4 Techniques for Creating Realistic Orchestral Strings
With great plugins and sample packs, creating lush orchestral textures digitally is easier than ever, but making it sound real remains a challenge.
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How Jonny Greenwood Uses Materiality, Clusters, and Aleatoricism in His Film Music
We break down a handful of composer Jonny Greenwood’s go-to techniques in examples from his scores to Phantom Thread and There Will Be Blood.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Morton Feldman — an Intimate Encounter with Sound
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. By Soundfly Mentor Tim Maryon A student of mine recently said that they’d never been given the chance to “get into” famed American composer Morton…
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Essential Tips for Orchestral Positioning and Mix Panning
Orchestral music doesn’t necessarily require EQ and compression to sculpt the sound you want.
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The String Section – A Brief Context
In this quirky video, courtesy of our popular Mainstage course, Orchestration for Strings, composer and arranger Ian Davis demystifies some of the historical context behind the modern day orchestra’s bowed string section, as well as its attributes and compositional strengths. Davis composed all of the compelling score music to this course himself, and you’ll hear and…
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Mixing and Processing a Virtual Orchestra
Orchestral music doesn’t necessarily require EQ and compression to sculpt the sound you want.
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How to Orchestrate an Endless Rising Tone Effect
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. The “Shepard Tone,” also known as the “Shepard Scale” or “Shepard Illusion,” is an auditory illusion discovered by American cognitive scientist Roger Shepard in 1964. Shepard presented…
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Student Spotlight, Volume 5: Listen to New Works by Student Artists
Each and every month, we start a new Mainstage session, welcoming in a fresh batch of uniquely talented student-artists ready to step up their game and take their music further than ever before. Our team of Soundfly Mentors works with these creative artists, striving to help them reach their learning goals and build confidence in…
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Orchestral Works for Children’s Education: Britten, Prokofiev, and Saint-Saëns
+ Pursue your dreams faster with a Soundfly Mentor! Share your musical goals with us and we’ll pair you up with a professional musician, engineer, educator, or music industry veteran who will help you achieve them in a customized four-week session. Inventive, exciting music plus an educational angle? Now that’s a Soundfly super combo! Here’s a topic we’ve wanted to…
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Straight Outta Wakanda: How the “Black Panther” Score Fixed Marvel’s Music Problem
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. Spoiler alert! This article contains spoilers for the movie Black Panther. If you haven’t seen the movie, you may want to stop and bookmark this page to read the…
