I'm relieved that someone else started this topic first!
I hate criticising anything from VSL as they are one of my favourite companies, but I am also a little disappointed with the Tutorial DVD.
The 2 movies which are "travelogues" of VSL should be free to all users as they are really promotional material, so that leaves us with only 3 actual tutorial movies. These are certainly informative, but in all cases, I wanted more examples and far more detail on the use of the various tools. If I hadn't already understood the concept of what keyswitches were and what they actually did, I'm sure I would have been quite lost.
Paul tells us that there are examples of this and that - he should have SHOWN us many of these examples.
I think the problem is that the folks at VSL are so familiar with all the different instrument variations and what they sound like and how they perform, that they take a lot of it for granted. I could have handled another hour or more of detailed examples of the use of the tools with woodwinds, brass, strings etc etc.
I agree with fitch about the Spectrasonics tutorials. These are really superb, and cover all aspects of Stylus RMX on a step-by-step basis. And, as mentioned, they are free.
I will certainly play the VSL tutorials a few times to make sure I've understood all the nuances, but I'm left wishing for more, and also still somewhat uninformed as to the complexities of the VSL tools and libraries.
Perhaps additional videos could be created in future.
Regards - Colin
I hate criticising anything from VSL as they are one of my favourite companies, but I am also a little disappointed with the Tutorial DVD.
The 2 movies which are "travelogues" of VSL should be free to all users as they are really promotional material, so that leaves us with only 3 actual tutorial movies. These are certainly informative, but in all cases, I wanted more examples and far more detail on the use of the various tools. If I hadn't already understood the concept of what keyswitches were and what they actually did, I'm sure I would have been quite lost.
Paul tells us that there are examples of this and that - he should have SHOWN us many of these examples.
I think the problem is that the folks at VSL are so familiar with all the different instrument variations and what they sound like and how they perform, that they take a lot of it for granted. I could have handled another hour or more of detailed examples of the use of the tools with woodwinds, brass, strings etc etc.
I agree with fitch about the Spectrasonics tutorials. These are really superb, and cover all aspects of Stylus RMX on a step-by-step basis. And, as mentioned, they are free.
I will certainly play the VSL tutorials a few times to make sure I've understood all the nuances, but I'm left wishing for more, and also still somewhat uninformed as to the complexities of the VSL tools and libraries.
Perhaps additional videos could be created in future.
Regards - Colin