Excessive String Divisi

Apr 19, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration

Excessive String Divisi Many composers coming from the sample world tend to use massively split up string sections. Things like triads in the violas alone, several different violin movements at the same time etc. are very common. While this might work in the sample...

“Bells up” on French Horns

Apr 5, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration

“Bells Up” on French Horns For French Horns there is quite often seen in score sheets a request to put the “Bells up” which is supposed to give them some extra volume and brassyness. Even some sample patches are available that cover this technique. Among...

Hiding Sample Shortcomings

Mar 21, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical

Hiding Sample Shortcomings If you can not mock-up an instrument convincingly in a piece (that eventually will end up without recording of real instruments in a score) due to the lack of decent libraries or just out of the fact that this instrument can not be simulated...

“True Legato” Samples Lag

Mar 14, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical

“True Legato” Samples Lag When you’re working with true legato sample patches (where the transitions between notes have been sampled as well) be aware that depending on the instruments, the lines will always feel more or less late. Real players will always...