This FREE Sequencer Plugin is INSANE! 🤯

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1:08 What Is Stochas?
1:26 My Mom is Mean
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[@ottam]

You had me at "Buckeroonies".

[@InsaneCarville]

I subbed when he said that, still less than a minute in xD

[@johnnymorell4974]

@@InsaneCarville I subbed after reading the comment!

[@SuperJzero]

The wife recoiled in horror when she heard the "Buckeroonies"...

[@user-ci7wj7uj4n]

Man, I'm listening to your voice on a studio monitors and it's annoyingly perfect and balanced

[@Samuel-ky2cq]

lol

[@mohitrahaman]

@MorbidManMusic Again Listening on an AD700x and the sibilance kills me everytime i hear commentary with compression

[@babakalokhe5994]

Shhhh...ssss..

[@PreFusah]

Sounds amazing on my phone too

[@PreFusah]

I was tripping because I thought he was miming and over layed micro phone audio cause his microphone blends into the background

[@KeithOlson]

A playback plugin based on this would be *AWESOME* for game development, as it would mean games could have constantly varying soundtracks to make the player's audio experience more interesting.

[@VenusTheory]

It is open source so I suppose that's a possibility! I'm also thinking of doing a tutorial about aleatoric music using this plugin in the future which is an awesome way to create background music for games!

[@nickerson3437]

No Man's Sky has something like this. 65daysofstatic made a procedurally generated soundtrack for the games. The in game music is as limitless as the number of planets you can visit.

[@baronvonbeandip]

I mean, WWise is basically this. You just have to have a million event triggers and emergent processes in your engine.

[@ELLIOT8209]

​@@VenusTheory does it do the same thing as the Euclidean Sequencer in Ableton?

[@that_gamer_jeff8295]

Can you insert your own audio to sample or is it limited to what it has

[@LaymensLament]

I never thought anyone would convince me to start making bleeps but this looks just too damn fun. I'M GOING IN.

[@whoozl3540]

Петьр (Peter?) nailed it! When I first listened to you voice and speech I was somewhat irritated about how professional, clear and fluent, without any “ehm’s” and “aah’s” you’re talking. And the sound of your voice as well, neither overexcited nor lame, but dark and clear and so easy to understand! Also, how you explain things - extremely pleasant and easy to follow! I’m not a native English speaker and hell yeah, I’m impressed! Needless to say that I subscribed to your channel right away! Oh, and thanks a lot for reviewing the (free!) Stochas plugin!

[@fakshen1973]

Sequencers that allow you to influence outputs rather than simply act as a playback device allow you to work more as a producer than a composer. It's a good thing when looking for inspiration. It's a virtual studio musician.

[@VenusTheory]

For sure! It's a great thing to have around to kick up some ideas or just generate some new material to chop up.

[@FellowScorpio]

This sequencer will be a fine addition to my collection

[@espenstoro]

Hello there.

[@vaishnav_mallya]

General Kenobi

[@johnanderson7663]

Lol idk y but your comment made me think of a mad scientist

[@thomasnikzakrzewski4477]

I hereby declare the birth of The American Randomist Movement in music. A lot of apps these days include some kind of randomization functionality, originally designed to inject some "humanity" into highly "regular" digital electronic music, but I think we're starting to hear the creative possibilities beyond that limited use. Now, we get apps like this, dedicated to randomness as an essential dimension of the music. Fun!

[@d.a.v3danimationprod791]

Oh...yes..I agree.Without randomness vst plugins,I'd be helpless in trying to make music.😂😂

[@thomasnikzakrzewski4477]

@@nikitavychuz Really? That's what you got from my comment? It was a wordplay on "American Minimalist Movement" (Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, etc.) which was also not "American".

[@ezrabrownstein3237]

Unfortunately I think you're late to the party. Aleatoricism happened back in the 60s and was essentially what you described here. John Cage was one example.

[@thomasnikzakrzewski4477]

@@ezrabrownstein3237 Thank you! Just back from Wikipedia. Fascinating history. I am, indeed, late to the party. I've been exploring music/music production for only 5 years, since retiring, and my knowledge of music history is just beginning, but expanding thanks to conversations like these.

[@VenusTheory]

Definitely a great tool to have in the toolset! I'm really looking forward to the expansion of tools like this and especially deep learning/AI to see where that goes in the next few years. As noted in the other comments, this isn't necessarily anything 'new' but it is a really powerful thing to introduce to your setup. I'll likely be doing a tutorial on Aleatoric music soon as well as it's a trick I use quite a bit when doing background music for clients.

[@dondonaudio8191]

If I owned a radio station, I‘d offer you a lot of money for being my station voice.

[@DorGreen1]

this could be WICKED for videogames sound design! create a few patterns for each game setting (like "calm moving about", "alert", "tense" etc) and let it run.

[@crystellik]

I see that, as far as a randomizer go maybe check out VCV rack, it’s free they have a discord to

[@countvondutchessofwestmoor3974]

@@crystellik big thumbs up for VCV

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

the indie game Rain World kinda does this. all its areas have a unique theme, which is usually one or two instruments and very atmospheric, but if there are enemies nearby more instruments fade in/the mix gets more energetic depending on how many are there and how close they are.

[@JediMobius]

I have that same chair! Also, thanks for the detailed edutainment, and oh my goodness this thing is really, really cool. Variation is my meat and potatoes; I hate playing (or sequencing) the same riff exactly the same way every time; it always needs more movement for me. So for there to be a [FREE!] tool that allows me to take some of the chore out of my sequencing by assisting the variation process in a simultaneously intuitive and utilitarian way is just plain amazing. Bruh.

[@KozmykJ]

Your Mum looks cool Stochas - stoked An old friend took the coordinate data of a pipeline he was surveying and wrote his own sorting program to convert the data to MIDI. He used samples of sounds recorded from the pipe itself e.g. tube sections miles long with hammering and welding being performed on it. This was back in the early 90s. Ahead of his time old TJN (Thomas Jerome Newton), probably still is. We lost touch, I heard him on the radio now and then ...

[@VenusTheory]

She's pretty dope. If I said anything otherwise, she'd probably tear me in half haha.

[@oedebiri]

I thought you were talking about The Man Who Fell to Earth with David Bowie, but I found your friends website. It was interesting.

[@KozmykJ]

@@oedebiri The video of the bird trails is fascinating isn't it? Quite an imagination ol' TJN has. thomasjeromenewton.com/filmWingb.htm

[@justspacegoatfarts]

@@KozmykJ small world ,i worked with thomas and have a print of a carousel which i am looking at while writting this only scrolled down to see comments ,brilliant

[@terrybreen6094]

My moms a math teacher and math sucks.... Proud moment for her right there :)

[@TebogoMotlhale]

Number 1: In Steinberg Cubase, I have been doing this from as FAR back as 17 years ago with its built-in (out of the box feature) called Step Designer. Cubase also has another separate specialized Step Designer called the Beat Designer (drum-oriented sister of the generic Step Designer). Number 2: In Cubase, we have the "Logical Editor", which from just its name alone, you can infer (guess) that we have been able to perform these types of "If this, then Do That" type of {logical or logic-driven} modifications to recorded events on the timeline and to perform these logical operations even on your "project information". So I consider this one as almost a clone of some of the built-in features of Cubase. What I love about their twist to this idea, is that they made it more graphical and thus more interactive and visual 🥰.

[@ferrellms]

Great music throughout

[@The_Digital_Arts_World]

3 years later and I stumble into VT’s Stochas Demo, laughing because it tickled my meat bag brain. This is a really interesting sequencer though and I think I may try it with my midi mess room stuff. Thanks, Cameron.

[@tjerja]

Wow. I'm really impressed with how you set the whole thing up and I love the way how you include the randomness is composing. Looking forward to all your next videos!

[@Xanderfied]

You had me at free.

[@ShaighJosephson]

Yup, me too... Lol... 😂

[@crado.v1]

12:15 Sounds very reminiscent of the soundtrack to the game "Machinarium" good work.

[@iamthistime]

Thanks! Already downloaded it can't wait for weekends to play around with it!

[@VenusTheory]

Enjoy!

[@jamisonlee9611]

Great demo. Pleasant, precise, articulate... I mean, I'm a guitar player, and even I can understand this. It's THAT well done.

[@aethrya]

so glad i discovered your channel man. this is excellent. i've come to enjoy having coffee with you 58 times a day.

[@Skyefaux]

love finding all these bitwig users on youtube. Also been looking for more algorithmic sequencing stuff.

[@skinlayers]

Thank you! I've been looking for a plugin that had similar features to the Launchpad Pro MK3's sequencer. I think the only thing Stuchas doesn't cover is having a probability that the step will "mutate" into a different scale note.

[@dox1755]

Vibes at 8:25 were crazy 😂😂

[@taylorcreekstudio9604]

I was looking for something just like this a while back. I must have passed right over it on the web. Glad it's moving over to the Surge team to focus on making it even better. I'll be using it to feed live Jams in Cantabile . Thanks Cameron!

[@danmaduff8919]

That final example you created with sweet patches from Pigments has to be one of the most INTERESTING things I've heard through my headphones in a long time!! Nice demo!

[@EvilDragon666]

Damn what a speaking voice. Could totally do radio!

[@adamsmith7058]

Is that Evil Dragon?

[@EvilDragon666]

@@adamsmith7058 Yes it is :)

[@Ferrichrome]

This tool is waaay too useful to be free! Insane man. Thanks for providing all this info for us.

[@VenusTheory]

No problem! And for sure - it actually used to be a paid plugin but was made open source which is pretty dope.

[@taejun9017]

this is an amazing tool, I think just what I was looking for to come up with those ideas that I never could, thanks so much!

[@VenusTheory]

Enjoy!

[@trcaggiano]

I am really surprised that there are only 30K subscribers!?! .... Well Done!! I look forward to future videos!! Update, 1 year later 133K subs

[@TheAkiller101]

I loved cthulu so I think i am gonna absolutely love this

[@StephenAntKneeBk5]

I've evaluated this for 20 minutes or less in Cubase (Pro 10) and so far it seems wonderful. I look forward to getting to know it better. It prints the MIDI and the automation of parts seems to work perfectly in Cubase. After the painless installation, I created an Instrument Track with Stochas, then routed various VST instruments to it. I created some patterns, and automated pattern selection. It just worked. I see there's many ways this can be used. It will take time to explore what can be done. Thanks for the good overview, it helped me get up and running with this quickly. P.S. Try not to tell everyone about this. ;-)

[@RussMullins]

Well, here goes my weekend... Thanks for sharing!

[@VenusTheory]

Enjoy!

[@dovas90]

Sunday morning, and you give me this video 🙏

[@KChicken]

He's turning into a white dwarf, guys shut this down it's too powerful

[@VenusTheory]

Soon I'll collapse in on myself and there will be the 'behind the scenes' documentary of the downward spiral of my life. #madeit

[@waffleocalypse]

Regarding the person shitting on generative music, the basic idea of your melody often isn’t important, it’s how you use it. Most people I’ve seen use generative stuff as inspiration and develop the ideas that come out themselves.

[@nikirose7673]

Fantastic. Note probability is common in lots of sequencers/arpeggiators now, but this looks like it brings a load more fun stuff to the party as well : )

[@alfredog2921]

Everything is realy nice and well explained thank you very much. Your voice is so beatiful honestly! Congratulations👍👏👏👏👏.

[@boniface2149]

Studio one has this as pattern mode, studio one my DAW my dream! 🔥

[@VenusTheory]

I've heard some really good things about Studio One - one of these days I need to sit down and give it a go. The last time I used it was quite a while ago and it seems to have grown significantly which is awesome.

[@boniface2149]

@@VenusTheory I think you should check it out, they have pretty good stuff going under the hood, ever since I discovered the DAW, I have been having a lot of fun and never want to look back.

[@dvak_dj]

Just get Ableton Live 10

[@sawyerthereal]

Studio one 5 pro for me. I absolutely love the workflow. With that and Maschine and I'm A-okay!!

[@salesianumschool9337]

So per the demo at 8:12 he's got multiple sounds being played by Stochas. How does he pull this off? I can only get the thing to play one sound.

[@omarshehata5137]

I literally can't stop listening to stochas is dopeass

[@worksofein6449]

This video popped up in my feed just as I was starting to look into generative music. It's super helpful and I'm playing with stochas right now!

[@Tom-gf9js]

perfect radio voice!

[@StuartQuinn]

I'm very impressed by how fast he speaks without hesitation, repetition, or deviation.

[@oldschoolfunkster1]

"This is KKDJ".

[@jitaru-selalinmarcian1481]

Amazing workx as always.

[@JesseJuup]

Dear fellow musicians! Have a look at Five12 Numerology. It costs some, but it is I the most powerful sequencer in existence.

[@adamsmith7058]

Numerology is pretty awesome. The only problem, (for me at least), Mac only. Used to use them back in the day, but not now. Too much money for too little computer. Architect, which is cross platform, is even more powerful still, but still kind of in development. Check out their page on KVR to see what I mean by kind of... But once any teething problems are ironed, oh boy.

[@JesseJuup]

Adam Smith True about Apple. But you can get an 2012 mac mini for $250€! Will read up on Architect, sounds interesting!

[@WildAnalog]

@@JesseJuup The solution is to buy a Mac just to use this plugin, which also costs money? No, the solution is for the developer to make it Windows compatible.

[@jimmahey6615]

"IDK do some stuff bruh" ... I lost it.

[@doflamingo85]

the lfo on the map is really a dope idea!

[@OneStepToday]

Which mic is that? You should list all your gear names with links in description to avoid constant questions on them. Amazing video, great channel.

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! I do have a gear page in the description at the bottom actually haha. venustheory.com/gear Mic is an AKGC214 - Highly recommend it! Glad you enjoy the channel!

[@willievaughn6474]

You rock my friend, thank you. Great personality with the awesome, you deserve a daytime show. Thank you have a blessed day

[@x-iso]

Thank you so much for bringing this plugin to my attention! I'm totally into this kind of sequencing 😊

[@lisotunali3807]

This would be amazing for psytrance leads, will try this later.

[@SALEENS7GTR5]

Or kick grooves. Screw 4onthefloor, we're living in 4%Chanceofplayingonthe2nd16thnoteofthe3rdmeasure now

[@nubianking7097]

"...groove which is damn funky..." LOL I agree sir!

[@seangarland]

THIS. IS. AWESOME! Thanks for sharing this, I'd never heard of it, but will absolutely abuse it.

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you found a new toy! This is definitely tons of fun to noodle around with!

[@sekritskworl-sekrit_studios]

You LEGIT just BROKE my brain... again. ...THANK YOU!

[@trancemuter]

dope sounds in this one! 😀

[@tonedef71]

It is good to see more videos covering the Stochas plugin. Cameron reminds me of the American voice actor, Jim Conroy (known for the TD Ameritrade commercials), just without the thick beard.

[@fretnoize]

This seems so cool, I haven't seen anyone else talk about this and I guess I missed this video, it just showed up in suggestions now, looking forward to diving in!

[@2handsomeforlaw]

You have a great radio voice!

[@OGGalleryCrew92]

Good Plugins !

[@toe7182]

what i said: Hi Venus Theory, thank you for spreading awareness on this topic! Your video is really attention grabbing and states the crucial facts and figures. I really appreciate how passionate you are on your topic! what i wanted to say: dude this thing is bonkers!

[@VenusTheory]

Ayyyyyyy glad you enjoyed the video! And for sure, definitely check it out!

[@edipciftic]

this added it looks amazing great... i'll download it and try it now... very very thanks...

[@darrenmills3943]

I like the look of this plugin, thanks for the video! :)

[@unfa00]

I'm really glad to see you cover and distinguish open-source software. Freeware is nice, but open-source is so much more than that. Cheers!

[@windowsrefund]

You're actually talking about Free Software.

[@unfa00]

​@@windowsrefund I am actually talking about Free and Open-Source Software also known as Libre Software as opposed to Proprietary Software.

[@windowsrefund]

@@unfa00 No, there is no such thing as Open Source. The term was created as a trojan horse in order to trick people into using Free Software without understanding or caring about Freedoms 0-3.

[@mitchellborne7428]

Hellz yes. Been looking for a more in depth sequencer with random/probability stuff. I have been using the Models Random Sequencer JS plug in Reaper, this will be a nice change/upgrade.

[@psychowsky]

Wow! Very very neat! Great video! Thanks, for the heads up!

[@roy4286]

Thanks for sharing the good things that you find and showing us how to use them . I'm going to go upstairs now to my pc and check it out . Keep up the good work. We appreciate you.

[@dr_orient4782]

...and a Waldorf Blofeld - what a dream machine...

[@1972myc]

Thanks man today I just downloaded and installed Surge. I am very impressed by it and love it. Thanks to your informative videos I am also going to be able to download plugins to use with it. Thank you for such great video of man! Plus I just Subscribed to your channel!

[@abrakadeep8810]

Thank you so much for sharing this !!! I really waited for something like this

[@WhistlebirdInfinity]

YOU sir are also dope-ass. What a great video for me to see on this very morning. I was just actually laughing out loud in my basement raggedy ass music studio when I figured out something simple but useful and can now hear how the computer would arpeggiate a whole woodwind section six ways to Sunday...so I can go through what flavor sounds the best. The computer is like a genie ever ready to grant wishes if we can just figure out the right way to word our requests of it. It feels like a high!

[@ChrisAllenMusic]

Good demo / review! Thanks for sharing this

[@kennethsmith5383]

...This looks like waaaaay too much fun. Staaaaahp I just managed to download spitfire stuff! Gawdayum the Spitfire Labs Drums are so Jazzy and full, I juat can't get over it!

[@wjniemi]

Thanks for another great video! I can hardly wait to try this out.

[@VenusTheory]

No problem! Have fun with it!

[@homenick93]

Close you’re eyes and it sounds like Anthony Fantano explaining how to make beats.

[@bobrobertsNotUrBob]

I always think howard stern mixed with the one guy from the simpsons

[@RealSmartHawk]

Question: Which microphone you're using ? and which sound card / console ?

[@VenusTheory]

Heyo! You can see a list of my setup at venustheory.com/gear

[@fedesagolpa6459]

Great content man! Thanks for sharing!

[@tshenolomotlhala7667]

Top notch presentation skills. Absolutely the best...

[@garconsyoutube]

Damn, this man gave me the music lecture I never thought I needed 😂. It was against my choice but man, idk I just stayed and watched. Now I feel like Beethoven. 🎅🏻

[@skainix]

This is really awesome. Just installed it and after 10 minutes of screwing around I've got a cool sounding track. Thanks!

[@VenusTheory]

Glad it's useful!

[@JohnSeckComposer]

How do you set it up? Tried using midi ports to no avail

[@ChuckHawleyMusic]

Im late to the party but this is an awesome plugin! Thanks for the vid!

[@johnsavold]

Basics: How do you set the sound source for the sequencer?

[@caldissima6100]

add it as another effect on the same track. Stochas comes first, then the instrument/noisy thing

[@johnchedsey1306]

I must check this out. I already have a lot of fun with the Beat Map in reason, the Evolution Sequencer rack extension and a Rostomo random synth extension. I also fundamentally disagree with the idea that this isn't "composing" because it still requires human ears to sort out what fits, what instrumentation you choose, and so forth. Perhaps not composing, but definitely constructing.

[@zachary963]

I think of it as abstract. Abstract art is very different from classical art, and this randomized stuff is, imo, electronic music’s answer to abstract art.

[@kerwinfernandes9583]

Thank you, for introducing me to yet another cool plugin! God Bless! 🙂🙏🏻❤

[@grateful4068]

I wonder if this can be used to turn effects on and off with probability. Thinking about midi commands makes my head hurt, but this seems like it would be amazing if that's possible.

[@cobraofearth]

great idea

[@PatrickGoddard]

A fun plugin for sure. Thanks for the great explanation and examples.

[@VenusTheory]

Can't wait for future updates!

[@lewiglenismusic662]

The AU and VST3 doesn't scan in Ableton, and Digital Performer on macOS 10.15. (even after reboot) Is there any work around?

[@Shadefury]

Got the same issue, unfortunately. Also using Ableton and macOS 10.15.

[@KenSTACKS]

I guess if I wantto make it repetititve I will have to bounce it and chop it up? Cause sometimes I am imagining a situation where I hear a pattern that captures what i am looking for

[@gkillmaster]

Fantastic! Thank you for this!! Do you happen to have a personal preferred generative plugin?

[@profoundpro]

Ah, a fellow Reason user. I must sub.

[@themask8214]

What is the plugin you used to randomize the FM knob on Serum?

[@dr_orient4782]

...there are a whole lot of stochastic applications in music historically - for example, check out John Cage (lovely ideas but not always very good music, in my biased opinion), or even better, the paper where Mozart discusses a method of composition by rolling dice, with various phrases associated with the faces. You might also like FractMus 2000 (yes it's that old), which can be a bit quirky in response to modern-day operating systems but is quite useful and inspiring, in my experience...

[@adrianmccombe625]

Great video. Exactly the software I was looking for.

[@d.a.v3danimationprod791]

dude...at 8:27 I actually said "wut the"..then I realized what you were doing.😂😂👍

[@VenusTheory]

Party mode was activated

[@plazmabeatofficial]

Thank you for the video. Copying the pattern doesn't work for me. Can anyone help me with this? Instead of copying, it deletes the pattern. Thanks.

[@rhoads2461]

Dude thank you so much for introducing me to this!

[@rezganger]

kinda dumb question incoming: how do i play serum thru stochas? i get some movement on the top,its playing the notes,but i just cant get to hear it! this seems like something very obvious. yes,im a bit green...yellow-ish,really. i dont even know how the pads on my midi controller works yet. i can assign the knobs,tho! this is so cool! to make music with a computer is unreal to me.

[@superkeenaudio2095]

That serum funk track is well cool

[@godkekliveshere431]

Aw damn . I will check it out.

[@johnhricko8212]

love it! It's randomly delicious !

[@LB-pp7pu]

Is it possible play this sequencer live with a midi pad controller? I mean muting drum elements and changing patterns on the moment X0X style