This feels like the DAW equivalent of building a computer inside Minecraft

So sick. Effectively recreating colour plugins from scratch and generating a ton more versatility due to having fine control of all the working parts. APPROVED 🌈

14:55 is the best atempt at comedy coming from germany I've heard in a while. Jokes aside, this is awesome and I'm certainly going to experiment with this stuff myself!

I feel 12 years old watching a minecraft redstone contraption tutorial again when i see those racks and techniques. Really inspiring

god the only guy who is so insane that he is competing with AU5 at who can come up with the most complicated ways to make sounds lol. Thank you VR you are always an inspiration!

Au5's brain carrying the biggest of biggest dogs, love it or hate it

That is the actual coolest homecooked effects chain i have ever seen wtf

2 uploads within one month??? we are blessed

oh my god this is insanely cool >:0 thank you so much for making this video !!

15:00 omg I was so not ready for the "final solution" XD

So this is basically a MIDI input vocoder built from the ground up. I love it.

All this should be made into a cpu efficient vst or max for live patch. Shoutout virtual riot U gain more and more respect

Webcam angle is nice, feels more personal and the daw is whats important anyways

15:00 I laughed and felt bad for laughing all at the same time

Hardware designers would do themselves a favor to put VR in R&D. Amazing concept and even more brilliant execution here.

15:01 LMAOOOO

Big week for badass bass tutorials

Virtual Riot helps me a ton. NGL, he's my new favorite producer.

Now, I think I can see all the modules added to a track are like legos. Kinda fun.

This is so crazy because you kinda did exactly what someone programming a complex FX plug-in would do, except you did it with a bunch of ableton racks. Super cool 👏

Yo! More of these man! Quick and easy for you to upload and suuuuuper helpful for us! Definetly keep these low-key uploads as a regular thing along with the more fleshed out studio time episodes!

My man; this is great but you’ve invented the vocoder 😅🎉

You can get polyphonic keytracked filtering with Surge XT by using “Audio Input” oscillator type (and then routing the sound to the synth in your DAW), switching on a filter (like a 24dB band-pass probably), setting its keytracking to +100% and you’re done with basic setup. Because there is a second oscillator waiting (and a second filter in each one, and some other cool things), this can make easier creative spectral processing of the sound. And it won’t need to load for extra long time! 😀 Well and also the filters parameters can be modulated by internal LFOs and other stuff on top of that! And vocoder is also in stock. Finally (probably not) you can use custom tunings (vs. just 12 equal temperament) to color the effect differently.

A W for Color Bass innovation!

Your understanding of the frequency range and ableton ingenuity combined are impressive sir. I've listened to dubstep frequently for a decade and always thought your songs had a touch of musical genius compared to others. I bought Ableton and started watching production videos a month ago and now I understand why. Have already learned a ton, thanks Virtual Riot :) btw your Pleasure Seeker Remix was my Spotify #1 song of 2023, absolute monkey slapper of a tune

thanks for the vid val, literally perfect for a uni project i'm doing rn

All my bitwig friends how much easier is it to make this for us? 😊😊😊

Thanks alot Christian for those Videos! Really inspiring!

Bro is the Jacob collier of sound design

Watching VR play around in Ableton are some of my favorite videos. Pure passion, pure creativity, pure joy. I can't help but smile when I watch these videos. Also seeing Val being inspired by some of these popular plugins and trying to re-create them in Ableton and at the same time elevate them is such a huge gift to all of us. Thanks for sharing your brain with us!

26 minutes of my new favourite song being made 😍 you come across as such a nice guy as well as being mega talented in what you do!

dude you should definitely collab to make a plugin

Loving the enthusiasm

you are doing god’s work rn sir, ty for everything you’ve done and continue to do ❤

You did exactly what I was thinking for the waveform following! I am in physical pain at the thought of how many connections and parallel audio streams must be going on to do this lmao

this is really jazzy and 70s vibe for some reason

Colored yoy is a fantastic description, love it.

Incredible stuff, thanks~

This guy truly innovating some crazy awesome ideas. They're so simple in concept but something that I've (personally) never thought of. And I love the expansion into the Colour Bass scene. Awesome stuff!

This is absolutely amazing creativity. Gg

Thanks homie! You're a boss!

I think we all need more of that polyrithm stuff

It is just unbelievable how you keep surprising us all with your creativity and knowledge, this was so fucking cool to see it explained in depth

Thanks for the tutorials

I love messing around with sound design, its so fun.

Really cool video and technique. This also reminds me of using vocoder on external with a chord stack, it gives it the same kind of sound then you can add whatever effects you want to it.

dude you are from another world, how these concepts came to your mind? absolute genius

This could be a brilliant VST/plug in. Consolidating it, and having organized nearly customizable panels

thanks for sharing your findings :)

i just can't wait for another banger album like simulation with all this awesome techniques

Thank you!!

15:00 LOL ... Talent man, thanks for the knowledge

this is mind blowing omg

Holy hell, this is impressive!

its not fair how genius you are, your tinkering is magnificent, when i tinker i end up with hot doodoo

thank you Virtual Riot for continuing to keep it real and just uploading weird ideas you have

This man is not human. Can't convince me otherwise.

man i'm so happy this dude is figuring out how to make these sounds so we can hear them

I've been obsessed with making sounds from sines that fit my tuning/key/scale/chord (mimicing the pattern of interval spacing in the harmonic series but making it something minor is cool for some retro house planed chord basses), but I never even considered making a yoy like that. Doing stuff like this is also a great way to develop your ear's ability to make good use of the harmonic series. I bet you'd make some sick just intonation stuff btw., you can distort the hell out of all sorts of intervals there, harmonic series for low notes.

i can't get enough of these overly complicated resonator videos :D more! more!!

that rest rack is insane. I did something similar with serum fx. it is fx rack as a filter bank. so from like 60-6600 hz it has lowpass filters moved up by key track. 6600-2200 it has hipass move down by key track. each instance runs a second filter in fx for resonant comb offset by random mod so each time it has a different freq for a random resonant filter bank.

Absolute legend, the ideas you come up with are insane ❤

the EDM scene is turning ableton into a sandbox

this comes in very handy for video game score production f. e. when you want something that emphasizes a certain mood. Might work well on 32 or 8 bit music.

With ADHD like me. I look away for 5 seconds, and look back to a Virtual Riot tutorial and he's in a completely different world let alone a next step in the process.

absolutely crazy

Virtual Riot upload????? Hell yeah

YES please. VR + Au5 already! 🙏🏽💙

damn this shit is so cool i hope one day ill be able to do this with ease and get every sound i want out of it

You are a mad scientist VR.

Engineering for color bass creativity at its finest! Ps. converge & diverge has been the key to my heart this past year ;)

15:00 final solution is wild🤣

this is dope looking forward to remake this in puredata or whatever to make it less cpu hungry

Thank you man, I assume this is going to be about tonal notching, I know the technique but can never get it right personally. Can't wait to see and find out

FIRE!

Bro went CRAAAZYYY. This would be sooo fun to mess with!

super neat thank u

Imagine a whole album with those ideas, I hope this happens.🤩

I just found your Channel I'm a DJ producer trying to learn Ableton. I think I'll stick around I can learn a lot from the channel thank you❤

They should use that dynamic EQ resonator as a benchmark at Ableton

This man is genuinely insane

Bro you're the man. I wanna push that on a Zephyrus duo 16 with the latest Rizen to see how it will handle this project. Cheers

If you wanted to, you could create convolver IRs out of this and give them out for people who cant load the racks.

This is how I’ve been doing color bass effects. I just stab the midi of the arpeggio on 32 or 16 rate and layer it with a normal saw

24:54 the little yay was so good cracked up

This guy is really talented. He should really start making music.

This could be a insane plugin

final solution bit actually killed me hahaha

the low res webcam makes its feel more authentic tbh

u the best dawg

Every once in a while I'm reminded you are very German. Awesome idea and execution. *Edit commented before I heard 15:00 lol. Perhaps the Japanese phrasing "final form" would work..

I haven't watched the video yet, but I want to thank you for sharing this knowledge

german engineering at its finest. echoing the comments that i'd love to see this packaged up into its own plugin for those of us who can't use m4l devices

I’ve been using Ableton since 2010 and have been a musician for 26 years and this still stretches my brain lol

the return of the king

Dawg, i love you

The quickest and cleanest way to achieve that "coloured sound" is just by using the special resonator. Simply send a MIDI chord progression from another channel, preferably stacked over multiple octaves and tweak the settings to taste. (Don't forget to turn poly on and voices up)

I’ve been playing around with the racks for a few days now and I can confirm that these are extremely CPU Intense. I got my first Ableton Crash 😂😂 and everytime I try to add or delete FX it takes ages 😅 (although I have extremely powerful hardware)

You’re a genius

very cool. thanking you. i will recreate this in fl studio patcher. at my standing desk. i cannot recommend this more, idk how you do it man.