An emotional orchestral piece using the Berlin Orchestra and stock harp and percussion. Playback straight from StaffPad, minimal editing was used for dynamics and tempo map.
Heartbreaking piece of music. Just wonderful. Like someone else said, it reminded me of Alan Silvestri. The key-changes, orchestration, melodies, phrasing and dynamics are all top notch! Watching these videos about StaffPad is getting me more and more excited to use it!
Anybody else trying listening to this at other speeds? Sounds great at 1.25 and 1.5 speed too! I can't even hear sound distortion. This is a beautiful piece.
Your first staffpad video not long ago made me curious, if maybe something changed to that app, that I did not know about. Little did I know how amazing it sounds with those berlin samples, and more important, that it’s finally available for iPad! Will you make a video about it some time in the future, I would be really excited to hear your opinion or see your workflow on that app! I don’t really have the money right now, but seeing those videos is actually inspiring me to start writing music again. I could also upgrade to the latest dorico version, but I care a lot about playback, so I‘m kinda impressed by the outcome here! Thanks in advance, keep on working and stay healthy! Greetings from Germany
It’s certainly gotten me writing more! I may do a video review. It’s completely changed the way I write and inspired me greatly. However, writing with the pen was a bit of a slog at first. I got used to the strokes after a few days, but stuff like eighth notes still gives me a bit of trouble (I’m left-handed which may contribute to that). That’s the only thing keeping me from giving it a perfect 10/10 (as well as some xml import funkiness). As far as playback goes, nothing even comes close. For it’s pure ability to inspire, it has more than paid for itself by now
Wow man. I subbed years ago for your Skyrim stuff. the quality of the instruments you’re working with now blows those out of the water. Any chance you might rewrite one or two of those with this much superior instrumentation? They sound “cheap” to me now as I’ve gotten more into classical esque and score music. Glad to see you’re back, hope all is well in this quarantine time.
Jacopo Skydweller thank you so much! It’s amazing to me that the quality and musicality is so good coming straight from notation. I may give a stab at one of my older pieces, but part of the reason these sound more realistic is because of the fact that I’m forced to use traditional orchestration (I think a lot of my Skyrim stuff had 3 cello parts, 5 French horn section parts, etc)
That is a very beautiful piece of music, thank you for writing and sharing it! Can I ask you a question? I just bought a new iPad and StaffPad and realised that with the standard libraries staccato and legato sounds are of very different volume, so that you can’t use them in one phrase. Is that the same with the other libraries or is that problem solved than? Thank you in advance!
I've been playing music my whole life (tuba, guitar, piano), but these days mostly playing by ear which is how I learned for the most part. I've wanted to get more into music composition for a while now and I remember seeing staff pad 5 years ago. Do you recommend it starting off composing? or should I stick to virtual instruments in a DAW, with piano roll and stuff? I've been messing around with FLstudio for a couple of years now. Thanks so much!
That was fantastic! What kind of tablet are you using? And is that the Berlin orchestral tools orchestra sample library? Berlin strings, Berlin woodwinds, Berlin brass etc?
@@jdrcomposer nice! I've had my eye on Berlin strings, brass, and woodwinds for ages! Are you able to switch between different sampled articulations in real time on the score?
FocusMrbjarke Thanks! As of right now, there are still some things to be ironed out. Not everybody will like writing with pen, so for it to rival other software, it will need an option for traditional keyboard input. However, for score playback, StaffPad is unrivaled. Absolutely nothing comes close to it. I have trouble getting mock-ups in Logic to sound as good as Staffpad’s Output
Could someone (or Mr. Jdr himself) explain what the theoretical explanation is of those lovely key-changes/modulations near the end of the piece? I'd like to be able to replicate that feeling one day in one of my own pieces. Thanks in advance!
Hi! Great question. This is a mediant modulation, going up a minor third which is very common in film scoring. So, in that final section, we have the IV chord (Ab major), with a descending progression. Then, it goes up to B major (minor third up from Ab, enharmonically equivalent to Cb), then from there we go up once more to D. Finally, we break the pattern and have a resolution on a G major suspension (firmly planting us on the IV of the final key, D major). Hope this helps!
Hi I had been using finale for almost 6 or 7 years now, may I know how much does the add-ons (ie the Berlin strings, etc, basically everything you use in staffpad) cost?
