Contemporary Scores
The footage for the first section (“NASA”) is public domain, and the second section (“Graveyard”) is all original iPhone footage.
We put the video together in Premiere Pro, and brought it into Logic Pro X, marked some hits and set the tempo map, and instantiated Omnisphere 2 and started looking for sounds.
We instantiated Omnisphere as a multi. We crossfaded multiple “arpeggiated” patterns (grooves) for a kaleidoscopic textural effect, then added sparse traditional elements using East/West Opus libraries, and NI’s “Stradiveri Cello” from the Cremona Quartet series in Kontakt. Some samples were also added directly to the session, and one sample looped as a Kontakt instrument. The instrumental scoring was done in Finale, ReWired into Logic.
Retro Scores
The intent was to reflect a wide variety of compositional styles using hybrid (mostly traditional) instruments.
I started by assembling personal videos in Adobe Premiere. I brought the video into Logic, created SMPTE sync markers, picked some tempos, created a midi click, and brought the tempo map into Finale, then ReWired Finale into Logic.
This was scored in Finale using Garritan Personal Orchestra, Garritan Jazz and Big Band, and some Garritan Instruments for Finale, none of which are used in the Logic production file – which is almost entirely Opus Hollywood series, along with some NI factory sounds, and Evolution Hollowbody Blues, and one Apple synth patch.
I exported the midi into Logic and started assigning sounds to the tracks.
Both of these videos were completed in 10 days’ time, November 2022
Gear:
iMac Pro 3Ghz 10-core Intel Xeon, 64GB ram, 1TB SSD
2 TB external sample drive
Oxygen 61 Keyboard
Mackie HR824’s
Scarlett 2i2
Sennheiser HD650 & Bose Quiet Comfort headphones
Logic Pro X, Pro Tools, Adobe Creative Suite, Finale, Audacity
Libraries:
E/W Composer Cloud
Kontakt:
Factory Library (Vienna etc)
CSS Solo Strings
Cremona Quartet
Evolution Hollowbody
Evolution 12-string
Aeris Vocal Emulator
Session Guitarist Picked Acoustic
Omnisphere
