How to make every sound you ever heard

Use any sound in the world, with the help of samplers. In this video I'll show 3 classic workflows for samplers:
- Sampling my own voice and playing chords with it
- Sampling cool sounds from KZbin
- Sampling cool cinematic timbres and playing riffs of them using Reason's bassline generator
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Contents:
0:00 this video is about samplers
1:05 treating a vocal sound like a synth
6:58 finding things to sample on KZbin
10:25 the anecdote
11:00 the annihilation bassline
12:00 reason's bassline generator for riffs
13:13 sound design like a synth
14:20 HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

[@Enders]

Been using Ableton over 12 years now and I still can't stop watching people use it, You always learn something new. Although I hardly ever find something I don't know about it, I still love seeing people do their own thing. Great tutorial man.

[@AustrianSynthesizerSchool]

If you want to learn something new like sample expanding, reshape or percussion sustaining, take a look to the "Synthesizer Keyboard".

[@stormpegasus121]

I started learning about it a week ago and most of the stuff on there looks like the control panel of a spaceship. Only thing forward is to keep practicing 💪

[@z.j.mcelwain2025]

@@stormpegasus121I also started a week ago, good luck! Been trying to do a (shitty) beat every day to try and drill in these techniques

[@stormpegasus121]

@@z.j.mcelwain2025 That's how you do it haha keep going! I'm really into hard techno so I hope to be able to create it myself one day

[@SebastianGrantElKiva]

Using Ableton never and I’ve heard of simpler

[@mediocrephil]

Agree, the climax of Annihilation had insaaane sound design, I was floored when I first heard it. The uncanny, unsettling, and unearthly sound fit that scene perfectly.

[@JanParkHolm]

Unfortunately the most important part of the whole soundtrack is not on the soundtrack, and it's mostly uncredited that Moderat - The mark was inspiration and set the tone for the complete soundtrack. This scene, with this track is EPIC kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZCQhmyVjMxomqc

[@robertszordykowski4919]

@@JanParkHolm Yep, great music choices for a crap film.

[@Brendan-Black]

@@robertszordykowski4919 Crap film? Nah, Annihilation is great.

[@robertszordykowski4919]

​@@Brendan-Black Visually yes, but the writing made me facepalm so hard I got a concussion.

[@agapeleone5847]

Agreed!!! That sound is masterful!!

[@catpriest]

Making any sound you've heard is the ultimate goal of sound design. It takes years to learn but it's worth it.

[@schermanism]

I like the feeling after watching your videos, like a new world has just been born

[@kewk]

The reason you get "clicks" is due to the sample starting off the zero point. Adjusting your envelope is the bandaid to the fix. If you move the start/end positions so they are on the zero point, that fixes it usually.

[@gibsonhero233532574998]

🤓

[@TheValueOfN]

*due to the sample NOT starting at the zero point

[@JohnDoe-kh3rc]

@@TheValueOfN That's basically what he said.

[@TheValueOfN]

@@JohnDoe-kh3rc Yeah, I read it wrong.

[@tomasschneidgen6106]

@@TheValueOfN ..actually, you've helped me, thanks mate.. 🥃🥦

[@Stan-l-e-y]

wow this has to be one of the most incredible videos you've ever made. This video actually blew my mind, thank you infinitely for this

[@roninheart_music]

What you did so beautifully in your video would only have taken place 30 years ago in a studio that charges a minimum of £3000 an hour and has a ton of equipment and 5 sound engineers. Thanks for sharing and so much caring!

[@OscarUnderdog]

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[@muralist_]

Extremely useful tutorial if you're new to samplers and the possibilities of sampling in general. Thanks for the very clear and good way of explaining the sampling workflow!

[@bustamante-music]

you have a gift for teaching. i’m sure it’s not the first time someone told you but thank you!

[@chronoxofficial]

I have to say, I've been making music (as a hobby) for a while now, but still get soo much inspiration from your tutorials. Also, the subjects you touch are always quite unique. I really hope this channel becomes huge, you deserve it! Awesome work!

[@MikeH_PR]

This is wild. I can imagine some very reasonable ambient techno is available from just your voice & various household objects

[@AKAtAGG]

this is how i make most of my music. a synth, and field recordings. all my drums are made from me hitting something with something.

[@1Angus33]

@@AKAtAGG inspiring as fuck, coming from a guy whos last name is Foley ahahaha

[@AKAtAGG]

@@1Angus33 hahah I love it, would be even better if you share DNA with the great man himself...

[@ripperthecrooks6428]

​@@AKAtAGGwhat do you use to record them sounds and transfer them into the computer , just a studio mic or you actually have an app on your phone ?

[@AKAtAGG]

@@ripperthecrooks6428 depends where i am or if i have my field recorder with me. for a lot of them I use an app called 'smart recorder' on my galaxy s22 - this will work well on any phone that has a good microphone as part of the hardware. occasionally will mean more post-processing but not always.

[@mmilerngruppe]

11:47 the clicky sound at start tells you, that the wave starts not at 0, you can avoid it by zooming in and select another start point (or like you by crossfading it).

[@koraamis5568]

yes, but had some trouble with stereo sounds to find a 0 point, the fade seems quite practical.

[@DaftFader]

@@koraamis5568 If you can find a clean 0 point without cutting off too much, you can get a much more seamless loop that way. However if there are no clean 0 points near the start or end, than a very sharp attack and decay envelope can get it almost unnoticeable on the raw loop, and if you're using effects then it will be enough to cover it up most of the time. Both are valid methods and each has it's own ideal use case. ;)

[@Randuski]

Sampling and granular synthesis is my favorite way to make instruments. There's something about it that is infinitely inspiring to me

[@JH-bf6qy]

Congratulations for letting the world know what it did not know was missing!

[@FrankHoffmann1000]

I like it, in particular, when a smile gets into your face, because you are obviously happy with the outcome that you have created :-) Great channel!

[@luka1780]

Wow this is awesome men!! the vocal synth makes such lush sound. definitely gonna incorporate this technique in some tracks

[@gavinmitchell6869]

I absolutely love your videos!!!! I have learned so much in the past 3 months watching your tutorials. Thanks for sharing

[@DaveGouda]

Wow this blew my mind! I never knew the Ableton Sampler was so powerful. I'm going to sample EVERYTHING now.

[@dammdopeboy29]

Your my favorite person on KZbin now … this is dope man … real knowledge 🙏🏽

[@benshlanta]

7:42 there’s a google chrome extension that you can find in the chrome web store that samples audio from the browser so that you don’t have to go to a KZbin to mp3 website. I think it’s just called sampler.

[@blasalvice]

Oh yes! One of the last scenes from Annihilation has the coolest and most fitting synths when "the thing" is revealed.

[@HeitHaus_Music]

One of my fav scores recently! The sound design in that film is on another level

[@nirelmar]

every time i watch one of your videos, my mind is blown. and yet, the explanation & demo are clear and i understand how to proceed, even with little experience. thank you so much, Oscar!

[@MATADORDUBZ]

Bro explained a concept ive been struggling with within 3 minutes wtf! Your badass man!

[@kerwinfernandes9583]

That was such a fun tutorial. I love how we can change any sound into a musical instrument. Thanks and God bless! 🙂🙏🏻❤

[@Flamieee1]

Great to see you actually work the sound with the sampler, to see it is really helpfull.

[@lafluerpeter9]

That vowel chopping sample technique was quite prominent in the 90s uk garage scene, mainly with female vocals.

[@CrescentRollCarl]

Great video! I'm inspired now. Nothing I didn't already know, but just seeing you do it for some reason gave me a bunch of ideas. Thanks!

[@tomislavglavas2180]

I like how you actually have good taste. That spoils most of the music production videos I've seen :)

[@ShamimJahandideh]

So good. This is now inspiring me to make a track only from one voice

[@Dominik-K]

This was amazing! Thanks a bunch for the video, this explains a lot! I love the ideas a lot

[@RonnieOrbit]

Really great and helpful videos! Love your tune in this too

[@synthoelectro]

I did this with the movie The Matrix once, among other samples, even the movie 1984, using only the sounds from the film to make an entire album. It's a wild trap and thanks to Ableton you can do it. Sampling is very powerful, and makes anything an instrument.

[@DaftFader]

I've done this before for a D+B track, but not with a film, with vocal samples I recorded ... made the drums the bass and everything, you could barely tell it used a voice except for the fact I intentionally left some vocally sounding bits in there for certain sounds. It was so much fun to make. I did it for half of a Acid Jungle tune another time , but with using just Canadian geese squark noise samples, and one single rouge Mongoose croak(?!) sample, to see if my mate who was into Canadian geese at the time (and the reason I decided to make it in the first place) could tell them apart... xD

[@synthoelectro]

@@DaftFader sampling can create mysterious results.

[@Darchyism]

Can't stop watching this vid. Good work. Great Tutorial too.

[@wallygator57190]

Your channel is awesome! I am learning something new every time ! Thanks!

[@laksefecheu3652]

I love you for making these videos.

[@eloyente_]

Dios mío, era lo que estaba buscando. Gracias hermano!

[@stealtime]

Nice. That bass line at the end was FUN!

[@OmShira]

Great video again. You master the stroytelling of music production! 😀

[@shaulv]

I learn so much with you man! Thanks a lot!

[@diegomella5060]

Woooow the quality in your videos is only evolving. 🤯

[@julianshowalter7001]

I'm not disappointed by this recommendation, subscribed

[@tzodearf2596]

Good ideas. I needed this reminder.

[@kiytek2835]

Man that track from Annihilation is absolutely incredible, great tune to make a little edit of and open a set with it for a palette cleanser

[@jimimyself]

Brilliant explanation

[@0711RC]

GREAT lesson. Thanks.

[@audraepail2085]

this has been sooo helpful thank you so much

[@DariaCircus]

This is actually amazing congrats on your success also dude

[@nathanbryers]

Love your lil dances at the end lately 👍🏼 top marks 💯

[@georgebogdan3]

I laughed when he heard his voice 🤣 keep up the good work pal good info 👍🏼

[@jowanmokkink417]

So cool that expl. About the sampler! Loving it!

[@noisyshaun]

I was today years old when I learned that you could just drop an audio file onto a midi track to open it in Simpler. You've no idea the time and frustration this simple tip has saved me!!! 😱

[@OscarUnderdog]

😁😁😁

[@fleipola]

really love this, thanks from brazil!

[@shamax2201]

Nice one. Learnt a lot from this. Thank you!!

[@DMS198526]

Brilliant video my bro 🤘

[@douglasfugazi]

This video is incredible. Thanks for sharing, keep up the great work 👍

[@nicolaslondonocastano9875]

Great as always!! Thank you very much oscar

[@youn18350]

Clearly a realy cool moody sound ^^ that’s a think that i should use more. Ty for the lessons and for your energy that is realy relaxing !

[@BROWNSOULxxx]

GREAT SOUL AND EMOTION OF SOUND...... BLESSINGS!

[@jean-marcdecanter7719]

Very smart tool the sampler and a very smart teacher too ...

[@_varianta007]

Amazing tutorial, thx!

[@Anonymous-lw1zy]

This is a really great idea and opens tons of creative ideas. One additional suggestion - back at 3:15 where you have the basic loop of your voice, if you zoom in and set the start and stop trim points so the waveform shape continues cleanly from the end point back to the start point, you can avoid the pop at the cut and then use any arbitrary length of it.

[@pk3776]

Always, always, always x10….. Inspirational, informative and just dam good!👍💯🙏❤️

[@z01d]

Awesome, thank you!

[@obscenemachinery]

This was great, shared. Thanks!

[@S_e_a_n]

Oscar - excellent example. Thank you for sharing. Your explanations are fantastic. Cheers Sir!

[@faeriepalace]

such valuable knowledge thank u!!!

[@Jameselcome_303]

Fantastic, will try this thanks for sharing

[@naturallyinsane9101]

The sound crafting aspect of this is super useful for my dawless setup. I do like the idea of grabbing KZbin samples

[@chema__gonzalez__]

amazing content dude! thanks so much!

[@electropocalypse5877]

I'll def try using a sampler and recording foleys. Things look much easier in Audacity compared to LMMS but also more complex. That said it's a pretty cool DAW. Thanks for helping make things fun and easy to learn! Sometimes the hardest questions have the easiest answers in sound design. Experimentation is key.

[@TheValueOfN]

I reckon that this is a good time to mention the "Found Sound" album by Spooky. It's a 1996 album that was almost entirely created with recordings of everyday objects being hit and then fed into hardware samplers, (where they were manipulated in varying degrees of complexity). It's rather percussion-heavy but is still satisfyingly musical, (especially for those who appreciate the industrial/musique concrète scene).

[@soundvandal3570]

Such an amazing album. Use what you got.

[@1998Cebola]

So many great albums have been made that way, I haven't heard this one tho

[@mosaicubaby2278]

so finally somebody finished Pink Floyd's Household Objects album XD Interesting, gonna listen to this band you mentioned

[@hendrixstudioru]

beautiful examples and useful points all the way

[@GavinLyonsCreates]

Very cool Oscar, I had a few ideas I wanted to do with my audio recordings I've collected over the years, this opens up the possibilities to do lots great weird and wonderful things.

Great video! I’ve had my best sessions when I take my zoom recorder outside and go sound hunting, but need more knowledge in how to modify the sounds. Perfect timing as well, considering the price on hardware right now. 😊

[@HeadVladdi]

god bless you, fantastic video

[@dwolf9507]

Sick video bro. Thanks

[@Leequid960]

really love you tu es tellement sympathique 🙂 and also the best teacher!!

[@OscarUnderdog]

😌❤

[@krystofpolansky7785]

thank you for this. It is inspirational. I like your creativity :)

[@nongmar8783]

Nice. I recently sampled new model D ‘s demo from Sweetwater ,added Arturia Moog filter fx , put it in instrument rack make fake 3 Osc by copying ,with micros I made kinda controls mimicking original ,made my own little simplified moog. Good enough for simple bass.

[@AlmostHuman_]

voice to synth,, too good!

[@jaklair]

stellar work teach'

[@dmix46]

Great work 👍🙂, thanks

[@massi2621]

you tell us about simpler's potential, I'm amazed at Oscar's potential!

[@francoiscote1464]

Really cool. ! I was doing those kind of things with my voice at the begining of samplers in 1987 (Emax) but i’m still learning things and tips with new technologies in your vidéos. Thanks.

[@dimitrispalantzas5281]

"Special magical universes that you might be emotionally attached to but you didn't have to create from scratch." 👏

[@stoxxhunter]

Another awesome video. Love how you simplify the sound design process. Can you do an EQ video for creating space in mixes please? Thanks !!!

[@yashsingadiya9850]

very very helpfull learnt something new

[@Ty-ri7dy]

THANK YOU! You have sold this pure .vst composer on sampling. And not the pretentious "you need a $10000 microphone" sampling. I've been wanting to incorporate it into my music, but everything I can find on it up until now is hip hop sampling, which I totally do sometimes, but is very different from what I want to do. Thanks!

[@BigDubstepEnergy]

I enjoy resampling bass patches from Serum and tweaking and resampling until I get that perfect gutteral growl sound that'll make my doberman tremble in fear. I never thought about using my voice to growl and then utilizing the above process. I bet that'll introduce some gnarly sounds. I'ma have to try that here in a minute

[@adogmatic1341]

thank you so much!

[@meylansebastien4333]

Great tips ! Thank you from Switzerland ;)

[@MrBoundji]

Inspiring tutorial 👌thanks 👏

[@dolomiten]

Great Video, thanks a lot lot 🙏

[@althepsyphros3314]

11:38 No quite, actually it means that you're starting on a point of the sample that isn't at the zero point of the amplitude. So you start with the top of a piece of audio for example and therefore the audio is jumping from 0 to say 8 (out of 10) in a split second which then counts to the speaker as a sound, and that sound is a click.

[@isabellapakulska]

Super cool!

[@jamesscade8479]

Legend - thanks bro! When you been thinking about how to do something and then you tube just comes up with the perfect solution 😁🙏

[@PulsalientMacrowave]

That's a good human right there Humaning done properly

[@OscarUnderdog]

Nice Oscar

[@rene.rodriguez]

Excellent video. I learned more in the first 4 minutes than the last 2 weeks on YT. Liked and Sub’d. Thanks for the amazing work.

[@holgieselchen7033]

Hi Alex, vielen Dank für die super tollen Tricks. Endlich wieder mal einen Beitrag über's Samplen. Gibt zu wenige von denen, wie ich finde. 🤗

[@benetmerklin]

Wow 👏👏👏..Thanks a lot 🙏 . Today I learned a new technique 😀