New tutorials planned...need your opinion

[Trancit]

Hi there...

Sorry for being that quiet in the last time for two reasons:

1. Much work...good thing to earn money, bad for doing other things...
2. much rethinking of the kind of videos (ok, there are just 2 ) I did before...

The result of point 2:

I don't like that kind of vids anymore... too much blablabla too little one can really use.
I would like to change this way to make a more praxis oriented series, which explains everything by examples...
To produce a complete track by (mostly) only using the MUX came to my mind...this series of vids would be without any visual gimmicks and would be more like "Reality TV" available in german and english and of course for free in 720p (perhaps 1080p)HD on youtube...

It's an experiment for me too, even I am convinced, that the MUX is capable of doing this (and I hope I am too )
I am an old trance boy, so the result would be something like this...

The content would be:

1. Drum sound creation, programming and processing
2. Basses
3. Sequence/ ARP/ Rythm parts
4. Leadsounds
5. Pads
6. Effects
7. Sequencing
8. Mixing/Automation
9. Mastering

This videos will not cover any music theory and will not show much of composing. It's just too hard to show this time compressed...
Main aspect will be how to use (I hope) everything the MUX offers and of course how I use it...

I would like to know, what you think about something like that...

[funk01]

I would most definitely be interested and would watch all the video tutorials if they were on youtube.

I think this is a great idea. This is nice of you to put something out like this.


funk01

[Mattox]

This is 100% the kind of thing I'd love to see! Especially if it has more info on building things in the MuX

[Trancit]

Especially if it has more info on building things in the MuX

This is what I would like to do....building up the instruments nearly in realtime depending on the task, what they shall do and explaining with these examples, tuning the sound in realtime with the controls, that everybody can hear the changes... it's not about "How to make a trance tune"... the song is only an example, only a package, that keeps everything in context.

But of course, very time consuming and boring things will be premade and explained with the result.
I think it's not very exiting, to watch somebody making a sequence in 2 or 3 Multi-Point envelopes...

[Mattox]

For sure, but thinking long term the more people using MuLab the more people searching for tutorials on YouTube. Thats the first place I looked after I bought an license, I'd say you could even charge people allowing them to download the tutorials to their PC.

[Reincke]

I would like to know, what you think about something like that...

Well, I haven't used the video tutorials so far, not only due to my poor internet access. So I have to admit that I'm much more interested in an enhancement of "written documentation", either the online docs or an Wiki, as I mentioned in an earlier post. For example the behaviour of the different modules inside a MuX could be explained a bit more detailled. This could be done (and searched through) much better in a written reference doc than in a video tutorial. Just my point of view.
JR

[Trancit]

I would like to know, what you think about something like that...

Well, I haven't used the video tutorials so far, not only due to my poor internet access. So I have to admit that I'm much more interested in an enhancement of "written documentation", either the online docs or an Wiki, as I mentioned in an earlier post. For example the behaviour of the different modules inside a MuX could be explained a bit more detailled. This could be done (and searched through) much better in a written reference doc than in a video tutorial. Just my point of view.
JR

Interesting...
I was never a fan of reading manuals... I enjoyed much more watching moving pictures and see something in action...

[funk01]

I would like to know, what you think about something like that...

Well, I haven't used the video tutorials so far, not only due to my poor internet access. So I have to admit that I'm much more interested in an enhancement of "written documentation", either the online docs or an Wiki, as I mentioned in an earlier post. For example the behaviour of the different modules inside a MuX could be explained a bit more detailled. This could be done (and searched through) much better in a written reference doc than in a video tutorial. Just my point of view.
JR

Interesting...
I was never a fan of reading manuals... I enjoyed much more watching moving pictures and see something in action...

+1....... BRING ON THE TUTORIALS !!!!

[pljones]

I was never a fan of reading manuals... I enjoyed much more watching moving pictures and see something in action...

Google's not very good at finding answers in videos. The first place I go when I want to know "how do I..?" is Google. Unless you write out long hand in the video description, along with timing info, exactly what's going on, it means the video isn't searchable. Of course, that isn't necessarily a reason to not do videos. I guess I'm thinking many short, focussed videos (with concise descriptions) would be more valuable than a few long ones -- but maybe there are situations where a longer video would help. Like you say, though, it's not about "how to make a trance track", so there's no reason to do a complete track end-to-end in one video. Setting up each component of the track could be its own video -- say you'd have "Here's how to create a basic poly-synth patch", which wouldn't demo every single module, just input, oscillators, envelopes and outputs - and so on, tagged by keyword (poly-synth, input, oscillator, etc...)

[Trancit]

I was never a fan of reading manuals... I enjoyed much more watching moving pictures and see something in action...

Google's not very good at finding answers in videos. The first place I go when I want to know "how do I..?" is Google. Unless you write out long hand in the video description, along with timing info, exactly what's going on, it means the video isn't searchable. Of course, that isn't necessarily a reason to not do videos. I guess I'm thinking many short, focussed videos (with concise descriptions) would be more valuable than a few long ones -- but maybe there are situations where a longer video would help. Like you say, though, it's not about "how to make a trance track", so there's no reason to do a complete track end-to-end in one video. Setting up each component of the track could be its own video -- say you'd have "Here's how to create a basic poly-synth patch", which wouldn't demo every single module, just input, oscillators, envelopes and outputs - and so on, tagged by keyword (poly-synth, input, oscillator, etc...)

Of course the videos will be split into smaller pieces each covering a special topic (longer videos would be split into parts)...

The main reason I want to do a complete song from the beginning to the end:

1. This is the reason with the absolut highest priority: I want to proove, that MUX is capable of doing this with an outstanding sound quality and with ease if you know, what you do...
2. Imho "...if you know, what you do..." is very very important in these days...
We've got a such crowded market, that even advanced users loose sometimes the focus, what really matters: It's all about the user's knowledge of his equipment and nothing else... there is no need in buying more and more (no joke: except MUX, because it really differs...imho, there is no comparable product out there, the MUX keep everything toghether), because this EQ/comp has another sound character, which sounds more "analog"...nothing but bullshit...
There was a test of somebody on his homepage (sorry cannot find it anymore), who has proven, that digital EQ's doesn't differ in any sound... he had matched the spectrum curves from nearly every "High-end" EQ with a freebie...
So, the best you can do: Put toghether all you really need (or with what you can work best) and learn to use this inside out...

3. Imho (of course), it's easier to see something in context, than examined alone... especially with music, it doesn't help to make/use nice sounds... very important is, which of the nice sounds to use together and how...

4. Making a complete sound shows it all, what's needed to make a song...there's no gap I hope you get, what I mean...

[MuTools]

I also think videos are much more popular than text based docs. It's so much more fun & easy to watch a movie than to read text. Atoh i understand and agree the need for text based docs too. I'll do my best to update and extend the docs. Abuot the videos: Yes better many shorter ones than a few longer ones

[pljones]

split into smaller pieces each covering a special topic

Some way of hyperlinking the parts together into a whole would be good, too, with clear navigation all over the place.

The main reason I want to do a complete song from the beginning to the end:

Completely agree with all of this.

[liquidsound]

A Wikipage for MuLab and MUX, where we can all partecipate, with "links" to videos, would solve all the needs.
And yes, Trancit, your video are more than welcomed. A definitely watch.

[sl23]

I also think videos are much more popular than text based docs.

Personally, I find a well-written manual with necessary pictures far exceeds any video. With a video, for example, when your trying to learn a complicated topic, you need to keep 'rewinding' if you forget a step or how something was achieved. If you don't have a great internet connection then this is made even more inconvenient. We don't all have super-fast broadband and multiple monitors for viewing stuff like this. With a manual it's all in front of you. But that's just me.

I do understand, however that certain things are definitely better covered by video, but I feel this only really applies to stuff where movement is a requisite of what your learning, ie. a sport In general though I've always preferred a paper manual. But things like this are always a personal preference and I'm probably in the minority here

[fluffy_little_something]

Do one on recording vocals in an audio track, please. I have no idea which effects to use and how in order to make it sound more or less professional