Building Powerful Sounds

Demonstrating techniques for building thicker, punchier, more interesting sounds through layering and an awareness of the whole frequency spectrum.
Handy Timestamps:
00:51 Initial sound
01:47 Adding low-end
03:52 Filling out the sound
06:00 Percussive noise
07:27 Punch and weight
08:55 Reverb for 'life'
09:48 Subtle saturation
10:33 Animating with modulation
12:17 Summary and final sound
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Modules Used
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Top Row:
∿ Intellijel uJack
∿ Qu-Bit Chord
∿ Qu-Bit Chance
∿ Mutable Instruments Rings
∿ Make Noise STO
Bottom Row:
∿ Doepfer A-119
∿ Mutable Instruments Clouds
∿ Make Noise Passive Mult
∿ Make Noise Maths
∿ Intellijel Buff Mult
∿ ALM Busy Circuits Tangle Quartet
∿ 000 BSDM kick
∿ 000 SCAT-0-logical distortion
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∿ Listen to my music on Bandcamp: gregwht.bandcamp.com
∿ Instagram: @gregwht
∿ Twitter: @gregwht
∿ Website: gregory-white.co.uk
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[@coryswanson2247]

Highly underrated and informational channel. Found you from LMNC and couldn’t be happier I did

[@DivKid]

Nice one for bringing forward techniques and ideas often forgotten in terms of application in the modular world.

[@WhiteNoises]

Thanks a lot man! Means a lot coming from you :)

[@Rhapsodyinnoise]

DivKidVideo I totally agree, I feel like the modular world lacks a bit of musical/sound design theory (although we tend to see more and more of that kind of vids these days which is a good thing!)

[@nathanielhomer6117]

Totally. Some interesting audio engineering and guitar-y techniques. Really fun vid.

[@starkickermusic2100]

You are a great teacher and your thoroughness with explaining signal flow was dead on. Thanks for a great vid!

[@jamesbaynton1881]

Great explanation, clear and consice with just enough technical detail to illustrate a concept. Thanks a lot.

[@Anarchosyn]

Antimatter Audio Sub RIng would do wonders here. Great module, the Sub Ring.

[@Hezza11]

Great stuff, don't know how I haven't seen your channel before. Nice to see some content that's not too hardware specific and talks about concepts.

[@audioneiromancer2790]

A really excellent video. You're a good teacher, as well as synthesist. Thoroughly impressed!

[@tgeo2880]

subbed. contemporary production techniques + modular

[@BigImpactSoundComposerforMedia]

Interesting video, thanks for uploading!

[@Chareads]

okay this is insanely cool

[@WhiteNoises]

Chareads Glad you dig it Char! 🙏🏻

[@waltersmetak]

This guy is insanely knowledgeable!

[@redboycaptures]

Serious wizardry on this channel man!

[@jimivandebeek]

I love your channel!

[@aaronbrown2587]

awesome tutorial...very helpful! looking forward to more.

[@WhiteNoises]

Thanks very much Aaron!

[@elijahhiggs8286]

Luv Synthesis...Thanks Man

[@steveoath]

cool, rings and STO are the combination am trying to learn just now. so your video is really helpful.

[@WhiteNoises]

+steveoath Glad to hear! They make a nice combo :)

[@dettifoss]

Great video

[@MusicGearNuts]

Class intro!

[@Datacustic]

Very useful!

[@kooldjself]

great explanation. thanks

[@nicholaspilarski2619]

Very cool, I have been interested on how you are using the pressure points in the previous video.

[@earthman_]

Very impressive 👍🏼

[@precarious333]

All good advice. I love taking the different wave outs of a VCO and processing them differently, through different filters, and/or spreading them across the stereo spectrum. Sine, of course, is great to keep separate, centered as the bass element. WMD Synchrodyne is especially useful for this since you can tap wave forms directly as well as through various filter types and Phase Locked Loops. It can also be very interesting to use one of the waves through a sample/hold circuit which will create a repeating pattern rather than a random result. I find it effective to add accents to the filter or VCA.

[@WhiteNoises]

Thanks for the tips! I want to try taking the different wave outs and processing them differently, sounds like a great idea

[@telkmx]

Oh dude nice to see you here :) Love your mantis video. I'm also a mantis and modular guy

[@precarious333]

+telkmx Haha! That's funny. Didn't know there was a mantis/modular connection but feels right to me. I keep my modular videos unlisted until I start a separate channel but here they are in a list if you're interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIbLn2yQnsR7eZo

[@telkmx]

Mantis are aliens. Modular can talk to aliens. Thanks i'll look some more. You stopped doing mantis videos tho ?

[@precarious333]

+White Noises It's a very effective technique I use all the time. A few examples... Doepfer A-110-2 VCO: saw wave to Polymoog Resonator in band pass mode square filtered by X0X Heart sine to sample/hold feeding into X0X Heart filter kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4SthYWZfbVrr5Y Doepfer A-110-2 VCO: sawtooth through Limaflo - Motomouth Formant Filter square wave through Fitzgreyve - Polymoog Resonators with random voltages to VCA deciding when it's audible, creating interesting accents kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpbQgKBqnsSGprc

[@ElYnzekto]

Nice video!

[@blave549]

Great vid. I rarely watch vids from start to finish, but I did on this one.. Hoping you get some quantized pitch inputs from the Turning Machine to the oscs in the next chapter. I'll just have to go watch it ;^) .

[@Padbangers]

Nice tutorial! I was wondering how you can use the Tangle Quartet as a mixer here. I was thinking about buying one, but the description said it only sums the cv of unused channels?

[@calderwood9641]

I love this video. Subbed. One question: When would you reach for a buffered mult instead of your Make Noise passive mult? Thanks! Keep up the great work.

[@massimookissed1023]

I saw a vid (by synthesizersdotcom ?) where he advocated using buffered mults for Volt/octave signals. The buffering would ensure that tuning didn't go South if more connections got added.

[@elvishopper4495]

How do you like the sto? Thinking of that or Plaits alongside my moog:32 , telharmonic and rings. Any advice?

[@telemorphosis141]

*s t a c k t h e l a y e r s*

[@daslioss.o.c.4155]

Linus Berggren we are onion, we layer.

[@macrondo5852]

S T A N C K E

[@superpie0000]

m o r e r e v e r b

[@iguisard]

That is some nice reverb you are getting from clouds, is that the parasite firmware or the standard?

[@pschwarz1043]

hello white noise, nice video! what is your case called?

[@sroy50]

This man is smart.

[@eves_disrhythms]

Hey there, whats the case youre using?

[@NutritionalZero]

Seems good. What case do you have?

[@WhiteNoises]

NutritionalZero 12U 104HP Performer case from MDLRcase!

[@NutritionalZero]

Nice, thanks!

[@Rooftopaccessorizer]

Modular is cool but it looks like a nightmare for ocd. Ive spent like three years being unsatisfied with my bedroom studio LAYOUT, i cant imagine what it would be like trying to "perfect" a rack without going broke and insane.

[@WhiteNoises]

I know what you mean -- for me there isn't really a perfect rack, it's a constantly shifting instrument, selling modules here, buying modules there. Though I love it when people lock down a rack as a defined instrument and really learn it inside out.

[@bento741]

@@WhiteNoises Hi, Which company's patch cable is this? I'm curious because the color is really vibrant (especially pink one and blue one).

[@davidlewis1787]

I was literally thinking that I have not seen any videos explaining 'beating' of oscillators then this video popped up.. weird

[@iBen4G]

machine learning black magic fuckery

[@wezzuh2482]

damn i want to get into modular so bad

[@WhiteNoises]

Do it!

[@wezzuh2482]

I will when i get the money. I'll probably get some good tax returns soon and that will be the trigger lol

[@cornelgherasim5684]

@Feel the Stirn, what do you need money for? A decent MIDI controler is about a couple of hundred bucks! And the modular synth is here, for free: vcvrack.com/

[@Hexdrine]

Ace/10, would wiggle again.

[@zorancalic65]

I listened few minutes of collection 1, and I am sory, that is not music. I would like to hear you play some notes on keyboard and use sounds from modules

[@apalepeks2000]

Great video