Is Musio The Best Sample Platform for Media Composers?

hi I'm Stephen talamy and in this video I want to explore the mesio platform from cine samples and share whether I think it's something you should be investing in now this is not a sponsored video and I have no affiliation with Museo or cine samples I just wanted to give my impressions of the platform to see if it would be useful for you now if you don't already know about Museo it's a relatively new offering from cine samples that repackages their existing sample libraries into a dedicated plugin you can pay for access to the plugin either monthly yearly or even get a lifetime access pass so I've loaded up the Museo plugin here in logic that runs in most Daws and also it can run Standalone if you want to run it that way and when you open it up you're basically presented with the catalog here it's got this nice explore page so you can look at some of the new things that have been added or browsed by different types of categories something that you could maybe have here would be a recent tab so the things that you've recently used and maybe even a favorite system so that you could star your favorite patches so most of what you're going to be doing is looking at the catalog here so you can see all of the cine range here so basically the orchestral range most of this is here there's a few to come there's a set of synths these drum patches really big sounding drums there's this fiddle sound a pipe organ guitars vocals one of the first ones that I really wanted to have a play with was the Tina grow Library so we've got the Legato here [Music] [Applause] [Music] but also there's the rest of the solo cello here so lots of different articulations this Soul Pont patch is very nice especially down in the low range foreign [Music] patches [Music] and a range of different improvisations as well [Music] so one of the great features about muzio is that you don't have to download all of any of the libraries all at once you can pick and choose the different articulations you actually find useful so if we go into the Gina Luciani here you'll see each of the different patches are here and because I haven't previously downloaded them you'll see that they have this little download icon next to them so I can either click that to download it or if I click load it will actually download it in the background now I deliberately picked a fairly small patch here so this is 58 megabytes that's going to come down pretty quickly and now I have a concert flute star cartissimo foreign and what you can do here is you can preview each of the patches which is really nice [Music] [Applause] [Music] and if you find a few that you really like you can just download those in the background and their downloads simultaneously so that means you don't have to use all of your bandwidth downloading the whole Library all at once you can pick and choose what you actually want to download in the future and whilst they've done this at the moment with the articulations they're also going to do it with the mic positions I think so it means that if you want to load up a patch and just have a standard mix which is what you get at the moment then you can just download that but then if you need to add the other mics you'll be able to download those separately so again no big downloads if you don't need everything that's in that Library which I think is really really powerful so in the settings here you can choose where you want to download it so here in tools and instruments you can move the samples and have them in an external SSD or whether you'd like it to be hosted so that's really useful let's have an explore of some of the other sounds so let's look at the drums of war I've got these downloaded already so here's the War Ensemble foreign and I can keep layering that up to as big as I would like there is a nice piano here piano in blue so let's load that one up and this is a slightly more muted sounded piano thank you [Music] so if you want to go find more pianos you can go up here and search and you'll see some of the other options here so there's the Sydney piano here and that has a Studio One cinematic classic and Rock [Music] foreign [Music] so a good few options here I think for this to be a fully rounded out piano selection I'd like to see a few more maybe some felt options and various other different tonal types of pianos maybe some uprights as well as grants but it's a good start so where this Library comes into its own is again you don't need to have downloaded anything so if you need some handballs you can quickly look at them say yep I need some sleigh bells hit load and it downloads them ready for you to go [Laughter] yeah so a lot of people are going to be very interested in the orchestral range the cine brass and percussion Woods worlds there's a really good range of different instruments here what I really like is not only are there things like the regular things you'd expect out of a drum patch like tympanies and snare drums you've also got some really nice extras in this cinepic aux so again if you need one of these water phone sounds [Music] or even a typewriter so I really like the fact that there's a whole range of extended techniques and extended sounds so one of the things they haven't implemented yet is key switching on articulation so let's load up a few different articulations here of the discount horn and by the way you can move this out of the way if you click hide catalog you can have this full screen so I've actually loaded up a range of different articulations and normally you would have some key switches down here to allow you to switch between those that is coming but that doesn't mean you can't do different articulations already using an articulation map so you'll notice here I've got each of the sounds on a different midi input so one two three and four so what I've done here in logic is I've set up an articulation set and so what you'll see here is I've created different articulations Legato sustain staccato stacartissimo and then I've given them a different output channel so one two three four just matching the ones that I set this up and so what that means is I've now got the ability to switch articulations here up in the player [Music] but it also means I can use it inside of the piano roll so if we do a quick recording here [Music] so if we want these notes to be staccato let's select them and change their articulation to staccato and maybe pull them up the velocity just a little bit and let's listen now so without even waiting for the update we do actually have articulation switching it's just not using the common key switching method that many people are used to using so what's interesting is they're publishing their roadmap as well for new sounds and new features so you can see here they have a live all of these ones that came out in May and there's a couple more to come so new wins Anthony brass you can see cinestrings Pro and Sydney Harps are called but there's some really interesting stuff from Africa from Iceland Ireland Scotland there's the great voices of War which I'm very much looking forward to coming out some more synthesizers there's the other tinaguo Library as well and so actually by the end of August they should have everything from the traditional cine samples uh packages they are also adding some effects into the plugin they've got the ability to have the microphones this is the download thing that I mentioned so you should be able to download the microphones you want to add to the mix a whole bunch of additional parameter controls and also articulation switching which I mentioned and earlier there is a way around that but this will be a way of setting that up so at the moment the controls that you actually have on any instrument is very basic it's just expression Dynamics and Reverb which are kind of the main things that you're going to use most the time and these can be mapped via midi cc to a controller so you can see here expression and Dynamics are controlled foreign and you can remove some of the Reverb if you want [Music] what I like here is they've started with the basics and got them working really really well and then added the sounds and then adding features over time something that I'm often wary about with a third-party sampler is will it load quickly will it work on the different platforms if I upgrade my Mac is it going to keep working what's great here is that muzio has got one application which means that they can update that one and tune that one without having to keep going around it so as opposed to having lots of different plugins that are all slightly different versions you're going to get one version so I think they'll be able to keep this up to date a little bit like how contact can do that and keep things working across the platform so I'm pretty confident that they can do this but there is always that risk that they do hit a problem and you're going to be stuck so so far I think they are doing a really good job and one of the nice things here is they've got the submit feedback I've already submitted some feedback on some ideas that I've had for it and they've gone back to me within a day so really great effort from the support team there so Kudos on that and I really do think they've done a great job of loading the samples the whole interface is very very easy to use so Kudos on that as well let's explore a little bit more of the library here so down here we've got the voxos so these are some vocals let's give these a try [Music] let's layer that with some men [Music] so they've made it very easy to stack up lots of different sounds into the one patch or put them onto different midi channels have them to different outputs so that's really great of course you can just use them one per track so I've loaded up multiple instances of muzio one on each track and that works perfectly well as well so here is the Forbes pipe organ let's load that one up [Music] [Applause] [Music] and from that maybe to some nice harp [Music] and just one more let's try out the fiddle [Music] foreign [Music] so far I've been really impressed by Museo and they seem to be living up to their promises to deliver all of the Sydney samples content into the Museo platform by August the quality and selection of sounds is really impressive which I guess doesn't come as any surprise given the source material they're working with but you don't have to rely on just my review of musio because one of the great things about the Museo platform is that you can try it for 14 days and just download The Sounds you want to try out what are your thoughts on Museo have you given it a try and what sort of things would you like to see them add to it let me know in the comments below if you've enjoyed this video then please do give it a thumbs up share and subscribe and I'll see you on the next one

Channel: Stephen Tallamy Music

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Length: 14min 25sec (865 seconds)

Published: Sun May 28 2023