![]() None of it was touched up outside of VR, which is easier to do with midi. Note: ‘Metaverse Investment Scheme’ was mixed in-headset and exported to wav. The distressingly weird 7-song album that resulted over a few hours makes that pretty apparent (named after the contents of my spam folder). As a fan of both Reggie Watts and Bill Wurtz though, I just knew I had to make something strange off the top of my head as I put Virtuoso through its paces. You’ll also be able to share your tracks to greater Virtuoso community for them to hear and mix. Once you’re ready, you can queue your loops (or clusters) and live mix them during the final recording process, which can output in either. You can start, stop, and change the volume on each loop or loop cluster once you’re happy with the result, and input name tags to keep everything straight. You can select how long you want the section by default-at anywhere from 1/4 to 32 beats-and whether you want a haptic metronome to fire in your controller to keep you synced. Hit the circle (seen above on the left, labeled ‘Looper’) and as soon as you start playing an instrument or singing into the mic, you’ll record a little section of your song. You may not be able to play a long and complicated tune on the harp or drums, but if you can manage to get a couple notes in, you can go back and loop something behind it to add to the complexity. Virtuoso gets around this somewhat by allowing you syncopate beats and then record and loop instruments. The results can be awesome, but it’s worth noting that instruments can feel a bit imprecise when playing. You can just as soon forget about the options and jam away though and still get some pretty cool results, but just know that you can go deeper. There’s six instruments in total, each of them with multiple sound settings so you can squeeze out something that doesn’t just sound like it came straight out of the default options featured in any old music-making app. To be clear, Virtuoso didn’t get me in the same futuristic DJ-flavored flowstate as Electronauts: it expects you to learn about making music with a suitably reduced number of VR-friendly instruments and a microphone. You can select your instruments to syncopate in Virtuoso, although this isn’t a default option, which makes it feel a little more targeted at people who are interested in fiddling around until they make something truly unique. ![]() ![]() Virtuoso isn’t as simple as Electronauts, which sterilizes the music making process somewhat with a heavy focus on syncopated instruments-meaning they automatically react as if you’ve hit them perfectly on strong beats. You’ll need to go deeper into the practice of music creation if you want to get pro results, although if you’re just looking to just mess around, or pursue a new hobby making music, Virtuoso has plenty of smartly-designed tools to get you started recording your own tunes in no time. Virtuoso bills itself as a “music creation sandbox” but that may be selling it a little short: it’s actually a very intuitive set of training wheels for someone who’s never made digital music before while at the same time being a fun way to make music. ![]()
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