How To Sound Design Ecosystems | BIOTA

[@Amfivolia]

Hi everyone - I want to firstly say thank you to everyone that took the time to watch this video and supported it! I wanted to quickly write a comment about some things I didn't discuss in this video, as well as what to expect from this channel. I want to clarify that this video is just a surface level introduction to all of the concepts I've discussed. There are so many factors that go into ecological behaviors and sounds, it'd be impossible to capture all in one video. With that being said, I hope this video acts as the entrance to a rabbit hole if you will -- There are so many fields to explore like soundscape ecology, bioacoustics, etc. There are also interesting ideas adjacent to the topic of this video, such as: The acoustic adaptation hypothesis, auditory filter hypothesis, etc. which may change the ways you think about soundscapes and creating them. As for what's next, I'm currently working on my next tutorial. I've made a community post explaining what it is, but to summarize it's a tutorial on writing realistic and convincing piano MIDI. Again, thank you all for the support on this video! 💙

[@coliny7027]

Yo if you ever make a patreon going into further detail of your racks/sound design I would happily sign up! Amazing attention to detail bro

[@jSpirituS7]

How did you learn? Who taught you? Are you a self learner?

[@Amfivolia]

@@jSpirituS7 I learn mostly through researching online, watching other people work, collaborating with others, and experimenting on my own.

[@jSpirituS7]

@@Amfivolia do you have any in person friendships with people who are also music creators? In the same type of field of study as yourself..

[@SirkitBr8ker]

Just binged your whole channel lol. Flabbergasted at all the dimensions to your musical talent. It's transcendent. Beyond conception almost. Especially for being so young. Are you still working on your electronic music album? Excited for that. Your gift is a blessing that I hope wish you will continue to share with the world as much as you can.

[@edwardlonin8891]

this makes the possiblity of living in a simulation more of a reality than I wanted it to be

[@Amfivolia]

we all live in a phase plant patch

[@NateGerber]

@@Amfivoliatoo real

[@5amJones69]

@@Amfivolia I automatically read this comment in the tune of ''we all live in a yellow submarine''

[@TheEagleFace]

no it doesn't, hope this helps

[@MattStevens9824]

@@Amfivolia DAMN! Winning quote, man! The Matrix is just a Phase Plant patch!

[@mindinthesand]

this is a literal science class

[@marcuwu1990]

When u dont understand something.. like audio spectrum, harmonics, low end, high end, space, etc around sound design then u can read something like this as science.

[@mindinthesand]

@@marcuwu1990 i feel like you said what i said, but with more words

[@rhinoskin7550]

Did you forget the time when you didnt understand these things?​@@marcuwu1990

[@buckycore]

Dude. You're a genius. I don't know anyone who knows this arcane level of sound design, let alone someone who could explain it in an easily digestible format which inspires me to want to make things with this knowledge, let alone someone who is 18 doing all this stuff. Most 18 year olds I know in the music community are all making the same sounding beats in FL Studio (which is still rad. Not meant as a put down) But seriously, you're totally next level protege stuff

[@Amfivolia]

Agh this is an amazing compliment, I really appreciate this ♥ I hope this video inspires you to innovate and come up with something cooler than I have :)

[@atomictraveller]

there are people but as you say, you don't kNWO them. music used to be real important to ideas and behaviour, before the HSS MK improved. anyone who wanted to help the public become more articulate was taken out so those fat b4574rds can sell you things and keep you simple minded. they're all there, they are all so obvious, all you gotta do is understand what you're seeing is a certain lodge, it's very obvious, they kill people, like me. xoxos.

[@sub-jec-tiv]

@@Amfivolia Yep. Professional sound designer here, and you’re killing it. Subbed. Keep on rocking dude

[@bskbskbskbskbsk]

Check out "Scapes" by Francis Preve. He did some 100% synthesized "field recordings" in 2017. I think he did all the sounds with Live Operator and some effects. Same concept as this, just with a different theme. I'm very impressed with Amfivolia, as it's such an original take on this concept.

[@twainnell41]

Try look at the work of Ankha Nel. Legendary Audio Engineer/Sound designer

[@lucnejame]

This is game changing. Like seriously please keep posting about this. We need more novel production and sound design perspectives!

[@Amfivolia]

More is on the way!! Glad you enjoyed this

[@atomictraveller]

i can deliver, but youtube and the music industry will hide me and hide me because i'll actually help you and they won't like that sincerely, xoxos, the real mfr so you understand what this means - the cepstrum (eg. formant shifting) is derived fft(log10(fft())) see if anyone at kvr will tell you that except my old forbidden account.

[@WhizPill]

dude is clearly OP at what he does

[@cicilubibilo]

Professional sound designer here but man this is gold! I'm really impressed. Great explanation and the work itself is very inspirational. Thank you and please keep it coming, this type of extreme quality content is rare on sound design.

[@SithLordC3P0]

This is well thought out. I always saw when I produced music as making an ecosystem of sound, or like a little pocket dimension, where my sound design dictates how everything interacts and functions or where it's specific place in the "story" I'm telling is supposed to be. I think of that almost like the laws of physics in a musical sense

[@Amfivolia]

That's a really unique and awesome outlook on writing music, and I completely agree it's a wonderful way to tell the story & setting of your music!!

[@AzuriumOfficial]

It's such a treat when game devs have a consideration for proper sound design. Hope to hear more from you both. The lesson was intriguing.

[@RainbexTheRain]

This is like a college class i would definitely take *Takin notes rn*

[@JohnnysaidWhat]

“it’s important to be creative and follow your intuition” proceeds to give post doc thesis on advance acoustic physics and sound design with a dash of world building 😂

[@Amfivolia]

@@JohnnysaidWhat LMAO I could have clarified some more creative elements throughout the video perhaps

[@PiercingSight]

This is the kind of creative sound design that the world needs more of!! Fantastic work, and beautifully edited video!!! Well friggin' done!~

[@Amfivolia]

Tysm!! I hope it inspires/helps you on your own sound design journey

[@fallenleaf24]

Couldn’t agree with you more!

[@sub-jec-tiv]

@@AmfivoliaThat 3d render of the environment with the highlighted elements was cool. Blender? C4D? Nice art direction generally. You have your color palette and look/feel together.

[@Amfivolia]

@@sub-jec-tiv made it in blender!

[@optimalystic]

This video is a gem! The project itself is researched very well, more thoroughly dissecting environmental density, medium, and acoustics than most people do (that I know of) for their own augmented reality audio projects, and the sound design is simultaneously unique between sources and cohesive as an artificial reality. On top of that, this video is made really well; not only organizing and explaining everything in a digestible way, but painstakingly rendering, editing, and syncing all of those video clips of synths, effect chains, waveforms, frequency spectrums, spectrograms, background music, text, and probably more, all to aid in making this video easily digestible. You even did highlighting work to focus our attention on certain sections, added your own background music and/or ambience around the piano pieces, as well as made a whole 3D scene just to explain a visual metaphor! (when I saw the bird at 2:33 move I was flabbergasted). I hope that I can make compelling visuals like that for my ambient music one day. I also really liked the visual backgrounds you had, the color palette you chose, and the watery visual effect that permeated most of this video. It always kept me in the mood that your project had set, and made the whole learning experience very beautiful and inspiring. So yeah, I liked and subbed. Thank you for sharing your work with us, I really enjoyed watching and learning what you did, and I wish you the best as you continue your audio art pursuits!

[@Amfivolia]

Wow I really appreciate you putting the time in to write this comment and notice the details that went into this :) It was quite a lot of work but worth it if people learned from it -- there will be more on the way! goodluck with your ambient projects!

[@ChronoMune]

This along with your music you’ve put up, you’re one of the easiest subscriptions I’ve ever chosen. Can’t believe how much work you’ve put in at your age, and I can’t imagine what amazing things you’ll be doing in just another 10 years

[@Amfivolia]

Thank you for taking the time to write this -- comments like this motivate me greatly 🫶

[@ChronoMune]

@@Amfivolia and thank you for sharing with us! So interesting to see the kinds of things talented people are doing, and you also motivate us to wanna do great things, even if different from what you’re doing

[@HexxedOfficial]

I hope this video goes viral. This is really educational and nicely descriptive.

[@Densle.]

Dude, this is incredible. Thanks for sharing all this!

[@uforeaofficial]

I remember doing a similar project with sounds I programmed in python such as bird songs, cricket chirps, and rain. Glad to see someone taking this concept to another level!

[@arunkarthikma3121]

Holy shit, this is genuinely magical. They way this guy just explains it so casually

[@hybyrn]

this is one of the best videos on youtube sound design js so so cool i love physics being used in sound design to emulate the physical world digitally

[@Intikus]

This feels like it nonchalantly manifested from another dimension just... onto youtube. awesome stuff

[@typemyname2737]

it feels like I didn't really understand what sound design is before this video, thank you! this is so awesome feeling you gave me!

[@KinophsiaFilms]

The level of effort behind this is insane, thank you so much for putting this out there I learned alot from it. You've given me alot of inspiration by teaching in such a delicate way, it reminded me of how peaceful this line of work can be despite the tremendous amount of efforts and literal back pain that go behind it hahaha.

[@Amfivolia]

I find it very relaxing once you're immersed in the research haha -- Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@nonlinearsound-001]

I generally work very carefully and only sparsely with Doppler. Small insects around your listener position are noticeable as their relative speed reaches values where Doppler is audible. Animals moving around mid and far distance almost never produce Doppler regardless of how fast they move. (maybe really fast moving birds) It was a very interesting time researching this and finding out that almost no natural sources produce Doppler. Very nice work there, man! Lots of love!

[@Amfivolia]

This is a cool insight! Given there isn't too much noticeable movement in Biota, I hadn't actually researched some of the examples of Doppler in nature very much. I'm sure there is also much research to be done about geophysical sounds producing noticeable doppler effects as well. Thanks for watching, cheers!

[@ShowPlusCo]

you're a fckn genius man...the level of analysis and attention to detail is mesmerizing. Cheers!

[@jonnyr5049]

This has such impeccable style and beauty, and seriously hard work and dedication. It's artworks like these that really make me want to delve deep into creating. Awesome!

[@nocontextgonzalo]

i had been toying with these ideas for a while but never realizing them and your video came as a godsend from the youtube algorithm not only to remind me I should be creating, but showing me the process of a master. thank you for making this

[@singularit_y]

i dont know a single thing about using a daw and still im learning a lot from this.. youre crazy good

[@lye7391]

this is a really good video. I like watching sound design videos. I like to watch KZbin. I like to watch this Biota. Video. Thank you. For telling us your experiences. Remember, ! difficult roads often lead to.

[@Amfivolia]

indeed they do

[@lye7391]

@@Amfivolia don't give up on your dreams!!!! please keep sound design. we got to keep going. we got to commit to greatness. you either work or. ...tw

[@MrSuzerain]

Are these texts generated with some weird AI?

[@ashballofficial]

​@@MrSuzerainprobably google translate

[@ArvidOlson]

This is not only deeply interesting, but also a very beautifully produced video. The aestethics as well as your presentation skills makes it a joy to consume. Thanks to being recommended this video I also discovered your music, which is very suggestive and to my ears impressive in itself. If you haven't made it big already, being so young, I can only see greatness in your future. Keep it up! Amazing work! I would love some more in depth showcases of the individual creature sounds you've created. You went through the general sound generating chains in this video, but talking a bit more about what each step does, and why you decided a sound should be a certain way, would be very interesting. Also, a lot of what you've described here could probably be done in max or pure data and then exported as a VST. Making an interface to easily control some parameters of this system would probably sell like butter to sound designers if marketed correctly.

[@Amfivolia]

Thank you for taking the time to write this, this motivates me considerably to create more content ! I think if I were to go very in-depth about my process and decision making for Biota, I would do something more casual like a livestream. These videos take an enormous effort to produce so I want to save them for unique topics each time, but still sound design and music composition of course. I may do a livestream some day to explore this project more thoroughly. Thanks again, hope the video was resourceful! :]

[@Dynamicz.140]

In highschool I did a beginners presentation on sound design and even played my first track for the class. I said because all sounds are sine waves with enough skill you could recreate any sound. Really cool finally finding a video about recreating the sounds of nature

[@arunkarthikma3121]

Yeah, we can synthesize entire instruments already. That's why I've always been annoyed by the mysticism and marketing behind tone/gear. "Just buy this guitar, guys! It's got a completely different EQ curve!"

[@mr.scruggs124]

This is one of the best and most interesting videos on sound design i've ever seen, thank you so much for this amount of useful and precious informations and tips, i love this content

[@ShanusDa-nus]

Dude, that was so sick ...awesome you inspired me to approach things in my music and sound design in totally new mindset ...thank you for sharing this with everyone . Much respect ..

[@Amfivolia]

Very happy to hear that!! Goodluck with your music/sound design :)

[@colton7373]

the choice of background music in this is legendary

[@Amfivolia]

piano >>>

[@colton7373]

@@Amfivolia particularly ravel and debussy 🔥

[@Maxarcc]

What a gem of a video. I'm personally not into creating nature sounds, but I watched this from start to finish just because of how wonderfully you explain everything. I can see how dedicated you are to this part of production, and it paid off man.

[@nissimtrifonov5314]

Simply amazing. I just wanted to mention that I felt that I didn't hear enough of the awesome sounds because you didn't let them play on their own, instead you kept talking over them; I'd gladly watch a 1 hour or ever 1 and a half with more of the sounds being played alongside of the explanations (which were top notch)

[@Amfivolia]

Thank you! And yes I agree, in hindsight I didn't let the individual sounds play enough on their own -- this is my first tutorial so I have plenty to improve on.

[@the_door]

"the shound is produshed with a shawtooth wave"... but honestly I'm jealous... this is brilliant

[@grain9640]

Thank you so much for this❤ It's so hard to find good videos that are "intermediate" on a subject.

[@ATolerableQuietude]

Wow, this is really fascinating! What an amazing project. Thanks for sharing it through the video.

[@DarkRider606]

I love how your system is so intricate and detailed. Before watching this video I never thought about midi chance, velocity deviations, and randomizing parameters. Really cool what you got going on here

[@jonaskern8045]

You can easily turn this into an MA thesis. In fact, this is an MA thesis already. Not sure if you're aware of Practice Based Research, but that is in essence what you were doing - a lot of MA programs employ it nowadays. If it's true that you're 18 you could skip a couple of years and the BA and directly pick up your Master's at 19/20 ;) A lot of programs don't require a BA if you have sufficient practical or professional experience in the field. Either way, amazing video! Great editing, visual aesthetic and presentation, flow of information, sound design approaches, digestibility of material. Great work! You're going places.

[@szymonsniegocki528]

This format and explanation are great. You could easily create larger courses where you work on a specific project. All the tutorials would cover different aspects of this project-basically what you’ve done here, but bigger and deeper. Then put it on Gumroad, and I'll be your first buyer

[@benjafarber1793]

I have made similar soundscapes, but didn’t think to make it generative! Great idea!

[@dakotahrivers6640]

Dude…. I didn’t know I needed this until now. Time to retreat to the beat laboratory and design some ecosystems

[@tilenpotokar8316]

Absolutely beautiful video all the way from the sound desing aspects to the presentation methods. I love sound design and have wanted to get more into it so this has enspired me greatly, thank you

[@Amfivolia]

@@tilenpotokar8316 that's motivating to hear, have fun sound designing!!

[@RESEDE]

You inspire me to learn more about sound design and to practice more.

[@Maradnus]

This was just amazing what great video! Thanks! I would love to watch a long play of you just making sounds without talking even. I like to watch people do what they do!

[@Amfivolia]

@@Maradnus hmm maybe I'll do a live stream some day if I get more familiar with YT stuff :) and yea I'm the same way, I learn a lot from just watching people create

[@Maradnus]

@@Amfivolia Awesome stuff this is VERY inspiring stuff & I never thought to take this journey in sound! seeing it & having some idea now of how this is assembled is amazing so huge thanks! & good luck I think this kind of stuff will but a huge hit! Thanks!

[@Wpeoif]

This is awesome. I love the in depth explanations. The video itself is super well-made as well. Super cool

[@TruzzleBruh]

Holy shit you're amazing I'm saving this for a day where I have more time 😂

[@Hattnanin]

Never gonna learn this completely like this, but gives a lot of inspiration for other things like synthesizing musical sounds for me

[@2.SPIRITED]

why is your subcount so mindfuckingly low, with this quality of content you deserve at least 50k or so 😭

[@05degrees]

Oooooooooh!!!! 🌿 Judging by the samples, I soooo need to learn this. Thanks for making a whole video! I had some thoughts it would be nice to sound design simple bird calls but I haven’t come to even starting with analysis; all I ever did was synthesizing crickets, and just one particular species I heard and had a relatively clean recording of. But now _this_ is a food for thought!

[@HristoGoleminov]

Videos like this are what KZbin is meant for. Great job and thank you!!

[@simongregory3114]

this is so fascinating. Also, the little music fragments between sections are lovely

[@OffGrit]

This is awesome. I have a whole new respect for sound design

[@dogmouth4138]

Wow really impressive! You have a lot of deep sound design knowledge at such a young age. Really looking forward to seeing how you grow with this channel and your creative endeavors. Cheers!

[@vraalten]

Wowww, your look behind the scenes is simply brilliant and inspiring!!! Keep up the great work!

[@fallenleaf24]

what a Gem of a video! the video production was brilliant! the story told! the information shared! I have ver been more happy to subscribe in my life! Thank you!

[@dogmouth4138]

Only 10 minutes in but this is amazing information so far. Looking forward to watching the rest!

[@julienkianmaneshrad1371]

I don’t usually comment on YT but wow! This is great. Gives me hope for the future of content and sound design. Great work, keep it going :)

[@naitsavesmusic]

Such a masterclass, thank you 🐦

[@michaelovertonbrown]

well done - love this framework for conceptualizing soundscapes

[@Seolgyeol_187]

Truly amazing and inspiring, You and your sound deserve more attention! Not only this video, your other work too.

[@asperganoid]

This is what comes to my mind when people speak of us living in a simulation!

[@Ambrosia2830]

Very unique and innovative, thank you for sharing this!

[@blurredaudio]

That was dope! Doesn't happen a lot that sound design blows me away anymore, but this was very very interesting! Thanks for sharing :)

[@ringsystemmusic]

Hoooly mackerel! Dude! I had this exact idea (alien soundscape) but you executed *way* better. Looks like it’s lecture time

[@Amfivolia]

If you ever make one let me know! I'd be happy to put any soundscapes people made in the description if they were inspired by this video!

[@Craftal]

Hell yeah man. I had to do this exact thing for Meow Wolf Denver when I made a soundscape for an alien underwater planet. So much fun.

[@Amfivolia]

@@Craftal that sounds awesome!!

[@VitTrully]

we gotta have a live synth thing for games. this could be fire for a low poly LSD game.

[@HappyBowser777]

Another way I found for create interesting alien swamp / cricket sounds is by re-synthesizing images in Harmor. I really like your video!

[@Amfivolia]

That's super cool!! If you ever made a video about that I'd be happy to check it out - Admittedly I don't know Harmor too well but I want to learn it

[@HappyBowser777]

@@Amfivolia Basically it resynthesize the image into sound using sine waves.

[@LouieTaylorMusic]

Very fucking interesting, potentially limitless applications within video game audio. Nice choice of Ravel Une Barque sur l’océan, cool rendition of it that suits the video perfectly.

[@DashGlitch]

Great work!

[@Pierreduchzy]

That was amazing, thank you! 👽🐦

[@alex_opr]

Beautiful work, I'm always amazed when I see people synthesize ambiance sounds but this video takes it to a new level. Thank you!

[@xcorvidae666x]

this is brilliant. Can't wait to incorporate these techniques into my own productions.

[@TheColourAwesomer]

Wow dude this is incredible work. Super impressive stuff. Well done

[@viviansutherland2169]

The algorithm rocks cuz I was literally just thinking about how to do this yesterday

[@sub-jec-tiv]

A good outdoor impulse response is so useful for creating shared space of all the elements, in this type of work. It’s easy to make your own IRs, bring a field recorder along if you go camping. And clap loudly or burst a balloon. I tend to do it a few times, at different distances from the recorder, so i have multiple depths to work with, of the same space. I’ve gotten some of my best environmental IRs this way. You don’t have to own a $10k human head mic (though that helps, of course. Haha). I use an Olympus field recorder and it works just great for making IRs. Nice sounds! 👌

[@Amfivolia]

@@sub-jec-tiv agreed, and I plan to try and build up my own IR library someday!

[@iamsaintlewis]

would love to see breakdowns of any of your tracks too

[@Amfivolia]

Was planning on potentially doing a breakdown on some of the seawards tracks or other such music!! If you have any recommendations for which ones to break down lmk

[@sebastianegli3807]

this video is really good and informative, subbed!!

[@maokus]

Wonderfully illustrated and edited :)

[@Amfivolia]

[@racktooblatch2273]

This is a very interesting approach of Sound Design that should be studied in MAO classes. It would allow student to manipulate multiple tools from the analysis to the differents synthesis and modulations that exist without the melodic and rythmmics constraints.

[@koopylupa6647]

This is a masterpiece in every aspect.

[@ktothej1]

I am in awe of your talent. Keep up the great work!

[@bskbskbskbskbsk]

This is some Francis Preve level sound design! Well done!

[@lofilullaby1228]

love it!

[@amado7760]

really nice, beautifully done and explained.

[@lulzd9355]

just... WOW

[@MrRexBaron]

wow - simply wow - great project and wonderfully explained.

[@schbwp]

holy cow the amount of detail in this video is incredible. keep it up!

[@Amfivolia]

thankyou!!

[@ilyandilymusic]

Just wow man. This is such a fantastic video and your presentation and visuals are incredible.

[@regrub.nitram]

10/10 bro you're incredible

[@RESEDE]

I swear this video needs more views

[@VikkiStephen-m1r]

Absolutely Brilliant!

[@reliquisound]

good vide on video man. ULTRA CHILLIN

[@H.Haller-ot5rh]

Awesomely cool soundscape and wonderful tutorial, thanks so much!

[@pwhi2251]

lovely video

[@julesdukers8360]

Just wow.... Thank you for sharing really. You and your illustrator friend could team up with a procedural animator for some mesmerizing results imo. You could be interested by projects such as the game called Rain World. I totally could see your work fit in this kind of piece

[@rhinoskin7550]

You make other youtube ppl seem like marketing tools :😜 Thank you for the pure, direct information and knowledge.

[@kevinsmeis9210]

This is really beautiful. Good work

[@4i20]

Just amazing

[@GaelleValle-q3q]

Amazing proyect! ❤ Its so exciting see the way modern sound design / music is going for. Congrats ✨️ Thank u