loved this deepdive. Your way of explaining and demonstrating how this works is super helpful. so thankyou! those sounds you got at 18/19 minutes was very interesting.
Really impressive video, thanks for the information. It is starting to make a lot of sense now. I especially loved the 'childrens playground' sounds when you first generated it. Those little bleeps and bloops and schloops were wonderful! All the best to you!
Thanks Robert, yeah tools as complex and abstract as this can take a while to get to grips but I'm glad I could get you on that road :) Have a heck of a lot of fun making your own strange sounds!
I'm an AFX fanboy from year dot. I also make tracks at home, albeit on hardware. Time for some sacrilege.. I had a dream this morning, when falling asleep to this vid, that I was chatting to an old DJ buddy and I was like - well didn't Aphex just make up his own glitch anyway? I don't think I'd use it! But then It kicked out a jam of It Takes Two (Rob Base version) with a cool backing from Ashley's Roachclip and I liked that. But it was doing a more Melodyne thing, this seems a bit too chaotic - but hey for free I can't complain. Just need to get a pc now 🤖 It was nice watching you walk through it though, and getting your impressions of it through proper speakers and making sense of the technical wording, thanks.
Hi Spherical, I am happy you got some benefit from the video :) It is a mad tool, and with the right source and target material you could, I'm sure, produce something which sounds less chaotic than the sounds in the video. I might look at doing another video around a more stable sounding output. Time for a PC!
@@cinningbao hey excellent, thanks for getting back to us. I knew I was being too dismissive- just call me Grumble Bum Pumpy Grants (actually that's quite a mouth full). Must of been the mood I woke in 🥱 It was actually pleasant watching you with it and I look forward to more if you do. For a free source of infinite new Aphex possibilities on tap it can't be bad eh.
thanks so much for the reply. i managed to make it work with wav files but i tryied to download an audio ftom youtube video and i fail to put it in the sample brain...i tried to change the audio format to wav but nothing changes.. coul be of any help?@@cinningbao
Thanks for your insights into this products layout and function explanations. I now have a better understanding of my options when using samplebrain again.
thanks :) there are 2 ways to capture the output: 1. hit the big red record button and it should bring up a file window where you can name and locate the output file. As soon as you hit "Save" SB will start doing its thing and recording the output to a file with the name you chose, in the folder you chose. 2. or you could use a routing program, like blackhole on macOS for example, by hitting the cog in SB interface, change the output device to BlackHole2ch, and set up the input of your recording software (audacity or Logic for example) to be Blackhole2ch. monitor the channel to make sure its coming through, then hit record and capture the output! I will likely do a short video to show this very soon, but only on macOS; I don't have a windows machine here. ----edit I should add that the output files are mono. so if you don't turn on the "Stereo" button you'll get one file, but if you hit the "stereo" button, you'll 2 files, one for the left side and one for the right side. Inn order to hear your stereo output you'll need to load them into a DAW or audio playback program to hear them at the same time.
thanks :) there are 2 ways to capture the output: 1. hit the big red record button and it should bring up a file window where you can name and locate the output file. As soon as you hit "Save" SB will start doing its thing and recording the output to a file with the name you chose, in the folder you chose. 2. or you could use a routing program, like blackhole on macOS for example, by hitting the cog in SB interface, change the output device to BlackHole2ch, and set up the input of your recording software (audacity or Logic for example) to be Blackhole2ch. monitor the channel to make sure its coming through, then hit record and capture the output! I will likely do a short video to show this very soon, but only on macOS; I don't have a windows machine here. I hope some of the helped in the meantime ----edit I should add that the output files are mono. so if you don't turn on the "Stereo" button you'll get one file, but if you hit the "stereo" button, you'll 2 files, one for the left side and one for the right side. Inn order to hear your stereo output you'll need to load them into a DAW or audio playback program to hear them at the same time.
Haha, me too! Although this isn't strictly a VST plugin ( it can't be hosted in Cubase or Logic for example) it's certainly one of the weirdest sound manipulators we've seen for quite a while!
Great overview, I definitely got to tweak some sounds 😅, due to your clear yet just dive in approach with out ponceing about with brain fart theories, cheers .
Does he mention what hardware he's running? I found that the Windows version i use has the glitch issues (random stuff doesn't work, like regenerate brain just breaks the app every time) but i also noticed another guy running his version on Mac and he was having the same issues
Hi, I'm just using my iMac running Mojave. I don't recall having the issues you're talking about unfortunately. Maybe try deleting and re-installing? Sorry I can't help more from here
It should be no different from any other applications. Go to this page gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain scroll to the bottom to download the latest version and run the installer! Let me know if you have trouble
Best plug-in demo I’ve seen in ages, thank you. I must harness these powers and I’m wondering how to get this bad boy to run on a 2021 MacBookPro. It just keeps quitting before I can finish loading any sounds. If I have to I’ll install more RAM or whatever it takes.
My pleasure! I would first look at the files you're loading in, what format and quality are they? All the same 44.1kHz 16-bit? I'm not sure how sturdy SB is at handling a tonne of different sample rates etc.. There might also be length limits I've not encountered, so maybe make sure you're loading smaller files in to the brain? More RAM, based on what you've said, probably wouldn't make any difference. It's more likely SB can't handle the files you're using. I hope some of that helps!
Definitely. I’ll try smaller files. Also: I rip all of my samples on Audio Hijack and now that you mentioned this I’m seeing they’re all MP3 files at 256 Kbps. I can change them to WAV at 16-bit. Also Audio Hijack’s default sample rate is “automatic” whatever that actually means but I’ll manually set it to 44.1 kHz.
@@Rumblemach - Friendly advice...... Digital Audio 101: Never record/rip to MP3. Yes you can convert them to WAV after, but in terms of audio data they'll still be horribly compressed.
Hi, the download link is just past halfway down the page linked in the description. Maybe scroll to the bottom and move slowly up until you see "Downloads"
still trying to get a usable sound. any tips? maybe the window shape used makes a difference, flat top maybe my fav so far. quite difficult to not get a too weird sound so far but i wanna keep trying because i wanna make a dirty version of a song. this sounds like a great way but hard to keep under control even if i increase the closeness to the original sample.
that all depends on what you mean by usable! only a very small part of what this machine makes might resemble the target sound, huge part of it is the samples you use in the brain. since i have no idea of your material i can only suggest some broad approaches; why not chuck your target material in an AI stem extractor, then chop up those stems and put them in the brain - that output wouldn't be so different from the target. or you could try using super simple waveforms and noise in the brain, turn on autotune and let samplebrain tune the simple waveforms to your target. hope some of that helps! sometimes you gotta think sideways :)
@@cinningbao thanks so much. i got so many harsh frequencies like white noise and loud which made it not so useable for my purpose. I wanted to flavour the target sound a bit but even at 100% target setting I get quite a different sound (even when i feed the brain with the target sound). I have experimented with feeding a lot to the brain then a little step by step but no luck so far.
@@cinningbao i have indeed been working with the stem as a brain. Well melody and bass once and a drum sample also. That didnt help much. I also tried simple waveforms. Single notes that i got from splice. I didnt pay much attention to the note tho. Do you think that would make a difference?
@@cinningbao - I haven't tried it yet, but I wonder if throwing a few instances of the target file into the brain list might see sporadic chunks of the target audio remain in tact?
Hi, I don't think there is "process the target file from beginning to end and output the audio to a file" function unfortunately. The best you can do is to hit record, enter filename and location and then hit Save. Then, when you hit record again a file is created in the folder and until you hit stop, all the output is recorded. (2 mono files are created, one for the left, and one for the right) There are a couple of other quirks with the recording output function I will likely report so the functionality might change. Hope that helps!
Other than going through the process step by step (load audio files into brain, hit regenerate, load audio file into target, hit regenerate, hit play) it's difficult for me to know what's going wrong. One thing I would say is don't forget to hit Regenerate anytime you load a file into the brain or the target.
