More Tips for Better Mockups

[@constantin_singer]

This video is pure gold!! 🤩 the different legato speeds in CSS are such a scaring thing for beginners like myself who just got the VST, and seeing your workflow and the way you just nudge the notes to a fixed time value according to the legato speed is sooo helpful and makes me so much more confident to approach them knowing what I’m doing rather than just guessing by ear every time!! A million thanks for this gold tip!

[@rkstudios1582]

Yes! This is all excellent information. Thank you for making these - I've already started to see progress in my mockups from your videos.

[@MattiaChiappa]

Glad it’s helpful!

[@mikebbuk]

Thanks Mattia. Yes, useful as ever. Please keep making these. I learn every time I watch your videos.

[@MattiaChiappa]

Glad to hear it!

[@franky7103]

Thank you for the legato tips! I've always struggled to use is correctly, now it's much clearer! :)

[@indiefilmandmusic]

Yes, please keep making these. Thank you!

[@elchabonification]

Man a want a series of this!!

[@grobinson9352]

Great information. Thank you for this.

[@bonuebonue]

Grazie Mattia, utilissimi consigli e tecniche!! Great!! Thank you!

[@5ammy13]

Great tips again Mattia. Can't thank you enough for doing this. You're one of my favourite KZbin composers to watch and learn from. Keep up the amazing work ❤️

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks!

[@gof36]

Great video! I hope you could talk deeper about how do you use the EQ in the future! Maybe in this "artistic way" that you just showed here with the b.cl. That one was great!!

[@hittjett]

This was fantastic!

[@JanWilkeComposer]

Great tips! There is a script for CSS which automatically nudges the notes by the correct amount depending on the legato speed - it really speeds up my workflow!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Yeah I tried it but doesn’t always work and somehow makes the hanging notes problem much worse. I prefer to do things manually

[@muddycube-theboringytchann9036]

Great video, thanks for sharing!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks!

[@tonyswatchchannel755]

Very nice!

[@santir5091]

Great video!! Thank you very much!! more on how to deal with the issue of negative delay would be perfect. it's a complicated subject ...

[@huguesduchesne7057]

Thank you very much, Mattia, this is very helpfull and it sounds so good :)

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks!

[@billpeet1976]

Excellent tips, thank you! Can I ask where the pre-recorded measured trills are from?

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks! It’s not a commercial library it’s a prototype I’ve put together myself from my latest recording session. I believe orchestral tools has similar stuff in their Berlin range

[@billpeet1976]

@@MattiaChiappa Oh wow! I hope you're considering offering it for sale at some point, I'm sure there's a lot of people who would be interested!

[@MattiaChiappa]

@@billpeet1976 Sure! At the moment it’s literally just 3 patches and no GUI. My plan was to eventually make my own library of phrases and orchestrations I use often. The problem is that this stuff is so so expensive and a bit of a gamble as well because know very little about the process and still learning kontakt. I’m happy you liked it though and I will consider it in the future I if I can get it up to professional standards 😅

[@rubenmolino1480]

EXCELENT !!!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks!

[@orz887]

thx for tips.

[@MattiaChiappa]

You’re welcome!

[@PhilipValdesMusic]

Is there any reason you nudge the midi back rather than use negative track delay? Seems like it would be easier and keep your session more organized

[@MattiaChiappa]

Yeah, because you have to add different values depending on the articulations

[@tb6265]

great video again Mattia, what Library did u use for de Arpeggio? You named it GB ARP in your Template. cheers

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks! It’s not a commercial library it’s a prototype I’ve put together myself from my latest recording session. I believe orchestral tools has similar stuff in their Berlin range

[@DrGameTazo]

A some question for css, does non legato mode(chord pad ) have latency as well and need to compensate ???

[@acma-prod]

Your videos are always useful ! You use CSS with legato speed, is BBCSO approximately the same ?🤔Thanks for using your time to teach us something...🤗

[@MattiaChiappa]

I’m sure BBC has only one speed plus portamento on low velocity like CSS. It should be fast, around 100ms but I could be wrong. Haven’t checked the manual in a while.

[@peterm13]

whats your opinion on keeping set tempo following click?

[@MattiaChiappa]

I don’t really make music free of tempo if that’s what you mean. I always record to click

[@peterm13]

@@MattiaChiappa thanks for reply. do you keep set tempo, or adjust a lot?

[@MattiaChiappa]

I do some ralls and slight adjustments but otherwise is quite steady

[@peterm13]

@@MattiaChiappa thanks

[@liambrownpianoproductions3445]

With all the respect I don't understand why composers do quantizing, you just played it in why make it perfect no human is like that. I know people say then use 50 or less but even looking at the midi it looks the same every note is the same length apart and every note is the exact same length. Do you gain anything by playing it in yourself and leaving it or is it really just better to quantize it? I'm genuinely curious of people's thoughts

[@MattiaChiappa]

Samples like ccs or Spitfire are not cut precisely and even when you quantize them they still have quite a sloppy timing. Any good player has better timing the these samples quantized to the grid because these sample are cut leaving spaces at the beginning that are inconsistent precisely to preserve the human performance. That said I normally do it manually and to taste for legatos and you might have have noticed I didn’t quantize the French horn at all. I’m a strong believer that performance libraries like sample modeling and such should never be quantized and always played in. I was just like you a few years ago 😁 It’s a little more complicated than it seems though and not something I can easily answer in a few lines, if you’re interested in the topic though I made a video a while ago where I go in depth into topic and come up with some interesting conclusions.

[@dfizzbom]

Great content- thank you! Strings are not easy, I find. They all sound pretty darn good but they somehow fall short without layering- at least to me. I'm probably just not that good at massaging only one library to sound its best. I did a little mockup a few weeks ago, layering the string libraries I currently have. I was surprised to hear I get good mileage out of them. But I'm all over the map when I write, lol. I just keep pressing on. Your videos are so enlightening- thank you. Here's that mockup if you're interested. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKm7poWYeduta6c

[@brents7928]

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