Writing HYBRID Music In 30 Minutes | Fracture Sounds Giveaway

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In this video, I'll be giving you a fly on the wall experience, showing an unedited clip of me writing a piece of music in 30 minutes, using libraries provided by Fracture Sounds for the 10k giveaway that I'm doing at the moment! Details down below on how you can enter!
Entries are open until 23:59pm BST on 9th August 2021. Winners will be chosen at random.
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@tomaspaulmusic 3 года назад

Nothing better than to log on to RU-vid and to see another real-time composing video from you, love it!

@Wkcomposer 3 года назад

20:13 *and it's peeerfect*

@arnabchakrabortyofficial 3 года назад

Splendid stuff as usual Dan. Please make more of these 30 min sessions. Keep up the good work.

@Sesaon3 3 года назад

Sublime piece of music Dan ... melodic ambient ... right up my street.

@bhwhprods 3 года назад

Good work Dan. There’s something quite Pachelbel / Nyman about this... a chaconne feel. I like it.

@MichelBarbaro 2 года назад

Your real-time composing videos are so inspiring! Great job!

@iosmusicman 3 года назад

Beautiful piece. Very cinematic feel. Interested in the techniques etc but the end result was what blew me away. Thanks. Lee

@es__music 3 года назад

Logic doesn't have a native search function? You have to buy an extra plugin?! I have to give Cubase one up on this one. Love Apple but...

@Lantertronics 3 года назад

I just started experimenting with Reaper, which has a search function for plugins built in too.

@es__music 3 года назад

@@Lantertronics I heard Reaper is good. Haven't tapped into it yet.

@Lantertronics 3 года назад

@@es__music I can see why a lot of folks are put off by Reaper at first; it has a pretty pedestrian appearance compared to other modern DAWs. But I don't think that's the developers falling down on the U per seI; it's just a different approach, wherein you are encouraged to customize the appearance to your tastes, and there's little overhead taken up on fancy graphics.

@es__music 3 года назад

@@Lantertronics Oh Cubase is no UI winner either!

@Lantertronics 3 года назад

@@es__music hah! :)

@WangleLine 3 года назад

That's so cool :D

@CYGNO 3 года назад

Dan, That piece was lovely in the end. (And at various times during the journey too.). What does "hybrid" mean in the context of a piece like this? I think I've gleaned that it means not purely orchestral, but 'hybreeding' with what, electronic music?

@DanKeenMusic 3 года назад

Thanks Michael! To be honest, my definition of hybrid is loosely just a mix of acoustic and electronic elements

@CYGNO 3 года назад

@@DanKeenMusic Those Dulcianos stood out for all the right reasons for me. I can see how they could be overused and become a kind of cliche but not in this case they weren't..

@logimite7174 3 года назад

DANG I missed!

@joonpop7494 3 года назад

Beautiful work as always Dan! What is the basic spec of your computer? I use a 10-core iMac Pro (32GB RAM, SSD Hard Drives for FS Libraries), but it always stops quite often when I use multiple FS Kontakt samples like your project. (Buffer size set to 1024) When I look at your workflow, even using this many Kontakt libraries, your cpu guage doesn't seem to overload. Any special tips for that?

@loganboland 2 года назад

how are you searching over in the channel area when adding plugins?

@DanKeenMusic 2 года назад

It’s a $20 app called PlugSearch!

@jmichaelking51 3 года назад

I have watched this video numerous times and still learn something each listen. Thanks for the great informative narration of your creative process.Well done, Thanks...

@DanKeenMusic 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@samferrell229 3 года назад

This is a really beautiful piece

@music4screens Год назад

I love this kind of challenge performed by talented people. Lovely video!

@beaumuse7890 3 года назад

Mr. Keen, may I ask which midi controllers you recommend? I noticed you are using the Axiom 49, which I believe isn't being produced anymore. You have inspired me to purchase one and begin learning! Thank you for your time.

@MarcusWarnerMusic 3 года назад

1:00 - how on earth have I never thought of doing this. 10 seconds in and you've already schooled me haha. Thanks Dan!

@superblondeDotOrg 3 года назад

You mean making a Template for different genres so you can just load it up and start writing? Template template template.

@LoveAudioProduction 2 года назад

It's a beautifully ethereal piece Dan. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us here.

@AndreasArianto 2 года назад

beautiful! it just brought to my mind that choosing, auditioning, and selecting which instruments to use is taking most of my time composing when setting it all up. It's good that you already picked the instruments you wanna use before starting to compose 🙌

@zoot3607 3 года назад

IT PAINS ME TO SAY THIS........."Firstly, your ear and your passion is second to none.............( and here is the but.) But your DAW showed all the give aways in the tracks but you never used them in this "GIVEAWAY " track....( such a clever boy) Business man 51% musician 49% . Not quite shame on you but your getting there

@DanKeenMusic 3 года назад

I don’t understand what you mean. I used every track from the giveaways in this piece ?

@Lantertronics 3 года назад

Zoot, what in the world are you talking about?

@zoot3607 3 года назад

Hi Dan..."Stupid me replying....." I re watched your post and at the time i Read your DAW screen and saw empty tracks labelled Facebook, youtube twitter give away and saw them all empty............I now know that this is the way you separated the give aways and all the tracks you used WERE the give aways..............(Lesson 1 dont youtube after two bottles of 2017 merlot ) SO...... Sorry, me bad , You still more than the best word i could ever come up with..... Inspirational is a word that would pale into insignificance to what you have brought to so many ( including myself) and for this i bow my head and ask for your forgiveness for letting the God of Merlot to cloud my judgement .......

@zoot3607 3 года назад

@@Lantertronics "Please read my apology to Dan" xx ( it will all make sence then)......So sorry if i offended anyone.

@kalynnscompositions 3 года назад

Speedrun composition! Very cool!

@MarcelGelderblom 3 года назад

Unbelievable skilled, big fan over here! Thx again

@FabienC-MusicAndSoundDesign 3 года назад

When you double the tempo and those last seconds... that was intense ! Were can we get this piece of music ?

@DaveDickens 3 года назад

Dan, I really enjoy these composition videos, they give me inspiration to try something different. I think the time element is useful but would not get too hung up about running over a few minutes. A time limit is a good discipline but it’s not a composition element, if you know what I mean.cheers Dave

@DanKeenMusic 3 года назад

Thanks, Dave!

@samferrell229 3 года назад

Where can we find this completed piece?

@LongshanMusic 3 года назад

Very nice, Dan. Reminds me of Jóhann Jóhannsson. 👍

@Ertinos 3 года назад

Lovely composition! I actually really enjoyed it when it was fast at 31:28 ^^

@DanKeenMusic 3 года назад

Me too! Wish I’d doubled the speed and then doubled the length of the harmony. Lots of nice motion

@sorcimatt 3 года назад

Hi Dan that was the perfect video for my 40 minutes treadmill session ;)! I have a question: I noticed the blackmagic on your rack, is it ok to store and use all samples libraries and instruments from there? Any latency problems based on your experience? I'm just about to order it.....

@DanKeenMusic 3 года назад

Nice! Yes it’s great. I’d recommend the thunderbolt 2 over this newer one (usb c) as you can daisy chain another device through it (like an interface), but I run two 4TB Samsung 860EVO SSDs on this and edit all of my RU-vid videos via these. They’re brilliant

@dafingaz 3 года назад

Let's go!

@neatogreedo 3 года назад

Great session! I’ve been curious since you’ve changed to the M1 Mac mini if you’d divulge into your new home M1’s specs, dongles, hubs, etc. Your previous Faderbox clip was inspirational towards my current orchestral needs. Thanks for all the info on that one!

@DanKeenMusic 3 года назад

I’m still on the intel Mac mini. I know quite a few people who have the M1 machines, but all of them also have intel. If you only have one computer, I’d say keep to Intel until companies have caught up with the architecture. It’s just not stable enough yet, and I can’t risk losing pro projects

@neatogreedo 3 года назад

@@DanKeenMusic Ah, I saw the Mini in the video and assumed (wrongly). The reason being that my 2011 Intel I7 MBP is in dire need for a replacement after several upgrades. It’s been a good 10 years.

@henrikhansson1 3 года назад

Interesting that someone like Apple does not have a native search function for plug-ins already. The DAWs I'm using have it built in out of the box...

@DanKeenMusic 3 года назад

Agreed, Ableton has it and it works great. PlugSearch has some great features in addition to search functions too

@Lantertronics 3 года назад

@@DanKeenMusic Long time Logic user here... I just started trying out Reaper (largely to try writing JSFX plugins with EEL2), and although I was at first put off by how it looks, I've come to appreciate a lot of its small touches, including the way you can search for plugins just by typing names. (I still depend on Logic though and hence will check out PlugSearch).

@g13jon 3 года назад

😍Love your live composing videos Dan! 30mins must be a challenge for you, but a perfect time for the viewer. And this piece has some really interesting elements, musically and the sounds you've created on the fly. Question - did you have any clue what you were going to make before you clicked record? Either in terms of style? Genre? Chord sequence? etc? Fab video - thank you 🙏🏼👍🏼

@DanKeenMusic 3 года назад

Thanks Jon! I think 30 minutes is the best timing too. I had absolutely no idea what I was going to play before starting. Sometimes it works out better than others! But it’s a good exercise nonetheless

@g13jon 3 года назад

@@DanKeenMusic Seriously impressive! Sounds like a perfect track for a British TV crime drama. I'm hooked, look forward to watching (and learning) from your next one. Thank you for sharing.

@brendanwalsh108 3 года назад

Hi Dan. Very interesting to see how you work and thanks. In terms of "mixing as you go" do you gain stage - or is that not necessary with plug ins?

@DanKeenMusic 3 года назад

Thanks! Yes I do gain stage. Particularly with analog emulation plugins, be careful not to send too hot a signal otherwise you may create unwanted distortion / other artefacts. The same can be said for busses. As a general rule, I record into each track at about -18dB and each bus at about -12dB. I calibrate each plugin so that it doesn't become louder by enabling the plugin (unless that's what you're going for). This helps to critique your mixes more accurately and assess if the plugins are acting on the sounds properly, rather than sounding better just because they're louder. Hope that helps!

@brendanwalsh108 3 года назад

@@DanKeenMusic It does help, thanks.

@MonicavanderLem1 3 года назад

❤❤❤

@septemberwalk 3 года назад

hey, I'm working with some ambient pads from piano book for an electronic track but they take too long to build and decay to fit into the rhythm of the track, they start falling behind because it takes a little while for the next chord to start even though the midi is programmed in the right place. I tried adjusting the sample start time and this didn't help. Any tips on keeping it locked in with my beat?

@DanKeenMusic 3 года назад

The sample start times are unlikely to help here unless the samples also have a slow-ramping volume. The thing to adjust is Attack and Release, how quickly the notes fade in and out

@septemberwalk 3 года назад

@@DanKeenMusic thanks, even with the attack and release the fastest they can be this particular sound still seems to be falling behind, maybe its already baked into the samples and they're just too ambient to quickly switch on beat like a more dry synth would

@producer1762 2 года назад

@@septemberwalk maybe print and put into a sampler and cut off part of the attack, how did the track go btw?

@septemberwalk 2 года назад

@@producer1762 Hey, here's a link to the track if you wanted to check it out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Na3o2wMxyz0.html in retrospect i dont really love how it came out but oh well ahah. ( I dont mean i dont love how the pads came out, more the whole track in general)

@superblondeDotOrg 3 года назад

02:00 The missing aspect of this writing is what the Emotion you are striving to evoke in your score AND what you're doing in a premeditated way to achieve that Emotion AND whether the end result is close to the desired Affect. 'Writing with purpose' is different than 'Writing at random' . "I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet" is not a higher-order thought process. You reveal the answer at 34:30, "I can't really choose how to write a piece" . What?! A composer's job is to write to/for a specific Emotion and Evoke that Emotion in the listener.

@DanKeenMusic 3 года назад

For videos like these, writing with little to no premeditation is favoured as it shows an unplanned spontaneity, something that is valued on this platform because it’s authentic. Of course, if I had a brief in mind, I could be more specific about my choices, but the function of this exercise was more to compose freely, and go with my inspirations. That would be a nice direction for future videos, though

@rubenmolino1480 3 года назад

This is good ... but this is not a current path, ... it does not add anything new and unfortunately very tonal, .--- even if Erik Satie ... had done something like that ... he had been expelled from France ... sorry ... you can do much more

@DanKeenMusic 3 года назад

Did you think you provided value when leaving this comment, Ruben? The end result of this writing session is almost irrelevant for the intended audience of this video. It's about process and workflow, I hope that wasn't lost on you

@rubenmolino1480 3 года назад

@@DanKeenMusic workflow is heard ... by ear. friend ... or is serialism that far away?

@Lantertronics 3 года назад

Dude, this (a) sounds gorgeous, and (b) is something Dan came with in HALF AN HOUR. Would you like to provide a link to a video showing us what you can come up with in half an hour?

@Lantertronics 3 года назад

@@rubenmolino1480 Also remember that a good portion of Dan's viewers are focusing on media composition. Certainly there are places for atonality throughout film, TV, and game scores, but it's not like many clients are going to namecheck Schoenberg or Boulez.