Andy1044

Well said, and thanks for stopping by our humble abode.

That is unfortunate, because it seems like Pro Tools 9 is 64 bit on Windows 7 and OSX past 10.6.2.

I think we need to do a sticky on sequencers.

Yeah, take any down tempo drum loop, process it with some filters, and you've essentially got that sound. No need for fancy loop libraries.

Pro Tools makes (or should make) continuous backups of your project file, try opening the most recent backup project and see if that works. If not, while Pro Tools is closed, backup and trash PT's preferences. When you reopen Pro Tools it'll rebuild the preferences for you, if settings that you were partial to were lost and the problem still persists, trash the newly created preference files and drop the old ones back in their place.

When I made the switch from Finale to Cubase a fair amount of years ago, I found the best resource was to just compose. It takes a little getting used to, composing in a sequencer, as you have to change how you approach composition, but it gets easier as you keep trying. Also, having the manual next to you at all times is a must when you're first getting used to a sequencer.

If you really want to go that route you have to export a MIDI file out of Finale and then open it in Cubase. From there you have to set up the MIDI routing and sample instruments and program the midi expression/volume/modulation so that it sounds humanistic. When working with a sequencer it's easier and faster to do everything in the sequencer and cut out the Finale step.

Wow, I didn't know it was that easy! I must be doing things wrong.

You definitely know how to program, I'll give you that. However, I can tell you that if you were submitting this to a trailer house or one of the big trailer libraries, the major note they'd give you is that the percussion isn't big enough or punchy enough to live up to the promise of the rest of the ensemble. You've also got some places where the momentum isn't really carried forward between stabs of the orchestra, though if you were to ramp up your percussion this might be fixed. Crank it, trailer music can never be too loud. You also might want to consider adding a bigger back end with a lot more editor candy (big hits and riffs etc.).

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He also had quite a sense of humor. I've heard that he once stated "[As a film composer] I'm essentially a high class prostitute...I'll do anything for money."

His score for is sublime.

It's also sometimes possible to isolate the dialogue and sound effects from the surround mix. Then you can clean up any extra music that might bleed over so that you practically have video + Dx and Fx, but no music. I used to do this back in the day for practice, though it's quite time consuming and difficult, (but not impossible), to do well. Movies without music are usually paced so as to not be conducive to scoring, ESPECIALLY if they have dialogue.

Nope. This is why he has Conrad Pope. Up until recent years where he's practically retired, even he wasn't given enough time to orchestrate his own stuff.

Use TouchOSC. Extremely easy and intuitive to use, though it will take a little bit of busy work to set up. We're planning on switching over the touch screen we currently use at the studio to two iPads running this (we've tested this with the iPad we currently have and it passes with flying colors). Because it connects directly with your computer via wifi, it's also very practical for live use (I imagine that's what you're thinking of using it for). You can add pretty much anything, knobs, faders, buttons, etc., and then assign whatever midi message you want to come out, (program change, CC data, etc.). I can't recommend it enough. Here's a little bit more information about OSC: http://opensoundcontrol.org/introduction-osc (a little bit techy).

A piece for solo violin written for my senior recital. The piece is intended to convey aspects of schizophrenia (at least to an outsider), and was written to be fairly challenging. The recording is from the performance at my recital. I uploaded a WIP of this piece a while back and it's been buried in the archives, so here it is in its final form! Enjoy! EDIT: I threw this in here since we don't really have a solo instruments sub-forum, (other than piano), so mods feel free to move it if you'd like.

There's a lot of misinformation spread around, so read this: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/ The end-all be-all to copyright.

You can always foley your own sounds as well. Then just take the wave files you create and program them into a Kontakt instrument. Boom! Custom samples.

Ahaha, I think I know somewhere where you might fit in John.... I agree with everything John's laid out, though I will add that you need to tweak your programming a bit. It's just not humanistic enough. Use expression and volume curves, and edit velocities to avoid the machine gun effect. Really get in there and edit the MIDI data.

The coup begins shortly.

Damn, I saw "New to Sampling" and got all excited and ready to have a discussion about Keymap, Kontakt, round robins, channel mapping, scripts, mic placement, recording, filter cutoffs, and velocities. And then I was disappointed.