Best to stem out and track out every project, for the purpose you describe but also as a backup as there has been times that I have lost a project file and can't continue a project.

The possibilities AI opens up in music, are for me very exciting. We're a long way off any tool that will make a big impact on good/experienced producers but it will come. The AI top 40 chart in 10 years or so may be filled with beautiful, mesmerizing music that we can barely understand. At least i hope so!

2:00 unfortunately you're wrong here. I've got Suno/Udio to create some truly original and experimental work. Originality isn't actually something AI seems to struggle with right now unless you aren't prompting it creatively. The main things holding it back are sound quality and consistency. These services are also creating instrument combination that I haven't heard before. The threat is real and we need to be realistic about it.

You need to talk about dry or wet stems bro.

Thanks that was so useful. Off to do a cut down now. I've only done this once before and I changed tempo as one way of getting what I needed.

AI certainly requires a reconfiguration of our relation as humans to all art.

Your keyboard is quite loud. It's obscuring the attack of the instruments.

I couldn’t get the Spitfire Audio to install properly or work with Cubase. Got any tips?

Hi Andrew, thank you for another great video. Just one suggestion: Could you turn up the volume of your voice by quite a lot? Everytime I go to the next video that has an ad before it I‘m deaf for three days. 😊 Just a suggestion that comes with a thumbs up as always. 👍 Best Andy

GAS has definitely been an issue for me, mostly when it comes to synth preset packs, but the constant deluge of new plugins (instruments, sample libraries, effects etc.) is also overwhelming. Acquiring these things at intro prices, or when they're on sale, might feel like we're saving money but there's a hidden cost down the line in the extra time required to sift through those things to find the sounds most useful to what we're doing. The more presets we own for any given synth (amplified further when you consider the number of synths most of us have), the more time it takes to look for the "perfect" sound when working on a project, which can end up bringing the whole creative process to a frustratingly screeching halt. Great advice here, Andrew, thanks, and thanks for sharing! 🙂

I‘m one of them! Nice milestone! Keep going and all the best from Germany, Andy

Can't wait for more vids!

Thank you for your channel! Keep up the good work!

Is your primary revenue source the music libraries? Are you doing contract gigs too?

I recently set a goal of 100 tracks, not counting anything in the past. I did the math and realized I should do around 10 tracks a month which means 3 days per track. This artificial deadline I set for myself has been a critical key to being able to say, "Nope. It's done. No takesy-backsy now. Pencils down." and this has helped get rid of the attachment to any tracks and just keep looking forward.

Congrats. This was the first video of yours that popped up for me.

Currently working on making systems and habits for consistent composing and your videos are enormously helpful! Thank you I subscribed and look forward to future content!

Tqsm for this amazing content sir ❤ love from India ❤

Wow, I really like your taste in music creation tunes.🎉

These are very good tips. What helps me is, I dedicate a whole day to build a pool of sounds, presets and instrumentation that i want to use and stick to that pool when I start to compose. It screws your creative flow when you have browse through TB's of sound libraries to look for a specific sound while your brain is in "composing"-mode. Your orchestra must be ready to go when you let your inner Beethoven out. My creative energy has a daily limit of 4-5 hours, so its important for me to lay out the basic song structure as early as possible and not spend 4 hours on the first 30 seconds and then run out of ideas, because I lose myself in details and got bored with hearing the same 16 bars over and over again. It also helps not to think about mixing or even mastering, when you are still in the process of writing. Often I just improvise on the piano, record it and keep the bits i like.

THE ORCHESTRA COMPLETE 3 Very Best

LOL. More experts.

Great explanation, I wasn't aware of stems when I first started because it wasn't discussed in a lot of introductory videos. When you want to use the 'multiple' audio export setting you just select the instruments you want to export as individual tracks and it creates them one at a time. But, turns out if you use MIDI tracks that use a rack plugin (instead of the individual instrument tracks like you have), they don't show up in the export options. For your setup, if you want to export groups of instruments, you might have to route them to a group and export that group track.

Good info and thanks for doing this. One thing though, if you're going to all that bother of making a video, you should probably include the multi option in Cubase Export, rather than saying you don't know about it, which made me think, "why am I watching this then?". It's pretty easy and you can go and do something else whilst it's doing it. It's only batch processing, it's not anything new. Meant only in a constructive way, I like your style otherwise.

Super video Andrew I ended up buying this also its amazing can I ask what DAW do you use if you dont mind me asking?

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It has been 2 years since this video, have you found enough success to keep uploading? Thanks for the time. Now off to the back pain vid! 😂

Hi Andrew, thank you so much for doing this video, it is so timely for me. Although I have been producing production music for a while, I am now working with a new publisher who is asking for 30s cutdowns of 8 neoclassical trailer tracks that I have written. Great to watch you go through the pain(?) of producing the cutdowns and to see the various techniques you use. The trailer tracks are in the traditional 3 act structure and I was wondering whether I should try and give a flavour of each act in the cutdown? Alternatively, could I, say, use 30s from the final act?

Hi Andrew, I think one of my best puchases ever was a decent chair to work from... I won't mention any brands, but I went to a computer outlet shop and tried sitting in some gaming chairs which are designed for long periods of sitting down. I am so much more comfortable now when writing music... I'm not sure why it took so long to work out a decent chair should be a key part of my setup, but there you go! :)

I love the topic and I am enjoying the video (I am 5 minutes in). I have always been fascinated by the "missing lines" from Smooth Criminal and wondered if they were cut out from the album version due to timing restrictions. If that was indeed the reason, I wouldn't be completely satisfied with it, given the relentless repetition of other sections that made it into the album version. Perhaps what I find more fascinating about that edit in particular is that the 4 missing lines belong between lines 2 and 3 of verse 2. However, thanks to the cryptic nature of the lyrics as a whole, it doesn't feel like it is missing a whole chunk from the middle of the verse. The lines I am talking about made it to the video version (3:16)

Great tutorial, thank you!

Thanks for your sincere information.

nice

Hey Andrew... good to see you on YT!.... I love VST's that combine 2 patches and allow you to merge with the Mod Wheel as you go... really interesting... thanks for the video. Dex :)

Could you put to download "sands of time"

Could you put to download "sands of time"

Yo thank you! I'm brand new at publishing this kind of packs but still figuring it out.

How has itch been for you as far as sales? How many sales come from your own promotions versus through the marketplace search?

thanks

Thanks! :D

You literally skipped over the "upload" part..... Which was the whole point of the video...

Awesome video Andrew💯very well explained and quick to the point

THat "computer setup" bit you mentioned towards the end, not sure what that means. Is this the windows sound settings?

I've been dealing with the same loop issue recently for a project. And I always forget how I did it before. Your video saves me a lot of headaches from now on. Thanks so much for sharing it!

Hey!! Great content. Have you looked into using promosm to increase your subs!?

Your video is a life saver! thank you!

thanks for this video!