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0:02all right hello so I've been wanting to
0:05make this video for quite some time and
0:08I was thinking about how the best way to
0:09do this I just wanted to make a video to
0:11make it easier for everybody to make
0:13their music a little bit better or make
0:15it sound better within the actual
0:17program and a more realistic approach I
0:21would say so um forgive me I'm sick but
0:26I wanted to make this video and I
0:28thought let me make it on something that
0:30special to me I guess um I played this
0:33piece as an audition for college and it
0:37was actually accepted and had a full
0:39right scholarship for it so I thought
0:42might as well give it a
0:44shot so usually what happens here is uh
0:48when you get it from like M score.com
0:51the community website it's going to look
0:53something like this where it's going to
0:55say title things like that whatever um
0:58this may not be here this is the mixer
1:01but everything else is pretty much going
1:03to be the same so the first thing I
1:06usually do is um I'll go and I'll put it
1:09into a continuous horizontal
1:12view which you'll see is like it it's
1:16pretty zoomed in for me right now this
1:17is fine because I'm going to end up
1:19going around and messing with things
1:21messing with Dynamics to make it sound
1:23as good as I can Poss can um the person
1:27that originally like arranged this I
1:29guess they put a lot of dynamics that
1:31are hidden which is fine in terms of the
1:33mixer this is usually like my bread and
1:35butter kind of thing so uh in order to
1:39get it you have to go to view go down
1:41you hit mixer is
1:44F10 and uh it'll either pop up onto the
1:47right of your screen or it'll pop up on
1:49the bottom so for me I usually have it
1:52on my second Monitor and I mess it with
1:54it live while I'm messing with the music
1:57so I can understand how things are
1:58moving around
2:00um so for here I'll just pull it
2:05up
2:07so for the purpose of this video I'm not
2:10really going to mess with the Dynamics
2:11I'm just going to lower
2:13it lower the sizing this 25% you can see
2:17it on the top here and you can see the
2:19full
2:20mixer so generally what I I like to
2:23Showcase in this uh YouTube channel is
2:26the
2:28uh the samples of the miore program
2:31because I feel like they really outdid
2:33themselves and I would love to just
2:35showcase them as much as possible so
2:37hopefully more people get to see it more
2:39people that are working with it um you
2:43the more chance that other people come
2:44in to make the program
2:47better so usually I'll change all the
2:50sounds so that everything is in the Muse
2:52sounds programs everything already uh
2:56when it loads in it'll say on the bottom
2:58like around here uh loading audio
3:01symbols and that usually means that it's
3:04automatically picking up you know a
3:05flute one that means it's going to put
3:07the flute one uh Muse sounds stuff in
3:11and then from
3:12there uh I'll literally just go around
3:15and I I'll give like a test play to
3:18understand or engage where the piece is
3:21versus where I want it to be so I'll do
3:24that
3:28now
3:31[Music]
3:44[Music]
3:48that sounded really good but I feel like
3:51we could do
3:52better so what I'm going to start off
3:55with is um I'm going to kill all the
3:57Reverb on every single one of the the
3:59parts cu because I want to kind of
4:02blanket everything in the same Reverb
4:03and allow the instruments themselves
4:05symbols to adjust as they
4:10can so first thing I'll start off with
4:12is taking the Reverb off of everything
4:14and then I'll go to the master it'll go
4:16to Muse effects and then it hit
4:18Reverb and then you'll
4:20see oh you can't see it through the
4:22screen but uh the Muse score Reverb will
4:26pop out a little window and it'll stay
4:28it'll be like blue and it'll say Muse
4:30effects Reverb stuff like that and it'll
4:32come out as a staff pad or bright Hall
4:36dark hle all that stuff so I usually
4:38keep it in staff pad Hall just because
4:39it has the same kind of like echoey
4:43chamber that I want and I'd rather have
4:45it like that so I'll usually put the
4:47dial towards the
4:48middle and then I'll adjust it as I need
4:51it so right now the Dial's in the
4:54middle and then from there I'll do like
4:57one more small
4:58playback
5:02[Music]
5:17I thought that was pretty good but uh in
5:19case you didn't hear the difference or
5:21you didn't feel like it it was okay or
5:23you know you wanted more you could
5:25always go back to the bottom here and
5:27hit
5:27Reverb it'll open up the window in the
5:30middle or wherever you put it last and
5:32then you can up you can raise it or
5:34lower it as you want right now I'm
5:36keeping it straight in the in the middle
5:38still but if you want to hear it without
5:42you can just go over here to the side
5:43and it'll be a little power button you
5:45hit it turns it off you reverse it go
5:51[Music]
5:58back
6:00[Music]
6:07so I feel like it it's subtle enough
6:08right now that it's uh it's all right to
6:11pass so from there I'll generally go and
6:15uh I'll go into Muse effects and I'll do
6:17pro EQ which if you don't have these
6:20things you can get them all through the
6:22um the Muse Hub program when you
6:26download mcore 4 and everything's free
6:29it's all in the same
6:30program so just like uh the Reverb it's
6:34going to open a smaller window which I'm
6:36sorry you can't see it right now but
6:38it'll say Pro EQ and it'll say Muse
6:41Effects Pro EQ and then it usually
6:43starts out with pop vocals for some
6:44reason but I usually put it down to
6:47Strings which in the middle there will
6:49be a little thing that says pop vocals
6:53and you can actually click on it you
6:54don't have to do the uh the little
6:56arrows to the side and it'll go down and
6:59then it'll put a little drop down menu
7:01and you can choose which one you want so
7:02I usually keep it on strings and then
7:05I'll raise the low mids up to
7:07two uh positive two not negative two
7:10which it comes with and then from there
7:13I'll usually uh either replay it but I'm
7:15not going to do it right now usually at
7:17this point um I've gotten things down to
7:19science more or less so I'll start doing
7:22uh the panning for every single uh
7:25instrument so I generally like to keep
7:28the panning more into the European style
7:31of Orchestra
7:34so I'll put things kind of like a
7:36violent one on one side volume two on
7:38the other that's achiev by doing netive
7:4165 which will give you like almost a
7:44left pen but not a
7:47complete and then a positive 65 to pen
7:50to the right but not a complete
7:53pen so I'll generally put 45 for Vias
7:58and a 45 for for um the cellos that'll
8:02keep them towards the middle left and
8:04middle right and then I'll put the uh
8:08bases more or less behind the cellos
8:11just because that's usually where they
8:13sit but in this kind of format they're
8:16going to end up
8:17being more towards the
8:20middle so it'll help create a more round
8:23sound instead of putting them more onto
8:25one side and creating a lump sided
8:28sound the purpose of this is to kind of
8:31uh emulate what you're trying to listen
8:34to while you're in kind of like a big
8:37Hall you get me like my whole purpose is
8:40to
8:42create a kind of like soundscape area so
8:46when you listen to something it sounds
8:47like if you're listening in an actual
8:50Hall so from here I'll go in and I'll
8:55generally leave the harps or any kind of
8:57like pianos at a zero
8:59or any kind of like solo instrument so
9:02the violin is one has a
9:04solo in this piece the French horns and
9:09generally anything that's a wind
9:11instrument will be kept more to the left
9:13of the actual
9:16Orchestra so the French horns will
9:18probably put them around a
9:21wellish and then I'll move everything
9:24down so here I put kind of like a a step
9:28in between the horn and
9:30bassoon more just to like separate them
9:33so it's easier for people to discern and
9:36then I put a step in between all the
9:38woodwinds just to make sure that
9:39everybody has kind of like a a space for
9:42every for them to breathe you know what
9:43I
9:46mean from here you can start doing the
9:50uh Muse effects for every single one so
9:53you'll go down to where it says Pro
9:55EQ on the
9:57dropdowns and then you'll start doing um
10:00for Strings I'll keep it strings just as
10:03it is and then for the
10:08uh or generally any kind of like um horn
10:13or any kind of like brass instrument
10:15I'll go down to the music effects go
10:17into the pro eqs and then I'll put big
10:21band just because I feel like it has a a
10:23better rounder sound and it it generally
10:26mixes well with the uh strings Pro EQ
10:29for some for the other ones and then for
10:32the uh Woodwinds I'll generally go and
10:37do kind of like a
10:39uh into the Airy Woodwinds so now that
10:42that's done Al then uh double check make
10:45sure that everything's correct in terms
10:47of like the pro
10:48eqs and then I'll give the pie of
10:56[Music]
10:58listen
11:06[Music]
11:11[Music]
11:25so what happening here and I'm I'm sure
11:27you you found that pretty funny is uh
11:29the violing one
11:30solos or generally any kind of the solo
11:34samples for some reason will do this
11:36weird thing where um if they see any
11:39kind of like a a big
11:44jump generally like
11:46this it it'll treat it as like a slide
11:50for some reason but that it's just one
11:53of the many quirks of the new
11:57samples so for cases like this I'll
12:00either keep it on the solo or I'll move
12:04it down the Muse sounds into the violin
12:07one and see if it's any better otherwise
12:10I'll have to mess around with it and see
12:12if it actually works so we'll
12:20[Music]
12:27see
12:35[Music]
12:44[Music]
12:49all right so that's on a pretty much
12:53what I wanted but now we have a problem
12:56because now the violin one solo sounds
12:59like the violing ones and that's not
13:02what I want so in order to make this
13:05sound more singular I can go and I can
13:08take this off of the um the
13:11Reverb and I can just pour on the Reverb
13:15or I can just make it super super
13:18singular by putting it in a vocal
13:21booth and that'll make it sound way less
13:25in terms of a Reverb and mega sound
13:27different than the rest of the violent
13:29ones from there we can also do the
13:34uh kind of like the mixing for the
13:36volumes and balance everything out so in
13:39the
13:50beginning you can barely
13:53hear what's happening with a harp here
13:55but the harp is put at a piano
13:59so generally should be cutting through a
14:01lot of this stuff because everything
14:02else is out of panimo or
14:03[Music]
14:05pimo and a metop piano up here so it
14:09should be cutting a little bit more and
14:12this kind of happens later on if you
14:14want to check it later but generally you
14:17want to go into where the harps are and
14:19then you kind of want to raise them or
14:20lower them as you see
14:22fit I'm going to raise mine a little
14:25bit and then I'm just going to generally
14:27bring down the violin
14:30one bring up valin 2 a little
14:33bit I like a lot more
14:35violas the cellos can sometimes be
14:37overbearing and so can the faes this is
14:39a very touchy and delicate piece so I
14:41kind of want to take it off of there and
14:42bring it more into the high space plutes
14:45are always always louder than everything
14:48else and their tone and tber always cut
14:50do things so it's better to put them a
14:52little bit lower the alto flu is a
14:54little bit less but not always the same
14:57as the regular flu ones
14:59I generally just uh bring down a lot of
15:01the really really highs and not bring
15:05them down too much but I want their
15:06texture to mix very well instead of
15:09mixing kind of like a outside of the
15:12space I want more of a round rounded
15:14clear sound to have contrasting things
15:17in between the
15:27clarity
15:32[Music]
15:56[Music]
16:16[Music]
16:27for
16:30[Music]
16:44so we're here we're having a problem
16:46where uh the English horn is really
16:49really
16:50loud and it's getting in in the way of
16:54the actual solo piece so we need to
16:56bring them down kind of deal
16:59so we can either choose to do it here in
17:00the mixer or we can actually bring it
17:02down their stuff in the actual Dynamics
17:05now if it's your piece uh I would say do
17:10it at your leisure you know mess with
17:12whatever you want um if you're messing
17:15with a piece that you downloaded from uh
17:18mcore and you want to like keep it as
17:20much as possible to what they wrote then
17:24you know maybe you just mess with the
17:26mixer um but it's it's all up to you
17:28anyway um you can pour on more eqs and
17:32and things like that to really bring
17:33things out or you know pour more reverbs
17:36on to make things sound better it's all
17:39up into what you want to do
17:41actually and and it's all subjective
17:43honesty because it it's all about what
17:46you think sounds better this video is
17:48getting kind of long so I'm going to
17:49leave you with a couple tidbits of uh
17:52tips things to look out
17:55for um sometimes you'll see I don't
17:59think it happens in this piece because
18:00this was engrav pretty well but
18:02um sometimes you'll see like
18:05a something like this where uh the part
18:10will come in and it'll have like a piano
18:13right on it or like some sort of dynamic
18:17pretty much like right on where it
18:19starts and this can kind of sometimes it
18:22causes an issue with the playback system
18:25like here as well where uh the playback
18:27system will start reading things like a
18:29measure before or like a beat before or
18:31something like that and it'll see the
18:33piano but for some reason the program
18:36will screw up and it'll read as like a
18:37forte and it'll come in super loud or
18:41it'll leave super soft or stuff like
18:43that like Dynamic things happen all the
18:44time for some reason so the way to get
18:47around it is by uh basically just
18:51grabbing the dynamic and then taking it
18:54out and then going and uh putting it a
18:57little bit more to like just before it
19:00if you
19:01can so if you can put it towards like a
19:04b before things like that if it's on a
19:06rest before it it'll be much better so
19:10I'm not saying that it happens here like
19:12in this piece but it has happened to me
19:14before so I'd Rather somebody get it in
19:17this than have it find out in one of
19:20their pieces and then you know
19:23suck but I mean that that's pretty much
19:26it uh this is probably going to be the
19:28next piece that uh I upload and and put
19:31on the YouTube channel but I hope you
19:35guys found this uh insightful and I hope
19:37you guys uh you know enjoy this kind of
19:40stuff that I make um I enjoy making it
19:43so if you guys need help with anything
19:46else uh or have any ideas or things that
19:49you want me to like uh go over please
19:51let me know uh and thank you
19:55guys