In this video I’ll take you for a walk in Switzerland and talk about orchestration. A rather difficult topic for many of us. Maybe because you’re not familiar with it yet. Or you have the idea that you need to study it at a music school or university before you know anything about orchestration. This […]
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Walkthrough Awakening
In this video I go in depth. I’ll talk about the concepts of dynamics, balancing, panning and EQ clean up. Very important basic concepts. Concepts that you need to apply to create realistic orchestral midi mockups. I use my orchestral music track Awakening for this walkthrough. Don’t forget to hit that like button if you […]
EQ Clean Up
EQ, equalisation, is a powerful concept that you can use before you even started composing orchestral music (or music in general). Before you even wrote any note in your Digital Audio Working station. Use EQ as a clean up tool for every instrument in your composition and get rid of unwanted frequencies. This will boost […]
Moon – Score This 8Dio
8Dio LLC celebrates the Moon Landing during the Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s. NASA sent nine missions to the Moon, six of them landed astronauts safely on the surface. With this score I wanted to celebrate the mystery of the Blood Moon. Last year we had a beautiful experience in The Netherlands with […]
Panning explained
Panning is in it most simple explanation nothing more or less than positioning instruments in a room: left, centre and right. In this video I’ll lay out the principles of this concept in more detail. And I give you some quick wins – tips – how to get the most out of the panning concept. […]