Intro to Synthesis Part 3: What's A Filter? | Reverb Learn To Play

In this Intro to Synthesis lesson, Justin will explain how to understand filters. Filters help you shape your sound and give character and color to your work, and you'll be off to a fine start after you have the chance to take some notes. See you again next week with a new lesson.
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[@THEQueeferSutherland]

This series is awesome. I just turn knobs like an idiot til I find a cool sound, it's good to know what all that crap actually means.

[@liamjjg]

Lol we've all been there 😂

[@internet_user1131]

it's same the for artists too (not me). richard d. james (aphex twin) has even made a collab album called "expert knob twiddlers" 😂

[@gunnerlogan4664]

You prolly dont care but does someone know of a tool to get back into an Instagram account?? I somehow forgot my login password. I would appreciate any tricks you can give me

[@malikjase4416]

@Gunner Logan instablaster =)

[@gunnerlogan4664]

@Malik Jase Thanks so much for your reply. I found the site thru google and Im in the hacking process now. Takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.

[@thirteenonline9503]

Please continue this series! I understand all the functions of a basic synth but I want a video explaining how to use those tools to make the sounds I have in my head. So could you make videos of you maybe listening to a sound like a violin or another synth and then recreating that on your synth. That would be a gamechanger for many people

[@HeadphoneTarnish]

check out syntorial.com if you want that

[@robertminnis6540]

I love that this guy makes the same intense yet pleased face when he turns a synth knob that my dad makes when he shows me a new guitar lick lol.

[@jaykhan7119]

Just by watching your expression when you use those effects, I can tell that you really love what you do hahaha

[@rafsbio]

This is by far the best and most useful series of videos on Reverb. Well done!

[@jacksonkerr2095]

At 3:45 you can hear the second, higher tone running through the overtones in the harmonic series. First it's an octave, then a fifth, a fourth, a major third, a minor third, etc, getting smaller and smaller in increments as you go higher and higher.

[@Ponk_80]

Thanks for sharing this information, I had a hard time finding anyone explaining this stuff.

[@theresasayanara5565]

Thank you so.much for these priceless classes! I am just getting into synth. I play keyboard and always wanted to adventure into the world of electronica. I have always wanted a 1970s Hammond like the girl from the Lost Sounds, with Jay Reatard. Very cool music from Tennessee!🎉 I am also writing a rock opera and I want to venture into the unknown. It's a cosmic terror. Science fiction fun!

[@benwearne542]

I understand what keytrack is now finally. Thank god

[@nicolasbassano3697]

To include Mr Delay’s corner on the four viewport was the right call from the director.

[@stoatystoat174]

Thank for Resonance explained clearly

[@bitlong4669]

Just started getting into synth as I’m trying to learn more about electronics and sounds… this series is great!

[@trevordeke]

I am really enjoying these videos. I've been playing guitar for 30 years, but just started to get into synthesis. If you are taking requests, I'd be beyond excited to see you do a couple of videos on how to imitate classic analog sounds- I've been trying to cop Rick Wright's sounds on "Welcome To The Machine" and sort of failing. I enjoyed your video on how to get the "Stranger Things" soundtrack sounds. Do a whole bunch! You're really great at it!

[@purestspiritualpigs]

Thanks for producing such informative and to the point tutorials.

[@SoulMotivationRecords]

These videos are so awesome. Clear and simple to understand. I am learning so much. Thank you!

[@dude5skater]

Love this series! Please keep the vids coming!

[@tibetbukan8360]

I'm watching this while using the same synth on FL Studio. Really useful! Thanks a lot Reverb

[@jarrelwilliams8281]

Best synth class on KZbin 💯

[@brentonevans5317]

Awesome series on synths! Really helped drive home some concepts for me. Thanks so much!

[@elijahlanning1762]

I love this series. Keep it coming

[@Petterballs]

These sweeps gave me a Plantasia vibe. Awesome album. Nice vid Reverb!

[@dansguitarheaven]

Thank God you came out with this. New at Synths, the Instruction manuals just don't get into this. Can't wait for the next one.

[@PanditaP]

I love how you mimic the sounds with your mouth. I do the same 😂

[@beschorner-creative]

Great Series. I wanne buy an Korg Minilouge and these are the best basics to learn. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!

[@sheepsy]

This is excellent. Thank you.

[@frenchismexican]

these videos are mad helpful. thank you!

[@rexel666]

Great tutorial series. Thanks.

[@ryanvd7587]

casually has a Juno 6 lmao

[@TheSoundConnoisseur]

Dude thanks for these Videos!!!

[@DaveStutts]

This is so good.

[@nestoroid]

Great explanation!

[@djantiwar]

realy great lessons thanks !!!!

[@gurbeats1102]

Very good video I learned a lot from this video

[@patrickdunn717]

Hi. Love these videos, perfect for a complete noob - especially when confronted with virtual synthesis on programs, with no knowledge or experience of actual synthesis. Howrver, I'm confused about the dfference between the two seperate wave-analysers you show. also i'm confused about resonance. am I right to think that you're cutting off the higher frequencies (effectively higher notes within the note) - only to then increase the volume of some of the mid freaquences? effectively creating a sort of chord? I'm clearly confuse haha.

[@djsarumawashi]

Great!!! Cheers

[@zianniorange3646]

Thank you so muchhhh

[@vladv5126]

Hey man, nice shot!

[@kendo5862]

Tip: awesome vid and loved it but leave a teaser of the awesome sounds at the start to make sure people listen all the way through as "the masses must hear your message" (unfiltered?)

[@stoatystoat174]

I recomend "The most mind-blowing concept in music (Harmonic Series)" on Andrew Huang KZbin chanel. Makes the action of Filters eassier to visulise.

[@klinkske]

Very nice vids. now clean the dust of the synths...

[@patrickdunn717]

Also .. when you talk about the unique quality every synth has due to the specific design/functionality of the filter - Does this mean that if using software, and confronted with a ton of different synths - that I can test out synths when searching for the general sound I'm looking for? In other words, is a single note on a default synth gonna share a certain quality to the notes that you've modulated no matter what you do? Or is it just more complicated than that? I hope I've explained my question well enough.

[@GuyNoirPrivateEye875]

This is the only 6 part series that I have seen that has almost the same amount of views on each part, usually plays just drop after part 1.

[@ericotto314]

nice sweep

[@weirdskyreallyweird.5519]

we seriously gonna ignore that a guy who works for a company called reverb has the name DeLay?

[@victorsaavedra6595]

wait a second

[@hannahnaff]

This was my very first thought and the very first comment at the top of the pile hahaha. DeStiny.

[@matiasmoulin2126]

I think it's not ignored, it's just an old joke :-)

[@JSRF420]

I could google this.... But, what if it is just an editor/artist name? like a title??

[@austinalexandre716]

he’s just in delay

[@brilliantFlame]

I just love this guy and his lessons but I can swear, after you watch "Friends" season 4 episode 7 (yes, that is the one where Ross played the keyboard) you begin looking at him from a WAY different perspective hahaha

[@abcdefgjklmnopqrsuvw]

Links to the individual synths in the vids would be cool.

[@JeanSuki]

first 3 are: Korg MonoPoly, Moog Model D and Roland Jupiter 8

[@GMMStrat3]

Google is your friend

[@edrosa3485]

What the heck? You forgot the MS20!!!

[@travelertaylor]

Prophet 6

[@stephenstrang590]

@ArcaneAudio Sadly this is true, but hipsters do not own these. Musicians own them, if you know about this stuff you live and breathe music. I like to say, hipsters like bands, artists like music. Musicians make music. It's that simple.

[@curlyman6000]

Are there any books/texts/articles you've sourced in these Synthesis videos or would recommend?

[@JeffBlaine]

The mouthing of the synth at 5:00 =)

[@whiteninja2006]

Holy KZbin Video Compression, Batman!

[@Hardwork0407]

What plugin are you using to view the signal? I have Waves PAZ Analyzer, but it does show the signal like what you’re using.

[@kennyecheverry5684]

what program do u use to output the signal?

[@fantombouquet]

kinna got that wah vahbe

[@juanfelipegaravitobarrios8633]

0:39 1:15 1:52 3:10 4:59 7:11 8:24 10:07

[@marcojacobs9821]

Hi, I hope somebody can help me. At the 9:11 mark he plays a note that sounds like chord. How do I set that up?

[@plaidsnails3755]

This would be super cool if it was an actual course you could take a your university.

[@rafaelikenaga]

Overtones are only created upwards?

[@MyachiTipsandTricks]

the juno-6 was not used for stranger things. there's a whole video with the producers of the stranger things scores and they say "yeah everybody thinks we used the juno-6, but we don't even own one of those"

[@sergeyvoznyuk1176]

11:08 nice

[@koban4egg]

Mr. Delay from Reverb, right?

[@stephenstrang590]

Stay till the end.

[@VladQuake]

Is your last name really delay?

[@russellromine1810]

Wait, are you trying to tell me your last name is Delay?? Reverb, delay, filters, it's all subliminal here.

[@Acronso]

7:11 I'M FRIGHTENED

[@sychonautica8344]

How do I recreate the sound at 11:30?!

[@STA-3]

Add some detune

[@plantdaddy3420]

I just wonder what Karlheinz Stockhousen had say about this... ;-)

[@janpieternieman5295]

Justin Reverb from Delay.Com

[@sychonautica8344]

In the real world I could barely afford a $200 synth.

[@roadto1millionsubswithnovi825]

funny coincidence that his last name is delay.

[@mandoaries]

That facial expression at 7:15 was creepy

[@fantombouquet]

kinna got that wah vahbe