How To Synth 1: Super Saws

[@nicholasfinelli7719]

Hey seamless, I just wanted to thank you. You are a great producer, but what makes you better is that you are willing to share you knowledge. Thank you for putting these tutorials up. It helps a lot.

[@IanStarGem]

a cool riser: make a rhythm that has just one note but you automate the pitch up another cool riser have notes slide downwards an octave every beat (then restart) but also automate the pitch up

[@jjbing3]

Great video. Im glad you're using Harmor. People who actually buy software know that not everyone has countless expensive plugins at their fingertips so it's good to show people how to do things with the native plugins. Respect!

[@Xenowave]

Absolutely!

[@JordanSchorMusic]

I've always been a sylenth kind of guy for stuff like leads but this has inspired me to use harmor for super saws. My god you made it look so easy

[@11Stormtrooper]

YES SYNTH TUTORIALS THANK YOU

[@LeviGuitar]

Chantaro (11Stormtrooper) nice to see a stormtrooper learning how to produce music :)

[@11Stormtrooper]

Haha, that's my old name though

[@asthmaticpathic]

Chantaro (11Stormtrooper) aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper

[@garkon]

Just stopping by to say thanks for everything Seamless! I appreciate you sharing your knowledge more then you know! Also, picked up your momentum EP a few weeks ago. 100% Love it. Guys, if you like his tracks on his youtube, do yourself a favor and buy one of his albums and download the high quality files. They just have that bit more clarity that doesn't come through streaming. Sounds so damn good. Worth the 7 bucks, hands down. Again, thanks seamless!

[@evilusers]

wow ive had harmor for quite a while already and never explored its true potential. since ive been watching these videos ive learned so much. thank you ! i feel like im attending an actual online lesson or an online course. gem

[@Jubbadubba]

I love with that newstuff track. And indeed: Those super saws are really well made. I think those are the best saws/chords i've ever heard.

[@DarkHero00100]

go to 6:46 turn subtitles on thank me later

[@abstractlight1620]

= )

[@medioxcore]

this is exactly what i've been looking for. breakdowns and theory of sound design and individual plugins. subbed. thank you!!

[@venturer9400]

Every time I look up something, this guy comes up with his tutorials on that exact topic.

[@electropocalypse5877]

This was extremely helpful. I noticed that I get an unpleasant humming sound in a couple instruments I made (bells and choirs) using Synth1. EQ helped the choirs but the bells are that way in all frequencies. I think things like chorus and flangers can cause it. I had to EQ the heck out of it, add amplification and put a low pass (low frequency) and cut resonance to take out the sound. Strangely, shortening the sample without changing pitch takes it out too, though it leaves a shorter bell sound. The original one has a very high frequency in the waveform in comparison and is much louder. Sound design is very fascinating that way how everything is cause/effect related and is measurable. Thanks for the great video and sorry to talk your ear off there. ^_^'

[@itsDeej.]

if you're going to use harmor for super saws remember to layer some white noise over it as well to get back the higher frequencies that harmor can't produce. it helps it sound a lot brighter. also the rand In the top left can help a lot if you're getting really phased saws and want them to sound even more blurred out. that being said I much prefer sylenth for saws because it's less precise than harmor tbh. it has a more organic less calculated feel to it that just gives it a warmer quality imo. I've spire is pretty good about that too, but I'm not sure because I haven't used it. also I wouldn't recommend massive for super saws. some people have probably figured it out but I have yet to hear really clean and full saws out of it that don't sound phasey

[@CurtisDominguezYo]

5:56 "Synthisisthisthis" *Plays note to skate over awkward pause*

[@mandokir]

Curtis Dominguez He plays the note to remind himself what he's doing. He's not shy on camera and pauses do not make him feel awkward. Maybe they make you feel awkward.

[@CurtisDominguezYo]

mandokir It was a joke, dude, I know how Seamless is...

[@mandokir]

Curtis Dominguez You are a joke.

[@CurtisDominguezYo]

mandokir Well that seems uncalled for.

[@FBuilding]

@@CurtisDominguezYo it totally was uncalled for. The case is finally closed. Cheers.

[@OfficialLRD]

Oh man I'm so happy you're starting a series like this! :D

[@tiigger]

im so glad you do what you do. don't stop ,you do it perfectly

[@TheParadox1010]

My supersaw tricks: Fast light vibrato adds a lot for doing very little. Notch filters are good :) A little bit of fast PWM is good too Blend changes a lot to the sound. A wave table with a little bit of movement is good. Distortion is nice. A little bit of Am and fm is swag! Key tracked Phase modulation, such as the stuff you can do in vital, kicks ass. Two detune voices of supersaw (tuned 10 to 40 cents away from original) that get modulated opposite is good. Layering harsher supersaws with more detune with less harsh ones sound nice.

[@44ValentinoReverent]

Been wanting a series like this!

[@Crazylrishguy]

YAAAASSSS, I've been waiting forever for synth tutorials. Thank you :D

[@unfa00]

These tutorials are very useful, I wish you'd make some more :)

[@alexi95luukkucom]

Finally!! Been waiting for these tutorials for 4 years. Because I didn't know how to make synth sounds I got nexus so I didn't need to know :D But after all I think I'm still going to continue using nexus as I'm too lazy to do sound design lol. At least after a few episodes I've got the basic knowlege if nexus somehow let me down

[@kanerin]

Seamless SENPAI !! Always Thank you.

[@shplosh6819]

I've always wanted a series on how to synths! My life is complete. Thank you Seamless!!

[@Quadr44t]

Great video again! Lol, I am still a few years behind, but slowly I'll catch up. ^^ Most of the mentioned stuff I gathered by messing around with synths etc. But I really like that unlike 99% of the How To's out there, you explain what is going on. Like the mention of phase. I think phase is one of the most important aspects in sound design (and mixing for that matter. In the form of delay and reverb) yet most people skip talking about it. I really like Synth1 for this kind of stuff. Tho it lacks a little control, a lot of the essential stuff is there. I really like its filter (which apart from ADSR, CutFreq, Reso. Has an envelope scaling-factor that also can go negative, Saturation, and key tracking. It also has detune at oscilator1. Detune with unison, and a chorus/flanger/phaser effect. Dunno it was the first synth I really played around with, so it's super easy to make a specific sound now. And that synthesizer defacto poops out amazing sounds (i don't know why but it's so eazy to get nice sounding synths with this one). But that is my problem. When in doubt, I always grab Synth1. I'd like to switch things around as not to fall in the trap of always making more or less the same sounds. Would you still say Harmor is worth learning to this day? Or has it become obsolete in the past 6 years? Cheers!

[@_Zack__]

New favorite series. Can't wait for more :)

[@liamamyot5608]

I loved your song truck puncher. It's now my most favourite song on the planet. Not even joking.

[@JarrenCrist]

I can't wait to see more of these, thoroughly enjoyed this.

[@natiimusic]

Hey seamless, can't wait for the rest of this series. I just wanted to let you know you're one of the best producers I've ever seen, you're super entertaining and I love your videos man. keep up the good work :)

[@szin]

So been looking forward to these! Thank.you.Mr.Sir.

[@jetlag1488]

Oooh nice. I've been waiting for a How To Synth series!

[@MrDisrupta]

Seamless I really like your video's i've learnt a great amount from them, so a big thankyou from me. I find your style of video to be the best on YT.

[@BrianSafdie]

Dude, you are awesome. 13 minutes just flew by!

[@mantisgaming]

nobody: SeamlessR: _makes beautiful supersaw in 25 seconds without thinking about it_ me: *Surprised Pikachu face*

I just want to say thank you. I learned so many things from you.

[@wolfetrax]

Please do more of these! I would love to have some more synths saved up, but all I do is make very similar sounding synths :P

[@jacobmalakian9872]

Dude thank you so fucking much man. Just finished a track Im really proud of thanks to your help. Keep these videos coming best FL tutorials on youtube!

[@nerdexproject]

Thank you SeamlessR I'm very excited about this new "how to"! :)

[@richardjacksxn]

You're a legend.

[@TimmySurvive]

So happy you have started this. Thank You!

[@otrapic]

I use serum for supersaws, but that is mainly because I don't have harmor. It does it's job pretty well :)

[@rageingdarkrai9923]

I dont have harmor so i was following along in sytrus. The 2 synths go hand in hand in some ways

[@yannismadu]

I just found out that the Panning, Pitch and Phase controls in harmour are the exact same in sytrus as well which is pretty cool

[@orangevanim1619]

Super satisfying super saws!

[@mBUSHattack]

Just got a super saw that sounds exactly like the start of dog fight and I got really excited.

[@tenmonkeyboogieman]

looking forward to thisss serieeess!!!!!

[@quatroflamez9236]

keeping doing these!!!!

[@enf.o.i.3382]

Awesome tutorial. Thank you!

[@madmanmikebelike6797]

"...it may sound kinda SYNTHetic..." damn , you are a comedian now!?

[@Geoxor]

You could've used serum to explain some unison things But its ok i understand everything well :D

[@nicodemosmusic]

thank you for great vid as always.

[@JoshuaN]

Have you ever considered doing a Production Basics on the concept of layering sounds? With super saws it's especially obvious since to create the initial sound you're doing a form of layering within the synth, but lush huge supersaws can also be 3 or 4 separate stacks of different patches, not to mention when layering samples together. When I first started out producing, I would have been saved quite a bit of grief if I had known that certain sounds had to be made from multiple synths/samples instead of getting endlessly frustrated with Massive or Analog.

[@daled94th]

More of this pls! 😁

[@glitchsystem2921]

This is dope!

[@gewoonpatatmayonais]

Hi seamless.

[@dugodugo11]

oh man i love this

[@vlogswithankitnayakvlogs]

Thanks for video

[@anthonydotmoe]

Thanks man!

[@_Gandalf_The_White]

00:43 omg dat sound

[@TechReflex]

Thank you.

[@EEKmusic]

love this!

[@DubstepOmniplex]

Got it in the first minute. Thanks

[@DaCashRap]

You have Fruity Limiter on your master channel. I've heard that it's important to turn it off, because it doesn't let you hear the original sound.

[@whyaskmenoely25]

Hartmann sometimes your signal goes batshit and clips. You either turn it down or use a limiter. A limiter is a nice temporary tool in that case, especially on the master as you add sounds together. Rather than worrying about whats too loud or clipping, its better to get all your ideas out first and worry about that later.

[@DaCashRap]

gotcha, thanks!

[@larryhull2752]

About time 😂

[@johanetsondragon]

Yeah, how to synth!!!

[@tuttuti123]

How to synth? Damn now I can grab this and make some sick houses

[@dementedpenguinz]

I like the JP6K plugin for my super saws

[@krisson3750]

Oh yes make more

[@unfa00]

Supersauce!

[@Andee...]

"super sauce" cant not hear that .-.

[@riftdnb]

Yes finally

[@yarospris5170]

How it best b4 image saws? Sytrus or Harmor Saws?

[@NavehHalperin]

Does anyone know the equivalent of "phase" in Massive? I have an idea but not totally sure. Thanks!

[@uzairmirza4080]

Idk if you'll ever read this but here's to hoping you do. I've been trying to master super saws for a while now and i know it sounds stupid but I've tried everything on 'Serum' so after looking at your tutorial and understanding the dynamics involved I still some f*cking how cant get it to sound that good. So I was just wondering if I could get your feedback on that? P.S: LOVE YOUR WORK, FL GOD 🔥

[@yannismadu]

Is there anyway to change the unison pitch thickness in sytrus using keyboard mapping like you can do in harmour?

[@joeybtheman1906]

thank you, sir :D

[@DJAY-DUBZOFFICIAL]

Awesome I've been looking for great video's explaining how to use synths in the correct way. Do you know any great hip hop and trap music synths and sample packs I should look into?

[@xrenynthemusicmage6422]

Well I didn't know that those chordstack saws were called supersaws. But how is there a supersaw wavetable in Hybrid 3 then?

[@RansomSubject_]

If i try to apply these how to synth tutorials to Sytrus would that be okay? Or any other free plugins i could use (I cant buy anything at the moment)

[@plk173]

How would I go about layering white noise with a saw in harmor, There is no way to generate it as far as I know

[@SeamlessR]

plk173 If you were dead set on using harmor, what I would recommend is turning the pitch mode over to hz mode (or oct mode. basically whatever the other mode from default is) and slapping the unison onto 9 voices with pitch and phase all the way up. It wouldn't be white noise exactly, but it would be similar.

[@plk173]

Thanks, havent thought of that. My main concern is to keep projects as light as possible, layering white noise with supersaws gives neat risers

[@egzongashi1831]

I did not understand the pitch function, please help

[@eriklucasmusic]

Do you think Harmor is "appropriate" for trance?

[@hex5156]

Seamless there are so many plugins I can use to make the sound that I want(massive, sytrus, harmless, etc). How do I know which one I want to use?

[@mojkanal8133]

Thank you for tutorial. How to use this sound? Is it for chords, of for leads/melodies?

[@Zekinhagc]

Hey Seam, nice video as always, could you sometime teach how to make guitar sounds like Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites?

[@SeamlessR]

Zekinhagc ... guitar sounds?

[@jokiboy9153]

Zekinhagc what are you on? there are no guitar sounds in Scary monster and Nice sprites? Just use FL Slayer

[@Zekinhagc]

So the lead in the intro is just a guitar sample? Okay then!

[@SeamlessR]

Zekinhagc There is nothing resembling a guitar in Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites. Are you sure that's the song you're thinking of?

[@Zekinhagc]

What about that guitar in Bad Intentions? Synthezied or sample? Sorry for my bad english im brazilian :)

[@officialdisox]

thank you.

[@dominickd16]

Can you do a video on reverb for stuff like super saws if you haven't already. That's my biggest struggle.

[@OmenAhead]

dominickd16 what do you want to learn? what I have seen so far is that fruity reverbs are not so good and you need to really know what you are doing to make them sound good :P I always feel that they miss something compared to 3rd party reverb plugins.

[@acecatman]

dominickd16 if you have reaktor, get laserbrew, it's pretty good

[@dominickd16]

Omen Ahead what I meant is like what are good methods used for main leads, how many reverbs should a project have etc I've heard that you only need 3 good ones in a project one being for main lead other being for misc sounds and another for maybe a plucky delay sound.

[@dominickd16]

Omen Ahead I also use arts acoustic reverb

[@OmenAhead]

dominickd16 valhallaroom is a good one but I still use fruity reverb 2 and built-in ones on massive and harmor :P it doesnt matter how many reverbs you have. what I do is, I make a channel with only 1 reverb plugin (100% wet, 0% dry) and route the cymbals (and maybe the snare) in it (and adjust their volume input accordingly) so at least they get the same reverb profile. From there I put individual reverbs on leads, maybe some basses to make them atmospheric or ambient and try to prevent it from sounding like there is a white noise generator. I think, in the end, it doesn't matter if you have used too much reverb on multiple instruments because you can always lower the wet/dry knob on the FX chain. Also, if you are going for an ambient sound, sculpting the reverb indiividually with seperate reverb plugins will give you more character to different elements and I suppose its good to do so :P sorry for the long reply but I like to help ppl when I can :)

[@DivGreener]

Aww... This was uploaded 10 minutes ago and I have to watch it on 360p because I just can't watch it later! Whyyyy?!

[@ImmortalPiyush]

ahh, finally learnt

[@SteveSalazar7]

Hardtyle's tutorials have been finished?

[@gilhushpond608]

It's not in my budget right now to get Harmor, can I do some of this stuff with Harmless?

[@nokkusuu]

Gil Hushpond Yeah, and you can do the same with Sytrus too.

[@IanStarGem]

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[@77NightshadE77]

damn you are awesome ;D

[@geraldtoaster8541]

Ayyyy

[@hier0phant336]

So does negative phase just serve to cancel out waveforms or do you actually "hear" it also?

[@dahool318]

Can you do a tutorial on how to make melodies?

[@jokiboy9153]

Best Pony You can't magically learn how to make good melodies from a tutorial.

[@dahool318]

ней алла хоппас нки гиллар мить трол конто T I know, but it would help me out

[@TheHappyNeudle]

He did a music theory video that you can learn from

[@dahool318]

Neudlez Whats it called? can i have the link?

[@TheHappyNeudle]

Best Pony if you look up seamlessr music theory im sure youll find it.

[@RD-ni7qe]

Out of curiosity - are there any other synths in the market which have similar sounding supersaws, particularly when using unison & detune?

[@nevevibes982]

i dont think massive is good for supersaws cz massive have that rawness to it and i think in my opinion we need warmth in supersaws so ifind serum spire and sylenth good for supersaws dont know about harmour never used it..

[@dagrozalgo8982]

What is a Golden Saw? I hear it alot but everytime I look it up, I don't find anything on it.

[@bitknight2336]

is this good for progressive house?

[@Recoveredmediaarch]

If it sounds good to you, then yes. It not, then no it's all up to you and what sounds good.

[@sirSHREDalot802]

how do you generally eq supersaws?

[@evanhockert3179]

+Kyle Gallagher Usually to your liking. A lot of times the lower frequencies of a super saw can interfere with basses and you might want to high pass the super saw if that happens. Also if you have many layers you could boost certain areas of each saw to make it sound less cluttered.