Content on how to make virtual instruments sound realistic is scarce on the Internet. The fact that this course is going to be provided entirely for free is a massive W for all amateur composers that don't have the luxury to work with real orchestras and/or multi-instrumentists. I will be waiting impatiently for Episode 2. Good job, EastWest!
In general, what makes a sound sound 'midi' to people or keyboardish is the lack of variation. You do not want a sample to sound as if it's looping or have any moment in where it's the same as any moment before. Important factors are in between notes you want natural recorded transitions (true legato), and also dynamic reverb can mold a sound (the longer a note is held it will expand as it bounces off the walls of a room). Any kind of staccato, spiccato/short articulation of an instrument you want to have round robin at least x4 or above.
Dear EastWest and Ryan Thomas, what you're doing now can be best described as "Generous". You're literally doing a free online course with each video lasts around 30 mins or more. Most online education YT vids are 6 or 10 mins max and the material is empty. Thank you so much for doing this. With that said, I grabbed your sweet offer of HOOPUS plus forbidden planet so that I can put everything in practice. Thanks again 👍
The 7-lesson series of the EastWest Academy is very helpful, and summarizes multiple production and none production aspects, I really appreciate your effort on this
I only just got Composer Cloud a few days ago and found that it's way bigger than I was expecting and I felt a bit out of my depth. This is exactly what I need.
I am using EW Composer Cloud + for one year now. It's great. I was waiting for this Academy. Because it helps a lot to explore EW. 🎹🎺🎻Greetz from Amsterdam
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 This is the video that sold me the notification bell. I'm hitting that bell like there's no tomorrow. Absolutely LOVE that you're doing this. Can't wait for more.
Loooooooveeee it!!!!!!! I use EastWest for my learning path on Film Scoring and this videos will be of immense help using your libraries. I'm so exited with this amazing surprise. Looking forward to more of this.
I am so glad you are doing this series. Please keep this going. I've composed for a long time, but I have a LOT to learn about MIDI, and the differences among sound libraries. This type of content is really helpful. Thank you for a great video.
Kudos to you, Ryan, and to EastWest for providing this value-add resource. Love the reminder about assigning macros to the mod wheel - Opus has a lot of power under the hood. Please keep the videos coming!
Ryan, thanks so much. It's like having a coach right by my side. Your presentations are always winsome and pleasant. Thanks so much and anticipating more wonderful instructions.
So glad for this series! Not only that, I found out that I hadn't set up my interface correctly and I've been monitoring and referencing in mono for months. When you did the pan, I'm like, "Wait... this is mono!" DOH! Fixed, thanks to this vid
Been waiting for a series covering these very issues. Well done. Tidy. The right information. I figured out a lot of this stuff but you’re filling gaps in my understanding. Keep it up!
Ryan, I have to say that you are my mentor, and I still use eastwest instruments since 5 years when I have started my career as music composer. Thanks a lot my friend for your amazing work, and thanks to eastwest to be there for such a long time 😁🙏
great video!!! I, who started with opus east west, had a lot of questions about making my instruments more realistic. This first introduction helped me a lot.
Excellent tutorial! I am a new user of Opus. The part on key switches answered a question I have been struggling with on how to automate articulation changes within one instrument. Now I know! Thank you so much. I look forward to seeing some of your other tutorials!
Thanks a lot. This is so great and I'm glad that you are doing this academy series. I love working with EastWest's virtual instruments and the quality is awesome.
Very interesting video that helps a lot in learning and knowing Opus deeply... Thanks for the help and looking forward the next videos...Hi from France
Very nicely presented. I love my EW orchestra but haven’t had the time to learn the different facets to maximise its use - from this first training video I’ve learnt valuable things am confident that I’ll learn ever more valuable things as the series progresses. Thanks!
Excellent presentation - so clear and understandable. East West has amazing sounds and an EastWest Academy will help me so much in understanding the finer aspects of the instruments. Thank you- can't wait for the next one.
Great video and very descriptive for us blind people. Keep em coming. By the way, the new edition of Opus released today is very accessible to me now. Just a few more adjustments needed but you’ve got me sold
Looks great! I hope there's video that goes in-depth with orchestral mixing and microphone manipulation. I feel like those topics get overlooked a lot in instructional videos despite how important they are.
Awesome, definitely looking forward to more! That articulation at the end would be amazing to get working (using reaper which to my knowledge has nothing like that.) I tried both the reaper BRSO (outdated and not supported) and Reaticlate which was ok but it broke other stuff for me so I ultimately had to uninstall it. Definitely not as simple as highlighting a note and setting the articulation which is.... how simple it should be.
great tutorial Ryan,looking forward to the next one,always have some troubles in making virtual instruments sound realistic these videos will help considerably,i also love the way you present your tutorials,they are very easy to understand,a lot of other content creators videos are too complex sometimes for a amateur to understand,thanx again Ryan and thanx EW for this free course,cheers mate
Excellent, merci Ryan ! C'est tout à fait avec ce genre de tuto qu'il est possible de progresser. Par contre, il serait bien de proposer à chaque fois, 1 sujet très précis, 1 vidéo courte.
Excellent video. It's great this series is starting. It has clarified some concepts for me and I have learned a lot. I think they can help us get more out of our EW libraries. Thanks!!!!!!!
Thanks Ryan and EastWest, this was a great video! I look forward to the next "Academy"! Like some other commenters here have suggested, I too would appreciate an Opus/Logic template similar to the Spitfire BBCSO offerings. Would Ryan be willing to share his file? Can't wait for the next episode! Thanks again!
How did you pull up the articulation drop down menu in the Logic Pro editor window? The articulation drop down menu is right below the scale quantize menu in your editor window, but I don't see it in my Logic Pro 10.8. How do I bring up the Articulation drop down menu so I can trigger key switch automation?
Content on how to make virtual instruments sound realistic is scarce on the Internet. The fact that this course is going to be provided entirely for free is a massive W for all amateur composers that don't have the luxury to work with real orchestras and/or multi-instrumentists. I will be waiting impatiently for Episode 2. Good job, EastWest!
In general, what makes a sound sound 'midi' to people or keyboardish is the lack of variation. You do not want a sample to sound as if it's looping or have any moment in where it's the same as any moment before. Important factors are in between notes you want natural recorded transitions (true legato), and also dynamic reverb can mold a sound (the longer a note is held it will expand as it bounces off the walls of a room). Any kind of staccato, spiccato/short articulation of an instrument you want to have round robin at least x4 or above.
I’m one of those guys!!! I can fake what I know a little bit but I have a low vocabulary in this world!!!
Dear EastWest and Ryan Thomas, what you're doing now can be best described as "Generous". You're literally doing a free online course with each video lasts around 30 mins or more. Most online education YT vids are 6 or 10 mins max and the material is empty. Thank you so much for doing this.
With that said, I grabbed your sweet offer of HOOPUS plus forbidden planet so that I can put everything in practice.
Thanks again
👍
The quality of EastWest is Unmatched!!
A billion times... thank you!!!
Thank you for these videos. I am VERY new to working with virtual instruments and I am as novice as you can get.
We all start off somewhere, it’s all about the musical journey.
Thank you for the great videos, I love composer cloud and the Opus engine.
The 7-lesson series of the EastWest Academy is very helpful, and summarizes multiple production and none production aspects, I really appreciate your effort on this
I only just got Composer Cloud a few days ago and found that it's way bigger than I was expecting and I felt a bit out of my depth. This is exactly what I need.
Yay! This is so exciting!
I am using EW Composer Cloud + for one year now. It's great. I was waiting for this Academy. Because it helps a lot to explore EW. 🎹🎺🎻Greetz from Amsterdam
My whole life all summed up in 3 minutes... im running out of tears, thanks!
Most excellent! I look forward to the next video in the series.
Yeessss this is amazing
So, so grateful and excited that y'all are offering this course! Can't wait for the next episode.
Super endeavor EW! Looking forward to all of this series and thank you Ryan!
fantastic start to my new favourite series on TH-cam :)
Great ! Great! Great! kind of video about This great virtual instrument . Thank you so much Ryan to put this good VI within our reach.
This series is very welcome and a great start to it is this video.
Thank you.
Fabulous, so much looking forward to this! 😁
Maybe the most valuable video on TH-cam! Great work!
Being new to EastWest, this is indispensable as a means for learning. Look forward to more in this series. Thanks Ryan.
Excellent! Thanks EW for taking the time to make these valuable tutorials! I'm hooked!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 This is the video that sold me the notification bell. I'm hitting that bell like there's no tomorrow. Absolutely LOVE that you're doing this. Can't wait for more.
So much easier to understand than reading a manual. The examples following each explanation are perfect.
Loooooooveeee it!!!!!!!
I use EastWest for my learning path on Film Scoring and this videos will be of immense help using your libraries. I'm so exited with this amazing surprise. Looking forward to more of this.
I am so glad you are doing this series. Please keep this going. I've composed for a long time, but I have a LOT to learn about MIDI, and the differences among sound libraries. This type of content is really helpful. Thank you for a great video.
Kudos to you, Ryan, and to EastWest for providing this value-add resource. Love the reminder about assigning macros to the mod wheel - Opus has a lot of power under the hood. Please keep the videos coming!
Very informative - one of the best introductions to virtual instruments - ever!
Wow iv'e been wating for those kind of videos from you guys thank you so much!
EastWest will never stop surprising us with how firm they stand next to us who buy their products and subsriptions. Thank you EW.
Thank You Very Much!
🙂🙏
👍 Looking forward to see more
Ryan, thanks so much. It's like having a coach right by my side. Your presentations are always winsome and pleasant. Thanks so much and anticipating more wonderful instructions.
Good rudimentary stuff. Looking forward to more!
great video! i'm a composer student with a student license for eastweast plug-ins and this vidio have helped me a lot :'D
Thank you ! Thank you ! I'm looking forward for your video about microphones ! And also, I was wondering how to set the midi macros... no longer. 👏👏
Thank you Ryan for sharing all those precious tips and tricks with us!!
So glad for this series! Not only that, I found out that I hadn't set up my interface correctly and I've been monitoring and referencing in mono for months. When you did the pan, I'm like, "Wait... this is mono!" DOH! Fixed, thanks to this vid
Great to hear!
Been waiting for a series covering these very issues. Well done. Tidy. The right information. I figured out a lot of this stuff but you’re filling gaps in my understanding. Keep it up!
Thanks for the content, i am new in the EastWest Wrold and this Video is really getting me into this fantastic atmosphere
awesome. been wanting east west to make some more serious tuts for along time. looking forward to the next heap of the series. thanks
Absolutely brilliant. Hope to see the next videos as soon as possible
Ryan, I have to say that you are my mentor, and I still use eastwest instruments since 5 years when I have started my career as music composer. Thanks a lot my friend for your amazing work, and thanks to eastwest to be there for such a long time 😁🙏
This is great, Ryan! Well done - and thank you EW for producing this series ... Looking forward to continuing 🙂
Oh man, just seeing your template gave me steps to take from my redundancy in workflow. The articulation matrix is great.
great video!!! I, who started with opus east west, had a lot of questions about making my instruments more realistic. This first introduction helped me a lot.
Wonderful … Thanks man … a video with full information to gain
will be waiting for more from East West Academy 😊
Outstanding! Thank you East West! I look forward to future videos.
This is gold. Thank you so much guys!
Looking forward to the rest of this series!
Excellent tutorial! I am a new user of Opus. The part on key switches answered a question I have been struggling with on how to automate articulation changes within one instrument. Now I know! Thank you so much. I look forward to seeing some of your other tutorials!
What a great idea! You definitely got my attention, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. Thank You so much EastWest.
This is AMAZING!!! Kepp this up.
This presentation is so well organized, so lucid, so efficient. Bravo Mr. Thomas!! More! More!! MORE!!! ❣❣❣
Wow. Excellent stuff!1!1!
Amazing! Thank you!
I super welsome this Academy series! Thank you!!
Thank you so much for this. I have been a little overwhelmed with the small details on how to use Opus
Probably the best approach I’ve ever seen on this. You are going to help a lot of folks.
Thanks a lot. This is so great and I'm glad that you are doing this academy series. I love working with EastWest's virtual instruments and the quality is awesome.
This is great EW ! Finaly you communicate to the world how amazing your products are !
I am finally able to start composing with the complete EastWest library, these video’s are here at the perfect time for me.. can’t wait to learn more!
Thanks This is fun to watch, fun to listen to, and it makes understanding the orchestra easy to learn.
Brilliant Ryan, keep it coming!
Great tips! Thank you so much for doing this...already learned a lot
awesome start so far. I've struggled for years to make realistic sounding orchestration. I'm excited to see where this goes.
Awesome introduction!!!🙌🏽
Harmonic analysis / concepts would be great to see as well as just using EW software. Regardless, this new series is very much appreciated. Thanks!
This is a wonderful guide! Thank you! The shortcut re: CC1 & 11 together is super useful!
Muchas gracias lo estaba esperando!,
Very interesting video that helps a lot in learning and knowing Opus deeply... Thanks for the help and looking forward the next videos...Hi from France
Great tutorial!. Waiting for the next tutorial
Excellent information
Man why did I wait so long before looking for this - gold right from the source! Thank you!
Excellent presentation. Very instructive.
Aloha from O’ahu! Fabulous! Eagerly anticipating the deep dives! Mahalo!
Keep em coming EW! Awesome Ryan!!
Very nicely presented. I love my EW orchestra but haven’t had the time to learn the different facets to maximise its use - from this first training video I’ve learnt valuable things am confident that I’ll learn ever more valuable things as the series progresses. Thanks!
Excellent presentation - so clear and understandable. East West has amazing sounds and an EastWest Academy will help me so much in understanding the finer aspects of the instruments. Thank you- can't wait for the next one.
Cant believe Ive been manually allocating keyswitches (writing the key in just before the note) all this time! Thank you for showing this feature.
Great video and very descriptive for us blind people. Keep em coming. By the way, the new edition of Opus released today is very accessible to me now. Just a few more adjustments needed but you’ve got me sold
Looks great! I hope there's video that goes in-depth with orchestral mixing and microphone manipulation. I feel like those topics get overlooked a lot in instructional videos despite how important they are.
Stay tuned…
Very clear and helpful! I’ve been doing this for a long time but learned some new things! Thanks!
Great Tutorial. I even learned things I did not expect.
This is an amazing resource, can't wait for the next videos!
That was great! I need all the help I can get, and this was the perfect start to my MIDI education! Thank you.
Great video and explanation. Subscribed and activated notifications, looking forward to the next video 👀
Finally, what I've been looking for.
Awesome, definitely looking forward to more! That articulation at the end would be amazing to get working (using reaper which to my knowledge has nothing like that.) I tried both the reaper BRSO (outdated and not supported) and Reaticlate which was ok but it broke other stuff for me so I ultimately had to uninstall it. Definitely not as simple as highlighting a note and setting the articulation which is.... how simple it should be.
Looking forward to this series
Looking forward to the next videos
So great. Ryan makes understanding this so concise and clear! Thank you!
Bravo c'est génial !!
C'est vraiment des vidéos comme cela que l'on peut avancer !
Bonne continuation et un grand merci !!!!
Wonderful presentation!!!
great tutorial Ryan,looking forward to the next one,always have some troubles in making virtual instruments sound realistic
these videos will help considerably,i also love the way you present your tutorials,they are very easy to understand,a lot of other content creators videos are too complex sometimes for a amateur to understand,thanx again Ryan and thanx EW for this free course,cheers mate
Excellent, merci Ryan ! C'est tout à fait avec ce genre de tuto qu'il est possible de progresser. Par contre, il serait bien de proposer à chaque fois, 1 sujet très précis, 1 vidéo courte.
Excellent video. It's great this series is starting. It has clarified some concepts for me and I have learned a lot. I think they can help us get more out of our EW libraries. Thanks!!!!!!!
Thanks Ryan and EastWest, this was a great video! I look forward to the next "Academy"! Like some other commenters here have suggested, I too would appreciate an Opus/Logic template similar to the Spitfire BBCSO offerings. Would Ryan be willing to share his file? Can't wait for the next episode! Thanks again!
How did you pull up the articulation drop down menu in the Logic Pro editor window? The articulation drop down menu is right below the scale quantize menu in your editor window, but I don't see it in my Logic Pro 10.8. How do I bring up the Articulation drop down menu so I can trigger key switch automation?
I've learned so much - you do a great job explaining everything! Is there any way to get that template you use for EastWest?
Stay tuned for later in the EW Academy series 😉