Award-winning composer Walter Mair offers a fascinating insight into the creative process behind his dark, epic score for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III — from using Spitfire libraries to write his pitch, through to live recordings with the London Contemporary Orchestra at AIR Studios and unique processing techniques for the game's main themes.

Sounds heard in this video:
London Contemporary Orchestra Strings - https://www.spitfireaudio.com/london-...
Hammers - https://www.spitfireaudio.com/hammers
Abbey Road One Orchestral Foundations - https://www.spitfireaudio.com/abbey-r...
Olafur Arnalds Evolutions - https://www.spitfireaudio.com/olafur-...
Resonate - https://www.spitfireaudio.com/resonate
Albion Solstice - https://www.spitfireaudio.com/albion-...
Spitfire Symphonic Strings Evolutions - https://www.spitfireaudio.com/spitfir...
Albion Neo - https://www.spitfireaudio.com/albion-neo

Video Chapters:
00:01 Intro
01:11 Initial pitch playback (demo)
02:10 The Brief
02:42 Brass
03:16 Strings/Evos
05:45 Percussion
06:56 Stratus
08:23 Main theme playback (Spitfire libraries only)
09:05 Live cello
09:53 Live strings - LCO at AIR Studios
11:45 Studio gear
12:22 Synths/modular
12:57 Main theme playback - final cue
14:31 Scoring for film & TV
15:17 The Makarov theme
15:54 Percussion - Resonate and string drum
18:02 Modular rig
19:30 Live strings - LCO at AIR Studios
20:49 - Spitfire LCO Strings library
21:32 Mixing & post-production
23:50 Outro

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