by Alex Pfeffer | Sep 27, 2019 | Business, Composer's Life, Creativity, Marketing, Social Media, Tips
As a composer and sound designer being into the audio business for around 15 years now, I strongly believe that an artist can be more than just applying or waiting to get hired for a potential upcoming gig. While I love every bit of writing video game score, trailer...
by Alex Pfeffer | Aug 19, 2019 | Composer's Life, Creativity, Motivation, Tips, Tutorials
During all these years of writing music, I tested a lot of things about what would be the most efficient or creative method. Here I am sharing my personal top five tips for writing music! Let’s go! 1. Finish your song structure as quick as possible During all...
by Alex Pfeffer | May 21, 2019 | Business, Composer's Life, Creativity, Marketing, Motivation
Music sales are affected by streaming, royalties go down, literally everyone and their mum could write music as long as one owns a decent laptop, some audio software and a few skills. Getting hired becomes more and more difficult because, theoretically, someone from...
by Alex Pfeffer | Apr 11, 2019 | Creativity, Tutorials, Worrying
In this video, I will show you how I work with choir sample libraries. I will lead you through the process of how to set up the choir library itself and how to process the signals to get some decent sounding results.The used choir sample library is Strezov’s...
by Alex Pfeffer | Mar 25, 2019 | Business, Composer's Life, Creativity, Mind Bits
This time, it is really a pleasure to feature and have the LifeBuff questions answered by Thomas Bergersen, Norwegian composer, multi-instrumentalist, and the co-founder of Two Steps From Hell. His compositions have been featured in many motion picture campaigns, such...
by Alex Pfeffer | Mar 1, 2019 | Business, Composer's Life, Creativity, Mind Bits
With these words, I want to introduce an interview series called Mind Bits, and I am incredibly proud to have my first questions answered by none other than Trevor Morris. Trevor Morris is a two-time Emmy award-winning composer for Film, TV and Interactive music and...