Sampled Orchestra Mixing - Enhance Your Midi Mockups!

Practical tips on processing sections, group busses, adding custom reverbs and professional release-ready mastering.

What you'll learn

Mix sampled orchestral MIDI mockups in order to create a production-ready mix for any type of media or streaming platform.

Create mixing templates for faster mixing and consistent quality through an entire soundtrack release.

Gain staging for consistent loudness level through an entire mixing session.

Process each orchestral section and stereo groups (strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, choir).

Reverberation with convolution and algorithmic reverbs for larger than life sound.

Automation and VCA for more movement and dynamic control.

Mastering for a soundtrack release on any type of streaming platform.

Requirements

Need to know the basics of DAW workflow (Cubase, ProTool, Ableton, Reaper, Studio One..)

Description

Mixing a live recorded orchestra is an undertaking by itself, but mixing a sampled orchestra, with multiple different sample libraries, can introduce challenges that not a lot of composers can deal with.This course is perfect for beginners and intermediate level composers, as well as music producers who are looking for a way to improve their sampled orchestral mixes.If you are struggling to improve the sound quality of your orchestral mock-ups, but don't know where to start, and are lacking the technical know-how, this is the right course for you.In this course, you will learn how to:- Create your mixing template to ensure a consistent quality through an entire soundtrack post-production.- Proper setup of your project and level balancing for gain staging before you start mixing.- Mixing and processing each instrument section (strings, woodwinds, brass, choirs, percussion, etc…)- Setting up a custom combination of convolution and algorithmic reverb for that large cinematic sound.- Group bus processing for a cleaner and tighter mix.- Master bus processing and mastering for final touch and hitting that loudness level for releases.About the instructor:Nikola Nikita Jeremić is a music composer and sound designer with 10 years of practical experience in the field. Teaching game audio related courses at SAE Institute in Belgrade, Serbia.As a professional composer and/or sound designer, Nikola is credited on numerous AAA and Indie game projects, including Cyberpunk 2077, Destiny 2, Warhammer 40K Chaos Gate, Warhammer 40K Battlefleet Gothic 2, Stray Blade, Turbo Overkill, Scathe, Graven, Starpoint Gemini, Hellpoint, and many others.

Overview

Section 1: Overview & Setup

Lecture 1 Course Overview

Lecture 2 Mixing Template Setup

Lecture 3 Project Setup & Level Balance (Gain Staging)

Section 2: Mixing Sections

Lecture 4 Strings

Lecture 5 Woodwinds

Lecture 6 Brass

Lecture 7 Percussion

Lecture 8 Choir

Lecture 9 Solo Instruments

Lecture 10 Reverb

Lecture 11 Stereo Groups Processing

Lecture 12 VCA Automation

Section 3: Final Steps

Lecture 13 Master Stereo Bus Processing

Lecture 14 Mix Comparison & Course Recapitulation

Beginners, audio students and composers who want to enhance the quality of their productions.