Sifter Studios

30/07/2022

So over the last three years I've secretly been learning Game Development, participating in game jams and learning through some great and some not that great online courses.

After completing 10ish smaller projects I've (still secretly) started on my own solo project that's a little bigger in scope.

More info about this is to come, but for now, here's me testing out different surface sounds when BART, the protagonist of this linear narrative puzzler, walks.

(And don't mind the violin floating in the air, I'll get to that shortly..!)

15/04/2022

What's a Sifter? 🤔 Hear a little more about the backstory of my company name and ethos.. -

I’ve told some of you that have been following me for a long time why earlier, but that was a different newsletter at a very different time.

07/04/2022

Wrote some insight on what's been going on in my life lately..
I'll be trying to up my emailing game in the coming weeks, and will be giving away more templates and other goodies there. So if you'd like me to poke your inbox there's a link to sign up in the letter itself! :)
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Gives me a little perspective on things.

20/10/2021

Quick video answering how I made my color setup in cubase/nuendo. Might be of use! :)

Kontakt Multi Out in CUBASE - How do you get it to work, what settings can you use? Let's find out! :D-------------------------------------------------------...

04/05/2021

Alright, it's been a while, but here we are again. I'm Answering a question from a viewer today; how to get Kontakt multi-out to work in cubase. Pretty straightforward, but there's a little catch that I had forgotten myself, since you only need to do it once.

Kontakt Multi Out in CUBASE - How do you get it to work, what settings can you use? Let's find out! :D-------------------------------------------------------...

08/02/2021

HEYHEY! New video out today, talking about this sort of stuff:

So as many of you guys and girls I own way too many synths and instruments which in and of themselves have lots of presets to sort through. I love presets as a creative starting point, but that's not the discussion I want to have today.
Today I want to talk about how to ORGANIZE these presets in a way that make sense.

And of course, different companies use different systems to sort your presets. I'm having a look at u-he's favorite system (8 different colors, one can be assigned per preset) and Spectrasonics' Omnisphere 5-star-ranking system. This also applies to Cubase's Mediabay and the same system can be applied to that as well.

I've never understood the point of a 5-star ranking system if one is using it in the traditional "0-star is bad" and "5-star is good", simply because I wouldn't want to use something that it "middle-of-the-road", or 3 stars, in a song I'm producing. For me it makes no sense!

So instead I treat the 5 stars just like I treat the u-he system, and that means all possibilities, 0 through 5 stars, all have meaning and you're not left with a vacuum where 1 star means trash and 5 stars means perfection and everything in between never gets used.

So here's MY system. In the video I explain where I'm coming from and why this works for me and my workflow, yours could and probably should be a little different. OR if you want to use the exact same thing, I won't stop you of course.

U-he favorites sorting:

Black = Bass
Brown = Leads
Organge = Arps
Red = Angry/Agressive
Purple = Tense/Spy/Horror
Dark Blue = Sad/Drama
Light Blue = Light/Shimmery
Green = Happy

My five-star rating sorting:
0 = Unsorted/Trash
1 = Bass
2 = Arp/Sequenced
3 = Drums
4 = Pads
5 = Leads

Here's a link to the video where I unpack this a little bit more and show some examples!
Thanks for reading! :D

27/01/2021

New video out today detailing how to incorporate outboard synthesizers into a Cubase workflow over MIDI. Enjoy!

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21/01/2021

New MASSIVE video about working to picture in cubase is out now, check it out below! :)

08/01/2021

Out with a new video today, looking at another strategy for making music from the same book as last week. Todays task was to start with the foundation; drums and bass. Enjoy! :D

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15/12/2020

New video out today! More nerdy cubase stuff. Answering a particular question about how I set up my showing and hiding of my folders, by library or section type.

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14/12/2020

Starting a new series today, over on https://twitch.tv/sifterstudios where I will be making music using the creative strategies from Ableton's amazing book about the subject of STARTING, CONTINUING and FINISHING music

Music Production, Mixing, and Film music composition from a full-time working musician! You're more than welcome to interact and ask questions! Get in touch with me at www.sifterstudios.no

01/12/2020

New video out, actually lots of new videos. But THIS one about the Project Logical Editor in Cubase..
Please check out if you’re using Cubase, you just might be inspired to take some steps to SAVE TIME! Which is a GREAT deal in this business! 🙂

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