Writing for STRINGS in 40 MINS 

He's not waving his arms around enough. Yet. :)

Do you mean he's a Keane Guy then?

I'm waiting for the sunglasses of doubt to show up lol

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a cross between Guy Michelmore and Cristian Henson!

THANKS CHARLIE!!

Thanks Michael!

Thanks for sticking around! I’ll try to be more consistent with the uploads!

Thanks! I enjoy tuning pianos myself. It’s very long though 😅

@@DanKeenMusic That doesn't surprise me that you can tune pianos. You seem to really know your stuff. I can't imagine being able to do it myself. What an accomplished skill. And yes, it does seem to be a rather labor intensive, or at least time consuming, venture. 🙃

Sorry to hear that, but it's yours 🙊

I'm not sorry 😅

Also - love that mastering chain! The widening and the tape saturation - LUSH!! And, yoinked that AS timer! Sorry not sorry!! 😆 great freebie - super handy!!

Oh and also, a little late to the party but THANK YOU FOR THE GENTLE GRAND ON PIANOBOOK!! - Absolutely beautiful instrument, and given freely! Wow, you have ALL the good karma 😇

It’s called PlugSearch!

Thanks Nick, I’ll see what I can do!

Thanks! I duplicate the tracks mainly so that I can have some overlap in the midi automation without it glitching

@@DanKeenMusic thanks Dan, makes sense

This is a VS Faderbox by NativeVS but my review video last year has inundated him with sales. If you can grab one, they're great, but otherwise there are lots on the market

Dynamics, Vibrato and Expression (volume)

@@DanKeenMusic Thanks Dan. This was very generous of you to share your knowledge and says a lot about you. You've been given a great mental tool set too. I wish you the very best in your career going forward. Follow your inner witness which is sincere. I'm looking forward to seeing you succeed even more.

It depends. Your specs ought to be good enough for your PC to handle your library. Check if your PC is running properly (you can download apps for this) and obviously any cracked software will always perform worse/crash. See if any change in your Logic settings have any impact. If it’s a PC issue you should sent it in for inspection, software issue - reach out to their support. t could be a multitude of reasons but those are my first thoughts

From left to right: CC1 mod wheel, CC21 Spitfire vibrato, CC11 expression, CC7 volume

Dynamics, Vibrato and Expression (volume)

This is the VS Faderbox by Native VS. I made a review about it last year and then promptly inundated him with sales - he can't keep up! Lots of other great ones on the market too but highly recommend this if you can grab it!

@@DanKeenMusic I was going to get one but I fear I may have been a week or two to late :( Ive emailed him just in case anyways!

It suffered a splattering from a seagull on Venice Beach and is still recovering. I'll be back with a cap in no time

I think it’s two things: 1) We’re not used to it. Usually we get mid to high 20s in the summer so the 40 degrees we had last week was unbearable 2) insulation in UK is designed to keep heat in, as it tends to be cool most of the year. So hot air comes in and then gets trapped and can’t escape

Why ?

Want him to cut down some trees and make the paper too?

​@@DanKeenMusic Because pencil & paper would eliminate the crutches demonstrated in the video (at the expense of inability to demonstrate Spitfire products in real-time). 1. 'Composing' is the art of taking a premeditated musical idea and setting it down in a determined way for a cohesive artistic purpose vs. 02:00 "I really have no idea..lets see what comes out today." The latter has more in common with stream-of-consciousness spontaneous randomness compared to definite and determined composing. 2. A big portion is not composing but instead sound design 11:44 "I'm gonna change my (instruments/timbre) because (it does stuff)" 13:29 "Lets just add some more layers and see how that works". 15:35 "What I'm gonna do is add even more reverb" 3. Most of what is featured in terms of writing is improvisation 16:40 "Lets just continue on this train... (trial and error playing) Thats quite nice" 26:10 "These tools make me a better composer because if I were to play this with a sine wave or Sibelius's absolutely awful choir, I wouldn't have been moved by that chord" 3. Relatively positive that your prior composition instructors would agree that composing is done in the musical imagination and thus best set down on paper first without external instruments (and for very good, deep reasons) although they are likely too polite to call out DAW users publicly for their lack of adherence to this foundational principle of the art. 4. Writing as score notation eliminates the frequent type of problem run into here 32:25 "There is definitely something wrong here" . 5. The remainder of what is being done is arranging or orchestration as in 35:25 "Now if you want to make it a little bit bigger or better or whatever (let's add another instrument like Celeste and add rhythm)". In conclusion there should be a new word invented for what this video is actively doing, for example if it is called Dawing (from DAW) that would seem to be a more legitimate term, rather than the continued watering down of the term of and the art of Composition.

The Cambridge dictionary literally says: compose: to produce music, poetry, or formal writing. You write it on paper, other people create/produce it differently. Not sure what's your problem here, and why you'd feel the urge calling our people doing things differently than yourself. Art is art :-)

@@onnooo What do you mean by "our people"? It's everyone's right to comment, no matter if some agree or disagree. Any community of arts has been staying alive with the exchange of controversy and lively discussion. Don't forget, everything we all debate in the www depends on definition and presets, like language or science doctrine. So yes, I agree with you, art is art, and the way how we create art is complex and diverse. But let objections live! The algorithms still do the filtering for us, we should not end in the oblivion of a binary dogma.