"There´s nothing more disappointing in life than waiting for two bars counting and then screwing up the first note." -Guy Michelmore 2020 Dude, that actually happens to me very often and it´s really, reaaally annoying.
Wish I could be your apprentice, I'm huge into hip hop but the passion mainly goes into music, hence why I see myself watching you often lately, you're so genuine and passionate about this art, on behalf of everyone learning I'd like to thank you for what you do.
I spent day with a producer called Floss P in LA a few years ago and he showed me how hip hop works. Amazing. He worked for Dr Dre at the time. Big respect. Some of Kanye's stuff is so original and well produced, there;s a lot to take away from that too regardless of your genre.
Hey Guy. You weren't exaggerating about the cost of VSL. Eye wateringly expensive but beautiful. Keep up the good work. Yours is the greatest music production channel on CZcams IMO.
It was Shostakovich you were thinking of (Jazz Suite). You were in the right country though! ;-) I'm loving the uploads! I also quite loved the piece you wrote. No sunglasses-of-doubt needed in my opinion.
Thank you very much Guy for this very welcome video! I asked last week for some VSL stuff and here you come with a very good and funny video about it!! :-) and a nice little piece you composed here in no time: amazing! Thank you again for this and all the inspiration and good mood that you bring to us!
"VSL were there right at the start of sampling in 2000". My first foray into sampling was in 1984 with an Apple IIe and the Greengate Sampler. How things have changed since then!! My biggest regret was throwing it in the skip around about the year 2000. Another great video +++
Thanks Guy for this review. I've seen and played many libs of orchestras / choirs etc.. The VSL were always very unique in their way of details. Anyway, what I like to write... What a hard job it must be for the musicians that play in all the samples .
28 minutes of fun, Guy! Thank you! My Opus Horizon lost its voices sometimes for some reason. I have tried different buffer settings without lack. Did you change the factory defaults? May be it's my SSD...
Every single one of your videos is a gem. That being said, some observations: there is some strange high pitched humming sound coming from heaven knows where throughout the video which gives me the feeling Im going crazy - which might be what you're going for so do with that as you will. Also maybe move the mic a weee bit away from your mouth so that it doesnt sound like we're roleplaying as your dentist. Aside from that, I love your content so much you don't understand. Your uncut content is better than most peoples edited stuff. Never change, love from Canada :)
You hinted at it towards the end, but I'd LOVE to see videos about some of your more elaborate pieces (though dashing together something in 20 minutes is fun too)
oh boy the 2 bar count in, yep, do that all the time! i actually watched my first guy michelmore scored film the other day, absolutely loved it by the way, nice to see how your lessons apply!
Really loving the videos Guy. You’re so enthusiastic and such a good motivator! Can I suggest a theme fir a future video Guy? Why not dismantle a piece of music written by a newbie to all this and illustrate what could be done to improve it, whether it be technique or tricks of the trade as it were? I’m quite happy to donate one if my few pieces( only been writing orchestral music a matter of weeks and can’t play an instrument 😆) Any criticism would be welcome but perhaps you could use it as an example of what not to do etc. Not everyone who watches your videos is competent enough to apply for one of your courses. We do it for fun! ( Fun? Haha yeh right!!😄😂😂.). Cheers. Pete
Tiny correction: 18:33 Thats not Prokofiev, that is Shostakovich ;) I absolutely love your videos, which inspire me time and time again to try writing better music, so please don't get me wrong guy, I don't care at all about tiny mistakes like that and I make ten times more of them per day than you do in a whole year, but I also like having them pointed out to me, so I don't repeat them. I hope you continue blessing the world with your awesome content on youtube as well as the great courses over on thinkspaceeducation.com. Thank you very much :)
How do you feel this compares to say spitfire chamber strings or studio strings/woodwinds? I’m about to purchase some spitfire libraries but if you recommend this more I will look into it more. Prefer spend money once then twice
Thats why the future of libraries is not sample-based but synthesized! Great example for this is audio-modeling SWAM Collection. Superb sound & modeling capacities! 😍
No Sir, everything you do is inspirational. I was a heavy metal guitarist but i always wonder how orchestra music is/was arranged. Actually I've learned a lot from you, Sir.
I really like the midi controller track idea for using the key switches. I'd just been making a new track for each articulation, and that works okay, but it can make for a lot of extra tracks.
" - A lot of the time, all I do is knock out little bits of nonsense like this, and think... iS tHaT aLl YoU dO?/?1!!? No it's not! - I better get on that, otherwise you'll lose confidence in me" I don't mean to blow up your ego, but what you've made here in this short video is LEAPS better than what a lot of people can do in 20x that time (myself included!), and *BOUNDS* better than what most novices can do, period. This was a hilarious but educationally fun video. I'd love a great sample library like this, but I suck at music, so I could never justify a purchase like this. You make short work of it through sheer skill and experience ^-^
There seems to be a very quiet high-pitched "A" throughout the video. Are you trying subliminally to give everyone perfect pitch by prolonged exposure??
@guy at 26.20 you ralk about the "classic mistake".. could you do a whole episode about how to manage this as I often have issues trying to work out what I'm playing and why something sounds off?
I took the plunge and updated my SE bundle with the SYNCHRON-ized versions taking advantage of the current sale... Seemed like a bad time to spend hours on VI Pro expression maps when they are pushing the new interface. We’ll see if it was worth selling body parts.
Great stuff. Yes, it would be good to see some more videos on articulation use. I'm sure you could've blamed Hans or John who must be knocking around in the cupboard somewhere!? Oh and it needed more Piccolo.. naturally. I'm a Logic user but doesn't Cubase have midi chase scan for additional midi channels? Wondered if that might save you having to jump back each time? Anyway, loved it as always and was perfectly timed for a cool down in front of the fan. 🙏
I started with VSL (I've been to Herb Tucmandl's first studio, the Silent Stage in Ebreichsdorf, to do some research on how to record string instruments. I think it was in 2007. Herb is a nice guy, he explained every step of the recording process) The Silent Stage was REALLY silent...and very dry. That's why his samples are so precise. All the details didn't get washed away by reverb. When I searched for alternatives during the last couple of years I was pretty disappointed by the quality of other woodwind libraries out there. Not bad per se but just not in the same league.
Thanks from Vienna! We also love good tea but coffee is more prominent here. For tea lovers I recommend this shop (if you ever come by here): www.teegschwendner.at/tee/shop_sb.mfpx
VSL Special Edition is absolutely worth it. Especially great is the wwodeind legatos where you can also tweak it to have the velocity layers on a slider instead (assigned to modwheel or a fader), very expressive and realistic. I’ve used it A LOT in all my professional soundtracks ever since it was first released.
Thank you for answering en passent a question I'd had about the fancy new keyboard. I'd been hoping the key lights might delineate the instrument range and switch notes, but they clearly do not. What a pity. 😢
What I mean is;......could you reproduce this on a keyboard, tare it apart, teach theory and instil into your audience to not be afraid to take on huge orchestral arrangements such as this.....and furthermore to prove that today's modern keyboard and software is up to the challenge.....I believe it is....I believe you are the man that can prove that theory!
This kind of an effect track concept was exactly what I was looking for. Being a "traditional" composer (I learned it at music academy, styles from 15th to 21st century), I use a scoring app such as Sibelius or Dorico and create a score what what I got in my mind. Now I have a way to work on the midi files. However: How to do that for piano, where all keys are used?
I can't stand key switches. I use Spitfire libraries. You can switch articulations with CC32 (UACC). I work with reaper, so I've made custom actions (using someone else's script) that insert a cc32 value to the selected note. So, I just play the line, and then select the notes i want, press a button and the articulation is set, and locks. Plus, doing it this way, there is no problem like the one you had in 10:20, you don't have to play before the keyswitch note to activate the articulation. I can make a short screen capture video if you're interested in seeing this in action. As always, thank you for the video Guy!
With thigns like VSL with SO many articulations you;re right but this new system is a vast improvement over the original one. Im not a huge fan of articulation IDs and expression maps but in this case they are probably the best option
By the way, you can change the way of switching articulations in the synchron player to a cc controller as well. This whole dimension tree is fully customizable and can even set up your own presets from ground off since they give you the single patches as well ;-)
Hello ,, ... Could you make a video ... showing different articulations of an instrument and how to handle it in the DAW ... for example .. on a track., .. a violin? .... in kontakt, ............ Thanks
Articulation maps are definitely more convenient than key switches and are not so difficult to program, in Logic at least. I did mines for BBC SO quite easily. I use keyswitches, which are mapped on the "drum pads" of my keylab keyboard, only when I'm trying some ideas without recording. Furthermore using articulation maps instead keyswitches gives you the possibility to have a different articulation for each note of a chord; for instance a string chord triad, with 2 notes played as "long" and the 3rd one with a tremolo. Or mixing staccato notes with spicato ones in short chords. Idem with the brass ad woodwinds, cuivré + longs, etc...
@@ThinkSpaceEducation Do you think that MPE instruments, like the ROLI Seaboard, might be the future of making these already very capable libraries even more expressive?
With the previous version of the Special Editions (and other libraries), VSL actually provide expression maps for them, so no need to go to Babylon Waves! The VSL expression maps are actually superior to those from Babylon Waves, as they work the way you would expect them to work in real life, with some articulations being direction articulations, and others being attribute articulations. Direct articulations keep on applying (so sustain will keep playing until you switch to tremolo, or short etc.), whereas attribute articulations apply only to the note (so an accent, or a trill only applies to single notes, as it would in real life, and as you probably want it to), before reverting to what was already there before. Even better, you can have multiple direction articulations simultaneously (and attribute articulations as well), so switching on sordino will give you sordino versions of sustains, and shorts, and tremolos - all the other articulation types are unaffected. It might be worth asking those nice people at VSL whether they have created expression maps for their Synchron Player versions of Special Edition, as they are a better solution (if Cubase Specific - though Logic have similar sorts of functionality too) than the extra Midi track solution you demonstrate
I have twice watched this video. There are a lot of great ideas, but how can I use these techniques in Dorico -- or any other notation program -- where using key switches is impractical?
In my own experience, it is much easier to write in the key switches by hand. I would recommend keeping them stretched out under all the relevant notes, then you are not forced to start playing the piece at a specific point.
Interesting as always but severely marred by that high-pitched whine in the audio track - I’m surprised I found only one mention of it in the comments!
Hello Guy, I see you have upgraded to The NI S61 keyboard (Thinking of doing the same). I recognise the Akai but what are the other two controllers that are sitting on top of your keyboard? Sorry, I'm a terrible gear nerd :/
@Guy Michelmore hey Guy, what would you recommend for a realistic solo and ensemble string libraries that you can automate the vibrato and that the sound fits the fantasy genre, like the strings heard in the Game of Thrones or Elder Scrolls soundtracks?
Strings always seem to hog the limelight so it often feels a bit like back of the queue for the woodies but VSL spare no expense there. The flirtists are good but I do love a good bassoon. PS - I wouldn't worry about the music content, Guy. We know you have pedigree credentials, and besides, this is light entertainment and a cuppa time :)
I have great respect for VSL, especially VEPro and Mir Pro. Of all the sample makers out there, I feel the VSL player is of the best design. However, I really want to have the same enthusiasm about their samples. More to Guy's point, VSL offers more articulations than any library. Frustratingly, I feel VSL's actual samples lack realism. Not all of them, but enough to keep my purchase at bay.
Oh, no! Guy, now you’ll have to deal with John Williams lawyer and Shostakovich lawyer for playing their tunes, and with Prokofiev lawyer for having him mistaken for Shostakovich! 3 lawyers 1 vid. Nice vid though! 👍
Loved your comment .. A button for "Get me a cup of tea" .. You know .. why not Guy. We have online games with buttons ingame for "Pizza" wich will order a Pizza from PizzaHut" :p
I think that is due to the articulation. There is less dynamic variety when you play sforzato...after all, it means "with force". I use the Vienna Instruments Pro sampler and when I load a sforzato patch I ride the expression controller to lower the volume.
@@Mansardian I do not own VSL but there are actually some libraries wich by default ignore key velocity, as most users control dynamics via expression/modulation mapped to faders. Thanks for your answer! It's a bit funny as Guy points ou how long he uses VSL before tha part and says "That's how you do it!" and switches to a new topic as he seemingly notices that the dynamics did not change. ;)
"Could you bare a bit more?" I could watch hours of this, Guy. Honestly have no need to worry about us
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate that even at the beach this man offers multiple camera angles? King.
This is one of the only channels in this subject matter where I'm just constantly smiling the whole time. Thanks Guy!
"There´s nothing more disappointing in life than waiting for two bars counting and then screwing up the first note."
-Guy Michelmore 2020
Dude, that actually happens to me very often and it´s really, reaaally annoying.
I think it's safe to say that if you're a musician, you've done this at LEAST once haha. We've all been there!
Actually Guy, I have a hard time counting in two bars, then failing to play a single not at all. But, alas, I keep trying.
Wish I could be your apprentice, I'm huge into hip hop but the passion mainly goes into music, hence why I see myself watching you often lately, you're so genuine and passionate about this art, on behalf of everyone learning I'd like to thank you for what you do.
I spent day with a producer called Floss P in LA a few years ago and he showed me how hip hop works. Amazing. He worked for Dr Dre at the time. Big respect. Some of Kanye's stuff is so original and well produced, there;s a lot to take away from that too regardless of your genre.
Hi Guy, just to say, it was really nice seeing your dad on a nostalgic travel programme a few nights ago on iPlayer. God bless me ol' mucca. :-)
Hey Guy. You weren't exaggerating about the cost of VSL. Eye wateringly expensive but beautiful. Keep up the good work. Yours is the greatest music production channel on CZcams IMO.
I'm amused by this class. I'll try to apply all learned to my productions from now on
It was Shostakovich you were thinking of (Jazz Suite).
You were in the right country though! ;-)
I'm loving the uploads! I also quite loved the piece you wrote.
No sunglasses-of-doubt needed in my opinion.
Thank you very much Guy for this very welcome video! I asked last week for some VSL stuff and here you come with a very good and funny video about it!! :-) and a nice little piece you composed here in no time: amazing! Thank you again for this and all the inspiration and good mood that you bring to us!
"They would expire, and that'd be sad"
Ho wow, damn
So many videos in the past week, absolutely loving it! Keep em coming! :)
We are aiming for two a week where possible!
How to sound more realistic series of videos? I would buy that for a dollar...👍 well done Guy.
Yes I should do more on this kind of stuff, there are so many different techniques to look at
@@ThinkSpaceEducation Yes please🤞
"VSL were there right at the start of sampling in 2000". My first foray into sampling was in 1984 with an Apple IIe and the Greengate Sampler. How things have changed since then!! My biggest regret was throwing it in the skip around about the year 2000. Another great video +++
Wow! I bought an ensoniq mirage. That cost a ridiculous amount
You are both educational and entertaining - Great work - Cheers
I would make tea for Guy even if I had to take a train from Mars!
First to say thank you, Guy, for these!!
Well done
I was tired because of my damn cold, your video put a smile on my face. I guess music can cure anything. Thank you so much, Guy☺☺☺☺
Get well!
@@ThinkSpaceEducation Thank you, I think I feel better already!:)
Guy, love your energy, and appreciate your passion for sound.
I'm only a modest hobby "composer". Just want to tell you how inspiring your videos are. Huge thanks for sharing all this knowledge and skills!
I'm library shopping and this helped. Thank you!
18:50 dimitri shostakovich
Thanks Guy for this review. I've seen and played many libs of orchestras / choirs etc.. The VSL were always very unique in their way of details. Anyway, what I like to write... What a hard job it must be for the musicians that play in all the samples .
Thank you !!! I just bought the Vsl synchronized SE1 and SE plus and Art Conductor/ Babylon waves and I'm having a great time...
28 minutes of fun, Guy! Thank you!
My Opus Horizon lost its voices sometimes for some reason. I have tried different buffer settings without lack. Did you change the factory defaults? May be it's my SSD...
18:33 it’s shostakovich 😅
Someone else mentioned they were hearing some Peter and the Wolf in this so maybe he wasn't completely off with Prokofiev 😛
HariBro Well, I am not a listener of Prokofiav, but I am sure this is Shostakovich's tune, the second waltz is one of the most popular melodies.
@@adamnayf235 Yes, you're correct in that regard, I wasn't trying to argue against that
@@adamnayf235 It was Shostakovich :p czcams.com/video/p_fprzrHvIM/video.html
Glad ppl are pointing this out. Highly offensive of him to rob Shostakovich of his most famous composition 😤
Every single one of your videos is a gem. That being said, some observations: there is some strange high pitched humming sound coming from heaven knows where throughout the video which gives me the feeling Im going crazy - which might be what you're going for so do with that as you will. Also maybe move the mic a weee bit away from your mouth so that it doesnt sound like we're roleplaying as your dentist. Aside from that, I love your content so much you don't understand. Your uncut content is better than most peoples edited stuff. Never change, love from Canada :)
Yes sometimes things done in haste have problems. The high pitched sound is actually my brain.
You hinted at it towards the end, but I'd LOVE to see videos about some of your more elaborate pieces (though dashing together something in 20 minutes is fun too)
Dude! I’m so excited for you to “address the glaring hole in this CZcams channel!” I love this format also though.
oh boy the 2 bar count in, yep, do that all the time! i actually watched my first guy michelmore scored film the other day, absolutely loved it by the way, nice to see how your lessons apply!
Really loving the videos Guy. You’re so enthusiastic and such a good motivator! Can I suggest a theme fir a future video Guy? Why not dismantle a piece of music written by a newbie to all this and illustrate what could be done to improve it, whether it be technique or tricks of the trade as it were? I’m quite happy to donate one if my few pieces( only been writing orchestral music a matter of weeks and can’t play an instrument 😆) Any criticism would be welcome but perhaps you could use it as an example of what not to do etc. Not everyone who watches your videos is competent enough to apply for one of your courses. We do it for fun! ( Fun? Haha yeh right!!😄😂😂.). Cheers. Pete
Tiny correction: 18:33 Thats not Prokofiev, that is Shostakovich ;)
I absolutely love your videos, which inspire me time and time again to try writing better music, so please don't get me wrong guy, I don't care at all about tiny mistakes like that and I make ten times more of them per day than you do in a whole year, but I also like having them pointed out to me, so I don't repeat them.
I hope you continue blessing the world with your awesome content on youtube as well as the great courses over on thinkspaceeducation.com.
Thank you very much :)
Honestly, I love programming articulations, although it’ll kill my creativity if I’m tired.
How do you feel this compares to say spitfire chamber strings or studio strings/woodwinds? I’m about to purchase some spitfire libraries but if you recommend this more I will look into it more. Prefer spend money once then twice
Thats why the future of libraries is not sample-based but synthesized! Great example for this is audio-modeling SWAM Collection. Superb sound & modeling capacities! 😍
No Sir, everything you do is inspirational. I was a heavy metal guitarist but i always wonder how orchestra music is/was arranged. Actually I've learned a lot from you, Sir.
Great - ultimately music is music
I really like the midi controller track idea for using the key switches. I'd just been making a new track for each articulation, and that works okay, but it can make for a lot of extra tracks.
" - A lot of the time, all I do is knock out little bits of nonsense like this, and think... iS tHaT aLl YoU dO?/?1!!? No it's not! - I better get on that, otherwise you'll lose confidence in me"
I don't mean to blow up your ego, but what you've made here in this short video is LEAPS better than what a lot of people can do in 20x that time (myself included!), and *BOUNDS* better than what most novices can do, period. This was a hilarious but educationally fun video. I'd love a great sample library like this, but I suck at music, so I could never justify a purchase like this. You make short work of it through sheer skill and experience ^-^
There seems to be a very quiet high-pitched "A" throughout the video. Are you trying subliminally to give everyone perfect pitch by prolonged exposure??
Bad mic/ACs be like that lmao
Hey guy if you can please make the How to make melody’s video that would be great
@guy at 26.20 you ralk about the "classic mistake".. could you do a whole episode about how to manage this as I often have issues trying to work out what I'm playing and why something sounds off?
Thanks Guy, the sun is shining on you.
it is
26:03 Useful comment, Guy. Thank you!
I thought the red button phenomenon, only happened to me? Thanks Guy.
Everyone has red button syndrome
Inception video idea...A video where you make a new theme for your "sponsor" Learn Music Theory course. :)
I took the plunge and updated my SE bundle with the SYNCHRON-ized versions taking advantage of the current sale... Seemed like a bad time to spend hours on VI Pro expression maps when they are pushing the new interface. We’ll see if it was worth selling body parts.
Synchron is a major improvement. Check out Babylon waves expfression maps they've just done VSL SE Synchron edition
Many, many thanks, Guy Michelmore. Will do 🙏🏼
Fantastic! Their maps come with option to use Cubase articulations or direction!
@@rockstarjazzcat you are best to use a combination of both (in multiple lanes)
Charles Gaskell thanks! What’s the use case you have in mind? Scoring?
Hey, guy. Really enjoying your videos.
Jazz thingy Waltz No. 2 is by Shostakovich.
I know - someone just told me and I instantly remembered the way you do when you half remember something
Great stuff. Yes, it would be good to see some more videos on articulation use.
I'm sure you could've blamed Hans or John who must be knocking around in the cupboard somewhere!?
Oh and it needed more Piccolo.. naturally.
I'm a Logic user but doesn't Cubase have midi chase scan for additional midi channels? Wondered if that might save you having to jump back each time?
Anyway, loved it as always and was perfectly timed for a cool down in front of the fan. 🙏
Is it just me or does Vienna winds just blow any Spitfire winds out of the water??
Vienna winds are my go to
I started with VSL (I've been to Herb Tucmandl's first studio, the Silent Stage in Ebreichsdorf, to do some research on how to record string instruments. I think it was in 2007. Herb is a nice guy, he explained every step of the recording process) The Silent Stage was REALLY silent...and very dry. That's why his samples are so precise. All the details didn't get washed away by reverb. When I searched for alternatives during the last couple of years I was pretty disappointed by the quality of other woodwind libraries out there. Not bad per se but just not in the same league.
Important question: How can you put wheel and slider actions into such a track?
Not sure what the tea is like in Vienna, can't remember. They have some lovely coffee shops though and their lager is pretty good!! 🍻
Thanks from Vienna! We also love good tea but coffee is more prominent here. For tea lovers I recommend this shop (if you ever come by here): www.teegschwendner.at/tee/shop_sb.mfpx
@@Mansardian Will have to try it next time, it's been too long. Lovely city! Especially like the Film Festival at the Rathaus in Summer.
VSL Special Edition is absolutely worth it. Especially great is the wwodeind legatos where you can also tweak it to have the velocity layers on a slider instead (assigned to modwheel or a fader), very expressive and realistic. I’ve used it A LOT in all my professional soundtracks ever since it was first released.
Totally agree!
Thank you for answering en passent a question I'd had about the fancy new keyboard. I'd been hoping the key lights might delineate the instrument range and switch notes, but they clearly do not. What a pity. 😢
That shed is my dream. lol. Would be wonderful to have that.
Entertaining, Great humor
I love your personality bro
Thx
What I mean is;......could you reproduce this on a keyboard, tare it apart, teach theory and instil into your audience to not be afraid to take on huge orchestral arrangements such as this.....and furthermore to prove that today's modern keyboard and software is up to the challenge.....I believe it is....I believe you are the man that can prove that theory!
Guy I adore you and you always bring me joy to me but I need to say that actually it was Shostakovich Waltz 2 :D
Yup so I gather
yes thanks,was asking myself yesterday, How !
You said “you can make a cup of tea” as I was making a cup of tea
Oh man, i was actually drinking a cup of tea!!
If you haven't, could you do a video showing the process how you go from a client's brief to the final production delivered?
Yes I should talk about client briefs
This song turned out really nicely, so much so I had to stop what I was doing to write this comment.
YOU REALLY ARE HILARIOUS!!!! Bravo sir !!!
thx
This was fantastic, thank you!
Hmmm. I have Vienna Instrument Pro with the SEs. Do they work on the Synchron player, and is it less unfathomable? Thank, new suvscriber.
This kind of an effect track concept was exactly what I was looking for. Being a "traditional" composer (I learned it at music academy, styles from 15th to 21st century), I use a scoring app such as Sibelius or Dorico and create a score what what I got in my mind. Now I have a way to work on the midi files. However: How to do that for piano, where all keys are used?
I can't stand key switches.
I use Spitfire libraries. You can switch articulations with CC32 (UACC). I work with reaper, so I've made custom actions (using someone else's script) that insert a cc32 value to the selected note. So, I just play the line, and then select the notes i want, press a button and the articulation is set, and locks. Plus, doing it this way, there is no problem like the one you had in 10:20, you don't have to play before the keyswitch note to activate the articulation.
I can make a short screen capture video if you're interested in seeing this in action.
As always, thank you for the video Guy!
With thigns like VSL with SO many articulations you;re right but this new system is a vast improvement over the original one. Im not a huge fan of articulation IDs and expression maps but in this case they are probably the best option
By the way, you can change the way of switching articulations in the synchron player to a cc controller as well. This whole dimension tree is fully customizable and can even set up your own presets from ground off since they give you the single patches as well ;-)
@@MrHappyPaddy that's very good to know, thanks!
No problem. If you wanna give it a try, I think they now do have demo lisences of their products ;-)
Hello ,, ... Could you make a video ... showing different articulations of an instrument and how to handle it in the DAW ... for example .. on a track., .. a violin? .... in kontakt, ............ Thanks
Lets start a petition for a "get me a cup of tea" slider. Impossible? No. It's necessary.
sign me up
will never lose confidence in you :)
Thank you Linda!
Articulation maps are definitely more convenient than key switches and are not so difficult to program, in Logic at least. I did mines for BBC SO quite easily.
I use keyswitches, which are mapped on the "drum pads" of my keylab keyboard, only when I'm trying some ideas without recording.
Furthermore using articulation maps instead keyswitches gives you the possibility to have a different articulation for each note of a chord; for instance a string chord triad, with 2 notes played as "long" and the 3rd one with a tremolo. Or mixing staccato notes with spicato ones in short chords. Idem with the brass ad woodwinds, cuivré + longs, etc...
With VSL I would agree. Spitfire I manage fine with keyswitches but the more options the more you need a different system
@@ThinkSpaceEducation Do you think that MPE instruments, like the ROLI Seaboard, might be the future of making these already very capable libraries even more expressive?
At 18:24 the Bassoon melody isn' t chostakovitch?
love your vibe!
We flautists appreciate your concern. :D
:)
With the previous version of the Special Editions (and other libraries), VSL actually provide expression maps for them, so no need to go to Babylon Waves! The VSL expression maps are actually superior to those from Babylon Waves, as they work the way you would expect them to work in real life, with some articulations being direction articulations, and others being attribute articulations. Direct articulations keep on applying (so sustain will keep playing until you switch to tremolo, or short etc.), whereas attribute articulations apply only to the note (so an accent, or a trill only applies to single notes, as it would in real life, and as you probably want it to), before reverting to what was already there before. Even better, you can have multiple direction articulations simultaneously (and attribute articulations as well), so switching on sordino will give you sordino versions of sustains, and shorts, and tremolos - all the other articulation types are unaffected.
It might be worth asking those nice people at VSL whether they have created expression maps for their Synchron Player versions of Special Edition, as they are a better solution (if Cubase Specific - though Logic have similar sorts of functionality too) than the extra Midi track solution you demonstrate
See www.steinberg.net/en/support/content_and_accessories/expression_maps_for_vst_expression.html
They have.
I have twice watched this video. There are a lot of great ideas, but how can I use these techniques in Dorico -- or any other notation program -- where using key switches is impractical?
Show us your Fl studio skills Guy 😁
What is the difference between the free and the paid synchrone plyers?
In my own experience, it is much easier to write in the key switches by hand. I would recommend keeping them stretched out under all the relevant notes, then you are not forced to start playing the piece at a specific point.
This is great.. When is the next live!!
Genius ... Love it!!
Those first 4 notes -> Howl's Moving Castle. Maybe in a different key, idk, haven't had any ear training.
love that score
Interesting as always but severely marred by that high-pitched whine in the audio track - I’m surprised I found only one mention of it in the comments!
Possibly a fan to keep him cool?
the sound of my brain overheating
There is a faint high pitched noise in the audio of this video and it's driving me nuts.
What's a flautist's expiration time?
I'm hearing 'Peter and the Wolf' in there.
Hello Guy,
I see you have upgraded to The NI S61 keyboard (Thinking of doing the same). I recognise the Akai but what are the other two controllers that are sitting on top of your keyboard?
Sorry, I'm a terrible gear nerd :/
His last video (before this one) goes over his hardware
“Come on Jeeves, we’ve got to sneak in to the Generallisimo’s pantry!
Would really like to se more BBCSO (core) videos
@Guy Michelmore hey Guy, what would you recommend for a realistic solo and ensemble string libraries that you can automate the vibrato and that the sound fits the fantasy genre, like the strings heard in the Game of Thrones or Elder Scrolls soundtracks?
Berlin and Spitfire
Strings always seem to hog the limelight so it often feels a bit like back of the queue for the woodies but VSL spare no expense there. The flirtists are good but I do love a good bassoon. PS - I wouldn't worry about the music content, Guy. We know you have pedigree credentials, and besides, this is light entertainment and a cuppa time :)
(19:22) a little bit of Bach’s “die kunst der fuge”
I have great respect for VSL, especially VEPro and Mir Pro. Of all the sample makers out there, I feel the VSL player is of the best design. However, I really want to have the same enthusiasm about their samples. More to Guy's point, VSL offers more articulations than any library. Frustratingly, I feel VSL's actual samples lack realism. Not all of them, but enough to keep my purchase at bay.
Oh, no! Guy, now you’ll have to deal with John Williams lawyer and Shostakovich lawyer for playing their tunes, and with Prokofiev lawyer for having him mistaken for Shostakovich! 3 lawyers 1 vid. Nice vid though! 👍
Damn you're right!
Loved your comment .. A button for "Get me a cup of tea" .. You know .. why not Guy.
We have online games with buttons ingame for "Pizza" wich will order a Pizza from PizzaHut" :p
Nice!
Did he say "pavilion waves" @7:43 if anyone knows please help
Errr ... can it be that VSL doesn't react at all to your velocity changes at 10:26?
I think that is due to the articulation. There is less dynamic variety when you play sforzato...after all, it means "with force". I use the Vienna Instruments Pro sampler and when I load a sforzato patch I ride the expression controller to lower the volume.
@@Mansardian I do not own VSL but there are actually some libraries wich by default ignore key velocity, as most users control dynamics via expression/modulation mapped to faders. Thanks for your answer! It's a bit funny as Guy points ou how long he uses VSL before tha part and says "That's how you do it!" and switches to a new topic as he seemingly notices that the dynamics did not change. ;)
But why would you need this if you got BBC SO, bro?