Mihkel Zilmer
Senior Member
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EDIT: September 2019
It's been two years since I made the template tutorial videos in this thread. Here is a little 2019 update - a fair bit has changed. The rest of the videos still contain useful ideas for anyone wanting to build a large orchestral template, but you should definitely watch the update first and find out what has changed in my personal workflow since 2017.
Original post below:
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As some of you know by now, I've been working on a series of videos that explain my approach to templates, and look at how I go about using Cubase, Lemur and VEPro. These videos have been turning up on my YouTube channel very-very slowly over the past few months, as I've not had much time to produce them over the summer. However, in the next couple of weeks I'm aiming to finish the entire series - there are 10 videos planned in total.
Disclaimer: Ultimately, workflow preferences are highly personal. I'm not advocating the "best" approach here, just some methods that I personally consider to be very effective. I hope that my approach can provide other people with a starting point for designing their own templates. Where possible, I also talk about alternatives to my choices.
Thanks for watching!
You can download my Lemur project here (mk19, Nov 2017):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fE9M8tiNLK-nDF5B24DzubUTZ97jR80E
Included articulations lists: Spitfire Symphonic Strings, Spitfire Chamber Strings, Cinematic Studio Strings, Berlin Strings Main Library, Berlin Strings Exp. D, Spitfire Symphonic Brass, Berlin Brass Main library, Spitfire BML Woodwinds (only partially updated for SSWW), Berlin Woodwinds + Exp. A, B, C, Spitfire Percussion, Berlin Percussion Main Library + Exp. A, all of the Spitfire Albion libraries, Metropolis ARK 1 and a few others.
You can download my Expression Maps here (mk21, Jan 2018):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kPHuqNy1wcLVOw_9_EkFsMxw56Y5cpti
While most of these use the most recent version of these libraries currently available, I think there might be a few in there that I've forgotten to update, so they might be missing some patches. Spitfire libraries use UACC, so all Kontakt instances share the same MIDI channel. Orchestral Tools libraries have variable MIDI channels, so the Output Mapping section of the Expression Map might need editing to match your setup. For a list of the libraries included check post #43:
Template Tutorial Series [Expression Maps added]
EDIT: September 2019
It's been two years since I made the template tutorial videos in this thread. Here is a little 2019 update - a fair bit has changed. The rest of the videos still contain useful ideas for anyone wanting to build a large orchestral template, but you should definitely watch the update first and find out what has changed in my personal workflow since 2017.
Template Tutorial Series: 2019 Update
This is a 2019 update & introduction to the Template Tutorial Series from 2017. Watch this before watching the rest of the series! VI Control thread with tut...
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Original post below:
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As some of you know by now, I've been working on a series of videos that explain my approach to templates, and look at how I go about using Cubase, Lemur and VEPro. These videos have been turning up on my YouTube channel very-very slowly over the past few months, as I've not had much time to produce them over the summer. However, in the next couple of weeks I'm aiming to finish the entire series - there are 10 videos planned in total.
Disclaimer: Ultimately, workflow preferences are highly personal. I'm not advocating the "best" approach here, just some methods that I personally consider to be very effective. I hope that my approach can provide other people with a starting point for designing their own templates. Where possible, I also talk about alternatives to my choices.
Thanks for watching!
You can download my Lemur project here (mk19, Nov 2017):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fE9M8tiNLK-nDF5B24DzubUTZ97jR80E
Included articulations lists: Spitfire Symphonic Strings, Spitfire Chamber Strings, Cinematic Studio Strings, Berlin Strings Main Library, Berlin Strings Exp. D, Spitfire Symphonic Brass, Berlin Brass Main library, Spitfire BML Woodwinds (only partially updated for SSWW), Berlin Woodwinds + Exp. A, B, C, Spitfire Percussion, Berlin Percussion Main Library + Exp. A, all of the Spitfire Albion libraries, Metropolis ARK 1 and a few others.
You can download my Expression Maps here (mk21, Jan 2018):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kPHuqNy1wcLVOw_9_EkFsMxw56Y5cpti
While most of these use the most recent version of these libraries currently available, I think there might be a few in there that I've forgotten to update, so they might be missing some patches. Spitfire libraries use UACC, so all Kontakt instances share the same MIDI channel. Orchestral Tools libraries have variable MIDI channels, so the Output Mapping section of the Expression Map might need editing to match your setup. For a list of the libraries included check post #43:
Template Tutorial Series [Expression Maps added]
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