1:57 Why Templates??? 4:47 Composing With Templates 16:59 Track-laying For Tracking / Mixing / Transfer to Pro Tools 21:14 Mixing With Templates 25:58 Final Stereo Bounce and Stemming Mixes Taken from Christan's Description!

Christian,you have really changed my life as a composer and musician,I can't thank you enough.

Really appreciate all of the template talk. Templates are like having a clean kitchen and all of your ingredients rinsed and ready to go before you start cooking.

Perhaps the most consistently brilliant creator on KZfaq, videos like these and product like BBCSO Discover and Pianobook open doors that most people can only dream about. You're an undeniably valuable asset to not only budding composers like myself, but to this entire platform. Proud to be a subscriber mate.

I want to thank you, Chris, Paul and all the spitfire team for all the great videos and ressources you’re making around your libraries. As someone with little to no music theory background I never thought I could one day really making orchestral music, but all your videos really pushed me into it. It shows passion and dedication. Please keep doing this fantastic job !

It’s always so validating to hear of another successful and celebrated composer who can’t read music. I’ve often felt ever so slightly inadequate for not being a “fluent” sight-reader, and hearing somebody like Christian Henson, or Tim Minchin, or Paul McCartney, or Danny Elfman say they can’t read music either does wonders for my self-esteem.

Awesome work! All of my life since my brief days at CALARTS I've been wanting to score Orchestral arrangements to movies, and arrange music to my original Gospel songs. Because of SpitFire audio libraries and your tutorials I am able to achieve my musical dreams. Thank you Christian!

making a template made this stuff a lot more fun. No waiting for patches to load between ideas. keeps you in the flow

Hi Christian. First of all I would like to say Thank you for what you do with your tutorials, and spitfire audio. I can say that you changed my life and gave me the strength to achieve my dream: become a composer. I decided this year to leave my old job behind me and to follow my dreams, and I will do my best to achieve that by following your tutorials. You are my messiah 😁👍. THANK YOU

The free LABS libraries, The Composer magazine, Your video Tutorials, Your contribution to the Pianobook website ... Mr Henson, thank you so much for sharing all your experience & knowledge , since i've started diving in your work , i've grabbed a massive 150 GB of content for a ridiculous cheap amount ... you managed to bring me back to classical music with a new way of listening to it .... Thank you again.

I love the atmosphere in your videos! It's so relaxing to watch you talk in front of a lake or on top of a mountain!!

One of the best! Thanks Christian and Jake for sharing!

I'm always learning from Christian's videos. What a gem to the community. Thanks Christian!

Consistently the most helpful and valuable content to help long term aspiring composers to begin to take tentative steps forwards to being able to write my own music. Thank you!

Christian, you finally inspired me to purchase BBCSO Pro with this video. I have downloaded the Template, and I am set. Thank you !!

always bright mood Christian, thanks for your advices hope to learn more about templates and Logic, Spitfire guys you are awesome!

Thanks for this helpful video. In all my years of composing, i have only just got into templates so all tutorials are a help. I would be happy with just a quarter of Jake's knowledge of mixing lol.

What a beautiful moment of musical narration have you managed to create here. How touching. And how hilarious that duck got angry at you towards the end :) All lovely - can’t wait to receive the BBC Pro on SSD soon (it’s already dispatched, how exciting!)

As always, this channel offers great content! Thank you sincerely, Christian, amazing work, especially for the sharing and collaboration spirit! PS. Nice and beautiful background!

Brilliant video, as always - love the John Barry vibe of the piece. Well done, gentlemen.

Wonderful video. I love seeing behind the process of all things musical. And to have Jake Jackson do your mix? Thats just the icing on the cake. Great stuff.

An excellent vid, thank you so much.From my personal perspective a great intro with strong pointers as to where I need to be heading.

Thank you for such a detailed example. Fantastic templates.

This is brilliant. Thank you so much for posting this.

This was actually amazing. You're producing top content here.

Uh, oh. Now I see why it will be necessary to (eventually) upgrade. Very informative--many thanks for doing this!

Awesome, what else can I say? You guys are massive help for my music and engineering education, and also a huge inspiration. Thank you thank you

Absolutely brilliant guys and for me, one of your best videos so far. A real popcorn video that I devoured with an Irish Coffee! I need to go back and just complete getting my head around the mix and playback separate stemming but it was exactly what I needed to see at this point. Gave me an idea though of how you could take it one stage further. If you're of a certain age, you'll remember that game where one person's draws a head a neck and then folds the paper over for the next to draw the body etc? How about doing something like that but with a musical composition? Could be amusing if not immenently educational! 😏 Cheers.

Beautiful composition!

Wow thanks, really informative. A great introduction to adding orchestra to my own songs.

God bless you folks, there is a template for Reaper! You folks are awesome!

Thank you Chris! Most excellent advice!

I watched this before - but after watching the video again - I feel like saying - Thx for the great tutorial!😊

This is really incredible content and sound .

Thank you for explaining it. You make it fun to write 😊

Hey Christian, first time commenter here but long time follower. Thank you for everything you've done for the community! I can't say how much all of these videos help bring about a collective conscious in our quite solitary and isolated space. That being said! I've used some of the genius in your template to design my own template and was wondering how on earth you grouped/renamed your busses in the send menu in Logic? Been DYING to do this forever!

This what I have been waiting for

Great video! Legit chortle at "Double Jog" at 22:47

Really fantastic. Bought Discover; will save up for Pro. Cheers and Thanks.

Cédric Mialaret, THANK YOU for the Studio One template!!

Thank you so much for everything. You are sharing a lot with us! There is no word to say how much it's important for me. Go ahead please ;o))) Take care and have a nice day.

Thank you Gents... great info for a Newbie here.

Option+click a track stack arrow to close or open them all :)

Thanks for the video! FYI, In the description, add the 00:00 timestamp, and the 'chapters' will appear on the timeline!

Hello Christian, Thank you for creating this video series on how to use these wonderful and expressive sample libraries. I already downloaded the Discover version but don't own any of the DAW's for which templates are available on 'the Page' Now I see how fantastic this works, having a template for my DAW would make composing and exchanging with the modes so much easier. Can you show what the key elements are so I can create my own template? Maybe you could add a guide to create such a personalised template to 'the Page' to help out other composers out there.

Wow background in the beginning is amazing.

If you turn off the stacks using Option+Click with the on/off switch for each stack, then it properly unloads all the instances so you can click on the stack header without loading all the instances. I've done this in my edit of the template.

Hi Christian. Can you elaborate on the BBSO update that just hit? Maybe a video showing new features? I'd love to know before I continue using core. Thanks!

Hi Christian, I'm using Studio One DAW, noticed the template is not available for S1. Can I ask you to consider adding a template for this DAW as well? Thank you for great material.

The “Double Jug” is frankly terrifying!

Thanks for this tutorial. I really enjoyed seeing this real-world application. If only I could apply some mixing principles to make the music sound richer. I’ll checkout the two extra videos from this. If it’s any help, I programmed the key switch for opening and closing stacks as: CTRL CMD -> (Right Arrow) then CTRL CMD

Hi Christian, your video is really helpful. I implemented a lot of your template in mine. But I think that I found a way to make it a little bit more efficient both CPU wise and visually. I'm discussing it with other composers and I would like to get into it also with you!

I have used the template for a while. But now that I have continued buying libraries (since bbc), I think it would be cool with an update to the template. For instance I sometimes would like to have the different strings (bbc, AR1, AR2) in different trackstacks/folders, but still keep the structure of short/long/fx aux etc. Mostly I miss an easy way of one button solo/muting just Iconic Strings or others. I just can't figure out a good way to do it without ruining the template.

With regards to the opening shot, what a coincidence! The very last video I watched was of a version played on Core of Swan Lake!

have you ever done a Video about how you go from your composition in your daw to turning it into a score for the orchestra?

Great video. Could you explain how you set up all the audio tracks and busses to print the stems within the session? Is this possible without an multi-channel AD/DA convertor?

Thank you for this video and Thank You for the Discover library...It just arrived in my inbox today. Unfortunately, my MacBook was stolen a few days ago and my back-up is too old, 10.6.8., So, I have to wait until I can get a newer updated computer to enjoy and work with them. Until then, I am taking in all of these videos so I can best be prepared when I can finally use them. Thanks again for all your hard work, you and Paul and the entire Spitefire team amaze me! Cheers from California!

Fantastic post, Christian. For me, this was a missing link to composing with a full symphony. I'm using Pro, so I definitely appreciate the pre-populated Pro template! Many thanks!

Would be a real killer to be able to change all mic-settings the same way you switch modes. Go from vintage-mono to ambisonic on all instances in a second.

Thanks for so many videos! Greetings from Argentina! Unfortunately, I don't speak English well (this is from a translator) and this complicates things a bit. I am working creating orchestral music for a video game, my first experience, and I am extremely excited. I recently bought my BBC PRO version, amazing !!!! It has made me grow and really enjoy the compositions. I downloaded the template, but unlike the one shown here, it has all the versions of the instrument (there is no need to duplicate anything), but above all, many tracks in the mixer in addition to the instrument, and I do not fully understand what each one is about . Any suggestions on how to learn how to use it? It would be great for me. I have become a fan of Spitfire, its way of doing things and collaborating with musicians, and obviously, a follower of your videos. Thanks again for so much passion and dedication!

Thanks so much for the GREAT video(s)! 👍👍What are the PRINT channels? Do I need them? Also, how can I add a few more soft-synths into the template?

I am a singer songwriter Multi instrumentalist and I am interested in exploring more of this kind of composition. Thank you for so many great insights. I will explore more of your Tutorials. I await My Spitfire library as I type this. Supposed to arrive today so the timing is perfect. I Really like that small 2 channel mixer to to your left. It seems so intuitive. What is the model? I am shopping for something decent that isn't $800.

I now have BBSO installed, and your template open in Logic (and thank you so much for this work!!). But lots of questions...First, how come there is no panning in the template? Is the panning meant to come out through the mic placement - eg the way it was recorded..? No, that doesn't seem right. Should I go through and add my own orchestral panning to each track? Can do, just wondering what that wasn't in the template. Thanks.

One of my favorite music teachers online.....lol

Great video - absolutely love seeing Jake and Christian together in these. Question for Christian - how would you use BBCSO when scoring something large and bombastic like Mars, Bringer of War? I'm doing this for an audiodrama I'm producing and I've found it difficult to take the amount of instruments in the sheet music and, using your incredible template, making them sound real when so much is going on, i.e. six different Horn parts?? Question for Jake - When you're doing your initial solo pass, do you have a reverb "space" in mind when you're dialing in your individual instrument's reverb sends? Thank you both for your continued contribution to this space - it's truly incredible.

Great tutorial thank you! May I ask what do you use to change the expression and volume? Is it a mini mixer usb device? Forgive my ignorance..

Love the BBCSO Template. Can you and Jake attempt a 5.1 BBCSO Template? I am curious to know how using the seperate mics in BBCSO would sound separated in a 5.1 template. 😀

Hi. Thank you so much, this video is amazing! I wondereed where I could still get access to the template? I'm a new BBCSO owner and really looking forward to getting to grips. Thank you in advance, 🙏 Chris

Great video! Is there a template for BBC Discover intended for cubase elements? Cubase elements allows a maximun of 24 VST instruments so when I open your template I can use about half of them, the others are locked.

#oneorchestra Brilliant! I don't know where to ask this, but will there be a Core template for Studio One? Or should I just use the Discover template for Studio One and try to expand that one??

Hey Christian, I have Core and am loving the smaller template for composing. However when I'm sketching I really don't want to deal with the huge template, but when I do go to mix, it would be lovely to be able to switch over to the big template. I know the concept is different as with having each articulation there rather than key switches. I wonder if there's an easy way to do it with importing midi or audio. Do you have any thoughts on this? I just don't want to sketch with having the sync pop and click tracks and stuff. Perhaps I can just make some more templates out of these. Thanks!

Thank-you for this. I've watched so many of your videos lately I almost feel like you live here. I have just rewatched this as I'm heavily entrenched in bringing an orchestral composition of mine into Cubase and I'm using the template. I noticed this time that when mixing, you didn't ever turn on the reverb for an instrument within the BBCSO player (or whatever you call it), but used some other reverb instead. I wondered why that is? Is it just a preference or to save memory (though I can't imagine that is an issue with your set-up).

Hey does have any tips or sources on blending Discover with other instruments reverb wise? I did read that it wasn't as easy as finding an IR of of Maida Vale. I wouldn't be using other orchestral instruments and mostly just using this by itself to write epic symphonies. However I also like symphonic metal like Nightwish and am even thinking about singers like Linda Rontsadt and Frank Sinatra that had strings behind them. With the reverb down it's pretty dry but just curious (or lazy) about mixing sampled instruments from different rooms, thanks! EDIT: I guess I was being really lazy, I found a video called "In Depth Tutorial - How To Mix Orchestral Samples Recorded In Different Locations" on the Spitfire youtube channel, pretty good.

Great stuff, really useful. Do you have any templates for the Albion orchestra?

Gentleman, thanks for this great video. One question: I usually work in ProTools with rhythm section, vocals and orchestra. Can I open this template in an existing session or do I need to start with this template? Thanks!

Hello! Great video, very very useful. I would really like to see a video where you show us how to create a template like this, of course in a much smaller scale. Maybe with only woodwinds or an instrument family. The routing is very tricky, even by looking at one of the templates you did, it's hard to understand how everything works. Maybe show us how to create the Print tracks/folders, or how are you routing the verbs and stuff. Anyway, thanks again for the video, great content!

Love the ducks

The whole printing part was definately not for beginners but was very very interesting. I wonder whether you may consider elaborating on that a little more in the near future please.

Hello Christian, I hope you're doing well. Is it possible to get a video of how was WALTZ OF THE FLOWERS - PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY created on BBCSO CORE? I am interested in seeing the work flow of how you recreate something that already existing. Was it imported as a midi from a notation software, then adjusted velocity, expression, dynamics, etc on DAW after? Or, was it played directly into DAW? Either way, I am interested in seeing that. Thank you

Hi there ! I really love your bbcso templates. But you now what (I guess) we would love yet more ? A mixed demo project using bbcso and the magic ears of Jake Jackson. Am I right ?

Thank You Thank You Thank You . I ow you both a G&T

At 20:47 you say the file is only a few MB (80.9MB to be exact without any audio printed)... I'm assuming it's larger with audio. However, when I start adding Kontakt instruments to this template, it begins to become a Behemoth of a file... 3GB. Am I doing it wrong?

You managed to finish the video before being savaged by swans, so good job

First Like and Comment!!! Haha! Great Content 👌

Tip for those, like me, if trying to work on a large project on a lower powered computer where it's starting to grumble a little... print the stems to audio as Christian does in the video, but do each stack one at a time. Then create a new project with the template and import the print stems. Re-route the output of the Print tracks to Bus 255 and do your final mix from the audio stems.

Do live mix engineers use FX when mixing a live orchestra as a rule or is it basically related to the room, concert hall ambience they are playing in?To clarify not mixing a recorded session but the actual live performance.I believe I don't think I've heard FX being used in the orchestras ive seen perform live or ones I've played in.

Does anyone know of a Albion One template for Ableton (Studio v 11)? Link? It is intended for my personal, non-professional use.

I have an old macbook (circa 2008) and when I download the Ableton or Garageband orchestral templates I get an error message, saying it can't find the VST2 plug-ins, and the template is "disabled"...is it my Mac or am I doing something wrong?

How can I make the click track audio match the tempo of the project? 🤔

Hey Christian! Is there a way to (easily) adapt the templates for 5.1 surround out, rather than the default stereo?

can I have the striped down version of the template I can't go to the page any more of the link provided.

I would LOVE a template for Cakewalk!

Hi Guys, pray tell, what reverb was added by Jake? What is FabFilte Pror-R ?

Yes, fascinating video, works really well. Rather enjoyed the almost random new instruments call from third party, should be made a regular feature. I bought Core, so I was doubly taken with the vid. Great Stuff, Thanks

Ever wonder, if there is a function in ANY DAW where you can hide unused tracks. Makes navigating and scrolling through the arrangement much more easier. Ableton has a FOLD option in Midi Tracks. Thats what we need in Arrangement Views. Someone agree?

This piece gives me big World of Warcraft vibes :D Love it

Where can I buy the string control product used in the video?

Hi Christian and Jake, really great video and such an eye opener, thank you. Question: (Probably more directed towards Jake) I've downloaded the Discover template for Protools but I dont have the Space reverb plugin. by any chance could you give us an idea of what settings you used with it? ( so that I can try recreate something similar with another reverb plugin) Thanks again for all the amazing content, the template blew my mind.

Question: when Jake prints the mix - does the template print the AUX sends/bus effects into the audio as well? How did you set that up in the template? THANK YOU!

Hello Christian, By any chance, would it be possible to get a detailed explanation or graph about the way you setup the routing globally of the BBCSO Pro Template , and mostly for Stem Stack 600, 700, 800, 900? ...... Thank you so very much for everything you and your team are doing. It's so helpful and exciting. Every time you release a new product, it's like Christmas before Christmas!!!!