The Opusmodus Studio - Everything I didn't know I needed

[@VistaGrooves]

I'm glad these kinds of tools exist for the folks like you who find them helpful (and quite glad you got out of your block) but I think this video touches on my personal issues with DAW/computer (even some hardware synth) based workflows fairly well. It can all be a bit too much of an abstraction from instruments for me to feel creatively comfortable sometimes. It seems kind of unappealing to mess with a lot of automation, set up, or what seems like musical scripting to do what we do but if it works and you enjoy it, please don't let me discourage you.

[@SubjectSound]

I agree with you mostly actually, especially the extraction which is absurd (playing guitar VS. programming a guitar synth..), it is the one thing which after a while became most frustrating to me about 'electronic' music. Simply having to deal with all of these systems and setups and dependencies, and things that have nothing to do with music in the first place. I've had Logic projects with hundreds of tracks that barely open and crash constantly. On the other hand, I do really want to explore, and see what else we can do as musicians to take our craft further, and to keep innovating. I found that with Opusmodus I can focus much more on the melody, harmony and rhythms, the actual ingredients of music, without having to rely on any plugins or DAW's, much more like composing on paper. And at that point I could just call it a day and have my score to play on piano, or get myself an orchestra. For this video though, since I wanted to showcase some of the possibilities, I took it, arguably, a bit too far. It's not something I often do for my own music, the fun is really in the first step, making the score. To be able to do that with functions rather than having to click around in an often unstable DAW has been the big change for me :) Thank you for your comment!

[@davidelmalek3888]

Thank you so much for your video. I'm on an old OM 2 version. I admit I spend a lot of time trying to understand how this software works... For my part, I compose music in a traditional manner, drawing upon classical and jazz harmony. From my perspective, it's clear that there's a lack of simple examples... especially considering that the creator is a jazz musician and saxophonist.

[@SubjectSound]

Hi David, thank you for your comment, and yes I understand what you mean! Learning Opusmodus will take some time, and you're never really done learning. It's all about exploring, expanding and building on your existing composition knowledge, which made me a much better composer over the years and excites me about all the new things I still have to learn. There have been a lot of amazing additions and improvements since version 2, maybe you can give it a try :)

[@davidelmalek3888]

@@SubjectSound Hello and thank you for your answer. You are absolutely right, I should consider trying version 3. However, moving from one computer to another with different operating systems makes the transition quite complex for me. Have you learned to use Opus Modus on your own? As I mentioned before, there is a distinct lack of simple, concrete examples. We can quickly find ourselves confronted with concepts that are far too complex.

[@yogabeatsberlin]

Epic !!! Super cool, feeling excited to dive in, looking forward to more of your sharings!! ❤

[@cannox255]

if you're going to use two cameras when talking you should talk towards the second camera, its really strange to just watch a recording of someone talking to a different focus point

[@daviHuggMonster]

woaaa, cool. me learning that would be a nightmare, can't do notes and can't do code hehe

[@lastadolkgGM]

same D: but its fascinating, parametric song writing :o

[@mooseymoose]

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