Just because he has a very powerful PC.Īgain you should know your computer well to understand will template be comfortable for you to use or not or maybe you will be comfortable with saving instruments and plugins as strip channels, track presets and so on.Īgain if you compose mostly Orchestral music and you have many Kontakt libraries you should understand that each of the library “creates” a huge pressure on your CPU. I guess creating any template in any Daw is depends on how much Ram you have.Ĭuz if you watch any of “Studio time with Junkie XL” videos, Tom has a template in his Cubase around 1000 tracks or so. Obviously, this is a Steinberg situation that only applies to Nuendo and Cubase, but some of the concepts can be adapted to other DAWs. Once I’m happy with everything, I save my session as a template so I can easily use it. You can pin them in the upper section using the divide track feature to keep things clean If you’re creating a template geared towards film scoring, you will need to insert: You can map it to a controller such as a Streamdeck or good old keyboard shortcuts. Tips: I use the track visibility configuration a lot to only display a specific group of instruments, very useful. This way, my template opens instantly when I start a blank project and I enable the instruments as I go. In Cubase/Nuendo you can use the Zones feature (at 1:49) to pin the group tracks on one side in the mixer panel so you can always see them.įor optimization, all my instrument tracks are disabled by default. Percussion groups are a bit different (Perc Low, High, Metal, Keyboard, Ethnic)Īs for the harp and choir, they get their own stems. My woodwinds, brass and strings stems are named as so: Each track is routed to its corresponding group tracks.Īll the tracks are routed to groups so I don’t waste time when I need to do stems, I simply tick the group tracks and within a minute, I have pretty much all my stems.Each family is a folder track that contains the instruments tracks.Tracks organized in orchestral score order and by family: (Woodwinds, Brass, Percs, and Strings).I guess the workflow will depend on which DAW you’re using.