@exyl_sounds
"and most importantly, stuff that can give you some fresh inspiration when you're tired of the same old VST plugins" Banger quote. Been really suffering from "same song syndrome" lately cause every time I start a project I fall back on the same sounds and it almost makes producing unfun at times. Thank you for the inspiration benn :)
@skiptomygroove7009
The sax flips give it away that it's fake...but I play saxophone. Smooth the attack between those notes specifically and you might get me. Smooth like someone halfway separating the notes instead of definitely separating the notes.
@RoomieOfficial
Great video Benn! Which of these plugins would you recommend for exploring sounds at the border between organic sounds and synths?
@able4698
Hey Benn. I discovered your channel a few months ago and in that timeframe you have become my favorite channel. The topics you choose en how you choose to tackle them is amazing! Especially the video about why there arent more women in music production. That video opened my eyes and is so important. Thank you
@NINJATObeats666
When I see most of your videos now, I just realise that you where and still are so worth to be my (and probably many's) inspiration. The Flashbulb inspired me when I was digging into IDM and working on my own first tunes somewhere in the 2000's and this stuff you release here always reminds me what music is about, digging deeper and doing what you love. Music never ends and thank you Benn, you make the world a better place.
@SAN.clouded
So much of the perception of real vs. fake comes down to your individual experience level with each instrument. I'm reading lots of comments criticizing SWAM, but as someone who hasn't sat next to a saxophone in about 5 years it sounds great to me aside from a couple small moments. However, having played piano for 20 years, Pianoteq ain't it for me, and I'm seeing a lot of comments praising it. Very subjective!
@PieterLaroy
Hey Benn, you actually can use the reason rack as a VST3 plugin. I use it all the time in Ableton. Next to Object, there's also Friktion (string instrument Physical Synth). I love this combo quite honestly...
@LZ02-OVERTURE
One thing you missed out on that can make the SWAM instruments sound even more realistic is how you have control over the bow pressure and bow position, position on the fingerboard where notes will be played, being able to smoothly switch between techniques used in playing etc... Which is way more control than just having dynamic layers + articulation like sample libraries.
@ForkySeven
As someone who can play the real versions of all the instruments that were physically modeled in this video, I have to say that to me it still sounds like they're all in the "uncanny valley" of instruments. There's split seconds where it sounds convincing, but overall they sound closer to synthesizers than real instruments.
@hypervinylator
FYI you can use Reason as a VST in any daw. When you buy or subscribe, you get access to both the standalone daw, and the Reason rack plugin. I understand though if you're used to the paradigm of VST-instruments to want to add them individually to your arsenal. For a brief period the Europa wavetable synth was available as VST plugin from Reason, but I think they decided to make the entire rack be the plugin with all the toys and modularity and rack-flipping fun included.
@brugazoni
on an eventful note, synful orchestra has recently become donationware and it's still quite amazing despite its age
@Max_0
Thanks for mentioning Plasmonic. I’ve been using it since its inception and have made lots of crazy sounds, occasionally even ones that sound like a real instrument. The sound design design possibilities keep me coming back for more. I consider it the most MPE friendly soft synth since you can easily assign MPE parameters to almost anything you choose to modulate. Combined with even a basic gadget to manipulate the macros, you have unmatched (so far) expressive space. I was a bit worried when you were using it to make typical VST sounds on your streaming channel but I see that you grok what it is best used for.
@GintokiPianist
awesome video, as a pianist, who has been away from the kinda music tech world for a couple of years, and i have to say, its actually amazing how far things have come in the physical modelling space, preordered an osmose, cant wait for that badboy to arrive!
@seheyt
8:40 I won't lie bruh, but if you'd assume that was recorded natural instruments, you need to listen to orchestras and chamber music a lot more. It's good, but there's a half dozen dead giveaways in the first 3 seconds of the strings coming in with the sax.
@Gainn
Still a way to go.
@rigolab
making a basic synth led me to physical modeling and boy how I wish I could get more material to study like this video on 0:50 to 2:00. The basic algorithms and diagrams don't come easy when you're a beginner on the subject. Great video as always Benn!
@drydessert4198
21:14 Derailer 24:04 Plasmonic
@arasharfa
I always thought physical modeling was the way to go. you have way more control over each aspect of a sound, which allows you to weave them together in novel ways, and you can easily switch between the amount of voices you get depending on how you couple or decouple parameters.
@TheInsanityofGab
I don't think swam is there yet honestly, it was almost there but some note transitions aren't quite right, and theres a weird buzziness and nasality to it that really builds up when you stack multiple instances like in your demo. You should also check out the physical modeling synth included with logic pro, sculpture. It'd be interesting to see your thoughts on that one.
@danlwarren