How To Synthwave

[@SynthwavePro]

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[@martinw.]

Nice bass line!!!

[@SynthwavePro]

Thanks, Martin!

[@davidallanmusic]

Really great tutorial. As someone else said, I can't believe this doesn't have more views. I'm certainly subscribing.

[@bpr154]

Great channel man. I've been playing rock and metal guitar for 30 years and found synthwave 10 years ago. Just started dabbling making my own songs recently. Thanks for all the effort you put into this!

[@rikursmusic]

Nice Tutorial. I learned a lot for My productions. Thank you.👍

[@DreamSimulated]

This deserves more than 3k views, very helpful! Thanks for this

[@SynthwavePro]

Thank you, Michael. Glad this was helpful.

[@friedcrumpets]

This was brilliant. Thank you for the breakdown; I've been struggling with making music at the minute and I feel so much better now. I put a formula together while watching and broke down what was going on. That Energy Bus as a visualiser is a great way to lay out a track and make sure you stay on track too. Would be great to see more videos like this.

[@SynthwavePro]

Glad this was helpful

[@AutPen38]

There are some arrangement tips in this video that I'd never really considered before. Good stuff, cheers!

[@SynthwavePro]

Thanks Arty. Hope this was helpful.

[@anthonydahl5454]

Your music craft is really great. It's really amazing that you share all your knowledge! Thank you very much !

[@SynthwavePro]

You're welcome

[@domklein]

Nice one Jules.

[@SynthwavePro]

Thanks for stopping by, Dom!

[@analogpro7]

Man… I wish I saw this a year ago. Inspires plus knowledge. Thanks so much!!

[@SynthwavePro]

Thanks for commenting. Hopefully it was helpful

[@Alfernav]

How do you add your drum parts? Each hit at a time? 👀

[@SynthwavePro]

Pretty much one hit at a time. 🙂

[@abdullahsali899]

Great details and summaries bro. Keep going.

[@SynthwavePro]

Thanks for the encouraging words!

[@Todzi.3D]

Hey, nice video ! 😎 But i don't understand how your ghosts notes on the bass line (under the Bass Chill 6:19) make some gate effect on one note each time (the four transparent ones), while the four colored ones make some kind of LFO effect. I am a beginner and english is not my native langage, so i hope what i said was understandable 🐍 Thx you a lot for your time

[@SynthwavePro]

Hi John, those bass notes are resampled bass notes from the original bass line. I've just done a video on resampling that you can watch here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXm6knifnqlmnqM Although it's not specific to bass instrument, it still showcases the power of resampling. I might make another video tutorial on this in the near future. Hope this helps.

[@Todzi.3D]

@@SynthwavePro Awesome, thx you, i will watch it ! 🐍

[@cosmic_v]

Love these tutorials!

[@SynthwavePro]

Thanks, Victoria! Loved your Trapped in a Corner cover.

[@beverleyannwright8785]

Really helpful stuff, subbed 👍

[@SynthwavePro]

I'm glad this was helpful.

[@freethinkers-inc.]

Great video and very energetic song. I love it.

[@SynthwavePro]

Thank you, Paddy for stopping by.

[@slimyelow]

Wow. I never picked up on some of these subtleties when listening to Synthwave tracks.

[@semyonboyk0]

Great tutorial, thank you for sharing

[@SynthwavePro]

Thanks for stopping by!

[@slimyelow]

The Alan Parsons Project was excellent at fleshing out songs with these techniques.

[@SynthwavePro]

Just might go down the rabbit hole in regards to The Alan Parsons Project. So much music, so very little time. 🙂

[@rayanrebeihi9212]

Hi there and thank you for your tutorials, I enjoy the clarity of them, and having you getting to the point straight away! Although I have a something that has always prevented me of adding more layers like shown, how do you manage the octaves with those layers? Can the lead play on the same octave as the pads for example? Does an arp always has to be played on higher octaves? Is there any general rule on how to proceed?

[@SynthwavePro]

Thanks for the comment. When adding layers, you can always thin out established layers to accommodate new layers For instance, you can remove notes from a chord to thin out a pad that is being layered. Leads can play in the same range as pads, especially in the event the pad has been low-passed while the leads higher harmonics are accentuated via eq, saturation, exciters etc... Or play them an octave higher... Ultimately, there seems to be no general rule. When soloed, some elements likes pads, leads and additional layers may seem anemic when you cut out a lot of the frequency ranges to make space in a mix but can sound great when playing simultaneously.

[@rayanrebeihi9212]

​@@SynthwavePro Thank you so much for the advices, I think the point I wasn't getting was that it is simply choosing what instruments to emphasize specifically during certain sections. I was feeling stuck for quite a while on that thing so really, thank you for clarifying it! ✌✌

[@ANGELLUXURYCODE]

The best synthwave 😉👌

[@SynthwavePro]

Thanks, Angel!

[@rayderrich]

I hope this great tutorial is not just to advertise for your paid course. I loved your thoughts and would very much welcome more tutorials. Thanks a lot.

[@SynthwavePro]

Hi Rayder, Thanks for dropping a comment and thanks for becoming a subscriber. The KZbin tutorials are here to share some insight into production techniques that have taken me years to develop. I also get to share my passion for Synthwave music with others and hope that they make improvements in a shorter period of time. While I try to deliver useful techniques to the KZbin community, a paid course goes well beyond the scope of KZbin as it's literally 17 hours of content with 100s of tips, tricks and techniques. It would probably take me 3-5 years to share all of those tips in bite-sized KZbin videos. Moreover, a lifetime membership to a paid course also means that I get to spend more time with the members where I have the honor of listening to their tracks, mixes and share music related ideas - not to mention giveaways, perks and downloads. Although I'm aware that a paid course isn't for everybody, it is however a great way to learn songwriting from the ground up. Thanks for letting me know you'd like to see more tutorial. More tutorials are on the way :-)

[@rayderrich]

@@SynthwavePro I totally understand your point of view, and would never want to negatively comment on a paid course itself. I realize you put a lot of learning time into getting there and do not ask to give it all away. I was just hoping for more tutorials besides your paid material. It would of course benefit me but you as well, as you can grow a large community around the tutorials, a community that might be into the paid stuff. I wish you the best and thank you for your videos and responses.

[@joseantoniogutierrez2897]

Hello friend, do you have a musical project that you can share, in addition to your good tutorials, I really love your way of producing synthwave

[@SynthwavePro]

Thanks, Jose. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnfTkGN3hcicj8k I'll post more shortly.

[@bluesydiamond]

🆂🆈🅽🆃🅷🆈 💙

[@TheSpeedyr6]

Is synthwave whiite music

[@SynthwavePro]

Music is music.... if so, I've been listening to "white music" since the 80's lol