An Incredible Sound Design Tool You Probably Didn't Know About 🎻

Howdy doody, Buckaroonies! Today we're here for another fun sound design trick and homework assignment for you all about using EQ to design unique sample instruments!
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0:00 Howdy
2:33 My New Decent Sampler Instrument
3:01 Why I Built It / How I Use It
5:28 Starting From Scratch
5:57 Using EQ For Modal Synthesis
9:10 Duplicating The EQ For More Tone
9:50 Adding Density
10:48 Bouncing And Creating An Instrument
12:24 Smoothing Things Out
12:59 Why I Love This Idea So Much / Final Result
15:08 Closing Thoughts
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[@VenusTheory]

Go record something this weekend and make some noise. 🌳 Organic Orchestra ► venustheory.gumroad.com/l/organic-orchestra

[@patrick5301]

Hi, i just bought the 20$ version of the library and wanted to inform you that the interface seems to be buggy. I just see the three volume knobs but not the dropdown menus for the different noises, sub generators etc. Hope you can fix it 😊

[@VenusTheory]

@@patrick5301 if you can send over some details through my website contact form I can take a look! Sounds like that's a bug with DS however, but I'll see what I can find out!

[@user-lt2rw5nr9s]

I've never quite seen a channel like yours before. Maybe it's because I'm more on the production side, but wanted to tell you your videos are really great and feel like I've found a great resource for inspiration and sound design. Great work.

[@Gdad-20]

Why your name isnt known as a top sound engineer/producer, I just have no clue. Quality Content as always and clear guidence. Brilliant.

[@VenusTheory]

Thanks so much! Hopefully things will continue to grow in the future.

[@Gdad-20]

@@VenusTheory yeh man. You certainly deserve all the good vibes that come your way and them that are on their way brother. Keep it up and we will keep up our end, I'm sure. Much love man 👍🧡

[@unduloid]

Nowadays when I hear rustling behind me I'll grab my field recorder to get a good recording of it. It'll be the death of me yet.

[@philf4086]

Super creative, you can sense the "life" in these samples. Great stuff! I could even imagine harvesting childhood moments from old VHS or 16mm video recordings and abstracting them to make sound samples. Wow, the ideas are flowing.

[@GabeMillerMusic]

These sounds are hauntingly beautiful, and I love the philosophy behind them. Definitely have to try this!

[@sidekickstudios3985]

or put any sound in audacity, paulstretch, done.

[@Ali-Britco]

Underrated comment

[@jetlag1488]

I love "tuning" field recordings and turning them into pads, or to automate EQs, vocoders and other "tuning" plugins throughout field recordings. It's such an easy way to create tonality and interesting harmonics and textures, especially if the recording has some kind of droning in it, like wind, or melodies, like bird song. Also, Kia (yes, the car company) recently released a free VST that is like the bare minimum version of Organic Orchestra lol.

[@VenusTheory]

Still need to try the Kia synth haha. But yeah this is a really fun technique I figured people would get a kick out of. Combining with other stuff like vocoders and whatnot you can get some really interesting things!

[@jetlag1488]

@@VenusTheory Vocoders are highly underrated imo. People here the vocoded sound and go "nah too bubbly and midrangey" and to them I say, process the sound further with distortion, chorus, bitcrushing etc.

[@davincimen4495]

My goodness, you have the magic settings for recording your voice. Love that gorgeous, deep resonance.

[@Swedishstylek]

I could almost touch the joy emanating from you at the start of this video when you were describing remembering where you were when recording these! Feelsgoodman :D

[@lofreeq]

I discovered this channel only this year and I simply cannot get tired of your videos. Not only I learn so much from you but also dive into such a deep artistic content. It's just too good. Thnks for all the sharing.

[@PlugInGuruVideo]

Very fun technique, Cameron. You can get similar techniques by running audio thru a convolution reverb that is playing a synth pad. I have a whole library called Signs of Life where field recordings from Costa Rica are fed thru convolution reverb with various synth pads are the IR. You are then using the frequencies of your pad sample to filter the field recordings. Love stuff like this. Congrats on the very cool free library - thank you.

[@gregortorrence8487]

I tried this out in Cubase Pro with a restaurant ambience I happened to record last week. Notch filters in Frequency2 do the EQ quite well, although I have to tame the higher notches to avoid sounding too much like an organ. I rendered the EQ track and dragged that onto a sample track. That sounds OK, but what I like even more is dragging that rendered sound into Padshop 2. It sounds very good with with spectral oscillator, four to six playback heads, and complete randomness in the start points.

[@gcmaudio]

Fantastic, easy to follow tutorial, and that end piece of music is absolutely gorgeous. Full of texture and gave me goosebumps.

[@ryan.noakes]

I did something very similar in an assignment for an electroacoustic music class where I recorded the sound of rain on my umbrella and ran it through a set of filters following the harmonic series. It was a neat, textured chord sound.

[@KenDavis761]

Been trying this in FL Studio with the Stock EQ and DirectWave sampler. This is awesome. Thank you Cameron

[@beckoning-chasm]

Very inspiring. I'm glad you showed the full range of techniques used.

[@BF-up5xw]

While I knew the different elements of this process, I had never yet put them together. I just tried it on a recording of a gate closing. It really works very well! Thank you!

[@adamsmith7058]

Been doing this with Apqualize, (an eq which has poyphonic tuning of this type), and Pitchmap for sometime. Also been thinking of using Shade in this way, now that there's an upgrade , which I believe features featuring polyphonic tuning now, since it's one of my favourite filter and modulation effects combos. You're right about opening up the eq bands to let more of the original sound texture to bleed through. Without this you end with a sound that is too much like a physically modelled form of additive synthesis which, while it sounds nice, sometime loses the essence of what originally intended. For the same reason, when using Pitchmap, I often using a less "strict" tuning, otherwise it ends up a bit too vocodery or autotuney, to coin a phrase or two:). Good that you're teaching people about these techniques, rather than, "how to recreate screetchy Serum bassline: part 22".

[@ts4gv]

oh having a mix knob in an EQ is genius. it works like you'd think a normal dry/wet knob would work before you learned about phase shift & cancellation. helpful for dialing such extreme eq settings i'm sure.

[@bricelory9534]

Congrats on the instrument! I'll enjoy playing around with it, and for creating my own textural pads. Very smart technique! And if you want, you can go all music theory on it and do other intervals in the harmonic series to add even more tonal character to the texture...I'll have some fun playing around with that!

[@hardwarejunkie9]

This is one of my very favorites, so far. You usually keep a distance when you're speaking, and this time you're so charmed by the whole embodiment of memory. It's a bit magical. Also, really love the friendship you and Hilowitz have going on in sharing thoughtful creations.

[@leesparey3595]

Great trick, thank you. Just tried it out with some wind FX I made last weekend, works a treat.

[@nathanaelorr7040]

Utterly beautiful. You've created something really wonderful - brilliant cultivating work.

[@hhal9000]

Beautiful sounds! Thanks for sharing this very inspiring process.Love your aproach to sound design-keep up the good work.

[@christhomson9507]

Such a brilliant explanation. So simple but so inspiring. Definitely going to spend all of Saturday doing this.

[@peterelfman]

Cameron, this is fantastic! I've been a fan of David Hilowitz and Decent Sampler for a while now, and I'm so glad you made an instrument for it! There's pure joy in your eyes in the video when you're playing back the instrument and talking about the history of each sound source. I can't wait to grab the new instrument, and hopefully make my own and experience the same sort of joy.

[@SlavaChrome]

I recorded many ambient sounds in past, but always struggled how to add tonality in this random noise. And now you like opened my eyes! Thank you!

[@burado1974]

Just made my first instrument, this is so much fun, thanks for teaching this.

[@steventaylor3789]

I’ve never been quite so excited to go and play with eq. Thanks for sharing 😊

[@Kmuggle]

All of your piano work is well composed ... great job!

[@presskeytoplay]

It's amazing how this technique seems to be something my mind already knew but never executed. It's so obvious but so smart at the same time. A very inspiring video, thank you!

[@solarnewborn]

That final result is absolutely stunning and beautiful 😵

[@MicahBratt]

I’ve used this technique in some of my previous tracks too. It's a nice little trick 👍

[@TheVal1234567]

Amasing instrument!! Just gave it a spine and... man! So quick result in 5 clicks!! Thanks a lot!

[@BorisBarroso]

Such a beautiful song, very emotinal, thanks for the song and tutorial

[@electropunkzero]

I’m always trying to soak up everything I can around sound design to help with my trailer music. Your instrument is very cool for building an atmosphere

[@powder_1998]

I absolutely love this. Love everything you do, please keep it up!

[@nicholasharral6128]

So cool!! Can’t wait to try this.

[@WowkeYT]

Very nice knowledge you showed there. Thank you.

[@TheDenis2121]

Just Beautiful. Thank you so much.

[@danlwarren]

Oh I do this in Bitwig a lot! One of the things I really love about Bitwig is that you can set the resonator bank to track incoming MIDI notes and just do this on the fly without having to render the processed sample. It's monophonic, of course, but it's a really fun way to work.

[@tonymckeown1314]

Love this - great idea, great content. Cheers!

[@murraywebster1228]

Great tutorial, well made and explained!

[@tomnorris195]

You are the bomb, dude. Thanks for your amazing varied and inspirational content.

[@4fliptube]

Thans your decent sampler instrument & 4 the beatyful lesson. Love your Chanel!

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Dude, that opening sound is epic. A field recorder has been on my to buy list for awhile. You just kicked up up several notches. And...I just went to download the official VT organic orchestra. You are the best!

[@AhmedShata]

Your channel is one of the best, top notch, amazing channels I came by. Your videos are a true inspiration, Cameron! Thank you ever so much!

[@screamingswifts]

Great, inspiring tricks, thank you! :)

[@shannonjames-music]

I purchased your Organic Orchestra collaborative project vst!! Can't wait to try it out tonight! Btw, I love your videos. You are so knowledgeable and you deliver content in such a cool way!! Cheers to you Cameron!

[@AlexEscalante]

I liked this a lot, you got me thinking. Amazing piece of music at the end!

[@Avesta.]

This is absolutely incredible. Thank you!

[@forsale313]

I'll try it. Thanks for another Gem

[@myriaddsystems]

Another superb presentation!

[@miriamsternlicht]

This is gorgeous!

[@MikeDickson]

Hugely informative stuff - thanks, Cameron.

[@andrewcrabtree7410]

Dude your channel is such a vibe, awsome ideas thank you

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you enjoy the channel! Cheers! ☕

[@patriciooc]

What an amazing technique and what a soulful approach to sound design! This emotional angle is really fascinating . Thanks a lot for sharing 🙏🙏🙏

[@vishnudh1216]

Those organic smiles when recollecting memories

[@NeuKatalYst]

In a similar vein as this, I'm a big fan of using tuned tonal delay (such as the one in Rift's feedback module) with foley recordings mixed with itself. Add something like chorus and/or reverb for cleanup and you'll have a good texture, as well~

[@synkuk]

Just superb work Sir! thx for making:)

[@brianhudson7058]

Really enjoyed this thanks Cameron

[@SorooshMhs]

Man, i can’t thank you enough. I’ve been wanting to make my own samples out of field recordings and this might just do the trick!

[@pxldj]

I’m using decent sampler since the release, and this idea to not just mix the organic, synthetic and textural is so new and fresh, instabuy here, next week count with my review and keep the amazing work, inspires me everyday!

[@righthand3d]

Very psyched to get this!

[@KozmykJ]

I grabbed Organic Orchestra the other day when you released it. It's good stuff. You have my approval. Carry on ...

[@lawrencehodge7085]

super interesting! I downloaded the Decent sampler and feel inclined to buy the Organic!

[@furiobisotti8150]

Fascinating. Really intriguing. Thanks. I will try something similar in lonely weekends

[@InvertedPopesMusic]

Thank you again for this super idea and for sharing it with us. Awesome.

[@Mopsie]

Super epic, thanks man. Gonna try this!

[@brandonjdean]

have recently stumbled on your channel and you have shown me some really cool free stuff. thank a bunch! i was looking for a good tibetan singing bowl sample pack for a while.

[@fluffycritter]

There are some really amazing sounds in here and this is a great technique video for how to produce them. I like to do something similar-but-different by abusing impulse responses in Logic's Space Designer plugin. It comes with some really amazing drone and rhythmic "spaces" that can do some amazing things, and the IR designer tool lets you do even more stuff by throwing random waveforms at it.

[@AKAtAGG]

30 seconds in I bought the organic orchestra thing. You are a bloody good musician and I pretty much love everything you do.

[@chromofonic]

Nicely done! You beat me by one day lol. Nice presentation of the concept. I explain it differently. Same principle, different presentation. It's interesting to see that you go with "synthesizer". I just went with "the harmonic series" concept. Oh, and I prefer Kontakt. Good job though in explaining the principle. I have been a subscriber for ages. I appreciate the hard work that goes into your videos.👍🏻

[@rickglasser]

Genius stuff, dude!

[@rivermintofficial]

Fascinating, thank you

[@DavidSmith-ne1zp]

I really appreciate your videos, very inspiring indeed!

[@NXAlpha]

This is awesome stuff, thanks a lot mate

[@lukeh6172]

Awesome video as always and congrats on such a beautiful sample instrument. I just got it and damn it's good!!

[@mdk1983]

You are a sound scientist brother.. such a simple process but it never occurred to me ever that nature has all frequencies.. we just need to pick or tune to what we are interested in. You just opened up infinite possibilities once again. Thanks a lot for sharing the trick rather than just providing another sample pack to brag about! Thank you!!!

[@EamonCoughlan]

Hiking and weird instruments are two of my favourite things, now I get to obsess about recording cool sounds and making instruments every time I go out into the woods. Thank you for sharing this idea!

[@MrLarsDF]

Its all about inspiration🙏😊😊😊. You inspire. Thank you. EPIC...

[@chitlun]

This is excellent! I must say, the 1st couple of minutes of this video made me a little wistful, although not in a sad way… I’ve been experimenting with the resonator in Bitwig to try achieve similar results but this has really given me some great ideas to try out. Cheers for this man, peace ✌️

[@thorineichenschild2692]

very cool video. i never had the idea, to use an eq like this.... :D

[@omniburn]

Damn, Cameron. The quality of your videos are getting better everytime.

[@BakerImageGroup]

What mic are you using? Sounds great! Your production value is excellent! I just subbed.

[@iosmusicman]

Awesome. I've spent a fortune this month already but I'm heading for another purchase. Cheers. Lee

[@carbonvibes]

Thanks for sharing, amazing content. 🤯

[@Garflips]

Good show! I'm very interested in the latest support for articulations in Decent Sampler. I've created a library with GUI for Sforzando in the past but Plogue requires licensing and they told me they aren't taking on any new developers. Also got to commend David Hilowitz for keeping Decent alive and healthy. Oh, and - not that there's anything wrong with supporting Kontakt - but I'm kinda glad you share my commitment to not go down that rabbit hole. Maybe if they ever tweaked the UI to make it readable by "more experienced" eyeballs, but I prefer to stick with a just few select Kontakt Player libraries myself.

[@mauromanno5412]

Great vid man! Beautiful :-)

[@BishopsWest]

Thanks for the inspiration. I recorded background noise in Starbucks, then did the same thing using Bitwig's Resonator Bank. Pretty easy, and you can type in the notes (G2, D#3, etc.) for each node.

[@spice3d]

I remember Kermode basically showing this technique a while back. A much easier way to do this is with DJ Swivel's Knocktonal. It sets the fundamental note and harmonics automatically.

[@timopeedu6077]

Thank you so much!

[@jasonbensonmusic]

Im getting goosebumps. Dude🙆‍♂️

[@vigneshanil9103]

I really really appreciate you doing these videos actually championing free and open source software... I'm a huge hoarder of plugins and so I see virtually every channel who posts about freeware but I genuinely get excited to watch your videos because it's never just a list of free software... It's really your passion towards these plugins and developers doing great stuff which just so happened to have that extra perk of costing zero bucks.... Please please please keep making videos like these. Ily

[@VenusTheory]

Really glad to hear that!

[@TiagoMilanov]

Pleaasee, make an albumm!! 😭😭😭😭 I love your work man!

[@Winterdagen]

Love this!

[@SirNotAppearing]

years ago, some friends did a Spring Break trip to Costa Rica. They brought back a lot of great photos (and this was pre-digital! they had to pay to have these processed and printed!). Some of the photos were of colonies of howler monkeys. And try as they might, they couldn't convey (to my satisfaction, anyway) what it was like to wake up to a colony of howler monkeys greeting the day. It made think that people always took cameras (and sometimes video cameras, but with crappy on-camera mics), but no one, really, had the opportunity to bring along a simple DAT and mic rig, so the folks back home could hear what the pictures were showing. I guess it's cool that things like Zoom recorders are now available and reasonably inexpensive that could capture decent-sounding field recordings of their travel destinations. It just takes some more people to think to bring an audio recorder with them (or a decent mic that can connect to their smartphone?) and bring home some audio of their trip. :)

[@myriaddsystems]

I just bought Organic Orchestra- That's a lot of powerful sound design for not much money at all- THANKS!

[@victoryudoh4626]

Great job

[@irishmossdubwise]

I love doing this stuff