You’re very welcome, Nick!

You're right on about that, if my own experience with Core is anything to go by!

Thank you, Stevchick! I’ll be posting more on this subject very soon

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks, man!

Thank you so much. I’ll be doing a composing in real-time film shortly

Thanks, Reinhardt! I’ll have to look into that more to answer your question fully, but the short answer is to remember that a) there will be some RAW allocated to running the plugin so just one articulation could look like it’s using more RAM than it might actually be, and b) Logic allocates what it thinks it needs to sample libraries so it’s not necessarily accurate as there’s often a buffer. I tend to have one articulation per track (I never liked keyswitching) so you’re not seeing multiple articulations when you see ‘Brass-Longs’ for example

@@DanKeenMusic Thanks a lot for your comment!

Thank you, Euan! That automating sounds great. Thank you for your questions, I'll be sure to answer them when I get round to approaching the subject of postgraduate studies!

Dan Keen Music awesome, I look forward to that. I’m hoping to do a short film on the automation this weekend for upload hopefully early next week, once I’ve tested that it all works. Thanks again. Euan.

Thank you, glad it was helpful. To create the right blend, I just used a healthy blend of Close and Tree mics on the Solo violin. I found that using the Tree on its own resulted in too reverberant a signal to mix effectively with the BBCSO. The Close helped to dial in that detail

No more than usual for me. For short articulations I tend to set the "tightness" dial to at least 50% to feel natural but regimented. In general, latency can be greatly improved by reducing your I/O buffer size. I have mine set to 128 and that feels snappy

Thank you!

Thank you, Greg! If you haven't seen, I did a live composition, starting from sketch and moving to full arrangement in 45 minutes! I plan to do more content like this soon kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aJmjacyClZPMeGw.html

@@DanKeenMusic Wonderful, appologies for missing this.

Hi Thierry, thanks! The library was recorded as the players would sit in the room, so some "panning" has been done by the placement of the instruments in the room

Thanks, Reuben. On reflection, you’re right. Thanks for the tip. It now reads BBCSO Impressions

Thank you for your kind and constructive comments, Phil. Yes this was adapted from the Logic project template available on www.spitfireaudiothepage.com

Thank you! The total library would take about 26GB of RAM but this project was significantly smaller than that! :)

Hi Chas, good question and definitely something I'd be willing to go more in-depth with for a future video. The simple answer is that dryer libraries are easier to blend with other samples because of the control you have over reverb. As BBCSO was recorded at Maida Vale Studios, it doesn't have the same reverb tail that their AIR Studios-based libraries have. All of that said, I have found that because BBCSO works so well as an ensemble, I don't often have to combine sections from different libraries these days

Thank you very much!

There are leaders, just not for strings

Hi Richard, the solo instrument used was from Spitfire Solo Strings - my attempt to mix a 'soloist' in with BBC

Great idea, thanks!

@@DanKeenMusic no problem. I went to music school for Classical guitar a couple decades ago and did the first couple years before transitioning to computer science - I've always wanted to get back into music composition and feel lost when looking for opportunities outside of a university program. I am currently trying out some of ThinkSpace's short courses as I found Guy to be extremely easy to watch and hold my attention.

Good question! I don’t have Albion 1 so I don’t have much personal experience of it but some things that I know are missing from BBCSO are the cinematic percussion and loops. It could be worth the investment if that’s of interest to you. Personally, I’ve always preferred libraries that have individual instruments - maybe because I’m a sucker for a viola middle harmony! But where does my viola fit in strings high and strings low! 😂

Dan Keen Music i have the 30.00 cinematic percussion, and it does help round out the BBCSO. I do need solo strings desperately. A solo violin is something i don’t get from the BBC Core.

Thank you very much. I’d like to respond to this properly in a video so thanks for sparking that conversation. Ultimately, I’d like my channel to become a resource for all of these things, and am working on material to release in the coming months that covers a wide variety of topics. Spitfire Audio’s KZfaq channel taught me a lot about programming and the midi side of things, but I’d recommend getting your hands on some pdfs of score you love and even if you can’t read music just follow along to see how parts interact. Regarding music college (also something I want to go more in-depth about), I learnt a very different set of skills. For production and mixing, there’s a lot of stuff online. For context, I’ve been classically trained since the age of 4. My route through postgrad music college following a music degree was broadening my knowledge of orchestration particularly within film music. For programmers and producers, the classical route wouldn’t really be relevant unless they wanted (as I suspect you do) to pursue the approach of composing orchestral music and getting their hands dirty with manuscript scoring, arranging and orchestration. As I say, more to follow shortly. Thanks again

Hi Yogev, yes, as I mentioned the solo violin is Spitfire Solo Strings

@@DanKeenMusic oh I guess I missed that part - thanks :). Would be interesting to hear the SSS compared to the leaders in the BBCO Pro version.

It’s its own plug-in so doesn’t use Kontakt

Thanks! Currently I'm running a 15" 2015 MacBook Pro with a 2.5GHz Intel Core i7 and 16GB of RAM. It's been such a powerhouse for me but I recently reached its ceiling point for production so now have a desktop machine on its way

Yes, there's a FAQ on how to remove them. Basically search the folders for say _AMB1 and delete. The faders then grey out

Thanks, I didn't know this was a feature!

@@el-bov8034 Yeah, I saved 300GB!

spitfireaudio.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002636258-How-can-I-remove-specific-microphones-from-the-BBC-SO-

@@vaiman7777 Great! Thanks for sharing :)

Thanks, Porter! You might be interested in my video where I write a piece in 45 minutes using just BBCSO Discover: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aJmjacyClZPMeGw.html

@@DanKeenMusic I am! I'll check it out! Thanks.

I think you're right about Discover still being a reflection of quality. My own theory, for what it's worth, is that quite apart from the fact that these are obviously very public-spirited guys, Discover also serves the purpose of being an advertisement for the Spitfire product. And if I'm right, it's a very GOOD advertisement - one that is actually USEFUL to its target audience. They will have gained far more traction from Discover than they ever could from more traditional forms of advertising. And in my case, it most definitely worked. As a hobbyist composer, Discover didn't have what I wanted in order to perform orchestral music realistically, but what it DID do was point me in the direction of what Core could do. I got Core last August in their Winter Sale (they called it a Summer Sale, but it was Winter here). And I'm thoroughly enjoying learning to use Core!

Fanboy might be a bit strong. As I say, I’m not speaking from a position of blind bias but earned respect. I owe a lot of my success to their resources and tools, and they’re a good company whose staff are lovely

I'm a big fan of Spitfire. I use their products regularly for my commercial work. There again I went to the Royal College of Music just as Dan is/was and trained musicians tend to gravitate towards quality as opposed to drone making.