I usually don’t watch videos like this, but as a new composer, I’ve always looked up to you because of your skills, portfolio, and attitude and I love to see a raw and genuine video like this. Thanks for all the contributions you’ve made to the community and I’m excited to see more. P.S. It’s probably the last thing you want to do, but if you ever made a course, you would make a killing!

Miss your content bro, hope to see you back soon. Grats on Picard too, well deserved!

Totally content DJ. Glad you're growing as a composer and human being. Looking forward to see your new style of composing soon.

Congrats! I've learned a ton watching your videos over the years and you've been a huge inspiration to me and many other aspiring composers. Glad to see you back on youtube!

Love the direction you will be taking your future videos 🎵🎶

Congratulations, Daniel. I'm following you for a several years now. I've learned alot from just watching your workflow (especially on livestreams) and you always inspired me to be a better composer. I miss your livestreams on Twitch. I hope you'll have time to do more of these soon.

LMAO, your random editing just constantly cracks me up. Glad to hear you were/are working so many cool projects! Keep it up, DJ!

Daniel, it is really great to hear from you again - you have been missed!!. Your enthusiasm in the creation of music and confirmation that it has evolved is great to hear - I for one can't wait for further updates and your return to streaming on a regular basis. 👍

I'd watch a stream full of technical "ba da da"s that's not boring to me, glad to see you back.

Congratulations Daniel!

I remember 1st seeing you live on Twitch and you were ranting about Spitfire etc. I was a Spitfire fanboy and a fellow Brit and was a bit annoyed at the time. However as I watched you more, my understanding grew, all you were doing was genuinely trying to make their products better for composers. But I also started to really enjoy your composing as you have a very melodic style and I love composers that use melody. Then there was the funny one liners and the banter. Been hooked since! Keep it up DJ, we miss your personality, knowledge and Compositions! I think being entertained and educated at the same time is the perfect combination for a live stream. You have both nailed!

Congratulations and thanks for sharing these insights.

Great update video Daniel !

Those are some massive franchises to write for. Massive congrats Daniel and I'm eager to hear new music from you!

Good for you, D! Look forward to the results of all your fruitful endeavours!

Glad to hear you are doing well and you might be returning to sunny old England. I think it's good to be able to do quick mock ups as well as more focused compositions. I am always amazed at the speed of your workflow and how you make your videos entertaining and at the same time informative

Been following your content for a while. I absolutely love your live composing streams, I take a lot of inspiration from you and i aspire to have the sort of work you are getting. Glad you got all this stuff going for you, and it's great to have you back here on YT :)

Thanks for everything you did for us. Can't wait to have you back, and hope everything is doing fine rn in your career !!!

Always appreciate what you are doing out there 👏🏼👏🏼 thank you so much for "updating" us 😊

It's amazing how you've grown and the things you've achieved ❤❤❤ you inspired me to take up music production so I owe it to your streams for inspiring me and I am so happy you're doing soo well. You completely deserve it. 🎉

Good to have you back, stunning news and cool edits! It was your presentation of Jaeger that made me buy it and learned a lot from you since

Doesn't matter where you go, we're here for ya! You keep putting out content (or even music haha) and I'll be around!

Nice one James 🙏🏼!!!

Glad you've been busy with fun stuff! Good to see you back.

Welcome back and congratulations on the projects that you are working on. I'm a Metal Gear fan who played the game series since the beginning. So, I can kind of understand your excitement on that panel.

Welcome back! Glad you are working on some great project and I can't wait to hear them :)

Glad you're back!

Thanks for the informative catch up DJ. Glad you're happy and pushing your own abilities in such a positive way.

Welcome back! Everything you say makes a lot of sense. Can't wait to hear more of the new stuff.

It's great to see your energetic vibe! Thank you for sharing this video, it reminds me of a peaceful time when I watched your streams in my home studio in Ukraine and didn't think about "will this ruzzian missile fall on my house now?"

Glad to hear your updates and congrats on your big achievements! As a hobbyist with zero composing knowledge, I have learned a lot from your videos. Since you are pursuing more musicality, I think you could do a break down or explain your thought of your pieces in retrospect, instead of live composing. I'm sure it will be equally entertaining without compromising your goal. Anyway, glad to see you back!

welcome back

Damn, guess I need to watch it now 😂 Thank you for the update Daniel, happy to see you're back! And of course - congratulations for these achievements!! Harry Gregson Williams is gorgeous, seems like you've really come a long way :) Looking forward to your "new" style of music! (Also love the editing, you had me good a few times)

Yeah welcome back….watched you from the beginning in that little room!

Great to see you and hear about your achievements. Ok, now back to my life. Thanks for those 15 min dreaming about what it could be to be living some of your dreams as a composer :-)

Nice to see you back, I always learn a trick or two from your tutorials!

Yes! More musical thing!

Fuckyeah, can't wait to have you back!

Can't wait for the live recordings! I hope you still made some of the juicy low brass.

God damn. Congratulations Daniel. Really happy for you mate :-)

Well done Danny boy! Great to see you back 🎉

Coming soon to a PC/MAC near you... Loved the Picard S3 music. Congrats!

Picard S3 rocked! Congrats!

Glad your coming back, I see you’ve also been working on your video editing skills too lol, but I would like to say, that detailed composing that your saying would be boring to watch, we would love to see that stuff, and I’m sure your much quicker with it now given your time away to practice. Looking forward to watching you again Dan!

Wow I miss your livestreams a lot! They were so much inspiring! I actually miss things like HYBRIDWAVE contests even more!

Nice one Danny :)

Welcome back, mate! When I saw your name as additional music writer for ST: Picard, I immediately understood what you were doing for the past 6 months. Well, some bits of that anyway 😁 The photograph with HGW was the cherry on the cake 😂

I signed an NDA too, dangit. Can I say your music sounds amazing?

I was listing to Port Storm yesterday and noticed you didn't upload for quite a while. Picard S03 is the best ST:PIC, now i think it is even a little bit awesome. 👍

I totally agree with that music making thing where you spend ~20 minutes tweaking a small phrase and then playing it over and over again. I honestly thought it was just me. And wow congrats man! Looking forward to what you come up with next!

You R The best Composer Ever Your music is insane

Omgg hiii DJ!

OH my god, the half hour shaping line made me laugh out loud. Perfect. Congrats on the HGW, Lalo Schifrin or Morricone would be my guys.

Star Trek Picard?!! Wow. Congrats!!! I started composing around the same time you started uploading on youtube ages ago. I will admit that unfortunately I have severely regressed and stopped composing years ago. I miss it. Seeing your success is a wake up call for me. I am super happy for you. You are an inpiration. Looking forward to hearing your music again.

I'm coming

Bro i was kinda upset that we may have lost you as a brother and teacher as you have been away for so long. But now having watched this, i'm so happy that you gave yourself time and care to let yourself grow as a composer and a human being. And after all happier to see that we are not actually forgotten. I hope you keep getting involved in big and bigger projects as you totally deserve it ❤️

I miss the twitch streams! I hope you'll stream again!

Yeah Daniel.... when someone offers you a gig involving a major network or studio and it has ANYTHING to do with Star Trek, you stop thinking about it at all, and boldly GO! Congrats to you on that!

Man I miss you

Daniel come back! We miss you :)

Picard S3? You scored the good one! 👍

Awesome DJ. Star Trek is right uo there with the HUGE ones for sure. Amazing!

Where can we watch the panel? Looked great

F Legend

You should do a meetup in Budapest :) Or come to Austria :D

Congrats on the Trek gig! Nice for the portfolio. Yeah, Live Streams are basically a music composition version of a Julia Child cooking show. Keep it entertaining while doing a bit of teaching. Have that pre-cooked cake in the oven. LOL

I’ve been busy this year at a job that I hate, feeling low energy from the depression I’m working through because of a controlling girlfriend and toxic mother who’s only currency is neglect.

paralysis by analysis imo

🤝 from 🇺🇦

Luck is on top of every skill u have

Lovin' the edits XD

Does anybody have a link to the Hans Zimmer comment about Daniel? He brings it up at 8:20

Where r u Daniel

Daniel who!?

If you like livestreaming and you want to make more technical pieces then just do it - to hell with what anyone thinks! I know I'd find that more interesting than what you normally do, and I imagine there are lots of others who also would. Also, no reason you can't spend the first 20 mins sketching something quickly, then the next 4 hours refining it!

Congrats on the gigs! Not livestreaming for 6 months meant you missed out on stiring the pot with spitfire some more

Don't edit the video like this. It's not cool, it's just distracting. You are enough interesting and beautiful, it's not necessary to do these "trendy cuts".