Alex Pfeffer is a composer from Hamburg, Germany. For around 17 years, he has mainly worked in epic trailer music and video games.
In 1998, Alex went to L.A. to study music at the Los Angeles College of Music.
Alex has worked for Two Steps from Hell, Epic Score, Liquid Cinema, Gothic Storm, Position Music, and many others. His music has been featured in movie trailers such as Pacific Rim, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, etc., and is on air on around 60+ TV shows across the globe.
His music is also featured in video games, such as CHORUS, Company of Heroes 3, Crysis 2, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Battleforge, Vikings: Wolves of Midgard, Sacred 2, Galaxy on Fire 3, Runes of Magic, John Woo's Stranglehold, The Settlers VII, ANNO 1404, Kinect Rush, HCA: The Ugly Prince Duckling and many others.
Alex has also worked for Mick Gordon (DOOM 2016), Trevor Morris (The Tudors), and Frank Peterson (Sarah Brightman) and wrote countless tracks for almost every top sample library company.
Yes, it makes total sense and is necessary. In the near future, music composers will occupy the gap between developers and music. With the advance of AI, a music composer will be mostly also required to have AI prompt designer skills,
I always love your contributions to the composer community, Alex. Thank you so much for this helpful video. I wish you had an entire course for Studio One as I am attempting to switch from Cubase to S1.
Hi Alex. Not sure if you are still responding to Videos on this channel, but thought I would ask anyway. I purchased Cinematic Rooms Reverb and now I am seeing this Berlin Studio option I am wondering can you use these together? or is it one or the other? I get that Berlin is for using a pretty dry signal from any Plugin then it will place it in the right area of an Orchestra etc etc Cinematic rooms also is amazing and overall it gives a fantastic depth and width BUT if you could confirm if you COULD use them together OR you should use them separately. I see benefits of using both but need to warrant the expense :) thanks as always.
Looks like I clicked on the right video. This was amazing, top tier advice that will save me so much time. If you have qualifications should you not mention those when you send some music? I'm guessing it will come out at a later stage and maybe you'll look better because you didn't lead with it. Also wondering if you could direct them to your website covertly :)
Hell no :D I just want to start from scratch. Most videos will stay, some will be ported to the new channel (if necessary or needed) but info will NEVER be lost :)
This channel has been one of the rare ones where I had my notifications enabled. I'm kinda sad to see it go, but I'm glad you're continuing your RU-vid presence, Alex! I immediately subbed to the other channel, looking forward to more of your funny German accent videos! (Coming from a guy with a funny Bosnian accent)
I have too many libraries like most composers these days. BUT a few are just golden! 1- Albion Solstice - Mother of Inspiration, I call it. A “folk noir orchestra” sounds like a gimmick BUT IT REALLY IS A GOTHIC ORCHESTRA like the people from “Midsommer” would chant to. Gorgeous timbres you WILL NOT find elsewhere and very well done on the others. Ie yes you'll find a hurdy gurdy vst easy but 999/1000 sound like well you know. This one is a real organic sound quivering with harmonics and mechanisms- but the folk choir- the best choir outside expensive choral vsti. As good or better than Genesis, folk choir with ancient Celtic articulations. Solstice gives ideas when you have none. 2- Time micro (the video) has a SHWACK of many many curated combos with rich layered timbres as he shows off at the start. BUT ALSO!! That's the Time Orchestra made of instrument recordings. Then you also get another whole set of processed or hybrid sounds BUT the cool thing is you also get the instruments which make those sounds: Choir Contrabass clarinet Bass flute Zither Celeste Mandolin (and about 7 more individual instruments as well) ALSO! Combinations like Mandolin, Zither and Harp etx (isn't there also a string ensemble with many rare articulations?) Awesome stuff!!
Once your account is back/restored, no need to feel its somehow unclean. I think this is a huge mistake, losing nearly 20k hard earned subs. I am not entirely sure you realize how hard it is to get views / catch the algo wave like you have within the last several months. Your recent videos are soaring into 6k views, while new channel can barely get a few hundred. I know many RU-vidrs personally who have channels in the 200K plus subs, why not just delete videos you don't think fit here? Please I plead with you just save this channel in case you come back or have regrets.
Thanks but I never said I delete it. I just discontinue it. I am almost at 1000 subs again and tbh, I care more about the value of those people rather than the pure sub number. I would always prefer 1000 interested people than 50% of the 20.000 not care about what I do. One of my latest videos on my new channel has around 650 views with around 1000 members. That means over 50% engagement rate. If I have 6000 views with 20000 subs, it means a bit over 25%! :) I will be back at 20000 quickly and I will show everyone considering a channel that it is possible :)
Good choice Alex. I always loved your content and fortunately I will be switching to your new channel (for which I already subscribed). I'll unsubscribe from this channel (like you wished in this last video). See you around ;-)
Very happy to hear that you are continuing with a new channel Alex. I was worried when I read this video's description. I have subscribed to the new channel. 👌 Does this mean you will close this channel completely, or it will simply not be updated? There are so many videos with a lot of knowledge and inspiration on this channel that I still watch. Best of luck!
Thank you, the videos will of course stay. If they don't stay I will port them over and work with the information because it may be still relevant. For example, video from 2022 but info still relevant for 2024 :)
Whew!!! So glad you aren't leaving us man! Love your content. I've learned a great deal from you over the years through my journey to getting into trailer music. Already subscribed to you new channel. Looking forward to supporting you there going forward. 👊
Goodbye Alex Pfeffer and thank you for some seriously great stuff on this channel, you are an excellent teacher. I have subscribed to your new channel in the description. So onwards and upwards!
I am merely a music hobbyist and I try to learn programming to get a better career. Everywhere you go online, you can only see AI will do this, AI will do that. You will be out of a job, regardless of your profession. We do not know what future will bring. But for now, for me - AI is just a buzzword to convince investors to give AI companies some significant amounts of cash. Of course AI is evolving and it can do a lot of things, BUT on the other side of prompts - YOU STILL NEED A HUMAN - who understands and know what he wants, the human is still a judge, editor, auditor etc. of the AI output. You still need someone PROFESSIONAL to make decisions if an AI output is GOOD or BAD. You can compare it to NO-CODE solutions - all of them are good at creating something average and simple. But when you need something more sophisticated and custom - you will need a PROFESSIONAL who will do that for you. Putting aside legal aspects of AIs and LLMs databases. Even if AI will take over - LLMs are generating stuff based on theory of probability. They will never give you the BEST answer. And when everyone will be using AI to generate music - in time we will be tired of hearing more and more similarities. And again, in order to create something different - even created by AI - you will still need a PROFESSIONAL to curate the AI outputs and customize it. And ordinary people from a street won't be able to do that, as they won't have the skills or ear and experience. If AI will take all of our jobs, what we will bee doing? Sitting around doing nothing? I don't think so ;) In a macro scale - you can not allow masses to do nothing as they will start to misbehave and cause trouble. And governments can not have that to happen. Of course I may be wrong about all of this. But I wish all of us all the best :)
I've learned so much from you and the content that you share. I am eternally grateful for the time that you invest in these guidance and instructional videos and by association, the time that you invest in us. You are genuinely a source of inspiration and your manner instills confidence in us aspiring composers. Thank you for this and I too have already subscribed to your new channel. 👍 Cheers. Sean.
