Want to start learning Instrument X? In this walkthrough, discover how Instrument X bridges classical acoustic tradition with local neural audio synthesis. Compose with fluid legatos and create organic instrument performances directly in your DAW with a lightweight storage footprint.
Scale your ensemble up to 16 players, sculpt microtonal glides, and use AI retakes for instant organic variations.
Instrument X and its expansion collections are available from August 26th —you can purchase expansions, pick-and-mix custom packs, or complete your setup with cross-product bundles on the Dreamtonics Store:
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Interesting. It looks as if the audio always is generated from the notes, taking all the articulation instructions into account. Can you record in realtime with a MIDI keyboard when you're composing, with simpler real-time instruments, or do you always need to click in the notes manually to write your score? And speaking of score… is there a classic notation mode?
Holy shit 😐
I think it’s a little expensive for the sound quality it currently offers. The overall sound reminds me somewhat of Synful Orchestra. It’s an interesting approach, but I’d personally like to hear a bit more realism and detail at this price point.
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Tried it with the demo. 3090 (24gb VRAM), 32gb DDR5. As expected, there's still a bit of a waiting time everytime you make changes. The wait is 1s and below for me but that's because I have a rather beefy system. I can surmise that the wait-per-change is going to be longer for those with more midrange PCs. Some of the instruments sound a bit off. Like.. they've been EQ'd for you.
Can confidently say that its not going to replace my orchestral libraries.
I am interested where they're going to take this technology, though. Can't wait for some electric guitars!
Tried the demo but it's still not a sell for me. Midi CC for dynamics, vibrato and pitch is a must. Also better integration with DAWs. It should work like any VST, with the tools we're used to work with.
so THIS is why we still don't have manual mode back in synthV studio 2, they were developing this instead !!! /jk This is genuinely neat though, and this was a smart application for synthV's technology. this'll be a lot more enticing to people who want good quality orchestral instruments but don't want the huge install size of kontakt libraries for example. the pricing is quite steep in comparison to the other software offerings from dreamtonics, but looking around it seems to be roughly in line with pricing for other orchestral instrument libraries, and those don't usually let you purchase individual instruments instead of the whole package for less, so that's an advantage to instrument X technically.
(all jokes aside though, if you're reading this dreamtonics: manual pitch mode for SV studio 2 would be great, a bunch of us are stuck on SV studio 1 because we need the manual pitch mode for our workflow or tuning style and there's just not a good plugin solution for that in 2. it's preventing a lot of people from justifying purchasing new vocals, and i know i'm not the only one asking for this, come on y'all)
SOLD!!
와…..엄청난데요. 정말 리얼합니다. ML/DL기술이 미디와 접목된건가요? ACE보다 훨씬 리얼합니다. 온디바이스인지 클라우드 방식인지 궁금합니다.
Dreamtonics, you want to sell this product to the right audience, replicate a notorious difficult orchestration piece (The Rite of Spring, for instance), and use as a demo. there wont be any need to say anything.
I've been playing around with the trial, and the expression and performance is really realistic–but I find the tone to be really mid range heavy, very boxy. Sampled instruments still sound better to me.
I'm not saying this sounds the best in show, but Every VST company out there needs to be working on stuff like this, or they're in trouble.
(6:08) (6:16) <– Pronounced 'tamber'. 🤦♂ That aside, this looks pretty epic. Keep up the great work, Team Dreamtonics! 👍
This technology is so interesting! I'd love to see Instrument X expand beyond just orchestral instruments as well and into a wide variety of regular instruments for all sorts of musics.
@1:35 those ensemble strings need more randomness, more errors, more humanity. You don't want the idea of a solo violin going through a chorus effect. Maybe the sound is right, but the playing isn't right. The potential is probably there, but I can't blame people for sticking to the current crop of Kontakt libraries. If it's possible to have the strings play in a more realistic way, then flaunt it! Demo me Hedwig's Theme with these strings, then we'll talk. 😉
I really can’t stand this MIDI‑editing interface that feels like it’s designed for Down‑syndrome‑level usability. Is there a way to edit expression data in advance inside a DAW and then export a MIDI file? If there was, the world would surely be a more peaceful and better place.
It’s hard to believe the development team behind this physically‑modeled instrument — this alien‑level tech with such outstanding, brilliant sonic performance — would share office space, and get paid alongside the kindergarten repeaters responsible for this user interface. That’s almost more absurd than the United States surrendering to the Congo. I learned how to copy homework back in first grade. That’s when I realized: if I’m bad at something, I should look at what more capable people are doing and learn from them. It’s 2026, and the age‑old convention of holding opt‑drag to duplicate, a trick with 9000 years of history, has been intentionally removed from this software. It instantly sends me back to the Stone Age, giving me the surreal experience of living off raw meat. I get it too. If the UI team actually did their job well enough, Israel might step forward and claim this is the VST God promised the Jews twenty thousand years ago. This move effectively protects the software, and we ought to count ourselves lucky.
This is super impressive. However I would really love a V2 in the future recorded at a larger, nicer space (just like they do in movies). Also, large ensembles sound very strange, nothing like the real thing and straight up bad in my opinion. Perhaps training models with ensemble recordings could work? No idea what went wrong there. That all said I do think this is the future and a major step in the right direction!
as a music producer (though still rather new), it's absolutely game changing, once the audio output improves a bit, and when (!) the DAW integration becomes more seamless. i was mentioning 2h ago to someone, just how heavy and resource-hungry lots of orchestral libraries are, and that often asks for powerful machines. 160mb over like 10gb, thats crazy for many reasons, but also on the cpu!!! thatd be absolutely great
for now it's still not as high quality as what i use (ewql), and not in my price range, but i'll be following the project from very close, and will try the libraries once i have 5min for myself.
thank you for trying to genuinely improve our tools available, without taking away our creativity. the choirs vbs and this? for me it's a huge step in music composition
not exactly related to the instruments here, but i hope after those choirs, you'd consider making background singer vbs! it could be really really helpful to have vbs that we can use as layering with real vocals, fitting different genres. i think specifically recordings for background and harmonies could be a great tool for producers who still want to record human main vocals, as most sv vbs still have a strong personality and timbre that can make it more challenging for blending
can we get that room simulation in synth v?
The dynamically-synthesized instruments aren't that convincing compared to a good sample library – but I guess that can be improved with updates. Using the familiar Synth V workflow would mean that parts can be created quickly, and the AI retakes give some uniqueness to each generated part that a sample library can't generally match. It's an interesting product which I'll keep an eye on, but I doubt I'll be pre-ordering at $650 for the full product!
You should collab with Jacob Collier with this one. I'm sure he'd love to check this out and show us how he creates a full score!
I love this… but the pricing is not for me. I already own Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro
To say that this is the future of computer based orchestration would be an understatement. Congrats to the team.
I'm interested, but it seems like it would require a lot of knowledge about each instrument, a strong sense of arrangement, and probably a huge amount of time.
If there were an easy-to-use, time-saving UI for piano and guitar, along with an AI retake feature, I'd definitely be interested.
Oh, a new walkthrough person?