3 Film Scoring Stacks You Will Want To Use! Sample Library Stacks for Film Composers

[@InLightTone]

My god man, how did you acquire those massive keyboard skills? Your command of the Harmonic vocabulary is awe inspiring!

[@fverrieres]

Very nice ! By the way it is not Iceni (iceni has only low brass for exemple and the wallpaper colour is red ) but it’s Albion one legacy

[@blu2th101]

Bro. Of course the stacks are sweet as hell, but can we talk about the fact that you are killing the game with your voicings!? 👌🏽

[@TheMikeJr2001]

Awesome! I really needed to see this . These stacks are fantastic . . . but your harmonic sense is out of this world!!! Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@whittymusic]

thanks for the kind words!

[@tonyb713]

Great stuff. Thank you so much!!

[@davidsandberg6179]

Great ideas on the stacks, for sure. But man, you blew my mind with what you played starting at 0:11; what I’d like more than anything is to see you take that 18 seconds and make a video breaking down what you were doing with the voicings, the chords and the interplay between high and low parts. I mean, you were just plain breathing out a full orchestral arrangement right there, and I desperately want to understand a bit more of where all of that came from.

[@davedesigning]

That's sort of pentatonic style American a la Aaron Copland. In the right hand find a strong rhythm maybe: bah-bah-baaahhhh. Then the left hand can reply. Bah-bah. In the right hand you can use suspended 4 and suspended 2 chords. Then major chords. Left hand mostly octaves moving by thirds. But you can throw in a fifth, if it is in the chosen pentatonic scale. Sometimes play the rhythm hands together. It doesn't matter if the bass note is contained in the right hand. So long as it is a whole step from the notes in the chord. So for a Gb chord in the right, you could put any chord tone, or Ab, or Eb in the bass. The easiest way to start is: play only on the black keys (no white), and follow the above tips. Add the F natural so you can make the Db chord and resolve the sus2 or sus4 chords on Db. Then add in the C natural which will give a lydian mode feel when used as a passing note for the Gb chord. But try to never move by half step in the right hand. To modulate, move your hands over to another pentatonic scale. Avoid half steps. Use pentatonic-ish chords.

[@davedesigning]

Daves unite! ✊

[@EternalEvanesce]

Its not as simple as load the multi and hit the chords! Thats years of experience working with these things right there!Amazing 👏

[@talnomix3164]

Uhm no, its actually pretty easy. Basic orchestration knowledge is more than enough to build and write realistic orchestral pieces.

[@musicsoko]

Inspiring as always. 14:07 what a movement!

[@mantrinbago]

Bro you are da bomb. I never hear such good stuff. This is a topic unto itself.

[@TrevorWesleyOfficial]

Man, thanks for sharing these stacks bro!! Super awesome

[@thesecretsoforchestration]

Thanks sharing your knowledge with us!

[@taylorblanpied4351]

This sounds awesome Michael! Well done!

[@joshgfilmcomposer]

Love this video! Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom! Incredibly informative

[@MatthewHarrold]

I was watching the voices/RAM counts on those plugins ... makes my old Ensoniq ASR-10 with a whopping 14 Mb of RAM seem a little antiquated. Amazing sounds. $0.02

[@GabrielBelloMusic]

FIRE brutha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AlbertKimMusic]

Yes! This channel is an absolute gem.

[@whittymusic]

Thanks for being a part!

[@kris4066]

sounds awesome! keep stacking it brother 👍🏻

[@xtadeus4777]

Really like your videos. Never thought to use them like this, stacked. I always take one instrument one by one with different output channel and work on each line to try to get that result... But watching you makes me wanna try to bring different instrument on same channel (combined) and try to see how they sound together ! Nice one 👍

[@mileskintnermusic7349]

I know same. But i find the "old way," writing everyrhing out, I still cant this kind of sound vy programing in each instrument, unless I stack several patches of fhe same instrument anyway.

[@radarbeats]

Great video ! Amazing playing ! Thanx a lot Sir ! A question can one save a stack within Kontakt or must one create a template to be able to recall the stack ?

[@whittymusic]

Yes! You can save it as a multi!

[@蔡成钰]

可以出一些关于 音源使用 写作不同主题的视频吗 你做的太棒了！

[@scottfoster3643]

Wow epic sounds! Thank you for these ideas :}

[@deepspacemusicofficial9671]

Can you please also tell how you set these and make a patch .. especially in ranges so that we can play everything together.

[@whittymusic]

the ranges are the stock ranges of those patches, there has been no changing of that

[@askbrettmanning]

Loving your videos!

[@johnnmusic]

How are these routed within Kontakt? Are certain instances set to be transposed up or down X # of octaves? Or, do you limit which parts of the keyboard contain which VSTs? Btw unbelievable video, your improvisation within the language of film scoring is also incredible.

[@eric640]

Quick question = where are the timpanis in your stack.Not sure where i should place or map mine.

[@shadowgod-tunes]

Wow, these stacks sounds incredible!!!!! What sample library do you use to stack your instruments?

[@whittymusic]

Thank you, all the libraries in these stack are in the video

[@marcdevinci893]

Inspiring video! What's your white fader box we see @ 9:29? I'm looking for one. Please don't see it's custom made!

[@whittymusic]

Its by Nakedboards, however I highly recommend NOT getting one. Mine got tied up in Russian customs for months and they wouldn't send my money back.

[@marcbaril6471]

@@whittymusic ah bummer but yeah not a good time to order stuff from Russia...

[@pushbeats6622]

Such good stuff here! Recommended to all my film scoring friends.KEENLY WAITING FOR MORE VIDEOS PLEASE DON'T STOP!! :))

[@issiewizzie]

a blessing to us all ......thanks

[@garaiss]

That's incredible! Amazing stacks and voicing! Did also made panning for all of libraries?

[@homeofcreation]

Nice if you export to audio, not so much if you have to deliver a score and parts for live recording.

[@dpixvid]

Wow! Thank you👍

[@vadimmartynyuk]

Amazing tutorial

[@coleashmore]

Great work!!

[@veritechc]

I have watch two of your videos and have learned some really useful concepts. I’ll soon be joining your classes I think. Thank you so much for this.

[@whittymusic]

thank you! awesome look forward to it!

[@thomasjorennielsen]

Anyone know where to grab Albion 3 Iceni? looks like spitfire took it off the market recently,... btw Whitty - I am a full time trailer composer and have come back to this video time and time again to try and mimic these stacks you have - phenomenal video and thank you for sharing this information with the rest of us!!!!

[@veenu8474]

May I ask what your reverb/spatialization setup is? I'm very impressed by the sense of depth in your sounds, without them sounding to mushy.

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

you can radically pan dry/wet as left/right or increase pre/delay, or set to binaural panner and center some instruments that need focus. Headphones will give a better judgment of depth, checking what is “in your face”. Truth is that the best mixes have some elements very dry or close, because they are confident on the quality of the sound. I try to combine this with an infinite reverb . So my take ;) The first technique may be only mine, i don’t give you hollywood guarantee! But i loved.

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

the ears will correct the split of dry/wet, just try

[@JPmuso]

Killer, man! Thanks!

[@GregLassalle2015]

Scary good stuff here Michael and great playing! Just found you here but I've subscribed and will check out your website for sure. Thank you so much. 🙏🏾

[@mrprisbrando]

Is there a video on how to stack? Thanks

[@pankajgarange5086]

Sir I am pankaj from India how this software downloaded

[@GANGBENGAL]

thanks!

[@DESYNC3D_Music]

what is ur go to piano for cinematic projects to come up with ideas?

[@whittymusic]

the ravenscroft piano or emotional piano for a more dark and soft tone

[@DESYNC3D_Music]

@@whittymusic ty sir, greetings from germany! 👍

[@TheCommenter-m4f]

Thanks. Good Ideas

[@jenniferkeely1376]

I tried this but only the top instrument would play. Is there an explanation how to make them work together?

[@whittymusic]

They need to be put on the same midi channel in Kontakt

[@mantrinbago]

Create a track stack in Logic

[@billpeet1976]

Wonderful video. Could you confirm--is the woodwind patch definitely from Iceni, or is it actually from Albion II Loegria?

[@kevinperry6276]

Brass and winds was Loegria. Iceni is all low….no trumpets or flutes in the Iceni ensembles. Shame as Loegria isn’t available anymore…brass sounds fantastic here!

[@billpeet1976]

@@kevinperry6276 Thanks for letting me know. Yeah, that's a shame, I really love the sound of these winds and brass too!

[@pjdahmen]

nice one

[@blu2th101]

That move at 9:24 is as good as stolen.

[@cyrilcalmes4208]

Shit ! Albion Iceni does not exist anymore. Could you give any alternative ?

[@whittymusic]

I know and they took that combi away from Albion one. However if you combine Brass high, Brass Mid, Brass Low (in Albion One) on the same MIDI channel you will get a similar result, but not quite as good as it used to be. The original samples had a human quality that was tuned out in Albion One. Or contact them maybe there is a way to buy it not on the website

[@cyrilcalmes4208]

@@whittymusic than you. I have a bunch of Spitfire Library (i'm love Abbey ROad One...) I'll check what I can do whit. Anyway, thanks for you excellent channel.

[@mybiggrin]

Can we talk about your chord choices during that string set? Or I guess I'll just figure it out haha

[@16bitktempo]

i feel both sub par as a pianist and broke at the same time watching this

[@ManontheBroadcast]

But how much RAM do you have? ...

[@whittymusic]

128 gb in 6 machines running vienna ensemble pro. But you could easily run this stack with 16gb no prob. It's more about your processor speed and core count

[@thenorthstar311]

❤💥