Reid Rosefelt

To get real about this, it's a different thing to be a music YouTuber than to be a narrator on a documentary, where you go into a booth and do it all in one go. First, Simeon uses a real microphone, which works for the kind of YouTuber he is. I choose to use a lav. So this means that Simeon is ahead of the game before there is a plugin, because he records better audio. He also seems to do the whole thing at once, which I'm incapable of doing. Second, I record at least two different ways. One facing the camera with my computer behind me, and then facing the computer when I'm doing my stuff that shows Cubase. The acoustics are dramatically different speaking into a big room than they are talking to the wall, so there is always a shift in the color of thevocal sound. Also, sometimes I record on different days. Even more shifts in sound. I tried to get past this for this video by recording everything at once. But... I said the name wrong for the singer in the Sonuscore Ethnic Vocals phrase library every time--so I had to record tons of patches for those bits--which again, had slightly different audio qualities. This is the big problem for me--trying to get all the different kinds of audio working together. When I do the entire video facing forward, I don't have problems getting a good track. Maybe Voxessor could make it better, but that's not my big problem. Trying to get everything to work together, means fooling around with the EQ and making all of them sound not ideal in the attempt to make them blend. In this video it ended up making them all too boomy. They all went to the lowest common denominator. I think the biggest challenges I'm facing are not ones that Voxessor addresses. But maybe it could still be helpful? There are other issues. 95% of the time, my lav records quality audio. But for 5% there is noise. Voxessor won't help with this, and it is too much for RX7. At some point I may experiment hanging a mic over my head, off screen.

Glad that you liked the ideas, antler. Hah! I don't have Voxessor. Yet. The problem was that the voice-over was a patchwork quilt. Loading up the low end was the best I could do to make it sound consistent. Consistently boomy, I guess. But maybe I was trying to ratchet up the manly knob on my imaginary Voxessor. Turn the manly up to 11? I learn something with every video. Of course this one has blurry video and boomy vocal. 😡

Melodyne 5 is the greatest de-esser I've ever seen. It really takes out just what you want and no more than what you want. De-essors always added processing that I didn't like and were too one-size-fits-all. This voice-over thing is really hard. I just EQ and compress my voice. I will fool around with Nectar and maybe get Voxessor. The really hard thing is that I record at different times and sometimes I have to patch a sentence or two, so I get all these different sound levels, tones, etc. Very hard to make them work together. If I was Simeon I could do it all in one go, but that's not me.

I'm very curious to hear what you think about this video. A lot of thought went into it. My apologies for it being out of focus. 🥵 Still having problems with my new DSLR. Next time has got to be better. 😃 Reid

It amazes me how ambitious your videos are. You always do such a great job and with such a positive, helpful attitude.

Thanks so much for doing this, Simeon. 😃 Now I have to decide whether to get it or not.

I am OVERWHELMED by the Magix deals. I know I say this all the time, but they sell my upgrade to Vegas Pro for $199. Same price 365 days a year. For years. They never take ten cents off of it. But I get emails from them several times a week saying it is 50% off or 73% off or whatever. Like the idiot I am I stay on their list and always click it, thinking someday, someday they have to discount it. But no, they have special Black Friday sales where for a very limited time you can get the upgrade for the same $199. But then they put stuff up on Humble Bundle for twenty bucks. I wonder if they will ever bother to come up with a feature that will make me want to pay $199. The only thing that makes their upgrades worthwhile are the add-ons from other companies. This year I just bought something directly from NewBlue rather than spend $199 to get a NewBlue package.

I recommended some SONiVOX singles in my Tiger the Frog Black Friday post and one guy had trouble installing them. He came up with a workaround. You can find him somewhere in this thread: https://vi-control.net/community/threads/tiger-the-frogs-alphabetical-list-of-november-2020-sales.100595/ There are issues with SONiVOX and AIR in that they are unlikely to be updated or fixed as computer OS's change. I recommend people download demos of SONiVOX instruments from their website or Plugin Boutique to check them out before purchase. But I think there is a way to solve this and you should be okay.

Oh no. 😨 I do not need this. I won't have time to explore it for a long time. I'm behind checking on my Black Friday purchases. But I want this. Somebody help me! If I remember correctly, this deal came up at exactly this time last year. Am I right? I don't know if it comes up twice a year, I think it might be like the November Falcon deal.

I don't know, but HALion is set up well for layering. A lot better than Falcon. HALion is pretty great. The weakness (and it's a big one) is that not many third-party companies make instruments for it.

By the way, they talked about this in their recent OT special event video.

1) They could come up with some kind of music-making thing, and then create a never-ending series of software that run within the Paint engine. Or... 2) It could be an 8dio Player, like Play or Engine or SINE. My guess is that it is more like the first one.

Hi Simeon, I was interested in getting this as soon as I heard about it, as I want a product exactly like this. But I wasn't impressed by their demo video. I felt I was getting better results just by adding EQ and compression to my voice-overs. So I am very interested in hearing what you think before the intro offer ends at the end of the month.

I think Zilhouette Strings was a Kontakt instrument before it was a Steinberg one. Anyway, they are both available, although only the Steinberg is half price. https://cinematique-instruments.com/pages_instr/page_zilhouette_strings.php

The videos just turned up on YouTube. No doubt this is a Veevum Threesome. Nice set of bowling balls, though.

So I've been missing out on this for many years, as I am a big-time UVI customer. 😡 All because I didn't know about checking a box in their preferences. Big lesson. You have to always check the boxes on being notified for deals, and deal with a year of spam... either that, or come here constantly. I often buy direct from UVI as they often offer the best deals on the site for upgrades--or at least the same deals. I love Meteor, which I use in my videos. It's the best impact maker I've found. So I bought Sweep Machine for $9. Really, really good. UVI makes really nice SoundFX libraries. I always used samples in the past for that sort of thing, but these are much better to work with, as you can control the timing.

It's not even up on their website yet. Take that, @cclarry😀 I love my Veevums, But the prices always go down in time.

I have a nice voucher but it goes away at the end of this month. I will use it. Glad I saw this. My newsletter preferences didn't have "tell me about vouchers" checked. I changed it, but otherwise I would have missed out if not for this forum.

It's very hard to get authentic sounding music from a world virtual instrument if you don't know a lot about the real one. I think using phrases is a good way to get them to sound real. Silk has interesting ideas in this area. The NI one has draggable MIDI patterns. so you can take their patterns and change them up a bit in your DAW. Raindrop & Blade has them too, but there are a lot more of them, they are a lot longer, and most importantly there is more dynamic range. This is where the 5 velocity layers stands out. NI doesn't offer any info about velocity layers or round robins.

This actually came out in 2019. I really wanted it bad but didn't get it until the sale in November. It was a lot less than this. Three-body have a few other Chinese instruments, but as of now they are only available on their Chinese website and at stores in Asia. Definitely a Hulusi and a Xun and a Suona. I assume the two bamboo flutes are a Dizi and a Xiao. https://www.threebodytech.com/cn/ I wrote them and asked them if they would consider bringing the other stuff out in the US, and the guy promised me they would do so by February. And then he wrote on VI:Control that they would come out this month.. This is good news because a lot of Chinese composers consider them the very best developers of Chinese instruments. This is by far the best Yangqin. But of course until recently there were very few of them available. Tons of Guzhengs, but very few Yangqins. As everybody has the Native Instruments freebie, I've decided to do a comparison video of all the Yangqins that are available. I think the NI one is really good--it's up there at the top. But Raindrop & Blade is really something special. The only other ones I know of besides NI and 3-Body are East West's Silk, Strezov's Jade Ethnic Orchestra, and Orchestral Tools' Phoenix. So my video will show why I think this is the one.

Sounds like a job for @Simeon Amburgey

I decided to take this down.

Sounds good. Everybody has to work in their comfort zone. I'm not saying that mine is the right one for everybody. I was trying to suggest why I personally operate that way. I certainly don't succeed with every negotiation.

Trilian. I don’t know why I waited so long.

By the way, not many people responded to this on VI:Control, so I suspectmany people objected to the message.