But without the rest… it doesn’t work, at least for me. Honestly? Rest! And then “she” comes alone :) haha…Movies, TV, music, read, internet…A simple image… All this feeds my creativity. Are there any particular secrets to your creativity?
To me this is even better than working with MIDI, because the precision is more accurate with audio, and the sound is better, due the summing process, when you do the mix with them.įinally, depending on the result and the mix, I try to do the mastering process by myself or I send it to a professional engineer, that always brings the best results to the track. When I finish the MIDI programming, then I bounce all the tracks to stems, because I love to work with audio. Then I select one of them and I start to write arrangements and do the production process… If I am not sure about whether to take one of the songs for the work I am hired for, then I try to write a song from scratch, following the instructions of the client. They are just piano drafts, but with a very pronounced leitmotif. It doesn`t matter where I am…Then I go to the studio and fix them in Cubase, and sometimes I open the arrangement to listen to them. Usually I record every idea in the phone.
What is your usual process for creating audio content for games, films etc.? To me, time is the key to have a solid product and a good first reaction from people. Because once you release a “final product” it will last forever…Obviously, there could be updates, but the first impression is the most important thing. I know that some people like it, but I need to have time to complete my procedure, to be creative, and have the best results, or at least what I need to listen in my music. Deadlines are necessary to delimitate dates, that is a fact, but working under pressure is not good for my creativity. I tend to use also too a lot from 8Dio, Eduardo Tarilonte, Project Sam, Sonokinetic, Soundiron, Spitfire…woah…It could be endless…:) But what I really love, is the massive amount of developers, that bring us the chance to have a fantastic sonic palette, and how the sampling technology, is growing more and more, allowing us to expand our music sonically. Three plugins that I love and use a lot are Hybrid Verb from VSL, C4 from Waves and the FG-x from Slate Digital… Magnificent.Ībout libraries, I use a lot of libraries, but honestly I must say that I love the EWQL Hollywood Series, as well as VSL Woodwinds, and Spectrasonics stuff. To reload it on Cubase, it could take me ages… and is a comfortable feature.įor the plugins, I tend to use VSL Suite Plugins, as well as some stuff from Waves and UAD. Vienna is a fantastic plugin, that allows me, overall, to change between cues, and preserve the sounds loaded. Both are my real go-to…I love Cubase, because it’s so easy to work with, so plastic, although I would like they implement some features that are necessary. I’m working with Cubase 7 and Vienna Ensemble Pro. For the recordings I use a Neumann U87 and a Avedis MA-5 Pre and an Anamod 660 compressor, that emulates the Fairchild behaviour…MOTU 828 card, ADAM s2.5a as speakers, and all the rest is software… What are your go-to plug-ins and software? (virtual instruments, audio processing etc.) And a MacBook Pro connected to an LCD to do the scoring.
I don’t have a big studio, just a comfortable room to work in, but I have a 6-core PC platform, with 64Gb of RAM. My focus, is always to have a defined leitmotif that could be remembered, and check millimetrically the production and the mix, to achieve a sound as clear as possible with my resources… Can you give us a brief summary of the equipment you use regularly? Well, don’t know really… I just try to do what I think works to my ears…But it is true that I am very obstinate with the sound palette and the production, sometimes too much even. What is your niche or speciality, that makes you stand out from rest of the audio professionals? I worked for pop and dance artists here in Spain for many years, also for radio stations, doing advertising and jingles, as a designer too…But now, although I`m still working on it, I am trying to focus more in the cinematic music scene, working for trailer music companies, as well as doing demos for sample libraries.
I am a freelance composer and producer working full time. Tell us a little about yourself and what you do for a living?