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Digital Composing Series: Strings
Introduction
Welcome!
Why building templates?
Requirements: What you should already know and have
Why does this course focus on strings only
You are not alone
Building a Composition Template
Setting up a new empty project (7:38)
Adding the main busses (6:32)
Selecting and balancing strings libraries (17:31)
Aligning long articulations (18:51)
Setting default CC values (13:40)
Aligning short articulations (15:57)
First library: adding the long articulations (18:11)
First library: adding the short articulations (6:28)
Handling pizzicato (4:27)
Articulation switching mechanism (13:52)
Adding the second library (17:47)
Utility tracks (4:40)
Building a sketching area (10:10)
Blending libraries with a convolution reverb (21:45)
Blending long articulations (9:57)
Saving the composition template (4:08)
Download my Cubase 11 skeleton template
Writing a Strings Track
Composition: Act I - Intro (28:39)
Composition: Act II - Buildup (25:28)
Composition: Act III - Climax & Outro (14:58)
Composition: Polishing and humanizing the MIDI (27:42)
Exporting stems for mixing (6:27)
Download the MIDI file & the stems
Building a Mixing Template
Setting up a new mixing project template (2:16)
Mix groups (4:15)
Instrument groups (5:16)
Setting up the mix bus (6:21)
Setting up the master bus (6:38)
Monitoring and metering on the stereo output (5:27)
Algorithmic reverb for a smooth tail (8:37)
Mixing Our Strings Track
Importing stems for mixing (9:39)
Sending to the reverb (9:04)
Mixing pizzicato strings (12:31)
Mixing short articulations (21:59)
Mixing long articulations (15:25)
Tweaking the mix bus (15:58)
Quick mastering for the rest of us (18:48)
Outro
Last words before we part
Monitoring and metering on the stereo output
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