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  1. jamesf

    Hello Mr. Ski

    Looks great - can we hear it anywhere?
  2. jamesf

    Hello Mr. Ski

    @DanRad Thanks for sharing that score - it is mighty impressive.
  3. jamesf

    Hello Mr. Ski

    Hi DanRad, are any examples of your scores out there in the wild? Do you have any score editor tips?
  4. jamesf

    Hello Mr. Ski

    If Ski has retired from doing the Logic Pro help gig, it is a well deserved retirement! 😀 I was struggling to notate a held arpeggiated chord (googled and everything). I tried using different voices, breaking up the lengths with user rests and adding my own slurs, phew... Un-clicking "No Overlap" in the score region settings did the trick. This is just one tip from the course of many that were useful to me. I know there is also a good book by Jay Asher. I'll have to track down a used copy (I am assuming it is out of print?).
  5. jamesf

    Hello Mr. Ski

    Hello Mr. Ski, I have been using the Logic Pro score editor for a little while now. Of course, as always happens with software, I was beginning to think that the grass might be greener on the other side. I won't say specifically what software I tried (I'll just say, after many years I "finally" tried it) and wow, I nearly tore my hair out in frustration. Rather than switch, I decided to, instead, take your course on MacProVideo, "Core Training - The Score Editor". It was an excellent course! I now understand how the score editor works from single region to score set. It is really powerful and I discovered that there is not much it can't do from the perspective of creating a score that another musician can read and successfully interpret. As well, my workflow will be greatly sped up. As a bonus, your presentation style was really entertaining and the musical examples sounded great - you are obviously a talented composer. Great course, thanks for creating it!
  6. I have no idea what I'm doing either. I'm living some kind of dream by trying to write music when I have time Your approach sounds solid and I hope you post something here for us to watch when you are finished.
  7. I don't know if this is of any interest to you, but I worked out a very fast and accurate way of establishing cue points in LPX. Basically, take an audio track (it might be a supplied dialogue file, but it can be pretty much anything)and put a scissor cut at every significant visual edit point. Now colour the various sections, so you can easily see each one as an individual entity. Using this guide, you can very easily adjust the tempo of each section to get an exact fit for your film-score, and to cue the intro point of new instruments etc. If it helps you, you can also expand with idea into a full 'spotting' session, by taking notes on the visual content of each section, the sort of emotional feel, approximate tempo, instrumentation etc. You can do all this in LPX, giving you a self-contained project. Thanks for taking the time to share this excellent pro tip. I hope to get more and more into this as time allows.
  8. Thank you for taking the time to listen! I'll have to work more on timing my music to the scene...
  9. Thanks so much for taking the time to listen and comment! That is a great idea. I could have mixed in some of the original sound from the clip! (or perhaps incorporated a violin part to match the chord structure of the cue) Thanks so much for the feedback. All the best, James
  10. I wrote a very short piece and thought it might be fun to turn it into a movie cue. I set it to a scene from an old Sherlock Holmes movie... I am on a journey trying to develop my creative side writing some music. The folks here on Logic Pro Help have been very sharing of their time knowledge and it is much appreciated! Have a great day everyone.
  11. Dear David, Thanks for creating the book and this website. Both have been immensely helpful! Regards, James
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