After the first taste of writing moody cinematic demo tracks, I quickly jumped on board the Sonic Underworld's next soundset Valiant for U-he Zebra and Dark Zebra.
Here's the track
Here is the same track posted under my own profile.
With Desert Scape, I try to go for a feeling of a broad horizon as far as the eye can see, and always being on the move. I think the evolving elements and short percussive sounds give a sense of movement.
Sunday, 18 February 2018
Thursday, 18 January 2018
New Track: Going Down (for Sonic Underworld Meridian)
I'm super excited to be invited to write a demo track for Sonic Underworld! Sonic Underworld is a cinematic sound design company that creates cutting edge synth patches for popular virtual synthesisers, like U-he's Zebra, Diva, Repro, Spectrasonics Omnisphere, and many more.
Here's the track on Sonic Underworld's playlist
Here's the same track under my profile :)
This is my first time writing a demo track for such a big name. I'm naturally very honoured and I do feel the pressure when I was doing this.
Sonic Underworld is very sound-design in nature. My music style has always been far away from ambient and electronic. This was definitely one of the biggest musical challenges I face in the last 3 years of my musical journey.
Meridian is a sound set for U-he Repro 5 synth. It is a sound set with a balanced and overall great sounding set of sounds. Many of the patches invoke a particular mood just playing a single note.
In my track Going Down, I tried to do something dramatic and towards something that can be used in a film's underscore.
I hope you enjoy it!
Here's the track on Sonic Underworld's playlist
Here's the same track under my profile :)
This is my first time writing a demo track for such a big name. I'm naturally very honoured and I do feel the pressure when I was doing this.
Sonic Underworld is very sound-design in nature. My music style has always been far away from ambient and electronic. This was definitely one of the biggest musical challenges I face in the last 3 years of my musical journey.
Meridian is a sound set for U-he Repro 5 synth. It is a sound set with a balanced and overall great sounding set of sounds. Many of the patches invoke a particular mood just playing a single note.
In my track Going Down, I tried to do something dramatic and towards something that can be used in a film's underscore.
I hope you enjoy it!
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Huge Announcement from Cakewalk Sonar
Cakewalk announced huge news today.
Cakewalk Sonar (one of my beloved DAW softwares that I have grown up using for years), has just announced that it will soon be releasing a version that will run on Mac OS !
Also it has announced a time-limited offer for lifetime upgrades, with a one-time payment. The offer to jump on to lifetime upgrades will end 31 Aug 2016. Go to the official website for details and more information. http://www.cakewalk.com/June-2016#SONAR4Life.
I am not a Mac user, have never owned an Apple computer. But I'm still excited. I am glad that musicians on Mac will get one more alternative when choosing their DAW platform, and that the excellent software that Sonar is, will get more exposure and appreciation in the DAW community.
Somehow with this decision to adopt a new OS, I feel Sonar has stepped up to a new status. More widely used, more "international / universal", is the best way I can describe how I see this move.
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Fight Through It!
For all the struggling artists or people picking up a new skill, here's a video to inspire you to keep up the good work, and never give up!
Friday, 16 October 2015
The World's Largest Sound Library is Now Made Public, Online!
From an article on VideoAndFilmmaker.com I came across this amazing piece of news!
The library, housed at Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology, has made available over ten terabytes of recordings, with a runtime of 7513 hours of natural sounds.
Visit the page and take a listen to the amazing library that represents the tremendous effort of a multitude of passionate professionals, spanning lifetimes of effort and dedication.
Monday, 5 October 2015
A Collaboration Album Published on YouTube
I'm proud and excited to present a collection of songs I have been working on, in collaboration with the very talented +Alex Bett. Alex has publised this compilation on YouTube.
The video is embedded here:
In this album, Alex arranges and performs the guitar tracks while I arrange and record the piano, strings and the flute.
Please enjoy and share the love, joy and relaxation.
If you wish to license any of the tracks please feel free to approach +Alex or myself (+Patrick Woo).
Monday, 14 September 2015
Corniche Mega Marshmallow Commercial
Finally, here's my first piece of music scored to a commercial video. It is on the client's official YouTube channel :)
Visuals
This is a full CGI production. All imagery were produced by +Tiny Island Productions.
Music
I wrote the music to already edited visuals. Thus the beats and timing of key moments were timed to the cuts and action. The edit changed a little bit during my scoring to give the establishing shots a bit more time. This actually worked to my advantage, giving me more space to play establish the musical mood as well.
The most difficult part in this project is the fast paced mood changes in the edit. I had to decide how to find the nearest half-bar or full-bar to transit the mood, and whether to transit on the cut. Sometimes it works but at other times it may become too cheesy when timing transitions exactly to the edit.
Sound Design
The sound design was done in collaboration with a partner company. They recorded the effects and voices, timed to the video.
Mixing
My music came up to about 12 - 14 tracks. I created a mix for music, and when the sound effects came back, I gave some final tweaks to make music and sound effects sit better with each other.
Visuals
This is a full CGI production. All imagery were produced by +Tiny Island Productions.
Music
I wrote the music to already edited visuals. Thus the beats and timing of key moments were timed to the cuts and action. The edit changed a little bit during my scoring to give the establishing shots a bit more time. This actually worked to my advantage, giving me more space to play establish the musical mood as well.
The most difficult part in this project is the fast paced mood changes in the edit. I had to decide how to find the nearest half-bar or full-bar to transit the mood, and whether to transit on the cut. Sometimes it works but at other times it may become too cheesy when timing transitions exactly to the edit.
Sound Design
The sound design was done in collaboration with a partner company. They recorded the effects and voices, timed to the video.
Mixing
My music came up to about 12 - 14 tracks. I created a mix for music, and when the sound effects came back, I gave some final tweaks to make music and sound effects sit better with each other.
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