Thanks! I used to play in orchestras, so I have a pretty good idea of how instruments sound. Then I just experiment a lot and use what I know about sound design to get close.

Thank you, if you're asking about the bass synth, it sounds like a square wave with some unison detune and either a flanger or a phaser

Thank you! I believe 1.5.5 is currently the latest version. Do you have 1.0.8? The presets will only work on version 1.5 or later, which are still free. Version 1.5.5 is currently labeled "early access" but is fully functional.

You can certainly use white noise or any of the other factory noises. However, you'll get a much more organic sound from stretching out a sample of something similar to a flute, like a didgeridoo. The sample still retains a lot of its character if you don't completely remove the tonality. If you don't see yourself ever using PaulXStretch, you could also just sample the noise from the video at 6:12 and use that.

@@EricBowman Thanks! ✅

4:27 for an even better recording

That's a good question. I've definitely carved out a niche for myself as the guy who recreates sounds, though I do have some originals like the ones from the granular soundscapes video and about 95% of the sounds from my Ear Candy preset pack. Many of those sounds are unique but many of them definitely resemble something you've heard. Though even if a preset like this one is based on a sound you've heard, it will always have a different flavor than the next person's interpretation or a sample. I used to be a jazz musician and fell into the trap of trying to be too unique before being able to imitate the masters of that art. I believe the first step to being able to be truly original, if that's even still possible, is to be able to reproduce whatever you hear. All the best jazz musicians I heard could do it. You could ask a saxophone player like Chris Potter to sound like Lester Young, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane...whoever, and he would nail it in his own unique way. I've been dumbfounded by a lot of the AI art I see that simply combines elements of different artists in a unique way, but looks much more original than most modern artists. I think most modern music we hear is simply a unique combination of what's already there. Salvador Dali, who I consider to be one of the most original artists of all time said, "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." But perhaps I should mix it up a little. Maybe I'll make a video on how you can take some of my presets and create several unique or new sounding presets from them.

@@EricBowman i think the videos where you emulate a real sound with Vital are truly fascinating and i'd bet there will long be an audience for that due to the fact that people interested in sound design appreciate and are fascinated by how damn realistic the sounds are and the level of expertise, step by step, that goes into it. i've learned things about Vital watching your recreations of sounds and i've come to that knowledge in a fun and engaging way. i'll have to check out the granular video - i think i may have seen it. i hope your preset packs with the "unreal" sounds are doing well. i ver much like the idea you float in your last paragraph. also, maybe once every couple of months you could put up a video showing the process of creating one of the "original" sounds from one of your preset packs... or just one you came up with for a future release of presets. maybe that wouldn't work because it is like sharing a patented invention with the general public. anyway, thx for your reply and for your contribution to the world of sound synthesis and music