Digital Synth Collection

This is a demonstration of various patches from the Digital Synth Collection for Big Tick's Rhino.  It was fun noodling around with these presets.  This bank is huge with 256 presets.  It was difficult to choose which ones to put in the video, so I show somewhere in teh ballpark of 50 patches. 

The visuals are not that exciting.  After uploading and reviewing this video, I decided that in the future I will make visualizations for a demo such as this in stead of just recording the synth.

I figure that no one will actually sit through the whole video.  However I imagine that they might skip around and check out the various sounds.

Review of Big Tick Rhino

I have no idea what possesed me to make a review of this synth.  I guess I thought it would be fun, or maybe I watch too much AVGN or something.  In any case it was a very enjoyable project.  I got kind of silly with the sound effects.  I was going for something that was more fun than your average software review.

I gained a new found appreciation for talented voice actors while making this video.  Most of us do not realize how difficult it is to sound good for more than a few words.  I never knew how much I stuttered, mispronounced words, and made disgusting mouth noise until editing the VO for this review.  Green apples and herbal tea only helped so much.  I hope you enjoy the review!

J. S. Bach Chorale 43

I made this video to go along with my review of Big Tick Rhino, and to demonstrate that instrument.  I used very little processing so that the raw sound of the synthesizer could be heard.  I only used reverb.  This was also a quick job.  I usually spend more time on the velocity levels, phrasing, etc.  However with this video I was in a bit of a hurry so that I could have it out at the same time as the review.  I will be posting the review shortly.

The title of this one is "Liebster Gott, wann werd ich sterben," which translates to: "dearest god, when shall I die."

The visualization was created using the zgame editor visualizer.

Sequenced in Cubase 5.5.3 as usual.

J. S. Bach: Chorale 27

I made this one because I wanted to do another video with midivis, but I did not have much free time for a longer piece.  I really like the chorales so it was an easy choice.

I used the stock brass from Kontakt 4 which is from VSL, although I believe there are fewer velocity layers and articulations compared to the full retail version of this same library.  Overall the brass sounds great despite the lack of depth one might expect from VSL.

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j6Ri3qzDZs