Okay so I've watched this video in intervals. Usually every day while eating dinner. Unfortunately, I always finish my dinner in 5 minutes and then have to go work on other things. But I have finally finished watching this video, it only took me 2 months! Great video, lots and lots of very useful comments and content. I really like the track as well. Keep doing this stuff. I wish this had been around 10 years ago!
lol went from "not sure if I'm gonna finish this track" to "mama mia please don't crash and lose the project" within the space of 5 minutes! Thanks for uploading this Alex!
Holy fucking shit, that was dope. Like its more like the modern film score stuff but its really good. I couldn't help but notice the smug on your face when you were listening to your own music. You know that its really good when the composer just goes like , "fuck, I am awesome" when he smiles. yeah. Heavy my guy
Loved it and thank you for the walkthrough. Wanted to see the whole progress so became your patreon 😊 Love your work and keep it up. I've learned a lot.
Hi Alex! Hope you can answer this, have you noticed some sort of white noise-hiss with CineWinds after every note you play? It's been bothering me for some time now and I'd like to know if I'm the only one with this issue... (And if I'm not, how have you solved it? :o)
Hmm, problems like those can't be done much about, sadly. It's errors in the way the libraries were recorded and could only be fixed by the developers by re-recording them I guess. But you can reduce them with a bit of EQs or De-Essers.
I don't have specific issues with Cinewinds but like Alex wrote there are libraries that have errors. Last month I bought a Choir library which was "off-tune". Fortunately the manufacturer I contacted also noticed the error and send me a short 'manual' so I could correct it (in the software) myself. In your case it could also be you added multiple effects to the specific track causing interference between these effects. One way or the other, I hope you'll be able to solve it.
My friend you are crazy good at this I'm glad I found your channel I use some or you stuff on my music not as good but it works so thank you 👊🤓 for sharing
This might be a question you're not really able to answer, but how do you come up with the chord progression for a track you're writing? I'm struggling with it a lot, sometimes it takes weeks for me to find a good chord progression. I'd not be able just to come up with something, I'm mostly just playing the piano till one day I find a chord progression which I love. Do you got any tips? Most people would say "look some chord progressions up on the internet" but for me that wouldn't be a certain feeling that I have, it would not really be something from my heart.
I'd recommend not even going the "chord progression" route because it inherently requires you to use a set pattern. I'd recommend learning two, three, and four part harmony and counterpoint because then you can take any melodic line, and harmonize it in an infinite number of ways. Just what I found helps, though.
I started this course today, It answers a lot of our questions. It answers: How to create any chord progression easily from one simple diagram that has been used for centuries. The role of each chord, how to pivot to another chord smoothly and what chords connect well and what chords do not. How to change keys mid song etc. Pretty academic teaching as I did his melody course already. I got it for $10 search UDEMY for Music Composition 2 by Jonathan Peters. Sorry Utube doesn't allow copy and paste links.
I usually do it by ear, most times writing each individual voice with a bit of counterpoint in it like Chris said. Last year I made a tutorial where I show the process -> ruclips.net/video/Mojt-LrFXTc/видео.html Honestly, I'd recommend checking out a few videos or courses on Counterpoint like Wrathorn said, a series of free tutorials that opened my eyes back in the day was "The Art Of Counterpoint": ruclips.net/p/PLD30417EED8560721
Alex i got a question. Im not sure how to explain it tho. I understand that we need to leave spaces for our instrument. The melody is played in the same octave while the counter melody, harmony, ostinato play in another octave. But can we like move 1 octave lower or higher for the melody? For example, the violin is playing the melody while i want the horn to play the melody too. But since the horn is 1 octave lower, it will crash with either with the ostinato notes or the counter melody. Another example that i have so much problem in it is the choir. When the ladies are singing the melody, i would also want the men to sing the melody too. But i m just afraid that the men singing the melody will clash with the counter melody or the chords in that case. So i just want to confirm whether we can do that or whether it will muddy the mix. Because i see your cello and you put it with your chords and ostinato or maybe i see wrongly here. Just want to double confirm :D I also understand that you could mix your ostinato with either your counter melody or melody since it is play in staccato but i m just confuse here whether we can mix it or not?
Oh and i want to ask whether in trailer music, can we play the choir in chords. Not talking about like 4 chords or 3. I m talking about 8 to 9 to make it more powerful. Because when you play with 8 chords it is not realistic since there are many singers. But i just want to ask whether we can do it for trailer music or not? :)
Hey Alex, this video was awesome but I've noticed something I've been looking for, when you have a MIDI out selected in the channel rack, you were able to edit kontakt without having it automatically select the kontakt instance in the channel rack, it does it for me and its a pain because I want to edit a sample instance but I have to constantly select the MIDI out in the channel rack to listen to the notes. How did you do this?
They're from Nexus Hollywood 2, though it'd be a bit expensive to get the full pack just for those patches. I think they also made a Nexus Hollywood Synth expansion though, not sureif it includes them
At the beginning before making a reverb piano, I noticed that you have groups (A, B, C, D) can you tell me what it is doing and how can I do it so that I can activate multiple instruments in the frame of a player? Thanks :)
I guess that's going to happen someday. Tron Legacy & Synthwave are my jam, I made a full Spotify playlist of that kind of stuff -> open.spotify.com/user/1166668243/playlist/1JesJsI9bcpVtaQqICqGlC
Hey Alex, love the song, Could you recommend any affordable hans zimmer type percussion libraries/packs that include the kinda epic toms sound you achieved in this video? Thanks
hey man, this is so so so fcking good omg man. I'm not really into orchestral music, i mostly produce EDM but i already have troubles with arrangement on EDM songs, any tips?
Hey, Alex, are you a fan of any symphonic metal music? Similar to the type of deal with One Winged Angel,but not quite. Maybe more so like Out of the Dark (Evangelion).
I've been having a lot of issues exporting recently....kontakt instruments seem to cut out at random times in mp3 files, but not always. Super frustrating!
Episode 2: patreon.com/posts/19347681
Episode 3: patreon.com/posts/19357038
muhahahah :) can't wait!
Hey Alex,
I was curious of I can promote your music here at Revennaras beside of that was I curious what FL Studio plugins you use.
then: "what is up, guys"
now: "what is up, friends"
im shedding a tear
Majestic Goatt 💓
Majestic Goatt neither bothers me but if thats better I guess its good.
I thought when referring to friends we can also refer to girls as "guys"? Am I wrong?
I am not a native speaker.
If CPU is burning, then you know that the track sounds HUGE enough :P
@@bnjymusic i3 7th gen. Rip me
Okay so I've watched this video in intervals. Usually every day while eating dinner. Unfortunately, I always finish my dinner in 5 minutes and then have to go work on other things. But I have finally finished watching this video, it only took me 2 months! Great video, lots and lots of very useful comments and content. I really like the track as well. Keep doing this stuff. I wish this had been around 10 years ago!
omg keep the vocals !!!! hahaha they add a unique quality
Fraser Myers Music actually I agree. It's unique and in my honest opinion not bad sounding.
So true!
Boy I can wait to sit down for 3 hours and suck the knowledge out of this bad boy of a video 😍
lol went from "not sure if I'm gonna finish this track" to "mama mia please don't crash and lose the project" within the space of 5 minutes! Thanks for uploading this Alex!
Mitchell referred me to you and I just wanna say thanks for this its so helpful! Im making 3 compositions to hand to the conservatory here !
that piano sketch is awsome.. damn
Thank you so much Alex!
If you do these on Twitch dude, You totally get my amazon prime free sub
Wow you are such a good composer, that buildup was amazing
Rewatching this beauty of a composing session rn
I likes the harmonic voice used and orchestra
Thanks for making these tutorials, i learn a lot from you!
Man, congrats ! Just came up to this and stood until the end ! You really got me hooked up. Nice work here !
Holy fucking shit, that was dope. Like its more like the modern film score stuff but its really good. I couldn't help but notice the smug on your face when you were listening to your own music. You know that its really good when the composer just goes like , "fuck, I am awesome" when he smiles. yeah. Heavy my guy
I learned a crazy amount from this! Thanks for doing this!
Im learning a lot with this video. Thanks !
AMAZING VOCALS AND AMAZING COMPOSITION
I like the vocals a lot!
Bro this is incredible content and amazing to watch and learn, I’m glad I stumbled upon your channel🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🥇
Powerful and very nice
Love your reflections around whats important to you in writing music in the beginning also great track of course :-D!
big respect bro... so much inspiration
Excellent Tutorial Sir!
U r million dollar or more worth person brother. Love the way u help us and guide us.
Amazing track and tutorial Alex!!
Loved it and thank you for the walkthrough. Wanted to see the whole progress so became your patreon 😊 Love your work and keep it up. I've learned a lot.
You are amazing composer man
You are a brilliant composer. So dope watching you work
Absolutely Brilliant you never fail to impress. Keep it up!
Amazing work!
wow beautiful
So well done! I would watch this movie! Keep up the great work! ✌️
thanks for the tutorials
I thought his music would be trash listening to him talk
But three minutes later, damn!! That's sooooooooo EPIC
Totally loved it
Hi Alex! Hope you can answer this, have you noticed some sort of white noise-hiss with CineWinds after every note you play? It's been bothering me for some time now and I'd like to know if I'm the only one with this issue... (And if I'm not, how have you solved it? :o)
Hmm, problems like those can't be done much about, sadly. It's errors in the way the libraries were recorded and could only be fixed by the developers by re-recording them I guess.
But you can reduce them with a bit of EQs or De-Essers.
I don't have specific issues with Cinewinds but like Alex wrote there are libraries that have errors. Last month I bought a Choir library which was "off-tune". Fortunately the manufacturer I contacted also noticed the error and send me a short 'manual' so I could correct it (in the software) myself. In your case it could also be you added multiple effects to the specific track causing interference between these effects. One way or the other, I hope you'll be able to solve it.
Yeah, I might try to add a low pass and maybe some gate to it. Thanks you guys!
Love you're videos man, please never stop!
master piece! great job!
I know this is old, but wow. Amazing sounds. 👏
My friend you are crazy good at this I'm glad I found your channel I use some or you stuff on my music not as good but it works so thank you 👊🤓 for sharing
When i hear this sound I want to get up from my computer and say goodbye my family and keep the sword for save the world. LOL
Here we go again 😍🤙🏻
yeaaas
David Klemencz yoooo digga du hier? Nice 🤙🏻
aber sicher :)
10:50 XD
David Klemencz :D
that piano 😍
Thank you for this!
Just awesome stuff Alex. Well done!!!!!!
Good work
This sounds so damn beautiful
Damn this is insane
This might be a question you're not really able to answer, but how do you come up with the chord progression for a track you're writing? I'm struggling with it a lot, sometimes it takes weeks for me to find a good chord progression. I'd not be able just to come up with something, I'm mostly just playing the piano till one day I find a chord progression which I love. Do you got any tips? Most people would say "look some chord progressions up on the internet" but for me that wouldn't be a certain feeling that I have, it would not really be something from my heart.
I'd recommend not even going the "chord progression" route because it inherently requires you to use a set pattern. I'd recommend learning two, three, and four part harmony and counterpoint because then you can take any melodic line, and harmonize it in an infinite number of ways. Just what I found helps, though.
I started this course today, It answers a lot of our questions. It answers: How to create any chord progression easily from one simple diagram that has been used for centuries. The role of each chord, how to pivot to another chord smoothly and what chords connect well and what chords do not. How to change keys mid song etc. Pretty academic teaching as I did his melody course already. I got it for $10 search UDEMY for Music Composition 2 by Jonathan Peters. Sorry Utube doesn't allow copy and paste links.
I usually do it by ear, most times writing each individual voice with a bit of counterpoint in it like Chris said.
Last year I made a tutorial where I show the process -> ruclips.net/video/Mojt-LrFXTc/видео.html
Honestly, I'd recommend checking out a few videos or courses on Counterpoint like Wrathorn said, a series of free tutorials that opened my eyes back in the day was "The Art Of Counterpoint": ruclips.net/p/PLD30417EED8560721
Alex Moukala watching that series on counterpoint, it is lit!
Alright, thanks a ton guys! I really appreciate it, will look into it :)
loved it, please do more of these if you have time :)
Can you make a tutorial like how to make Cinematic Trailer Hits ( I mean like in the Inception Trailer (1.26-End))???
Intro sounds right out of an Attack on titan Soundtrack. This is fucking sick.
Wow Mannnnn you good... Damnnnn
Damn this is huge!!!
damn this is so cool !!! love that kind of vibe !
i love it bro..
Hahaha the vocals work great :D
You are amazing bro
Alex i got a question. Im not sure how to explain it tho.
I understand that we need to leave spaces for our instrument. The melody is played in the same octave while the counter melody, harmony, ostinato play in another octave. But can we like move 1 octave lower or higher for the melody? For example, the violin is playing the melody while i want the horn to play the melody too. But since the horn is 1 octave lower, it will crash with either with the ostinato notes or the counter melody. Another example that i have so much problem in it is the choir. When the ladies are singing the melody, i would also want the men to sing the melody too. But i m just afraid that the men singing the melody will clash with the counter melody or the chords in that case. So i just want to confirm whether we can do that or whether it will muddy the mix. Because i see your cello and you put it with your chords and ostinato or maybe i see wrongly here. Just want to double confirm :D I also understand that you could mix your ostinato with either your counter melody or melody since it is play in staccato but i m just confuse here whether we can mix it or not?
Oh and i want to ask whether in trailer music, can we play the choir in chords. Not talking about like 4 chords or 3. I m talking about 8 to 9 to make it more powerful. Because when you play with 8 chords it is not realistic since there are many singers. But i just want to ask whether we can do it for trailer music or not? :)
Hi, Alex! Can you tell, this boom that you use in intro "ASTR Designed Hits #1 LP", it's from Boom Library -Cinematic Trailers Designed? Thanks!
No, that is a sample I made by low-passing a layer of percussive hits as far as I remember. Can't remember what library it was from though!
Dude really good fkin track pls do pitch this to a label would love to see this in use
Hey Alex ! In which library of nexus do you find the Arp Bass Foundation?
Nexus Hollywood 2 Core!
track - FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!
great alex great.
thank you very much alex do you have a video about how to send and talk to companies for getting some jobs?
Hey Alex, this video was awesome but I've noticed something I've been looking for, when you have a MIDI out selected in the channel rack, you were able to edit kontakt without having it automatically select the kontakt instance in the channel rack, it does it for me and its a pain because I want to edit a sample instance but I have to constantly select the MIDI out in the channel rack to listen to the notes. How did you do this?
Well this is awkward, found it at Options -> General Settings -> Miscellaneous -> Auto Select Linked Modules.
nice
You are one big pile of talent, keep it up
Your Voice Is Amazing ! Do You Have A Video On How To Sing ?
Haha, I wish my voice was that good.
I could definitely not make such tutorial
Never mind...Well You Can Still Try....
I didn't know that you worked for those specific companies, thanks for name dropping, what are you going to do now ???
So you want him to answere you from a 2 years old video
I wish this was the endgame trailer music
Loving this! I was wondering what those different Tron patches are in your Nexus 2 favorites? What expansions are they from?
They're from Nexus Hollywood 2, though it'd be a bit expensive to get the full pack just for those patches.
I think they also made a Nexus Hollywood Synth expansion though, not sureif it includes them
At the beginning before making a reverb piano, I noticed that you have groups (A, B, C, D) can you tell me what it is doing and how can I do it so that I can activate multiple instruments in the frame of a player? Thanks :)
You know that Jaeger tells you on the sample start knob how much negative delay to put on your tracks right?
Whoa! This is incredible! You think you could give a stab at a Tron Legacy/synthwave esque cinematic trailer track?
Colin Hawks This!
I guess that's going to happen someday.
Tron Legacy & Synthwave are my jam, I made a full Spotify playlist of that kind of stuff -> open.spotify.com/user/1166668243/playlist/1JesJsI9bcpVtaQqICqGlC
Alex Moukala awesome playlist yo! Can’t wait to hear something like this in your style one day!
How did you do thit "Sub fall Synth" at 3:16 ? I wanna build myself a Synth which does this..
You can also mention the shortcuts that you use during the session
What signature is that? I counted 6 on the metronome
A different type of question: When you downloaded Fl Studio 20, was it like a whole new program on your desktop or did it just upgrade Fl 12 to 20?
make one in final space style, you know, like sad and dark and epic at the same time
I am making the exactly same face when I am hearing myself singing :D
Same, but with tears of pain :P
What’s that brass kinda stab in the beginning at the build ?😍 please Alex I need to know it‘s so powerful!
Hello Alex
I was wondering how much tracks you have on this trailer?
Hey Alex, love the song,
Could you recommend any affordable hans zimmer type percussion libraries/packs that include the kinda epic toms sound you achieved in this video?
Thanks
EPIC made some which is pretty cool. Or, just get composer cloud.
The first piece sounds like something in mass effect 2.
Do you always work with one instance of Kontakt per group?
hey man, this is so so so fcking good omg man. I'm not really into orchestral music, i mostly produce EDM but i already have troubles with arrangement on EDM songs, any tips?
Hey, Alex, are you a fan of any symphonic metal music?
Similar to the type of deal with One Winged Angel,but not quite. Maybe more so like Out of the Dark (Evangelion).
I listen to it sometimes. Would love to experiment with that genre too later on.
Amazing!! Is there a way I can get the FLP Template?
How did you make your Kontakt Instance so big
I've been having a lot of issues exporting recently....kontakt instruments seem to cut out at random times in mp3 files, but not always. Super frustrating!
This is amazing and I’m here with mobile GarageBand
Get FL studio mobile it a great start and you can actually make real music on there
Xtro l
I’ll try it out! GarageBand is really good for electronic music, but not orchestral.
@@leolizard3152 on FL studio mobile you can do anything
Could you do a tutorial on how you made those sweeps?
I would love to see you compose music from My Hero Acedemia.
22:40 bass
Великолепно.
Do you believe that you should quantize your notes when making violin chords or no because I'm trying to get that realistic sound
Это бомба!!!