Great tutorial. You showed very clearly why choosing the way of working template is so difficult. But it is very important to efficient workflow, specially on bigger projects.
This believe me is the mother of all template videos. This is absolutely top notch quality...in line with any of the paid courses and even better. Haven't found anyone sharing the kontakt scripts for multis...too good
I am going through all of them!! Really knew about negative track delays which so less of the other bigger youtubers speak of when telling "my massive orchestral template"..... This..Your video must be the first watch for anyone interested in orchestral mockups using sample library!! ❤❤❤
"I hope these template videos have been useful to you." Understatement of the year! A lot of this I was completely unaware of. Thank you so much for doing this. FWIW, I do prefer your own voice to the AI, mostly because in the previous videos I'd become accustomed to it
You are very welcome Bob! Glad to have helped. And if you find my other videos helpful I do hope you'll consider subscribing. Best to you my friend and Happy Holidays! 😊
I feel like you documented my own journey. I discovered VDC on ViC a few months ago and have committed to it as the best solution available. My setup is a little different as I use VEPro. I use two instances of VDC listening to two different midi channels, using articulation maps with shorts set to one channel and longs to the other. I don’t typically EQ articulations individually so I only have two audio outs for each instrument - shorts and longs so that I can use different reverbs. This video could potentially save someone months of experimentation to arrive at this solution. Thanks!
You are very welcome! And if you like the rest of the videos I hope you'll watch them. I'm trying to monetize this channel with ads but I'm woefully short in hours
8:15 shifting ahead of beat 10:29 negative track delays (offsets for different articulation) 13:05 independent articulation per track 13:53 triggering choices 14:17 velocity triggering 15:15 problem with key switching on same midi track 16:40 lots of midi tacks for each articulation and effect (cons) 16:55 changing midi channels via key switch solution (ks router) 19:42 minus delay plugin
I'm still going through this but ran into confusion around the channel changes. I am not sure how to trigger the changes. I get how to set up the plug-in. I have the outputs routed correctly and I do understand how each of them have their own effects. But I just do not understand the triggering. Am I supposed to use a midi device other than a keyboard to trigger these changes?
@@sonicconceptsmedia3892 probably both because I have no idea what either of them are. One thing I do know though is in contact. Sometimes the libraries have special keys that might be start on a low C, d and e key and this would change the articulation of the instruments. Is that what you mean by a key change or are there other ways?
Great job! I haven't messed with Cubase in some time, but I remember having timing issuses. Your video really connected the bits I figured out or learned watching videos. Really nice pace and organized. Thank you.
You are very welcome my friend, very happy you enjoyed it. If you find the rest of the channel useful I hope you will consider subscribing if you haven't already. All the best to you 😁
I've been messing and doing so plenty of research this last months, along with trying most of this alternatives you're showing here, but on Studio One. I just wish I had crossed your video earlier lol. Little tip, I movede EVERY KS to C-2, including the low instruments, and mapped everything to a separate MIDI controller (in my case Nanokontrol studio with 32 spare buttons, but any one could do trick) and now working towards the completion of the table as you did (it's insane we were doing the same steps all this time) and also creating S1 macros that work with the same buttons as the KS but on a different scene of the MIDI controller, that work for automatically assigning that articulation to selected notes. Only thing I have holding me back and want to ask. VDC stops my KS from working correctly, they only "come through" if I bypass it. Sound Variations (S1 term for Expression Maps) work perfect on play but not on idle when VDC is active. Do you have that same issue?
Glad you liked the video. I have not found the same issues you are having so I cannot help you in this regard. I know there's a new version of the VDC so perhaps that version will solve your problem? Hope so...at any rate, thanks for watching and if you find videos like this useful I hope you will consider subscribing if you haven't already. Best to you 🙂
AI narration is fine. Especially if it saves you time. This level of research is above and beyond any other template tutorials and indeed above my personal capabilities. Looks like a major commitment to make these so by all means save yourself some time and keep making these. You should get a PhD for these. 😂
This is great. Listening to AI is murder on the ears and hurts the soul a little. But what I have found to make it a little better is to use an Australian or English accent. It’s a bit endearing and I’ve found it to cover up the robotic spacing between words.
Hey, amazing vdo...I was wondering if its possible at all for you to share the downloadable link for Variable Delay Compensator (VDC)...for some reason I could not download it, and contacting them doesn't work and I cant create an account either so would it be possible if you could help me out....really need this right now as it will really save me so much time
You are very welcome! If you find the rest of my channel helpful I hope you'll consider subscribing. And thanks for the input on the AI narration. Best to you
Not sure what you mean. Using the VDC allows you to set different delays for different articulations; for example, short notes like staccatos have an almost immediate response with very little delay while legato patches have legato scripting which has much more delay 👍
@@sonicconceptsmedia3892 This seems al lot of calculating and guessing. When I just move the noes in Cubase to align them by ear and apply some negative delay manually, that works fine, and when I import the midi into Dorico I can quantize on import all the notes end up in the right place and everything sounds wonderful. As far as I can tell all the automation workflows you presented, they all have flaws and music making is something you by ear and hands and a human touch and slight discrepancies ad to the humanity of the piece I think. But maybe I just don't understand, although I am a software developer 🙂
@@homeofcreation it's all about setting it once and forgetting it so you can focus on music only. You can also convert midi to audio so you can visually see where the main part of the notes start in relation to the grid
@@homeofcreation Like you said, manually moving around notes and the various articulations to make them sound correctly is certainly a pragmatic and direct approach. Yes it's tedious, but then again, you didn't have to spend 20 years learning to play a French horn. But, beyond that, you have to wonder why the big sample library companies don't create their samples so they'll play on time and automatically fix other inconsistencies up front in the first place before releasing them? It's like they're selling a product that's going to need to be repaired before it's usable.
Your workflow is a personal choice (as it is for all composers). Choose the workflow that works for you. As far as me and this video, I am just documenting my own personal journey and the reasons I have picked one workflow over another. But please, find something that works for you! If my preferences are different than yours, that's okay 😊
Thank you so much! And thank you for your opinion on the AI narration. If you find my other videos useful I hope you'll consider subscribing. Best to you
