Composing Orchestral Music | Cubase Tutorial | How To Compose Music | Spitfire Appassionata Strings

In this Composing Tutorial we will create a huge orchestral track starting with a simple piano melody. I will show you some usefull features of Cubase, the libraries that I used and also some mixing plugins during the video!

The tutorial is intended to anyone who is passionate about music composition but also to other composers to give some insight in my personal workflow.
This is part 1 of 2 and I will soon add the second part...

I hope you will enjoy the video! :)
If you have any questions or suggestions, please comment below!

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🎻 Sample Libraries:
- @spitfireaudiollp Spitfire Appassionata Strings
- @spitfireaudiollp Spitfire Symphonic Strings
- @NativeInstruments Noire

💿 DAW: Cubase Pro 11
🎹 Midi Keyboard: Akai MPK249

[fulanxi]

You amazing man. Simple and Easy to understand.

[maksymkirichuk]

Strings sound better layered. Thanks for tutorial! Can't wait part 2

[sonicstoryteller]

Great job Tom love the melodic structure and pacing best wishes Phil 👍

[FrankColonier]

Hi, very good tutorial. Monophonic orchestration is a good place to start when you're first learning. I would be very interested in how your melody would sound in polyphonic or homophonic orchestration.

[heart_healer]

Thankyou.. Really good and informative video. Could have also shared about the negative track delays that were set up in the long patches!! -150 ms for longs as far as I could see 😊

[iggydip]

Very nice use of notes 🙂
Beautiful progressions. Well done.
I’m new to orchestral composing so will add the instrument layout to my template 🙂

[JulianoPianoMusic]

Thanks for your tutorial, very informative! I was also thinking about getting the Appassionata Strings. I think layering them with the BBCSO will sound amazing!

[Lindseylavigne]

Great melody! Just try to use less parallel motion. Strings should move in opposite directions to the bass line when possibile. Use some counterpoint inside the voices to try create more movement inside the chords. Parellel motion is great in some epic scenarios, but it sounds a bit boring and scholar otherwise. :)

[LopezKushin]

great work !Now i gotta watch a tom hanks movie

[TheRealWinsletFan]

21:36 The "M" mix, that's just "Tree" in the newer version of the library?

[Bashanvibe]

Laying always sounds better unless you’re going for a chamber vibe😊

[frankmehl_PictureMusic]

Vielleicht wechsel ich auch wieder zu Cubase. Welche Einsteigermöglichkeiten gibt es bei Steinberg? Und noch eine Frage: kann man die angeschlagenen Tasten in der Pianoroll auf der Tastatur sichtbar machen?

Dies zu den Fragen ;)

Klasse Piano-Sketch und ich bin gespannt, wie's weitergeht! Echt sehr hilfreich dein Tut! 😉😍

Doch noch eine zweigeteilte Frage (deswegen ist dieser Kommentar bearbeitet): a.) wie viele Instanzen kannst du laden, bevor dein Computer schlapp macht - und b.) ich finde es für mich persönlich besser, wenn nach und nach die einzelnen Instrumente die Bühne betreten. Weißt du, was ich meine? ... So, jetzt bin ich still und höre zu 🙂

[spsmyintlwin]

Great job! Kindly show me the Chord Progression pattern. I'm purey new learner.

[berndkramer]

Ich würde den Track gerne als Übung nachbauen.
Kannst du mir sagen welche Tonart das ist, die Auflösung ist nicht so dolle und daher kann ich das nur schwer entziffern, oder noch besser hast du Noten für den Piano part ? Grüße.. :-)