Kow Otani, Trevor Morris, and many others. You should find your inspiration, drive your path with it beside you, and then you'll come up with really great music.
that sounds amazing!!! thanks a million!! +1 to subscribers 🙂 peace!
Thanks Alex I found this very helpful and informative. I'm considering adding orchestral sounds to a song of mine. Don't have any software as yet tho.
Hey Alex, great lesson as always. In the next lesson can you explain to us how to create space between instruments and place instruments in their own position?
I talked about those things in this tutorial here: ua-cam.com/video/hG0dXm3esPA/v-deo.html
Even if it's mostly about Reverb, there are some notions about positioning too. (Reverb is actually a great tool to use to position instruments inside your tracks).
Self-notes
1. Trombone: low-range
+ double bass
2. pauses (slightly)
3. Mod + Exp
4. Trombone: X chord
Alex, thank you for the great video! They inspire me so much! Can you create more casts about the hybrid arrangement and using the sound design?
good job
Sounds like a Christopher Nolan movie.
Great video.
how do i get those instruments?
I love how your step sequencer is set up with the whole orchestra instrument sections layed out. How did you achieve this, as far not just adding samplers and changing names but do you already have plugins loaded in those areas or is it blank and you just add the plugins as you go. If so, either way, how are you able to run soooo many instruments at one time with no latency or cpu usage clipping? Are you like running an instance of kontakt or philharmonik or something and just have each midi output channel from each sound within kontakt attached to a step sequencer tab?
I am a horn (french horn) player and I can confirm that I am human and I blow into the horn and must breath... joking aside, you can orchestrate separate horn parts to spell (fill in for) each other so breathing can be removed as an impediment. So horns 1 and 3 starts and doesn't play one of the other notes while 2 and 4 play that missing note. Alternatively, professional orchestras have assistant horns that help fill in and spell other horns for breathing.
tanks for your video, as amateur i try to figure out how to do this kind of stuff, to be sure to understand everything, the modwheel effect is the dynamics on the bass trombone ?
Your a Genius! Thanks!
I just discovered you. I’ve been struggling with finding the sound in my head for a theme for my cartoon. Thank you. Also is this demo using basic tools or are you using expansion packs loops etc?
Lmfao "pretty basic" that shit was amazing
Haha, there's still much to say and things to discover about Brass which I don't know. :P
also a good tip: get a good library :). Btw, how did you change the mod wheel and expression pattern inside the midi window? I dont find those parameters.
Yes yes yes, can't stress enough how having a good library is the first step. But I forgot to mention it here haha.
Anyway, the thing you asked for: I explain that in this tutorial here -> ua-cam.com/video/ekReYnYA5a0/v-deo.html
Hey there. Really nice tutorial! :)
I have one question: What would you take as your favourite orchestral plugin/library and cinematic pack.
I have just recently started to do some cinematic music, but I don't want to spend too much money, since it won't be my main style of music. I'd like to get a little more into it though and experiment from time to time, so I gathered myself some free packs and instruments, but it's not 100% what you would want (unlike this gorgeous french horn for instance). I mean it's really good for free products, but it can obviously not compare to professional stuff. That's why I wanted to know if you think that there is a go-to plugin/library for orchestra and a go-to sample pack for cinematic hits/percussion/fx etc. and what that would be.
Greetings from Austria and cheers to you.
Umbrohs you can torrent libraries to try them and see which ones you like, then when you have enough money you can buy them. For instance you can get Octohorn from auddict. Its an amazing french horns library, it costs 90£. Albione one is a complete library, it has everything you need but its $500
Umbrohs, get Composer Cloud from EastWest. Going to make a video about it later on, but in a nutshell, costs about 30$ a month, gives you access to EVERY library of EastWest's catalogue.
maybe a tutorial about mixing orchestral music?
How do you mix the whole thing? You have a tutorial for that somewhere?
The problem I'm facing is, when I increase the sound of french horns over a certain threshold value, it starts distorting.. and it is starting to piss me off now. Any ideas? I use Bravura scoring brass
am i the only one that thinks 16:51 sound pretty cool
I like it too. Great thing about rules is that you can break them.
aad kliklaminaat it does, but for orchestration, is probably better to spread those chordal parts to other instruments like French horn if you were to do chords. That way both instruments contribute to the sound and color, thus will likely sound better.
Hey alex, what headphones do you use?
How do the buttons in the channel rack have numbers on them, thanks for spreading your knowledge sir.
Are there any special articulations that you use when switching the notes along with the mod wheel and expression, such as QLeg, Leg, or others?
I'm making you my music teacher. I'm a complete beginner.
I would very much like to see a detailed video on how to allow some space for other instruments not to clash with each other in EQ. I find it weird that almost all the percussion I try to play, always sound good at high frequencies. So do I boost all of them at that same level? They would collide, right? I'm trying to come up with drum pattern like Junkie XL.
Um there is a brass instrument that's even lower than the Double Bass. It's called the _Tuba_ ! Depends on the orchestral color you're going for, of course, but it's worth being aware of.
A great resource for instrument ranges: www.orchestralibrary.com/reftables/rang.html
Ahm, Alex, how did you integrate those libraries?
PATRION IT IS! :D
Hi Alex, what about the Trumpets? How would you layer the trumpets? 😀
+TheAudiocrat By letting them play the very highest notes of all the brass section, especially short notes. Check our my Apocalypsis Noctis cover, there's quite a few trumpets in the brass. Not sure how much of that is hearable tho 'cause they are a bit in the background.
Alex Moukala sure. Thanks a lot Alex 😁
Hey alex great tutorial as always i just have one question. U said that u play in melodies with a midi keyboard what settings do you use when quantising the things that u play in?
There's no precise settings. For the most part, I just press alt + q and tweak the quantizer until it's decent. Then I correct via mouse.
I'm hvn trouble locating the instruments in kontact....in suggestions??
THANK YOU SO MUCH
6:46 I thought you were going to say Contrabassoon. Don't you think it would work best with the Brass section, or are you aiming at a bigger section that consists of several players instead of a one player playing the Contrabassoon? Or even better... Most of the Orchestral sheet music I read have the Bass Trombone playing a note and the Tube playing the same note one octave below it. Have you considered that?
I should try the Tuba, haven't yet!
Hello Alex I have a lot of libraries which is making my pc slow so what Files i suppose to move my external hard drive can anyone help me too please..... thank you so much all
yo man what vsts do u use to make orchestra.
How are you controlling the mod wheel within FL-Studio? My VSTs require a mod-wheel to be really effective, but I do not own a keyboard with one on it. Thanks.
I control them via Automations or Events, as for how I set it up, I explain that in this video at 5:15: ua-cam.com/video/ekReYnYA5a0/v-deo.htmlm15s
Alex I would love to take private lessons from you! How do I connect with you? I am a new hobbyist composer wanting to be a professional as well
Do you always leave the fruity limiter on the master? Or do you change it the way you think is needed?
I just leave it for "security" to prevent the audio signal to ever go beyond 0dB.
i am new to the fl studio so where should i start?
Hey Alex ! I'm 15 and I'm french. I was just find out your channel and it's great ! Could you make a training about fl studio to make commercial music 'cause i really will like begining about that.
You mean EDM?
Alex Moukala i would like that you show how to use each elements from A to Z.
That's what I'm already doing on this channel with tutorials, basically. :D
For more in-depth and personal questions or requests, I do offer private lessons.
Useful tutorial. Nice horns sounds from Metropolis Ark1!! I just got it. What kind of drive do you stream your MA1 samples from? HDD or SSD? Just wanna make sure my system is fast enough. Thank you
I personally use a Samsung SSD, not sure how fast they load on HDDs but it shouldn't be too terrible I think.
Thank you. Just got two of them too. If I may bother you with another question. What's more critical during playback? Is it the RAM or the SSD? I get that SSD determine the speed of loading the patches.. not sure what determines the performance of the playback.
It depends. If you're using DFD (Direct from Disk) patches, then SSD determines the performance other than the speed. Otherwise, it'll be determined by the RAM.
On top of all that, the CPU also plays a big part into the performance of the playback.
Do you have a book or resource where you learned about all this?
I didn't learn from a single source, back when I started there wasn't one single course that could teach all of this, so I learned a bit from everywhere and by composing for a crapload of hours.
But if I were to get started nowadays, I'd definitely check out Evenant's Cinematic Course as that's the most complete and modern blueprint for orchestral music right now.
-> courses.evenant.com/p/cinematic-music-from-idea-to-finished-recording/?affcode=22931_u2flmxmo
So I shouldnt write a Melody on Cello in an orchestral piece because it's more mid and not high frequency?
I'm a bit confused, please help 😅
Norman Dück there's nothing wrong with writing melodies on mid-timbre instruments like cellos, but if you have lots of clutter in your mids, using melodies on the higher octaves with sharper instruments will give you a much better result.
Check my melodies tutorial from a couple weeks ago for a more thorough explanation.
thanks a lot, discovered you 2 days ago and watching all 24/7, really sad that I haven´t fpund you earlier, your explanations save tons of time of trying and failing
Hey Alex, from what library are you getting those instruments from??
Orchestra is from Metropolis Ark 1
Hey Alex,what was that plugin which displayed frequencies...?
And thanks for this tutorial.
+Varun M.S It's called SPAN, it's a free spectrum analyzer from Voxengo. Very recommended. ;)
+Alex Moukala Thanks
Is there a chance of you producing and evenant course? I'd buy it for sure :)
Evenant's CEOs are two very dear friends of mine, so yes, I can see that happen in the future. :)
Thanks for the support man!
Do you have any tips for editing expression events? It always seems more tedious and error-prone than automation curves.
Yeah it is, seems like there aren't many shortcuts or function that make it really easier,so when I have to draw complicated CC curves I personally just use automations to be honest.
I've been working at this a bit more, and find "insert / delete space", "interpolate", and "scale levels" are the keys to fast editing/cleanup. Insert and delete are especially easy to overlook, if you're used to working with piano or audio clips, but it gets you that "slide" option that makes automation curves easy to extend.
Patcher is also the bees knees for controlling brass overlays and mutes in a single piano roll, but that's another topic.
can i know how you bring up those things in 12:20?
Have you ever heard of a tuba?
Hahaha the great forgotten
Immediately describes my mistaken belief that French Horns are the best and all you need.... yup this tutorial was made for me.
Great video, really appreciate it. What was the name of the song? I didn't recognise it
It's "Hubris" from Final Fantasy XIV.
thaanks man
Man, I use Angry Brass by performance samples and it has literally no bass. But i'm gonna have to save up for metropolis ark 1.
I wish I could've swiped angry brass before it got taken down