Composing LIVE with Spitfire Audio Abbey Road ONE: Orchestral Foundations! 

Can you share your project/template?

Production chops ✅ Composition skill ✅ Killer workflow and track organization ✅ Pleasing accent ✅ You, my good man, have earned a subscriber.

It's pretty safe to say that this guy is a genius.

Awesomeness! Love Spitfire library for my future musical works! Great video. Worth the investment. This will become a wonderful addition to my Studio.

Incredible! Great work, lots of talent!

Nice work. Can‘t wait to get my hands on a copy tonight 😍 And I would love to see more in-depth videos from you.

Well-done Keen! I've learnt more about composing in a DAW in this video then in 2 semesters at University - thanks for doing them.

This is a very inspiring video. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Really compelling -- thanks for daring, and succeeding so well.

Thank you Dan for the template. Your kindness is beyond generous. Many thanks, again my friend.

I could watch you compose for far longer than 45 minutes. I always learn something. Thank you!

Would love to hear this polished and developed. Even as it stands I’m blown away by the sound. Definitely glad I pre-ordered.

WOW Dan, these screencasts that you have been providing and sharing have been OUTSTANDING with regards to helping and assisting us aspiring media composers. Please continue doing them... Thanks, my friend! BTW, I hear some resemblance of Ennio Morricone's western scores.

Youre my new favourite channel to learn from!!!!! Youre Awesome Dan Keen!!! Love from Pakistan!!

Really great! Thank you for this!

Loved this. Sorry you couldn’t finish but I appreciate the effort!

Beautiful

Man. What a beautiful composition. 😢🙏🏼

Great video Dan!

fantastic job, Dan! I also play a lot of music ..mostly classical style...on my piano and now with Dorico and VSL libraries (Vienna Symphonic...). I am fascinated how you created your orchestral music in such a short time. Here in Germany we are also in a self isolation, but playing and composing music can help us a lot coming over this time. With my best whishes, Wolf

Wooow i just found out about your channel, and i think its very good. Keep it up man, i love it

Convinced. So good... even as a tutorial for the composing process.

Yes, we here in America are experiencing a real challenge. Our politics and our health are clashing but things and events like this video offer up a glimmer of hope that somewhere on the horizon inspiration is at hand. I do encourage you to keep up the reviews and I find these creative sessions to be extremely interesting. I have seen only a couple of your videos but I am so impressed. I am 82 years old and just purchased the spitfire Discover Library and even though I have grandchildren older than you, my respect is enormous. Thank you so much for your work.

Eres un Fenómeno. Gracias

This might have sold me. I didn't wan't to buy another library just yer. but damn, you're talented. Fantastic

Man, I just spent 2 (very nice) weeks composing something that sounds in no way like what you've achieved in 45 minutes. Absolutely a joy to see, keep it up. New fan here!

Very much appreciate the fantastic video ... looking forward to exploring more on your channel ... just SUBSCRIBED .. and thank you for the kind thoughts for the USA ...

Dan We are IG friends. For me You have on of the best channel of film scoring and composition. Thanks you very much.

Loving the template, Dan!

Thanks for this wonderful review and inspiring nice piece of Music. All the best from Hamburg Germany Björn

You are a genius...!!!

Du deler gode ideer her som jeg vil prøve på selv. Takk for fin video. Hilsen fra Norge. :)

Well done Dan. Love the initial section and melody. I think I'll try one of these timed compositional sessions - though I think it would take me 4.5 days to reach a fraction of what you achieved in 45 minutes ;-)

Hi Dan, love your videos. Would you be willing to make a video of a project where you show how you EQ (treat each instrument) and how you EQ and process on a bus and master. That would be so helpful for many of us 🙂

Nice!

Good job Dan. Fair play for turning this almighty sound out in 45 mins. You’ve reminded me to go and preorder 😁 Yes to another in-depth video tutorial.

Hi Dan, loved this. It would be great to see what you'd do with it given a few more hours or days.

Great work, reminds me of the London 2012 opening ceremony for some reason (maybe the epic percussion)... and the xylophone in bars 19-20 is magical... I never know how to use xyl effectively, but short and subtle seems to suit the piece well.

bravo, bravo

First time I watch one of your 45 minutes challenge.. that's just impressive !!! Bravo

So excited to have watched this! I’m VERY CONFIDENT the product is worth it’s price $349 pre-order fee.

I'd love to get your impression of composing with BBCSO and Abbey Road 1...and any thoughts how they might play well together.

You did a great job. Congratulations. I used recently ABR and I have no see an harpe sample. Did you fond some one ? Thank you for your replay and excuse my poor English, I'm French. Best regards.

Very nice job Dan - you really showed the practical side of this library. And your arrangement sounds great, out of the box :) Would you mind speaking to your technical setup in terms of recording your tutorial? 1) what screen cap do you use and 2) how do you capture ASIO audio *and your talkback mic. If you have a link to a preferred tutorial, that would be fine too. Thank you sir!

Hi Dan, fantastic composition, to turn around something as wonderful as this in a short time is incredible. Am I right in thinking you could have made the same beautiful piece with the BBC SO library as well? If not, then what would be the main differences and what section from the Abbey Road ONE library would you buy to supplement the BBC library?

Hi Dan, this is impressive! I am really interested in music for films and ads so I immediately subscribed to get a little bit more into the process of making this kind of music. Can I ask if you study or studied at some specific academy? thanks

Hey Dan - great stuff ! I've been looking to upgrade my monitor and mouse for a while and I was wondering what models you use? Thanks x

Hi Dan! Absolutly beautiful composition and time, ok..it's important but I think in 45 minutes, working with midi samples and mixing at the same time (like I used to do it) it's complicated so...really good job! A question, just by curiosity...I work in Cubase but I think you are sending every single track to 2 reverbs...I think one of them is Fabfilter Pro-r (i don't know what preset) and the second one? Could it be Altiverb? Can you show me if I am close? presets? Thank you!! And of coarse, subscribed!

Dan, this is beautiful as expected. I understand that you're very concentrated and all, but I would love the occasional joke here and there next time :D No offense.

Great composing video Dan.....thanks. Was this a ready made template or did you load everything in one by one? I love the sound of the room and playing of the Abbey Road orchestra.....👍

Hi Dan, can I have the Midifiles from this Project? The Melody is very nice!!! Please help me

Hi! I often use Sibelius exclusively for writing music as I always found it less complicated. You make DAW look SO easy to use! Would you mind sharing what “products” you use? Keyboard, DAW etc! I want to start dipping my toe in as it would save me so much time in long run!

50:00 haha yeh politics in London sucks i guess !! Gratulations for the bravura composing live anyway. I guess people cared more about someone composing than whatever the library it is employed there. On my opnion the Eeastwestwood orchestra looks to be the best for articulations. And if i want to go "abbey road" i use the waves plug ins

Beautiful start -- yes, I'd love to hear the finished product (and note how long it takes you to do it). Meanwhile, the political chaos will sort itself out. I think it's not as bad here (Philadelphia=ground zero) as it appears from afar. Life goes on.

How do you go along with using swing. I love Jazz piano stuff and it´s swing. And I use swing in my daylie excersises then I want to quantize for example the swinged pizzicato strings and then they are out of line. I enjoy your videos Mr. Keen. They are very helpfull for me as a beginner.

Hi Dan, I was already excited to see how you saw your work with BBCO. I myself now have BBC Core and now also Abbey Road 1. So far I myself have worked more with virtual synths and instruments that I recorded live rather spontaneously with Ableton Live. Now I am familiarizing myself with Logic Pro and BBCO by recording "Pictures at an Exhibition" (study score). I'm learning an incredible amount here at the moment. When I watch you in the videos, I can see how fit you are in handling Logic Logic and in your musical imagination. My respect! Abbey Road enables me to work more easily and spontaneously in my compositions / recordings. My feeling tells me that in the end I can mix both products quite well. If I want passages even more detailed than possible in Abbey Road, then BBCO is in. How do you see this I still have a second question: How big did you find the difference between BBCO Core and BBCO Professional. I am sorely missing the bass clarinet in Core right now. Keep it up and stay healthy!

Beautiful Arrangement! Was wondering what were your computer specs in this video? My templates look similar to yours and I am thinking about purchasing this library. ALSO, what is your opinion of this library verses Spitfire BBC Core?

Hello the abbey road one plug-in and all other products from spitfire does it work with Apple M1?

Just be aware if you want to use the NKS functionality of Abbey Road One, you currently can't - opening it within Komplete Kontrol it opens to collapsed view with no way of expanding it (the expand control does not work) and with the global options control missing. Have reported this to Spitfire.

Do you use a sustain pedal for the strings?

You're way too hard on yourself! Superb for just 45 minutes. Great sounding library.

I don’t think I realised how much you’d be able to comprehend the acoustics of the room even through samples; it is definitely much more ‘filmic’ than all of the sounds from Air! I am not in the field of media composition directly, but I do need a ‘this does it all’ library. I have been toying with the likes of something from the Albion range for a while, but have delayed any big purchase because I just wasn’t sure that it was ‘right’ - 80% of the time, BBCSO Discover, or something from LABS or the Originals series is fine for me, but I think you’ve swayed me.... I’d be really interested to hear your further thoughts on this library as you get to know it, Dan. Could this be the ‘this does it all’ orchestral library that I need? Do you think that Abbey Road or BBCSO would be the more worthwhile investment? Or are they just niche in their own ways?! As ever, a great ‘first looks’ demo; really impressive in 45 minutes!

would you recommend abbey road or BBC SO? or rather whcih styles of music would each be suitable for?

Dan, because you have used both, if you want to buy just one of the 2, BBCSO core or Abbey Road one, which one would you choose?

They now have legato right?

what keyboard is that?

Thanks for that Dan. It is, again, pretty "big" of you to put your orchestral chops on the line in a 45 minute shoot-out like this. There's something really engaging about an unedited, unexpurgated 'warts and all' session that an edited highlights of a lengthier session wouldn't (I don't think) convey. But, it would be good though to hear and watch a longer session so that you can you work on something until you are more satisfied with it. I thought when you were trying out a rapidly escalating pattern for the second half here, it could have been really exciting- but you scrapped that idea and went for the syncopated brass led chords. It's the second time you've given yourself too much to do in the second half of a timed 'compose-off' - Cut the easy listening intros, I say, and jump to the hyperactive stuff that keeps trying to emerge!!

What plugins are on your mix bus?

Would be nice to have someone without sponsorship do a comparison of their flagship products, on the same project.

I presume they’ll be selling the legatos separately... which is kind of wack.

I’m underwhelmed and wish I saved my money. :(