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Director James Cameron wasn't the only one who relied on technological advances to give Avatar an otherworldly feel. Award-winning film composer James Horner also broke new ground with his compelling soundtrack, relying on Pro Tools|HD and Sibelius to compose the music, orchestrate parts, and sculpt otherworldly sonic textures.

[@eternalnjem]

Avatar 2 won’t be the same without him

[@jimhults2490]

James will come back for scoring Avatar 2, we will pray for him.

[@andrewlarsen3816]

The other Avatar sequel's are going to Suck without JAMES HORNER.

[@jimhults4916]

We need to bring him back.

[@appleheaddefender]

He passed away 5 years ago

[@iceomistar4302]

I wish we could resurrect him and Jerry Goldsmith, I have no faith in James Cameron's choices for composer next year, if the music doesn't work it will be very disappointing.

[@zolhof]

RIP James Horner Thank you for the amazing music!

[@andrewlarsen3816]

James Horner you are like mother nature. If James Horner Would still be Alive, then the Avatar Sequels Would be the Best!😍😭😍😭😍😭

[@jadedonovan8291]

James Horner is and always will be a musical genius. I remember hearing his music first when I was really really young on the Soundtrack of Once Upon A Forest and feeling really sad and sorry for the animals and thinking how much the music made a difference even at that age.

[@kadekitchen-glodgett3274]

I loved his music for the land before time, and it was my favorite movie growing up

[@khaja27x6]

Hlove

[@khaja27x6]

I'm from India I loved ur voice can u reply to me after seeing the notification

[@jimhults4916]

Oh no, what can we do without James Horner.

[@timothyodom5132]

Be sad

[@andrewlarsen3816]

@@timothyodom5132 I'm in.😭😭😭😭😭

[@slcone9051]

I miss hearing your scores James Horner. Movie scores aren't the same without you. Thanks for this interview Avid

[@jnasty00]

What a great video, guys at the top of their field, talking about the things they love. Walking through that whole process was amazing to watch and it gives you a unique perspective of the jobs they do.

[@PLAYplaceprod.church]

🎶James Horner🎶: He brought a mouse back to his family, he made a big love in a big tradegy real, and gave a boy the realization that with great power comes great responsibility. Rest in Peace Mr. Horner, your music will never be forgotten

[@jimhults2490]

I like him and John Williams.

[@andrewlarsen3816]

Me too. But with some of John Williams Music's in 1974-2011.

[@anthonylarsen822]

I love and like a lot of James Horner music. I love a lot of John Williams music. James Newton Howard, Michael Giacchino, and Danny Elfman are some more of my favorite Composers. I sometimes like and love Hans Zimmer, Thomas Newman, and many more.

[@philipcarroll7151]

Rip James Horner❤️❤️❤️. An absolute tragedy and enormous loss for the industry and for his family and friends and music writers all over the world. I wish you were still here, James...💪❤️

[@comp_m5444]

Crying cause I was praying he'd used something easier for my small brain to understand. . . Pro-tools is still tough for me unlike Logic Pro where I am all in with the MIDI. I am a noob of course.

[@thakuromkar2004]

if you disappointed with the ironic video...and itscomment section....yeah me too... AVATAR'S Soundtrack is LEGENDARY FOREVER :)

[@arbitrarylib]

Great job. Gonna miss you but your music will live on.

[@narayanaraoamudala825]

We remember you forever

[@SergioWW1WW2]

James Horner = GOD

[@ArDoMax5]

Nobody can make better music than James for Avatar. Simon did a great job for the second movie but I feel like there is something missing... Imagine how insane would be Avatar 2 with James Horner

[@mireyacortina7783]

Lamentable y dolorosa pérdida de talentoso y gran músico James Horner qepd 💓🙏

[@KeytoKungFu]

James Horner is the SOUND GOD

[@makximumlive]

What about Hans Zimmer?

[@rodrigozamo]

also the 192 stands for the model name and the sample rate in which it records at, which is 192,000 samples per second... think of these samples as pictures, pictures of the audio wave... the more pictures you use to capture the sound wave, the higher the resolution and "true" reproduction of the "real" sound wave that is coming into the box you are gonna get. Saddly CD's quality is compressed to 44,100 samples per second so imagine how much you loose.

[@DerekPearson]

Talk about overwhelming track counts!

[@jozeffako9506]

James horner you were and always will be my idol was great very mi chibaju his touching music

[@subfelony2081]

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, So much talent by these men

[@BigMoeFo]

Great stuff!!! Now if I could only afford an ICON board!!!!

[@jimhults4916]

2:11 Simon Franglen work with James Horner on any movie like The Magnificent Seven, Southpaw and all that.

[@jj-firefly]

Simon Franglen will do Avatar 2 en 3 So I trust him doing this job.😀 (Wikipedia) Love James Horner btw❤️

[@anthonylarsen822]

I trust everyone in the Avatar Cast, including James freind, Simon Franglen. I too love James Horner.

[@MarekSchott]

any movie is not enjoyable to watch without soundtrack

[@rafazdunek2640]

I know I'm late but I would say that a good soundtrack can elevate movie to a next level. Most of the movies I consider masterpieces have very emotional, beautiful score. I can't imagine movies like Titanic, Braveheart or Avatar without James Horner's music, it certainly wouldn't be such a spiritual experience.

[@Guoguodi]

Amazing, thanks!

[@Swidhelm]

@maltcus I second that. I'm a sonar user as well. It just works for my needs. But ultimately you can do more or less the same things in any DAW.

[@rodrigozamo]

you will have to get a special Pro Tools HD sound card to plug these in and get it installed in your computer, you only actually plug one in and the rest are chained by ADAT optic fiber cables... the trick to not lag them is to set only one as your "master clock" and the others are only used as extra inputs to plug in more instruments/ microphones... as long as you have a decent computer with plenty of RAM you're good, the idea is that the boxes do all the work so the computer only "writes"

[@uhogb]

I agree with navylaks2. Song "I see you" is almost similar to Titanic.They should be more original to it, but I liked the movie.Although is a bit predictable, you know what is gonna happen.

[@JamesSmithsMusic]

Excuse me for the novice question, but at/ around 5:50 why are there stacks of the same equipment (some of them have 192 on the left)? And could you tell me what they do and why having many of the same thing is beneficial? Thanks.

[@Chivalrics]

Thanks for this information dude. :]

[@masterlup]

one shot for every "pro tools"

[@druidmechanics]

@maltcus Samplitude is pretty good. :)

[@jaccochrysler]

@drakimetal it's the controllerconsole

[@sebastiankierkegaard7690]

5:07 which cue is This? Can you find it on the complete score?

[@duematt]

I have previously worked with Pro Tools and I couldn't really get my head around it, then I took a class that worked mainly with Adobe Audition and that was very simple and I thought, hey this is kind of like Pro Tools, I think I'll try to start that back up again, so I went back to Pro Tools and now I'm worse off than I was before hahahaha

[@SuperBoogerhead]

did anyone notice the send to sibelius option? This is a ProTools 8 Feature? So, a synth violin part can send direct to sibelius for editing? No fiddling, (excuse the irony)?

[@Greenjah81]

@jnyce695 Agreed, you can definitely perform same things with Logic absolutely. Especially if you have all the rack gear to support it on the side. PT is ok too, it's just a co-called industry "standard" that's all...

[@Swidhelm]

@Diefordethklok333 No I didn't contradict myself. That's why right off the hop I said more or less. It depends on your needs, but most features are covered in each of the daws. Sure, Pro Tools is better at mixing features, but you can mix features in any of them. My point is if you spend say $400 on Pro Tools, or Cubase, or Sonar, or Logic (depending on the version) regardless of what your goal is, you could pull it off in any of them.

[@RediForKing]

This are all avid audio interfaces. They allow you to record and have a given number of physical inputs into your DAW. Each of them has as far as I know 16 inputs. But large studios require up to a hundred tracks or even more. In order to have more tracks yo need more interfaces.

[@samcooke343]

Each 'box' has say 16 inputs for instruments, so having more boxes will enable more microphones/instruments to be plugged in and recording at once. Sorry for the explanation, I'm not very good at it :D

[@stizzulka]

Stupendous material.

[@Abhishek-fk6ue]

Are you still live ?

[@stizzulka]

Now not live, @@Abhishek-fk6ue

[@Abhishek-fk6ue]

@@stizzulkawoah !!!!!!!!!

[@mooobtube]

I know you can send scores to sibelius from pro tools, but can you send scores from sibelius to pro tools?

[@PianoSalmon]

God I'm so happy that I bought sibelius :D

[@Swidhelm]

@kingtoadius Yeah, I find it funny that in these kinds of promos it's always (without X we couldn't have done it.) In this case, what they did could have been done in just about any DAW. For us home studio guys though, that can't afford Pro Tools HD, anything below that is a waste because of the track limit. Better off with Cubase. Me, I use Sonar.

[@GregoryPLoomis]

Do you have to be named Simon to work as a musician on this film?

[@charvinn]

coo :D

[@gabomedellin2]

Can someone explain to me how can protools be better without the 64 bit support?

[@Swidhelm]

@Diefordethklok333 Well any of the decent daws. Sonar, Logic, Cubase, Pro Tools are fairly similar. Obviously though the more money you spend the more feature rich the daw.

[@sgtpepper1138]

WOW, Horner has lost weight. He looks a lot thinner in the face compared to the Aliens DVD.

[@Gredran]

Pro Tools is AMAZING for recording, but currently, the MIDI is meh... Yes you can obviously make good sounds and scores out of it, but other programs that are MIDI focused(obviously of course) like Logic and Ableton are better in that regard... I've used the MIDI in Pro Tools and its a little clunky and limited... Hopefully as they upgrade versions, they improve it... Yes I know MIDI wasn't in Pro Tools from the start, but I'm just saying... If you are wanting a DAW and you are mostly doing electronic instruments, then use Logic or something, but Pro Tools is again, EXCELLENT for pretty much ANY form of audio editing from music making to sound editing.

[@Gredran]

Also, I know this was 4 years ago, and the MIDI has improved, but I used it recently and am talking from opinion, just saying

[@avid]

Curious to know if you're running the latest--Pro Tools 11. MIDI for composition in Pro Tools is more powerful than most know. In fact here's a recent tutorial on on of Pro Tools trainers just publish. Have a look: www.avidblogs.com/music-quickly-and-accurately-line-up-with-pro-tools-midi-editor/. AK

[@Gredran]

Avid Thank you for the response! I will check it out! I actually have Ableton, Logic, and Pro Tools at my school and apparently they are getting brand new Mac Pros and the latest versions of all that software so i can't wait to get my hands on all of those new versions of the programs!

[@lemonslice2233]

"but other programs that are MIDI focused(obviously of course) like Logic and Ableton" More like Digital Performer and Cubase.

[@navylaks2]

Great soundtrack but they did a huge mistake at the end with the song i see you, it was Titanic part 2. They could atleast have chosen a male voice this time to make it different and more fidding with the main caracter of the movie

[@trentwilliamson]

RIP

[@Diefordethklok333]

@Swidhelm Well when you say something that you mean, and then all of the sudden mean something else, that's what we call contradiction no matter how strategically you tried to phrase your opinion. And NO in the industry it´s NOT the same at all. Sure you might be able to do some of the same things after a fashion but its important to note that time is money and 9 times out of 10 PT can do the deed faster, with more efficiency allowing for more creativity. Leading to a better final result. There.

[@distortingjack]

@BigMoeFo 99% of producers and composers emphatically do NOT need an ICON. Get the cheapest version of HD possible and a fast Mac.

[@michael86734]

cool I was familiar with logic but I guess this is better

[@assyria89]

michael86734 logic is good for its price, Pro Tools is not the best but its good for mixing i heard, i rather Cubase over pro tools

[@LukasLindner]

what means the title "9M4R" that he uses in Sibelius?

[@EnlightenedByKnowledge]

+Lukas Lindner It means "Reel 9, Cue 4 - Revised" (Don't ask me why they use the letter "M" - I really don't know). In the _Avatar_ film score, that cue is "The Battle Continues".

[@LukasLindner]

+Enlightened The letter m means "music" and devides the reel number and the cue :) I found the answer myself. :)

[@EnlightenedByKnowledge]

Good to know. :)

[@paulrankin4907]

Pro tools has a monopoly on recording when it comes to profession studios PERIOD and no one else including Logic etc will ever topple them. In fact when I called the head of Logic and asked them they said Pro Tools owns the market share. Can u make music on anything else yes but if you have 50+ tracks its gonna be mixed and mastered on pro tools.... NOT TO MENTION IT JUST SOUNDS BETTER! If every top music maker uses it I hardly think they are drinking the coolaid!!!

[@DavidJayTheSpaniard]

This movie was WAY better than Hurt Locker!!! to bad Hurt locker got more oscars, it was such a disappointment.

[@N7_Jackal]

Why the fuck did you have to die...

[@kingtoadius]

hans uses cubase, and look at what he's doing!

[@tronam]

For composing, yes, but everything gets bounced out to Pro Tools in the end for mixing/mastering to picture. It is the industry standard, especially in Hollywood.

[@trancosv5937]

😭😭😭😭😪como extraño a James horner 😪 dios no te lleves a hans zimmer te lo ruego 😪...

[@jimhults4916]

Don't like that coward Zimmer, he the traitor. James horner is a handsome composer, but Zimmer is a butthead.

[@redaderoua8816]

Rip

[@iBeViewin]

@Firsttimebeez Without a soundtrack, any movie is unwatchable. It always feels awkward :/

[@Diefordethklok333]

@Swidhelm You just contradicted yourself so perhaps you should know what your talking about before you make a point. "Its more or less the same" "Well it depends how much you spend". Some DAWS do things others don´t because not all DAWS are made with the same purposes in mind. Cubase is not nearly as equipped for mixing movies like Protools is and I should know, I just finished mixing a feature. I am fluent in Cubase and PT and you couldn't pay me enough money to do the same job in Cubase. Peace

[@michael190576]

...my name is Simon Franglen and I'm AVID Propagandist....

[@avadakedavra9500]

I don't understand him saying he didn't write the score. Well then who did?

[@chrisbanisch]

Tom Serizawa He's saying that he used the method of "improvisation" to create the score. he still created it. but he didn't write as he went.. he improvised it. which is actually incredible.

[@LucasEdwards]

“We couldn't have made the score for avatar without Pro Tools HD” 6:24 This sounds pathetic - regardless of how true it is. Come on Avid, you can do better than that!

[@maidenaust8238]

In a world where you think your production kicks ass.... Then your ass gets kicked by these guys.

[@D3adMetal]

I have stopped replying negative comments these days, people don't know the difference between Pro Tools and Pro Tools HD. Really not worth my time to explain amateurs what they really don't want to hear, because they don't understand it (few people work in studios with Pro Tools HD racks) The amount of inexperienced people commenting idiotic lines is sad. They only reference to their own thoughts and experience, not the people who actually work with these blockbuster movies everyday.

[@theBbOoSSss]

kid really why all the hate on pro tools? i'm sure all the hate comes from people who never used the system. in fact most of you bashers never even used the standard version of pro tools or maybe they just tried it for 2 seconds then put it off.

[@juniorninetyy]

good job taking what he says and taking it in some random direction that has nothing to do with what he actually said.

[@jimhults4916]

No hans Zimmer on Avatar 2. That Zimmer dork will not score Avatar 2.

[@jimmy3189]

@jnyce695 Yeah like VCA groups, beat detective, 7.1 mixing, Oh wait logic has none of those. The beat arranger is poor in logic.

[@Diefordethklok333]

@Swidhelm so not true...

[@Firsttimebeez]

without the soundtrack avatar isn't a watchable movie.

[@assyria89]

Cubase > Pro Tools

[@appleheaddefender]

Srsly with pro tools...