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Thank you for your kind words, brothers! They are very valuable in such dark times for my home.. You're completely right ka00, I just cant think about it right now. I feel completely empty and destroyed. And I'm really thankful for you guys who understand that. This hell has been going on for...

Thank you very much guys! @NoamL so glad to see you again friend. Thank you.

Hello from Ukraine. Long time no see. This track is my attempt to deal with all the emotions that I feel for the last two months. Thanks to everyone who supports Ukraine in this difficult time.

@Dr.Quest thank you very much for your kind words! I'll try my best to finish that library, but I cant guarantee anything. @spacepluk thank you, man! Ye, it is just a regular Zebra2. Thank you for the idea, tho, it seems pretty reasonable to do that actually. Small lib. with flexible...

Hi, man. To be completely honest, I didnt work a lot on these, because I didnt want to share just the patches I created my cyberpunk track with. Since then I created new ones tho, like this one: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fha0807ttia6054/Abstract.wav?dl=0 The main problem is that every patch...

Yep, the piece is good, the only thing that bothers me a bit is the minor part of it. It feels a bit too romantic or something, I dont really know how to describe the feeling that bothers me. Try using polychords or simple triads but with a bit more complex relationships. Try changing standart...

I liked the main theme and the background sounds are so good. Keep experimenting!

Old school stuff :) Loving it. Truly amazing.

WWs sound pretty good, strings are questionable, but its not your fault. Spitfire legatos are just weak for some reason (0:55+ pure midi stuff) :) I like the feeling of space tho, its good. The other good thing about the Spitfire strings is that you can hear the nicest high-end ever. I love it...

Nice theme, but the main problem with chromatic notes in melodies is that you're entering the place where one step can lead from neutral dramatic quality of a melody to David Lynch drama style. You're on a very thin ice with the part mentioned above by @markleake. I like it tho, but in my...

Wow! Guys, thanks a lot. I really didnt expect the topic to rise again and all your comments are really kind. Thank you. Regarding the patches: I definetely WILL make the "library". The problem is that I have a lot of things to finish and times are not the best (coronavirus, panic, etc.). I want...

Nice. Feeling it! I feel it could be better if the drums were mixed with hybrid drum elements and the texture overall was more hybrid. Sometimes you have to be brutal with your music, and this piece is the case I think. Things that come to my mind: -Mixing live kick with a hybrid one. -Kick...

Thank you a lot, guys :) I really glad you liked the piece :)

Thank you, Paul. I really appreciate your work too :)

Guys, thank you very much for your honest opinions! You expressed a lot of good points, and now I have to consider my next steps.

Sorry for reviving this theme again, but I have a lot of questions about a probably upcoming library: https://vi-control.net/community/threads/a-zebra2-cinematic-cyberpunk-sound-library-questions-for-potential-buyers.89800/

After I composed I had a very positive feedback and some of guys suggested to make my own Zebra 2 sound library. Before I start to make it, I wanna say, that it will be top notch and one of the best on the whole market for sure, but it won't be really big, because each sound takes a lot of...

Hi, thank you :D Actually I tried my best to capture the character of the film. So ye, it is very Eastern. Those samples are really VI's. Cinematic Studio Solos :) But I work on my samples really hard, balancing each phrase and each note.

Thank you very much :)

Hello everyone! This piece is VERY different from anything I wrote before. One beautiful day I was looking on Facebook for something interesting and found an information about a contest for composers organized by British Council and Dovzhenko Center (cultural hub in Kiev, Ukraine). So I applied...

The piece is actually not bad at all. And I feel it fits well at the start, but then it becomes a little bit too epic. Not in a sense of the stock music epicness, ofcourse, but all these voices and huge sounds suggest something really big, you know? That's why I feel you had to concentrate more...

@Dirtgrain yes, it is really important to be a master of one synth at least. I learned how to work in Zebra for three or four full months, I think, and only then I started to work on this project. And do not worry much about your purchase. Diva is a fantastic piece of software! @DrivingInSpace...

Thank you a lot, guys!

If you guys want to check a track created with only Zebra2 sounds, check my thread please: https://vi-control.net/community/threads/eugene-latsko-f3ar-u.89251/

This is a cyberpunk style composition using only ONE synthesizer - Zebra2. Literally no samples or libraries were used here and all the sounds were made by me. This music is very important to me not only because I spent A LOT of time composing\sound designing it, but because it is not just a...

@NoamL thank you very much, friend! It is very pleasing to hear such things from people like you :) Did you end up preferring that to Cinematic Studio Strings (the full strings) + Spitfire? Not really. It is one of the experiments I made combining "close and expressive" with "lush and distant"...

I updated it (Trombone 3). Now it has less noise and a bit better MW response. @Saxer haha. We'll see. Thank you! @DivingInSpace you're absolutely right! I had to switch from Serum to Zebra just because Serum is digital to the bone. Pads and everything don't sound lively enough.

@Uiroo no problem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zbnpq6qszo4dhry/Trombone%202.h2p?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/fepu4sfifmv1qy8/Trombone%203.h2p?dl=0

In the process of making new sounds for my new cyberpunk piece I accidentally made a trombone preset. I just love this synth.

Much better!

It really depends on a context of usage of the piece. If the piece is used in a video where something dramatically changes, thеn yes, it kinda works. If it is a background piece which is supposed to work by itself, then no, it doesn't work. It should have a A->B->A1 structure then.

Very nice. I've been experimenting with synthesizers for the past month or so too. Regarding piece: it feels a bit squashed by a compressor\limiter. Especially when the low drums hit. Better use a bit of sidechain on everything else and avoid extreme compression (especially if it is not...

Sorry, guys, I have to delete the post. Until the game is released, I cannot publish the soundtrack. Sorry one more time.

Omg. I can't even imagine how much work was invested here. Outstanding. I just don't like the sound of SM instruments. They have really unpleasant highs and that's why they feel so synthetic.

@michdb is it a close mic? Very strange! Feels like it has a lot of early reflections.

@michdb can you please upload an example of how cinebrass sounds? By the way, I think I know how you can "fix" this problem. Create two instances of solo trumpet and lower the pitch of one of them by -2. Then rise pitch of a midi channel by 2. That way you will trigger different samples of the...

@michdb you can't do anything about it. We don't hear phasing problems in real recordings just because they are blurred out with early reflections. I remember times when we tried to make SM brass to sound "cinematic" and we faced exactly the same problem with phasing. Then somebody asked guys...

@Steve Martin Thank you! I'm glad you liked it :)

Here we go! My new minimalistic piano piece based on the famous motif.

@jimjazzuk probably not, but we don't have any brass library better than CSB at the moment. It has nice top end, it has nice movability in terms of legato and fast passages, it has very nice dynamic range and very flexible in terms of mixing. Ofcourse you will face problems when trying to...

Nice theme. I liked it. CSB sounds great!

V2 is very nice. V1 strings are not believable, they are fake excessive. And v2 balanced better. Good job. ..Oh, these butterflies...

@NoamL I agree with you, Noam. Deversity is the thing we asking for. Harmonic language can become complex and rich and everything, but those unnecessary decorations, just like in the Ben Lasker's demo, have to go away. They are not about our time, I feel. You can be complex and interesting, like...

LexPCM is the best in terms of balance and frequency clearness. It is my favourite reverb for orchestral works, and I tested a lot of them. B2 and FabFilter Pro-R are pretty good too. Pro-R is very clean and airy, B2 is a balanced reverb, which sounds pretty good, but very heavy in terms of CPU...

Noam, I respect you very much as a person and as an intelligent man, but you don't have to be a football player to say that somebody plays bad. A lot of us accustomed to the best music available (JW, endless classical masters, etc.), and while we can't recreate it, we can definitely judge if it...

The tone is incredible, it sounds good even without a reverb. Excited and reverberated it can be so freaking powerful and big, I can't wait to use it. The only question is horns - they are pretty soft.

I didn't understand a thing unfortunately, because English is not my main language, but aesthetically this work looks very appealing to me! It is actually very nice. I liked that you tried to be expressive with your strings, but there were a few moments where you as a conductor had to be softer...

I like that kind of music. The only problem here is that the main motif is not that pleasant as it meant to be. Don't understand me wrong, it is good, but, well, you have to aim at melodies that are memorable and natural. The ending is a bit sharp too. Automate the length of your reverb to make...

I can't really tell you what I liked the most. They all are really good pop songs, I think. I can easily imagine that I listen to your music on a radio.

@Thomas Kallweit Thank you! It is actually a good question how to control dynamics of music better while making it cleaner and better in terms of mixing and balance. I don't use compressors that affect the whole frequency range of an instrument, but I use limiters and I think that that's the...

@batonruse Thank you, my friend!

I actually think that such music is a modern way to talk with your audience. Well, a conversation doesn't have to be serious all the time, you know? I liked the track, it is fun and entertaining.

@shawnsingh thank you very much for your detailed post and kind words! I really appreciate it. I can only agree with you, in such music I have to use a very soft method of compressing, probably I overcompressed the piece a bit. Actually it's not only my fault, because I used 0-40 CCs numbers for...

I present you my new piece - "Butterfly Chooses a Cage". I used CSS and CSSS here, nothing else. The piece was conceived as a dark philosophical story. I tried to free myself from any frames to make the piece as original as I can. Harmony-wise I made a step further from my previous works and I...

Good. Very good.

Oh, I know what you are looking for: 12:30; 13:40 ***

1) Process your left and right hands separately. 2) Use really extreme exciter settings, but mix it not for 100% with your main track, but for 20% or 30%. You want to add some tube distortion on top of your track. 3) Bump low frequencies. 4) Compress mid and high mid frequencies. I compressed...

I heard the "Awakening" track years ago and it sounded really nice and inspiring to me. Now I can hear that it is really similar to the stuff that Hans Zimmer did. Well it sounds so good even today... A top notch production, nothing to add. Your track in comparison with the original one lacks a...

Nice work, I just can't get rid of the feeling that I hate the trailer itself. "You kicked butt, and then the hapless male was the leader?"... The main hero and the main villain are females. Everything looks like toys of some girl. WHAT THE F*CK HAPPENS?

I really like the piece! Probably it is because I love the abstract type of music, but I can't really criticize anything here. But here are my ideas how to make the piece better: 1. Structure. I think the piece could be better if the theme at 0:15 to 0:42 was played by the woodwind section. Or...

I believe that Hidden Treasure is the JW's "Rey's theme" score? Just kidding. But actually your quote at 1:32 doesn't make a lot of sense to me, because it was clear already that your piece is inspired by JW. You made it too obvious by the quote I think. Good work nonetheless, I like that style...

Actually I didn't know that Noam recreated everything just by ear.. Incredible. What I want to say is that he is incredibly talented and has outstanding musical feeling. Thank you, guys, for your appreciation, it was a really tough work to do. I mean there are a lot of rebalancing, EQing, and...

You need a little bit of the high frequencies, then EQ or reduce the volume of your cello (or cbass) pizz. Actually it will be much better to EQ it, because it becomes unpleasant only in certain moments. Then I can hear a bit of unwanted frequency bumps on your high WWs (like at 0:24, it shoots...

@Hunter123 well, its nothing special really. I just treated reverb as an instrument.. I mean I EQed it, compressed it, limited it.

Thank you, guys! Sorry for the late reply, I was busy. @AlexanderSchiborr I used the trailer brass library "horde" instrument which sounds like a distorted tuba + cimbasso + subbass to strengthen the low end. I have 3 contrabasses (LASS, CSS, Spitfire) there too. And limiters do a huge amount of...

Thanks, guys. @Guido Negraszus actually I just invested a lot of time in it and discovered how to mix a reverb properly.

@patrick76 thank you! To me the mixing process is a creative process too, so I love it as much as composing.. Well, sometimes I concentrate on composing more, sometimes on mixing, it depends. I always felt injustice that my simple tracks sound like shit, but 2SFH or other big trailer guys tracks...

@NoamL thank you very much, my friend :)

Well, I think have to tell you a short story about the process of creation of this track. Originally I just composed music for audiojungle, and sometimes I like what I do, as in this case. So I started to orchestrate this thing and actually remembered one of the Two Steps From Hell pieces, which...

Actually I liked your atmospheres, they sound really good and tasty. The thing I didn't like is that you don't have any "hooks" in your music. I mean it sounds nice, but it is just simple harmony, there's nothing to listen to (Del Mar, Grove especially). I think you should concetrate on writing...

Wow! I liked it a lot. Reminds me a bit of Giya Kancheli. Awesome.

@Fry777 I'm sure that you can find one without any problems. I learned everything from many sources: harmony books, scores, youtube videos, experiments and so on.. Voice leadings for instance is a pretty tough and unpleasant component of harmony writing rules, and it requires practice and only...

Harmony is very important, especially when you compose only for strings. Because samples can't "breathe" and they lack movement, so it's very important to make movement with wide or narrow voice leadings.. https://www.dropbox.com/s/p8thbf7edj2xxv5/0.jpg?dl=0 Then you start to orchestrate your...

@pmcrockett very nice. Thanks! Nowadays with your plugin and MIDI compressor discovery life has become much easier :)

@EvilDragon I'll check it. Thank you!

@EvilDragon yes, you're absolutely right. That's weird as hell. But Reaper and MIDI are not friends. Try somehow to compose a very big project with a LOT of MIDI tracks. A project can sound perfectly in the main Reaper window, but if you'll open MIDI editor, everything will start to crackle. And...

P.s. Checked it and It works perfectly without any spikes. Nice to know! I don't record a CC data frequently, so it doesn't matter, but the plugin overall is very helpful and works better than the original one. Thank you very much! And answering to my personal question: yes, these plugins should...

For some reason the default ControlMIDI plugin loads my CPU and I have clicks and other artifacts.. Everything is ok when I draw in MIDI editor (sometimes I just hate Reaper). I'll try this one. Thanks. So we have to use these two plugins together or what? I just do not quite understand.

It's nonsense. What the hell, guys? Really, how it is possible to argue about the same library for a week already? It's just a pad library with some cool features. I have only one possible explanation: it's all about the name. Hans is a really great composer, but with all your attention he...

@Illico the piece was performed by a real orchestra for sure. @bryla the mix already is very good and I doubt you can make it any better. Maybe a little details here and there, but they won't be noticeable for a listener. Good job, by the way. I liked your orchestration - it is simple and...

I really want to find the orchestral score for this version: Maybe someone can help?

Pretty balanced sound and good VI programming. You can be proud of the result :) WW runs sound a little unnatural, but I don't think you can make them any better. GJ.

@SimonCharlesHanna Don't be afraid to make things "muddy". Sometimes it adds to the character :) The real truth about mixing is that you can help yourself and your listeners with creating images. Space is dark, space is heavy, speace is reverb-y. Your second edition is better, but it stills...

By the way, Hanna.. If you do stuff like this, then be brutal: a lot of low frequencies, really extreme exciter values, a lot of reverb, etc. https://www.dropbox.com/s/tb9trubbk495pro/hannah2.wav?dl=0

It sounds good, but you always can do better, you know? A bit of compression, of bit of exciters, a bit of limiting and eqing here and there.. and you'll have a completely different result :) Orchetration-wise it is pretty good, I think.

@Harry Hey! I usually use a mix of two or three pianos, where the first piano is used for the main timbre, second and third pianos (rarely) are used for brightness, cool noises, etc. In these tracks I used Olafur's piano + Una Corda. @gregh Thank you very much for your comments, and I completely...

Bump.

LSO sounds perfect as always. The piece is very good too, love it.

I really like this piece. The ending part is delicious :) Mixing is not very good though, and the part with the double bass solo should start and end differently. It lacks coherence with the rest of the piece I think.

Long story short: I love hybrid atmospheric sounds that are similar to human voices and strings at the same time. Actually I was completely obsessed with creating atmospheres that can sound really organic! This is minimalistic music and there is nothing really interesting in terms of harmony and...

Great points of view, but it seems that you don't understand what is the greatest danger. AI never gets tired and it can generate hours of music without any problem at all. Yes, there will be a lot of bad stuff there, but you can choose what you like and make a good structure using all those...

Today I was shocked by the results that AI can achieve by simply analyzing the JW work. The most terryfying thing is that AI can compose endless hours of music that is similar to your favorite composer's music, so you can choose two or three minutes of incredible music and then make a great...

Great! I love those pieces. I don't really understand your orchestral music, but I'm digging your metal music without any doubts. Good job.

I actually liked your composition. The single thing I don't like is the violin sound, it is very fake. But theme development, structure and mood are so great! Gj.

Music is really good, but violins sound fake. Too excessive, as Rob said.

Really really great. I actually liked mixing and overall quality of your mock up. Speaking of the composition, it feels a little abrupt at times. For instance 6:40+ transition. Brass rhythm and horn line literally come out of nowhere and there is not enough bass clearly. 3:52 is strange too...

This guy is just too good. I'm actually pretty sure he was already mentioned here.

No doubts, my absolutely favourite piece is: It is epic, dark, inspiring and so melancholic.. I love it. Rach is my personal hero. Every time I hear the 13:40+ theme I just lose my mind. This thing is really great too: And Wood Nymph.. It is not very "epic", but beautiful as hell.

Hey, if this is "easy", then compose only "easy" things. But I hear a great development of the motive, really good orchestration and coherent structure that makes sense! Btw, you finished your track just at the moment when the motive began to bore. So yeah, cool!

Performance is very cool indeed. Pauses work great, but they are very excessive as you have already said. I love this "impressionist" kind of feeling that your piece have. Good!