That was amazing. I watched the whole thing❤️ so emotive.

Your unmixed sounds way way better than my mixed and i'm making music since last 4 years (1 year of orchestral composing)

Thank you very much for everything you contribute to the community

What audio interface do you recommend for the m1 max macbook pro for vocals?

Any updates on your workflow in 2024/2025?

Amazing

Incredible natural ear candy!

Fantastic work Dan. Always good to see what you’ve been working on. Very best wishes with this and all that you do.👊🏼

what movie is this

These sound really natural, great job. You could cover a lot of ground with this

Dan, just curious, but are you no longer a part of Spitfire?

As always, outstanding work by Dan Keen!

I really enjoyed playing through this today on the channel. Well, done!

Really interesting idea for a library! What’s the name of the track in the intro? Sounds lovely

Library sounds great! Looking forward to a catch-up with what you've been up to in the last few months.

The best KZbinr RETURNS!

Nice! But I'm still eagerly awaiting the continuation of your masterpiece Petrichor - perhaps for brass this time? Any chance of that happening?

I always know it's gonna be a good one when Dan's got a turtleneck on. Thanks for this one!

HE IS SO BACK

I do so enjoy watching your videos, glad you’re still here 😃

Awesome seeing you again Dan! Cheers!

one of the quickest click buys I've made...

Fab work Dan! Glad you're good!

The legend is back!!!

Well done! A question, why do you use one track per articulation rather than say expression maps?

Get yourself a Presonus Faderport, press the right button for MIDI CC mode and thank me later! 😅

thanks for sharing this with no edit. Its pure, its instructive, and the result is so powerful

im about to buy 2018 mac mini i5 32 gb RAM 256 GB i also have an external hard drive . i iuse logic pro x for music [production and use plugins such as arcade by output . is this a good idea ?

Impressing

Using the vintage mic it should be quieter on either side? How does it compare to Abbey Road Classic Upright Pianos? Maybe it is a condenser mic? A couple of very nice effects vst, to say the very least. Though i have an addiction for vst effects and instruments, they seem essential vst....

Stunning Dan. I use your strings and will be purchasing the new library. Don’t pay attention to any naysayers. Keep doing what you’re doing!

Forgive a newbie question. Is there a particular technique in playing this library? Is Dan timing seperate note start times to sync with the overall bowing time of notes already held?

I'm currently using Monogram controllers, but that company seems to be out of business. (I've had about $400 of additional Monogram modules on order for over a year, and I doubt I'll ever get them). This box looks interesting, but I think when I need to replace the Monogram stuff, I'll be going with a controller from MusioTech. Ideally, I think it's best to have a box that can be programmed without an app. If the company goes belly-up (and these are small companies), lack of an app update could leave you dead in the water. The MusioTech box I'm interested in is about $500, so this one makes it look cheap. And BTW, for all of the people saying this should be motorized... Units like this are for adding fluid expression to virtual instruments. It's not for mixing. You DON'T want a motorized box for this purpose (any more than you'd want motorized keyboard keys like an old player piano). It's a specific tool for a specific purpose. There are plenty of other motorized boxed of faders designed for mixing.

Magic

so good - thanks Dan and to all that helped with this ...also, quite the 1-handed reach for some of those chords!

One thing I would love to see in great detail is quantizing the finished score to the film so it all happens in sync (possibly with moving the score a little in order to align audio-video events properly) and then outputting the finished product to a video file. Can this all be done in FL studio or are other third party pieces of software required?

Great video, learned a lot, 2 comments: you mentioned that 1 hour is typically less time than you devote to something like this but doing it live forces you to be more authentically yourself. Miles Davis and John McLaughlin both habitually walk into the studio, hand out scores and say play with no rehearsal and no previewing the score to force the same spontaneity. (comment 2 sent separately)

Randy Newman told me personally you normally get 12 weeks to do a film score Sometimes 8 and occasionally 4 which means you don’t go to bed for 4 weeks. He also said you get 500, 000dollars for a score Bit different from what you say

wow 4 whole faders! incredible. take my money

Life Lesson & Pure Masterclass <3 Thank you very much for sharing this

I'm composer I just created my music channel. In my channel I make music and cover soundtracks for movies. I will be glad if you visit my channel.

You have some balls! This was great. I was wondering about the scene when the dog comes in. I noticed you layered a ton of stuff and was curious if you think almost there that was necessary? Do you come upon diminishing returns? I thought it sounded great 1/2 way through but it also sounded great at the end.

I want to be able do this effortlessly for my job as a composer. Workflow is super important because the genuinely good ideas come when you are somewhat relaxed and confident (as opposed to worrying about deadlines and stuff). When you get a lot of work done in the initial stages you later get more headspace and ‘fooling around’ time, the fun part

Bravo❤

do you make midi of those strings? ad sale them?

10:56 "I can't imagine actually walking into Abbey Rd or somewhere with one of these and being taken seriously." And then there's Sylvia Massey banging out exquisite work with a room full of chopped-up old telephones made into mics, lightbulb distortion effects and would happily stride right in there with a sack full of cans and hamsters and pickles and whatever and churn out stellar results without a care in the world! If it gets results it's definitely not the wrong thing to be doing, knock right on their door with soup cans and show them stuffy old lads what for I say!

This sounds absolutely breathtaking Dan! What midi controller are you using for the modulation and expression?

Can we just have an upright piano to be upright why trying to make it downleft piano

Beautiful composition, Dan.

Do you still don’t get any fan noise for music production as of today ? Thanks