Cinematic Strings 2 - Blog 1: EQ and Tempo Automation

[@2chrisward]

Your demos show your brilliance as sound designer, producer, and composer. Excellent work!

[@hodshonf]

Just purchased CS2 - can't wait to get into it! sounds great!

[@macronencer]

Alex, thank you so much for these highly useful videos; I just came here after watching the second one on live/run modes. I bought the library a few days ago and these videos have been very useful to me so far. It's a fantastic-sounding string library, and seems to blend well and "play nicely" with other libraries too. You really made something special here!

[@nunomalo]

Beautiful little piece. Very emotive. Wonderful smooth string sound. Nice EQ tip.

[@Swidhelm]

Jebus, the library sells itself, no doubt. But your personality sells it as well. Some developers will sweeten their demos, and hide it. You do it a bit, and then do a tutorial on how you did it. You are a customer's dream! I'm looking at getting this library in the next couple of months. Hell, I'm giddy about it. Just have to wait for the funds.

[@markbatuer]

Alex, thanks for your hard work on it. It's very kind and you brought us a fantastic sting library.

[@cinematicstrings]

Hey Dirk, thanks for the kind words - glad you like the library :). New articulations will certainly come, but probably after our other new libraries in the works :). More news as it comes!

[@tukor]

I may buy CS2. The library sounds great, but not only that... i love the fact that you try to help the buyers explaining the usage of the library, with demos and tips. Thats a lot for me.

[@punkaholicmember]

What a beautiful piece.. Gives me shivers, thanks!

[@dip_jones]

This is a great tutorial video made even more special by the midi file download. Loving the library and looking forward to further tutorials. Guess you must be busy but more of the sme when you have time - can't wait!

[@ivanagmalo]

Beautiful music. And great library. Velvet strings.

[@jinyun6339]

this is the best lesson I've ever had I am really expecting your next music with CS2 thanks for sharing I really want to make film music with CS2

[@Krxtopher]

It's been many months since you did the last video blog post. I hope you consider doing more! They're fantastic. I'm considering a CS2 purchase but there seem to be many great string choices out there right now. I'd love to hear one of your demos that's not quite so reverb heavy, to hear what the strings sound like a little more "naked". It will go a long way in helping me decide. Thanks for considering this request!

[@QuabmasM]

Wonderful teaching and amazingly beautiful music!

[@HaeAkita]

Very beautiful sound and composition.

[@AlexSemichev]

Hey Alex, this is great! Waiting for more videos and MIDIs :)

[@bigdog38au]

Great stuff Alex...more!

[@CrystalClearNM]

I recently sold some of my hardware on Ebay so that I can buy CS2 (wife, aka the accountant nazi, has put a freeze on my investments until she starts seeing some dividends from my compositions)....thanks to paypal it'll take a couple more weeks until funds are available but these tuts/reviews by you and Daniel James I for one feel are very helpful as well as gratifying....thank you!...continued below (ran out of characters)

[@PsaMusicComposer]

Hey, thanks for the great EQ tips! The result in the video sounded really impressive, I have to try this, too :)

[@coolcitymusicUS]

Love this. Any chance that you can repost the link to the MIDI file?

[@coruxmusic]

Thank you so much for the tip, I want to know what reverb did you use? The one by default or are you using some extra plugin for that? You made them sound so real!

[@riberto123]

Sounds really great.

[@CrystalClearNM]

Are there any vids from others I should know about? I found the Quickstart guide but is there any other documentation that might help me hit the ground running? Thanks again, Randy

[@Michael_H_Nielsen]

That eq trick is so usefull. Thanks :)

[@cinematicstrings]

New tutorial coming within the next week!

[@moledude]

Do you end up automating the articulation key-switches for different parts of passages?

[@JoshuaTMagee]

Is there any plan to create more tutorial videos for CS2? These are incredibly helpful for beginning composers. Thank you!

[@josuefox]

I wish we can get also the midi of the music ( or a demonstration video) at the end, that beginners as me can analyze very cinematic , sounds epic ....

[@Creepzza]

Damn, so nice man

[@soundtreks]

Beautiful piece. Reminds me of Vaughan Williams' work.

[@GitFiddler]

So where is the tutorial on reverb Alex promised that he would discuss in a later video?

[@djrbfmbfm-woa]

alex = a gentleman. j.

[@teoshaker]

No product update or blog video for a long time. Are you alive sir?

[@Pheonix8877]

Some parts sound almost exactly like "the vote" from The Village by James Newton Howard