VOXALLY And TALBOX creation.
Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 4:33 pm
Hello Flowstoners!
My real name is José Côrte-Real... 66 years jazz composer, using VSTs and all electronic devices possible on my work.
For years I've spent my spare time creating a collection of effects and virtual instruments using Steinberg's VST technology, famous for having been one of the pioneers of DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATIONS, which in the beginning revolutionized music production, raising the quality of the final product and then they knocked the studio production market down.
Today thousands of musicians take care of the production of their songs in famous programs such as Cubase, ProTools, Reason, etc. they all use VST technology and there are those who don't use real instruments or even instrumentalists to make their songs.
Technology came to help fulfill some dreams.
I realized as soon as VST effects instruments appeared that this would be a new way to "sell" instruments.
Being virtual, they would not take up space in "Racks", have damage due to use or transport, background noise and cable problems, etc.
That's why I started, since there were no courses, to study in my own way, testing and trying to learn from experience, good and bad results, that is, self-taught.
I ended up creating a line of effects and instruments and as I was inspired in the final design by the now-defunct American brand ENSONIQ, I created my own brand EUSONIQ.
When I thought of launching it and set up a website for sales, I discovered that more than a million guys were distributing the same effects and instruments for free on the internet every day.
The best ones, paid in gold, have big companies and high quality marketing actions and therefore, what we can call an effects package or instruments, would have no market value (5 years to learn) and despite the applause from some sites and until some of my instruments were launched in a British technology magazine, sales were zero. As for the free distribution with the donationware option and more than thousands of downloads it also ended up in identical amounts.
I finally sold a Rhodes type VST electric piano for 5 measly euros that I will never receive because on the site where I uploaded some material, they only pay when it exceeds 25 euros.
With this, another 5 years passed, that is 18 years creating a brand and nothing.
I even tried to "offer" an effects pack to Audacity, which at the time still didn't use the technology and sent me to hell.
Today the program already uses VST effects, but it doesn't have its own pack.
This week I woke up with one of "those ideas" what if....
Instead of dedicating myself to music, (I've more than 300 hundred songs on Spotify and other streming services) I ended up with an effect that I've been trying to do for years.
Is original!
It's a vocal production effect that's different from those commercially available and combines the idea of the vocoder with something I've never seen before, as you can change a voice note by note, played in real time or via midi programming, changing the melody or harmony.
I need beta testers.
Not only for this purpose that it is advisable to be tested by musicians who work with keyboards and record voices, but for the other devices that have been stored and that I decided once again to put on my website in the donationware format.
I need someone linked to production, technician, producer, musician.
Voxally is finally my first effect with original features and needs a midi keyboard and a DAW.
I also have some more Romplers and digital instruments to test, an Efx Bundle and I'm looking for someone to help me on programming a talkbox without using breath control. I have an idea e almost all teh modules but something is missing. Is there anyone available?
Thanks!
Cheers!
José
My real name is José Côrte-Real... 66 years jazz composer, using VSTs and all electronic devices possible on my work.
For years I've spent my spare time creating a collection of effects and virtual instruments using Steinberg's VST technology, famous for having been one of the pioneers of DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATIONS, which in the beginning revolutionized music production, raising the quality of the final product and then they knocked the studio production market down.
Today thousands of musicians take care of the production of their songs in famous programs such as Cubase, ProTools, Reason, etc. they all use VST technology and there are those who don't use real instruments or even instrumentalists to make their songs.
Technology came to help fulfill some dreams.
I realized as soon as VST effects instruments appeared that this would be a new way to "sell" instruments.
Being virtual, they would not take up space in "Racks", have damage due to use or transport, background noise and cable problems, etc.
That's why I started, since there were no courses, to study in my own way, testing and trying to learn from experience, good and bad results, that is, self-taught.
I ended up creating a line of effects and instruments and as I was inspired in the final design by the now-defunct American brand ENSONIQ, I created my own brand EUSONIQ.
When I thought of launching it and set up a website for sales, I discovered that more than a million guys were distributing the same effects and instruments for free on the internet every day.
The best ones, paid in gold, have big companies and high quality marketing actions and therefore, what we can call an effects package or instruments, would have no market value (5 years to learn) and despite the applause from some sites and until some of my instruments were launched in a British technology magazine, sales were zero. As for the free distribution with the donationware option and more than thousands of downloads it also ended up in identical amounts.
I finally sold a Rhodes type VST electric piano for 5 measly euros that I will never receive because on the site where I uploaded some material, they only pay when it exceeds 25 euros.
With this, another 5 years passed, that is 18 years creating a brand and nothing.
I even tried to "offer" an effects pack to Audacity, which at the time still didn't use the technology and sent me to hell.
Today the program already uses VST effects, but it doesn't have its own pack.
This week I woke up with one of "those ideas" what if....
Instead of dedicating myself to music, (I've more than 300 hundred songs on Spotify and other streming services) I ended up with an effect that I've been trying to do for years.
Is original!
It's a vocal production effect that's different from those commercially available and combines the idea of the vocoder with something I've never seen before, as you can change a voice note by note, played in real time or via midi programming, changing the melody or harmony.
I need beta testers.
Not only for this purpose that it is advisable to be tested by musicians who work with keyboards and record voices, but for the other devices that have been stored and that I decided once again to put on my website in the donationware format.
I need someone linked to production, technician, producer, musician.
Voxally is finally my first effect with original features and needs a midi keyboard and a DAW.
I also have some more Romplers and digital instruments to test, an Efx Bundle and I'm looking for someone to help me on programming a talkbox without using breath control. I have an idea e almost all teh modules but something is missing. Is there anyone available?
Thanks!
Cheers!
José
