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Welcome to VI-Control

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To one and all, welcome to our community! If you’re wanting to learn and grow as a composer and producer, VI is the place to be.

VI has tens of thousands of composer members –– some of who are the biggest names in film music –– and many Game Audio professionals and those who score regularly for television series and film trailers.

We also have a large and dedicated membership of budding composers and students learning and growing into their craft of music production daily. Our motto is “Musicians Helping Musicians” and we have witnessed many starting out go onto the scene in their careers professionally through the help they’ve received at VI Control.

VI Control is also fertile ground for a developer of sample libraries and virtual instruments to flourish. VI focuses on the exact market you’re addressing as a developer of fine sample library instruments for composers who need fresh new sounds to stay competitive when creating music for film, games, and television.

We are currently getting 10.5 million hits per month and 114K unique visitors per month.

Check us out and give us a whirl! We would love to have you with us.

Best always and thanks,

Frederick Russ

Vi-Control Community

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Vi-Control Community

V.I. Control Forum is a virtual-instruments-applications-oriented-community that has some of the most highly experienced post contributors in real time. Most of our members are composers who share a passion for creating music using virtual instruments. VI Control Forum has become an important resource for thousands of musicians and composers all over the world. Many of these contributors are experts in their field.

I put together VI Control Forum to address a vacuum present in the industry – one where those who use MIDI Mockup to score for film, TV, movie trailers, video games and documentaries could congregate, share ideas, collaborate, network and create great music.

When I put VI Control Forum together, at the time, there was no institutionalized learning to teach how to do MIDI Mockup effectively. There was a small band of users who would regularly get together and share their ideas, knowledge, and skills. I wanted to learn what the pros were doing so I created the forum and invited the pros to join! I began to learn that way – many did. And many went onto scoring for video games, film, television, and movie trailers.

Historically, VI has been a composer-based community. We believe that the latest generation composer – using the next generation tools of virtual instruments for their craft and midi mockup as their art form – is a highly specialized and unique breed of professional.

Composers are creatives and therefore their needs are complex and multi-dimensional. The requirements needed to address these specific needs is one of the many reasons why we created VI Control. Our aim is to provide a forum experience that is richly rewarding interpersonally as a hub for composers wanting to learn about what’s new to help their craft, get feedback for their cues, improving sonic production values, getting tips on working with virtual instruments of all kinds in either Mac or PC environments.

V.I. Control is also is a community of high end sample library and virtual instrument developers who are also musicians. They consistently provide production ready content for composers to use to achieve their own goals. V.I. Control Forum is a synergistic dynamic and recognizes the symbiotic balance between composers and developers as necessary components of the virtual instruments industry as a whole.

V.I. Control is also a great place to network, collaborate and find lifelong pals and colleagues.

V.I. Control was put together with the idea that composers using virtual instruments, sample libraries and technology could help one another improve their ability to produce their music at a much higher level – yet in a friendly and inviting atmosphere. V.I. Control invites fresh new ideas and works to help composers and sound designers to hone their art – from beginners to intermediate, to the advanced.

V.I. Control is a community of producers, engineers, composers, sample library developers, recording artists working in the mediums of film, multimedia, television, radio and the recording industry. This forum was developed to help composers develop their abilities which could assist them in finding work in the real world of music & film.

At V.I. Control, it’s really about musicians helping musicians.

Enjoy the forum!

Sincerely,

Frederick Russ, founder

MIDI mockups – brief history

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What is a MIDI MOCKUP?

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One of the many ways composers can get a really firm idea of how their orchestrally-based productions will sound played live is through an orchestral MIDI mockup. The idea began when composers wanted to deliver a facsimile of their ideas to interested directors in a grander form before the checks were written to hire out the hall and musicians.

Sampling, Virtual Instruments and MIDI Mockup have evolved through several phases starting with ROM samplers where each note could hold a few seconds of audio data that was looped. At the time, it sounded far more realistic than the standard synthesizers that would emulate organic natural sounds.

Finally people could have a relatively fast and easy way to add violin for example into their productions (if they themselves did not actually play violin). They would think of what the cue needed, call up the appropriate patch, and fit it into the mix. EMU, Roland, and others were at the forefront of this new technology.

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