Encore une fois excellent travail, compo magnifique avec des thèmes développés et très bien orchestrés. Un mix riche et large comme je les aime. Chapeau bas.
Ce que vous êtes vraiment superbe continuez Pour ma part j'y travaille aussi meme si je n'ai toujours rien publié et concernant Sherlock je vais essayer de mettre de nouvelles vidéos explicatives
A few comments that may help: - Negative delays do matter. Everything feels disjointed because it isn't tight enough - The mix is very harsh and flat over 1kHz - The motifs are a bit all over the place. Choose one and develop it horizontally, then introduce a counter-melody - You absolutely don't need so many different (expensive) libraries for such a simple track. It makes it as if everyone was recorded separately, in different rooms - Use dynamics a lot more, it will make the piece feel alive rather than being played by the orchestra of the dead - Copy-pasting events and writing as if it's loop-based is good to a certain degree, but except if your goal is to make bland-sounding mockups a la Anne Dern, vary them a little bit - You are using freaking Cubase! So make use of Expression Maps! No player is ever playing whole lines with a single articulation! That's what gives the MIDI away the most in this piece (hearing the beginning before I started to watch the video, I went like "Ha! That's a one-articulation-per-track guy!") - The Performance Samples libraries are noisy as shit, the VSL ones are pristine and tight: choose the character you want to give to your piece and stick to it. - Don't give up! There are a few good ideas in there that could be developed into something worthy.
Hello «Uncle Ed»; I agree for the mix; I tend to progress on that side; now I feel like it’s harsh too; but back then I didn’t have my present experience; I keed my old videos to archive my progression. For the Negative delays I agree; back then I used Negative Delay for the rhythm parts and shorts but not for chords or melodic parts; I now use it now on any track. For the expression maps; as u said it’s very good; but firstable; articulations never have the same sample delay; so it doesn’t fit this workflow; then I tend to layer marcatos and shorts on some libraries to have a better attack. That Pacific was noisy indeed; but also because of the mix; it still has one of the best legatos to me. I also reduced the amount of libraries that I use for each section. -- I don’t think the part on Anne-Kathrin Dern’s work was needed, relevant or respectful in any manner though. Still Thank you for your comment.
Hello! I use Abbey Road 1st Violins and I pitch it 2 semi tones down and transpose the midi input +2 to get a darker tone, and pan it a little closer to the middle. I layer all of it with Pacific and use Violas + bass from pacific
@@gregrobertmusic Ahh ok. so you're doing... ARO first violin (acting as first violin) ARO first violin transpose trick (acting as second violin) Pacific Violin (Layering over the first violins) ?
Congratulations Greg fantastic sound and composition, I would like to deepen with you the part of the mix and mastering, where can we feel?! I have some questions about the use of libraries. What Brass bookshop do you use? And which Fluge Horn? You earned my registration! Keep it up! 💪🏻🤗
Hello Donato ! Thank you for your comment, the Flugelhorn is from 8dio Century Brass, then, on this track, Brass section is Afflatus Brass & Cinebrass. Trumpets from Cinematic Studio Brass and Abbey Road One.
Hello, I would like to ask you, I work with Cubase, and every time I save a project backup, (I save it on a disk separate from the operating system)(I work on win 10) my local disk c, disk where I have the operating system and cubase, my c drive is filling up more and more, could you tell me why that happens to me? I don't understand it, because I am not saving the projects on the c drive. I would like to know your opinion. thank you so much.
Hello, unfortunately, I have no idea ! Maybe it is some autosaves in your AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Cubase 13_64\Project Templates if you use your template, but IDK honestly. You should check out the Steinberg Support, and make a post on the Steinberg Forum, pretty sure Martin Jirsák will try to help you.
Lol; even upgraded since then, I was on a Windows PC with 128gb ram, I'm now on a Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 192gb of unified RAM orchestral templates and samples are heavy ;)
@ bro whaaa? Haha do you wanna educate me in the ways so I can do something similar? I only have 64gb ram tho, but Cubase will crash on me after I run a bunch of kontaks
@@maximusfrank2835 You should be able to run at least 1500 disabled tracks on windows and like 100 enabled with no problem; if you have problems; I'd suggest resetting your Windows version; update or format; upgrade your CPU or Switch to Mac that is more stable and no optimisation needed (expensive though); Mainly switched to Mac for performance reasons and dropouts; had severe audio dropouts even at 2048 buffer size on projects I can now run on 192 buffer size without any trouble
Bonjour Jake! Merci pour votre commentaire en français même s'il n'était pas nécessaire de traduire j'apprécie le geste! En Strings j'utilise Abbey Road Orchestra - 1St violins et Cello, Pacific pour le reste. En Brass, Cinesamples, Afflatus, VSL SYnchron brass. En percussion, Abbey Road Orchestra & BBC Pro. Les woodwinds sont de Cinematic Studio Woodwinds, pour le mixage la suite Fabfilter et waves, ainsi que Pultec EQ de UAD et Manley Massive Passive !
Hello, atm on CPU: Ryzen 9 5900x, (hyperthreading off), 128gb ram DDR4 3600MHz, RTX 4060ti. Switching this week on a MAC Studio M2 Ultra 192gb RAM because of poor performance on Windows. Audio Interface: RME Fireface UCX II.
@@gregrobertmusicare you talking about ASIO Guard spiking out in Cubase 13? That's a cubase problem, not Windows. Other DAWs work just fine. Seems like a waste of money to switch to Mac just because of this
@@uw0tm838 Nope, just switched, projects that I couldn't run with 2048 buffer size just run perfectly fine with 192 buffer on MAC (with AsioGuard even on Normal) , Had AsioGuard Spikes & regular Audio performance peaks. Also increased a lot my loading time on my template; between 2-3mn on MAC compared to at least 25mn on my PC with the exact same external drives (not even kidding). I don't regret any $. And speaking as an Apple former hater lol (mainly for the price tag). Everything in a very tiny box 0 noise literally and it stays cold / medium temp. Also Cubase is very well optimized like Logic & pro tools. AsioGuard is not really only Cubase, it's on your specs too
Incroyable !!! Ca sonne toujours très propre ! Grosse évolution comme on aime avec changement d'ambiance et d'émotions ! Bien joué !
Wow very inspiring! I hope I can write something like this one day
Beautiful composition!!!
Thank you Augustine !
excellent, great melody, a sensational vibe, just like Two Steps From Hell
This is my therapy music.
Well done!
CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE WORK, IT IS WONDERFUL.
Thank you Rubén for your comment!
what a great piece!
Encore une fois excellent travail, compo magnifique avec des thèmes développés et très bien orchestrés. Un mix riche et large comme je les aime. Chapeau bas.
this is amazing.
Épatant, quel arrangement !! Un tres bon mixage. Je suis fan 😊😊. BRAVO
Wow nice bro, you have gotten my subscription
Bravo Greg, excellent travail! Quel plaisir à écouter!
that was dope as hell man
Super composition !
Très belle ochestration ! Bravo!
compo sympa et tres bon mix ! bravo 🙏
Merci ✌
Bro you're honorable
Bravo ! Magnifique, orchestration et production au top ! 👏
A truly excellent piece of work. 👏👏👏
damn those samples are so good love them and the piece aswell just wauw
Well done, great production and good writing. Very enjoyable
This is so good!
Excellent !
This is a fantastic piece Greg!
Thank you Antonio!
perfect, Two Steps From Hell vibes 🔥
Really good man. Lots of work. Keep it up.
This was incredible! What vst did you use for the Duduk?
Thank you for your comment, the Duduk I use is made by Ilya Efimov, really good duduk.
Awesome! Keep up the great work!
Brilliant!
🙏
Amazing
Hi, nice composition! Very well done!!
Greg you are amazing
Very nice!
This is power in the right hands. The shear integrity of the sound stopped me at my tracks.
Thank you for your comment!
Epic! Thank You!
amazing stuff mahn
Gives off some heavy Mandalorian vibes actually
I'd say it started off a bit like Alan Silvestri
@@worldlybloom Silvestri was one of the inspirations indeed for the intro ! great catch
Sehr schön!
@@MichaelPilipp Danke für den Kommentar!
Plein de très bonnes idées, c'est super
Merci beaucoup ! 😊
Super❤
plus fou que le petit qui court partout, bientôt au cinéma💪
merci vieux cul
Большая проделанная работа .✨️о
Sounds very nice bro
Ce que vous êtes vraiment superbe continuez
Pour ma part j'y travaille aussi meme si je n'ai toujours rien publié et concernant Sherlock je vais essayer de mettre de nouvelles vidéos explicatives
J'ai hâte de pouvoir entendre tout ça! Merci pour votre commentaire et bravo
Ottimo bravoooo
A few comments that may help:
- Negative delays do matter. Everything feels disjointed because it isn't tight enough
- The mix is very harsh and flat over 1kHz
- The motifs are a bit all over the place. Choose one and develop it horizontally, then introduce a counter-melody
- You absolutely don't need so many different (expensive) libraries for such a simple track. It makes it as if everyone was recorded separately, in different rooms
- Use dynamics a lot more, it will make the piece feel alive rather than being played by the orchestra of the dead
- Copy-pasting events and writing as if it's loop-based is good to a certain degree, but except if your goal is to make bland-sounding mockups a la Anne Dern, vary them a little bit
- You are using freaking Cubase! So make use of Expression Maps! No player is ever playing whole lines with a single articulation! That's what gives the MIDI away the most in this piece (hearing the beginning before I started to watch the video, I went like "Ha! That's a one-articulation-per-track guy!")
- The Performance Samples libraries are noisy as shit, the VSL ones are pristine and tight: choose the character you want to give to your piece and stick to it.
- Don't give up! There are a few good ideas in there that could be developed into something worthy.
Hello «Uncle Ed»; I agree for the mix; I tend to progress on that side; now I feel like it’s harsh too; but back then I didn’t have my present experience; I keed my old videos to archive my progression. For the Negative delays I agree; back then I used Negative Delay for the rhythm parts and shorts but not for chords or melodic parts; I now use it now on any track.
For the expression maps; as u said it’s very good; but firstable; articulations never have the same sample delay; so it doesn’t fit this workflow; then I tend to layer marcatos and shorts on some libraries to have a better attack.
That Pacific was noisy indeed; but also because of the mix; it still has one of the best legatos to me.
I also reduced the amount of libraries that I use for each section.
--
I don’t think the part on Anne-Kathrin Dern’s work was needed, relevant or respectful in any manner though.
Still Thank you for your comment.
Uncle Ed, it's nice of you to take the time to constructively critique. Do you have samples of your work that I may hear?
@@leemichaelvacaro Listen to the Grammys this year, and you will.
This is a superb composition! Melody, harmony, instrumentation/orchestration, programming, and everything in between!
Greg...-очень круто....😇 🎹🎺🎻
Спасибо, мой товарищ! Я ценю ваш комментар
wait, what's that flugelhorn in the beginning? The 8dio thing, sounds really good
8DIO Century Brass, Solo Flugelhorn patch ;) yes I like it
Are you using Abbey Road First Violins for First Violin and Pacific Violins as second violin? Sounds great btw
Hello! I use Abbey Road 1st Violins and I pitch it 2 semi tones down and transpose the midi input +2 to get a darker tone, and pan it a little closer to the middle.
I layer all of it with Pacific and use Violas + bass from pacific
to get the violins 2 from ARO*
@@gregrobertmusic Ahh ok. so you're doing...
ARO first violin (acting as first violin)
ARO first violin transpose trick (acting as second violin)
Pacific Violin (Layering over the first violins)
?
@@addd21323 yes exactly but Pacific layering the whole strings section
un autre niveau
outstanding ^^]
Congratulations Greg fantastic sound and composition, I would like to deepen with you the part of the mix and mastering, where can we feel?! I have some questions about the use of libraries. What Brass bookshop do you use? And which Fluge Horn? You earned my registration! Keep it up! 💪🏻🤗
Hello Donato ! Thank you for your comment, the Flugelhorn is from 8dio Century Brass, then, on this track, Brass section is Afflatus Brass & Cinebrass. Trumpets from Cinematic Studio Brass and Abbey Road One.
Hello, I would like to ask you, I work with Cubase, and every time I save a project backup, (I save it on a disk separate from the operating system)(I work on win 10) my local disk c, disk where I have the operating system and cubase, my c drive is filling up more and more, could you tell me why that happens to me? I don't understand it, because I am not saving the projects on the c drive. I would like to know your opinion. thank you so much.
Hello, unfortunately, I have no idea ! Maybe it is some autosaves in your AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Cubase 13_64\Project Templates if you use your template, but IDK honestly.
You should check out the Steinberg Support, and make a post on the Steinberg Forum, pretty sure Martin Jirsák will try to help you.
Oh, thanks my friend.ok
Wow, that was amazing! May I ask which VST do you use for the duduk?
Thank you Kirasi ! Just realized that I didn't mention the ethnic woodwinds, it is all from Ventus by Impact Soundworks!
@@gregrobertmusic Thanks! I am currently checking the ilya efimov one, and will check the one you used right after! Been wanting to get one myself.
Ilya Efimov is also very good, I just didn't mind and chose this one :D@@KirasiN91
How many different tracks/virtual instruments did you use?
I would say close to a hundred
@@gregrobertmusicbut in the video there are over 400 tracks…
@@RaymondDoerr yes, around 400 tracks enabled, I meant tracks with data on it.
😮 1:47
🔥🔥🔥
Greg...а где скчать партитуру? у меня BBC Core и SpitFire Albion.Думаю что справлюсь...спасибо...🎹🎺🎻
Bro has a million mb of ram
Lol; even upgraded since then, I was on a Windows PC with 128gb ram, I'm now on a Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 192gb of unified RAM orchestral templates and samples are heavy ;)
@ bro whaaa? Haha do you wanna educate me in the ways so I can do something similar? I only have 64gb ram tho, but Cubase will crash on me after I run a bunch of kontaks
@@maximusfrank2835 You should be able to run at least 1500 disabled tracks on windows and like 100 enabled with no problem; if you have problems; I'd suggest resetting your Windows version; update or format; upgrade your CPU or Switch to Mac that is more stable and no optimisation needed (expensive though); Mainly switched to Mac for performance reasons and dropouts; had severe audio dropouts even at 2048 buffer size on projects I can now run on 192 buffer size without any trouble
quels plugins utilisez-vous?
Bonjour Jake! Merci pour votre commentaire en français même s'il n'était pas nécessaire de traduire j'apprécie le geste! En Strings j'utilise Abbey Road Orchestra - 1St violins et Cello, Pacific pour le reste. En Brass, Cinesamples, Afflatus, VSL SYnchron brass. En percussion, Abbey Road Orchestra & BBC Pro. Les woodwinds sont de Cinematic Studio Woodwinds, pour le mixage la suite Fabfilter et waves, ainsi que Pultec EQ de UAD et Manley Massive Passive !
Brother your PC configuration
Hello, atm on CPU: Ryzen 9 5900x, (hyperthreading off), 128gb ram DDR4 3600MHz, RTX 4060ti. Switching this week on a MAC Studio M2 Ultra 192gb RAM because of poor performance on Windows. Audio Interface: RME Fireface UCX II.
@@gregrobertmusic great
@@gregrobertmusicare you talking about ASIO Guard spiking out in Cubase 13? That's a cubase problem, not Windows. Other DAWs work just fine. Seems like a waste of money to switch to Mac just because of this
@@uw0tm838 Nope, just switched, projects that I couldn't run with 2048 buffer size just run perfectly fine with 192 buffer on MAC (with AsioGuard even on Normal) , Had AsioGuard Spikes & regular Audio performance peaks. Also increased a lot my loading time on my template; between 2-3mn on MAC compared to at least 25mn on my PC with the exact same external drives (not even kidding). I don't regret any $. And speaking as an Apple former hater lol (mainly for the price tag). Everything in a very tiny box 0 noise literally and it stays cold / medium temp. Also Cubase is very well optimized like Logic & pro tools. AsioGuard is not really only Cubase, it's on your specs too
Nice track p'tit bum!!!
The percussive elements sound brighter than they should be, and they seem a little bit out of texture & mood.
This sounds like a two steps from hell song lol
amazing