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My BIG question is how are you doing with Divisi Mate?!

5:57 velocity is a source of many mistakes when we begin. Also the daws are not programmed for the way we use velocity , or at least the way i do…

Great stuff, love your vibe! Really insightful.

They are really arranging mistakes, not composing mistakes... except maybe No.5.

I flesh out an idea which will be a peak part of the track, then work my way outward front to back. I have no idea where its going to take me

Thanks Vince for the useful tips, I became your new subscriber and accept my compliment for your music, I am delighted! I would like to share another good way (my favorite) to make the process of loading presets easier. I set up the track instrument (eq, compression, saturation, etc.) the same way as you do, but I write down a few notes or a pattern and then create an Apple loop from it, so it becomes possible to listen (preview) the AIFF right in the project, but when you drag this AIFF (Apple loops) to the track instrument, it becomes not audio but already midi, but with all my settings. This trick also works great with Vienna Ensemble Pro - samples and plugins are loaded on another computer. And when I need, for example, cello staccato, but I don't know from which library what will suit me best in a new BBC, EWQL, HZ or CSS project, then I just listen to pre-created Apple loops from different libraries and drag it to the instrument track. Also, these loops are sorted by categories (folders) and are not stored on the system HDD. You can also assign Apple loops library icons for visual comfort, but then I use AudioFinder or Finder mac OS for this. This method is also useful when I only need audio, for example Cyball Rolls (so as not to load plugins), then I just drag it to the audio track, if I need midi, then to the instrument track. It works both ways. In the same way, it is very convenient to select long instruments (drones, pads, etc.) I hope my experience will be useful for you and the viewers of the channel.

Umm, is your video mirrored? That clock on the right and the velocity controls on the keyboard look weird. All vanity aside - I'd much prefer to see the instruments the right way than your fringes.

i don't see stacking plugins & playing with processing & doing a bunch of automation & tricks to get a weird abstract sound you have in your head as a distraction? why does it have to be "getting lost?" couldn't it just be part of the process as a composer? why does experimental sound design not count as an important part of the song? if you spend time on writing melodies & progressions, i don't see how having a field day with processing wouldn't just be one in the same. "what if i click this, what if i click that..." this is how we become inspired! this is how we discover! this is how we challenge ourselves! this is how we innovate! when i get on calls with clients i typically encourage them to do this stuff. not to the point of ruining the project of course.

I like your videos very much. Brief - accurate - correct and comprehensive and very practical. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

You're channel is really amazing. Love your aprouch to compose music. Thank you. Cheers, from Brazil.

Interesting, can't you explain where your customers find You or You them?

Some good approaches in there Vince .. thanks 🙏 nice video

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Be careful with the vodka mate. it's about to spill

Very well made video, lots of great info! Thanks for the insight :D

Come on, pal, we all know that live players yield better results than virtual instruments. The real problem is clients want things to sound like fine musicians recorded in a good studio, with high quality mics and kit operated by an experienced engineer - but they don't want to pay any extra for it. So we do our best with the samples, which takes a lot of time and skill.

It is hard to follow the Text with the music in the background

Why is your video frames mirrored?

My main mistake is trying to compose in the first place.

Dude! I've been dreaming about a universal velocity control for a while now. I usually play my drums in on the Maschine but some libraries just don't work well with any of the internal velocity settings. I recently picked up Concussion from Crow Hill and they have a very similar velocity control inside the instrument. I figured something like that would be possible in Scriptor. I even checked thinking it may already exist as one of the stock midi plugins. But thats pretty much been my limit so far with Scriptor. I did attempt to generate some script with ChatGPT when it first came out but that failed miserably. That probably contributed to my aversion toward Scriptor if I'm being honest. But I'm pretty confident I can handle copying in some existing code. Very cool find!

Really good information. Thank you

On a Green Moon reminds me a lot of Goron City from BotW - awesome energy!

Good tips. 9:31 Absolutely. Big yes to this. A walk and a digital recorder do wonders for freeing the creative bent. I reckon it's a two way process that often meets somewhere near the middle. Outside in which is external noodling with sounds for ideas and inspiration etc and inside out which is where the gestation process bubbles away and then breaks out. The whole creative process is fascinating.

I kept getting bogged down until I separated "tech" days when I improve the setup, from "flow" days when I just roll with its limitations and jot notes for the next "tech" day.

I found your channel through one of your videos performing with the SWAM library (it was very helpful to me). I just finished watching this video, It's incredible how much it's helping me organize a lot of information and ideas that I have about it but I still couldn't incorporate into my daily practice, I didn't know how. It's very important to be methodical and you helped me a lot by sharing your insights. Thank you so much!!!

I really loved this, thank you very much! Very inspiring ✌

Congratulations! Great insights!

Hey Vince, I have the same breath controller as you, but I can't get it to sound as smooth. May I ask how have you setup your curves?

Excellent! Thank you!

Another interesting technical foray. Never a dull moment here. Fascinating to hear how folk perceive modal nuances. PS 37:59. No need to apologise, Vince. It always amuses me when jazz improvisation drifts into the 'twilight zone' with an occasional wrongun and they repeat it just to let you know that it was accidently on purpose :). PPS - By the way, you might like Bell & Bone VST (trumpet) by Libre Wave, assuming you don't already know about/have it. It's a freebie. Really versatile and great for Jazz inspired ideas.

Thank you - that helped unstick my brain on moving between different types of minor scales.

Vince, I thought melodic minor has a descending same as natural minor.

I love you content, thanks for creating it

Vince, I love the way you articulate stuff. BTW your video is reversed.. left hand shows on the right side. Enjoying your video a lot!!

Absolutely amazing. I really like this approach of composing orchestral music. Thank you

That is amazing ❤

This works really well, Vince. I can just picture that random swooping shape shifting formation. 14:23 Definite earthy folk undertones which give it a wonderful dark texture. Shades of the rather macabre string arrangement (The Gravel Road) by James Newton Howard in the film noir, 'The Village'. Just wonder whether Col Legno (bass) counter rhythms would work well in place of percussion to firm up the string thing depiction of the wholesome image of a murmuration of Starlings.

Vince! Hello - which breath control are you using? many thanks.

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Beautiful! What breath controller do you use?

There is a key command for saving patches, but it's easy to miss because instead of "Save as Patch" it's called simply "Save...". It's in the Library section of the key commands editor. Unfortunately this means that it only works when the Library has key focus. Moreover there seems to be a bug. For me, in Logic 11, it doesn't work when you first open the Library, even though the Library does then have key focus. It only works if you tab to another pane and then back to the Library!

Love the percussion section. That cycles hit is amazing

I really enjoy these music breakdowns. In terms of bass for cinematic music I would love to hear your opinion and views. I tend to use too often very low notes on the cello or contrabass for too long on a track. I think that should occur on a certain moment only but I keep making that mistake. Do you have tips to structure/arranging a track without overuse the same ranges?

It's really rare to come across someone on YT who can really make sense of what he's doing and play to the musicality of the plugin on hand, instead of just smashing some keys to make them sound as unnatural as possible Many thanks Vince pls keep doing what you're doing (and by the way you con'Vinvced😊 me to by the SWAM String Sections) Could you advise what external reverb your were using in this demo?

Great!

Another one century old music.

Hey Vince! Loved this vid and great to peek behind the scene to hear the all of the elements involved. So pretty and well done. Bravo!

This is lovely work, Vince. Very nice!