This was such a great watch! I was watching on my XBOX but had to pull it up on my phone so I could comment and let you know how much I enjoyed the video, great work mr. squash
One pitfall of so many instruments and effects is option paralysis. I'm in the process of creating a template of basic sounds and effects for song composition. Otherwise, I end up producing instead of writing.
This is true to an extent, but any music producer must be able to develop the discipline to quickly and efficiently get the sounds you need to suit the project at hand. This is why in bundles such as Arturias V Collection 9 or FX Collection 3 you have search filters within the preset browser that greatly speed up the workflow. Same thing for Native Instruments Complete. One would get totally lost otherwise.
This. I was most productive when all I used were "General MIDI" presets. The music lab had other keyboard sounds, plus virtual analogue synth & digital sampler on the iMac. But I stuck with those 128 sounds. I knew very little about compression, EQ, and mastering though. 😕 I really want to get back to composing and arranging without worrying about sound design and mixing first. Just me, a GM SoundFont (or Proteus rompler), a monophonic synth, a MIDI keyboard, and a microphone. 💪
We ❤️ VST!! My favourite right now is Chipsynth MD, you can take patches from Mega Drive games to use in songs with no more need to have an adapter plugged into the real thing but hardware is cool too!😊
Imagine how much better or worse the world would be if the original (and very expensive) autotune hardware device had never been converted to a VST plugin and widely shared on warez sites in the early 2000s. There have been several genres of music that couldn't exist without VSTs and the internet.
I have always wondered when exactly did the VST begin taking over the way Electronic Genres were produced and this Documentary pretty much confirmed what I had thought, which was around the Late 1990’s. The VST has revolutionized how people make music and how in a way Traditional Synthesizers & Effects, Compressors etc have been brought to the masses in the form of emulations. As great as this has been, at least you can still buy Hardware-based products, like the legendary ARP 2600 which also exists in Software form from developers like Arturia. Another thing to consider though I think about VSTs is that you don’t really get the same ‘feel’ the tactility that hardware always brings to the table, and that with software on a computer, you have to boot it up first, Install (only one time) and Load it to use an emulation of say a Prophet 5… where as an actual Prophet 5 you can simply use it right away once you just connect the speaker/headphones & Power! Also the VST as powerful as they can really be can be so visually over-whelming that it can get in the way of the creative process because you might be trying to understand how to navigate you way around its particular workflow in creating sounds so you would need a break from the screen for a while.
A couple errors in the video. Nothing major, but I wouldn't want people to be misinformed. Bell Labs was not owned by Nokia until sometime in _this_ century, long after their prime years. "Digital" instruments & effects existed before _software_ instruments & effects, which existed before "virtual" plugins (with means simulated knobs, I guess). The DAW existed before Cubase. Non-linear live show programming existed before Ableton. Live remixing existed before digital and virtual DJ equipment.
It'll never catch on. ;) Actually I remember when the first VST instruments came out. I think one synth was called "Neon" (?) and the other was Model E (a Moog emulation). I thought the technology was cool, especially as I'd never be able to afford a vintage analogue synthesiser, but I don't think anyone realised just how transformative virtual studios would be. VSTs were launched around the time that many people were saying "This internet superhighway thing is probably just a fad". The invention of virtual instruments has turned out to be a bigger deal than the invention of the electric guitar. Literally anyone can play music and you can build a virtual studio for free. Incredible.
Yes. Bell Labs was a subsidiary of AT&T and the mighty Bell System a.k.a. 👵 "Maw Bell." The federal government broke up AT&T's telephone monopoly in the early 1980's (Ma Bell made most of the phones and owned most of the service providers). Bell Labs was an amazing research center where many modern technologies were born or advanced. Computer music, computer speech, Unix, C programming…
It's a terrible irony that the company named after the inventor of the telephone (and whose researchers also invented the photovoltaic cell, and developed transistors and actual lasers) was finally bought by a company that famously put a snake on a tiny screen on a mobile phone.
@@AutPen38 I mean, Nokia's history is kinda badass, including all those sturdy phones. I guess they wanted to do cool research after selling their mobile division to… Microsoft. 😒
Check upcoming CLAP Format, aswell AU for mac and LADSP for linux. VST originally came from Steinberg, which did make it kind of proprietary. That is not good for free software develpment if dependence to companies exist. Thats the reason VST from its very basics is crap to be honest. The benefit is just, so many people used the Steinberg SDK to come up with lots of free plugins and alternatives, so that Steinberg said, ok. ;-)
@@hardtakeoff My intention was just to give more insight to what is there at the moment, instead pointing out people to glorify VST, VST is plattform specific aswell, as it is even available for linux BUT it turned out not even so simply transferable to every operating system. Thats all foo imo, as lots of people are setting hope to CLAP or / and approaches, like where you can use your grafics card to support plugin calculations and stuff like that
cool fact: Max, the audio programming environment famous for Max for Live, is named after Max Matthews.
A brilliant, fascinating man.
This was such a great watch! I was watching on my XBOX but had to pull it up on my phone so I could comment and let you know how much I enjoyed the video, great work mr. squash
One pitfall of so many instruments and effects is option paralysis. I'm in the process of creating a template of basic sounds and effects for song composition. Otherwise, I end up producing instead of writing.
I feel you there.
This is true to an extent, but any music producer must be able to develop the discipline to quickly and efficiently get the sounds you need to suit the project at hand. This is why in bundles such as Arturias V Collection 9 or FX Collection 3 you have search filters within the preset browser that greatly speed up the workflow. Same thing for Native Instruments Complete. One would get totally lost otherwise.
This. I was most productive when all I used were "General MIDI" presets. The music lab had other keyboard sounds, plus virtual analogue synth & digital sampler on the iMac. But I stuck with those 128 sounds. I knew very little about compression, EQ, and mastering though. 😕
I really want to get back to composing and arranging without worrying about sound design and mixing first. Just me, a GM SoundFont (or Proteus rompler), a monophonic synth, a MIDI keyboard, and a microphone. 💪
I was hoping someone would make this video. Mega props
Hell yeah brother can’t wait to put my Dad on some of your game since he introduced me to music and my first guitar at age 6
We ❤️ VST!! My favourite right now is Chipsynth MD, you can take patches from Mega Drive games to use in songs with no more need to have an adapter plugged into the real thing but hardware is cool too!😊
Long live the Mega Drive! My favorite game of all time is Alien Solider on the MD
*Hey, Knuckles.* Your game Chaotix had some sweet sounds! 🎶 _Door to Summer_ 🤌
Are music patches from 32X cartridges compatible with Chipsynth MD?
Imagine how much better or worse the world would be if the original (and very expensive) autotune hardware device had never been converted to a VST plugin and widely shared on warez sites in the early 2000s. There have been several genres of music that couldn't exist without VSTs and the internet.
Crazy how much ground work was needed in the first place to achieve that leap in technology - again crazy
Good video. 👍 I appreciate that you showed some of the articles which guided your research. Thanks!
Have you investigated CLAP plugin standard? Really cool stuff, especially considering the features Bitwig has.
Well done. A fascinating video, well researched and professionally presented.
What a fantastic history lesson on something we take for granted today!
I have always wondered when exactly did the VST begin taking over the way Electronic Genres were produced and this Documentary pretty much confirmed what I had thought, which was around the Late 1990’s. The VST has revolutionized how people make music and how in a way Traditional Synthesizers & Effects, Compressors etc have been brought to the masses in the form of emulations. As great as this has been, at least you can still buy Hardware-based products, like the legendary ARP 2600 which also exists in Software form from developers like Arturia.
Another thing to consider though I think about VSTs is that you don’t really get the same ‘feel’ the tactility that hardware always brings to the table, and that with software on a computer, you have to boot it up first, Install (only one time) and Load it to use an emulation of say a Prophet 5… where as an actual Prophet 5 you can simply use it right away once you just connect the speaker/headphones & Power! Also the VST as powerful as they can really be can be so visually over-whelming that it can get in the way of the creative process because you might be trying to understand how to navigate you way around its particular workflow in creating sounds so you would need a break from the screen for a while.
love the video you sound do one lv2 and clap plugin formats
A couple errors in the video. Nothing major, but I wouldn't want people to be misinformed.
Bell Labs was not owned by Nokia until sometime in _this_ century, long after their prime years.
"Digital" instruments & effects existed before _software_ instruments & effects, which existed before "virtual" plugins (with means simulated knobs, I guess). The DAW existed before Cubase. Non-linear live show programming existed before Ableton. Live remixing existed before digital and virtual DJ equipment.
Great video.
Nice !
What you can get for free nowadays would have cost you millions in actual hardware.
What about VST3?
It'll never catch on. ;)
Actually I remember when the first VST instruments came out. I think one synth was called "Neon" (?) and the other was Model E (a Moog emulation). I thought the technology was cool, especially as I'd never be able to afford a vintage analogue synthesiser, but I don't think anyone realised just how transformative virtual studios would be. VSTs were launched around the time that many people were saying "This internet superhighway thing is probably just a fad". The invention of virtual instruments has turned out to be a bigger deal than the invention of the electric guitar. Literally anyone can play music and you can build a virtual studio for free. Incredible.
Did you say Bell Labs was a subsidiary of Nokia …???
Should say ‘is’ rather than ‘was’. Nokia didn’t come along until 2016.
Yes. Bell Labs was a subsidiary of AT&T and the mighty Bell System a.k.a. 👵 "Maw Bell."
The federal government broke up AT&T's telephone monopoly in the early 1980's (Ma Bell made most of the phones and owned most of the service providers).
Bell Labs was an amazing research center where many modern technologies were born or advanced. Computer music, computer speech, Unix, C programming…
It's a terrible irony that the company named after the inventor of the telephone (and whose researchers also invented the photovoltaic cell, and developed transistors and actual lasers) was finally bought by a company that famously put a snake on a tiny screen on a mobile phone.
@@AutPen38 I mean, Nokia's history is kinda badass, including all those sturdy phones. I guess they wanted to do cool research after selling their mobile division to… Microsoft. 😒
Check upcoming CLAP Format, aswell AU for mac and LADSP for linux. VST originally came from Steinberg, which did make it kind of proprietary. That is not good for free software develpment if dependence to companies exist. Thats the reason VST from its very basics is crap to be honest. The benefit is just, so many people used the Steinberg SDK to come up with lots of free plugins and alternatives, so that Steinberg said, ok. ;-)
So... AU is platform specific, so IDK why you're including it in your rant
@@hardtakeoff My intention was just to give more insight to what is there at the moment, instead pointing out people to glorify VST, VST is plattform specific aswell, as it is even available for linux BUT it turned out not even so simply transferable to every operating system. Thats all foo imo, as lots of people are setting hope to CLAP or / and approaches, like where you can use your grafics card to support plugin calculations and stuff like that
@@timschannel247 I thought macs can use vst with a wrapper