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Published inSep 2023
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ISBN-139781837636891
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Prof. Chris Piorkowski
Prof. Chris Piorkowski
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Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Professor Chris Piorkowski is an award-winning composer, with a Masters in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle in Australia, an MFA majoring in Music Composition for Film, TV and Multimedia from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Media Composition from Music for The Media in London, and another Diploma in Sound Engineering from the Audio Institute of America in San Francisco. He has also studied Film Scoring and Orchestration at Berklee College of Music in Boston as well as Film Music Orchestration Steven Scott Smalley and Jazz Piano with Walter Norris. In his professional life, he has worked on countless projects at the legendary Sound City Studios in Los Angeles scoring over 50 projects for TBN, ShowTime, PBS, and Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek).
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Calculating timings using a DAW

As mentioned earlier, in general, many film composers sketch their ideas on sheet music at a piano before scoring in Logic Pro. The main challenge is to outline the length of music needed that will fit the timing desired. So, before deciding what the music needs to be doing, the goal is to figure out how many bars and what meter the length of the project can fit.

In this section, we will continue working with a 30-second commercial, exploring new ways of calculating timings in Logic Pro. Since we’re dealing with calculating timings, keep in mind that a beat is the steady pulse, a tempo is the rate per second of that pulse, and the time signature is the meter of the pulse.

Suppose you have a cue (music for a scene) that lasts exactly 30 seconds. If you know you want the tempo to be approximately 192 bpm, you could use different methods and formulas to calculate the length of the cue. In the following examples, we will review these different...

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Scoring to Picture in Logic Pro
Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837636891

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Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Professor Chris Piorkowski is an award-winning composer, with a Masters in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle in Australia, an MFA majoring in Music Composition for Film, TV and Multimedia from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Media Composition from Music for The Media in London, and another Diploma in Sound Engineering from the Audio Institute of America in San Francisco. He has also studied Film Scoring and Orchestration at Berklee College of Music in Boston as well as Film Music Orchestration Steven Scott Smalley and Jazz Piano with Walter Norris. In his professional life, he has worked on countless projects at the legendary Sound City Studios in Los Angeles scoring over 50 projects for TBN, ShowTime, PBS, and Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek).
Read more about Prof. Chris Piorkowski