How To Synthesize Realistic Water

[@Amfivolia]

Hi everyone! I hope you enjoy the video - just a couple notes: I understand people have different learning styles, and some may find it more helpful to see the project file or something of that sort. While I won't share the file due to optimization reasons and some third party plugins.. if I get enough requests, I'll probably upload an unlisted video of me just going through the Ableton project. However, I still prefer to make videos in this style since it illustrates the importance of analysis and my approach The other short thing is that this visual at 5:53 isn't totally accurate; so keep that in mind, but I have the paper I'm referencing linked below for those that are curious :)

[@IPSYLON]

it''s safe to say - now you have one request for a project file

[@dahahaka]

Glad you corrected the part at 5:53 :D i was about to comment, but optimization reasons?

[@lydonjr__]

Phenomenal video. The problem is not about learning styles.Their problem is that you're explaining this concept too low level for the high level folks to understand it fully without very basic visual direction - hence why people may want to see your project file(s). For people who want something closer to a live tutorial, this video is too similar to a research-paper and less like a Veritasium video (for kids to adults).

[@mimisaiko]

Would love to hear you talk about the nuances about acoustic & Reverb more!

[@Amfivolia]

@@dahahaka it was more-so that I needed to get to other sections of the video before I could spend extra work there, as I wanted to get this video out before things got very busy for me

[@danielfromyesterday]

this is a freaking research paper 🔥

[@ilyandilymusic]

This is absolutely absurd. Your sound design videos are such a stand out among everything else available online. Stunning work brother.

[@frederiklenk7756]

You could genuinely make a museum exhibition with this. Combine BIOTA with this and set up surround sound speakers. I was in an exhibition that was just a dark room playing recordings from a glacier with contact microphones and it was amazing. Yours could also transport people to other worlds and places. You'd probably need to add a bit more variety to the sounds from biota before as you can kinda hear that its synthesized but man I'd be stoked to find that in a museum either way

[@EulogyfortheAngels]

As a profesional artist (painting), this is the most inspired I've been to learn synthesis. It's like you're painting landscapes and portraiture with audio! Love your work.

[@myNoiseDotNet]

I was surprised to see that Xenobiota on myNoise had more views lately. Then I found this video, which even refers to our past conversation. That is so kind of you. All the credit goes to you though-the superimposition trick is an easy one compared to your hard work. Your video is another gem. I also like the idea of simply analyzing sources through their spectrogram. How many times have I tried to find the correct pitch envelope to emulate a sound by ear when the answer is right there in plain sight in a spectrogram? Please keep doing your fantastic work and keep inspiring us!

[@Amfivolia]

@@myNoiseDotNet Thank you and of course! Certainly, I think the stacking was the last big step missing. And because I was so focused on the synthesis/midi stage, I'm not sure if I would have come to that conclusion myself. Thank you for the kind words, and indeed spectrograms are my life support!!

[@MARAASIM]

Those 7 dislikes must be from hydrophobic people.

[@Amfivolia]

@@MARAASIM lmaoo

[@TachyBunker]

This is an amazing dive into natural sounds synthesis. You could try creatures with big vocal cavities like lions !

[@leonsubbotsky6087]

Please do that. I'd say dubstep growls is the way to go for that initial sound

[@CALKULTIK]

Fancy seeing you here

[@TachyBunker]

@@CALKULTIK ya bet

[@ElijahBerg0011]

The visuals are soooooo insane wthh

[@TookTooMuch-bb6hu]

The fact that I'm allowed to watch this for free is amazing

[@mjaysathyamusic]

Brilliant. Your content is redefining the landscape of instructional music production videos on KZbin. It truly sets the bar. 🙌

[@sonicstate]

Superb video 👏Shared on Sonicstate today!

[@Amfivolia]

@@sonicstate thanks! 💙

[@alterednoisemusic]

Playing one of your videos and just getting lost into your sound design process brings me pure joy, man. You’re an absolute genius.

[@toavnwub]

you're insane

[@justcama]

Amazing !!!

[@Amfivolia]

@@justcama 💚💚

[@sdjhgfkshfswdfhskljh3360]

Surprisingly high quality content for modern KZbin.

[@ohlssonster]

I nominate this video as the best sound design tutorial on the internet

[@laptopdj]

And I thought I can deeply get into things. Clearly I was wrong. Hats off to you Good Sír!

[@NicodemusParadiso]

Can you set up a Patreon for your natural/biomimicry synthesis projects? It would be great to have access to Ableton files and other tools you're using, if you were interested in sharing them.

[@Amfivolia]

Thank you so much!! I am seriously considering doing this as I've been getting more requests for it, I will have to probably make tweaks to the projects to make sure people can run them and not need a bunch of external plugins, so it might take some time Thanks again, I'll let you know if I set up a patreon! :)

[@ardkok9483]

This is a great idea, i would support for sure!

[@iamliketowhat]

@@Amfivoliadude, awesome tutorials, Im absolutely mind-blown as for non-abletone user, I understand what are you synthesising but it’s mostly impossible to recreate things in different DAWs that’s not a big issue, cuz I could download Abletone and if there were any projects you post on Patreon and mix it with interesting synthesising techniques, you’d be my first ever blogger to be subscribed there. If the price is quite reasonable and yet helps you to live very well, you’d be a gem❤

[@nannue]

The amount of construction behind this very media is simply flawless and of course, the information that is being said here is absolutely spot on. Your content is great. Thank you!

[@turnerburton]

Would love to see you analyze something like creaking wood. What makes it sound like that? What are we actually hearing? Thanks for the great videos, really impressive stuff.

[@Amfivolia]

I want to do a deep dive on foley sounds like that in the future! Since I think there would be a lot of similarities between synthesizing creaking wood, ice breaking, leaves rustling, etc ..

[@adotMIDI]

Insane! I was attempting this exact project last weekend and after watching this I'm gong to have to scrap everything and start again😂Your work is on another level!

[@DJPastaYaY]

You clearly understand sound synthesis very well. Excellent tutorial 👍

[@A145]

Incredibly well made, amazing stuff!

[@kenroy916]

Dude you really have something here! This is insane! I would love to see something recreating animal sounds!

[@Amfivolia]

@@kenroy916 I have another video about sound designing ecosystems, where I did some birds, frogs, crickets, etc :) Though, I'd want to make some nicer sounding ones in the future

[@nolram]

First 5 seconds and I am already in awe at the sound design of the intro alone. Incredible work!

[@LeeGee]

Astonishingly fine work! Imma save this one, thank you!

[@geggveck]

Superb video. You actually put in the diligence which is required to replicate stuff accurately, which is quite rare in our field of sound design in general.

[@Parellwiiyums]

The fact I found this and it was updated 4 days ago... Amazing & lucky

[@alexanderkildahl3654]

I was just doing a project today where I needed this tutorial. What are the odds!!! Thank you so much for another amazing video, and for delivering everything in such a calm and understandable way!

[@KnotLõ-ADSR]

This is really impressive!! I've never seen anyone design water from scratch in midi.

[@OhNoPhoton]

Dude, Your sound design process has helped me in understanding synthesis and modulation automation more than any other video. I understand how long it must take to make videos like this, but I cannot wait to see more if you're continuing to make them!! I can't wait to start developing ecological soundscapes for either ambience in my tracks or for game sound design, thank you so much! I really cannot overstate how much your videos have helped my mindset.

[@perprerp]

Excellently designed and presented. Talent boi!

[@matteotonon]

This is absolutely incredible. Great job.

[@MusicEngineeer]

This sounds indeed very realistic! Great work!

[@RolandBossio]

Amazing work. Thanks for sharing, amigo.

[@1wertyuiop1wertyuiop]

thank you so much for this & the biota video, it's mindblowing and has got me fully immersed in sound design now

[@vardaanshah7167]

this is incredible-i was just trying to make some droplet sounds for a project im working on, and i was curious how you did it. you covered all that i knew in the first two minutes of the video 😅 congrats on making an exceptional video and project!!

[@SubhanArchived]

This video is an all around masterpiece! Amazing work!

[@vitaliikravchuk4202]

Absolutely inspiring! Thank you so much!

[@commentor5479]

This is so cool. You took the effort to share this with us through video too. I appreciate the work that you do!

[@eshkor101]

Amazing video. Good info, learned a lot and the quality of the video is amazing!

[@davidsalter815]

I feel humbled by your attention to detail. Superb work and I just had to sub to the channel as you have opened up synthesis concepts I have never considered.

[@Bingle-finds]

Procedural sound design would be an amazing tool to have in my back pocket as a game designer o:

[@Beatsbasteln]

Usually when I need a water drop sound a just put a massive pitch envelope on a tabla sample, but your water drops are on another level

[@alexanderobzherin]

Thank you for sharing your experience! It is both very valuable and inspiring!

[@maties_mercuri]

Stunning work and beautiful video editing, thanks for sharing all your process and sound design tips

[@Vitamin_Games]

This is truly impressive stuff! Awesome video~

[@aelamf]

sounds incredible

[@ephjaymusic]

An absolute thesis! ❤

[@itinerantghost]

Another gem! 👏These are so inspiring, friend! I really appreciate the time you take to break things down and explain both the reasoning behind the decision, but also what drives and inspires you to dive this deep! Bravo!

[@frequencymanipulator]

A majestic video. Thank you for sharing your insights.

[@tune_m]

I used to be obsessed with recreating bird sounds by drawing the envelopes I saw on a spectrogram. It's fascinating how you can recreate sounds that are created in one way in nature using simple oscillators. Ableton currently has some clever synthesizers built in for kicks, snares and some instruments, for example. Similarly, vowel filters (AEIOU) are created by amplifying the peak frequencies found in the spectrum of someone saying these. Really cool to see concepts like these being taken to the extreme! Thanks for sharing your knowledge :) I wouldn't be surprised if ML models for audio generation do something similar under the hood: create a spectrogram, detect band patterns over time and generate similar patterns using some generator.

[@dotuxil]

thanks for the water amflivious

[@radicant7283]

This is rad as hell

[@Kiwikairii]

This is amazingly well made thank you so much for this.

[@ristok4494]

Fantastic! Thank you for sharing!

[@doneyes]

If you start a series on advanced sound synthesis im here for it

[@Froxyze]

I just began music production on FL studio, and I must say thank you. I didn't even understand half the stuff you mentioned, but the words I heard will surely help me to learn more.

[@kcrosley]

Great video and an excellent example of physical modeling/practical synthesis! One approach to water noise synthesis that you might not have run across before is using a vocoder. Using different noise sources as the carrier and modulator for the vocoder (try, e.g., white noise for both, each with different types of filters on it) creates a running water sound that can be made to rush, burble, or trickle depending upon the color of the noise and additional filtering that you might apply to it. If you have a vocoder where the analysis and synthesis bands can be routed in different ways, you can have even more control over the timbre of the water sound. (BTW, one can also just use *the same* noise source for both the carrier and modulator.) The 16-band vocoder in the Nord Modular was perfect for this sort of thing.

[@Amfivolia]

@@kcrosley I have tried vocoders before! Indeed, it was actually the first way I thought of synthesizing it a year back, but I didn't like the result and felt it sounded too 'obvious', no matter the additional tweaking I may try again some day - cheers!

[@chimney3938]

incredible...

[@djazz0]

Dear Esther vibes, love it!

[@sharptrickster]

Thats mindblowing. Absolutely research paper material.

[@Voltraxfr]

this is actually insane

[@ringsystemmusic]

Will watch once i'm in a better place mentally. your videos are a rare treat.

[@Amfivolia]

Take care! I hope things feel better soon :]

[@ringsystemmusic]

@@Amfivoliathey do now lol

top notch video, going to explode the 10k subs

[@sportmodemusic]

so cool

[@imnosure]

damn, now that's audio design

[@ohyeahwooyeahwo1724]

this is invaluable. beautiful information presented beautifully.

[@vaaalsongs4867]

Incredibly useful stuff

[@victoriyebutemeh]

Yoooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! Wake up!!!!!!!! New Amfi video is up!!!

[@brotherdust]

I don’t even do sound design and I loved it. Inspiring! I’m going to try it in Bitwig! You got yourself a sub!

[@mourning-lamb777]

next level stuff

[@marekgabik2898]

Amazing how nerdish this tutorial is, I love it! Can I ask you what ableton skin do you use in this video? It looks very clean.

[@Amfivolia]

Thank you! I'm actually just using the default dark theme, but I did some color processing in Davinci Resolve

[@linusalexis]

incredible work

[@samcooku]

Fire video

[@FronbondiSkegs]

Excellent stuff

[@JuhoSprite]

Finally, pissing VST

[@MakePerceive2]

You never fail to amaze me. I would be interested to hear these approaches used in an abstract musical context where the goal is not to emulate natural phenomena, but to use them as a starting point in non-traditional music composition. For some reason I'm imagining a hardware device kind of like a rain stick, which uses gyroscope/accelerometer, and you can control various parameters of the sound live. Given the synthesised approach, you could probably embed the sound in the device itself, using a raspberry pi, Bela board or similar

[@Amfivolia]

I agree! I think some of these concepts are fairly abstract to begin with, and you could probably make some insane musical stuff this way. The background song in the first minute of the video is actually some generative thing I made, and there's a steel drum that generates kinda similar to the droplets. But I haven't tried anything too crazy with it Also that idea with the rain stick sounds awesome, it would be so cool to have more interplay between real / synthesized approaches of sound

[@ninjamnox]

😮 you are synthesis ❤

[@Landekar]

Very profound knowledge here, my man. You're pretty much doing what everybody else misses out on - tapping from the origin of the nature in how it fluctuates, recreate a seemingly simple concept with an absurd level of fractal complexity as it unfolds. There's a suggestion I want to hand out to you, judging that you're taking in nature and math for the fundamental: will you be reaching out for harmonic series? At large, most ambience is perceived by ears as noise, meaning they're not detected as a vibrating constant pitch-defined sound, so there's a huge demand for rhythmic, melodic and harmonic unraveling of the harmonic series. Otherwise, I'll let this all up to myself.

[@maqyk4648]

WOW WTF THE QUALITY

[@uuidaeiouyw]

This is nice. The setup is constrained enough that it would be interesting to see what an AI's approach to this would be.

[@jojojos5]

awesome mate! ive been making water sounds using the gate on melda's vocoder with like 100 bands! try it out !! eq'in the noise u use as the modulator you can choose where the vocoder gates open or not! try it out!

[@Xenodrail]

You are my sound design hero

[@ulrichgamingandmusic]

Very Impressive

[@mr.scruggs124]

You are truly the goat

[@license_________2________chill]

could also control density with a random midi device followed by pitch midi device set to block, if only one note needs to go through

[@license_________2________chill]

nice to see mynoise mentioned, I've been using that site for years, it's great

[@2L3L]

that's a great idea actually nice for preserving the velocity as well

[@Amfivolia]

true yea good idea :)

[@MiasmaMoogle]

you are a legend

[@thaDjMauz]

Incredible quality. I hope this standard won't wear you out, I can imagine it is incredibly labour intensive. If it does wear you out, I'd rather see you continuing with a lower standard than not continuing

[@igo9481]

oh ive been waiting for this day

[@983Ivans]

That's crazy, I wouldn't know it's synthesised if you didn't mention!

[@egeyurtsever1456]

DUDE this is incredible! I'm new to sound design and am learning the basics like plugins etc. This video is very intriguing but also slightly overwhelming for me. What roadmap would you suggest for me on my sound design journey, what tutorials and topics should i focus on, would be very happy to hear it from you since I'm a beginner. I use reaper and ableton 11. Amazing tutorial, SUBBED

[@Amfivolia]

I think in the beginning familiarizing yourself with your plugins, watching general sound design tutorials, and watching live streams of your favorite producers/sound designs working are good ways to learn! As for later down the road, working with other artists and reading up on lesser-known sound design techniques is a fun way to learn. Goodluck with your journey :)

[@WuddupDok]

Fantastic!

[@ArvidOlson]

Love these videos! Keep it up! Are you into Max yourself btw? If not, I'd recommend it. Seems very applicable to your work.

[@Amfivolia]

Yes! though haven't gone too far into it .. I plan to some day, since I have some ideas for new projects that would go by way easier if I could just build some max devices :) Thanks

[@RealCrafter645]

As a deaf person this sounds good to look at 😶

[@Pyroific]

this is so good!

[@ivylagray]

I think that would be especially great for video games. Thank you for that 🙏

[@giammona94]

This so so cool

[@Metal_Health_Worker]

what tool did you use to do the video? looks great! i would like to improve how i visually present my research results on conferences

[@Amfivolia]

I did the 3D visuals in Blender, and editing in Davinci Resolve - thanks!