Just an experimental, proof-of-concept thing. I wasn't actually going to use it as-is but realized the three violins together sounded kind of nice. So just throwing this out here in case anyone might find a use for it. 2nd violins for VSCO 2 CE maybe?
Sustain, staccato and pizzicato articulations (tremolo coming later). Chromatic sampling. 2 velocities, 2x RR on staccatos/pizzicatos. Looped sustains.
VSCO 2 CE violin (sus, stc, piz), ldk1609 violin (sus, stc, piz), MSLP violin (sus, stc), MIS violin (piz).
Recently I got interested in rescoring some intros of the series I watch so I begun with Westworld which was one I enjoyed most.
Although at first I was going for a full orchestral scoring, I started writing for a piano and at the end I was left with a piano piece with no idea how to introduce more instruments. I chose to keep it that way however and I present you my humble attempt.
As usual, I would be very happy to have some feedback from you!
You guys probably know every free sound extant and understand synth presets, so help me make the complete GM soundset in Maize VSTs with PD/CC samples.
1 Acoustic Grand Piano - City, Iowa
2 Bright Acoustic Piano - Salamander, VCSL Steinway B, VCSL Kawai?
3 Electric Grand Piano - Y Piano
4 Honky-tonk Piano - Skerratt London
Upright - VSCO 1 & 2, VCSL Knight & Yamaha
Intimate - The Whisper
5 Electric Piano 1 - W Piano
6 Electric Piano 2 - Merlittzer
7 Harpsichord - VCSL
8 Clavinet - H Piano
17 Drawbar Organ -
18 Percussive Organ -
19 Rock Organ -
20 Church Organ - VSCO2
21 Reed Organ -
22 Accordion -
23 Harmonica - VCSL
24 Tango Accordion -
Guitar
25 Acoustic Guitar (nylon) - Freepats Spanish Guitar, MF Natural Concert Guitar
26 Acoustic Guitar (steel) - FS Blues Steel String Guitar
27 Electric Guitar (jazz) - FS Mor Peter Bridge
28 Electric Guitar (clean) - Karoryfer Cute Emily Guitar
29 Electric Guitar (muted) -
30 Overdriven Guitar -
31 Distortion Guitar -
32 Guitar Harmonics -
Synth Lead - Taylor Sampled Synth presets? No idea which ones...
81 Lead 1 (square)
82 Lead 2 (sawtooth)
83 Lead 3 (calliope)
84 Lead 4 (chiff)
85 Lead 5 (charang)
86 Lead 6 (voice)
87 Lead 7 (fifths)
88 Lead 8 (bass + lead)
Synth Pad - Taylor Sampled Synth presets? No idea which ones...
89 Pad 1 (new age)
90 Pad 2 (warm)
91 Pad 3 (polysynth)
92 Pad 4 (choir)
93 Pad 5 (bowed)
94 Pad 6 (metallic)
95 Pad 7 (halo)
96 Pad 8 (sweep)
Synth Effects - Taylor Sampled Synth presets? No idea which ones...
97 FX 1 (rain)
98 FX 2 (soundtrack)
99 FX 3 (crystal)
100 FX 4 (atmosphere)
101 FX 5 (brightness)
102 FX 6 (goblins)
103 FX 7 (echoes)
104 FX 8 (sci-fi)
For a number of months I've been working on a reverb plugin. I can't take credit for the algorithms, it uses Freeverb3. It was initially intended to be a simple port of Hibiki so that I could run it natively on Linux, but it has kind of taken on a life of its own. I simplified the parameters quite a bit (some might say too much), tinkered around with presets a bit, and I implemented a spectrogram so that you can visually see how the parameters influence the decay times across the frequency range. A man from the Netherlands named Rob van den Berg created most of the graphical interface, I only did the response chart.
I have a working prerelease available for Linux and Mac. The framework I'm using does support compiling VSTs for Windows, but I don't have Windows and haven't found anybody else to try the Windows build.
I've been working on an album over the last three months or so -- and no, not Ravnir's Saga, that one has been put on the backburner for the time being. This one just happend while setting up my new home studio and getting used to living at a new place. It's called Lore. I was planning on releasing it late April/early May but considering the progress I've made the latest weeks and how much work is left it's probably not going to be out until the beginning of June. But we'll see.
Unlike Waters of Redemption (and Ravnir's Saga) I've played this a lot closer to my chest than usual. Getting feedback at an early stage is always useful, but at the same time I think that for the listener, it also detracts from the magic of discovering new music. I mean when you've heard a song evolve from sketch to finished product, you kind of lose a bit of mystery along the way. So I decided not to go public with any of the music until the album was well under way.
Please note: as mentioned a lot of work still remains; some tracks are half finished and if a tune just trails off weirdly and ends, that's probably the reason. I switched from one cymbal lib to another late in the project, so if it sounds like the cymbal player had a bit too much to drink in places, well it's because I haven't gotten around to editing those parts yet. Also, aside from the first three and last three, the track order (and even some of the titles!) is very much up in the air.
With that said, enjoy, and let me know what you think.
Edit: I almost forgot. Time Immemorial is an old track, I even posted it here about a year ago. But as it fits the theme and sound of Lore to a T, I decided to include it. It was almost as if it was looking for an album to belong to. I'm working on a new version, using the same samples as the rest of the tracks, but I figured it was better to use the finished old version for the preview.
Until recently, my career has always been in design, illustration, animation, and marketing - purely visual stuff.
But now, working as a freelancer, I'm getting a lot of video work. I started out just using stock music in the videos, but have now started offering bespoke music, and already I have a couple of clients wanting music, which I am thrilled about (having spent my life composing for fun).
But now, the issue of copyright is on my mind.
Working in design, I've never really cared about copyright. I never bothered with contracts because I'm always happy for the client to own full copyright of anything I've drawn or designed for them - as far as I'm concerned, they can do what they like with it.
But, for some reason, my music is more precious and personal to me, and I really do not want to lose ownership of any piece of music I've created. At the moment, I am only a small-time operation, and bespoke music is only a small sideline for me, but I'd still like to make sure I cover myself on everything I compose.
The main thing is, I want to make sure I have full right to use my own music however I wish in the future - I hate the idea of no longer owning music I've written
But then I also get a bit nervous at the idea of my clients taking my music and using it for other things besides the original video it was intended for - maybe re-selling it, or something, or it ends up being used to promote something I object to? (Unlikely, I know, but the mere possibility bothers me.)
Would anyone have any thoughts or advice about this?
It's been about five years since Fretless Zither first emerged from the primordial goo known as the Versilian Studios website. To celebrate, we've done a complete remastering of the original library bringing it up to date with all the features and conveniences of modern software!
This is why I said that I sometimes wonder why I even try with this stuff when I can be sure there is someone out there waiting to insult everything I do to no end when it isn't "just right" for their particular desires or whatever. I don't know if it is arrogance, ignorance, or just plain snobbery that is behind words like these, but they're one of the reasons I stopped working on new builds of VSCO 2 CE and generally don't make free VST's anymore myself.
It infuriates me to no end when people speak 'definitively' on things they either know nothing about, haven't bothered to even research in the slightest, or in particular, would never be willing to do themselves. Yes, I am happy to accept critique/suggestions from fellow developers, testers, customers, and reviewers on what could be better (we fixed well over 100 bugs in VSCO 2 Pro and added instruments and features based on reviews and customer requests, for example), but when someone e-mails me or posts somewhere only to say, "well, x is pretty much unusable," with no specific qualms, no visible attempt at reading descriptions or otherwise understanding what they are critiquing, no evidence or argument to support their claim, and no credentials... well...
Serious thanks to Michael for stepping in and explaining things, and thanks to all of you who encourage me to continue with projects like this, as well as all of you out there with open (and commercial) projects of your own. Those are just about the only things that keeps me going aside from the joy of sampling itself.
Anyone else have similar issues or experiences they want to get off their chest?
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