HEDWIG'S THEME Cubase Mockup (by Thomas Kobialka)

[@PeterLewysPreston]

Orchestral Tools better give you ambassador status!

[@mnbvcx6421]

I love how quiet and pizzicato the bell and flute part sounds right after 3:09. I like it even better! Sometimes you can't capture the original balance in quick mockups, but other parts sound even more interesting.

[@thomasdonnelly3263]

Damn, I need to buy these sample libraries. It sounds almost indistinguishable from a live orchestra except for a few bits here and there. But it's ridiculous how human sounding some mockups are today!

[@ananthd4797]

This is perfect. Awesome! I want to play this on the piano, wish me luck lol

[@c-m-laurin-lenschow]

Fantastic work! I am working on a large Harry Potter Suite myself and I know how much time this takes.

[@liamnoronhamusic]

How do you write all the scaly/run passages? Like do you follow a score or do you have a technique when transcribing the runs?

[@c-m-laurin-lenschow]

@@liamnoronhamusic For some parts I use the scores on the channel bradfrey and for some parts I look at videos like this to transcribe them. I have not developed a speciel technique, so it is quite a lot of work.

[@tomekkobialka]

Can you spot(hear) the "Easter egg"?

[@filmmusicfan558]

You're a wizard, Harry! ...?

[@nicolofiorinelli9287]

4:10-4:12 ?

[@tomekkobialka]

@@nicolofiorinelli9287 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪

[@PianoMusicSheets]

4:11 the running scales in the coda of the Imperial March

[@filmmusicfan558]

@@tomekkobialka that's what i meant :) is it the line "you're a wizard, Harry"? It's really strange, every time i repeat these two seconds i'm sure it is but at the same time i get less confident about it 😅

[@TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway]

DAMN IT IS SO GOOD

[@Graeme_Culpepper]

Toward the end of the piece, in the original score the strings do an ad lib harmonic gliss. How did you go about programming that, or does the Berlin series have that sort of thing?

[@tomekkobialka]

I literally just "rolled" my right hand up and down the upper keyboard (hence the barrage of notes) with the sus acc 1st violins patch. Works well within an orchestral tutti!

[@ethan_livingstone_music]

What sound libs did you use?

[@siavashsafari3795]

PERFECT TRY

[@Andrew05689]

Sounds great! Do you record the individual parts live? Or program it?

[@tomekkobialka]

Hi Andrew, everything is played in live, then tweaked later if necessary.

[@kwabzycomposer]

@@tomekkobialka Could I have the name of the program you used to make this?

[@kylewaselewski]

@@kwabzycomposer Cubase

[@PeterRosaDK]

@@tomekkobialka Do you use a negative track delay or do you try to compensate for the delay on the go (thus making quantizing impossible)?

[@tomekkobialka]

@@PeterRosaDK The latter. But I always end up doing plenty of positional adjustments after I've played everything in.

[@tomwheeler1082]

Could you give the midi files?? That would be so great!

[@Richard_Nickerson]

Do you always ask for free stuff, or just music?

[@tomwheeler1082]

@@Richard_Nickerson I mean, I'm ready to pay if he wants to.

[@Richard_Nickerson]

@@tomwheeler1082 Cool. As a musician, I just don't like seeing that

[@tomekkobialka]

$1 per note? But on a serious note, I won't be releasing the MIDI for this.

[@Richard_Nickerson]

@Gustav Mahler Don't see how I'm being an ass. It doesn't annoy you that tons of people expect you to work for free?

[@xxxmatt08]

Beautiful film.