Getting Dirty with Textures (using Cableguys Shaperbox & Noiseshaper)

Today let's talk about two powerful tools in electronic music production: the envelope follower, and the complex LFO! We'll use these tools to add texture and glue to our drumloops, and even create entirely new instruments made up of atonal noise textures.
These concepts are universally applicable, but in this video we will demonstrate these concepts using Cableguys Noiseshaper VST, as they were so kind as to sponsor this video. Find the Cableguys VSTs here: www.cableguys.com/
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Contents:
0:00 Let's talk about textures
1:47 What is an envelope follower?
7:40 What is a complex LFO?
11:50 Creating new voices by combining tools
15:17 A noise-based bassline
16:48 Call & response composition
18:10 Advice on EQ'ing noise-based voices
19:00 Adding rhythmic drive layer

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Is there an envelope follower VST that I can map to something else outside the plugin?

[@By-Design]

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A Video about techniques with this Call and Respond thing would be also lovely- for me its what keeps my ear excited and my brain satisfied when listening to music. So I would love to know more about it in a more "professional way"

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[@MrMatthewKerr]

two things . . . - SOLD, you single handedly sold me these plugins, really amazing, especially the all in the box feature. - Secondly, i love the way you created the bass, simply thinking about the rhythm first. It's so obvious and nothing you dwelled on, but it's my biggest takeaway from this video. My basslines have improved immediately, in a big way. thanks so much. I really love all your vids mate, and i'm so glad to see you with sponsors.

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This is such a great Tutorial! Endless possibilities ... also the noiseshaper is so on point

[@potitwist]

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[@OscarUnderdog]

Cheers Stefano :D

[@richtrelo]

I like the term "happy accidents". I'm using this as the name of my next track. I've not played around with the drive section on Shaperbox yet. That effect on the kick is awesome. Instant Groove! So glad you made this video. Thank you!

[@mycosys]

With the addition of ReverbShaper this week, this may have become one of the best in box sound design toolkits.

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Your Tutorials are hands down the best on youtube. Thanks for all your hard work.

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Seeing your modular getting more visibility in your videos lately. Also seems more and more techniques and ideas your addressing lately seem to be things that are typical with modular setups. Very cool to see you translating that to a daw!

[@BF-up5xw]

This is a wonderful video. You teach the underlying principles and techniques. By demystifying the plugin, you also show how to use it fully, so Cableguys must be happy, too! Plus, it teaches us more about composing and production. Cutting down on instruments overlapping in frequencies is something I'm working to improve on. Educational and inspiring!

[@OscarUnderdog]

Lovely comment, thank you :) :)

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cableguys are the business. great video, again. love your work.

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Really like the way you break things down. Really helpful.

[@amosluyk]

Awesome stuff! Just got Shaperbox, so this was a valuable lesson right now :) Thanks!

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Love your vidéos! You're so good at teaching man!!! Thank you!!!

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Amazing man! 😃 love this!

[@mechanicom]

Another excellent video Oscar! Just the variation of sound I was looking for! Going to try the demo for sure! Always feel so inspired when you’re showing these tips!

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Dank je voor alweer een goeie tutorial. Top! 👌🏼

[@justynwclark]

Love the vocal intro. Another great video. Thanks Oscar!

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[@DelasVC]

Dude, you legitimately feature the best educational channel for electronic music out there!

[@Frbrdt]

Thats the most groovy video these days, well done!

[@jean-marcdecanter7719]

Great technique ! and a great plug in !

[@MikeDeanOfficials]

Always great content, thanks 🙏🏻

[@DanChippendaleMusic]

Two tools, two techniques. Two techniques, two tools to make textures. Sweet

[@SimonOhNo]

100% a techno lyric

[@alansalomon]

Bought noise addon , tnx Oscar 😎 Very helpfull Your taste/sounds/vids are right up my alley....

[@recursr1892]

All your tutorials are great, but this one goes beyond that! love it! I knew envelop followers and complex LFO, and have cableguys already..but somehow got lost in their tricky "time" feature and lost interest- You showed here, how I can achieve with the other, simpler features and good piling of it really nice, organic textures- really groovy! Great example. I still don't understand how the brain merges all this layers and says that's "groovy" but it definitely happens for me. Cableguys gets another chance!

[@OscarUnderdog]

Indeed time is a very tricky one!

[@Tsietsithelele]

Man that's super awesome, I can watch this video I mean listen to the music here for days

[@MickyplaysProgressiveHouse]

Great video Oscar, awesome sound design tools and concise explanation - i loved it!

[@OscarUnderdog]

Cheers :D

[@recfilm1883]

It's always difficult for me (and painful ) to go all the way through a 20 min tutorial....but not in your case. So much interesting and practical knowledge and tips...You have a rare gift (as a "teacher") to make your "student" interested and inspired.... and one more thing to wrap it up: You are a walking contradiction of a saying "Those who can do....those who can't teach". Thank you and all the best from a cooold Poland🙂

[@OscarUnderdog]

Thank you for this ☺️🙏🏻

[@vheissu77]

Hi Oscar, as a Reason10 user it's always interesting to implement your concepts in the reason world. So big thanks for inspiration!

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the editing is hilarious man its 4am and i chocked on my spliff

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My favourite thing about this are your dance moves my guy

[@OscarUnderdog]

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[@shpakovskiy]

Thank you! Very helpful and inspiring

[@LayerCakedRecords]

Amazing...ive had shaper box for some time now and never explored it in this way...loads of ideas now thanks for sharing :)

[@musical.shamim]

Ooh not sure why i did not see this one before. I'm so in love with Shaperbox! such a handy toolkit 👏Also the way you approached the tutorial is pretty cool Oscar!

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Brilliant. Really interesting. I really want that plugin now! :)

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Thank you! Very cool tool, very cool loop!!!!

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Ich habe mich zwanzig Jahre mit elektronischer Musik beschäftigt, aber es nie richtig gelernt. Dieser Kanal motiviert mich, mein Potenzial endlich freizusetzten und der Welt (oder zumindest den Dorfnachbarn) zu zeigen, was ich kann. Danke!

[@OscarUnderdog]

I appreciate this :) thank you!

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Love the channel man!

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Time to update my ShaperBox ! thanks for the great tips

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i loved this!! so happy i found your channel

[@samueldecker2406]

Oscar this is brilliant. In the 80's I obsessed on The Art of Noise, and have wanted to create weird beats out of just noise ever since. But how? You know the song "A Time for Fear"? I had a nightmare based on that noise rhythm, and I want to go back to it. I want to create it in a DAW. Not long ago you taught me how to use a vocoder with a noise oscillator, which was great, and now this. Your channel is the best thing on KZbin for me. What a treasure trove. I've been on a personal quest for what you have shown here. I'm picking up this VST for sure, and you provided a beautiful kick start lesson. You're a great communicator. You make the impossible suddenly easy. Thank you!

[@OscarUnderdog]

Wow, this comment means a lot, thank you :) :) Revisiting that old noise dream sounds like the start of a HP lovecraft horror story though 😂 be careful!

[@samueldecker2406]

@@OscarUnderdog Wow I like the sound of that. As artists we are trying to become moved, and record the feeling somehow. And a lot of people like to be haunted so...

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@@samueldecker2406 #truth Horror is an entire genre of entertainment after all :D

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Very nice vid man! Thanks!:)

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This is amazing and is exactly what I need for the type of techno I want to make. Thank you so much!

[@HongFeiHo]

Thanks for the vid and giving some ideas for inspiration

[@AFL117]

Shaperbox is probably my most used tool. Great tutorial!

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Thank you, Oscar, you're one of the best teachers in my life.

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This is fucking dope, you sold me. Not just on shaperbox but to dig into more of your content.

[@cryseek_mrktn]

nice groove :)! thanks!

[@redpeople2192]

As always, the generated tune is the bomb. The tools sounds fantastic, checking them out.

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[@Phantasma999]

Hello. Thanks for the nice video and lesson. It's always good to hear some modulation over noise. Complex LFO looks (and sounds) a lot like MSEG envelopes and some sort of filters. They are very useful, indeed.

[@peterfuzz3887]

really interesting result ! bravo!

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[@Shape890]

Thanks for sharing, bro!

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Saving this one for later!

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[@SP_CE_NVADER]

This is a really, really good tutorial.

[@cilafr]

Super super bon tutoriel (guess you speak french as well) aussi bien du point de vue technique (utilisation de l'envelope follower) que du point de vue créatif (sound design). J'ai acheté Shaperbox 2 avec l'ensemble de ces shapers et j'avoue trouver de nouvelles perspectives chaque fois que je l'utilise. Je l'utilise aussi bien comme outil de mixage (compression/saturation multi-bandes+side chain) que comme outil créatif. Et là le champ d'application est énorme (rythmic, timing, pitching, filtering fx...). Merci pour cette vidéo 🎥

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Great video, shaperbox is one of my go to plugins.

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Great job!

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THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN

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More and more every day, it's crazy! Thanks!

[@tao.exoself]

the dance in the beginning earned you a like!

[@Donder1337]

Gladly i already had the plugin ::D

[@andycordy5190]

I really like the playful approach, particularly that last swung element topping it off. I've heard of the cableguys effects but not seen what they can do. I can see that Shaperbox alone could quickly produce some wildly dynamic, atonal grooves. Couple these with say Cthulu, I think the possibilities are very exciting indeed.

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Cool video man. Ill check out cableguys

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yes, i love this new option....

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Cool video! It would be interesting to see how to make the same technique just with Ableton Live stock plugins and clip modulation since Ableton already got almost all of these tools and the ability to animate them built-in!

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Great !!

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[@OscarUnderdog]

Dankjewel Jeroen 😁

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[@sandbugg2977]

Nice vid I've already got shaperbox but it seems I've been under using it I will definitely be getting the noise add in

[@cMaXeJIJIo]

“Completely flat, no movement at all”. Hm, sounds exactly like my life! 😂

[@jayhu6075]

Amazing explanation because first you introduces Adsr enveloppe and complex LFO to make it understandable how this plugin work. Many thx.

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Thanks a lot!

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