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Comment on Vienna Instruments Pro 2 » Interface Concept Overview by Vienna Instruments Pro 2 » Interface Concept Overview | Home Recording Masters | Microphones, Recording Equipment and Software Reviews

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:30:55 +0000

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Comment on Solo String Shootout: LASS and Spitfire by Vienna Instruments Pro 2 » Interface Concept Overview : SCOREcast Online » The Home of the Professional Film Music Community

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:55:15 +0000

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Comment on Vienna Instruments Pro 2 » Interface Concept Overview by goldenork

goldenork — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:33:00 +0000

Thanks, this is a very concise and well-written summary. For the first time I actually have a sense of how this complicated sound library actually works!

Comment on SCU: Orchestration 101—Part 1 by SCU: Orchestration 101—Part 1 | Home Recording Masters | Microphones, Recording Equipment and Software Reviews

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:56:57 +0000

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Comment on SCU: Orchestration 101—Part 1 by Shannon Penner

Shannon Penner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:35:00 +0000

Can’t wait for more of this series. Should be very informative!

Comment on SCU: Orchestration 101—Part 1 by F. Tyler Shaw

F. Tyler Shaw — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:47:00 +0000

Thanks! Looking forward to more.

“One of the most important ‘rules’ of orchestration is variety and
surprise. Keep your listeners alert by giving them little surprises
every few bars. A good rule of thumb is to change the orchestration or
small bits of it every few phrases or at every new section.”

Great advice – too bad it doesn’t work for every cue or every director.

Comment on SCU: Orchestration 101—Part 1 by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:12:00 +0000

Great article Stellita!
Wonderful initiative, I’m following with joy.

Thanks to you and the team that make this possible for us!

Comment on SCU: Orchestration 101—Part 1 by Yaiza Varona

Yaiza Varona — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:55:00 +0000

Fantastic article Stellita – this is going to be extremely helpful, thanks so much!

Comment on SCU: Orchestration 101—Part 1 by Tim Heizer

Tim Heizer — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:53:00 +0000

Really looking forward to these! Thank you for sharing.

Comment on SCU: Orchestration 101—Part 1 by Marc Lawson

Marc Lawson — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:39:00 +0000

Great article, by the way. Looking forward to the remaining topics.

Comment on SCU: Orchestration 101—Part 1 by Marc Lawson

Marc Lawson — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:38:00 +0000

@031de5627e2e0960b8a55c1b67b552e9:disqus I think that assigning parts to instruments or instrument families definitely falls into orchestration – even with jazz. To me, arranging has more to do with the song structure – e.g. whether or not you have an intro and how the piece is laid out – AABABCB – stuff like that. Whether the sax or trumpet has the melody on section B2 would fall into orchestration.

Just my $.02,
Marc

Comment on SCU: Orchestration 101—Part 1 by Jeff Tolbert

Jeff Tolbert — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:49:00 +0000

Excellent! Looking forward to this. One question: I always thought of Arranging as arranging any song–yours or someone else’s. Orchestration is a more specific form of arranging for orchestra only. For example, if I’ve written a jazz piece and I’m writing an arrangement for live musicians to play, you wouldn’t call that orchestration, would you? So I think “arranging” has a broader definition than what you described above.

Comment on SCU: Orchestration 101—Part 1 by Jeff Tolbert

Jeff Tolbert — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:45:00 +0000

Excellent! Looking

Comment on SCU: Orchestration 101—Part 1 by Terry Jones

Terry Jones — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:52:00 +0000

I’m looking forward to this. It’s been a long time since I had a refresher course in orchestration, and it should be even more interesting now that it’s going to be directly related to the work that I love. :)

Comment on SCU: Orchestration 101—Part 1 by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:31:00 +0000

Can’t wait! I’m very excited to learn from the articles!

Comment on NAMM 2012: Soundiron by NAMM 2012: Soundiron | Home Recording Masters | Microphones, Recording Equipment and Software Reviews

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:54:47 +0000

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Comment on Are You Trying to be “Cool”? by Saxer

Saxer — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:15:00 +0000

art is always a part of the time it was made and the time is a part of the art.
if you do your own way and ignore the today coolness factor you can win or loose:
if you win others will follow your ideas and you make a start to a new area.
if you loose you just never will be heared. probably the story of most potentional innovators.

but there is no timeless art. there are outstanding treasures in all styles and areas.
they will last for ever (or at least a while).

for me it’s rather easy to do the ‘cool’ things… just look around and copy styles.
much harder is to avoid ‘uncool’ things. there are always some habits or things i like which doesn’t fit.
i.e. electronic club music: i wish i could do harmony changes… but it is soooooo uncool!
or playing a sax solo in film score music… but it is sooooooo uncool!
or use a dx7-piano… no wait, this is even to uncool for me :-)
much harder is to avoid

Comment on Is “Score Design” Dead? by Saxer

Saxer — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:44:00 +0000

most of us are especially asked to sound like someone else. in commercial spots and movies there is temp music you have to copy at least soundwise.

there are styles of music which live from new sounds. electronic music can’t be done with presets, the sound itself is the message.

and there is the music made of melodies, harmonies, arrangement and orchestration. it’s a world of using instruments as voices in a choir. just get the best voices.

and there is your ‘own’ music, created as a platform to express yourself. you shouldn’t do this with presets, not even wih virtual instruments at all exept as a background for your played instrument or voice.

Comment on NAMM 2012: iZotope by NAMM 2012: iZotope | Home Recording Masters | Microphones, Recording Equipment and Software Reviews

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:40:53 +0000

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Comment on NAMM 2012: Ultimate Ears by NAMM 2012: Ultimate Ears | Home Recording Masters | Microphones, Recording Equipment and Software Reviews

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:40:34 +0000

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Comment on NAMM 2012: LASS 2.0 by Terry Jones

Terry Jones — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:28:00 +0000

Good to hear that the system requirements for LASS not being too drastic at least, it sounds like it’ll run just fine on my quad core i5 when I get around to investing in it.

Great interview, cheers Brian. :)

Comment on SoundCloud 101 by thIIIrd

thIIIrd — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:20:00 +0000

Great stuff! Gave me a lot of ideas for getting my stuff out there… But in your personal story when you say “as 2011 passed by” i think you mean “as 2010 passed by”

Comment on SoundCloud 101 by David Noël

David Noël — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:52:00 +0000

Absolutely epic post.

Olly, you truly are a wonderful contributor to the amazing SoundCloud community. Keep up the great work and enthusiasm.

Thank you!

David

Comment on NAMM 2012: Sonokinetic Vivace by NAMM 2012: Sonokinetic Vivace | Home Recording Masters | Microphones, Recording Equipment and Software Reviews

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:31:10 +0000

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Comment on Review: “Fanfare” by Sample Logic by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:23:00 +0000

Terry, what drum corps have you been asked to arrange for?

Comment on SCOREcast Goes to University by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:46:00 +0000

Fantastic idea! Can’t wait!

Comment on Review: “Fanfare” by Sample Logic by Review: “Fanfare” by Sample Logic | Home Recording Masters | Microphones, Recording Equipment and Software Reviews

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:32:32 +0000

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Comment on Review: “Fanfare” by Sample Logic by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:58:00 +0000

Great review, Brian. I think another selling point for the marching band/drum corps folks is that Sibelius 7 comes with the FANFARE (and RUMBLE) soundsets.

For me it’s a price-point issue. Although after their first (and maybe second round) of fixes I might change my opinion.

Thanks again.

-Mike

Comment on Review: “Fanfare” by Sample Logic by Terry Jones

Terry Jones — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:29:00 +0000

This is the sort of thing I’d definitely be interested in when I have the funds, as I have been asked to dabble in some drum corps arranging myself recently. The integration with Sibelius would be of particular interest to me.

Unfortunately for now, I’ll just have to make do with approximated mock-ups using EWQLSO, cheers for the review Brian. :)

Comment on SCOREcast Goes to University by Marc Lawson

Marc Lawson — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:23:00 +0000

Wow – brilliant!

Comment on SCOREcast Goes to University by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:29:00 +0000

Very Good! Wonderful News!
I’m ready to learn a lot here.

Thank you Stel

Comment on SCOREcast Goes to University by SCOREcast Goes to University | Home Recording Masters | Microphones, Recording Equipment and Software Reviews

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:39:04 +0000

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Comment on SCOREcast Goes to University by Terry Jones

Terry Jones — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:00:00 +0000

An excellent idea! I’m already looking forward to seeing how this develops, as I’m sure I’ll learn a lot from it!

Comment on Jeremy Mayne Wins SCOREcast’s 2nd Annual Cue Contest by Domain Admin

Domain Admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:34:00 +0000

Beautiful! Congrats :)

[Edit] Erhm. Yes, thank you Google for giving me a new, much better name…
– Kejero

Comment on Jeremy Mayne Wins SCOREcast’s 2nd Annual Cue Contest by Mike Marino

Mike Marino — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:40:00 +0000

Congrats Jeremy! Well done!

Comment on Solo String Shootout: LASS and Spitfire by Solo String Shootout: LASS and Spitfire | Home Recording Masters | Microphones, Recording Equipment and Software Reviews

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:36:01 +0000

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Comment on It Hurts to Work: The Musician’s Silent Epidemic by Yaiza Varona

Yaiza Varona — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:48:00 +0000

Excellent article, thank you so much for your insight. Very helpful indeed!

Comment on CONTEST: Win Spitfire Audio’s New Solo Strings by SCO Staff

SCO Staff — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:05:20 +0000

Looking forward to it! Good luck!

Comment on CONTEST: Win Spitfire Audio’s New Solo Strings by SCO Staff

SCO Staff — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:04:47 +0000

Correct. Good luck!

Comment on CONTEST: Win Spitfire Audio’s New Solo Strings by SCO Staff

SCO Staff — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:04:05 +0000

Right. The point is that you cannot use any “live” instrumentation. A VST is any virtual instrument. Just make sure that whatever you do, you reserve on of those VST’s as a solo instrument, as stated in the rules.

Comment on CONTEST: Win Spitfire Audio’s New Solo Strings by Daniel Lindholm

Daniel Lindholm — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:05:00 +0000

I just went with 3. Maybe we should say 3 channels? Limitation was the challenge! :) Will send in my entry soon. Mp3 or Wave?

/Daniel

Comment on CONTEST: Win Spitfire Audio’s New Solo Strings by Normantran2011

Normantran2011 — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:31:00 +0000

I guess to clarify, what exactly constitues a VST? Does an entire library count as one VST (Symphobia, Albion, etc), or may I only use specifically three instruments out of any librar(ies) I choose from?

Comment on CONTEST: Win Spitfire Audio’s New Solo Strings by Normantran2011

Normantran2011 — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:10:00 +0000

So we can use any 3 VST’s, one of which must be a solo instrument?

Comment on CONTEST: Win Spitfire Audio’s New Solo Strings by Deane Ogden

Deane Ogden — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:50:00 +0000

Go for it!

Comment on CONTEST: Win Spitfire Audio’s New Solo Strings by Phil

Phil — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:42:00 +0000

Can you use an effect plug-in on the virtual instruments?

Comment on CONTEST: Win Spitfire Audio’s New Solo Strings by CONTEST: Win Spitfire Audio’s New Solo Strings | Home Recording Masters | Microphones, Recording Equipment and Software Reviews

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:38:09 +0000

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Comment on SCOREcast 32: Tom Salta by Thomas E Rouch

Thomas E Rouch — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:56:00 +0000

Great Podcast guys, informative and entertaining!

It was refreshing to hear Tom talk about his commitment to originality and creativity in his work.

Comment on 51 Marketing Ideas for Film Music Composers by Terry Jones

Terry Jones — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:32:00 +0000

Yes, I remember reading this one some time ago. A useful article with some great advice, definitely worth republishing, cheers!

Comment on 51 Marketing Ideas for Film Music Composers by Deane Ogden

Deane Ogden — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:26:00 +0000

People were looking for it and couldn’t find it for some reason, so we re-pub’d. ;)

Comment on 51 Marketing Ideas for Film Music Composers by Jason Savell

Jason Savell — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:23:00 +0000

Let’s do the time warp again? :)

Still a good article, though.