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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Author: Alexander S.
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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Aladdin Score and Music Analysis
This is my personal observations of music and score of 2019’s Aladdin in comparison with the 1993 version. I’ll tell you why I think – despite being an absolute fan of the original – that[…]
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Track by Track: Day of the Falcon – Main Titles
My 2019 released album Day of the Falcon is the result of another rescoring project, its object of course being the 1985 fantasy film Ladyhawke starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Rutger Hauer and Matthew Broderick. This project[…]
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Your Name, My Name, Our Name… naming matters!!
Recently I released my latest composition Don’t Forget My Name on streaming services worldwide. You probably think that the album title doesn’t matter too much. Well, that’s what I thought too. Let me tell you[…]
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