I was just about to release my new album as “Music Inspired By The Prestige”. As you probably know, my other rescore projects have titles different from the original titles of the movie they are[…]
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DAW-casting
A lot of composers publish Youtube videos in which they share their composing and mixing advice in a less boring manner than I do here on my old-fashioned blog page. I still prefer to read[…]
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Half-year wrap-up
For me the Covid situation shook up 2020’s first half in different ways. First I had fallen sick for almost two months and lost 1/7 of my weight during that short period of time. Then[…]
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Conan “light”
As part of my personal “throwback series” of re-composing/re-arranging compositions that I did in my early years, I’ve recently finished working on “The Temple of the Spidergod”. Why even bother about something I did 20[…]
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Bye bye Cubase…
As are probably many of you, I’m constantly improving my workflows and adjusting my templates. So far this has been a burdensome process, particularly in Cubase which offers practically nothing to manage templates, not even[…]
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Speeder Bike Composing Challenge
I don’t know how you spend your days, but for me this lockdown is not exactly a source of inspiration, so I asked on Twitter for suggestions what music to compose to lift my spirits.[…]
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Alternate Scores on Youtube
In 2019 YT has changed a lot about its policies. They are now much more strict and likely to ban videos if they seem to conflict with copyrights. That’s a problem when it comes to[…]
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The Holy Grail of Reverbs
For musicians the search for the perfect reverb plug-in is like the quest for the holy grail. As I started out composing with samples I first used algorithmic reverb, then was the arrival of convolution[…]
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Virtual Instruments Upgrade in sight
It’s time for a tech update in context with a rehash of my “customer journey” through the world of sample libraries: I started out with samples in 2001 with Vienna Symphonic Library (then called “Opus[…]
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