I really appreciate your kind words! My approach was I listened to the song repeatedly and would try and focus on one instrument at a time. I started with the strings, then brass, then bass notes, choir, then percussion and then tweaked from there, filling in notes I may have missed from one section or another. There were a few times I got really discouraged because I couldn't figure out why my cover sounded so different to the original or say, Samuel Kim's. it came down to just the mix! My brass and choir was too strong and I brought them down while making the strings louder and it suddenly sounded right! I hope the best for you, wish you luck on your music making journey and can't wait to see what you make!
@@KevinThornMusic Thank you so much for the insightful response. I appreciate you. Also, how did you learn midi orchestration? As a beginner, I'm struggling to make midi mock-ups
Honestly I'm still learning, I'm not sure if this helps but this was basically my process from no idea what I'm doing to actually making something. I started with the 90 day free trial in Abelton wanting to write EDM music and tried writing in there and struggled. The difference between patterns and the timeline in both Abelton and FL Studio confused me for a bit. Eventually I think I needed something to reference and play around with so I downloaded a MIDI version of a song and dragged and dropped it into Abelton and messed with the already written MIDI to see how it worked. I learned how to replace the instruments in the MIDI with my own and then I wondered if instead of using something like Vital for EDM if I tried using orchestra instruments. The free libraries didn't really inspire me to try that until I heard the Nucleus Lite demo and spent the $99 for that. Now that I had the sounds I just had to drop the instruments in each layer to get them to work together. That's when a lightbulb kind of went ding for me and I understood, "Okay, the piano roll is where I write all the notes, each instrument will have its own piano roll and once I know how to use the piano roll well I can at least write the notes down." I also wondered how people got instruments to swell and not just change in volume and found out it was automation and watched random tutorials until one clicked for me. So from there it was "Okay, now that I can write notes in the piano roll, I can use automation to change dynamics in volume or intensity." FINALLY after that the instruments started doing what I wanted and it felt like an orchestration but there was still a barrier for me which was actually writing the MIDI, haha. I tried out FL studio and the piano roll was much more intuitive to work with and just stuck with that. After a lot of trial and error, here I am. Sorry for the long response, but that's kind of how it went. I didn't necessarily "learn midi orchestration" but learned how to use the program the same way you'd write *any* kind of music and just applied it to orchestral music.
Wonderful cover and you earned a sub I really wonder how you did this because i want to learn how to make mock-ups
I really appreciate your kind words! My approach was I listened to the song repeatedly and would try and focus on one instrument at a time. I started with the strings, then brass, then bass notes, choir, then percussion and then tweaked from there, filling in notes I may have missed from one section or another. There were a few times I got really discouraged because I couldn't figure out why my cover sounded so different to the original or say, Samuel Kim's. it came down to just the mix! My brass and choir was too strong and I brought them down while making the strings louder and it suddenly sounded right!
I hope the best for you, wish you luck on your music making journey and can't wait to see what you make!
@@KevinThornMusic Thank you so much for the insightful response. I appreciate you. Also, how did you learn midi orchestration? As a beginner, I'm struggling to make midi mock-ups
Honestly I'm still learning, I'm not sure if this helps but this was basically my process from no idea what I'm doing to actually making something.
I started with the 90 day free trial in Abelton wanting to write EDM music and tried writing in there and struggled. The difference between patterns and the timeline in both Abelton and FL Studio confused me for a bit. Eventually I think I needed something to reference and play around with so I downloaded a MIDI version of a song and dragged and dropped it into Abelton and messed with the already written MIDI to see how it worked. I learned how to replace the instruments in the MIDI with my own and then I wondered if instead of using something like Vital for EDM if I tried using orchestra instruments. The free libraries didn't really inspire me to try that until I heard the Nucleus Lite demo and spent the $99 for that. Now that I had the sounds I just had to drop the instruments in each layer to get them to work together.
That's when a lightbulb kind of went ding for me and I understood, "Okay, the piano roll is where I write all the notes, each instrument will have its own piano roll and once I know how to use the piano roll well I can at least write the notes down." I also wondered how people got instruments to swell and not just change in volume and found out it was automation and watched random tutorials until one clicked for me.
So from there it was "Okay, now that I can write notes in the piano roll, I can use automation to change dynamics in volume or intensity." FINALLY after that the instruments started doing what I wanted and it felt like an orchestration but there was still a barrier for me which was actually writing the MIDI, haha. I tried out FL studio and the piano roll was much more intuitive to work with and just stuck with that. After a lot of trial and error, here I am.
Sorry for the long response, but that's kind of how it went. I didn't necessarily "learn midi orchestration" but learned how to use the program the same way you'd write *any* kind of music and just applied it to orchestral music.
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