EastWest Academy 6: MIDI Programming Part 2

[@Pianistec]

You're doing so many arrangement / composing tutorials and that's great, I literally grew up with them. But I would really love to see you making a mixing / processing tutorial. In my years of musical journey I really haven't ever heard music which is better mixed / mastered than Ryan Thomas ones, it'd help me and many other producers understanding and handling the EastWest libraries even more. As always, great video!

[@DarqueSyde66]

Excellent!

[@paulferber2118]

Always learn something new from you. Yor a great teacher: clear and creative.

[@scottbrownlee3324]

These are always super useful. I would love to see something on mixing/EQ to find out how to get that clear, exciting sound without a bunch of frequency collisions. That is a massive ensemble you're working with, and somehow it magically always sounds wonderful!

[@DarikusWhalen]

Very informative material. I became hooked to EW only last year after a decade of using Logic Pro alone. Combined, they’re a brute force to be reckoned with. I recommend EW to any digital music composer out there.

[@erikjohnson2976]

Fantastic tutorial, Ryan! Thanks so much for continuing this series. Easily the best composing instruction on KZbin.

[@TA_Solberg]

Congrats on the NAMM TEC award! 🥳 Well deserved!

[@EWQLTutorials]

Thank you so much 😀

[@simonfortune4049]

Thankyou Ryan for these offerings

[@PMaxTheKing]

Another one of your Very Good video on Music generally using EW in particular, Each time you show to us a lot about how to use the EW instruments . Very good Job!

[@khalidalkhamiri7510]

I love the series from you 👏… Love eastwest …

[@D76-z2h]

These tutorials are fabulous Ryan. Please keep them coming as am picking up so much from them. Fantasy series on my purchase list later this year as see they now have a crossgrade offer from for the owners of OPUS. Great!!😊

[@solidgouveia]

My God, these instruments sound so amazing!... East West is the way, I need it hehe, great video!

[@DopaLink]

Really fantastic series, glad I've spent the time watching through it. One thing I would love to see is how this is mixed. I understand, that for a video series focusing on EW products, walking through a list of what 3rd party plug-ins have been used in the mixing process might seem counter intuitive, but since it's such a huge contributor to the overall sound, I think people would in general appreciate seeing how well the library gives in to mixing and how much processing it demands. Saw a few instances of VMR and Ozone and just got curious about the chain, and the dry/wet comparison.

[@SebastianAmmerlynd]

Wonderful stuff, Ryan! I look forward to many more of these and others! (a slightly overwhelmed but very happy Composer Cloud subscriber)

[@EWQLTutorials]

More to come!

[@scarletvoid2977]

Love this series. Great work.

[@Zoomfilm1]

Thanks a lot for these nice examples they are very usefull and inspirational - You have so many Skills!!!!

[@wesleygt.amorim]

Thank you always!

[@alexandrakingzett2606]

Is there an EW template to download or copy and paste into Studio One Pro? Thanks for the inspiring videos

[@DL-1]

This is awesome. But as a beginner learning how to make beats again this is way out of my league. This man is obviously a professional. Listen to how beautiful this composition is. I am not good enough to make stuff like this yet. This sounds like a fantasy movie scene. It's very impressive. I wish that i could make stuff this good too. Just being honest. Shout out to you guys. The sounds seem amazing.

[@EWQLTutorials]

Don't be intimidated! Start out by using presets from Hollywood Fantasy Orchestrator and you'll already be getting an advanced "fantasy movie" sound in seconds. Then you can alter the presets in any way you see fit or create your own. You can also go back to Episode 1 of the EastWest Academy series and start learning step-by-step. There's multiple ways to take your music to the next level - just keep at it!

[@DL-1]

@@EWQLTutorials ok. Thank you.

[@D20Music]

We all start somewhere. Luckily the orchestrator gives you some awesome starting points and EastWest has some amazing sounds.

[@federicoleggeri3302]

Thanks as always Ryan, since I have a complete EastWest Template it would be interesting to see a general "pre-mix" work for each instrument group; (low-end removal, where to boost, ect .. ) thanks a lot!

[@ZoolsEpicMusic]

me too :)

[@dutonic]

This comment kind of misses the point of what mixing is meant to do. A “pre-mix” for a template only works if you use the exact same instruments for the exact same purposes in your orchestration every time. Your mix is going to look very different if you have a brass lead vs a violins lead. And how you approach the mix will change based on how your music is laid out. The good news is that for a medium sized orchestral score, the base opus patches are more or less already mixed. They come pre-panned, and the timbres and ranges of the instruments already fit together very well. Unless you’re putting a bunch of instruments in the same octave playing the same things (EQ is very nice for doubling) you basically already have instruments that are pre-mixed right out of the box. Which makes sense when you think about it. There’s no mixing engineer when you go to the symphony irl. It just sounds good because the orchestra is a sonically cohesive ensemble. Same deal here

[@gilbo9576]

Thanks a lot ! Great advices !

[@kbryarly]

Hi Ryan - love your videos! I am wondering what is your computer setup? I can never get everything to play without having to render tracks. You must have a 'beastly' system!

[@dafingaz]

Incredible!

[@mshuggabug2]

Thank you so much.

[@SuperMarioThre3]

Amazing!!! I just got Composer Cloud. How do you actually write what's going on. Like when to put what where?

[@debragraceperi]

Do you use a scoring or notation application like Dorico to compose or are you doing everything in your DAW?

[@BenMartinBox]

Thanks for sharing.

[@aramexmusic1592]

Nice 👍

[@svendkorsgaard9599]

Can you guys make some premade Articulation sets/ Expression Maps for the patches in HOOPUS and HFO for Cubase and logic? ¨

[@EWQLTutorials]

For Logic, It used to be that we would install default articulation sets but they only had the 'default' keyswitch settings when you first load up an instrument (not everything available in them and you'd have to go in and manually edit them to match any changes you made to your keyswitch instrument) . That has been upgraded and now Opus is able to export your KS into a new Articulation Set. Steps: 1. Load Opus on a track in Logic 2. Load up a KS Instrument 3. Switch over to the Play > Articulations Panel and make any edits you want to which keyswitches are loaded/what notes they are loaded on 4. Click the 3 dots in the upper right corner of that 'Articulations' page and choose "Export Logic Pro Articulation Map" Then look in the 'Track Inspector' for the articulation sets - if you click there you will have the KS for that particular loaded instrument that you can load up. Once that's engaged, it will also show up in the piano roll. If you want to go in and make further edits to how those are organized, you absolutely can do so just using the finder - if you open a finder window and hit Shift+Command+G to bring up the 'go to the folder' menu and copy in: ~/Music/Audio Music Apps/Articulation Settings/ and hit enter - then from in that menu you can make new folders /arrange those articulation sets as you see fit. For Cubase, provided you're using the VST3 version of Opus, you can just import the keyswitch you've made into the expression map.

[@twwify]

Have you made/programmed those articulation sets tho? Or does logic recognise the patches with different articulations now?

[@EWQLTutorials]

It used to be that we would install default articulation sets but they only had the 'default' keyswitch settings when you first load up an instrument (not everything available in them and you'd have to go in and manually edit them to match any changes you made to your keyswitch instrument) . That has been upgraded and now Opus is able to export your KS into a new Articulation Set. Steps: 1. Load Opus on a track in Logic 2. Load up a KS Instrument 3. Switch over to the Play > Articulations Panel and make any edits you want to which keyswitches are loaded/what notes they are loaded on 4. Click the 3 dots in the upper right corner of that 'Articulations' page and choose "Export Logic Pro Articulation Map" Then look in the 'Track Inspector' for the articulation sets - if you click there you will have the KS for that particular loaded instrument that you can load up. Once that's engaged, it will also show up in the piano roll. If you want to go in and make further edits to how those are organized, you absolutely can do so just using the finder - if you open a finder window and hit Shift+Command+G to bring up the 'go to the folder' menu and copy in: ~/Music/Audio Music Apps/Articulation Settings/ and hit enter - then from in that menu you can make new folders /arrange those articulation sets as you see fit.

[@twwify]

@@EWQLTutorials thank u for the reply. Awesome info. Really helpful thanks !

[@ufo-st2mi]

Id like to hear you do an original 'kung-fu' style movie piece using some of the ethnic instruments...I done a piece entitled Satanic voodoo puppets V the monks...its ok/ish but id love to hear you do something similar ...Your music is brilliant.

[@josea.gonzaleztruque3089]

👏🏻

[@handznet]

First meaningful comment. I really like these videos - very helpful and informative.

[@DUSKOsound]

First 🔊

[@chihabshbab4463]

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