They’re different, this video is about technical terms

Hey Leon, thanks for the correction! I was wondering what was the name of that specific phenomenon as I was aware of it, but didn't know the technical term. Learned two new thngs from this comment. :)

alex ur really talented u r soo humble to accept things also really impressed

^this. But the video is still really valuable I think for new composers. The orchestration book by Sam Adler was a good intro to me for how an instrument's timbral colours change as it ascends. Techniques of Orchestration by Kennan helped with scoring for woodwind section. It also goes into this area a fair bit.

I know this is very old, but I'd add for anyone that ends up here that register also has a similar but slightly different meaning in a vocal context. Humans have different ways of using our voice boxes, these roughly correspond with vocal ranges, but not entirely! The most common registers for women (which I'm more familiar with) are "head" and "chest" voice which are named after where you physically feel the resonance when singing. Chest voice is lower and sounds a lot more "full" and "big", while "head voice" is a lot more "pure" of a sound. Typically if a female singer sounds kind of coarse or rough they're in their low/chest register. Alto range singers in particular spend a lot of time practicing register changes, because their parts often skip around the bottom of the treble staff. While every singer's register change point is slightly different (and you can train it up/down for your registers independently to a degree), generally speaking there is a note somewhere where you physically can no longer sing in one register vs another - this is called a "register switch" and songs that frequently dance around your natural register switch are very difficult to sing, but the flipside is for the part of your range that overlaps gives you as a singer a lot of creative expression in terms of which register you use to interpret notes. These aren't the only registers. For the subset of singers that can sing well above the treble staff they generally have a third register up there. In addition to that there are other registers that share ranges with the two above, the most famous being the "vocal fry" register (which is hell on your voice and can give you a sore throat but you *can* sing in it) as well as the falsetto register. The falsetto register is best known as the "mickey mouse voice", and generally sounds like a man speaking/singing too high, but cis women can enter the falsetto register as well and those who have had testosterone affect and thicken their vocal chords can also learn (with great difficulty) to sing and speak in "head voice" and move their voice forward in chest voice to go into the typical female register - this is both used by countertenors, several famous rock singers, and also is how trans women feminize their voices. So yeah, there's actually a lot of overlapping but similar concepts covered by register, but it more or less always has to do with "note color" within a specific range. (You could almost argue that register is merely the characteristic timbre of a specific instrument or technique at a specific range). Edit: I'd say that overtones and the harmonic series have something to do with it too, though it complicates the register idea. I play flute and trombone as well as sing. The first two fundamentals of any given note are an octave apart, and for flute often two notes in the first two octaves have the same fingering. Higher notes have different fingerings because it tunes them better, but there is a concept called "overblowing" which can produce further notes along the overtone series beyond just the octave that are slightly sharp/flat but also have a much different and harsher timbre - overblown notes in a given range essentially make up a different (though rarely used in practice) register on flute, much closer to a piccolo actually. Trombone (and other brass I think) more commonly has multiple overlapping ways to create the same note because they rely on the overtone series a lot more than woodwinds do, and good trombone players absolutely will choose an alternate position to voice the same note because the one that's at a higher/lower harmonic relative to another position that produces the same note can have a much different feel. I think the registers that the OP describes are essentially just collections of the most commonly used overtone ranges for an instrument's notes.

Your humility and willingness to learn is so admirable. I love this channel. Subbed

And I already failed! This video was supposed to be 15 minutes long max. :P

Your name makes me want to break my fast. Feed me! Haha

Alex's pronounciation of "timbre" also is correct

macaroni yes it’s pronounced both ways correctly so just be careful to correct someone in the future professionally.

Not in England it's not.

What matters in the end is what you do with the understanding of articulation rather having dictation pronounciation test...

I believe you're way better off composing with freebies from porfessional developers. There's a few around, I'll surely make a video eventually to showcase them.

-> www.syntheticorchestra.com/articulate/ So far I think you can only get it on FL Studio and Reaper

Hi Joseph, you have this function already build in in Logic. This video might help: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e5yed7eDt6q4Y3U.html Cheers!

This is a point I've actually just heard 4 hours ago, from Spitfire's mixing tutorial. Interesting. I think I may have even encountered this issue myself, so I'd love to look into it to know more. Cheers!

That's a good point, many people definitely do that long vs shorts mixing thing, I used to before as well, but stopped after I started using keyswitches. I'm personally more comfortable this way because of the reasons mentioned in this video!

Many dubbing stages may require a further subdivision into Low, Mid and High, on top of short and longs, so that is the reason as to why these types of grouping exist, it makes the dubbing mixer's life much easier, when mixing the music with dialogue, foley, etc.

I'll look into that.

@@AlexMoukala thank you.

You can check out Alex's tutorial about lots of sample libraries he recommended and also find out the prices of each different libraries.Here is the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jpypga-n0J60f3k.html Also, you can check out Alex's suggest about buying sample libraries: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hq93pdmmrrmVdoU.html And many other suggestions from Alex's KZfaq channel. Good luck!

In a full ensemble patch (or strings ensemble), yes. However, when you open a 1st violins patch for example., unless it's a violin SOLO patch, what you're playing is a whole group (or ensemble) of many 1st violins, and not only one.

@@AlexMoukala Ok I understand. Usually I don't use enseble only for scketch (and piano of course) or to fullfill the sound. When I done with my sketch then I separate the Voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) to instruments. Is this a good approach? You help me in the section of voices, i did not notice till your video. Thanks!

That's what I do too most of the times.

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@@AlexMoukala Thank you very much!!!

That's not exactly it, rather it's a way of tieing two notes together. Look for some real life violin / guitar / brass legato examples on KZfaq.

@@AlexMoukala thanks for all your assistance. At 7:05 you play Legato and 7:14 Non-Legato, but these seem to be the same pattern with the same articulation. How are they different?

I am 480p. So that means we cant make orchestral music because our CPU is 10 years old :) . I am getting myself a brand new computer next week, chosen parts by myself. 1500€ without the monitor and stuff. I think this my setup is bare minimum. You can maybe choose a cheaper case, my will be: Be quiet! Silent base 801 Window Black My PC will be AMD focused, so CPU is Ryzen 7 2700X GPU: XFX RX 580 8 GB MOBO: Asrock x470 Taichi RAM: 2x8 GB 3200Mhz G Skill Be quiet! Pure power 700W CM And of course fast SSD: Samsung 1 TB 970 EVO HDD: Seagate 3 TB Skyhawk And AMD's Freesync technology Monitor.