VISCO: Insane new drum resynthesizer/modeling plugin with almost no limitations on the free demo

[@dudeguy3d]

The winrar approach to a free trial, commendable!

[@32herz]

"I don't need any more plugins" ...then stuff like this comes up :D

[@Barrygraybeatz]

😅 I'm the same way!! 😅

[@LentTweakin]

I’m makin a list of plugins to get and this is diffffff I’m thinkin bout coppin😂💯

[@nicolasalexander408]

OMG, I'm starting to get VST guilt as there is no way in 1000 lifetimes I could do my sound potential justice, I think I'm going to cry....😭

[@saniespinosa8323]

riiiight

[@Mr-vp8kw]

Lol you don’t know how many times I said that!

[@MattDavidson303]

I've just fed it a chopped up funky drummer break mapped across each of the 8 hits and it's actually coming back at me with this muted interpretation which you can really start to mangle into new territories. Addictive af.

[@Arrvss.]

Yeah this plugin is incredible. Shoutout to the developers for being so generous with the demo!

[@Beatsbasteln]

holy shit. i was sitting here like "fuuuuuuuuck" all the time from how well designed the macros in this plugin are

[@Quiettime0707]

I think virtual riot would have a field day with this plugin

[@RicoLee27]

Yeah. It sounds like a cool Color Bass tool

[@isweartofuckinggod]

My immediate reaction is to try throwing samples at it that aren't drums. Like what horrible noises can I get out of it with vocals, loops, etc.

[@ng6000productions]

Yup I'm throwing synth shots and chord stabs and it's awesome

[@Forever-89-Studio]

Us too ;)

[@stevelibby3]

Exactly

[@MrTakeItTakeIt]

Same

[@stevejobs3895]

Eliminate has entered the chat…

[@_viy]

Cool thing .. sounds and operates like a modular synth. Morphing can be quite handy.

[@maccagrabme]

On the surface it looks like an ordinary drum plugin but its the most addictive and creative drum plugin I've used so far because of the mangling features, wish it would save samples into categories automatically and maybe have a quick sample browser, a few niggles here and there but its a great plugin.

[@cubecubesson6779]

Think I may have a problem. All I initially saw were the words opiates and morphine😬

[@TheBigLou13]

That's pretty cool! But it's confusing that X is frequency and Y is time. Most plugins I know have frequency on the y axis (higher notes are higher positioned) and time on the x axis (like the playhead in most DAWs, or spectrum visualisations, or even in a music player, where the time slider is horizontal), so the meaning of X and Y axis does feel flipped. I'd buy the plugin, if you could flip the X and Y axis in the settings. Would make more sense to me, to have X as time axis and Y as frequency axis.

[@TheBigLou13]

Even the sequencer of the plugin has time going from left to right (horizontally on the x axis!) xD

[@kevinkearney3836]

Think of it like an eq I guess where freq is on X axis

[@TheBigLou13]

@@kevinkearney3836 In a EQ it works, because you're setting volume (primary information) along your frequencies (secondary information). Just like in most other plugins you go along your secondary axis (X) to set your primary value (Y). And an audio sample is for me frequency information across time - and not the other way around.

[@User-ik2kc]

Think of it as a frequency waterfall curve which you see in acoustic measurements

[@margatrea]

This got recommended to me because one of my friends is an aspiring DnB producer and I've watched some music production videos, and I'm so glad that it did - Your video not only helped him, but I listened to your track Cinders and it's absolutely mind-blowing. I haven't felt this excited about a track in a long time. I'm going to listen to it on loop for two weeks, lmao. Please keep making more music!

[@vumpmusic]

This is such a cool plugin, crazy for morphing stuff and resynthesizing stuff

[@bavingeter423]

The visualizer is exactly what I see in my mind during synesthesia

[@elbowbacon]

This + Synplant 2

[@mr.justice3220]

Love the openess of the demo, but this was an instant purchase for me. Loving this tool so far

[@NRVE8]

“Shout out to manuals, read the fucking manual” I spit my drink out! That had me rolling! 😅

[@TayWoode]

At least you didn’t fall off your chair or wake your house up laughing like everyone else says they do

[@NRVE8]

@@TayWoode yeah who the fuck rolls on the floor

[@TayWoode]

@@NRVE8 same ones that say they almost choked laughing, can’t breathe for laughing, stomach hurts from laughing, died laughing, almost wet themselves laughing, frightened their dog/cat laughing etc 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@nicolasalexander408]

I had to google 'Manual', oopsy! 😅 They're really good.....

[@NRVE8]

@@TayWoode I’ll bet my left nut they never even laughed.

[@alinayossimouse]

All of those sounds sound like wet rags ... does it smooth out the transients or something?

[@justinhendren]

Perfect for IDM. Sounds like you could get some Autechre sounding beats easy using random.

[@isogash]

Wow, looks like such a powerful tool for getting just the right sample sounds

[@coppersoul3211]

the sound shaping parameter seems very similar to the morph slider in microtonic

[@ahandsomefridge]

Synplant, Beatwave RANDOM and this live in the same space of my plugin corner now. Nice! 😎

[@yeoss]

This is amazing, especially for bedroom guitarists!

[@arisumego]

wish they had an ipad app, seems like this would lend itself nicely to a touch interface

[@urmok6iv]

what a sick sound design tool. thanks for sharing

[@hiiambarney4489]

4:20 almost went DnB for a sec there.

[@jxcn]

4:01 Polyphony: To describe how this works, when set to 1 it will only allow one voice to be played at any given time. For example, say you had a long 808 sample and pressed a key to trigger the playback, then pressed a second key before the playback had finished from the first key press - the playback from the first key press would immediately stop when pressing the second key to allow for the playback from the second key press to occur, because if polyphony is set to 1 then only one voice can occur at any given time. If polyphony is set to 2, you could press that second key and it would not stop the playback from the first key press because you can now have 2 voices play at any given time. When polyphony is set to 2, if you were to press a third key before the playback from the first two key presses had finished, the playback from your first key press would be stopped to allow the newly pressed third key's playback (voice). Tl;dr polyphony determines how many voices can playback at any given time.

[@traxiid]

this is my first time I watch your video, and i hit the subs button after. Keep it up man!

[@FelixArchive]

truly insane, thanks for showing me this

[@ericzmusic]

You could make some mind bending fills with this bad boy

[@VPXM2012]

Damn, this reminds me of glitch machines... but way better! Thank you for this vid, which incidentally also shows up on plugin boutique lol

[@johnc3451]

Great plug-in but the click bait title isn’t necessary at all. This plug-in really sells itself

[@UndulaeMusic]

you must be new to youtube lol

[@yeezythabest]

It is pitch sensitive via midi? I'm curious about what can be done with tonal samples

[@ng6000productions]

It's been pretty decent with tonal samples. Ive been keeping everything in the same key and it's worked out. Some samples like low chords sound shitty tho

[@CodingPhase]

This is great for taking stems of major artists songs and make your own sound out of them

[@lucasjames8281]

The only issue with this, is that the sequencer isn’t powerful enough. So many good drum related VSTs have worse sequencers than native DAW sequencers, they lack nuance in sequencing control which can be very annoying to tinker around. Sound design elements look really cool though

[@UndulaeMusic]

that's what printing to audio is for!

[@Forever-89-Studio]

🔥🔥🔥

[@Forever-89-Studio]

I messaged you on Instagram btw :)

[@matthewsaul3533]

Wow. At first I was really excited by the different parameters that can morph the sounds in real time, offering the possibility of sounds that feel more organic? Like, if you have one kick sample and you use it over and over in the same beat, it has a certain sound. With this you can create variations that make it feel more organic. That's very exciting. But as I listened longer, to my ears the sounds it was playing back sounded pretty lofi in a digital way. Almost like a poorly compressed mp3 or something. Am I the only one hearing that? I think what we're experiencing is a new technology (AI) just barely beginning to come into its own. In 50 years it's gonna be BONKERS lol maybe in 10 years considering how insanely fast technology is evolving these days. I remember when I first started seeing virtual instrument developers popping up. It was exciting but still had kind of a .. cheap? quality to it. Fast forward 10 years (oh snap did I just date myself by saying fast forward? And then again by saying oh snap? lol) and the world of virtual instruments and sampling technology has sky rocketed in terms of evolution.

[@BuzzaB77]

top tip your monitor level in ableton's bottom right can be changed so your sample previews are played at unity gain. max of +6 sown there = 0db in the daw. makes comparisons far easier.

[@locksh]

Such a great inventive plugin and such a great business practice. A product I was actually happy to purchase, happy to know my money goes to these guys because they deserve it. Highly recommend it and if you're a student you can shoot them a mail for a nasty 50% off.

[@MommysGoodPuppy]

devs have recently really been cooking up insane plugins recently, this is crazy

[@MommysGoodPuppy]

just tried it holy shit this is good for synthesis, feels like turning sound into clay you can use your hands to play with

[@thesaint7380]

wow, didn't expect this to be this good, thanks for bringing it up!

[@WilliamAshleyOnline]

lots of sound morphing I can see how this could be useful in electronic music manipulation heard some D&B and techno tech/house sort of feels in this.

[@jxcn]

Not only is this a fantastic plugin but it's less than a mere 3MB in size.

[@sarkany888]

Expressive timbral change modulation. We needed this.

[@KosmoDeuz]

Will try it out thanks

[@austinsatterfield6792]

I'll be honest, drum plug ins all sound like shyt. Once I recorded real drums it gave music the life music today is missing

[@ramspencer5492]

You don't have to use it in the sequencer though, right? You can use the midi in your DAW and just have it read and play that too?

[@markmalonson7531]

Real-time resynthesis wow trip out.

[@kurtwerntgen71]

super cool vst, and also. great, informative and concise review! thx!

[@RicoLee27]

That is crazy

[@voltagetoe]

would be quite nice if it would process/load samples in stereo - the 'width' of its interface is just a cheap destructive after effect . another thing is that the pitch control is useless - accurate tuning is too impossible.

[@CypiXmusic]

Looks pretty crazy

[@TheValueOfN]

In demo mode, each time that you close its window, the time that you'll have to wait before you'll be able to use it again, will increase. Soon, you'll be waiting a long time and it will become a major hindrance to work flow.

[@UndulaeMusic]

It resets when you relaunch your DAW. But imo this is a plugin worth supporting!

[@TheValueOfN]

@@UndulaeMusic So it does. I'll leave my original comment just in case anyone thinks the same as I did.

[@quantum_ocean]

actually a slower tempo would be bette for a demo so we can better hear what's happening with the sounds

[@pjohns92]

The fact you can use it in perpetual demo mode is amazing

[@jimmythebold589]

it''s like reaper. which i finally bought after years of using in demo mode, albeit solely for my own tinkering, no work..

[@ArtyBob]

looks interesting

[@hasan7786]

Its really good. Been dropping in my own samples, manipulating them then resampling them. I will end up buying it but ive been able to do this on just the demo.

[@andywatts8654]

I bought it after one day. Knew it would Be worth it

[@afrosymphony8207]

how do you add your own samples? i've tried but it doesnt work for me

[@hasan7786]

@@afrosymphony8207 I can say that it doesnt work in Logic Pro. i checked. i can confirm that it works in Bitwig, Ableton and Fl studio. May be a limitation of your DAW.

[@andywatts8654]

@@afrosymphony8207 Start with, say sound 1, go to the drop down menu left of the crossfader, click 'fit to audio file' and select a sample

[@aper6014]

ngl this is fucking awesome and the fact you can use it free???? getting it immediately

[@E_-_-]

Reminds me of soniccharge plugins. taking it to the next level

[@1wibble230]

Cool sound design tool though the quality of the audio isn't quite up there yet.

[@flyingsteaks]

great plugin, thanks for the video

[@darkdialect]

I dont buy plugins. I must have this one

[@knuftobor]

I don't know if this issue is due to me using the demo but all of the envelopes have no effect.

[@majejejenta]

all good, just don't read the manual. like ever.

[@livelthese]

What a great plugin! I want.

[@david_aria]

Is this basically an under-the-hood version of the synplant plugin but arranged as a drum machine? If yes, that's fantastic. Take any drum sample and get an instant synthetic clone... that's just amazing. If it can up the quality of its generative interpretation of each sound that'd be awesome.

[@UndulaeMusic]

Yeah, although this and Synplant use two completely different types of synth engine

[@bjornlakenstrazen2186]

Im on still on Windows 7 making progressive metal/vaporwave/collage music and this plugin is PERFECT. I hope it works on Win7 lmao

[@TheCaptainblaubeere]

what i would like to know is are the 8 tracks correspondent to midi notes so i could use a different sequencer or piano roll? and also if you can modulate the parameters not just inside the plugin but with different lfos and automations in the daw?

[@ahandsomefridge]

The latter should at least be possible with Bitwig, probably other DAWs as well. Not sure about the sequencer, gonna check it out in a few hours. Would be fun to combine this with Pigments sequencer if possible.

[@ahandsomefridge]

Alright gave it a bit of a try and so far my findings are: - The global parameters (Transform Timescale Frequence Contrast Density and the topright sliders in the modulate menu) can be automated outside of the plugin, everything else is not. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong though. Edit: The track parameters in the mix module can also be externally automated. The send and main FX panel not, it seems like. - The Pigments sequencer works great on this plugin so I assume other sequencers might work as well. I did have to create a second visco and pigments instance to make multiple sounds play at the same time, but I'm not all that familiar with Bitwig yet so there might be a better way to do that.

[@andywatts8654]

Yes, all the major ones you mentioned can be hooked up to midi controllers etc

[@tasenova2717]

There literally, is no reason to get drum packs anymore... wtfffffff. bro this is terrifying. I wonder if I even got 5 years to work on music

[@UndulaeMusic]

lol I feel you bro, I picked the worst time in history to try to be a full time artist

[@xuxuang8574]

Holy guac that is awesome.

[@Hrdvsion]

love that length modulation at 6:43 oooeeee!

[@jamalbee596]

Those earphones are crazy right?

[@pyrox2518]

Damn thats really interesting. Kind of reminds me off the LXR02 by Erica Synths where you can make 2 sets of digital FM drum sets and morph between then over like 100 steps. But this goes a bit deeper for sure.

[@mcd858]

Aphex Twin comes to mind hah

[@tizwah]

Reminds me a bit of the Hartmann Neuron synth of 2002. That also did some weird latent space stuff with analyzed samples (not limited to drums though)

[@ramspencer5492]

You don't have to use it in the sequencer though, right? You can use the midi in your DAW and just have it read and play that too?

[@UndulaeMusic]

Yep! But sometimes I enjoy using onboard sequencers just to generate some shit to resample and chop up

[@harrisoncauthen606]

Gotta make xo crossover mod

[@UADPluginsCrackRU]

Thanks

[@SoundsOfRevolution]

This tool will def be on my list of the best plugins for sound design. It's amazing!!!

[@Rhythmattica]

BTW.. getting "Galaxy Quest" Vibes from the GUI....

[@redgit9905]

Yup, seems insane enough.

[@KavasPVP]

This looks insane. I'm a broke student and I wish one day I could afford this beast, the things it can do would really improve my drum design and maybe synth design as well

[@LYSHEmusic]

You can use demo and it will work perfectly. "Without a valid license, Visco operates in demo mode. The demo version provides full functionality, albeit with periodic prompts encouraging users to upgrade."

[@BB-mt5sb]

Yeah man, it's the internet. Things like that are free, you don't need to wait at all. Just search.

[@Rio-uv1gs]

Sequencer is one bar

[@AdderAudio1]

this is nuts

[@CykPykMyk]

all it does is pitch

[@upsydoun]

Now I’m gonna go home and get this lol

[@lloydmckay3241]

I like it. Boss.

[@rulindachatt]

Maybe the most exciting software drum synth I've encountered. Assume it is still on "pre-order" which cost 99 bucks. No brainer for me.

[@akkitty22]

Wow no kidding.

[@pongtrometer]

Great overview…. I finally got it installed and I’m using it as morphing monophonic synth, I hope they bring out a synth with this tech’, I love malleable sound mangling. ( I was using Ableton, I put a scaler, from the midi effects before the VISCO plugin to ensure it plays the sound regardless of the keys 🎹 you play from your midi controller. Then on another midi instrument track I put a M4L expression control with Midi in set to ‘ Key Track ‘ , and the assign the parameter for that row to the ‘ Global Frequency ‘ parameter on the VISCO configure panel. So with both tracks midi input armed, the triggered sound will now play the sound chromatically. So it’s basically a Morphing Monosynth . There is a polyphony of up to 4 notes in each sounds , but only seems to work for arpeggios with overtones , rather than sustained chords .

[@Garflips]

I couldn't find anything in the PDF manual regarding MIDI control of any parameters besides velocity. I haven't downloaded the demo but I first judge a product by what I glean from documentation. The PDF shows a scaler window but doesn't talk about it though it does show mod wheel as a selection.

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Holy smokes… this plus Bitwig LFOs mangling the parameters… 🤯

[@heddshot87]

Oh... My god

[@nickycigarella805]

Sold

[@jm.Beats.]

I've literally been waiting for a plugin exactly like this that morphs 2 sounds together. Drums would be fun to mess with and create new drums, but I can't wait to make my own instrument one shots. This is so simplistic yet incredible.

[@ivanestades5903]

Amazing, it just lacks an easy MIDI learn configuration and a chromatic mode

[@hellomistershifty]

Is there a way to use the X axis for time and Y for frequency? I know this plugin is supposed to be kind of weird, but time on the Y axis is criminal

[@osmark86]

this plugin looks absolutely incredible. was just in the mood to start mucking about with some IDM over the weekend and this pops up. the universe is speaking to me lol.

[@BB-mt5sb]

sick

[@letsbounce101]

8:20 onward was literally Hitman: Blood Money! Add some strings, war drums and a choir - it’s spot on 😂

[@sanjaux]

Gotta try this with melodic stuff and sequence some cool phrases wow

[@afrosymphony8207]

please help i cant load my own samples into this thing. i've dragged and dropped nd tried all sorts of things but nothing seems to work! 😭😭

[@UndulaeMusic]

You in FL studio? I believe you may have to run it in “bridged” mode or enable dragging and dropping in the settings. I’m not an FL user but I remember the devs saying something about that.

[@afrosymphony8207]

@@UndulaeMusic yeah that dont work for me. did they leave a video explanation somewhere or something