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

[@dudeguy3d]

The winrar approach to a free trial, commendable!

[@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.

[@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!

[@Arrvss.]

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

[@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!

[@Quiettime0707]

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

[@RicoLee27]

Yeah. It sounds like a cool Color Bass tool

[@vumpmusic]

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

[@Beatsbasteln]

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

[@viy_m]

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😬

[@ericzmusic]

You could make some mind bending fills with this bad boy

[@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.

[@thesaint7380]

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

[@isogash]

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

[@mr.justice3220]

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

[@CodingPhase]

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

[@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.

[@FelixArchive]

truly insane, thanks for showing me this

[@urmok6iv]

what a sick sound design tool. thanks for sharing

[@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.

[@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..

[@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.

[@SoundsOfRevolution]

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

[@Hrdvsion]

love that length modulation at 6:43 oooeeee!

[@SubconsciousLight]

3:30 Tip of the all tips! That carries you far in anything! xD Great video!

[@traxiid]

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

[@hiiambarney4489]

4:20 almost went DnB for a sec there.

[@nicolasalexander408]

Wow, thanks for showing us this, and eh how cool of these peeps to provide such a good demo version, I hope people who appreciate it buy it....and that they keep updating it, this thing could be legendary....

[@kurtwerntgen71]

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

[@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.

[@sarkany888]

Expressive timbral change modulation. We needed this.

[@bavingeter423]

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

[@afrosymphony8207]

Bruh this is insaane...oh that randomizer function is icing on a very delicious cake

[@Nenko_Music]

thanks, u went thru everything and its very concise. GREAT review.subbed

[@justinhendren]

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

[@yeoss]

This is amazing, especially for bedroom guitarists!

[@ahandsomefridge]

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

[@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

[@coppersoul3211]

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

[@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

[@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 .

[@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.

[@flyingsteaks]

great plugin, thanks for the video

[@xuxuang8574]

Holy guac that is awesome.

[@CypiXmusic]

Looks pretty crazy

[@syckomusic]

I’m gonna download this and try it out with dome hardcore kick drums and rawstyle stuff. Looks very f*ckn interesting!

[@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)

[@KosmoDeuz]

Will try it out thanks

[@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

[@ArchistYT]

Holy shit. I don’t even know how to make music or write it but I can tell that the capabilities of this is actually insane

[@livelthese]

What a great plugin! I want.

[@natebirch]

This looks sick

[@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

[@dj_johanna_joy]

Holy Molly 😍 This is insane!!!

[@AdderAudio1]

this is nuts

[@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

[@sanjaux]

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

[@E_-_-]

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

[@samrogers7657]

I needed something for drum edits. I make similar sounds with manipulating audio and it takes ages. This will speed things up a bit!

[@RicoLee27]

That is crazy

[@markmalonson7531]

Real-time resynthesis wow trip out.

[@letsbounce101]

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

[@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

[@jxcn]

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

[@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.

[@yaboysambeats]

the plugin looks like that online tier list maker

[@UndulaeMusic]

holy shit

[@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.

[@amp4105]

Cant wait to try this

[@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.

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

Thanks for sharing! 🫡

[@eurometrixproductions7]

That’s dope!!

[@samchoate1719]

2:35 not to mention you can automate any of those parameters

[@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… 🤯

[@alinayossimouse]

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

[@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.

[@Forever-89-Studio]

🔥🔥🔥

[@Forever-89-Studio]

I messaged you on Instagram btw :)

[@grienecheez]

Nice those people who think out off the usual boxes and come up to this

[@M85dnb]

looks interesting

[@MichealBeaulieu]

wild. It's so good.

[@isaacrohr]

wish i could drag the resulting samples out-- that would be game changing

[@redgit9905]

Yup, seems insane enough.

[@AudioPervert1]

What is actually insane is the continous innovation as well us music producers running after technique all the time ... Now lets try to reinvent the wheel or worse, the bass drum again 🎉

[@Rio-uv1gs]

Sequencer is one bar

[@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

[@cometogether420]

mind blown! :D

[@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

[@Rhythmattica]

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

[@lloydmckay3241]

I like it. Boss.

[@tommypiou]

looks amazing thanks a lot

[@unc1589]

I think the developer was an Ableton guy. This thing is amazing on kicks.

[@1wibble230]

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

[@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?

[@bontempo1271]

I have wanted this for over a decade. I hope i can use my own sequencer to automate the parameters ?

[@Forever-89-Studio]

Yeah, you can sequence externally, and we have a very liberal demo on our homepage to try it out before too!

[@bontempo1271]

@@Forever-89-Studio oh, so good, ty !

[@Forever-89-Studio]

@@bontempo1271 Have fun :)

[@BB-mt5sb]

sick

[@SpacedOutDoonie]

Fire

[@luismrguimaraes]

Awesome! Can we also map the output of each “track” to different channels?

[@UndulaeMusic]

looks like you can!

[@andywatts8654]

Yes it has multiple oute

[@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.

[@upsydoun]

Now I’m gonna go home and get this lol

[@teknastyk]

@2:58 bro what? that should be illegal i thought it just resinthesizes thing and lets you manipulate spectral but yeah.. thats spectral plus granular on top of re-synthesizing sound. i cant believe i just wrote that

[@ghastlyshimmer]

Interesting plugin