Screencast #1: Live Composition in Under 8 minutes

[rcarrillo7]

Do you have the complete VSL library?

[Flashmasta12]

Fable music 0_0 Awesome!

[MIND4eva]

Except the screaming children: perfect :)

[VartioH]

Really cool stuff... I love watching these.

The piece sort of reminds me of "The Arrival Of Tink And Flight To Neverland" from The Hook... it's somewhere around 1.50 I think.

[DedPeasant]

Very Elfman-ish... but cool. Corpse Bride specifically, maybe a little james and the giant peach as well.. very nice indeed. Obviously your children are an inspiration

;-)

[audiotrax2000]

This is so useful! I can't thank you enough for sharing this. Takes the mystery out of composing is right. :)  I'm attempting to approach this, converting your techniques to MIDI guitar. Should be interesting.....

[jbannon01]

Sounded a bit like Harry Potter. Nice though.

[viksharma2009]

You sir are MAGNIFICENT! This has inspired me to chase my dream of composing for infomercials. Ok, all joking aside, your skills are impeccable and I will follow your work from here on. Bravo!!

[IAmMichaelMyers]

what are the main orchestra samples that you use?

[osho904]

Very Nice MIke :)

[majin2912]

composer, what keyboard controller do you use?

[getakshat]

simply awesome.. you are a great composer let me tell u and seem a nice guy.. thanks a ton for sharing this.. and keep uploading please.. one more fan in ur fan club from India..

[geetarguy57]

i litterally typed that 3 seconds before you said, hmm very danny elfmanish

[geetarguy57]

very danny elfman like

[Stoney3K]

6:20 When in doubt, add more percussion?

[Maleshevich]

you should have played the whole thing once more at the end...

[pcpaulius]

What's the brand name of that keyboard ?

[poklar]

This is awesome! What software are you using?

[ThePiano1991]

Well done, fantastic! What software is that that you are using and how much can I expect to pay for such software. At the moment I am using sibelius, which is good for notation, how ever the intrument quality is not amazing.

[DaveHealey1]

How do you arrange all those string parts for a real orchestra?

Dave :)

[VeritasNosLiberabit]

Great job!

[jamesclarke40]

Love it! I've just started to learn how to compose orchestrated music and I found this very informative!

[MikeHall683]

idk why... but this reminds me of a comp from schindler's list haha

[jeremiahjw]

You are amazing, I love it!

[Oerzwijntje]

I can watch you do this all day

[ayahuascatrip]

Thanks, this helps me so much. Great work!

[malve3lxr]

Amazing... i hate you man!!! :( (I don´t, it´s a joke)

[abelizable]

you layered this composition beautifully

[StudioF]

this could easy be in one of the godfather movies. great job. absolutly 5

[ollie0918]

what program are you using?

[FerNa14488]

Digital Performer

[zenmachinefilms]

Awesome vid Mike, thanks so much for sharing.

[DowntimeSeb]

Absolutely amazing work, thanks for sharing it with us! PS: Very impressive template!

Cheers,

Seb

[synerjee]

Very impressive - well done! How is memory management done; have you loaded up all instruments simultaneously or do you have it streaming from disk, or maybe farmed out to other headless workstations? When I had to write an orchestral composition, Kontakt 3's memory demands brought my computer to its knees.

[c0mp0ser]

I have a tutorial here called "Orchestral Film Scoring Template with Bidule and DP." You just have to make sure you change the DFD settings in Kontakt to not load as much into ram.

[synerjee]

Thanks for that, it made a lot of things clear. I wish I would've known this earlier. You've got a great collection of videos!

[bluelighttraffic]

As someone who aspires to be a film composer it is really cool to see the process and your kit. Still saving for the Mac DP set up...

[rick4554]

so cool, imagine beathoven and those guys had this thing?

[c0mp0ser]

lol maybe??

But i personally believe that they would have been film composers if they were around today.

[JCLYT3]

They are! They're here among us, and they are Film Composers! Wonderful work, Mike. Can we have your equipment list?

[Stoney3K]

@c0mp0ser Except for Vivaldi: He would be doing the lead guitar on Iron Maiden.

[thijsnetwork]

@rick4554 LOL @ 'beathoven'

[brokenland]

Very cool!

[markbnyc76]

Nice!

[plastikman2]

Loved it!