How I use a synth despite having no talent :)

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Make hardware synthesizers work for you, even if you have no piano or keyboard skills! This is a tutorial for all the electronic music music producers and composers who use a software-first approach to making music.
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Contents:
0:00 Who is this for?
0:31 The simplest answer
1:00 "Oops I don't know how to play piano"
1:41 Rhythm and notes design
3:43 Replacing the placeholder with the synth
4:09 Performing and capturing
5:02 Here's one I prepared earlier
5:59 Random madness at 226bpm
7:28 What to do with all this

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@OscarUnderdog 5 ай бұрын

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@DrGuy118 5 ай бұрын

Your bonus track reminds me of Nelly Furtado's "Say it Right"... Seems they used some type of extreme round robin

@RoadRunner1980 5 ай бұрын

"I invite you to think about it the same way" 🙂 I need to use that one at work.

@radfaraf 5 ай бұрын

yes more on randomness!!@

@shawnmcandrew6923 5 ай бұрын

I love how Oscar is just such a lighthearted goofball it’s relatable and fun. I’ve watched so many tutorials that are super serious. It gets tedious. I am currently doing the foundations 1 class. It’s great I love how it’s organized. Too many random videos have left me with skills with no context as to how to actually use them to build a track. Not so with Oscar’s videos and presentation it’s simple straightforward and it builds on the last chapter.

@OscarUnderdog 5 ай бұрын

Awesome to read this!

@krazywabbit 5 ай бұрын

the laugh and smile when you said I think that is so sick is what this is all about. Having fun. Well captured.

@radfaraf 5 ай бұрын

play!

@nikulmmadhu6566 5 ай бұрын

5:10 lmfao

@dreamfountain9244 5 ай бұрын

haha, the beat was kinda stank face worthy tho.

@JayM928 5 ай бұрын

Great video, Oscar! Some of my favorite artists immediately bounce everything to audio and never look back. I don't know how they do this. I always want to leave that connection so I can keep tweaking as needed. I wonder if that mindset hinders me more than it helps though.

@katecaballero9660 5 ай бұрын

Best feeling is grooving to your own creation love it

@paultorbert6929 5 ай бұрын

I own synths. But, I’m a guitarist, so when I bought my synths I got a 55gallon barrel of Imposter Syndrome for free. Add to that, I live in the southern USA, where people think that All Music is Southern Rock or Blues….😳 I am currently using ARTURIA BeatStep Pro and KeyStep Pro, a DAWLESS rig. I have more fun than should be allowed, but none of my friends like my music…..😢 Thank You Oscar, for education and for inspiration !!!!!!!!!!!!

@davidcassidy602 5 ай бұрын

Clearly your solution is to make more friends! I mean, How Hard Could It Be™️?

@samdeweerd3174 5 ай бұрын

Yes do one on randomness please!!

@sickjoe9174 5 ай бұрын

On Ableton, that area for notes where you can select the Key and Scale you want to be in and it highlights the keys, then hit this other scale button to only show those keys, really helped me.

@Jaketsx45 5 ай бұрын

I have the opposite problem, I find it more challenging to create melodies on the piano roll than using a (midi) synth. It just feels more natural to Jam on an instrument than to write midi. I do use both methods, though.

@pavelmolchanov7156 5 ай бұрын

I can only play. Hate drawing notes

@electro-soma 5 ай бұрын

Completely agree. I get no inspiration if it involves a computer. I can't play a note and know little music theory.

@dash9r 5 ай бұрын

as initial vst when composing i can recommend to use a basic piano, because when it sounds goood on a piano it also sonds good on a synth

@clementsauvage9717 5 ай бұрын

Hey Oscar, this beat was sick as f*** i surely would blast it on my way to my desk if it were on a streaming platform ! Been vibing to your content and mood for so long, thanks for irradiating so much positivity 🙏

@SN-xx7jh 5 ай бұрын

Thanks great fun you made it easy to understand the details.

@jasoncoetzeeadadjjzjdatune9617 5 ай бұрын

Hey mate , just wanted to say your tutorial on subtractive synth years ago was so helpful that it let me use any sub synth and my music improved heaps.

@Beatsbasteln 5 ай бұрын

I'm actually wondering about that myself. Bought my first hardware synth a while ago, thought I would play it a lot, especially together with my 4yo son, so he learns about synthesis even before being able to tweak plugins. but it's just way harder to deal with hardware than to deal with software in general and it's kinda discouraging. sending MIDI to the machine is one way to deal with it that is quite nice, but there's still the problem, that hardware controls just don't explain themselves a lot from just looking at them the way plugin knobs often do

@Mindworkproductionofficial 5 ай бұрын

Tanx soooo much❤

@philfiebz 5 ай бұрын

More hardware stuff please, always interesting. Today I recommend “Eli & Fur - Big Tiger” and “Rudeboy - Take A Break”. Have a nice rest of the week everyone.

@Vibeurator 5 ай бұрын

omg please release that!!

@brianbergmusic5288 3 ай бұрын

Been there... done that! Man, I miss my Roland JP-8080 sometimes. However, I sold it so that I could buy a guitar! In retrospect, I ended up spending more time learning to play my instrument that making music, but I still think it was a necessary journey. But now, I can suck at guitars and synthesizers equally! 😆

@antondhondt9851 5 ай бұрын

My shenanigans with heritage synths go like this: I just play old synths by hands (chords, funky riffs and so) to a certain groove with instant recording into DAW. Afterwards goes a final rough mixing right in my DAW. One can produce sorta humanized old-school Chicago house or acid funk or aggressive electro in this way. Old-school house, electro and etc. had been played by hands often, without quantize, grid snapping and similar modern tricks.

@moolder 5 ай бұрын

Huh that resampling randomness thing at the end is nice. I will try that with random LFOs on the Syntakt, resampling to blackbox and looping bits of that. Thanks 🙂

@hansenpessoa7574 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your ideas and knowledge. I watch your videos whenever I can. Do you have any video that talks about synthesizer compression?

@DrGuy118 5 ай бұрын

I thought Oscar was going to do the heartbeat, chest-pumping dance... 🔥🔥

@iaroslaveremin4613 5 ай бұрын

Good!

@ItsWesSmithYo 5 ай бұрын

Best Producer TUT title ever 😂

@stefankatic1337 5 ай бұрын

I suck so bad at finger drumming and playing keys on anything that isn’t a quarter note, especially at higher bpm’s. It kinda sucks because avoiding this method of generating patterns eliminates humanization which makes them interesting, but applying grooves, velocity and swing helps. At one point buying a sequencer or a drum machine would be really useful. Sure, vsts can replace synths, drum machines and sequencers, but they can’t replace the humanization part which is huge when making the track interesting. Tweaking and jamming can be done with a mapped midi keyboard, and it’s super fun and satisfying, now imagine a hardware synth…

@RexitHD 4 ай бұрын

Please more composing randomness videos🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️

@maxi_moose 5 ай бұрын

I like the way you react on your own music here😂

@pablobj8207 5 ай бұрын

Omg that song is sick 🥵🥵🥵 need to hear it finished

@davidmacdonald6611 5 ай бұрын

I switch on my Synth turn on the arpeggiator on turn my drum machine. Boom!!!

@i.syntaxerror 5 ай бұрын

I think would be nice to see how to efficiently utilise the analog gear like compressors, EQs, pedal effects and so on with Ableton (and use it in creative way)... - let's say the audio interface is capable to afford of those units (or is supported by mic preamp)......

@lecabinethermetique 5 ай бұрын

I usually have trouble recording the audio back into ableton in sync.... and I have the delay compensation option and a low buffer. How do you set up ableton so that it records perfectly in sync with the grid?

@saint4192 5 ай бұрын

5:10 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@karinegrandvoinet2038 5 ай бұрын

good syncopated groove in your example, Oscar :) by the way, did you listened to my new Rapides tracks ?

@DielectricFailure 5 ай бұрын

_At __5:09__ …..we can that the money maker! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ That’s something that’ll make a club go crazy! One thing I struggle with….. reverb on lead synths. 😡😡😡😡 I get a cool riff going but when I’m adding reverb, I’m finding there’s either not enough or there’s too much with ruins the attack. Could you make a video about doing it?_

@lowcypher1538 5 ай бұрын

Actually, there are downsides in using usb, but it heavily depends on your setup and the usb drivers of your gear. For example, when connecting a minilogue xd via USB, it crashes my whole USB System evey 15-20 mins, forcing Windows to restart everything an creating nasty dropouts... So I recommend sticking to a high quality midi Interface 🙂

@viogitz 5 ай бұрын

🎉

@homerbailon1 5 ай бұрын

what about audio and midi latency??

@fablesofsilence 5 ай бұрын

There is a big upside to midi vs usb: midi is using optocouplers. That means your signal is electrically decoupled. Why does it matter? Because you can and eventually will get an electrical loop in your system that works like an antenna. Which means super annoying noise in your audio. If you find yourself in that situation, get rid of midi over usb and use the electrically decoupled midi 5-pin because that is why it has been defined in the standard to use optocouplers. After all, why spend money on optocouplers if you wouldn’t have to. Makes sense? I hope so.