Great video, and great VSTs. I have Jupiter, Rogue, PRS, Hydra, Telos and Archtop, and they are all great. In the end you suggest trying to change guitars to achieve the perfect tone, and while it’s a good idea, the differences on for example the keyswitches and all controls, between them, makes it really hard. You cannot simply switch patch, you have to go through the whole midi and correct for everything. It’s a long a tedious process that makes changing instrument a pain. With shreddage 3.5 it has improved, but it still is a pain. ISW should imho focus on making those VSTs more part of a “family”, rather than separate lone wolves.
It's incredible how Shreddage Jupiter (the lovely Shreddage 2X) is the oldest of Shreddage 2 Series, and for me still sounds better than the others, even Hydra! Well done!
Yes, yes, I'm not saying the opposite... All your guitars have their own peculiar character, and that's good, because they become complementary to each other, now, JUPITER is definitely the best Well-rounded... @@ImpactSoundworksLLC
Impact soundworks are a top notch company,with all credit due to the top guy Andrew Aversa.Andrew is a god .he knows so much shit and the ins and outs of the business. He's not even a heavy metaler,but look at his guitar programs.incredible
I remember getting the og Sreddage 2 years back and couldn't make it sound like a actual guitar at all so kept using my real one lol These vids are helpful
These tutorials are so awesome - I now have a decent lead and rhythm preset drafted up as a solid starting point. One thing I'd appreciate personally (but would probably benefit a lot of us!) is a dedicated Abyss tutorial. Just some food for thought!
Those chugs on Jupiter sound so good! If I didn't already have Hydra, I'd think about getting it too. ...that being said, if you folks at Impact Soundworks ever plan on putting together a 9-string guitar VST, I'll be first in line to buy.
Andrew i need a tutorial for ableton. its the primary daw I use and the one I'm most comfortable using. please drop some tutorials for ableton. i would greatly appreciate it.
Good work on this but do you have anything that focuses on the Abyss? I stuggle to get it to sound good on anything fast and always end up dumbing down to to where it's "good enough" to add low end to my sound.
Great walkthrough! Why don’t you consider making a similar video for a “Silent Hill” inspired track? Maybe with some sounds from Super Audio Cart 2 as well?
I use Hydra myself so I'm not sure whether this applies to Jupiter, but at least for me it's done with a keyswitch. Holding that down during a sustained note will slide to whichever note is coming next in the piano roll. However, if I recall correctly, Jupiter has the older slide engine in which overlapping sustained notes with the second one being lighter in velocity will initiate a slide. Might be completely wrong though!!
@@Parukero Thanks for the help! I tried doing everything you said, but nothing worked. I have no idea why, but what fixed it was changing the keyswitch from default f0 to c0. No idea why the default keyswitch is bugged for me.
My current issue is that I want to do a root+octave style power chord. This would be E3+E4 in this case so I put down an E3 in the midi piano roll and when I play the single note it will be played on the high A string 7th fret which I where I want it, great! The moment I add the E4 the problems start. When I do that the engine decides to play it on the low A and low E string, at the end of the fret board. This gets me a very undesirable tone and sounds awful. I've tried to mess with the force string option but no matter what I choose it keeps going to the low A and low E. I've tried different picking modes, fretting modes, hand positions, hand sizes, min and max preferred frets but nothing gets the notes to play in the place I want them. When I remove the E4 from the piano roll and only play the E3 it works flawless any time. I have no clue how to get Shreddage to behave as I want it to, does anyone have an idea?
From my own experience the instrument works fine when the keyswitches are activated at the same time, but I've had moments where they didn't register. So, just to be safe, I'd put the keyswitches just a little before the note!
You guys literally the best in the game
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Just realized you guys existed .. damn cool 🙂
This is a really great series of tutorials. More of these kinds of videos please!
More to come :)
Great video, and great VSTs. I have Jupiter, Rogue, PRS, Hydra, Telos and Archtop, and they are all great. In the end you suggest trying to change guitars to achieve the perfect tone, and while it’s a good idea, the differences on for example the keyswitches and all controls, between them, makes it really hard. You cannot simply switch patch, you have to go through the whole midi and correct for everything. It’s a long a tedious process that makes changing instrument a pain. With shreddage 3.5 it has improved, but it still is a pain. ISW should imho focus on making those VSTs more part of a “family”, rather than separate lone wolves.
It's incredible how Shreddage Jupiter (the lovely Shreddage 2X) is the oldest of Shreddage 2 Series, and for me still sounds better than the others, even Hydra! Well done!
I'm quite fond of it as well, but they're all wonderful in their own right :)
Ha! I actually thought Stratus was the oldest
Yes, yes, I'm not saying the opposite... All your guitars have their own peculiar character, and that's good, because they become complementary to each other, now, JUPITER is definitely the best Well-rounded...
@@ImpactSoundworksLLC
Impact soundworks are a top notch company,with all credit due to the top guy Andrew Aversa.Andrew is a god .he knows so much shit and the ins and outs of the business. He's not even a heavy metaler,but look at his guitar programs.incredible
since they are old when should we wait for the update?
You should add a tempo-synced alternate picking/tremolo articulation. That would be super useful for a realistic metal playing over 190 BPM.
I remember getting the og Sreddage 2 years back and couldn't make it sound like a actual guitar at all so kept using my real one lol These vids are helpful
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Really appreciate you putting all these tutorials together, you didn’t have to but you did for the benefit of the community.. Thank you dude 🫡🤘
This is so awesome, I have it on my TODO watch list. I so wish I could dive into it now. :) Thanks for doing this. Love this. So happy.
Glad you enjoyed it!
These tutorials are so awesome - I now have a decent lead and rhythm preset drafted up as a solid starting point. One thing I'd appreciate personally (but would probably benefit a lot of us!) is a dedicated Abyss tutorial. Just some food for thought!
Good idea - we haven't done much with bass tutorials. I'll put it on the list!
That would be outstaaaaanding! Cheers!@@ImpactSoundworksLLC
very cool . good man
Thanks for these
Those chugs on Jupiter sound so good! If I didn't already have Hydra, I'd think about getting it too. ...that being said, if you folks at Impact Soundworks ever plan on putting together a 9-string guitar VST, I'll be first in line to buy.
Funny you should mention it...
Great, as usual. Many thanks. I own all isw guitars (except the Rosette Mandolin) and I agree with andreabrunori's comment... love them nevertheless!
Good!
outstanding job but where's the link with full song ? (awesome song ) ^^]
That is the full song unfortunately :D maybe I'll write a 3+ min version sometime!
Why is so hard to doo OCTAVES chords (C1 one string, C2 one string) in shreddage 3 ?
Andrew i need a tutorial for ableton. its the primary daw I use and the one I'm most comfortable using. please drop some tutorials for ableton. i would greatly appreciate it.
How do I choose where I want a chord to be played on the fretboard? No tutorial teaches that.
this library made me start playing a real guitar, it just sounds much better
but it is a good library
Good work on this but do you have anything that focuses on the Abyss? I stuggle to get it to sound good on anything fast and always end up dumbing down to to where it's "good enough" to add low end to my sound.
*_Can I try your VST before purchasing? Do you have a trial version?_*
I just started using this. My mutes are short, and sound really scratchy and shallow. How do I reduce that initial scratch and add depth?
Great walkthrough! Why don’t you consider making a similar video for a “Silent Hill” inspired track? Maybe with some sounds from Super Audio Cart 2 as well?
That's a great idea for SAC2 👀
Great sound. Can't figure out how to do a simple slide though. Anybody out there successful making this do a slide?
I use Hydra myself so I'm not sure whether this applies to Jupiter, but at least for me it's done with a keyswitch. Holding that down during a sustained note will slide to whichever note is coming next in the piano roll.
However, if I recall correctly, Jupiter has the older slide engine in which overlapping sustained notes with the second one being lighter in velocity will initiate a slide. Might be completely wrong though!!
@@Parukero Thanks for the help! I tried doing everything you said, but nothing worked. I have no idea why, but what fixed it was changing the keyswitch from default f0 to c0. No idea why the default keyswitch is bugged for me.
My current issue is that I want to do a root+octave style power chord.
This would be E3+E4 in this case so I put down an E3 in the midi piano roll and when I play the single note it will be played on the high A string 7th fret which I where I want it, great!
The moment I add the E4 the problems start.
When I do that the engine decides to play it on the low A and low E string, at the end of the fret board.
This gets me a very undesirable tone and sounds awful.
I've tried to mess with the force string option but no matter what I choose it keeps going to the low A and low E.
I've tried different picking modes, fretting modes, hand positions, hand sizes, min and max preferred frets but nothing gets the notes to play in the place I want them.
When I remove the E4 from the piano roll and only play the E3 it works flawless any time.
I have no clue how to get Shreddage to behave as I want it to, does anyone have an idea?
Who is that guy singing? He's awesome.
Blake Inc!
do the keyswitches occur at the same time as the notes they affect, or do they have to occur ahead of the notes?
From my own experience the instrument works fine when the keyswitches are activated at the same time, but I've had moments where they didn't register. So, just to be safe, I'd put the keyswitches just a little before the note!
shouldnt the intro be legato?
These tuts are pretty awful to be honest.