Thanks, as always, for being this generous, Trevor, truly appreciate you taking the time and making an effort to make these nerdy videos. With that said, I can only reiterate my desire to see your buss configurations. I did not mention it in part 1, but my orchestral stuff is basically just Spitfire (plus the 12 horn from Cinesamples), and organised in Longs and Shorts, either individual articulations per MIDI track, or keyswitchable MIDI tracks (that is, one track for long artics, one for short ones, one for pizz/col legno) and multi-output Kontakt instances arranged in the same fashion. I am happy to discuss my bussing strategies in a comment to your buss video
Last night I saw a shooting star and I legit wished that the Trevor Morris "Bussing and Routing" Video would drop in the morning. :) I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS TM.
Over from Christian's channel! Thanks! I've smashed all the smashers! Salutations from an ex-pat Canadian living in the, for once, astonishingly sunny but ghostly quiet Ireland! ☘️☮️🤘🏽🤠👍🏽☮️☘️
This is immense, it's a huge template. It's cool to see all the tools at your fingertips, thanks. In starting a template for the first time (which I did a few months ago) I am starting much simpler and I will build it up as I get familiar with more sounds, instruments and libraries. I don't see myself ever getting quite so many elements in my template as you have here but who knows! I think I'll skip the bussing video, as I don't want tech overload at this moment.
Trevor you are a legend, nuff said. You still have in my opinion one of the most iconic sounds in the cinematic realm, nobody handles the low subs and power like you do, just love it. And now, that you share your expertise is just epic. Thank YOU sir
Great video Trevor! Thanks for sharing. And yes, I'd love to see a video on your detailed bussing :) Aaaand, so true, we live in an amazing time. The tools available to us now are incredible.
Trevor, thanks for your AMA videos, and especially the 2 episodes on your template! As a result of watching those 2 episodes, I'm in the process of redoing mine. I figured out why you use instrument tracks, rather than MIDI tracks (it's a lot more efficient to set up, and you can have a massive template and not bring your computer to its knees by disabling tracks not in use, which also gives you, as you mentioned, a much faster start up), and I've discovered the wonders of expression maps! My business partner found free expression maps available for download for the main libraries that we use, so that sped up implementation, for which I am thankful. Thanks again!
Buckled up and ready for some bussing geekery!! Loving the vids Trevor!!🤓👌
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So nice video. I love the way things are neat and organized, up until how names are showing off :) (that’s a way of being nerdy ah ah, but having things clean helps so much productivity and not getting lost! ) can’t wait to see your bussing method and the solutions you got to make it effective!!!
So cool! thanks for sharing these details! Yep, print back is great and fast! Ha, you still use Darwin Percussion! Love your hints to your bussing technique. Definitely going to have to reexamine my bussing!
Hello Trevor! I'm loving your channel and getting to know your stuff, i saw your video with Christian Henson and subscribed your channel wanting to know your work more, thank you for sharing! and for the inspiration! Cheers from Portugal!
Can only imagine how much of a unit of PC you must have to be able to load such a concisely in depth template with all these instruments and busses going at the same time and then be able to use them in a stable manner too
Awesome, I can't wait to see your bussing system! My template is actually pretty similar in the base functionality, but I don't know if I could load everything I own into it, that's a buttload of tracks, and even if I also work in 4k, I like to have a global vision of what I'm doing (since I'm also used to work directly on Sibelius, I like seeing that my viola line is following my clarinet line, stuff like that). The major difference I have is I have tracks over the midline on top. So I have my video channel, tempo track, time signature, markers and stuff, then I have a "sketch" folder in which I have several ensembles (all routed so they can be exported in the stems if needed) and several piano parts for when I'm writing. And then I have a bunch of audio and instrument tracks for what I want to add in the specific project. I find myself to work very differently from one project to the other, so I like having my fixed orchestral template on the bottom and a free sandbox project on the top, that way I get the best of both worlds. And if I add an orchestral instrument, just like you, I can add it to the template, set the right bus, and I'm ready to go. The disabled function is such a game-changer. Anyway, great videos, I'm really eager to check out the next ones :)
Very nice! I'm interested in expanding my bussing more into high/low parts. I have some, your approach makes sense and I think I will steal it! A different approach (because you asked) that I've taken to my template is a super striped down, almost empty clean session. I then have folders setup in Pro Tools track presets that look a lot like a monolithic template, anything I want I can just drag in to my session. This keeps my sessions much more streamlined and the track count is just what is used and nothing more.
Cool video Trevor I am a vocalist producing basic music compositions and new to making functional templates in my DAW for my needs so this was super helpful, thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much for sharing this in depth tutorial with us Trevor. I'm not going to Lie.. I have most of these libraries and I have struggled with building templates myself to the point where ive been so unhappy and frustrated and confused with others approaches that ive not been happy UNTIL NOW. Your approach speaks to me because its simple, straight forward and we have the same libraries more or less (Spitfire Mainly etc). Not to mention your color coding and sorting does not make my head spin (f you know what i mean lol. Thank you so much for showing this, i will be adopting this way of working and if i have any ideas i will definitely share with you. Iam an active film composer and electronic music composer / producer in the business and would love to stay in touch. Thanks brother. (Also a total synth geek too)
Thanks for your video Mr. Trevor. I run Cubase and VEP in the same machine. I had problems with saving times, and this is the solution (at least for me). In the other hand, remember me when you need to record a flamenco guitar :) And as an idea for the future, it would be nice to be able to document the "life of a cue". A lot of composers they show their rigs and workflow, some others even do a live composing, but it will be interesting to see the complete process of a cue, from what the director tells you, how you composed it, changes, record it, mixed, how it varies when it gets added to the video and see the final result (It can be released after the show it's aired to avoid any copyrights problem) :)
Hi Trevor! Love the idea of pre-mixed channels for live. Also the ability to record the output is pretty cool and can see how that would actually save time rather than bouncing / exporting... Really great template and overview! The nerds are listening and we want to know about your bussing system. Seriously appreciate the time you are giving us and the knowledge!!!! This vid made my day.
And to think there are people paying money for masterclasses! :D Thank you so much for this. For all those risers/swooshes, booms etc. - are those all libraries or individual samples you tend to use a lot (i.e. for layering)? I can hardly imagine knowing 30+ entire libraries of swooshes in and out enough to know when to pick which...
Bussing bring it on! I know this is an area I could probably improve on a lot. I gather that you like to work fast so I'm excited to see what your method is. Thanks and Love the videos!
Great content Trevor. Thanks for sharing! For the next videos, I have three questions: - Avid S3, in what way are you using it? in which process? (let's talk about routing, group and vca) - I see two units of Massive Passive and a unit of VU limiter compressor. What are you usual use of them? Master? buss? - How do you manage communication and task management with your team/collaborators? Cheers!
Another way to do it, is the preset approach (which I haven't tried myself, but it sounds interesting): It's having all those tracks saved as presets, not as disabled tracks. So when you open the project you have 0 (or just the most important) tracks, but thousands of presets. The cool thing is, you can have multiple tracks as ONE preset, so you can open your Chamber Strings Preset for example, and it opens all the tracks with the routing and processing you saved it with. The advantage of that might be a really small project size, and less danger of lags. Have yo tried that, or thought about that? By the way, what are your project sizes? I have a similar template and my problem is that my projects are 500mb+ from the get go, so that's a downside to be aware of. Great stuff!
I need this improvement. I think that I have to plug in additional memory stick to my brain so info from you will goes smooth to my neurons. I have to re-analyze everything again lol Ice Break is a killer - love this bass and about diving into the bussing? yes!
Awesome! Loved it again! Not sure if it was mentioned in the comments, but I would love to see how your external hardware fits in and when, where and how it gets used.. do you reamp to those Strymon's? what about the Manley's?
Really great one sir. Thank you! Interested in the navigating the DAW part of it. Track filtering, macros, shortcuts, touchscreen, quick midi cc editing, key commands, groups etc too.
Thanks trevor for this in depth video. Now impatiently waiting for the bussing video. Also it would be amazing if in future you could do a video on your Touchscreen, macros, MIDI CC controller etc. and Yes, an army of geeks is uniting on this channel. LOL.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge like this. I have a quick question, while you are discussing your Cubase setup. How are you handling video? Do you handle that all in Cubase, or do you have something like ProTools running along side to handle the video like I know some people do?
Yeah I just run video on the side on a small protocols rig. More out of habit. Running pix inside your DAW is ok as long as there are no picture changes, then it becomes a mess
Thanks for sharing ! it's very instructive. And the Bussing will be even more. Also the construction of a cue along with review with director and producer or channel might also be a good insight as Felipe suggests :). I'm in middle of rebuilding my template and getting rid of my slave 128Go Ram Slave fully loaded PC so that food for thought. I wonder how much "weight" your Cubase Template file. For now I have only scratch the surface and it's already 200 Mo ! So with backup file, every cue will be at least 3 Go. Considering you get 40 Cue per episode , that's a lot of space. I'm also wondering about the stability of those big files and if they are subject to corruption ? (cubase + VEPro Salve machine is very stable...)
Great video! I really like how you work and it sure resonates with my workflow (which is of course in the beginner side of this world). I struggle with the non orchestral sounds and I'm going to mimick your organization (in my tracks right now, they're an uncontrolable mess). I'm really interested in your 3-level busing and I do think you're doing a great job with these videos, which are superb. My template was actually very similar to yours in concept, even when I didn't know your videos. I've made and remade it using thousands of hours (because I found it amusing and educative). I've used VEPro which allowed me to load a lot of things with my humble PC but after watching your videos I went back to JUST CUBASE, which is simpler and allows more space to do fun things like sound design with audio renders. As I was pointing to make a template similar to yours, your videos are incredibly educative for me (even if I kept asking about saving times in the last ones, sorry for that ^^!) and I can apply the knowledge you share directly to my template and workflow. Thank you for sharing this valuable information, as I said, I'm learning a lot of things!
You are extremely generous... thank you so much for sharing your approach to your system. I think in a similar way, although I am working with a much smaller set of sounds in Logic... I route everything to it's own sub section where I have effects on different aux channels for each section - those feed into my stems. I find that my template is still in it's evolutionary phase, and it keeps expanding as the projects get more complex. I am definitely going to adopt the idea of adding additional sub sections for live players, Fx, and vocals! It would be a shame for you to stop here... I'm down to watch a ultra geeky template Pt 3!
I consider groups, control surfaces and macros as essential part of the template , because they come all togheter, and at least for me they determine decisions about the tracks instruments. So this is a part III there if you like ;)
"boom of justice, or the boom of consequence" haha! I've been trying to use VEPro in my template but find it's a faff, although I'm sure that's mostly me just not getting a grip of it. Now going to create an equivalent template using Track instruments. BTW the template is built from the one Christian Henson and Jake Jackson made for BBCSO (Cubase version), primarily for the bussing system. Curious to see yours... so yes please make that video :-)
Had a question about synth patches. The folders you showed us contain presets that you have tweaked from let's say one of the SF libraries or whatever? OR, do they contain the actual VI with a base patch (generic drone/pad), and you tweak it further per project? Just trying to understand if you spend time to fiddle with VI presets for every score...I know you have to with the hardware, but wasn't sure your approach with the VI synths. Thanks...hope this makes sense.
for the most part they are a specific patch that I modified via programming or plugs or both. I have only a few base patch "on the ready" VI's, specifically Dark Zebra lets say. make sense ?
@@TrevorMorrisComposer yes...and I have been using the free version of Zebra, and it's pretty awesome...next synth buy. BTW, If you are not aware of Reason 11 rack, you can now use Reason as a plugin within Cubase or Pro Tools...very powerful synths in there. :)
Awesome info. First of all thanks for sharing, however, this doesn't look like a template at all. Seems more to be how you organise your libraries from your daw since you threw loads of stuff in there. Which at your level of requirement might be the way to go. Anyway, thanks. What it would be great is to know your approach and tools for sound design!
I work in Reaper, and we have an option of exporting selected tracks (as they are), and export selected tracks via master - that way you can send all tracks through the same reverb (if it fits them of course) and not have bleeding of the other instruments (since each export is individual). Do you have anything like that in Cubase? If you do, that will obliviate the need for the "upper" row of stemming, wouldn't it?
Really cool stuff Trevor. I would love to see how you set up your "Print Back" and how you process your live vocals / instrument to get that instant cinematic sound. I think you have a print back on pro tools as well, yes? I would love to see how you set that up in PT as well. Also, what cue is playing at the end f the video? I really like it. Is that Olympus Has Fallen?
It would be great if you did a short video on using your Avid S3 with Cubase! Love these videos! An awesome new world to be able to learn from the best for free! :D Thank you for your time!
@@TrevorMorrisComposer thanks. I know some people combine two i was wondering if in your template you have instruments going to the two? say a room and a hall?
I love geeking out on template stuff! Do you use any visibility configurations to hide unwanted folders? I personally can't stand having folders visible when the tracks inside aren't being used.
Thanks so much for posting these AMA's, they're seriously priceless resources for us composers just getting their careers started! A quick question, is each track a separate instance of Kontakt, or are you running multiple instruments within Kontakt to save memory? Thanks again!
Yess. Such a good and organized template! Love it! Your DarkZ ready track name is misspelled btw :) #maximalism | Additionally it would be really nice to see your custom (I guess) lemur template. Thanks for the videos!
Yeah... would love to see a deep dive into the bussing!
Yep, absolutely!
I just switched to Cubase so I would love to see a bussing video since mine is pretty basic right now
We need that bussing video! Feels like the missing piece of the puzzle.
Hey Trevor, thanks for doing these! I'm definitely interested in seeing how you've bussed everything.
WOW!, this Masterclass was unbelievable!, Thank You Trevor!.
Still yes to bussing!
Amazing, thank you. Yes please to the bussing deep dive!
you're welcome please share
Thanks, as always, for being this generous, Trevor, truly appreciate you taking the time and making an effort to make these nerdy videos. With that said, I can only reiterate my desire to see your buss configurations.
I did not mention it in part 1, but my orchestral stuff is basically just Spitfire (plus the 12 horn from Cinesamples), and organised in Longs and Shorts, either individual articulations per MIDI track, or keyswitchable MIDI tracks (that is, one track for long artics, one for short ones, one for pizz/col legno) and multi-output Kontakt instances arranged in the same fashion. I am happy to discuss my bussing strategies in a comment to your buss video
Woohoo - time to take the triple decker buss...!! Thanks for sharing all this, Trevor. Great stuff!
cheers
Last night I saw a shooting star and I legit wished that the Trevor Morris "Bussing and Routing" Video would drop in the morning. :) I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS TM.
It’s coming
A deep dive into bussing would be great indeed! I'm glad you created this channel, love hearing thoses incredible stories. Thx
Oh it’s happening !
Thank you, Trevor. I can't wait for Bussing and Sends
Over from Christian's channel! Thanks! I've smashed all the smashers! Salutations from an ex-pat Canadian living in the, for once, astonishingly sunny
but ghostly quiet Ireland! ☘️☮️🤘🏽🤠👍🏽☮️☘️
Man. I'm loving this journey withinside your world
thanks ! please share
This is immense, it's a huge template. It's cool to see all the tools at your fingertips, thanks. In starting a template for the first time (which I did a few months ago) I am starting much simpler and I will build it up as I get familiar with more sounds, instruments and libraries. I don't see myself ever getting quite so many elements in my template as you have here but who knows! I think I'll skip the bussing video, as I don't want tech overload at this moment.
Simple is good. And yes skip the bussing video :). (or tuck it away for a later date)
Trevor you are a legend, nuff said. You still have in my opinion one of the most iconic sounds in the cinematic realm, nobody handles the low subs and power like you do, just love it. And now, that you share your expertise is just epic. Thank YOU sir
Great video Trevor! Thanks for sharing. And yes, I'd love to see a video on your detailed bussing :)
Aaaand, so true, we live in an amazing time. The tools available to us now are incredible.
so much better than back in the day
Awesome to hear your insight, very inspiring! Thank you!
Trevor, thanks for your AMA videos, and especially the 2 episodes on your template! As a result of watching those 2 episodes, I'm in the process of redoing mine. I figured out why you use instrument tracks, rather than MIDI tracks (it's a lot more efficient to set up, and you can have a massive template and not bring your computer to its knees by disabling tracks not in use, which also gives you, as you mentioned, a much faster start up), and I've discovered the wonders of expression maps! My business partner found free expression maps available for download for the main libraries that we use, so that sped up implementation, for which I am thankful. Thanks again!
My Pleasure, please share and help me grow it deal ?
Trevor Morris, deal!
Buckled up and ready for some bussing geekery!! Loving the vids Trevor!!🤓👌
So nice video.
I love the way things are neat and organized, up until how names are showing off :) (that’s a way of being nerdy ah ah, but having things clean helps so much productivity and not getting lost! ) can’t wait to see your bussing method and the solutions you got to make it effective!!!
My brain is very messy lol, so I need my world to be organized around me
:)
So cool! thanks for sharing these details! Yep, print back is great and fast! Ha, you still use Darwin Percussion! Love your hints to your bussing technique. Definitely going to have to reexamine my bussing!
New drinking game. Take a shot every time Trevor says "It's really quick" haha. Really love the content. Thank you so much for sharing the wisdom!
This is so awesome. Loving these videos. Haven’t started building my templates, but as I figure out my style I’m going to try some of this out.
Cool Justin good luck
Hello Trevor! I'm loving your channel and getting to know your stuff, i saw your video with Christian Henson and subscribed your channel wanting to know your work more, thank you for sharing! and for the inspiration!
Cheers from Portugal!
Cheers !
Can only imagine how much of a unit of PC you must have to be able to load such a concisely in depth template with all these instruments and busses going at the same time and then be able to use them in a stable manner too
What an exciting time for libraries now. So much cool stuff...
Awesome, I can't wait to see your bussing system!
My template is actually pretty similar in the base functionality, but I don't know if I could load everything I own into it, that's a buttload of tracks, and even if I also work in 4k, I like to have a global vision of what I'm doing (since I'm also used to work directly on Sibelius, I like seeing that my viola line is following my clarinet line, stuff like that).
The major difference I have is I have tracks over the midline on top. So I have my video channel, tempo track, time signature, markers and stuff, then I have a "sketch" folder in which I have several ensembles (all routed so they can be exported in the stems if needed) and several piano parts for when I'm writing. And then I have a bunch of audio and instrument tracks for what I want to add in the specific project. I find myself to work very differently from one project to the other, so I like having my fixed orchestral template on the bottom and a free sandbox project on the top, that way I get the best of both worlds. And if I add an orchestral instrument, just like you, I can add it to the template, set the right bus, and I'm ready to go. The disabled function is such a game-changer.
Anyway, great videos, I'm really eager to check out the next ones :)
Thank you very much for these amazing videos
Thanks Trevor, fantastic work, really informative to understand the complexity of a modern film composer template
Very nice! I'm interested in expanding my bussing more into high/low parts. I have some, your approach makes sense and I think I will steal it!
A different approach (because you asked) that I've taken to my template is a super striped down, almost empty clean session. I then have folders setup in Pro Tools track presets that look a lot like a monolithic template, anything I want I can just drag in to my session. This keeps my sessions much more streamlined and the track count is just what is used and nothing more.
Cool video Trevor I am a vocalist producing basic music compositions and new to making functional templates in my DAW for my needs so this was super helpful, thank you for sharing!
Once you get all the synths sorted don’t feel shy about sharing all that, would be super exciting to see them in action :)
Amazing! Waiting for the busses😊
Thank you so much for sharing this in depth tutorial with us Trevor. I'm not going to Lie.. I have most of these libraries and I have struggled with building templates myself to the point where ive been so unhappy and frustrated and confused with others approaches that ive not been happy UNTIL NOW. Your approach speaks to me because its simple, straight forward and we have the same libraries more or less (Spitfire Mainly etc). Not to mention your color coding and sorting does not make my head spin (f you know what i mean lol. Thank you so much for showing this, i will be adopting this way of working and if i have any ideas i will definitely share with you. Iam an active film composer and electronic music composer / producer in the business and would love to stay in touch. Thanks brother. (Also a total synth geek too)
Thanks for your video Mr. Trevor. I run Cubase and VEP in the same machine. I had problems with saving times, and this is the solution (at least for me).
In the other hand, remember me when you need to record a flamenco guitar :)
And as an idea for the future, it would be nice to be able to document the "life of a cue". A lot of composers they show their rigs and workflow, some others even do a live composing, but it will be interesting to see the complete process of a cue, from what the director tells you, how you composed it, changes, record it, mixed, how it varies when it gets added to the video and see the final result (It can be released after the show it's aired to avoid any copyrights problem) :)
I can do that, Im game
To see that would be a dream come true. Amazing suggestion Felipe.
Hi Trevor! Love the idea of pre-mixed channels for live. Also the ability to record the output is pretty cool and can see how that would actually save time rather than bouncing / exporting... Really great template and overview! The nerds are listening and we want to know about your bussing system. Seriously appreciate the time you are giving us and the knowledge!!!! This vid made my day.
you're very welcome
And to think there are people paying money for masterclasses! :D Thank you so much for this. For all those risers/swooshes, booms etc. - are those all libraries or individual samples you tend to use a lot (i.e. for layering)? I can hardly imagine knowing 30+ entire libraries of swooshes in and out enough to know when to pick which...
I'm just impatient by nature, want tons of stuff locked and loaded.
thanks for putting these out !
Welcome please share
@@TrevorMorrisComposer will do
A deep blue dive into Bussing. bussing. bussing!
Really interesting structure and categorization. At what sample rate and bit depth do you record and run your sessions?
48k /24 is as standard as I think you’ll find
Another awesome video. I think I'll take some of these ideas into my template.
Bussing bring it on! I know this is an area I could probably improve on a lot. I gather that you like to work fast so I'm excited to see what your method is. Thanks and Love the videos!
Great content Trevor. Thanks for sharing!
For the next videos, I have three questions:
- Avid S3, in what way are you using it? in which process? (let's talk about routing, group and vca)
- I see two units of Massive Passive and a unit of VU limiter compressor. What are you usual use of them? Master? buss?
- How do you manage communication and task management with your team/collaborators?
Cheers!
Another way to do it, is the preset approach (which I haven't tried myself, but it sounds interesting):
It's having all those tracks saved as presets, not as disabled tracks.
So when you open the project you have 0 (or just the most important) tracks, but thousands of presets.
The cool thing is, you can have multiple tracks as ONE preset, so you can open your Chamber Strings Preset for example, and it opens all the tracks with the routing and processing you saved it with.
The advantage of that might be a really small project size, and less danger of lags. Have yo tried that, or thought about that?
By the way, what are your project sizes? I have a similar template and my problem is that my projects are 500mb+ from the get go, so that's a downside to be aware of.
Great stuff!
yeah that's legit
Glad to hear you say Mōg, rather than mooooog...LOL. So many get that wrong. Great video, thanks!!
Jake Tanner fun fact, Bob Moog himself used to say it the wrong way! But later in life he changed his ways.
you're welcome pleas share
@@yuggothproductions if HE says it the other way, is it then "wrong".. LOL wild.
I need this improvement. I think that I have to plug in additional memory stick to my brain so info from you will goes smooth to my neurons. I have to re-analyze everything again lol Ice Break is a killer - love this bass
and about diving into the bussing? yes!
Awesome! Loved it again! Not sure if it was mentioned in the comments, but I would love to see how your external hardware fits in and when, where and how it gets used.. do you reamp to those Strymon's? what about the Manley's?
I can do a vid on the hardware stuff if you like
@@TrevorMorrisComposer I would love to see that!
Really great one sir. Thank you! Interested in the navigating the DAW part of it. Track filtering, macros, shortcuts, touchscreen, quick midi cc editing, key commands, groups etc too.
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Thanks trevor for this in depth video. Now impatiently waiting for the bussing video. Also it would be amazing if in future you could do a video on your Touchscreen, macros, MIDI CC controller etc. and Yes, an army of geeks is uniting on this channel. LOL.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge like this. I have a quick question, while you are discussing your Cubase setup. How are you handling video? Do you handle that all in Cubase, or do you have something like ProTools running along side to handle the video like I know some people do?
Yeah I just run video on the side on a small protocols rig. More out of habit. Running pix inside your DAW is ok as long as there are no picture changes, then it becomes a mess
Thanks for sharing ! it's very instructive. And the Bussing will be even more. Also the construction of a cue along with review with director and producer or channel might also be a good insight as Felipe suggests :). I'm in middle of rebuilding my template and getting rid of my slave 128Go Ram Slave fully loaded PC so that food for thought. I wonder how much "weight" your Cubase Template file. For now I have only scratch the surface and it's already 200 Mo ! So with backup file, every cue will be at least 3 Go. Considering you get 40 Cue per episode , that's a lot of space. I'm also wondering about the stability of those big files and if they are subject to corruption ? (cubase + VEPro Salve machine is very stable...)
Great video! I really like how you work and it sure resonates with my workflow (which is of course in the beginner side of this world). I struggle with the non orchestral sounds and I'm going to mimick your organization (in my tracks right now, they're an uncontrolable mess). I'm really interested in your 3-level busing and I do think you're doing a great job with these videos, which are superb.
My template was actually very similar to yours in concept, even when I didn't know your videos. I've made and remade it using thousands of hours (because I found it amusing and educative). I've used VEPro which allowed me to load a lot of things with my humble PC but after watching your videos I went back to JUST CUBASE, which is simpler and allows more space to do fun things like sound design with audio renders.
As I was pointing to make a template similar to yours, your videos are incredibly educative for me (even if I kept asking about saving times in the last ones, sorry for that ^^!) and I can apply the knowledge you share directly to my template and workflow.
Thank you for sharing this valuable information, as I said, I'm learning a lot of things!
very cool
You are extremely generous... thank you so much for sharing your approach to your system.
I think in a similar way, although I am working with a much smaller set of sounds in Logic... I route everything to it's own sub section where I have effects on different aux channels for each section - those feed into my stems. I find that my template is still in it's evolutionary phase, and it keeps expanding as the projects get more complex. I am definitely going to adopt the idea of adding additional sub sections for live players, Fx, and vocals!
It would be a shame for you to stop here... I'm down to watch a ultra geeky template Pt 3!
I consider groups, control surfaces and macros as essential part of the template , because they come all togheter, and at least for me they determine decisions about the tracks instruments. So this is a part III there if you like ;)
"boom of justice, or the boom of consequence" haha! I've been trying to use VEPro in my template but find it's a faff, although I'm sure that's mostly me just not getting a grip of it. Now going to create an equivalent template using Track instruments. BTW the template is built from the one Christian Henson and Jake Jackson made for BBCSO (Cubase version), primarily for the bussing system. Curious to see yours... so yes please make that video :-)
yup bussing coming your way
Seatbelt on! Bus time!!!
Had a question about synth patches. The folders you showed us contain presets that you have tweaked from let's say one of the SF libraries or whatever? OR, do they contain the actual VI with a base patch (generic drone/pad), and you tweak it further per project? Just trying to understand if you spend time to fiddle with VI presets for every score...I know you have to with the hardware, but wasn't sure your approach with the VI synths. Thanks...hope this makes sense.
for the most part they are a specific patch that I modified via programming or plugs or both. I have only a few base patch "on the ready" VI's, specifically Dark Zebra lets say. make sense ?
@@TrevorMorrisComposer yes...and I have been using the free version of Zebra, and it's pretty awesome...next synth buy. BTW, If you are not aware of Reason 11 rack, you can now use Reason as a plugin within Cubase or Pro Tools...very powerful synths in there. :)
Awesome info. First of all thanks for sharing, however, this doesn't look like a template at all. Seems more to be how you organise your libraries from your daw since you threw loads of stuff in there. Which at your level of requirement might be the way to go. Anyway, thanks. What it would be great is to know your approach and tools for sound design!
Nice insight! But we want the nerdy bussing stuff. Do you still print into Pro Tools?
Nerds unite Ill go there
I work in Reaper, and we have an option of exporting selected tracks (as they are), and export selected tracks via master - that way you can send all tracks through the same reverb (if it fits them of course) and not have bleeding of the other instruments (since each export is individual). Do you have anything like that in Cubase? If you do, that will obliviate the need for the "upper" row of stemming, wouldn't it?
Really cool stuff Trevor. I would love to see how you set up your "Print Back" and how you process your live vocals / instrument to get that instant cinematic sound. I think you have a print back on pro tools as well, yes? I would love to see how you set that up in PT as well.
Also, what cue is playing at the end f the video? I really like it. Is that Olympus Has Fallen?
I can show you that
@@TrevorMorrisComposer cool
It would be great if you did a short video on using your Avid S3 with Cubase! Love these videos! An awesome new world to be able to learn from the best for free! :D Thank you for your time!
Great video! Just curious what sound design libraries you are using? I’m using mostly Gravity but I definitely want to expand my palette!
I have a hundred, but its mostly what works for you dude
Trevor Morris yeah I got some older ones too. I always seem to go for those Easter Island booms! 🤘
are you running everything (cubase, libraries etc.) on single machine?
yup
Trevor, when you decide to add a new custom patch to your template, do you then re-save the session as the new template? how does it stick
Good question I “save up” my template version to taste. I’m on build 44 of my current one. You’ll know when it’s time
Can you explain Synthmaster?
yes in next video
@trevor hi I know you use Cinematic Rooms but do send instruments also to Another reverb? which one?
Thanks
yes a Variety of different things, some cheap some expensive. But CR is def my favorite right now. That and Blackhole / shimmer verb for effect
@@TrevorMorrisComposer thanks. I know some people combine two i was wondering if in your template you have instruments going to the two? say a room and a hall?
@@nicksaya I don't because I use primarily the SpitFire audio libraries, recorded in the most amazing space on earth.
@@TrevorMorrisComposer ok thanks!
@@TrevorMorrisComposer Hi trevor where did the full video of your bussing system go? i can't find. wanted to check it out for surround sound set up
Are each tracks of you template linked to their own instance of Kontakt, or are some or most Kontakt instances linked to 2-16 tracks?
I do all singles, so I don't have to open up a multi just for the one I need, but both ways would work
I love geeking out on template stuff! Do you use any visibility configurations to hide unwanted folders? I personally can't stand having folders visible when the tracks inside aren't being used.
Sometimes, I have a bunch set up on my touch screen to show certain things only
Thanks so much for posting these AMA's, they're seriously priceless resources for us composers just getting their careers started! A quick question, is each track a separate instance of Kontakt, or are you running multiple instruments within Kontakt to save memory? Thanks again!
Have you ever used VEPRO with your workflow? If so, why did you stop using it?
I did a whole video on it my friend, check it out
@@TrevorMorrisComposer I realized that after I sent that :D great video!
Yess. Such a good and organized template! Love it! Your DarkZ ready track name is misspelled btw :) #maximalism | Additionally it would be really nice to see your custom (I guess) lemur template. Thanks for the videos!
XOXO!
How many gigs is your everything template? What kind of CPUs run this thing?
is there any chance of releasing the castlevania season 2 or 3 soundtrack?
Found it!!!!