"A Tall Tale" Walkthrough - Adventure Strings Demo

[@d.1565]

Dude, I fucking love you! Sick of watching those youtube posers acting like big hotshot composers when they actually don't have a clue wtf they are doing. You can buy all the sample libraries in the world but you can't buy talent shown here. You are the real deal.

[@nicolaicrabtree1336]

Dude, chill out. Stop being a hater and if you hate someone else just leave it

[@MrWoodlandMusic]

You are great Blakus! Thanks for sharing. Your balances are perfect.

[@JakeCadmus]

Great piece, thanks for this video! Hearing the Adventure Strings in isolation helped me to pull the trigger on the purchase.

[@ustinmus7743]

Как же вдохновляет !!!! Спасибо

[@hdfilmcomposing7321]

John Powell! Absolutely my favourite composer by far, was awesome hearing you mention him. Keep up the awesome work, Blakus! :)

[@TheLightningPirate]

Amazing work as always. Been a while since this one... hoping to see more soon!

[@OliKember]

Damn this is helpful! Seeing your orchestration is really inspiring. More like this good sir!

[@gbeatsmacedonia]

one of the best ive seen on youtube great producing skills i might even learn something from this now

[@rolandbingaman]

I know you said at 14:15 that when you take things away it kinda falls apart but, man....I think its amazing to hear in sections. I don't think anything falls apart. It's really inspiring to see these break downs. It's crazy how much you've grown since your earlier videos. Keep at it, man!

[@ClefferNotes]

Amazing work Blake! Thanks for the walkthrough! :)

[@Pax30001]

Beautiful music piece! :)

[@marcusfranzen1255]

Lol, i was reading through the comments and then i saw someone who commented with your name but a different picture, that was kinda confusing(few minutes later the picture on your channel changed, and that was the end of my suspicious investigation, hihi). 8:40 10/10 that method I've tried it atleast 20 times now, works perfectly fine :D Btw, LOVE your work on all the star wars trailers you been part of: Star Wars Battlefront II: Battle of Geonosis Official Trailer. I've watched that one around 25 times now... xD

[@mehranmosaddeq]

Thank you so much for this video. Love from UK.

[@dillonmderosa]

I need more videos from you lol! I would love (actually need) to know how you setup up your mixing / routing / reverbs. Your getting such an amazing sound/balance and it doesnt sound to wet or too dry but all choesive with many libraries. I definitely feel like your templates/mixing has changed from your previous videos.

[@Blakus]

Thank you! My template has changed significantly again since this video haha! It's constantly evolving every project really! I'm never happy :D

[@compasspictures]

That was really helpful and inspiring! Thank you for this!

[@ObsessiveCostumingDude]

That was a fun demo - thanks for sharing! :)

[@chrismeyers7487]

Dude... you are awesome. Thank you!

[@OwenMcBarrayRamos]

Maravillosa composición.

[@MagicMusicStudioPro]

you are a genius, man :)

[@prosper7452]

This really is the greatest day in youtube history! Two videos in one day :) Could you please do the same thing for Liberation please Blake. Thank you

[@Blakus]

I'll see what I can do!

[@ChristianFernandoPerucchi]

Love this!!!!

[@thegoodgeneral]

Even 4 years later, this is still very good. I think both Adventure Strings and Adventure Brass are underrated libraries. I'm curious what the "SE" brass libraries are, though. Are those VSL?

[@HugoPaulo]

Same... I was trying to figure out what the "SE" is xD maybe a custom library that he already had at the time

[@maxandersson7403]

Great video. Even though I only listen to this style of music, and not write it myself, I always enjoy watching your videos. Have you stopped using Hollywood Brass?

[@TylerGrowOfficial]

Blakus, thanks for the amazing video. I'm just about to upgrade my stuff and purchase this library. To be honest, I always found it difficult to sort of change up the dynamic of the strings when composing. Like, you sit down and go.. "Okay strings here should go staccato.. then what should they do here? Should they go staccato somewhere else then legato? And you're forced to sort of do a separate track thats staccato and legato and figure it out. Where as I believe with this library you can just do staccato and legato combined and it'll sound natural. Looking forward to testing those waters for sure! Also working on a OST for a pirate game, there's that to.

[@spaderful]

İf you are a composer, what are we :D You are so good man. Better than professional :)) Keep it up..

[@melodiastudio84]

As usual.... Great :)

[@connorshort4847]

Wow! This is great. Would you be willing to do a similar video with March Against? I was a huge fan of that song.

[@andrewchristie3139]

Nice! Very Bergersenesque :) Yeah this style always takes way longer than the trailer stuff.

[@Fangornmmc]

Love all the little flourishes. Actually didn't think the woodwinds sounded that bad on their own, but I was listening on regular headphones, not monitors so perhaps I missed something. You know, I'd be very curious to hear what you'd come up with if you limited yourself to just string, perc and woodwinds! Woodwinds are often underused imo and I think you'd do a pretty good job writing for them!

[@Blakus]

Haha, I might try that sometime. I am totally addicted to brass, so that thought has never occurred to me :D

[@willraindrop5]

A Walkthrough on the mass effect Andromeda trailer soundtrack you did would be awesome

[@VFXCommander]

Its been long since you made a movie cover.

[@Metalpazallteway]

Your mock-up reminds me a little of a song from TSFH.. very well developed ideas. One thing I would suggest, please raise the volume on the choir I can barely hear f-ff which I know it's what you want to demonstrate.

[@LopezKushin]

Good job you !

[@AlEx-ro7kd]

hey blakus, i saw your demo for solos of the sea solo violin and was wondering if there was a version that didn't clip that much on their soundcloud

[@manganume]

Hahaha you have a great sense of humor 😂

[@brendanobrien145]

Love it! Reminds me of Thomas Bergersen's "High C's" and "That's A Wrap". Masterfully done. I was looking at your template and I can't for the life of me figure out what brass library SE is. Any chance you could enlighten me?

[@UKFeneley]

Is it Sample Modeling or Vienna? Please dont kill me if i am correct!

[@brendanobrien145]

UKFeneley i believe its a custom library. RIP me.

[@Blakus]

LOL

[@UKFeneley]

Damn.. It sounds awesome! I though SE maybe stood for Viennas Special Edition brass but the articulations dont really match up! Blakus you tease

[@brendanobrien145]

UKFeneley Blakus Brass, now thats a library I would HAVE to purchase.

[@CalebFaith]

Awesome video :) just curious what FH samples are you using? it says SE 6FH on your template? Thanks!

[@epiczeven6378]

With so many instruments... How it doesn´t sound like a big mess? :D is it more because of dynamics and instrument selection, or EQ and paning? :O I´m amazed by the process, thank you for sharing!

[@Blakus]

That's actually a good question. I think it's a combination of two things. The careful balance (volume) of the instruments, and the actual orchestration (the notes played). It honestly feels like a big mess sometimes, but it's fun when it all works out in the end :D

[@WeaselFace]

this is really fascinating to me as an Aussie also looking to start into composing. i've been surfing the youtube's for a while now looking at the junkiexl's and the spitfire's and such but your videos really stand out to me. i have just a massive jumble of queries for you so i understand if you dont feel up to answering them. but if can can i ask? how did you begin with this? how did you know to take the leap and write music professionally? i would love a walkthrough of your set up as well and the ever dreading question of cost's. keep up the solid work man. really enjoying these vids

[@WeaselFace]

additional (you can tell i'm a little overstimulated haha) i was wondering about the benefits of separating articulations over tracks rather than using key switches to keep everything together

[@Blakus]

Wow, late reply here, sorry! I love to separate my articulations so that I can layer them easily. This isn't as accessible when hidden behind keyswitches. How did I begin? By just fiddling around, a LOT! Haha. That, and looking at manuscript scores of composers that I love, and trying to recreate their music.

[@BryanHoltComposer]

Great POV video Blakus, as always. Many thanks! Quick question .. I'm curious what you're using to create your Sub Bass in the context of an orchestral piece like this? Noticed you adding it when soloing the percussion group and curious what's "under the hood" so to speak. Thanks again.

[@Blakus]

Thanks Bryan. Nothing fancy there at all. Just a simple sine wave synth! I think I'm using omnisphere for it, but you could use any synth.

[@BryanHoltComposer]

Thx!

[@rossoconnor4]

Love this! How long does it take you to compose and mock up something this detailed?

[@Blakus]

This cue took nearly 2 days.

[@melodicimpulse3860]

amazing track...like it a lot!

[@veenu8474]

Two Blakus videos on one day?! Is it christmas already?

[@Blakus]

Bahaha, this was quite out of the ordinary, wasn't it? :D

[@sotosonic413]

almost didn't think it was real without a left-overs food plate in the foreground. Great video, thanks Blakus!

[@senzai11]

Hey Blakus,great video, is it possible to download your Cubase file somewhere?

[@simongrenier4678]

I'm totally new to music ; I really wanna buy the adventure strings(the complete orchestral bundle) but it's really expensive. This is exactly the type of melody and stuff I'd love to learn to make. I suffer from ocd thus I have tendencies to give up and look up to buy more libraries because I feel that the library I am using just doesn't sound good enough or is missing something. I look at the different libraries and your piece was in there but then I hear the choirs, bells ,etc making me doubts about what the bundle really contains. This might be a stupid question but I really need to know if this whole music piece uses only adventure strings or if you used multiple libraries other than adventure strings. By knowing that that goal could be reachable, it would motivate me enough to make me keep trying. Also if you do use other libraries for this piece, I'd love to know which. When I hear music like this, it is what makes me wanna do this.

[@lambarridaniel]

hey! what library is that 2flute leg? and other question, what are your pc specs? Cpu, ram? thnks!!....this sound s little williams with some Zimmer! is great!

[@Blakus]

the 2flute leg is actually a Strezov library - check them out :) You can see my PC specs here - blakus.com/my-setup

[@daniebl4894]

Blakus, you may have had a question like this before but for first timers in your opinion what would be the best all rounder library to buy . I.E not enough money to buy huge libraries but one that someone could start with ? I am setup on a student account with sounds online which gives me access to great libraries Hollywood brass etc, however looking to buy some ?

[@Blakus]

The hollywood series is actually really great. Hollywood Strings and Brass should be more than enough for orchestral needs for a long while in my opinion. I don't have the woodwinds so I can't comment on those, it really depends which sounds you feel you need more of!

[@daniebl4894]

Awesome, and what about the spitfire series ? I'm a big fan of these to be fair as it's more or less straight out the box but still on the fence with these libraries. Thanks for the opinion

[@rossquaresmini5834]

bravo

[@johnmichaelvillaber1137]

how about a behind the scenes of "like a child?"

[@VFXCommander]

You definitely composed it with High C's by Thomas as your reference.

[@maximilianbeiel6812]

Everyone does have their references - and there's nothing to blame on it. Listen to Mahler 5 and you will notice lots of Bergersen in there. Ah...wait. The other way around lol 😂

[@alimusicrecords9079]

Hello, I have a couple of questions for you, 1 you are using an VSL Ensemble Pro 6? 2 if not, how many tools can you open? 3 can you write computer data? cpu, ram, hdd, ssd I work on Logic Pro X I have more than 10 tools in contact can not open. Thank you in advance.

[@Blakus]

Sorry for the late reply! I'm not using VE PRO, I have over 350 kontakt instances in my template. You can see my computer specs here. blakerobinson.com/studio/ A good machine with SSD drives, lots of RAM, and a powerful CPU is important to run large projects,

[@sxymike12]

what software are you using?

[@JonAdamich]

6:53 the strings there are ridiculous. The articulations, I just dont understand how you can pull that off

[@VjRoboZ]

What do you mean?

[@PaulCassidyOrchestrations]

The rest of us may as well give up now! ;)

[@Fridaytubeful]

Choir library?

[@Blakus]

Oceania by Performance Samples :)

[@LoganEpicCantoML]

how much RAM do you have on your computer?

[@Blakus]

I had 64gb when I created this piece, I now use 128gb of RAM

[@neverlow777]

@@Blakus if i will use purge function in kontakt will it possible to go with 32 gm ram? thanks

[@markusschultz4637]

What's this piece?

[@Blakus]

Just a short piece I wrote as a demo for this strings library.

[@markusschultz4637]

@@Blakus yo this is great!!

[@paulthiebaut]

Inspired by John Powell

[@Blakus]

Indeed! And Thomas Bergersen, who was also likely inspired by John Powell 😂

[@paulthiebaut]

​@@Blakus ahaha I love both of these guys ! Great composition by the way, Pretty sure you're quite occupied but I hope you'll come back some day to make a few videos from time to time :) PS : I would die to have a breakdown of your "The last Jedi Season 1" trailer from Battlefront 2 ! It's a superb arrangement !

[@naedolor]

Man, that autosave is killing me also. Worst thing by far about Cubase.

[@Blakus]

Yeah, I should just turn it off, but it has "saved" me a couple of times haha.

[@naedolor]

I don't understand why aren't they fixing it... I'm deep into a project, very concentrated, in the flow and suddenly I have to stop for 15 seconds for the damn thing to save. I've set it up at 10 minutes interval. It also saved me on different occasions. Quick question. If you set up all the VSTs externally using Vienna Ensemble Pro, will it still take as long for saving? My understanding is that Kontakt is at fault here.

[@Blakus]

The problem is the pure amount of kontakt instances that we have in Cubase. I personally am not too bothered by it, and it's not worth routing everything through VE PRO for me. But yes, VE PRO would introduce much faster save times, but it introduces another whole set of factors that I'd rather not have to put up with for now. I've been down the VE PRO route before, and it does a great job, but for me, I'm better without it. I have over 250 instances of Kontakt in this template. I think Cubase does pretty damn well, considering. hahah!

[@naedolor]

Can you please elaborate a bit on VE Pro? Sorry for stressing you, but I'd really like to know.

[@Blakus]

VE PRO = Vienna Ensemble Pro. Since you brought it up, I assumed you would know about it :) It's just a way of keeping everything loaded outside of your DAW.

[@thekingsown10]

Jesus christ !