How to make every sound you ever heard

Use any sound in the world, with the help of samplers. In this video I'll show 3 classic workflows for samplers:
- Sampling my own voice and playing chords with it
- Sampling cool sounds from KZbin
- Sampling cool cinematic timbres and playing riffs of them using Reason's bassline generator
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Contents:
0:00 this video is about samplers
1:05 treating a vocal sound like a synth
6:58 finding things to sample on KZbin
10:25 the anecdote
11:00 the annihilation bassline
12:00 reason's bassline generator for riffs
13:13 sound design like a synth
14:20 HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

[@Enders]

Been using Ableton over 12 years now and I still can't stop watching people use it, You always learn something new. Although I hardly ever find something I don't know about it, I still love seeing people do their own thing. Great tutorial man.

[@AustrianSynthesizerSchool]

If you want to learn something new like sample expanding, reshape or percussion sustaining, take a look to the "Synthesizer Keyboard".

[@stormpegasus121]

I started learning about it a week ago and most of the stuff on there looks like the control panel of a spaceship. Only thing forward is to keep practicing 💪

[@z.j.mcelwain2025]

@@stormpegasus121I also started a week ago, good luck! Been trying to do a (shitty) beat every day to try and drill in these techniques

[@stormpegasus121]

@@z.j.mcelwain2025 That's how you do it haha keep going! I'm really into hard techno so I hope to be able to create it myself one day

[@SebastianGrantElKiva]

Using Ableton never and I’ve heard of simpler

[@mediocrephil]

Agree, the climax of Annihilation had insaaane sound design, I was floored when I first heard it. The uncanny, unsettling, and unearthly sound fit that scene perfectly.

[@JanParkHolm]

Unfortunately the most important part of the whole soundtrack is not on the soundtrack, and it's mostly uncredited that Moderat - The mark was inspiration and set the tone for the complete soundtrack. This scene, with this track is EPIC kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZCQhmyVjMxomqc

[@robertszordykowski4919]

@@JanParkHolm Yep, great music choices for a crap film.

[@Brendan-Black]

@@robertszordykowski4919 Crap film? Nah, Annihilation is great.

[@robertszordykowski4919]

​@@Brendan-Black Visually yes, but the writing made me facepalm so hard I got a concussion.

[@agapeleone5847]

Agreed!!! That sound is masterful!!

[@catpriest]

Making any sound you've heard is the ultimate goal of sound design. It takes years to learn but it's worth it.

[@kewk]

The reason you get "clicks" is due to the sample starting off the zero point. Adjusting your envelope is the bandaid to the fix. If you move the start/end positions so they are on the zero point, that fixes it usually.

[@gibsonhero233532574998]

🤓

[@thevalueofn6994]

*due to the sample NOT starting at the zero point

[@JohnDoe-kh3rc]

@@thevalueofn6994 That's basically what he said.

[@thevalueofn6994]

@@JohnDoe-kh3rc Yeah, I read it wrong.

[@tomasschneidgen6106]

@@thevalueofn6994 ..actually, you've helped me, thanks mate.. 🥃🥦

[@schermanism]

I like the feeling after watching your videos, like a new world has just been born

[@mmilerngruppe]

11:47 the clicky sound at start tells you, that the wave starts not at 0, you can avoid it by zooming in and select another start point (or like you by crossfading it).

[@koraamis5568]

yes, but had some trouble with stereo sounds to find a 0 point, the fade seems quite practical.

[@DaftFader]

@@koraamis5568 If you can find a clean 0 point without cutting off too much, you can get a much more seamless loop that way. However if there are no clean 0 points near the start or end, than a very sharp attack and decay envelope can get it almost unnoticeable on the raw loop, and if you're using effects then it will be enough to cover it up most of the time. Both are valid methods and each has it's own ideal use case. ;)

[@roninheart_music]

What you did so beautifully in your video would only have taken place 30 years ago in a studio that charges a minimum of £3000 an hour and has a ton of equipment and 5 sound engineers. Thanks for sharing and so much caring!

[@Stan-l-e-y]

wow this has to be one of the most incredible videos you've ever made. This video actually blew my mind, thank you infinitely for this

[@chronoxofficial]

I have to say, I've been making music (as a hobby) for a while now, but still get soo much inspiration from your tutorials. Also, the subjects you touch are always quite unique. I really hope this channel becomes huge, you deserve it! Awesome work!

[@MikeH_PR]

This is wild. I can imagine some very reasonable ambient techno is available from just your voice & various household objects

[@AKAtAGG]

this is how i make most of my music. a synth, and field recordings. all my drums are made from me hitting something with something.

[@1Angus33]

@@AKAtAGG inspiring as fuck, coming from a guy whos last name is Foley ahahaha

[@AKAtAGG]

@@1Angus33 hahah I love it, would be even better if you share DNA with the great man himself...

[@ripperthecrooks6428]

​@@AKAtAGGwhat do you use to record them sounds and transfer them into the computer , just a studio mic or you actually have an app on your phone ?

[@AKAtAGG]

@@ripperthecrooks6428 depends where i am or if i have my field recorder with me. for a lot of them I use an app called 'smart recorder' on my galaxy s22 - this will work well on any phone that has a good microphone as part of the hardware. occasionally will mean more post-processing but not always.

[@Randuski]

Sampling and granular synthesis is my favorite way to make instruments. There's something about it that is infinitely inspiring to me

[@JH-bf6qy]

Congratulations for letting the world know what it did not know was missing!

[@benshlanta]

7:42 there’s a google chrome extension that you can find in the chrome web store that samples audio from the browser so that you don’t have to go to a KZbin to mp3 website. I think it’s just called sampler.

[@muralist_]

Extremely useful tutorial if you're new to samplers and the possibilities of sampling in general. Thanks for the very clear and good way of explaining the sampling workflow!

[@noisyshaun]

I was today years old when I learned that you could just drop an audio file onto a midi track to open it in Simpler. You've no idea the time and frustration this simple tip has saved me!!! 😱

[@OscarUnderdog]

😁😁😁

[@FrankHoffmann1000]

I like it, in particular, when a smile gets into your face, because you are obviously happy with the outcome that you have created :-) Great channel!

[@lafluerpeter9]

That vowel chopping sample technique was quite prominent in the 90s uk garage scene, mainly with female vocals.

[@synthoelectro]

I did this with the movie The Matrix once, among other samples, even the movie 1984, using only the sounds from the film to make an entire album. It's a wild trap and thanks to Ableton you can do it. Sampling is very powerful, and makes anything an instrument.

[@DaftFader]

I've done this before for a D+B track, but not with a film, with vocal samples I recorded ... made the drums the bass and everything, you could barely tell it used a voice except for the fact I intentionally left some vocally sounding bits in there for certain sounds. It was so much fun to make. I did it for half of a Acid Jungle tune another time , but with using just Canadian geese squark noise samples, and one single rouge Mongoose croak(?!) sample, to see if my mate who was into Canadian geese at the time (and the reason I decided to make it in the first place) could tell them apart... xD

[@synthoelectro]

@@DaftFader sampling can create mysterious results.

[@bustamante-music]

you have a gift for teaching. i’m sure it’s not the first time someone told you but thank you!

[@DaveGouda]

Wow this blew my mind! I never knew the Ableton Sampler was so powerful. I'm going to sample EVERYTHING now.

[@blasalvice]

Oh yes! One of the last scenes from Annihilation has the coolest and most fitting synths when "the thing" is revealed.

[@HeitHaus_Music]

One of my fav scores recently! The sound design in that film is on another level

[@kiytek2835]

Man that track from Annihilation is absolutely incredible, great tune to make a little edit of and open a set with it for a palette cleanser

[@althepsyphros3314]

11:38 No quite, actually it means that you're starting on a point of the sample that isn't at the zero point of the amplitude. So you start with the top of a piece of audio for example and therefore the audio is jumping from 0 to say 8 (out of 10) in a split second which then counts to the speaker as a sound, and that sound is a click.

[@luka1780]

Wow this is awesome men!! the vocal synth makes such lush sound. definitely gonna incorporate this technique in some tracks

[@ShamimJahandideh]

So good. This is now inspiring me to make a track only from one voice

[@gavinmitchell6869]

I absolutely love your videos!!!! I have learned so much in the past 3 months watching your tutorials. Thanks for sharing

[@Anonymous-lw1zy]

This is a really great idea and opens tons of creative ideas. One additional suggestion - back at 3:15 where you have the basic loop of your voice, if you zoom in and set the start and stop trim points so the waveform shape continues cleanly from the end point back to the start point, you can avoid the pop at the cut and then use any arbitrary length of it.

[@asovamain4292]

My brain as soon as he hit play: “Taaaallkkk about it, talk about it, talk about it oooohhhh yeahhhhh”

[@Gnurklesquimp2]

I really have no excuse for not having a mic other than being lazy... I'm not planning to deliver crisp lead vocals or record the perfect drum anyway, and my style always has at least some intentionally raw aspects, I'd probably be fine with a half decent mic while terrible ones may have unique uses too. It's kind of a blessing not going for a super clean sound when it comes to recording space too, as long as I EQ out anything too serious etc. Also great to see a Matt Johnson shoutout! It's crazy we've got musicians we love right here on KZbin. Bonus tip: There's vocal extraction algorithms (I use vocalremover) out on the internet too, mostly messy results but it's not always an issue if you're again not planning to use it for crisp lead sounds. Can download both the isolated vocals and instrumental! I've gotten tons of use out of it.

[@thevalueofn6994]

I reckon that this is a good time to mention the "Found Sound" album by Spooky. It's a 1996 album that was almost entirely created with recordings of everyday objects being hit and then fed into hardware samplers, (where they were manipulated in varying degrees of complexity). It's rather percussion-heavy but is still satisfyingly musical, (especially for those who appreciate the industrial/musique concrète scene).

[@soundvandal3570]

Such an amazing album. Use what you got.

[@1998Cebola]

So many great albums have been made that way, I haven't heard this one tho

[@mosaicubaby2278]

so finally somebody finished Pink Floyd's Household Objects album XD Interesting, gonna listen to this band you mentioned

[@nongmar8783]

Nice. I recently sampled new model D ‘s demo from Sweetwater ,added Arturia Moog filter fx , put it in instrument rack make fake 3 Osc by copying ,with micros I made kinda controls mimicking original ,made my own little simplified moog. Good enough for simple bass.

[@kerwinfernandes9583]

That was such a fun tutorial. I love how we can change any sound into a musical instrument. Thanks and God bless! 🙂🙏🏻❤

[@dimitrispalantzas5281]

"Special magical universes that you might be emotionally attached to but you didn't have to create from scratch." 👏

[@BigDubstepEnergy]

I enjoy resampling bass patches from Serum and tweaking and resampling until I get that perfect gutteral growl sound that'll make my doberman tremble in fear. I never thought about using my voice to growl and then utilizing the above process. I bet that'll introduce some gnarly sounds. I'ma have to try that here in a minute

[@GavinLyonsCreates]

Very cool Oscar, I had a few ideas I wanted to do with my audio recordings I've collected over the years, this opens up the possibilities to do lots great weird and wonderful things.

[@nirelmar]

every time i watch one of your videos, my mind is blown. and yet, the explanation & demo are clear and i understand how to proceed, even with little experience. thank you so much, Oscar!

[@naturallyinsane9101]

The sound crafting aspect of this is super useful for my dawless setup. I do like the idea of grabbing KZbin samples

[@MATADORDUBZ]

Bro explained a concept ive been struggling with within 3 minutes wtf! Your badass man!

[@electropocalypse5877]

I'll def try using a sampler and recording foleys. Things look much easier in Audacity compared to LMMS but also more complex. That said it's a pretty cool DAW. Thanks for helping make things fun and easy to learn! Sometimes the hardest questions have the easiest answers in sound design. Experimentation is key.

Great video! I’ve had my best sessions when I take my zoom recorder outside and go sound hunting, but need more knowledge in how to modify the sounds. Perfect timing as well, considering the price on hardware right now. 😊

[@Flamieee1]

Great to see you actually work the sound with the sampler, to see it is really helpfull.

[@CrescentRollCarl]

Great video! I'm inspired now. Nothing I didn't already know, but just seeing you do it for some reason gave me a bunch of ideas. Thanks!

[@georgebogdan3]

I laughed when he heard his voice 🤣 keep up the good work pal good info 👍🏼

[@wallygator57190]

Your channel is awesome! I am learning something new every time ! Thanks!

[@RonnieOrbit]

Really great and helpful videos! Love your tune in this too

[@bubbagrayer4283]

For sampling from KZbin I,just use my phone or iPad and use that as my audio input arm a track and record it. I actually only watch tv or listen to music this way so I can play with any sound that is inspiring

[@stealtime]

Nice. That bass line at the end was FUN!

[@stoxxhunter]

Another awesome video. Love how you simplify the sound design process. Can you do an EQ video for creating space in mixes please? Thanks !!!

[@shaulv]

I learn so much with you man! Thanks a lot!

[@ExVersion83]

Truly inspiring video! As already mentioned in other comments, if you plan on selling the product, choose your sources carefully (legal aspects of it), and have fun!

[@dammdopeboy29]

Your my favorite person on KZbin now … this is dope man … real knowledge 🙏🏽

[@nicolaslondonocastano9875]

Great as always!! Thank you very much oscar

[@hereasafanofallsorts5164]

Are you a cetified Ableton instructor yet Oscar ? - because if not - you definately should be - I have learned so much fro watching you

[@OscarUnderdog]

Hahaha no ableton is asking me to jump through too many hoops to make it happen, i really dont understand their mentality 🤷‍♂️

[@hereasafanofallsorts5164]

@@OscarUnderdog Yeah it seems a bit crazy when people like you do so much for their brand - I mean its hardly that exclusive a program nowadays - anyway - love your work - Thank you

[@xleftsidex1627]

Yeah, that's cool. I've been thinking of making a full-length album entirely out of one single sample in the same manner. I'm pretty sure someone(or multiple artists, actually) had to make the same thing, maybe something like this was coming out even years ago in the 90s, but I don't know any examples. It would be interesting to hear such albums.

[@joedalton77]

What sound will you use?

[@cursedsound]

@@joedalton77 please tell us it's a fart

[@Dominik-K]

This was amazing! Thanks a bunch for the video, this explains a lot! I love the ideas a lot

[@Ty-ri7dy]

THANK YOU! You have sold this pure .vst composer on sampling. And not the pretentious "you need a $10000 microphone" sampling. I've been wanting to incorporate it into my music, but everything I can find on it up until now is hip hop sampling, which I totally do sometimes, but is very different from what I want to do. Thanks!

[@francoiscote1464]

Really cool. ! I was doing those kind of things with my voice at the begining of samplers in 1987 (Emax) but i’m still learning things and tips with new technologies in your vidéos. Thanks.

[@douglasfugazi]

This video is incredible. Thanks for sharing, keep up the great work 👍

[@jksjksjsjks]

Yeah! That track from the annihilation soundtrack is such an amazing piece of music

[@F4xP4s]

Moderat - The Mark (Interlude)

[@allyouracid]

5:00 - Drive boy, dive boy, dirty numb angel boy 😁

[@OscarUnderdog]

🥰

[@massi2621]

you tell us about simpler's potential, I'm amazed at Oscar's potential!

[@youn18350]

Clearly a realy cool moody sound ^^ that’s a think that i should use more. Ty for the lessons and for your energy that is realy relaxing !

[@eloyente_]

Dios mío, era lo que estaba buscando. Gracias hermano!

[@Marklar3]

Tip I learned from messing around with izotope's vocal harmonizer: I tend to get a better tone when the input note is in the higher side of my range. Maybe it's just my voice, but I don't think so.

[@OscarUnderdog]

Interesting! Makes sense somehow!

[@z01d]

Awesome, thank you!

[@laksefecheu3652]

I love you for making these videos.

[@dmix46]

Great work 👍🙂, thanks

[@pk3776]

Always, always, always x10….. Inspirational, informative and just dam good!👍💯🙏❤️

[@Orphean]

Wow Oscar..that first created sound from your voice reminds me so much of the well known Underworld track Born Slippy ;-) I really love these kinds of tutorials from you.. Cheers!

[@diegomella5060]

Woooow the quality in your videos is only evolving. 🤯

[@tomislavglavas2180]

I like how you actually have good taste. That spoils most of the music production videos I've seen :)

[@DariaCircus]

This is actually amazing congrats on your success also dude

[@chema__gonzalez__]

amazing content dude! thanks so much!

[@nathanbryers]

Love your lil dances at the end lately 👍🏼 top marks 💯

[@Cult_of_the_Mantis]

I love how it goes all Aphex Twin Ambient Works esque

[@Darchyism]

Can't stop watching this vid. Good work. Great Tutorial too.

[@OmShira]

Great video again. You master the stroytelling of music production! 😀

[@triplestandart7613]

"You don't need sound design." - proceeds to do sound design on a sample (Great video tho :D)

[@MrBoundji]

Inspiring tutorial 👌thanks 👏

[@jowanmokkink417]

So cool that expl. About the sampler! Loving it!

[@Jameselcome_303]

Fantastic, will try this thanks for sharing

[@0711RC]

GREAT lesson. Thanks.

[@MarcoLongoMusic]

How to m̶a̶k̶e̶ TAKE every sound you ever heard 😆 Keep it up Oscar!

[@julianshowalter7001]

I'm not disappointed by this recommendation, subscribed

[@audraepail2085]

this has been sooo helpful thank you so much

[@rene.rodriguez]

Excellent video. I learned more in the first 4 minutes than the last 2 weeks on YT. Liked and Sub’d. Thanks for the amazing work.

[@_varianta007]

Amazing tutorial, thx!

[@hendrixstudioru]

beautiful examples and useful points all the way

[@miinyoo]

100% got. Hard to implement with industry standard software. Reminds me of grade school working with an ensoniq keyboard. We were lucky in that era of Apple II's and at the time pretty pro equipment. Only thanks to the enthusiasts who ran the place.

[@dwolf9507]

Sick video bro. Thanks

[@raven_hate]

Oh my!! 😍😍

[@JesseJuup]

Sound design challenge: 1. Realistic sound of lightning and thunder. 2. Sound of snow squeaking under your shoes when you walk in -27°C. 3. The sound of chewing you hear inside your head when eating.

[@agapeleone5847]

FUUUNNY you mention that synth sound from "Anihiliation." I have BEEN seeking out the like in preset packs.... I'd like to make it of course as well. But I never would sample it... this vid may have changed my mind!!! I just assumed there was limitations or a lack of "cleanness" to using a sample. THANKS!!! This vid was dope and you're an awesome teacher and artist!!!

[@shamax2201]

Nice one. Learnt a lot from this. Thank you!!

[@jamies9083]

Hi Oscar, would it be possible for you to make a video about separating certain sounds from a sample, and the various tools available to do so? E.g. how to separate vocals from another track and have it sound clear? I have so many ideas for sampling parts of other tracks but I’m not sure how other people manage to get the source of the sample sound so clean and not have other backing instruments in the background. Thanks!

[@jean-marcdecanter7719]

You try the peel vst .

[@Rizamusic]

RX 10

[@colinstratford9952]

@jamie s Check out this video by F9 Audio ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIapZ3yFfrmNi7s ). It shows you how to do this.

[@Sa11eT4mp3r3]

@jamie s You would want to check out RipX DeepRemix (On sale until 8th December 2022). Check the intro video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4TdimaOmpZ7iZY

[@ragna_mani]

you can use the latest (free) version of virtual dj. You can separate stems (vocal, drum, melody...) in it now.

[@faeriepalace]

such valuable knowledge thank u!!!

[@TraxtasyMedia]

nice tutorial, I did that voice synthesizing once accidentialy but binned it, because it didn't fit my project, but never tried that again, maybe I'll take a second approach to it again. :D

[@triplestandart7613]

I think videos like this should include at least a small section on copyright. The system is honestly trash but we're still bound to it.

[@miinyoo]

All art is a derivative. Nothing is spontaneous. Ask any artist why they made the decisions they did on any specific thing and you'll be able to write history more accurately from their answers. Once we recognize that fact, we're free to explore more.

[@eroero830]

baseless philosophy and hifalutin claims@@miinyoo

[@jean-marcdecanter7719]

Very smart tool the sampler and a very smart teacher too ...

[@S_e_a_n]

Oscar - excellent example. Thank you for sharing. Your explanations are fantastic. Cheers Sir!

[@meylansebastien4333]

Great tips ! Thank you from Switzerland ;)