Bespoke -- A New Amazing, Unique and FREE Modular DAW (of sorts)

hello ladies gentlemen it's mike here at game from scratch and today today it's one of my favorite things because today i get to make your ears bleed it's called a non-musical idiot playing with musical software and today we're looking at something called bespoke and this one was just released as version 1.0 uh last week it is a modular daw for mac windows and linux but i wouldn't think of this in the traditional sense of a da i wouldn't think of this in the traditional sense of anything this is a software modular synthesizer contains a bunch of modules which you can connect together to create sounds so it is like a da but it's less focused on a timeline and more focused on just jamming and exploring and playing around and that is exactly what i will be doing so the description that they give here is in a way bespoke is like if i smashed ableton to bits with a baseball bat and asked you to put it back together uh so that is bespoke if you want to grab it it is actually available completely for free and available for windows mac and linux this is also an open sourced uh package there is an upgraded version of bespoke plus my favorite thing about bespoke plus is this feature if you buy the five dollar version you all have five dollars less in your pocket whereas if you jump up to the 15 version it's even better because then you will have 15 fewer dollars in your pocket so as you may be able to see they're all identical but if you want to support the developer you can do so this way uh definitely a cool project he's been working on this since i think he said 2011 or 2012. uh 2011. so if you want by the way there is documentation for this there are some videos that walk you through how to use it i do wish the only complaint i have in terms of using this two things first off there is no new button which i find very very strange so if you want to start over you basically have to select to delete everything and go from there and then the other thing is all of the modules are documented including their inputs but a lot of times there's no actual description of what the heck a thing actually does um or or the description isn't always as thorough as i would like but again it is well documented all of the modulars are here uh and then there is some nice videos getting you up and going so i'm gonna start off uh with as give you an expectation of the kind of crap that we're going to create here and i'm doing this completely at random by the way this is my last creation uh ear bleeding warning in effect all right so that is the kind of thing that we can create using this guy so now let's uh let's start fresh as i said uh you've got the option of selecting everything and deleting it i just love to see a new button that would do this for you your other option of course is quite simple basically you can start over from scratch which also works this guy it's your canvas is available right here and basically you're dragging and dropping in the nodes that you want to work with up at the top here so you got a number of different options available we're only going to look at some of these options here you also notice there's a plug-in here for vsts which are virtual instruments that are pretty much universal to daws so you can bring in your existing vsts to work with this which we will show in just a few minutes so let's start things off very very simply so we want to go ahead and say um drums so here we've got a drum player like so and we will connect that to the output not much going on there by the way you can control the tempo of your song and swing your song up here uh but now we've got the drum player in here that's not going to do us a heck of a lot of good unless we drive it so an easy way you could do it is uh i could do a keyboard display like so or i could drop in a midi keyboard drop that into my drum player so there you're seeing you can play them this way or i can go ahead by the way you can also get rid of things by clicking the little out arrow and you've got options over here we can delete that out and instead i'm going to do a drum sequencer to drop this in right there and here you can see i can drop in just basically chain in the note to there so now we can go ahead and set up a sequence of drum beats [Music] so there you see our drum beat in action we can change the speed of it right here by the way you could change the number of notes here so we could go to eight note or we go to 32 or we could go back to 16 which by the way i lost you lose the notes the extra notes that you've drawn when you do that so i don't want to screw up my musical masterpiece so let's get a note back into every category all right there we go so there is our initial music going on by the way you can pause things at any time up there so that is as simple as it is to start bringing things in another thing that we could have done is we could have actually gone ahead and created um let's go here and we will do what do i want to do all right here's what we're going to do we're going to take me out of the equation and we're just going to randomly create a note so there we go our random note is going to come in and we need that note to drive something so right now we're running um the drum player going on i could do a sample player so i could do drop that in right there and i could go over just pick out any kind of a sample i want uh so let's say this is just one from a humble bundle i bought in the past uh let's see what do we got a snare all right so we're gonna randomly play a snare so we just basically connect that guy in there and we pin that out to there and now let's hear our results [Music] so we got a random snare coming in we can loop it to make it truly chaotic so you can control the probability each note of that snare playing play we can change the pitch so all right we're getting somewhere now also by the way if the sample player you want to come in and bring in your own track you could have just as easily done that as well so go here we'll do another sample player like so we'll drop in something a little bit uh more melodic so let's say you created your own track already let's grab that guy and we'll pop that in there so that will play out as i go and let's drop that in here as well so why are you text multi-channel audio is getting mono oh so it's a mono recording ah that's fine all right so here you see go ahead and play that okay something [Music] is excessive [Music] turn that down a little bit let's turn that down a bit so we focus on our new so there is our sample player in there let me turn our drums up all right so now we want to come in here and let's drop in a vst so we could come in here and uh here i'll use drum sessions this is a virtual guitar bring that one in there so any of your vsts should work you may have to configure the directories that they're in uh and that what am i going to drive with that one random note or now let's do a sequencer all right so we're going to come up here we're going to do a note sequencer right here and i could just basically pick a series of notes so and i will drive my vst that way and let's just drop that in there and we'll uh we'll take these guys drop their volume down so they're not interfering too much all right you're already down you're down and all right i don't think okay that one's pretty much already down anyways all right so let's go ahead so there's our note sequencer feeding into the vst and at any time i could take the vst i can open that one up like so and then we get access to the the vst itself so here let's go ahead and switch this out to an electric guitar uh warm crunch and let's put suppressor on by the way you can do this in real time so i can actually start playing [Music] there thing of beauty okay so there we're driving with a note sequence we're driving our vst out to create the sound now one thing you've noticed so far is that i'm dropping everything into gain here well gain is an audio effect chains out and ultimately we're doing out to two different channels so left in the right ear via a splitter what i can actually do is multiple different effects so for here example i could go ahead and set up um an equalizer so here and we could actually chain that through at any point of time here let's chain into here so we'll chain this guy into here and we'll chain that guy out over here so now we have an equalizer for controlling that so we can go here [Music] you really want to annoy the cats we go and by the way you can keep chaining effects until the cows come home at the same time you could also do that with the notes so you'll see here we have the notes coming out of here so it's color coding so you get the brown items coming out of here well we can do a note effect here so let's add some and you see there is a ton of options here so let's go ahead and do some vibrato and we'll just basically oops all right let's turn those all back up all right and let's grab the connection port brought it into vibrato and then we can drag that out to our vst and now let's play [Music] there you go [Music] and now let's see how our masterpiece works we turn the volume back up on not too far uh you and you and you i think that's everything all right so here is our masterpiece oh wait no you need volume all right there we go [Music] so it's like something out of doctor who i'm very proud of this creation and i hope the blood isn't too bad coming out of your ears right now you got other controls here as well so you could actually feed things in so you could uh pulse things out so a number of things can actually be controlled by pulse i think actually our random note generator can control no what can i pulse basically just drag and drop it in until it works or something [Music] and it's designed so that it's more of a like a feedback thing so if you'd rather pulse on demand uh you can actually do it as for example pulse button like so and in there that gets geared to you backspace and you in and now it only pulse and you'll see the action when i click and that is kind of it now there is a ton more here that we're not getting into you've got a number of uh you could drop comments in there uh do some displays what you're working with you can record out to a track so i could feed a track into here so for example instead of doing the left channel i could split it come on into here there we go so now if i play it we can record the waveform right here so if you want to bring that out to another um uh editor or something to work with also you may be wondering at this point well how do you get your results out well that can be done using right audio basically that will spit out the last 30 seconds or sorry 30 minutes which is a configurable setting uh of your results you go here to documents and you come down to bespoke recordings and your recording will be i don't know if this one is the most recent or no that's one of my prior amazing recordings there you go so then you can take basically the the bit you that you're just jamming with you can cut it down however you wish uh these are ultimately just wave files so then you can get your output into whatever format you want now you are going to want to bring this into an editor and cut it down to just the size that you want but that is how you ultimately get your results out basically click this and it will record out the last few seconds so you see over here sorry minutes so you see here there's a buffer size or no not buffer size the uh where did you go recording path is where it's saved record there we go so the record buffer length in minutes is 30. so you can set that up even higher if you want or shorter if you want and basically it will dump out the last x minutes worth of stuff uh out to a wav file which you can then cut down and use however you wish uh we've also got a series of modulators here so you see here the number of effects and so on that we've got here are there's a ton of them here and we're only kind of playing around with probably about two percent of what is in this guy also of course you can see here you can bring in uh your midi devices and sequencers and such here um yeah so that is uh bespoke it's definitely one of those things that you could lose an afternoon just playing around with and it's another really kind of cool tool out there if you're interested in checking it out first off uh it is available at bespokestint.com again it is completely free unless you want the uh five dollar lesser in your wallet version which is five dollars predictably enough or the 15 less than your wallet version which is 15 bucks so bespoke synth.com i'll have that in the linked article down below also this is an open source project so the 1.0 release came just eight days ago or think of publishers tomorrow so nine days ago you'll notice this under the gpl v3 license that means basically if you make changes to it you have to make all your source code changes available as well same license that blender is released under you can use it for commercial projects there's no limitations that way um it's a program that i don't even begin to understand most of how to use it if you're a musician you're going to look at a lot of these things and go oh yeah where i look at them go huh it's kind of like you know a musician looking potentially at code for the first time well this is kind of the thing in reverse but this is a very interesting approach to creating music and it is actually really designed for experimentation so if you wanted to um you know hook up and start just jamming around we could hook in a mini device create your own little network of nodes to create your instruments and just sort of jam until you get something you like if you like what you got just dump out the audio and the right audio and then cut it down to the bits you like it's a really neat tool tons of effects built in you've got vst support built in it's free and it's open source definitely one to check out and uh hopefully you've got a kleenex on hand to help wipe down that blood dripping from your ear so what do you think of bespoke synth uh it's kind of got its own niche it's not really a duh and it's not like a synth that you would plug into another da it's kind of its own thing and that thing is quite cool so let me know what you think and i will talk to you all later goodbye

Channel: Gamefromscratch

Views: 19,188

Rating: 4.9968305 out of 5

Keywords: Audio, Bespoke, DAW, Digital Audio, Game Audio, Game Development, GameDev, Modular, Music, VST, Workstation

Id: 0eLoOtf6HBg

Length: 15min 33sec (933 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 23 2021