Tutorial #14: Writing an Epic Fantasy Track using Symphobia
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- Опубліковано 2 гру 2015
- How to write an epic, orchestral fantasy track using the ProjectSAM Symphobia Series:
- Symphobia 3: Lumina
- Symphobia 2
- Symphobia 1
In this video, the emphasis is on Symphobia 3: Lumina.
The tutorial covers in-depth editing and tweaking of the MIDI recordings and shows you a number of musical decisions that were made during the creation of the track.
Watch our other how-to tutorials here on this channel and download the project file to open it on your own system via the Tutorials section on our website:
www.projectsam.com/tutorials
Copyright notice: the music compositions featured in this tutorial are offered to you for educational and reference purposes only and may not be used or distributed commercially.
Enjoy!
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This is amazing, as someone who wants to get into making OSTs and not knowing where to start.. you have made a dream come true.
Hey man! I'm just wondering how it's going with the music. Did you end up composing?
@@espenfarstad1697 I wonder too :)
That's we're all end up ;)
Great Tutorials. These a very helpful for a newbie who is deciding on what company to go to for scoring libraries. You guys just got yourselves a new customer!!!
These are great and helpful SAM. Keep em coming!
Sounds a lot like something out of Howard Shore's Lord Of The Rings. amazing
I agree it sounds like its from Lord Of The Rings.
Beautiful! I've been waiting for a video like this using Lumina :) Thank you. Will be downloading the free update (2016 version) soon.
Simply fantastic!
This is awesome!!! Great work!!
OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING
i love this channel so much omg
Incredible tutorial
Niice....love the emotion in the strings
lovely little composition!
loved it!
AMAZING PIECE
I love you - thanks!
Briliant!
There is no need to go to a music college. You can learn so much from these tutorials.
Dope!
Epic!
Is the ending trumpet line a quote from Danny Elfman's Spiderman score?
very interesting
made it look so easy...
Is the line from Star Trek, Call of Duty games, or one of the Alien movies?
So LUMINA is another version of Symphopia or another like "line" from ProjectSAM?
Very nice tutorial! One question? What about panning? All the tracks sounded great together, but I didn't notice any of the panning knobs being moved at all from their positions in your DAW. Do the sampled recordings already include the proper panning for each instrument already in them?
+Henry Cavalier Hello Henry, the majority of our orchestral instruments are indeed pre-panned when using the ambient mics (stage/wide), in the sense that the player was seated in a typical spot on the stage. We recorded the various instruments as if recording a full orchestra setup. The close mics are typically not pre-panned, but centered.
could you please do a tutorial in more detail? :) for example with a more detail explanation on how the harmonic where used in this piece and how the orchestration works and what's make a fantasy piece different from other music genres
+FocusMrbjarke We'll definitely take that into consideration. Thanks for watching!
ProjectSAM Cinematic Sampling awesome :) thank you :)
+ProjectSAM Cinematic Sampling And while you're at it, tips on final mixes (EQ's etc.) would be appreciated as well. Love these tutorials btw!
+Andrew MRQ I disagree partly, especially when you're layering libraries recorded in different ways in different rooms and especially if you're writing "hybrid" music that;s also gong to be fighting for frequency space with synths and drums and sound design. My mixes were "muddy" until I started EQing out the mud. This typically involves cutting mid-midlow's and often boosting the high end. However if you're warning against trying to fix with processing what really needs fixing with different writing, then that;s quite right. Though the more you use samples as more sound design tools the less your advice is good. Such as, if you want to unnaturally boost the volume of an instrument playing very softly you usually have to EQ it or you'll end up with undesirable frequencies also being boosted. As for mastering, if you've processed your orchestra in subtle individual ways well enough then you may well need nothing. But it always benefits from a little subtle compression at least.
Hi thanks for upload, this is wonderfull. Just curious for the hard that you use to do that...
RAM? Hard Drive? Processor? Thanks a lot!!
RAM my guy
Nice work! I wish there was some brass in Lumina though. You can hear brass in some of the sounds but no playable solo or ensembles. I bought it thinking everything I needed was there. That was a lot of money. I don't regret buying Lumina but I wished I would've bought Symphobia 2 first.
Look at symphobia first. It has more of what you will need first before 2
sounds a little John Williams like especially at the end with the staccato clarinets.
sombody know how to make kontakt size smaller in my 32" display? it still big
By the way, what DAW are you using here?
I absolutely love all those tutorials. Buying a sample library is risky - the demos might be perfectly engineered, but the actual workflow and ease of use might turn out to be pretty terrible. These videos disperse most of such doubts. One question though - is this really how this sounds out of the box? Is volume adjustment really the only mixing happening here? No per-track EQs in Logic used? No master EQ on the entire mix?
Thanks! Yes, unless specified, all we do in our tutorials mixing-wise is some volume adjustment and, now and then, some panning. We don't do any EQ-ing or mastering.
After so many years and libraries ,your sound has the feel and romance that no one possesses, So how about some new libraries ;)
The trumpet line is Star Wars ??
what scale use?
Ok . This was great but...I BOUGHT LUMINA AND I THOUGHT SOME BRASS ENSEMBLES WERE GOING TO BE IN THERE!! NOOOO ! LOL! Now I gotta get Symphobia 1? Sheeesh! I'm new to the ProjectSam world.
Hi, what program are running to use the libraries? cubase?. Please need to know to buy it, for the moment i work with the finale program
They are using Logic by Apple
Great video, thank you!
I'm considering buying something like this. One thing that really concerns me about all these sample libraries is producing actual sheet music from it. How would that work? I've struggled to find anything out about this at all. I compose and arrange a choral music in my spare time and I need something I can eventually get into a piece of notation software (such as Sibelius). I'm looking for a good quality sample library which could be used as a backing track, or rearranged for a small ensemble or single accompanist. Transcribing everything from a piano roll would be a time-consuming pain.
Apologies if the answer is obvious. I'm new to this sort of thing!
+Samuel Licks Hi Samuel. There is no real automated way to produce sheet music from sample libraries such as the ones used in this video. A lot of our libraries include ensemble recordings, with a single sample holding a pre-recorded arrangement or orchestration. For example: cellis & basses playing in octaves or a part of the orchestra playing a looped texture of multiple notes. To translate this to sheet music you will need to remake the arrangement manually. For the majority of users the sampled part will stay in the final product. They may add live recordings, but not as exact replacements of the arranged samples. Hope this helps!
Additionally, most DAWS (Except PT) will easily convert all your MIDI to sheet music.
Hello guys, is there any chance of getting the midi files for the one or two older tutorials (like this one) which only have the logic template available for download?
Hi! We just uploaded the MIDI files for this tutorial as well as 3 other tutorials that only had the Logic file listed until now. Enjoy!
@@ProjectSAMCinematicSampling Thank you guys. Much appreciated :)
Did you leave out the name of that big fat patch intentionally?
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I know Kung Fu.
Kung Fu panda?
Getting some serious James Horner vibes here.
how come all the keys arnt availible
Hi there. Which specific spot in the video are you talking about?
Think you must be referring to the keyboard at the bottom of the instance of kontakt right? Notice how each individual instrument highlights a different set of keys, that's the playable range for that selected instrument. So play the non-highlighted notes for that instrument and there wont be any sound, and plau the highlighted notes and there will be sound! I'm guessing that's what you were asking! aha
Harrison King Music yea i just like to play my own keys not have the software do it for you it seems by me pressig a key it will play a chord automatically i know some kotakt libraries are like that
Some patches in Lumina work like this (one key = chord or texture), but definitely not all. Lumina also contains many normally playable patches.
In wich Key is this written please?
I'm not sure if this is still relevant to you, but I would say the music is in B minor.
The intro starts on the note D, then adds an E to it which is a passing note to the F in the coming chord. @ 0:13 the chords are B minor to G minor. @ 0:20 with the horns, it's D major to F# minor (this repeats one more time). And then the piece ends on a B major chord (this technique is called the Picardy Third, when a piece of music in a minor key ends with the major version of the chord instead).
Using roman numeral analysis, the progression (after the intro) would be:
i → ♭vi → [III → v]x2 → I (lowercase is minor, and uppercase is major)
@@TheEcstasyOfPiano amazing thanks for the insight