Awesome! I really needed to see this . These stacks are fantastic . . . but your harmonic sense is out of this world!!! Thank you so much for sharing this.
Great ideas on the stacks, for sure. But man, you blew my mind with what you played starting at 0:11; what I’d like more than anything is to see you take that 18 seconds and make a video breaking down what you were doing with the voicings, the chords and the interplay between high and low parts. I mean, you were just plain breathing out a full orchestral arrangement right there, and I desperately want to understand a bit more of where all of that came from.
That's sort of pentatonic style American a la Aaron Copland. In the right hand find a strong rhythm maybe: bah-bah-baaahhhh. Then the left hand can reply. Bah-bah. In the right hand you can use suspended 4 and suspended 2 chords. Then major chords. Left hand mostly octaves moving by thirds. But you can throw in a fifth, if it is in the chosen pentatonic scale. Sometimes play the rhythm hands together. It doesn't matter if the bass note is contained in the right hand. So long as it is a whole step from the notes in the chord. So for a Gb chord in the right, you could put any chord tone, or Ab, or Eb in the bass. The easiest way to start is: play only on the black keys (no white), and follow the above tips. Add the F natural so you can make the Db chord and resolve the sus2 or sus4 chords on Db. Then add in the C natural which will give a lydian mode feel when used as a passing note for the Gb chord. But try to never move by half step in the right hand. To modulate, move your hands over to another pentatonic scale. Avoid half steps. Use pentatonic-ish chords.
Really like your videos. Never thought to use them like this, stacked. I always take one instrument one by one with different output channel and work on each line to try to get that result... But watching you makes me wanna try to bring different instrument on same channel (combined) and try to see how they sound together ! Nice one 👍
I know same. But i find the "old way," writing everyrhing out, I still cant this kind of sound vy programing in each instrument, unless I stack several patches of fhe same instrument anyway.
How are these routed within Kontakt? Are certain instances set to be transposed up or down X # of octaves? Or, do you limit which parts of the keyboard contain which VSTs? Btw unbelievable video, your improvisation within the language of film scoring is also incredible.
Great video ! Amazing playing ! Thanx a lot Sir ! A question can one save a stack within Kontakt or must one create a template to be able to recall the stack ?
Scary good stuff here Michael and great playing! Just found you here but I've subscribed and will check out your website for sure. Thank you so much. 🙏🏾
I was watching the voices/RAM counts on those plugins ... makes my old Ensoniq ASR-10 with a whopping 14 Mb of RAM seem a little antiquated. Amazing sounds. $0.02
you can radically pan dry/wet as left/right or increase pre/delay, or set to binaural panner and center some instruments that need focus. Headphones will give a better judgment of depth, checking what is “in your face”. Truth is that the best mixes have some elements very dry or close, because they are confident on the quality of the sound. I try to combine this with an infinite reverb . So my take ;) The first technique may be only mine, i don’t give you hollywood guarantee! But i loved.
Anyone know where to grab Albion 3 Iceni? looks like spitfire took it off the market recently,... btw Whitty - I am a full time trailer composer and have come back to this video time and time again to try and mimic these stacks you have - phenomenal video and thank you for sharing this information with the rest of us!!!!
Brass and winds was Loegria. Iceni is all low….no trumpets or flutes in the Iceni ensembles. Shame as Loegria isn’t available anymore…brass sounds fantastic here!
I know and they took that combi away from Albion one. However if you combine Brass high, Brass Mid, Brass Low (in Albion One) on the same MIDI channel you will get a similar result, but not quite as good as it used to be. The original samples had a human quality that was tuned out in Albion One. Or contact them maybe there is a way to buy it not on the website
@@whittymusic than you. I have a bunch of Spitfire Library (i'm love Abbey ROad One...) I'll check what I can do whit. Anyway, thanks for you excellent channel.
128 gb in 6 machines running vienna ensemble pro. But you could easily run this stack with 16gb no prob. It's more about your processor speed and core count
