Intro to Synthesis Part 5: How to Use Amp Envelopes and Filter Envelopes | Reverb Learn To Play

How do you create "reversed guitar" using envelopes? In this installment of Intro to Synthesis, Justin DeLay is on hand to show us some fun tricks and techniques that you can achieve using envelopes, shaping and sculpting your sound to really extend your sonic reach as a synth artist.
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[@saam6768]

this series has been beyond helpful. Thank you Reverb and Justin.

[@LinoPaparone]

thanks reverb and delay ;) :D

[@kocydxii2103]

The whole time I was just throwing the cat against the wall ..praying something would sound good without knowing jacksht .. thanks man for giving me some clarity

[@AlexBallMusic]

Very well explained. Helps visualise what's happening.

[@dbruce581]

That explanation of how the Filter Envelope value relates to the difference between max and min cutoff.....and ties into ADSR settings was really great. Thank you!

[@ceounicom]

even as someone who has messed with synths for 2+ decades, i found this helpful. Justin has the natural ability to explain things clearly in the way of someone who recently discovered 'how these things work' recently themselves. They still find it interesting, and so its not hard to make it interesting for others. Kudos.

[@Mark-James-Thomas]

He’s just demystified synthesis for me!!! Hallelujah St Justin! 🙏🏼🎹

[@jacksprat3009]

Great series. Justin is a pretty good teacher because he explains as if you are just learning the subject. Many teach by showing what they know, how they know and if you don't know, you're only catching bits and pieces until the brain says, "Let's do something else because this is only making chaos up here." I'm stopping here at 5, because my brain is full and needs to digest this before it can add any more. (Burp...)

[@danasellers561]

Love this deep dive into how a volume envelope works, and how to push it to make weird and different sounds including extreme staccato and reverse shape, and explained very clearly why it's sounding the way it does. Great teacher. Here for a refresher, but still learned something new! Awesome job!

[@dongoodrich918]

The best all round explanation of seen on this subject

[@Matt-sb1bm]

5 years late to the party but as a guitar player who likes to add a bit of synth to my songs, this has been great. Thank you!

[@alexcr5276]

this series plus the free Minimoog Model D iPad app during these COVID-19 isolation days has been an absolute relief. Thank you Justin so much!

[@muffollo]

Love how it shines through how much he enjoys to make even those simple sounds.

[@akiraishu4453]

Tom Hardy really knows his synths. Thanks!

[@ratikanto]

You are a keen observer , and so is Tom hardy

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

Also never comes out of character with the American accent....

[@ibrahimkenderian4479]

this is the best explanation I've ever seen til now ... can't thank you enough for not only explaining the details in a super efficient way but for making a huge effort to deliver those concepts for free ... Thank you very much

[@leliel.online]

I've never been exposed to the synthesizer world, but I have always wanted to learn and this series has proven to be one of the best, if not the best, on KZbin. I've learned so much in just a single day of watching than I have in my entire life. Thank you so much, Justin.

[@efenty6235]

ngl this episode is really pushing the envelope

[@DSWL_]

😏 i see what you did there

[@jorgenn]

Thank you, finally, I understand that Envelope knob.

[@jmkmusicpedals]

I opened this video, saw that it was 11 minutes and I was like, "I'm not watching all of that". 11 minutes later I'm like, "Wait, it's over?"

[@ozo1489]

Thank you so much for this!! Well explained. I will keep coming back when I lost

[@ohleevyay]

I always had trouble understanding synthesizers and how they work. But seeing the visuals and how certain things affect the sound made it such a big help. Thank you!

[@benwearne542]

I always thought of a filter as a wall that the sound hits. Now I just think of it as a modulator. Thank you sir!

[@velveterre]

Your Intro to Synth series has been so helpful, Thanks for your clear instruction and visual aides!

[@baranysos]

Thank you for the great explanation of filter envelope. It makes sense now!

[@recap_after_use]

It literally can't be explained better than that. Thanks.

[@TheCheeriosMan]

Two years old but still so helpful today. Thanks so much for making these. I’ve been playing with VCV Rack for a bit and this helps iron out some questions I’ve been having on shaping the sounds in terms of that relationship between filter vs amp envelope,

[@witherwillowsounds3935]

Very helpful, as always. You explain things in a way that's very easy to understand. Please do more of these!

[@ViniciusVA1]

incredible!! this series has just been my foundation for starting doing synth :) thank you a lot

[@jthomaslambert]

Amazing series but this episode in particular has been instrumental in helping me with the minilogue xd. Thank you!!!!

[@neonpop80]

Omg my JX08 is finally making sense. Thank you

[@Vimana]

It was nice to see such a well presented and informative video about the subject. Using an envelope especially to control the filter's cutoff frequency is always important to get a livelier sound. I'd just like to point out that you can only get the sound between 9:35 and 10:05 when you have a synthesizer capable of oscillator sync. Some of you might be wondering why it sounds different to a normal pitch change. Anyway, that's a very good and useful example of how to use an envelope to change an oscillator's pitch because that's exactly how to get some of those classic osc sync sounds as well... Good job!

[@VibeXplorer]

Well done and helpful video. While watching, I had an epiphany to think of an envelope as controlling "the hand" that is adjusting the target knob of the envelope. So, the amplifier envelope is controlling the hand that is twisting the volume knob. The filter envelope is controlling the hand that is twisting the filter cutoff knob, etc. The envelope is telling the hand how quickly and how far to twist the knob up or down in value.

[@sidpackard8613]

This is a great series, but this episode is particularly amazing. Mind blown! Thanks, Justin!

[@dariogatto4042]

Such a good series. Thanks!

[@Voorneman]

Your explanations are golden.

[@PaulRdbPk]

Amazing series, really clear, I really enjoyed it.Thanks for bringing such quality content ! :D

[@homejib]

Just came across this and it's a really great explanation. Thanks!

[@Megallicafan18]

the filter envelope part helped me so much, thanks!

[@utubelica]

so good at explaining these difficult things, thanks:)

[@leifahnland43]

Thank you eversomuch for this great explanation, i really struggled with this enveloping business :)

[@mtbrogue88]

Brilliant! Thank you so much! this will be my go to place! You've made something that was so hard for me to understand to something that I can grasp! Thanks again!

[@djsarumawashi]

Learned a...LOT!!! Thank you. Cheers

[@paultorbert6929]

Thanks Justin !!!!

[@jaredmarshall9439]

Great series. Really helped give me a refresher as i dive back into attempting sound design lol.

[@TDC10000]

Lovely clear and helpful explanation, thank you very much!

[@s3nsec0rruptr80]

The best way I've heard filter envelopes described is from loopop, who describes it as a way to automate turning the knobs like with a little robot hand. The envelope controls the speed and amount controls how far it turns the knob. Regardless, thank you for the lesson, I've only used AD filter envelopes and am looking at a pro 1 so I'm trying to get a feel for adsr envelopes beforehand

[@youtubenatan]

Thank you so much man. This really did help alot.

[@Chivalrics]

Dude, thanks so much for this. I feel like I'll be revisiting this as I playa round with the a synth, but this is such a good explanation.

[@Renaxelo]

thanks for explaining this very clearly

[@New_Zealand_Music]

Awesome videos thank you so much mate thoroughly appreciated learning so much thank you

[@matiasmoulin2126]

Justin's the best!

[@darz-k]

..and then his name is DeLay! Brilliant! ..great vid and info.. ..mucho recommended

[@JoeCarterDesigns]

First? Cool series! Thanks Reverb folks!

[@sukhWins]

Thanks alot for this series really helpful

[@domenicotuttolomondo3181]

extremely good explanations

[@Bolle128]

Real useful! Thanks so much

[@abhishekbijlwan5324]

thanks a lot man.. I was really trying to understand what is actually happening.. and there I found you :)

[@esmoroglu]

Very educational, thank you.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@JamesBermingham]

Super descriptive ✅👏👏👏

[@ManCalledMif]

great series of videos. thank you for the excellent explanations ❤️🧘🏼‍♀️😃🌈 learning a lot from these videos.

[@maverick792]

This is gold.

[@SebastianTinajero]

Synthesizers are amazing machines

[@straydog8843]

This is so good and helpful

[@ASLUHLUHCE]

Excellent video

[@jerosta]

Great explanation!

[@RogerioValgode]

This is good stuff!!! Thanks 👌😃

[@musicpoetichk7556]

Very helpful! Thanks!

[@GavinMcAuley]

yes this is pretty good, pretty neat! thank you

[@ciatangallaghe2485]

I find these great.

[@andreasoberg2021]

Thanks man. I was confused with the envelop for the filter. It helps to understand that it is an ADD operation. I guess F+A*E

[@rg533able]

Great video. Thanks

[@thetardis5763]

Best description of envelope effect on a filter I've come across. If you would, what are you using for the oscilloscope display? Thanks for this excellent series!

[@FakeGlasses]

This was very helpful

[@realastrology3976]

You saved my life here

[@roygertel]

Genius !

[@user-mt2vr6cz6f]

great video ^^

[@buzzandjim4265]

Good shhit.. very useful.. love it. Thanks

[@ElijahMoore-Restfulnights]

great video

[@insidesound]

I owe You Man !

[@flowinzmusic7164]

very useful

[@evg5360]

Спасибо очень познавательно

[@thomasnikzakrzewski4477]

Very helpful. I really appreciate your use of the spectrograph with your explanations. Am I correct in understanding that the baseline from which Attack begins and Sustain ends is the filter at "no cutoff", the peak of the Attack is whatever cutoff you initially set PLUS the EG Intensity, and the Sustain is whatever you set the cutoff to initially?

[@oscarrodn]

Hahaha the movement of his head was really illustrative at min 4:06

[@Killxxxtits]

good shit!

[@yousa1524]

thanks!!!!!!

[@FearzEnemy]

i low how literally everytime he plays the synths he looks like hes getting lost in the sound lol

[@rimazzz333]

how can somebody be so cute and helpful all at the same time

[@jamesperez6964]

The whole paradox with the increasing frequency when the envelope filter setting is turned up has to do with the fact that a widening envelope increases the amount of time for constructive interference to occur with the low frequency source, producing a higher frequency.

[@BOTTOM432]

Cool

[@patrickdunn717]

So helpful, although I replayed segments like 5 times

[@beholder2012]

Justin, you said: "The filter envelope is shaping the frequency content of the sound", which still doesn't explain HOW is it shaping that "frequency content". Well I found straightforward explanation here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGKlXn6we9KDh5Y (I recommend it to all of you having - as I had - problem with understanding what "filter envelopes" are meant for). So filter envelope tells us how much the selected filter is affecting the sound spectrum OVER TIME (how is its influence on the sound over time) - similar way, as amplitude envelope says how the loudness of sound changes over time. Actually that's all that was needed to be said. So filter envelope allows us to transform "static filter" into "dynamic filter". P.S. OK, I see you mentioned it briefly in Part 3 ( 06:38 ).

[@denny_prod8892]

I still don't understand why, in the beginning, when he was explaining sounds that have immediate attack and release, he turned the decay up all the way. If he was going to turn up the sustain all the way, why would he need to use decay at all?

[@slipinlizard9394]

You are 100% correct. When he says "full decay, which means basically no decay", he's actually got it backwards. Full decay would mean the maximum amount of time to go from the full volume of the sound (attack) to the sustain volume. When sustain is set to maximum, the decay setting is irrelevant.

[@fruitloops8561]

Justins last name is Delay! haha thats sick

[@rafaelikenaga]

i noticed that even having both my modulation envelop both attack and decay at longest setting, the attack is quite faster then decay, is that a thing or my minilogue xd has problems?

[@HighMonkeyMonk]

How do i get that visual chart while I'm shaping sounds in ableton?

[@WatchMyBeers]

5:52 sounds like zombie nation. Haha throwback to 1999!

[@DeCoste08]

this is goooood shit!!

[@TwinCitiesOxygen]

🍿

[@NikosKatsikanis]

I didn't understand this first time round

[@GabkoRTA]

Delay from Reverb ha ha :D

[@s_kosto]

На жаль, нічого не прояснилося, ми тільки ще більше заплутались