FM team up with Steinberg for another episode of Studio Sessions. In this installment, we're in the studio with Swedish composer and producer Magnus Birgersson, aka Solar Fields. Watch him break down his track Parallel Universe.
This man is a genius for real though. He really does inspire me to start learning how to produce music. His work on both mirrors edge games is a thing of beauty, so much depth & feelings he put into those games.
Master class with the best master ever ! I had the chance to meet him at the harmonic festival, he is such a nice and smart person ! Listen to his discography, you will hallucinate ! And mirror edge sountrack is a lesson of music. One of the powerfull composer and sound designer of these times !
Awesome! So excited when I saw this. Solar Fields is one of my absolute favorite electronic musicians. It's fantastic to see into his workflow, gear, and techniques.
i dont think i have ever thumbs up'ed so many comments on a video. the love here is real. wish we all could go see this man preform. stay shiny guys. music to propel us into the future!!!!!
Thanks for showing us Solar Fields in the studio, what a dream come true. Besides Biosphere he is the best in psychedelic ambient. Good FMM, show us more nice and talented artists like this :)
Great atmospheric track !!!! Very nicely explained step by step.... the chain reaction in your mind creating the elements that sound so good together! I hope you don't feel that you told us too much ;-). Thank you so much for sharing. I like solar fields mainly at night escaping the reality of this world. helps me discover new imaginary landscapes. or during some days on a bike off-road trips where I haven't been before! !! Thank you again for sharing!
I listen to a lot of Aes Dana's music and he has a collab project with Solar Fields called H.U.V.A. Network. Check out their album "Ephemeris". It's SO GOOD.
Interesting to get some insight in his work process. Looking forward to hearing the new album, IMHO Movements is his best work so far. It's a true masterpiece!
some ask about what he do to make his music so great. i tell 3 things in my view are crucial in his music. first is modulation he modulates every bit of sound. second is reverb, he uses a good amount of different reverbs in the send it does the trick sounding away better. third is playing with low frequencies that he phases and LFO etc. the rest if you have two more things like a good sensibility for melody and beat you can achieve something within this line that magnus does.
yeah sure... it's easy to achieve good sensibility for melody, structure, technical skills, mixing skills reducing any creation down to it's individual steps will make it look easy, but creating something from nothing is anything but easy.
Damn I couldn't understand the use of loopmaster until this video! Very great demonstration on how pro workflow in modern Cubase can be a great time. Most of these plugins were default which is awesome too
Yeah, it was interesting to know that he assembles everything as he goes! I've heard other music producers say that most of the time they already have the basic track in their heads and then they just need to translate it into sound. I don't know how Magnus is capable of giving a direction to his tracks with his working method but it's a fact that he does! :)
Хороший музыкант. Мне нравится. Многие композиции восхитительны. Также великолепен саундтрек Миррорс Едж Каталист 2016. Магнусу желаю творческих успехов.
Some great design work going on. I'd love to hear about how he references to keep levels in check. There are a lot of areas in the mixing of this kind of epic ambient washy music that puzzle me. He's insert reverb on nearly every track/bus yet everything seems so together. Anyone have a clue how he could be managing this intense blend of elements where all things remain clear? PS that filter-stepped snare hit was brilliant!
Its a very clever mix of some sounds that are meant to blend together and seem like one unified thing. With some other elements that are meant to sound as separate layers. From what I can see its mainly his sophisticated use of EQ which is allowing him to keep the separation and clarity where he wants it. The distortion on some sounds is important too. That takes good ears, quite a bit of experience and some technical knowledge about masking, spectrum analysis and such like. Plus of course you must have a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve and where all of the different elements are supposed to fit.
Magnus!!! It has been a while my friend! Do you remember me from MySpace.com? My name was Liam Howlett, we chatted quite a bit. I hope you are doing good my man. You are a genius! Stay safe and keep producing you ear candy.
This guy creates this great music, then instead of performing it live he plays pre-recorded versions of his songs. I don't understand why his fans are ok with that.
I don't know what you're expecting, but as a single man who produces advanced compositions made up of a lot of digital, virtual instruments playing at the same time, there is only so much you can do for a live performance. This is the case with most artists in the electronic genre, anyways. That being said, he does play some actual instruments live, on top of a lot of the automated synthesizers in the background, in some of his live performances. Here's a good example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-273axwQ6xsI.html
