How to Write an Epic Endgame Cue in Two Hours | Two Hour Cues | Heavyocity

[@LukeTruanMusic]

Neil! Thank you so much for doing the 2-hour cues! I am thoroughly enjoying the breakdown and seeing how the midi programming is done. It's very helpful to see how others do MIDI especially when it comes to orchestration. My music work are very cinematic in nature and I use something by heavyocity in every piece. You would hear that on my KZbin channel. LoL. I have many of the heavyocity instruments and absolutely love them! I do look forward to getting the full Novo string suite at some point. Also, thank you for showing in the video how the up and down bowing changes when playing the spitzacatto with the strings. How did you program in the double bowing on certain parts of the cello spitzacatto? That would be cool to see. In Pro Tools I have tried it using step input, but it usually doesn't sound very authentic and you don't get variation on the velocity unless you go in and edit it manually. Thanks again look forward to the next one!

[@aristotlekumpis7095]

I learned a lot here. Thank you. Writing something like this in 2 hours is pretty amazing. As a novice, I get writers block all the time. But seeing these kinds of videos really help me. I own a bunch of Heavyocity products and they have the best interface out there. I hope you guys create some kind of sampler library where users can import their own sounds and combine it with the Heavyocity engine.

[@Treefingersmusic]

When the tuba comes in 🤯! Love this video. Great work! And thanks for explaining what MW means 🤔☺️

[@freethinkers-inc.]

Really enjoying your videos. They are just perfect for learning. Thank you so much.

[@qtthagod]

beautiful. Im new to cinematic music. So far I have damage 2 and Symphonic destruction. Enjoying very much. Thinking of getting forzo next.

[@ianswart3037]

Absolutely love these tutorials!! 🤗 So much knowledge shared. Neil you are a great presenter and you keep everything light, to the point and funny. Keep 'em coming!

[@gbmuzic]

Great cue. I love the brass section. It sounds very regal and majestic. I can almost imagine a muscular super hero’s profile suddenly appearing in a movie scene.

[@ADuBToR]

who dislikes such amazing insight ? thats much more input as from a plain vst tutorial or such :O

[@tedaldifabrice2595]

I love the part at 13:51, the chord change is very nice :)

[@VHC90]

Perfect video! I recently bought Evolve, and even when it's not a really modern library already, it sounds still amazing. Looking forward Gravity hah. Really nice tutorial. So many details in just 35 mins and that's so much value. Thank you so much for the video tutorial

[@timpate7340]

Awesome cue, very helpful to watch

[@Heavyocitymedia]

Thanks!

[@EuphonicSoundz587]

Thanks a mill for the video ! Never regret anything from HeaVyoCiTy 👊🏾

[@davidsandberg6179]

I continue to very much enjoy this series. And it often makes me want to go back and look at my Heavyocity libraries for things I might have missed ... for example, I had no idea there was any gong somewhere in Evolve, let alone such an aggressive one, so now I have to go looking for that. :)

[@Levi_Leviathvn]

As always thanks again Neil for doing these. Nice shout out to the Tubas as a former Tuba player in my High School and College days. These videos continue to inspire and appreciate the great products you continue to put out.

[@Heavyocitymedia]

Thanks Levi, the Tuba rocks!

[@mirzaaljic]

Amazing stuff, I really like your presentation style and the fact that you go through each section in detail. Please keep them coming!

[@connorshort4847]

These are awesome! Other companies should take note, this is how you sell libraries.

[@mcdebugger]

Thank you very much! So much interesting and new information for me here!

[@michaeljones7197]

Learned a lot here. Much to think about.

[@pierrefustec320]

Thank you for this great job! Your video is perfect and very useful. Thank you also for your diction, which allows people whose mother tongue is not English to understand everything.

[@chrismassa5891]

lol waffle on Neil. It is super interesting to watch how you use your products. I have also used just one brand of libraries for projects as I think it forces you to dive a bit deeper into them to get the sounds you're looking to achieve.

[@MusicalWizardryMarcoIannello]

Great cue, Neil, it definitely gives that epic, superhero vibe , well done, looking forward to seeing more! I wanted to ask you a couple of things: what makes you prefer automating CC7, as opposed to CC11? And, since you mentioned realism, what was the reason of having violins, violas and celli playing a 3-part divisi, in the B section? That would normally result in a very quiet volume, which one would boost at the mixing stage, of course. Also, I was thinking that such a divisi is very, very uncommon. However, at the end of the day, if it sounds good, it is good!

[@Heavyocitymedia]

Hi Marco! First off thank you for the kind words. I automated both 11 and 7 I liked the sound of the mid articulations so I used small cc 11 automation then added cc7 (volume) to help it “speak” more expressively. Just my unconventional was of doing it 🤓.yes basically it sounded good to me so I just went with it, sometimes you just have to break the rules and if you are happy with the result then do it.👍🏼

[@MusicalWizardryMarcoIannello]

@@Heavyocitymedia thank you for your reply, Neil! I asked about CC11 because that CC lane does not appear in your MIDI editor, therefore I mistakenly assumed you were not using it, instead using CC7 in its place. Totally agree with breaking the rules, sir, I do that all the time (mostly because I have no idea what I am doing, you see)!

[@steventapia_motiondesigner]

Sounds so good Neil! So many layers, but they all make sense. Love These!

[@dafingaz]

Great!

[@movie_fan000]

Great work! Though it really reminds me of Halo as opposed to Endgame

[@askinner432]

Do you ever stream? Seeing how one of these comes together from scratch would be so very awesome! I can’t even imagine producing this much quality work in two days, far less, two hours. Absolutely amazing

[@Heavyocitymedia]

Hey there, thanks for writing in! Streaming is something that is on our radar. Although there's no immediate plans for it, we will certainly keep it in mind for future videos. Thanks again!

[@LukeTruanMusic]

That would be cool and very informational! 🤘🏼🎶🤘🏼

[@911truthfarmer]

Really liked that piece, and thank you so much for sharing your process and arrangement approach. Really helps. Love your products btw. Saving up to score Novo, but meanwhile...keep scoring!

[@cameron6031]

That sounds awesome!

[@ArturoAlbero]

Great video and great track. I'm surprised to see how much you use CC7. I almost never use it (not in the sculpting way you do). Also I see you have a rack ooutput for every section instead of every midi. I'll try it :)

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

consider that this is a more quick and simple approach. Not for long term

[@protoolsboy]

I love these videos. They help me learn to do epic cues. Im teaching myself epic production for film and television libriaries. Thank you.

[@chillwinston_]

skywalker ranch!

[@Kevin-ie7vi]

Neil Thanks !! Could I ask you about your Cubase settings/Machine Info. My 2018 Mac Mini 64GB 6 Core just seems underpowered. Idles at 50+ real time at 128 samples with very few VSL instances

[@Heavyocitymedia]

Sure! Here's a rundown of what I'm working with: we recently switched our main three mix rooms to 14 core i9 PC's with 64gb of ram all SSD drives. I prefer using VE Pro with Cubase 10. While I can run far more instances of Kontakt directly in Cubase than I could with my Mac, I find that I have a huge amount of processor headroom when using VEP. I'm leaning towards mostly UAD plug-ins now, as we have a number of PCI-e slots for the processor cards. That takes more load off the PC processors too. I usually run at 128 buffer while recording, and may switch to 256 when mixing, if needed. Thanks for checking out this latest ep of 2 Hour Cues! Best, Neil

[@Kevin-ie7vi]

@@Heavyocitymedia Neil, Thanks for that !! I found my issue was a high latency plugin in the Control Room Inserts that I had forgotten about. That won't happen again

[@RoseTintedMedia]

Really cool - what do you use for your sub hits, Neil?

[@Heavyocitymedia]

I used the GRAVITY sub hits menu. There are four menus and I pick & choose what feels right for the piece. Thanks for watching! -Neil

[@RoseTintedMedia]

Great - thanks for replying so quickly!

[@michaelpalombo470]

Great tutorial

[@peaceisnice]

Love these so much! BUT YOU HAVE TO STOP! I'm about to watch - and I know there's a 90% chance I'm gonna be spending more money on your products! ;-) ;-) ;-)

[@peaceisnice]

Yep! 3 mins in and Forzo in is my basket! How could you! :-D

[@interoctave]

Neil, what about the "two hours" part? Some of us can do a similar queue, but it might take 6 or 8 hours. What was the key to doing it rapidly?

[@Heavyocitymedia]

Hi Bob, thanks for the question! As I’ve mentioned at the start of a few of the shows, I spend about 2 hours (sometimes more) sketching out the idea, then I’ll spend more time “orchestrating” and filling in the parts. I am not a super hero, lol 🙂 The first episode of 2 Hour Cues was mostly sound design/ambient, which was done very quickly. As viewers started asking for more-orchestrated pieces, it started taking longer. Thanks for watching!

[@interoctave]

@@Heavyocitymedia Thanks for your reply. I guess I came in on the fifth episode. Great track!

[@antkn33]

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[@jaythansparksmusic]

...again, these are excellent tutorials however, if you could show the actual instrument being used when talking about it and playing the demonstration, it would be so helpful. Starting off, you showed and shared those instruments, but as the video progressed, I guess it was forgotten (smiles). Because as we purchase these libraries, there are so many sounds a d presents to use, we'll spend tons of time searching for the sound you're using, only when attempting to recreate a palette of your cue... Nonetheless, excellent video.

[@vidoemakenoke2424]

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