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Worked a few office jobs. Lots of temp work. Then got into sales for a bit and then back to customer service and delivering food. One day I woke up with 5 times the amount of money I ever made through my day job and the rest is history. I’m definitely one of the lucky ones though Should add. It...

Chorus by a landslide

I can never get enough of spitfire. Though, I wish they’d release SSO pro already.

+1 for decimator drums. Not that I don’t love Cerberus. Would love AI to at least make the sound design from decimator drums available again

Hi all. I've watched a lot of Christian Henson's vlogs and he frequently mentions how necessary it is for composers young and old to be sampling and creating your own libraries. While I admire a lot of the composers and sound designers that do this, I'm not really interested in taking the time...

I’ve been reading Mastery by Robert Greene lately and it’s really solidified a lot of things for me. Learning theory, harmony, orchestration, counterpoint etc. basically ‘craft’ is vital when you’re in your formative years at a particular vocation. He makes the case that you need to learn all...

Funny how it works out that way haha. Symphonic is still really great. I used to not like the shorts but it just took some more programming chops to get them speak

Chamber strings are the shit. Was able to get them for about half off with this last wishlist sale. I can’t believe I thought I didn’t need them when I already owned symphonic strings

His music is so refreshing compared to what else is out there (though I still love all the other game scores). His workflow is awesome too. He writes such detailed and rich scores.

Whoops! My bad. I agree the ability to move sections around on the fly is a big deal. I’ve seen junkie xl talk about this as well. Steinberg really knows their market

Some great videos with Alan Silvestri. Makes me even more tempted to make the switch from logic and Sibelius.

I use pro R on everything. It gives you excellent control of the tail and it’s very easy to use. Can’t beat the ui, I’m curious to see (if/when) what FF does with a pro-R 2. In terms of sound, it’s very clean, doesn’t exactly color anything in a unique way-which is sort of the point of fab...

At first I thought the price was way too steep, but 50gb with both the edna engine and evo grid it looks great and sounds amazing as always

Paul Thomson better be excited to show me this new library

I love FF pro-R because how easy it is to use. Great ui, feels like it was built for composers. Like all the other FF plugins they’re so easy to use but you can get really detailed and advanced.

Syntorial is the bomb. I will also add that taking some presets you like and learning how to reverse engineer them is really useful as well. I took some of my favorite presets from Audio Imperia’s Supernova and recreated them and learned a ton. Also reading the manual comes in handy. This blog...

Or maybe something like analog strings/analog brass

I can appreciate that (though I don’t make hip hop music). The ark series is phenomenal, but if orchestral elements are only supplementary to your music you might want to consider a much cheaper option. Maybe something like East West Composer Cloud. If you do have the money for any of the arks...

This article might be handy https://www.careersinmusic.com/orchestrator/

I know right?! Like if I want to combine the flutes I’ll do it myself! Also I’ll point out I’m not really one for doubling woodwinds a2 (two oboes on one part just makes me uncomfortable for example). Spitfire has great samples, very resource friendly. They get the job done. And countless pros...

Not exactly disappointing but if I had to do things over again when I invested in sample libraries I would have gone with someone besides spitfire. Spitfire makes amazing samples and I have no complaints about their quality but if I had to do things over again I’d go with orchestral tools. I...

I think it all just sort of matters on what your mixing. General principles like using reverb on higher and longer notes, not using a lot of reverb on short bassier notes. Timing the decay so the notes don't fall over each other. Adjusting the pre-delay so the track doesn't get lost in the mix...

Yeah as someone trying get my feet wet in production music I feel like I could make the mixing process a little less arduous for myself if I've got something that does some heavy lifting. I know I could recreate everything Izotope does with Fab Filter stuff, but perhaps I'd be able to mix faster...

I only have one third-party reverb plug-in so that’s all I use (FF Pro-R). I like having only one reverb though. Cuts decision fatigue and I know one it really well.

I'm holding out for the Tantacrul video on Dorico before I pull the trigger. Still using Sibelius, but Dorico has a very tempting crossgrade educational price

Is this deal worth it if I already own a good chunk of Fabfilter's stuff? All looks attractive because of the extra features. Never used Izotope before

Yeah fair point. I could stay an extra year and get my masters in music Ed. I’m not sure about job ops but I haven’t really looked. I’m sure there’s plenty in NY

Definitely this, I can’t remember who said it but the most important part about music is forward motion/momentum. If you can’t keep listener interested with one instrument you won’t be able to interest them with 30. It’s not challenging to take a short 4 bar phrase and dress it up with all the...

Sounds very nice and clean. Great mixes. Just curious, how long did it take you to produce the whole album?

Still considering this library as it would be nice to have more control of each section. I have SSS right now and my main frustration with it is that it doesn’t auto-divisi. Then again sometimes I think strings sound better when they’re layered and I tend to layer SSS on top of itself quite a...

To your third point I agree. I wish spitfire would take notes from some other developers and just put all of their articulations into one patch. Their core ‘workhorse’ patches make a lot of sense but they always lack like 2-3 more articulations I use on a consistent basis. Would make creating...

Very good point, lots of debt and no degree makes no sense lol

I've got about a year and a half left if everything goes according to plan. Teaching definitely is an option-even if it's just music theory. But even that neck of the woods is highly competitive as well. I'm trying to think how much I'd regret it if I dropped out.

Your posts are always the best John. Thanks for your insight

Should add my parents really want me to stay in school, but I don’t think they really understand my degree means nothing to future employers (unless I tried to get a teaching position or something).

Hello all, figured I’d ask for some advice. I’ve been studying composition at an east coast university for a while. While it’s a great school with lots of opportunities I get this sinking feeling it’s not worth it for all the debt. I’m fortunate to have one scholarship, a pell grant, and some...

Is Gravity worth it if I already own project alpha, bravo, and chaos. I also own evolution dragon. Not sure what I could get out of Gravity I couldn't get out of my other libraries.

HZ timpani have so much character, but if I didn’t have them I’d probably go with anything by Orchestral Tools

When would the internship start?

Very nice! I loved when the mallets came in. I only wanted that to come a little earlier. You have a snare near the end that I thought was a little boxy and didn’t cut through the mix. Overall the piece has a nice build, great production quality. I enjoyed the solo cello too

I applied as well. Certainly there are others with more expertise than me, but you never know right :)

I'm not a professional, but I've recently been starting to write production/trailer music the past 6 months. My typical process is this 1. Compose piano sketch (Work out harmonies, motifs, especially the general form of the cue) 2. Orchestrate sketch (Nothing super detailed but it's nice to...

I have spitfire symphonic woodwinds. They don’t have prerecorded runs, but they’re apt at runs and sound great. If I were to go back I would have gone with orchestral tools, as their woodwinds cater to orchestration a bit more (being able to write separate parts for flutes 1 and 2 and actually...

I wonder if they’ll do a studio orchestral percussion library. Would be nice to have the same room as the other studio instruments

One of the best comparisons I've heard. Not sure why I had low expectations for the studio strings, but I actually really like the tone-will have to add that to my list. I've had my eye on the solo strings for a while now, but after this video I'm second guessing myself.

Muted trumpet with oboe is kind of neat

Gorgeous cue, excellent piece of underscore. What other libraries are you blending with LCOT?

I genuinely couldn’t have anticipated how this thread was going to go lol

This is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you!

Thanks for the awesome advice everyone. I think as long as I’m writing something orchestral or cinematic I’ll be content. Better to be more versatile, makes one more marketable

I like your point about usability over a specific genre-that helps to keep things in perspective...

I mean 100k would be great, but I could make 30k work. Anything above minimum wage would be ideal haha.

If I find a few libraries that are like this I'll let you know! I've found the music I want to write on websites like pond5 and artlist-though I want to avoid those sites. I'm slowly going through this giant list that was posted on gearslutz.

Just curious, as you've been doing this sort of thing for a while. What genre do you find yourself writing most in, and do you enjoy writing that genre? I'd say my ultimate goal is to write in the style I want to write (dramatic, neo-classical, orchestral, and also trailers/hybrid to a degree)...

Yeah I agree. I talked a little bit with my current publisher and they're open to me writing more traditional instrumentation orchestral stuff. I'm sure the same thing would happen in 6 months if I only wrote 'neo-classical' cues. Right now I definitely would like to find 1-2 more libraries that...

Hi all (especially those of you that make your full income from library/production music), I’m college-aged and new to the library music scene. I’ve been writing trailer music for a small library for about 6 months and although I haven’t gotten any placements yet, I’m starting to get a little...

Hello all, I've lurked on these forums for a few months now, so this will be my first post. This is my first piece to ever get recorded by live players. Overall I'm pretty satisfied with how things turned out minus a few rhythm interpretations here and there. As I am not a string player I...

Awesome, thanks for all of the advice everyone. I decided to go with SSO. I might get a few things from NI or OT in the future. I'm going to stay away from the EW stuff for now until I can upgrade my computer to actually handle the play engine and not crash logic every single session.

Hello, everyone! I was wondering if you could give me your opinion on something. I am a community college student either trying to get into university for composition/film scoring or begin freelancing. My contract with EW's composer cloud ends tomorrow and I wanted to make an upgrade, but I'm...