Where's Guy now!? Scoring with Soundpaint
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Today Guy goes out on location with his portable studio to score the landscape that's all around him. To paint this musical picture of the English countryside he's using an amazing new music instrument from 8Dio called Soundpaint. What is sound paint? How does taking a complete studio into a field work out? what could possibly go wrong. Find out for yourself.
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Thanks to 8dio for the review copy. This video isn't sponsored, no money changed hands - Guy just really likes this instrument.
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I could just imagine being a passerby and seeing Guy acting like a bird with headphones on.😂 Great videos, as always!
He could be in a silent disco! Kudos for trying to compose on a hill as ever!
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, Guy went up to write a tune and wrote a Soundpaint scorcher! Chapeau Guy, DO NOT ever lose your love of quirky, creative and hugely entertaining exemplars of what composing is all about!
So beautiful! Thank you Guy for painting so colorfully! - Troels
You're qwelcome Troels - love your work!
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Everything about you Guy makes me miss the UK so much. Never stop being you! its incredible :)
My favorite thing about you, Guy, is that you just press "Record" before you have any idea what you're going to do. I wish I could be so bold.
you should try it - you might surprise yourself! (and you can always delete)
You crack me up Guy! Even with the sun in your eyes, a plane, traffic and a bloody annoying wobbly table - you still pull it off and amuse us in the process - Brilliant 👌👌👌👌
Glad you like Soundpaint! I've been using it since it was released and have most of the libraries. They offer some wonderful sounds with instruments that we're used to e.g. bass guitar, Rhodes, 6 string guitar but also some one-off instruments manufactured by some bonkers people who create wonderful sounds with them. The best feature IMO is the morph function where you can morph 2 or more instruments in real time. As a basic example, morph a bass guitar with a Wurlitzer! Fantastic!
Yesterday, I finally took the plunge and downloaded Soundpaint. Originally (Before downloading this) I thought "Oh another sound tool", but how I was terribly wrong! This engine is really cool and very interesting! After playing with it for about 1 day, I now understand how special this engine is. Soundpaint integrates and morphs so many things that our DAWs have in plugins but smartly integrates these tools and techniques into a nice neat interface to shape your sounds, plus so much more velocity! I really love this tool! It is now part of my "Bag of Tricks"! Maybe I can do something similar with a desert scene here in AZ. LOL.
Hello from Lebanon, I just wanna say thank you for all your videos, I learnt so much from them. Much love.
You're welcome!
Just moved to the Southampton area after 32 years of life in the US. I've watched your videos for a long time and can't believe how close by you are, doing this! So lovely, and it intensifies the inspiration for me, knowing that you're putting in serious work so close by. Now it's my turn! Game audio and orchestration training, here I come
Good man Guy.
Always a joy to be with you.
Thanks for sharing.
Have a great weekend dear soul. 🦋💚🌻
I'm glad you included the wide shot at 2:21, because for us it may not feel like what you are doing in this setting is strange because as we watch we feel like we are right here with you. But then the wide shot reminds us that, oh yes, this is quite abnormal.
At the beginning of the year, thanks to your inspirational videos, I started making music - after a very long break. Thank you.
Go for it!
@@ThinkSpaceEducation Thank you! 😎👍✌️
you have always been outstanding in your field
Totally agree, and in this video he is not only outstanding in his field, but also out, standing in a field…
…I do sincerely apologize for the bad joke…
Very nice Guy, enjoyed that immensely. I must admit, with decade old Macbook pro finally giving up on me. I decided to go for an even more ultra portable set up. I bought an M1 iPad pro and have been seriously impressed with its power along what the range of plugins now available on iOS.
Bought a few synths, a nice piano and also added a reverb but there's everything from Eventides blackhole and beyond.
What did amaze me was also that all of the SWAM modelling orchestral instruments are now available on iPad with a tiny memory footprint.
Technology truly allows us ultra powerful and portable options these days. 👍
Amazing that you can pull something off that is beautiful with such a limited keyboard and outdoors in the sun. Thank you for showing this off. GREAT video as always.
No need for sunglasses of doubt...really love that composition.😎
Love the drone footage with the amazing song!!
Love it! The music just transports the listener to another world..stunning!
Charmingly Bonkers! Guy personified!
Good morning Sir, great video and a great man that you are .
Oh my goodness, it snowed here last night, was frezzing rain a few days ago, this vid really made me feel positive. Thanks Guy always inspiring, in ways you may not realize..Love your vids
Outdoors is the best way to refresh your ideas - throw a looper into the operation and you can really grow huge sounds. Great tune Guy.
Love that you show off the fabulous view and then sit down and turn your back against it!
That beard is coming along magnificently Guy!
I always enjoy your fresh approach to entertainment! Nice one!! 😂 I might be biased because I produce free Kontakt tutorials, but I do have one question about Soundpaint: "little Add-Ons" for Soundpaint can Add Up to hundreds of quid for only a few instruments. Wouldn't Kontakt be a much better option in your opinion? It includes all the effects, modulation, filters etc, and 127 unique levels of velocity with AET filter. Plus you can use your very own samples (a feature that is supposed to come to Soundpaint by 2030). One could create some of the Soundpaint's instruments in an hour by dropping in homemade samples in Kontakt. Finally, for the price of 8 Soundpaint "add-ons", one could get the full version of Kontakt and enjoy so many free instruments. Or did you use Soundpaint for April fools? LOL
I really like it. It is very different to everything else out there and the sound design possibilities are great. Every time I fire it up I do something I wouldnt have written otherwise and that's (usually) a good thing
@@ThinkSpaceEducation Fair enough 👍🏼
So we (8Dio) have over 300 Kontakt Instruments, so we know a little bit about this +20 year old platform. We see them as two independent- and complimentary platforms. Soundpaint is a lot faster. I can load 300 instances (with instrument) in 10 seconds. The second thing that sets them apart is that Soundpaint (SP) renders samples in real-time using an entirely new audio format that took years to build. The end-result is that all dynamic instruments come with 127 real-time rendered velocity layers and that is unique to the platform. The DNA of the SP engine code is a bit like a vintage analog synth - there are always small movements in the sound to make it more alive and dozens of analog modeled effects. User Sample Import is actually going into BETA next week and it is a free tool - just like Soundpaint is a free engine. If you are curious about it - feel free to check our discord, which is where we test things with the community and openly discuss feature requests too.
@@Soundpaintmusic Thank you for this clarification. Perhaps my previous comment was a bit too direct. I am aware that you(8Dio), the makers of Soundpaint, have over 300 Kontakt instruments (and an even longer number of KSP code). I am very much looking forward to the sample import feature in Soundpaint. I will have a look at your Discord.👍
As for 127 real-time rendered velocity layers, I guess if one uses velocity to modulate a key tracked EQ in Kontakt, one would also get 127 real-time rendered velocity layers. It all depends on how one defines "newly rendered layers" (I.e if velocity layer 4 differs from velocity layer 5 in EQ or any other property, even by a small amount, it can be called "a newly rendered layer"). Additionally, Kontakt, through the AET filter, employs Fast Fourier Transformation (very precise EQ) to model 127 distinct layers of sound (in my mind that is also " real-time rendered velocity layers"). And since you (8Dio) have over 300 Kontakt instruments, I am sure you also know that small movements, like vintage analogue synthesizers, can be easily created in Kontakt in a few seconds with modulation.
However, I have been enjoying Guy's videos for years and I am sorry if I turned his comment section into tech talk. I will stay quiet now. Peace! :)
Thank you Guy! You brightened my day! 🙂
You're incredible. Thank you so much for each video class
"I have a view to paint, only issue is I don't see sh*t" ha ha ha great Guy, always lovely.
Someday I want to be an Oldman like you Guy! A lot of admiration from here!
Reminds me how much I miss England!
That makes me wanna go out again and feel the sun. Cheers, Guy!
I know and one week later today its snowing!
@@ThinkSpaceEducation Cologne is slightly warmer but no comparison to last week.
Edit: never mind, just started to snow as well... :D
I am always very impressed when somebody can write and input actual music while the DAW goes BLIPP! BLOPP! BLOPP! BLOPP! without being totally thrown off the track musically.
Not my fav click but needs must.
I didn't quite understand how Soundpaint is any different than any other virtual instrument, but I did like the view and the music. I thought your dodgy louder notes toward the end actually added interest/accent in a nice way. I did get how cool an effect delay can be. I was awed at how it worked with that arpeggio line.
He may not be in Iceland like a certain Spitfire leader, but wherever Guy goes I'm here to listen.
people in cars passing by: Look at that crazy guy dancing in the field wearing headphones. Should we call the institution and see if they are maybe missing a patient?
me: look at that genius dancing in the field to this great piece of music he just made. Amazing stuff!
Charmingly bonkers guy Guy actually is, isn't he!? Thanks Guy I almost took off myself at the end:)
yo guy!! been following you for a while mate, im now a full time award winning producer, ithankyou!!!
I am amazed at how much energy Guy has! =)
Great video Guy, keep 'em coming !
Beautifully simple but brilliant thank you for being so inspirational
Once in a while all composers have that "Thomas Newman - Any other Name"-moment ... ;)
You are always so energetic) nice tune as always)
Bought into Soundpaint a couple of weeks ago and I'm loving it. So it's great to see you getting amongst it, especially outside!
🤣🤣The flying did it for me!
Why Guy choose this amount of pain for his first Soundpaint video ? Maybe, after rec four simple soundpaint tracks, in a nice landscape surrounding, you start to fly. '..this is all blending together..' I'm looking forward to see Guy on painting sounds w/ Soundpaint. Well done Guy
Great Idea and thank you for the nice Atmophere
Oh, you make me laugh with every new video. And the music, of course, is always interesting! Cheers!
Thank you for this. I am off to get another sound patch from Soundpaint. Love the work
I love your energy and I love watching your process! I am a brand-spanking-new neophyte in the world of music creation using a DAW (Reaper), and I find that watching your videos is interesting and inspiring. I don't have a very deep background in music, but I do credit my experience taking piano for a year in high school in helping me know a bit about rhythm, chords, and music theory - this has helped me to create music. I love the creative possibilities that opening my DAW brings - sometimes I want to create cinematic pieces, and other times I want to create catchy trap-rhythm songs using some of the unique virtual instruments I have downloaded and also some sampled sounds of my cat meowing! The learning curve has been brutal (three months ago I had no idea how to use a DAW or even what a DAW was), but I feel I have learned a tremendous amount in that short time, and can't wait to learn more about composition, mixing, and mastering. Will I ever release an album or sell any of my music? Who knows? But at least I am having fun, I'm learning, and I can create music that I like. This is quickly becoming a hobby about which I am deeply passionate! Thank you for your entertaining and inspiring videos!
I have to say, that you have an incredibly lovely
style, when it comes to teaching musical knowledge.
The drone shot with the click on... 🤣 Love it, Guy!
not sure whether you are going for the John Williams look or Captain Birds-eye but I love your videos, and have joined thinkspace to learn music
Saw this video, got it straight away.
Thanks Guy!
Soundpaint is really inspiring
The individual "morph" possibilities should not go unmentioned - they inspire.
I know I will be back using more soundpaint in the near future
Nice example of Ostinato there Guy, and that four months prior to your recent video on that subject.
I love that you have the mini version of your main keyboard lol
Warm spring day!.. Snow this morning in Yorkshire. Sunny now, but still very cold.
just snowed here too
Brilliant and funny!
I think the problem with the metronome might be that you have control room activated. Hope it helps :) lovely video as usual ❤
I kindly envy Guy's passion❤
just yesterday i was thinking not seen a guy vid for a while... now i'm happy
Hi Guy.
It reminds me more of a night by the lake than the sunny field but... :D
These r the best, my favorite is the ocean side one
I believe that somewhere in a parallel universe Mozart and Einstein (with a little help from Benny Hill) conspired to raise the perfect son! They named him Guy 'Michelmore' and presented him to we mere mortals as the best gifts one could hope for. I know that I speak for many when I say, We love you, Guy. You make the world a better place.
That was quite entertaining! 🙂
Things needn't be complicated to write great music , cheers mate
Another masterpiece Guy! Hopefully no one was watching you at the end 🤣
Finally our own Thomas Kincaid of the audio world! Thank you soundpaint!
You need to have a chat with Christian Henson about how to do these Apex geolocation challenges, Guy, as I'm fairly sure you're not supposed to tell everyone you're just outside Goodwood in the intro!
I fly a paraglider (will be in England in fall!) and this would be perfect music for some of the GoPro footage I have accumulated!
Love the location! I really like Soundpaint. I have two libraries from them and enjoy it. The libraries sound uncompressed to me and are much more dynamic compared to Kontact libraries.
Just love you, dude!
Pretty sure it was snowing at this time just a little further up the Southdown's where I am.
Lovely
Awesome as always, Guy! Would there have been a way to stay longer on the hill with backup battery perhaps?
Yes Ive got an epic battery for the macbook
Love your videos :)
thank you
You are the Bob Ross of music
Could you do a video on mixing and mastering orchestral/film scores?
Super cool!!!
Hey Guy,
next time please bring a pc- mouse to your mobile setup, it drives me crazy to see you navigating with a mousepad 🤣😂🤣
Thanks for another entertaining video!
greetings from Germany ;-)
Yes I have one good thinking
@@ThinkSpaceEducation Different suggestion - that M32 keyboard is a great little DAW controller! I use the transport buttons, tap tempo, quantize, undo, toggle through tracks, it's great having a tactile buttons and knobs for all that.
Hi Guy! I'm always mesmerised by your amazing talent... I really admire how fast you come with great ideas. And Soundpaint is a real revolution as far as I tried it out. Big fan of both!! I have some technical questions: what kind of SSD do you use? How is your "little mobile studio" powered? Is it possible to do the same with a pc laptop? Thank you very much!!!
Hey Guy. Been loving your channel
Have you done video on where and when to use 7th and 9th chords in maybe rock/pop, writing. I know the chords, but find they don't always fit the genre. Or my tunes anyway lol
Everybody asking Where's Guy, but why is nobody asking How's Guy?
Entertaining as always - but talk about doing things the hard way! LOL
Nice one Guy.
There's a cow creating up behind you Guy 🤣😂
GREAT BARB !!!!
7:39 Wow! the legend of Zelda vibes
you a fookin legend m8
Where is guy....about 400 meters from my studio...had I of known you were there I'd have brought you some coffee up!
No really! Lovely place and I only discovered afterwards the amazing view over the Solent from the other side. Where are you then?
Awesome
Painting in the wild, nothing else like it!
I know - not the easiest way to make a film but fun
@@ThinkSpaceEducation the best ideas stem from outside the comfort zone, good work!!!
The reverb made me think of a unique question. If you have a ambient part that does not really break for a tail. What one is best to make that constant ambient to sound back and open? I love Comet reverb I bought and Valhalla for a free , been just studying last year. No uploads, cause I don't do songs yet, just engineer like tests. Comet is sooooo underrated for a verb..
Kind of stinks cause I only get to do it based on another in my situation. And the others work days were 3 a week or more. Thus 2 12 hour music study. More so wing stuff and engineer from a 6 grand about. PC and DAW demo level. And 1 day off. If he was doing 4, Id be 3 a week 12 hours, and far more ahead. Im already miles ahead of my last piano cheap strings test. A tad pale. Did like a 2 hour jam (your slide chords technique) idea. Just thrown down fast. To see, ok how to go about it. Since then, im starting to understand mor brass EQ, which sections. How flutes can complement strings. Not writing, just interesting counters or layers they make to strings. Orchestra VST coast a tun though. So mostly mid ranged ones. Outside the piano and solo like old school violin etc. Never touched these instruments before. Just guitar base and drums and a 4 track not long ago. Now everything is changing.
Is there a plugin that can sync drone circling speed with bpm?
So many sunglasses and Guy doesn't put them on during sunny day in England. I was wondering whole time if those table legs will give up. I'm looking forward to find out what other uncomfortable way of writing music will he try next.
Another excellent piece by Guy M. I close my eyes, and I am floating above the ground (sans headphones). Does anyone know how to conquer a fear of the black keys on the keyboard? I just don't hear them as similar to the white ones. I am a hobbyist composer looking forward to a better computer, keyboard, and SSDs for sound libraries.
Great video. Just tried the same thing but the keyboard kept getting covered in snow and I froze in just a T shirt. Still, any excuse to buy a drone. Thinking of calling the piece Hergest Ridge…
Another great video I bet its nice not to have use that pain of a dongle for Cubase anymore when you leave the studio :-)
I know - thank you Steinberg!
You crack me up Guy
Then he gets up and starts acting like a bird! Classic! That was actually pretty cool!