How To: Steel Drum/Pan in Vital - Synthesis Sound Design Tutorial

[@Chris-St-DE]

Hi, you can press the "Hold" button to freeze the spectrum.

[@EricBowman]

That's a game-changer. Thank you!

[@studiosynthsoundsb.v.383]

Even after years of doing sounddesign on numerous synths I’ve never heard anyone going so deep without making it complicated. A true teacher’s skill!!

[@mikebrigs1218]

I AGREE.

[@coopercaviness6256]

The relationship you have with sound is remarkable

[@jamespatterson4772]

I really love that you took the first `1/3 of the video to explain your process for recreating the sound before jumping in to the tutorial. I'd love to see more of this!

[@rubick1182]

man, your tutorials are keeping me alive

[@negvey]

You are truly a wizard, the accuracy of the sound from sample to synth is unreal...

[@SoundAuthor]

Your harmonic analysis continues to astonish me. Great stuff as always.

[@rickglasser]

Absolutely amazing how you got a synthesized voice to match an original. Great analysis.

[@ash9259]

Eric, thank you for going through your process. This is immensely useful - your videos are truly a godsend.

[@koolmothafunker6027]

Man your channel is a treasure

[@illegalgiant_]

instructional and useful. thanks man. I really appreciate how thorough you are with your explanation while keeping it easy enough to follow. entering VST land and realizing things like vital are really powerful

[@mulazer19]

Thank You for my request Eric! I bought your other pack last week. Keep it up!

[@milisonics]

Another great tutorial Eric. Amazing job as always :)

[@seb0043]

Passionating Even if it requires signal theory basics. Easy to find on You tube. Thank you

[@Manu-tz3mi]

I loveeeeee your videos so much you are pumping so much content out for free. Would you ever consider doing tutorials on sound design ? Like explaining LFOs,filters the levels macros etc etc.. how they work! Also if you ever read this would you be able to remake the sound of the synth from "Gossip- tame impala"

[@EricBowman]

Thank you! I've considered making a beginner tutorial series but it's a big undertaking when there are such great resources out there already. Woochia has a great video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIjSo514ecinr5Y Jazen also has a great intro to sound design: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXrUn6CEgt-fobc

[@YoureNowOnTV]

Give a person a fish and they’ll eat for a day, teach a person to fish and they can eat forever. Thanks for feeding and teaching us. 😊👍

[@Steelwolfmusic]

Very glad I found ya Eric! subscribed and ready to learn

[@FannonF]

Your patches are really something to behold :) One idea: Could you create a patch / tutorial for how to create a handpan sound? I could not find any tutorial or existing patch for it, so it might be quite a challenge. If I understand it correct that sound has quite some sympathetic resonances that give its characters?

[@mikebrigs1218]

WHAT A GREAT VIDEO!! THE SOUND IS AMAZING WITH SUCH DETAIL. THANK YOU.

[@velcro4836]

This is absolutely amazing! Thanks for the detailed walkthrough.

[@julis00]

This is insane thank you so much!

[@intelligenceservices]

@6:39 it sounds like the decay of possibly a gong

[@ale_556]

I just discovered your channel and the content is great. btw, can you make an ocarina?

[@zkassai.audio.2]

Thank you, Eric! One question: why do you use the LFOs rather than the Envelopes to control the envelopes of the oscillators? Is it just because of the neat editor, or is there some technical reason there?

[@EricBowman]

Good question. You could use envelopes but the LFO gives you more control over shape. You can also change the speed of the whole shape by adjusting the frequency this way.

[@jopmens6960]

Thanks, but why are you using LFOs as envelopes when there are perfectly good envelopes on the top right?

[@EricBowman]

More control over the shape, and the ability to manipulate the duration of the whole envelope

[@werzeldamage4014]

In Windows, if you hold the ALT key, you have more control while moving a point on the LFO.

[@EricBowman]

That's very helpful. Thanks!

[@18Hands]

Have you ever attempted to make a jaw harp in Vital?

[@ash3r01]

Super helpful thanks

[@redrider2865]

Incredible tutorial as always Eric! I was wondering, do you think it’s possible for you to create a Dilruba? I can’t find the sound anywhere for cheep. Idk how easy it is to make a bowed instrument in a synth, but I’d be cool to see

[@habdman]

Can you make a vintage lead like the one heard in Tom Dissevelt´s "Song of the second moon"? I´ve figured it is an often underexplored sound :D

[@EricBowman]

I believe that's a low-passed saw wave

[@sheridanlugo8967]

Could you do a tutorial on how to make the organ from the beginning of the 1975 song "If I believe you?" It's one of my all time favorite synths and I've been trying to recreate it with no luck

[@ProdBy8pril]

How do you make a ufo sounding lead?

[@EricBowman]

Can you give me an example?

[@ProdBy8pril]

@@EricBowman at 1:00 kzbin.info/www/bejne/garQfn9sq6iln6c

[@EricBowman]

@@ProdBy8pril That sounds like a sine wave layered with a much quieter square wave. Then there's a vibrato. If you don't know how to set up vibrato, I do it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnmrqJqanLRsZtk

[@ProdBy8pril]

@@EricBowman Thank you

[@leobaker-tf2andmusic520]

would be nice if you could show how to make Super Realistic Woodwind insturments (specificly whatever ones would be used in USA War or Military music) Would be useful as am currently attempting to recreate the Terminator Main titles with Realistic insturments like a real Brass insturment for example, using Vital, alongside 80s Synthesizers for stuff that doesn't need to be realistic Also alongside making a Trumpet that can be more realistic by being able to do the different ways of playing or just anything that'd make it sound even more realistic, since i'd image it'd be possible

[@EricBowman]

Have you checked out my "realistic brass" tutorial? It's my most popular video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foikcqeha6yjnK8 You could make the brass sound more militaristic by turning down macro 2 (attack time). For woodwinds, Jazen sounds already has a great flute tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYfYnWaugNhqrqM I have a clarinet in my preset pack that I may make a tutorial for at some point. The other orchestral woodwinds are double-reed instruments which I haven't figured out yet. I don't hear any woodwinds in the first Terminator main theme though. I only hear an English horn or an oboe in the 2nd Terminator theme. Another good option is the free Spitfire BBC Symphony Orchestra samples: www.spitfireaudio.com/bbc-symphony-orchestra-discover Less control but more realism.

[@leobaker-tf2andmusic520]

@@EricBowman yea i know there isn't any of that in the original theme, as the original uses Electronic Violin and some kind of Synth Brass, am basicly trying to take the song and make it sound more realistic in certain ways, by adding some other sounds or using others to give it more of that Human sound on some insturments and more of the Technology sound on others

[@JessecahRustand]

can you do a video on how to make the buzzy wubby sounds like canabliss? like her song Crique plzzzzzz 😭

[@Jean_2000]

thanks :)

[@bluecheesemints9208]

could you recreate the Jordan Rudess 'snarling pig' bass sound? i've been trying to get there for a while but i already know you would just use your magic to somehow know exactly what to do edit: you could use Dream Theater's 'root of all evil' as a referance track

[@EricBowman]

Sounds like a saw wave going through a band pass filter, then distortion, then a phaser with high feedback, then another distortion. I hope that helps

[@bluecheesemints9208]

@@EricBowman just tried your suggestions and wow! i put a saw through a dirty band pass as the first distortion so i could use the effects distortion later, then followed everything else as you said and tweaked around with extra oscillators and it sounded so good so fast, thank you so much

[@EricBowman]

@@bluecheesemints9208 Nice! I'm glad it worked.