This is why Hans said he loves Olafur's piano from Spitfire. Everyone should have something from Olafur Arnalds from Spitfire if you want great sounding cues. Great Job Spitfire collaborating with Olafur Arnald in this project.
Stratus is absolutely great. Normally, when I'm making music, I focus on the front layer first and then deal with the back layer. But with this plugin, it’s like my brain decided to go on a vacation! Suddenly, I’m all about the back layer, and my front layer turns into a total wild card. It's a blast to experiment with-truly a source of inspiration (at least it was for me)! If you're having any doubts, just go for it-trust me, it’s a total game changer. Big thanks to Olafur and Spitfire for this gem!
Yeah me too. There's a big pimpin integrated tabletop controller build like this in the old Symphobia Lumina demo videos too. Almost makes me wish I had motivation to do things.
Stratus will be our featured instrument for many of our new relaxation and meditation videos in 2023. Adding stunning video clips of nature and people should be not only immersive but a unique signature to our music. What a wonderful instrument you have created!
It would be great to be able to buy the software/generator and use other samples rather than be limited to those within Stratus, lovely though they are. The application for this software seems much greater than this library alone. 🙏
You can get Kontakt to output midi which should let you use it that way if your host supports chaining (or use something like Unify/Freestyle/etc). Don't quote me on this since I don't own Stratus, but it works with a number of other engines (e.g. Sonuscore's The Orchestra).
FINALLLY!!!! I asked him on twitter last year that is there a chance there will be a stratus library in the future. and he said "maybe" well THATS WAY SOONER THAN I THOUGH!!! Can't wait to get this (as soon as i save up lmao) I love Olafur so much!
this is so weird!his friend and amazing musician Nils Frahm actually got an accident involving his fingers too,some time ago and was unable to play for a time,so he made an album using only one hand!
This is really cool! Is there a way to use this just for midi inputs? I would love to do some experimenting with synths and stuff. And maybe one day buy a player piano.
I was hoping so too, but he says that they sampled each pattern for the stratus pianos, so they are not actually midi information playing sampled notes. :/ But hopefully we can! I have so many ideas to use this on
in fact i would research a midi OUTPUTfor the evo/matrix, the piano is muddy. but there are others motors of evo patterns, in the reason racks for exemple.
@@solvikarlsson542 Curious about how they dealt with that. He also says they sampled the actual different tempo variations but that should mean they had to sample A TON of individual notes. Somehow they managed to deal with it as it seems.
A pity that it is kontakt / sample based..... I just would love the sequencer from it and use with my own stuff. Or let's say with pianoteq. 15.6 GB is nuts.
@@trafficante78 That's a workaraund. I still have to deal with the 15 GB of samples I don't want and I don't want to pay for. I just want the MIDI functionality in a small footprint plugin for which I do not have to sell a kidney. To be honest, such software pricing even encourages piracy. For that money you can buy hardware synths like the microfreak or model d. It is just not worth paying so much money for a plugin which you may end up using partially.
Wow. Have you guys ever imagined the background, time, efforts that went into something like this? And then producing it, actually? It's fascinating to see how much appreciation you have for such things. Zero.
Sorry, I couldn't help but notice, probably too much noise reduction was used on Ólafur's voice. It sounds way too boomy and sterile. I don't know the recording condition of this interview so it's hard to tell if anything better could be done, but having his voice sounding more natural would probably fit this story better. Nevertheless, I can't stop listening to this man speak. Fascinating story!
returns When the German forces used the enigma machine to encrypt and send messages securely, and the English scientist Alan Turing was trying to break these codes. Turing and his team built the bombe machine that solved the enigma. Both enigma and bombe machines are the basis of machine learning, which is one of the branches of artificial intelligence. Turing considered a machine intelligent that communicates with a human without giving him the feeling of talking to the machine, and this is the basic issue of the science of artificial intelligence, that is, building a machine that thinks, makes decisions and acts like a
I love Olafur Arnalds. I repeat I love Olafur Arnalds, and I love his music. But this confuses me ...... apart from making money, why would he offer something that ..... well quite frankly, will just make a whole lot of people make music that sounds just like him, by simply using this new virtual instrument? Isn't the reason that we love Olafur's music is that it sounds uniques, it sounds like .... Olafur Arnalds? Now - we will have so many much less able and talented musicians, making music that sounds so similar to his music. I really struggle with this. Maybe I have old-fashioned thinking, but I'm just wondering where this whole thing will stop?
David Fedele A reasonable question, but from what I’ve understood from interviews is that Olafur keeps putting out these virtual instruments for two reasons. He likes giving his fans the ability to make music inspired by his own, and also this gives him another chance to make an even more unique sound. With the Stratus sound being released, he now has to push himself to evolve even further, put himself out of his comfort zone to find a new sound, and I think he really enjoys that.
I'm with you David. Sounds gorgeous but I can't imagine feeling like I actually made anything that might come out of it. Still, if you're a media composer and you need "in the style of olafur arnalds" by end of day then, boom! spitfire have you covered. It's a bit like the Korg Wavestation (and now Wavestate), press a key and boom! instant soundtrack
I'd say it's a combination of factors - From a creative perspective I agree it's good for Olafur to give up the sound in order to keep innovating. This technology also represents several years of time and investment from a number of people and I imagine it's a good way of recouping some of those costs to licence it out. I do a lot of experimentation with MIDI generation so for me Re:member was a bit of an "A-ha!" moment, seeing that someone else was already doing this stuff (and at a much grander scale). However, I feel like this might now become a completely overdone technique now it's available in a few button clicks, much in the way that felted pianos have almost become cliché in this style of music. The proof will be if clever composers are able to wring new and interesting sounds out of this rather than just becoming Olafur Arnalds tribute acts...
I'll admit that the end result sounds great, but isn't this a way of outsourcing your job as a composer to automation. You should know and be in control of which notes occur when, if you are just leaving things to chance then are you even composing at all? I think there's a parallel here with automation in other fields and trades. Self-driving cars didn't just appear out of the blue. Instead there have been gradual shifts in that direction with satellite navigation, motion sensors, advances in AI etc. And now the job which employs more men than any other in the US is in existential danger thanks to automation. I know I'm just another internet user getting on my soapbox but all I'll say is - artists, don't think only manual jobs are the ones at risk. You see it already. Download a chord-generator plugin, combine it with this^ and "you" have written a piece. People can make the argument (I have heard Spitfire make it in the past) that this is 'democratising' composition and making it accessible to people who weren't fortunate enough to get music lessons in those critical early years (I know I wasn't). But to me it just seems like a move in the direction of letting a computer compose for you and then taking the credit for the end result.
I totally understand your point but since Olafur invented the original Stratus, does that mean he is compromised as a composer since he is assisted by some kind of automation?
Ólafur is not compromised, as he is the one that created the engine and designed how it should react to his input. Granted, for users that download it, they’ll still need skill in how they use it to get the best out of it and mix it with other instruments. However listening to the demo pieces so far, they sound very samey, anyone listening to them could probably just assume they’re listening to ólafur’s album “re:member”, which defeats the point if you’re trying to create original music.
a I guess that depends on how far you feel sound design, software development, understanding synthesis etc. comes under the umbrella of composition. Although in any case Olafur is one example against however many people buy the VI. It's not black and white, of course. Some people would say that writing using an acoustic instrument like a piano is not proper composing because you're reliant on a tool rather than using your inner ear, whilst at the other end of the spectrum people creating aleatoric music would say that what they are doing counts as composition. It's easy to fall into the trap of purity spiralling, and I understand the appeal of products like this - people in media composition often have to come up with cues quickly. But then again lots of Italian composers used to write whole operas in weeks or even days (although often plagiarising previous works and those of other composers!) I just feel like the development and possible mass appeal of products like this might lead composers down a path we might regret going down with the benefit of hindsight. Nobody is forcing us to buy it, of course, but the point I wanted to make is that it will have repercussions for all of us in the field, hence my comparison to self-driving cars. Anyway, I'm rambling - sorry! Interesting to talk about these types of things though
Why don’t we think that as a different tool to write music? We already have the standard one. To write our own ideas. I find it very cool to have in hand a different way to write music. Music has no rules.
Oh, right, Palette Gear... although I think they changed their name to Monogram. I owned the set up until PreSonus did a firmware upgrade to the FaderPort 8 (and 16) which gives us eight 100mm faders for CC control. But it's definitely not portable, so PaletteGear/Monogram shines there.
ahhhh rich people this is well worth more then a video game cost to develop to price at 299.99 , must have taken allot more years , 50 million to develop ?this is allot more work i forgot the hundreds of employees,makes total sense...keep eating bison...trips around the world its more important values today.
This is why Hans said he loves Olafur's piano from Spitfire. Everyone should have something from Olafur Arnalds from Spitfire if you want great sounding cues. Great Job Spitfire collaborating with Olafur Arnald in this project.
Stratus is absolutely great. Normally, when I'm making music, I focus on the front layer first and then deal with the back layer. But with this plugin, it’s like my brain decided to go on a vacation! Suddenly, I’m all about the back layer, and my front layer turns into a total wild card. It's a blast to experiment with-truly a source of inspiration (at least it was for me)! If you're having any doubts, just go for it-trust me, it’s a total game changer. Big thanks to Olafur and Spitfire for this gem!
I love that desk.
Yeah me too. There's a big pimpin integrated tabletop controller build like this in the old Symphobia Lumina demo videos too. Almost makes me wish I had motivation to do things.
So many of his songs from some kind of peace make so much more sense now. Its magical, so so magical
Stratus will be our featured instrument for many of our new relaxation and meditation videos in 2023. Adding stunning video clips of nature and people should be not only immersive but a unique signature to our music. What a wonderful instrument you have created!
It would be great to be able to buy the software/generator and use other samples rather than be limited to those within Stratus, lovely though they are. The application for this software seems much greater than this library alone. 🙏
You can get Kontakt to output midi which should let you use it that way if your host supports chaining (or use something like Unify/Freestyle/etc). Don't quote me on this since I don't own Stratus, but it works with a number of other engines (e.g. Sonuscore's The Orchestra).
@@Anonymous-mn3td Thanks. 👍
FINALLLY!!!! I asked him on twitter last year that is there a chance there will be a stratus library in the future. and he said "maybe" well THATS WAY SOONER THAN I THOUGH!!! Can't wait to get this (as soon as i save up lmao) I love Olafur so much!
That sounds soooooo dreamy. Stunning work Spitfire!!
I can't wait to see you live Olafur your a genius!!
There’s like 7 people in Iceland and Mr Arnalds still gets into a car accident
(Glad you’re ok Ólafur!)
Don't forget the 4 billion tourists that can't drive on snowy roads.
this is so weird!his friend and amazing musician Nils Frahm actually got an accident involving his fingers too,some time ago and was unable to play for a time,so he made an album using only one hand!
16:10 aaaaaaand let the goosebumps in.
Love the way Ólafur works: peaceful, natural and humble. Truly soul caressing.
Fabulous sounds and fantastic features... Awesome!
please release an update so this has MIDI OUT ! :)
I just picked this up today with the spring sale. I am beyond stoked.
He `s my without a doubt favourite Producer number one
If only the MIDI plugin would be available though. Seems like I'll continue using my weird 6-voice arpeggiator system in cubase.
Unify by PluginGuru. Scaler 2. Nora. etc
This is really cool!
Is there a way to use this just for midi inputs?
I would love to do some experimenting with synths and stuff.
And maybe one day buy a player piano.
I was hoping so too, but he says that they sampled each pattern for the stratus pianos, so they are not actually midi information playing sampled notes. :/ But hopefully we can! I have so many ideas to use this on
in fact i would research a midi OUTPUTfor the evo/matrix, the piano is muddy. but there are others motors of evo patterns, in the reason racks for exemple.
Maybe you could try experimenting with Logic's Midi Scripter?
@@solvikarlsson542 Curious about how they dealt with that. He also says they sampled the actual different tempo variations but that should mean they had to sample A TON of individual notes. Somehow they managed to deal with it as it seems.
Hi there do you currently have any coupons for Stratus?
I'm studying desktop musician and wasn't aware of what he was talking about until listening many times and learning about audiocontext api.
that studio
Hi Olafur,
could you be so friendly and tell me what Masterkeyboard you used in your Studio.
thanks so far.
То чувство, когда Оли написал ещё пару альбомов, пока показывал как работает Стратус
Will that say, you cant play the same number excakly same way? Thanks for all that grate music!
how many keys does that keyboard have? and who made this desk? his studio looks rad!
Custom made desk, I love it.
@@MichaelLauerDr me too! Who makes it?
Iyd buy it if it was MIDI only.
Oh my god I NEED this!
Thank you for the sweetness 😄😘
Argh, I gotta have this also.
17:30 reminds me of RGB by Olafur
Amazing Video again! I have one suggestion, please low-cut the voice :) It's really hard to watch on TV with sub system.
I want that room.
Even cooler than "Noire - Particles engine". Been wishing for this :). Thank you Olafur and Spitfire. 🎵🎵🔥🔥🔥
I really like the Particle engine!! But stratus is its own beast.
nothing beats noire from kontakt and hammer + waves
@@ciasma_xavi rare vibes is good, but other ones, I think you are recreate it with Noire
min 16:15 FULL VERSION and song name pls
Love it!
A pity that it is kontakt / sample based..... I just would love the sequencer from it and use with my own stuff. Or let's say with pianoteq. 15.6 GB is nuts.
you can use it with your own synths , play the melody you want in kontakt and then replace Stratus with your outboard keyboards using the midi data.
@@trafficante78 That's a workaraund. I still have to deal with the 15 GB of samples I don't want and I don't want to pay for. I just want the MIDI functionality in a small footprint plugin for which I do not have to sell a kidney.
To be honest, such software pricing even encourages piracy. For that money you can buy hardware synths like the microfreak or model d. It is just not worth paying so much money for a plugin which you may end up using partially.
Wow. Have you guys ever imagined the background, time, efforts that went into something like this? And then producing it, actually? It's fascinating to see how much appreciation you have for such things. Zero.
should I buy the Olafur Arnalds Composer Tool Kit or Stratus?
I really want the Felt Grand Piano, is there any chance that I only get this Piano?
which keyboard does he use?
Sounds great. Btw, what video monitor is Olafur using in his studio? Some curved beast.
I know, right? I was gonna ask that. What a monster!
Looks like the 49" LG Ultrawide
Awesome! When is the full Walkthrough coming?
There's a link in the descr. which takes you to a page where you'll find a link to PT's walkthrough.
@@daleturner tnx
Sorry, I couldn't help but notice, probably too much noise reduction was used on Ólafur's voice. It sounds way too boomy and sterile. I don't know the recording condition of this interview so it's hard to tell if anything better could be done, but having his voice sounding more natural would probably fit this story better. Nevertheless, I can't stop listening to this man speak. Fascinating story!
Kang Chen it’s just his normal icelandic accent
Ambient chill soundscapes I don’t use
19:01 duuude...
returns When the German forces used the enigma machine to encrypt and send messages securely, and the English scientist Alan Turing was trying to break these codes. Turing and his team built the bombe machine that solved the enigma. Both enigma and bombe machines are the basis of machine learning, which is one of the branches of artificial intelligence. Turing considered a machine intelligent that communicates with a human without giving him the feeling of talking to the machine, and this is the basic issue of the science of artificial intelligence, that is, building a machine that thinks, makes decisions and acts like a
Lucie brought me here.
I love Olafur Arnalds. I repeat I love Olafur Arnalds, and I love his music. But this confuses me ...... apart from making money, why would he offer something that ..... well quite frankly, will just make a whole lot of people make music that sounds just like him, by simply using this new virtual instrument? Isn't the reason that we love Olafur's music is that it sounds uniques, it sounds like .... Olafur Arnalds? Now - we will have so many much less able and talented musicians, making music that sounds so similar to his music. I really struggle with this. Maybe I have old-fashioned thinking, but I'm just wondering where this whole thing will stop?
David Fedele A reasonable question, but from what I’ve understood from interviews is that Olafur keeps putting out these virtual instruments for two reasons. He likes giving his fans the ability to make music inspired by his own, and also this gives him another chance to make an even more unique sound. With the Stratus sound being released, he now has to push himself to evolve even further, put himself out of his comfort zone to find a new sound, and I think he really enjoys that.
I'm with you David. Sounds gorgeous but I can't imagine feeling like I actually made anything that might come out of it. Still, if you're a media composer and you need "in the style of olafur arnalds" by end of day then, boom! spitfire have you covered. It's a bit like the Korg Wavestation (and now Wavestate), press a key and boom! instant soundtrack
Olafur's music is much more than using Stratus. In fact, my favourite pieces of him don't actually use it at all.
I'd say it's a combination of factors - From a creative perspective I agree it's good for Olafur to give up the sound in order to keep innovating. This technology also represents several years of time and investment from a number of people and I imagine it's a good way of recouping some of those costs to licence it out.
I do a lot of experimentation with MIDI generation so for me Re:member was a bit of an "A-ha!" moment, seeing that someone else was already doing this stuff (and at a much grander scale). However, I feel like this might now become a completely overdone technique now it's available in a few button clicks, much in the way that felted pianos have almost become cliché in this style of music. The proof will be if clever composers are able to wring new and interesting sounds out of this rather than just becoming Olafur Arnalds tribute acts...
no te voy a mentir hermanito, esta wea esta de la permisima
Que?
I'll admit that the end result sounds great, but isn't this a way of outsourcing your job as a composer to automation. You should know and be in control of which notes occur when, if you are just leaving things to chance then are you even composing at all?
I think there's a parallel here with automation in other fields and trades. Self-driving cars didn't just appear out of the blue. Instead there have been gradual shifts in that direction with satellite navigation, motion sensors, advances in AI etc. And now the job which employs more men than any other in the US is in existential danger thanks to automation.
I know I'm just another internet user getting on my soapbox but all I'll say is - artists, don't think only manual jobs are the ones at risk. You see it already. Download a chord-generator plugin, combine it with this^ and "you" have written a piece.
People can make the argument (I have heard Spitfire make it in the past) that this is 'democratising' composition and making it accessible to people who weren't fortunate enough to get music lessons in those critical early years (I know I wasn't). But to me it just seems like a move in the direction of letting a computer compose for you and then taking the credit for the end result.
I totally understand your point but since Olafur invented the original Stratus, does that mean he is compromised as a composer since he is assisted by some kind of automation?
Ólafur is not compromised, as he is the one that created the engine and designed how it should react to his input. Granted, for users that download it, they’ll still need skill in how they use it to get the best out of it and mix it with other instruments. However listening to the demo pieces so far, they sound very samey, anyone listening to them could probably just assume they’re listening to ólafur’s album “re:member”, which defeats the point if you’re trying to create original music.
@@MrJonnyharry or just let your cat walk on the keyboard...
a I guess that depends on how far you feel sound design, software development, understanding synthesis etc. comes under the umbrella of composition. Although in any case Olafur is one example against however many people buy the VI.
It's not black and white, of course. Some people would say that writing using an acoustic instrument like a piano is not proper composing because you're reliant on a tool rather than using your inner ear, whilst at the other end of the spectrum people creating aleatoric music would say that what they are doing counts as composition.
It's easy to fall into the trap of purity spiralling, and I understand the appeal of products like this - people in media composition often have to come up with cues quickly. But then again lots of Italian composers used to write whole operas in weeks or even days (although often plagiarising previous works and those of other composers!)
I just feel like the development and possible mass appeal of products like this might lead composers down a path we might regret going down with the benefit of hindsight.
Nobody is forcing us to buy it, of course, but the point I wanted to make is that it will have repercussions for all of us in the field, hence my comparison to self-driving cars.
Anyway, I'm rambling - sorry! Interesting to talk about these types of things though
Why don’t we think that as a different tool to write music?
We already have the standard one. To write our own ideas. I find it very cool to have in hand a different way to write music.
Music has no rules.
"Hey, look how nice! Let's buy TWO self-playing pianos, i have some coins here" =D
Did anyone realizes he uses the same faders as Christain....LOL
Oh, right, Palette Gear... although I think they changed their name to Monogram. I owned the set up until PreSonus did a firmware upgrade to the FaderPort 8 (and 16) which gives us eight 100mm faders for CC control. But it's definitely not portable, so PaletteGear/Monogram shines there.
Seriously Spitfire? You are better than this!
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ahhhh rich people this is well worth more then a video game cost to develop to price at 299.99 , must have taken allot more years , 50 million to develop ?this is allot more work i forgot the hundreds of employees,makes total sense...keep eating bison...trips around the world its more important values today.
sound not good but nice idea of aleatoric composition for atmosfears without effort..
lol ur dumb
This is boring! Noire from NI is way way better.