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Lovely work Jeff! I was wondering how you got the BBCSO strings to not sound screechy

Really well done, Jeff. I appreciate your interpretation very much. I've mentioned this on other entries I've seen pop up on YT, but it bears repeating here, that with every musical interpretation of this film, it seems to tell a different story. Without a director or a clear intention for how the audience should feel in a given scene, we're left to our own devices to create our own "emotional roadmap" in terms of how we want our music to make the audience feel- which has yielded some wildly creative results! (including this unique and professional score). I understand the frustration of obsessing over production details like the challenges of YT compression, but rest assured this sounds super clean and well-produced. Best of luck with it

Interesting orchestration...It reminded me of some Tim Burton movies...I really like the final part when the flower grows and the credits...Well done! Good luck in the competition. I submitted mine few days ago too...👍

Great work - very lively and colorful! 👍

👍👍👍

Hello Jeff, this is "the" Harry you talk about. That culmination point at about 1:25 is now more transparent, I think. I say, I think because without actual comparison it is hard to be definite. It is all in the very little details. What does that tape simulator give you more? Or in other words, give us more? I know already your score for the scoring contest you talk about (hear hear people, after january 15th, it is really very good!) and in that score you don't use that tape simulator I believe, and in terms of mixing/mastering it is superb. Does there exist some kind of super superb, or are we gonna meat the elephant in the Zimmer (smiley)? I have watched that link you mention: "Film scoring harmony for composers" and I can recommend that video to all of us composers. Various eye openers in there, also for experienced composers. And recently I discover a more adventurous approach in your writing with harmony, melody, leading voice dissonances. And I like that. And what you have is musical ideas paired to strict form. It is the american composer William Grant Still who said somewhere: in music composition the heart/feeling/emotion must be a leading factor, but there is one aspect of music that has to be approached with the brain in an intellectual way, and that is form. Happy 2025!

You do such amazing work Jeff. Thank you for sharing !!!

AMAZING!!!

👍👍👍interesting piano sounds. I like it😊

Nicely done. I also have miroire. Where did you learn baroque orchestration?

Beautiful composition and so well produced too! Sounds gorgeous! Jóhann Jóhannssonn is one of my favourite composers so really appreciated this. Would be so cool to hear more from this work, if you every uplad more. Thanks for sharing! 🙂

Sounds amazing! 🎉

Sehr schöne Umsetzung!

Wauw Jeff! Prachtig weer!

You're one hell of a composer, dude.

Fantastisch muziekstuk, heerlijk om naar te luisteren. Ook mooie foto's erbij. Ik ben pas een week geleden begonnen met het gebruik van orchestral libraries in mijn voorheen synthesizer-only muziek, en hoewel ik de kennis niet heb voel ik al wel wat het geluid met me doet. Fijn dat ik je gevonden heb, Jeff, ik ben meteen geabonneerd.

Love it, really expressive, well done! Cheers

awesome

sometimes I come back on TH-cam just to listen to this awesome composition...well done Jeff!

Interesting! It's like a microscopic view of all the harmony and rhythmic elements.

Wow. Just wow…

Beautiful piece!

Van harte gefeliciteerd Jeff. Wat een mooi klankenspectrum heb je hier neergezet. Luistertip (maar misschien ken je het al): de soundtrack die Hans Zimmer maakte voor 'Hannibal'. Vriendelijk gegroet!

prophet 6 vs rev 2 , any thoughts dude ?

Wow! What a great job! Beautiful piece! I've added it to my playlist "BBCSO", and I only add the very best BBCSO mockups to it!

BBC Spitfire est le vsti le plus proche à mon sens des « vrais » instruments orchestrales. Je n’utilise que lui…Très belle compo, bravo !

Gorgeous work. You’re inspiring me to publish mine now. Thank you. That cello isn’t the easiest to program IMO.

Jeff, You run! With making beautifull music in such a short amount of time 🎉

Mooie muziek om mijn dag op een positieve wijze af te sluiten ♡

Fantastisch weer Jeff! Een vrolijk energiek magisch feest🎉

Amazing... 👏

This is a great composition sounds awesome, best regards

Amazing. This inspired me to compose something with this library! Do you have any recommendations for reverbs , or would you think it could be fine without reverbs as well?

What a gorgeous sound and such a beautiful composition.

Beautiful👍👍👍

Absolutely beautiful. May i suggest considering bohemian cello for solo cello parts?

Hey Jeff can we get an extended version of this please!?

So beautiful!

Beautiful writing and production!

This is far more better. I gave you the tip to change something with the two lower voices, the celli and the contrabasses, these are doubled. I am a pianist, and when a good pianist plays low octaves he emphasizes the top note in the thumb. In most cases octaves on the piano sound better then and are less muddy or not muddy at all. The lower note with the fifth finger just supports that upper note relatively soft. This 'knowledge' can be transformed to orchestral writing too. Now, after you changed the balance in favour of the celli the octave distance can be heard, perceived, and the overall mix is more transparent even only after this change. In my ears, but that is also a question of taste, the piece will benefit from a somewhat higher tempo, adagietto or something like that. It is a littlebit 'german-schleppend' now, in my ears it could be a littlebit more rameau-french. But, as said, question of taste.

Lovely.

It's very impressive... It's sound realistic, as it's very beautiful. I've one question : do you use your send reverb on post of pre?

Blows my mind how you're getting so much mileage out of such a limited pallet. Whenever I'm deciding whether to invest in a new sample library, I always imagine whether I could make a career out of using it and only it. And man, your work is getting me close to feeling that way about Tallinn.

Man, you got so much out of just a few patches. Really great use of the tools!

Beautiful composition! I'm just in the dilemma of which library to buy, I want both taking advantage that they are on sale, but for now I can only buy one. Which one do you recommend? I'm still a beginner in this

Je eerste lange stuk? Het is subtiel en krachtig. Steeds weer verrassend, energiek. Heel fijn om naar te luisteren. Dank voor jouw mooie werk.😊

Considering that the miroire library is rather unruly (searching for the english equivalent of 'weerbarstig'), in other words somewhat difficult to make it sound convincing, this is a brilliant work of mixing and mastering. The composition itself with those lots of embellishing baroque-like voices and polyphony is very pleasant for the ear. The choice by the way to mix the string parts on the left as well on the right is a good mixing choice I believe. About the contrapunt, it is really the 'real thing' but there is one spot at 0:32 and 0:33 where I imagine my former contrapunt teacher saying with his nasal voice: 'kwintparallel mag nie' (no parallel fifth allowed). Perhaps I would have tried the base line not do do F-E-D but F-A-D. Or perhaps not...

Beautiful! 🎉

Thank you for this beautiful piece Jeff, inspires me to write.

Brilliant! This proves that theory is necessary !