Orchestral Film Scoring Template with Bidule and DP

Some folks have asked about this, so I made a little screencast of it.
http://www.cinesamples.com
http://www.mikepatti.com

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• digital
• performer
• bidule
• midi
• orchestration
• film
• music

[Rani9000]

what is the keyboard you're using please? weighted keys?

thanks

[c0mp0ser]

Yamaha P80

[ixionelectrifier]

MIKE HOW ON EARTH ARE YOU ABLE TO HAVE ALL THOSE VST INSTRUMENTS OPEN WITH ALTIVERB? Please tell me, what is your Mac Spec? Is Digital Performer 64bit yet? Im on PC

Great stuff tho Mike, great stuff!

[zerobeat18]

Does there exist Windows machines that are monster workhorses like the high end MacPros, which has 8 CPUs and can handle 32GB RAM?

[c0mp0ser]

I really don't know. I'm sure there is. I've seen side-by-side comparisons and they end up costing about the same. Except one has the superior operating system ;)

[c0mp0ser]

I have an 8-core Mac with 8 gigs of ram. I know, I'm as impressed as you! DP is not and may never be fully 64-bit any time soon.

[pulseforce]

@pulseforce Alright, to anyone reading this, I found an answer to this on another video of his. The reason for the external Bidule template is to quickly be able to swap songs without having to reload libraries. It's an alright reason, but anyone doing this needs to remember that Bidule has no PDC (Plugin Delay Compensation), so virtual instruments and effects hosted in Bidule will not be sample accurate WHATSOEVER. Then there's also that problem of template changes affecting all past projects.

[pulseforce]

Why are you loading the libraries in Bidule? There are definite pros and cons to this. Cons: If you change ANYTHING, EVERY old composition will sound different in those areas. Pros: You can keep every project up to date as IMPROVEMENTS to mapping will propagate to everything; past and future. You can also load different songs extremely quickly since the songs themselves are just MIDI projects and don't have to re-load virtual instruments. Perhaps you see the pros as more important than the cons?

[skellez83]

HELLO! Great video, great stuff, as usual. I am building my own template, I have 4 VSL ensemble. Everything is smooth, but the fourth Vienna ensemble freezes while loading! I'm on iMac i7 3.4 ghz 16GB ram. Any idea why?!

[PrestonandShaffer]

I know this may seem like a dumb question to a lot of people, but I'm kinda ignorant on the subject. What hardware are you using that I see on the table in front of you (behind the keyboard). I noticed in some of your other videos that you used it for mod wheel and volume control. Is it a mixer of some sort?

[rhinovamp]

Did anyone hear him fart at :25???

[soulviasound]

@ixionelectrifier It's about how many instance you use in the same time. Usually in film scoring, music have a bigger macrodynamic , so not so many instance in the same time.

[pantokrator1988]

what vst's are u using ?? for orchestra ??

[theguyi26]

i did not understand the part about where you can record multiple tracks in one take. you only have one keyboard so why does it matter that you have all the instruments record-enabled in the same take?

[D0rkM4n]

Wow, pretty nice tutorial! Got some impressions here. :)

But there's a little question: Do you use different values of the dry/wet-mix in the different instances of Altiverb of the main auxes? Or are they all set to 100% wet?

Thanks alot

Tim S. Fischer

[peppersax]

All this is pretty impressive, but there's no real instruction on the setup.