Beethoven: Für Elise re-up

I was not happy with the original version of this video.  The sound was not properly synced with the visuals.  At first I thought that this was a result of the software used to generate the visuals from the midi file, but upon extensive investigation I have found that for some reason there is a sync issue.  I generate the audio directly from the midi, so they should match.  However using miditrail, MAM player, and some others all yield the same result.  The visuals go a bit out of sync and then catch up whenever there is a tempo change.  This has never happened to me before while making a visualization.  I have no idea what the cause is.  In any case I decided to prevent the problem entirely by using the zgame editor visualizer which uses (in this case) only the audio to generate the visuals.  I may have gotten carried away but what the heck it was fun.

It just so happens that the ZGEV has a stereographic output, so if possible I will upload a 3d version of this video as well.  I have no idea if it will look any good.  However I am a fan of 3d so I feel compelled to take advantage of this feature (if I can figure out how to get it to work.) 

Big Tick Rhino: Oberheim patch bank review

This video took forever to make.  It was not that one thing made it difficult.  Many semi-related events such as the holidays, getting a new sound card (and all the shopping and research involved in that decision), choosing a new daw (Reaper or Presonus its killing me I can't decide!), and some other things all coincided to make this video take far longer than it should have.

I must thank some of the users at the KVR forums for their constructive criticism on my last two videos.  It is not easy to give criticism for most of us.  Their input was really helpful.  In my last patch bank review I was really excited about at least 30% of the presets and I wanted to include them all in the video.  The result was a demonstration of many great patches, but overall the video was really boring.  Not many people want to watch a static screen of Rhino (and cubase) while I noodle around with some presets.

I chose a more focused approach with this video.  Instead of trying to show a plethora of sounds, I narrowed it down to just a few and gave my overall impression of the sound bank.  This bank is really great.  However there are also some things I did not like, which I mention in the video.

Well I hope that this one turned out better than the last as far as watchability goes!