RECORDED DEMO

Creative Scoring with Stem Files

Putting music to your story is always more complicated than just dragging the right song into your timeline, but it can also be much more fun and creative! Be your own composer with multitrack “stem” files and make the perfect remix for your work.
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Key Takeaways

  • Customizing your tracks with stem files is easy, creative and fun
  • Music can play many different roles in underscoring an audio story
  • You can find tools online quickly that help you in editing multitrack music

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Who is this for? 

Audio producers, folks who work with audio at different stages. Not a lot of expertise is required, but best for folks who have some experience working with sound.
Meet the PRESENTER

Galen Huckins

Galen Huckins is the studio director and composer for Blue Dot Sessions, a music studio based in western Massachusetts that specializes in writing and recording music for audio stories, radio, podcasting and documentary film. His music has been featured in over 10,000 podcasts and in concert across the country. In performance, Galen plays jazz piano and can be found off-season living on a paddlewheel riverboat in the Connecticut River.
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About this demo

  • Thursday, July 11th, 2024
  • 12pm PT / 3pm ET
  • 60 min 
  • Free 
  • This webinar is recorded and made available for AIR members.
Working with stem files and multitracks is a powerful trick to get your work to sound the way you want it. Many top producers rely on multitrack files from the music libraries or the composers they work with to give them the flexibility to align the music perfectly with their vision. Moving around the melody to land right on the important beat of your story, filtering different instruments to sit behind your mix at crucial moments, even creating wildly different songs out of their constituent parts.
Engaging with the music in your story makes a huge difference to the final piece. Blue Dot Sessions multitrack editor tool offers tools for customizing your music and a easy way in deeper to the musical side of your story.