Originals: All You Need To Create Cinematic Music?

[@marcobahon]

I love to see how Homay develops the arrangments is a total inspiration.

[@philipcarroll7151]

A masterclass on subtle crafting of a score. Intimate strings is fantastic software. Homay is very talented...the melodic changes are gorgeous. This is a great example of choosing just a handful of instrument articulations too. You definitely do not need much to create something like this. The instruments are Spitfires's part, Homay show you where your talent can take you. A wonderful little piece of music.

[@ChristophRauch]

Bought it and must say, playing an old sad melody i composed a couple of years ago and now using those flautandos, can almost make me cry. Good job on how emotional this sounds.

[@jaythansparksmusic]

Homay is simply AMAZING (In My Opinion). Thank you Spitfire Audio for sharing her talents...

[@duncanthompson957]

That's brilliant! Beautifully imagined composing. Really lovely, bold and delicate.

[@thailandemonamour6910]

Wonderful ! I love it ! That's what I was dreaming to do when I was 15 years old ... But it doesn't comme truth. I'm 66, it's never too late. Thank you so much. 🤩

[@MatthewHyatt]

Everything is right in the world for 23:58 minutes. Thank you, Homay.

[@ryukusu_luminarius]

That is a nice tutorial for creating an epic/orchestral music with only 2 libraries! At first I was only in Strings, but now I want that piano! Thank you for the review!

[@tporter23]

Homay, thank you for showing us what is possible with humble sample libraries. Your music is always amazing, proving that talent and hard work are the #1 contributors to the outcome, not the sample libraries we have in our kit. Thank you for continuing to inspire us!!!

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

Such a wonderful sense of harmony you have in all your pieces! Such subtle gradations of bitter sweet.

[@jimsanger]

Great job as ever by Homay. I love these small Originals libraries, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a choir version as Eric Whitacre's is a bit beyond my price range

[@Lethoscorpia]

Yes that would be awesome !!!

[@dafingaz]

That would be great; a small subset or Eric Whitacre (or even some other choir) for an Originals series would be incredible!

[@daleturner]

There is the LABS choir, which is (I think) related to the Eric Whitacre choir.

[@Lethoscorpia]

@@daleturner Thanks, got that already. It's really good.

[@dafingaz]

@@daleturner Yeah, I use that one often. LOL. So dope...and FREE!!!!

[@shawmedia229]

Brilliant, Homay! Thank you so much for sharing your thought process - it's so helpful. And I think this is my favorite of all your demos :)

[@Limbiclesion]

This really is a wonderful expression of what is capable of being created musically with the originals series .....its a ground breaking, accessible capability..... I’d say a historic achievement ...at least in my world. I’m a lucky man therefore as I already had acquired a huge and competent sonic pallet but week by week I find myself exploring musical adventures using originals and the lab series....for me this instrument collection has a wow factor, cohesion and solid sonic performance characteristics that seamlessly blend into creations in a way that’s so pleasing..at least to my ears. I call this effect the Spitfire factor. So I will send a simple thanks and my continued anticipation and support....and all for the occasional price of couple of a decent take away s and a semi decent bottle of wine 🙏🦄🎩🎹

[@StephenAndrichuk]

Great! Homay's style is my favourite from your whole team.

[@MaximilianMKGill]

I Steel Waiting For an Originals CHOIR.

[@paopis]

I would buy that in a heartbeat! There was a discount on the Eric Whitacre choir during the black "weekend", but considering how much I plan to use a choir in my music even half its original price is tremendously much. But a stripped-down version with only a few articulations for 29€ would be magnificent!

[@PaulMacovei12]

@Paolo Pisciella EWC is a heavyweight library. The main advantage of the originals series is that you can compose even on a crappy laptop, but with wonderful and quality sounds.

[@terrybarnes5343]

Another awesome video Homay as always, so much creativity and imagination, all that by just using 2 of the originals libraries, just goes to show what can be done with these libraries. You're such an inspiration Homay, and so talented. Thank you so much, take care stay safe and healthy,, look forward so much to your next video

[@nikhilnarahari8424]

Brilliant composition! Thank you for sharing your talent and insight

[@786itube]

Excellent. Homay is very talented and inspirational with a warm engaging presentational style

[@ahoughton]

Really lovely Homay. Such a gentle, sensitive piece. Beautifully demonstrates those two Libraries. Might think about getting ghe Soft Piano now..., Only just got intimate strings tonight! Thanks!

[@GaboRossini]

Nice as always, Homay and Spitfire! Thanks for your videos🎹🔥

[@bhaveshtochabbra6853]

She's my favorite

[@GaboRossini]

@@bhaveshtochabbra6853 sure, she's the best

[@theandroids]

These videos are actually relaxing.

[@DavidKeenum]

I would love to see more of these videos. Very informative and inspiring!

[@LernGuru]

Echt genial, Homay. Macht einfach immer wieder Freude, Dir und Deinen Stücken zu lauschen und Deinen kreativen Ideen folgen zu können. Weiter so! Du bist eine riesige Inspiration. Danke.

[@mimmkey]

That is effortlessly heart wrenching. Well done to the whole lot of ya.

[@Singerville]

Sold me on the intimate strings! Wow! Thanks for the great vid!

[@alexanderhobson5585]

incredible work crafted with experience! Thank you!

[@SF-qg3vq]

Very inspired as always ! Thanks for this quiet and peacefull moment Homay !

[@vladimircerovic]

Can you please share those piano notes at 25 meaure at 17:20? This is amazing knowledge. Thanks for the video, originals and labs and all products.

[@dustintheblacklight]

When I want to hear lovely and inspiring song I go here.

[@Guitarjammers01]

Amazing demo. Great music !

[@deetrout7623]

I can’t wait to get these when I need them.

[@gonzales2174]

How to use harmonics is wonderful ❣️ Great Job !!

[@HousePlant_Ambient]

I already Nils Frahm Noire/Cinematic Piano/Chamber Evolution. I know, I know I don’t need anything else, but damn it lol. This sounds so good. Crazy, so affordable.

[@Drakensson]

Frugality is a virtue

[@Aleo458]

Its one of the best product of spitfire ever. and music composing this girl is sound really good, thank you!

[@da5idnz]

Thanks Homay. Great stuff as always.

[@WinItReigns]

When will that Homay Library be up for Sale? We have been patiently awaiting what us sure to be Spitfire Audio best Library 😊

[@dustintheblacklight]

I think Homay no longer works at Spitfire..

[@Serenitees]

Sublime...just beautiful. Simplicity is wonderful but so hard to accomplish. Do you think each of the string tracks were individual instances of the plugin or was each track routed to a different output on one instance of the plugin? Have never used these instruments so not sure if they are multi out like Kontakt.

[@wallceball1770]

Always get some great ideas from your work. Appreciate the advance arrangements, riffs and undercurrents. Would like to see you work with Discover.

[@joecantdance494]

Really nice track Homay. I'm sold anyway

[@MatCampbellMusic]

I am so excited to use the Intimate Strings! I look forward to creating with it. Cheers, everyone!

[@bhaveshtochabbra6853]

Cheers!😄

[@RickySwan]

Homay is such a talented composer. Does anyone know if she has put out any releases of her own?

[@andyhep]

Love this piece!

[@jingleskhanaudioproductions]

Homay amazes me again!

[@NadavMerom]

I recently purchased the Felt Piano! I think I'm missing something... how can I play this instrument stand-alone? (and NOT from within my Cubase, for example)

[@christianschneiderphoto]

What are those channels separating the channels? Are they NO OUTPUT channels? But how do you center the text in them?

[@bhavearth]

have you figure it out ?

[@victornoagbodji]

🙏 🙏 😊 thanks for this walkthrough. excellent piece!!

[@shreepadgandhi6739]

Superb !!! I can't create something like this...But I loved this very much...Amazing...Hats off...I have tried few sounds of Spitfire Labs...Their Dulcimer, Mandolin, Charango are outstanding...Thanks from my heart...

[@hardtrackmusic765]

Love your work really inspiring

[@raiden2747]

White mic you are using in this video. Please tell me it will help me a lot

[@thevoidanswerswithjazz2215]

3:13 *Thomas Newman Cough Weeze* Great video, beutiful music!

[@ricobonimusic]

Lovely

[@Hyper5nic]

Enjoyed this video very much! I do wonder what the modulation is you show from 8:32 to 8:48 - is this the volume or vibrato or something else?

[@matthijshebly]

Gorgeous goosebump-inducing music

[@rob9213]

Nice composition !!!

[@ryancarrico813]

Are you really good at coming up with all this stuff on the fly? Or do you take a day or two to come up with this and then make a video. It would take me two weeks at least to make something this nice and it would sound terrible. Is it experience or talent I guess is what I'm asking. Homay seems to have loads of both where I seem to have neither or at least not yet ( if it is experience, if it's talent, I'm screwed).

[@JaxLynnstarAnimate]

Now that I have a better idea of what the Intimate Strings are capable of (in comparison with Epic Strings), its on my to buy list! Hehe!

[@peanutbutter1998]

Is this better than the BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover? If then I'm gonna get this since I don't have the money for Albion One or BBC Core.

[@peanutbutter1998]

Jonteh Hel Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I mean it’s $29. The quality won’t be gorgeous but for $29 it stands to a good point.

[@3D63music]

@Jonteh Hel I Like the BBC Discovery for their Woodwinds and Brass sections. But yeah, when it comes to Strings, I found out to prefer their other specialized plugins better.

[@dafingaz]

Incredible!

[@antkn33]

I don’t like all the noise behind the piano sounds. Can that be turned off?

[@jeffbird5082]

Yes

[@rajexecutivemoreedthaniasi6971]

Excellent Homay , We are from Hyderabad South India

[@CedricFangeat]

Brilliant! I do have a question though: I recently bought BBC SO Core edition - but I am now looking for a string ensemble patch to help throw some ideas down quickly - Would the strings patch (Epic or intimate) fit the purpose?

[@waynerowley]

The piece sounds lovely, and the sound of the library is great too. The shorts and longs have a great sound to them... But why did you remove the legato patches and transitions? Without these it is a struggle to write true melodic phrases and have them sounds realistic. Most of the string tracks are either shorts - which are fine, or long sustained notes. Where you have some melody in the strings (track 11) I hear the volume ‘ducking’ between the notes which is typical of long/non legatos string patches where you get the volume swell as part of the attack. It’s a shame as it really impedes the usefulness of the library (in my opinion anyway).

[@TheCrowHillCo]

We removed them to make the library affordable and ultimately easy to use. We hope that libraries like these are the first stepping stone before venturing into Albion NEO or Chamber Strings.

[@waynerowley]

Christian Henson Music Thanks for the reply Christian. I certainly understand the business/commercial angle. The only downside, particularly for the strings, brass & wind Originals libraries is that once you have Albion, ONE, NEO or another strings library, there’s little incentive to reach for them, which is not the case with the two piano Originals.

[@wolfblaide]

@@waynerowley I'd argue these strings can't be replaced by other libraries. There's nothing quite like the original Albion Loegria in tone. As much as Spitfire want people to think Neo is the replacement, it's not -- it's good in places, but not the same. Good luck replicating Loegria's tone and ease of use on tracks similar to this with other string libs, that would be difficult. It is unfortunate about the legatos, yes, especially the 1/2 section legatos.

[@waynerowley]

wolfblaide Thanks, that’s a helpful insight. I often considered buying Loegria when it was around. The string sound was great, but I found the brass and winds to be not what I wanted. When NEO replaced it, that hit the nail on the head for me - but the strings are certainly different to Loegria. Ho hum. I can see myself buying Chamber Strings at some point.

[@mitchkrebs]

Anyone know how she makes those blank Header tracks? Thanks ✌🏻

[@DaveWelschBassist]

They appear to be standard folders, not summing folders.

[@bhavearth]

have you figured it out how to make the blank header ?

[@mitchkrebs]

They’re folders most likely.

[@bhavearth]

@@mitchkrebs unfortunately it didn't work but it doesn't matter much as I just wanted to know for aesthetic/organisation flow on my template.

[@Juan_Corvo]

Love you guys, the real MVPs

[@karants]

I feel like a small kid in a candy shop, thank you!

[@rocko9451]

A very nice combo.

[@masirman2325]

Jelita Media Wantia

[@stefvb2032]

Oooh my Goooooooood ! Soooooo BIG WOWZ !!!

[@mikec2660]

very INSPIRING !

[@jsyong792]

Hi everyone, is there any chances or where to get the KENTON FREAK EDITIONS MIDI controller as in the video?

[@pjdahmen]

great tutorial

[@everratic]

What is the best piano alternative from Komplete?

[@Markrspooner]

I would think Noire was that has felt piano option

[@MyronDavismd]

Wonderful! Is there a full (larger) Spitfire string library based of the same sounds?

[@dreddiknight]

They were taken from a library called Albion Loegria which was discontinued earlier this year or last year

[@MOMO-zg8ll]

What is the piano called ?

[@dustintheblacklight]

Cinematic Soft Piano

[@oakmystmusicproduction]

Great video !! Thank you !!

[@Joec9t]

Fantastic

[@defman70]

What midi controller are you using please?

[@Pashsport]

Homay ❤️❤️❤️

[@Wvk5zc]

21:47

[@MatthewHyatt]

Can I please color correct and grade your videos? That camera B/C (left shoulder) shot needs a different curve to match A.

[@ogurstudios123]

Sounds similar to Jeremy Soule'e music from Morrowind. Magnificent strings.

[@felixsmittick9128]

Thank you

[@Musictron]

NICE!

[@deetrout7623]

Sick 🔥

[@justacurioussiamese8193]

This sounds like a kingdom hearts opening theme

[@judsondru8920]

🖤🖤

[@matiashermosillamusico]

bellisimo !!!

[@masirman2325]

Intrend

[@slayemgaming]

I want to follow her on Instagram 😭

[@nathanielwise508]

nothing is stopping you! :)

[@anatomicallymodernhuman5175]

Hats off, gentlemen.

[@MiloMcCarthyMusic]

Sounds very “Spitfire”

[@HardcoreMotors]

Are you german?

[@liborsionko]

It strikes me that if cinematic music is becoming this formulaic and defined, in terms of it being appropriate or agreeable, and too the sounds it's constructed from, then there is a risk of producing musical wallpaper... a bit like modern cinema in that respect.

[@Drakensson]

What are you trying to say? That it's sounding generic?

[@nathanielwise508]

ok boomer ;p

[@individualrecordingsvideo]

This video is missing a cactus....

[@jonathanbougie-lauzon4583]

Seem like Christian again wanted to let his signature nail click so he can hear when the library is used in films excatly like with LABS Soft piano. I am personnaly very disapointed about this and cannot use this library much since C3 (if I am correct, plus some other round robins from near notes) is clicking each time I use it. Not up to the quality I excpect from Spitfire. The sound is amazing but this is really getting on my nerves. If I knew I would have bought Felt Piano. Or even better yet, Olafur Arnalds's one.

[@user-op2ik9dh3j]

it seems to me that the concept of ready-made articulations, strokes, etc. detrimental effect on music. I just use groups of instruments without articulations and strokes, I create everything myself, with my own hands.

[@nathanielwise508]

you are absolutely right that real instruments will always have something about them that sets them apart. Yet, the vast majority of people are not as privileged as you are to be able to do so.