Mike Patti: Finding Balance, Defining Success, and Running Cinesamples

Our guest today is composer, producer, and co-founder of Cinesamples, Mike Patti. Mike started Cinesamples in 2007 when he saw an opportunity to create niche libraries to fill holes in the marketplace. Since then they have grown it to become one of the go to orchestral library developers for composers around the globe. As a composer Mike has done work with Disney Parks and video games such as Starcraft 2 and League of Legends. We have a great chat about composing for media, running a business, anticipating the marketplace, and the importance of defining your own success.

In this episode, we'll dig in on...

• Building inspiring virtual instruments
• Composing for video games
• Finding a mentor, work for your idols
• Writing out your goals and review them
• Score mock-ups
• Growing a team and a business
• Scoring Saturday morning cartoons
• The boring but important idea of retirement

Learn More About Mike Patti and Cinesamples...

Website: https://cinesamples.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cinesamples

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Credits:

Guest: Mike Patti

Host: Travis Ference

Editor: Travis Ference

Theme Music: inter.ference