Andy1044

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Seconded. Though I don't really need anyone to do my mockups for me.