Looking for more video tutorials

The workflow mechanism is a very strong tool for unifying approach, but I don’t doubt stuff well outside that particular success will appear, prompted by the desire to demonstrate.

To that end, and copying the recording studio mantra, always be in record, could we make the workspace tool retrospective, so that at the end of a magnificent performance you can see what you did, rather than have to reconstruct it?

There was some talk of doing something similar with the MIDI stream.

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Although tutorials is the subject for this thread I also hope to see more inspirational content, like this is my unique Zynthian setup, or this is how I made a vocoder with Zynthian… or this it how I turned my acoustic piano into a synthesizer with Zynthian.

That’s kind of what i was getting at - the exact sort of thing where other channels might be promoted by the Zynthian channel, showing off how someone does fancy things using the provided tools, helping each other with reach :slight_smile:

I’m not really concerned about a specific format discouraging anyone from making their contributions to ‘how to’ or performance vids. After all there’s been nothing stopping anyone so far (except perhaps knowledge of the capture) and there’s still relatively few videos out there.

If anything it could show what’s possible and give more people ideas which they then go and share themselves.

I agree @laban77, what I’d love to see is more zynthian ‘jams’ out there in the wild. Look up basically any groovebox and you’ll see hundreds of them. I think that’s the really inspirational stuff that gets people excited to give it a go and share themselves.

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Additionally to the talk about discouraging, an interesting effect i’ve seen in other places is people being outright inspired by the type of format described here: Basically, you go through a tutorial, and then you end up with that light bulb moment where you go “Hey, i just worked out a trick they left out!”, and whether that trick was left out for the sake of brevity or pacing or whatnot, they now have something they can make a video about of their own. Inspiration comes in many forms, after all :slight_smile:

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So, do we need / have a video on how to make a video? Meta man! :peace_symbol:

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Hall chap!

My personal script for a tut if you are interested:
I got no personal feeling if someone of your stature would use it!
Zynthian V5 comes already with its Audio and Midi all setup, but take one
minute to show us how all of that works… custom Zynthian users don’t have the privilege of having all setup for easy use… :slight_smile:

1 - Welcome Oram Intro
2 - .local setup fast forward login and Usb or Gpio Soundcard setup.
3 - Upload samples via the web GUI vs Using a Usb Stick for samples loading
4 - Fire up SooperLooper chain and set it to use your Mic as input
5 - Scroll through the pages of SooperLooper and describe the various modes
6 - E.g use trigger with external Midi
7 - Record a single Audio Clip using the Audio input
8 - Enter sequencer mode or Zynpad view, and create various patterns for each pad
9 - Try to scroll with the touchscreen the Editor Keys and move around notes
10 - Try to load an external Midi sequence into a pattern also.
11 - Show how to change the various Zynpad modes with only touch control and a mouse
12 - Add or delete pads and columns, rearrange them, and other SL chains also.
13 - Show how to sync all pads/clips to external triggers, play and stop with Midi.
14 - Panic Mode! All sounds off!!! - Video CLIMAX - midtut Artistic window!
15 - The RESET moment: How to restart fresh > Perform a Back up of the OS in the GUI, then move the OS to a custom Pi4B
with a random UsbSoundcard and Midi interface… reprogram it via the webGUI…
You won’t have the Encoders, or you might have them but need to reconfigure them.
This can be replaced by any other random idea, like… now lets Uart and SSH into the Pi and let use a random laptop to connect to Zynthian (NO Ethernet?) etc.
Or How to color your Sound input with a LED Diode distortion… it’s like an Ad time, after the Climax… 30-1min time to play with it… remember the old Bradboard videos of yours?? I f— adored them… it’s not true people is less interested now… I mean visualization yt algo is smt I don’t get really… so … up to you…
16 - Launch dmesg on the web terminal and show us possible debug info.
17 - If all is good now you have two Zynthian!!
18 - Use your new custom Zynthian for doing Midi filtering, Midi Arps, etc, and feed it
to the main Zynthian V5 with SL patch.
19 - Upload your patch to Patchstorage so everybody can try your experiment!
20 - Shut down Zynthian - Oram Outro.

PS: You can use any Midi controller you want, in theory, also pedals, OSC stuff, etc…
But when casually using an external device, remember to add a description chapter for the correct setup for each device… E.g. OSC via pedal… or RtMIDI retriggers…
each one of these should be explained in his pros and cons… latency… potentials…
So keep it minimalist and add as little stuff as possible.

NEXT video, replace SooperLoopr with DSP Motorola Synths, and add the WEB GUI.
Keep the format for all the other Quirks - i.e. deep roundup of pages, presets, configs,
Zynpads, Import-export, save napshots, load midi, and finally upload to Patchstorage!

Rinse and Repeat for every Midi and Audio toolkit!

PPS: Thank you for doing this stuff!!! I hope to not sound arrogant or anything less than
grateful for your contribution here!!! (the same goes to the devs)

PPPS: How is it possible to edit a SooperLooper loop/sample within Zynthian???
Is there something like Audacity or the built in Audio Recorder that can be used to
crop, mangle, trim etc samples without exporting and re-importing it???

I am a new Zynthian 5.1 user of about 2 weeks, and I wanted to chime in to say two things.

First, I would LOVE to see more tutorials about Zynthian. I feel like there are SO many things that it is capable of…and so many rabbit holes to go down. I would love to see how other people use it. I also must echo that I also became sold on acquiring a Zynthian after watching some of @mr_floydst 's videos. I feel like right now he is one of the few places that I see this project discussed. One person can only provide so much. So, getting more folks using and showing it off, whether we would call them evangelists or not, would be great to see.

Second, due to the relative lack of the sorts of videos that I am specifically looking for, I have considered attempting to make some videos. At this point, my knowledge is quite limited. But, perhaps with some guidance, I would be able to make some appropriate beginner level content, because I am coming from that place.

My main use case for the Zynthian is as a VST host for my keyboards. For me, the primary benefits that I seek are:

  1. Hosting VSTs outside my main streaming machine in a dedicated device in order to avoid xruns and odd audio issues;
  2. Having one central place to reach to change my current instrument(s), without having to do this in my DAW, which often has to fall behind OBS or other windows, even on a three-monitor setup;
  3. Having pre-set instrument and effect groups for different styles/specific songs, to enable a more fluid experience when performing;
  4. Starting to learn to loop and use sequenced music, particularly beats and bass lines.

If anyone has any suggestions on where one might start to become more expert on these things, I am definitely considering taking a crack at making some videos (the videos that I wish I could find right now, as one might say). It is just a little bit of a chicken-and-egg situation. I am having a hard time finding the information I need…so, my learning is slowed…and I don’t think that I am ready to instruct anyone on it yet. Perhaps in a couple of weeks, I will feel differently.

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I assume you’ve found this guy already, but Floyd Steinberg on Youtube has made some high quality, high production value videos, and probably will make more of them in the future: https://www.youtube.com/@mr_floydst

I imagine he’s in here too, possibly under a different name, and if so, thanks for your work as well, Floyd.

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He is here as mr_floydst

…and has already responded 6 times in this topic, including posting a new video! It is amazing what you can find out if you spend a little time reading before posting… We are very grateful to our friend @mr_floydst who makes good and always appropriately critical videos of zynthian and other musical devices, as well as making music himself - something that many other content makers do not do.

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Hey @jigglydad did you look at the wiki? Link is at the top of the forum. It’s been updated recently, there are more UI photos and explanations in there now, with some live gifs of different UI actions directly on the page. There’s also a short tutorial for Zynseq using an image gallery. Many people on the forum apart from myself have put some hours into it, I hope more people use it whether new or experienced.

There are also some ‘learning pills’ on the wiki, these are a learning option that is between written instructions and a fully produced video. There are still some topics waiting to be added. If you want to help, one simple thing you could try is doing the captures direct on your v5 to increase these learning pills. See here:

If you want to make a video, I am interested in helping with this. I made a suggested ‘format’ for a Zynthian tutorial video above. If someone with a V5 can record footage, I’d be happy to edit some short videos.

This videos are probably well known but I found them pretty well done. By O_I_A No_war. Would like to see some more of these…

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