Ring Modulation - Synth Clips 21 - Daniel Fisher

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Daniel Fisher, Sweetwater's synth guru, takes you on a discovery of the creative potential and inner workings of ring modulation.
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0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Moog Grandmother Synth
0:45 - AM (Amplitude Modulation)
3:50 - Turn Knobs as Slowly as You Can
4:14 - Different Notes with Ring Mod
5:00 - Using Ring Mod for GIRTH
6:26 - Moogerfooger MF-102 Ring Mod
8:17 - Modulating the Modulator of the Carrier
9:52 - Ring Mod on Your Solos
10:20 - EHX Ring Thing
11:02 - Standard Ring Mod
11:43 -Stereo Ring Mod Split
12:40 - Different Modulator Wave Shapes
13:05 - Ring Thing for Pitch Shifting
14:13 - 5th Pitch Shift on Fifths
15:06 - Ring Mod Wrap Up
15:32 - Thanks for Watching!
#Sweetwater

[@sweetwater]

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[@Noise-Conductor]

"it's your job to find those momentary slivers of beauty"

[@winddealer1]

These "bite size" formats makes a lot of sense. Focused deep dive on a single primary function available with most synths. Great way to divide and conquer the available complexity of sound design. Clever to include the other accessories to augment and fortify the concepts. Gratefully.

[@davemccall9594]

And the end goal is that it turns into a sort of video encyclopedia of synth knowledge.

[@UncleMilty]

As we used to say back in the day (60s) Far out! Love this series! Thx Sweetwater forever.

[@tomtebby7408]

Thank you Daniel - another great synth clip video. Although I love your demos of new synths I think these in-depth videos on techniques is very interesting and great for the synth nerds amongst us.

[@kre8a361]

This synth clip is unreal. I really like how Ring Modulation emits annihilating sounds. 🤖

[@joelowens6862]

Great video. Remember there are big differences between strict AM, which is in fact tremolo, and balanced modulation. A balanced modulator outputs signal in all four multiplier quadrants (in both positive and negative going phases of the carrier and the modulating signal). AM will produce a zero signal output where the modulating signal is less than or equal (near) zero. At the point where the carrier is suppressed, all you have is the lower and upper harmonics, which puts the ‘ring’ in the sound.

[@sweetwater]

Hi Joel. Agreed. Thanks for watching! -_Daniel_

[@coolguy2783]

I am very thankful to live and be young in a time where we can have vast amounts of fun education like this completely for free. Also, I was surprised to think that the electro-harmonix pedal sounded much better to my ears than the moog one. I assumed going in that it would be the other way around. Thank you for this video!

[@georgetouros6021]

I just got a RingThing and I can say I've got a real thing for it!

[@3lkstr]

Thanks so much, Daniel! Whenever I have a nagging synthesis question I always end up finding one of your videos to answer it. I greatly appreciate what you do!

[@joxer96]

Slivers of beauty...a beautiful concept itself!

[@kevinsturges6957]

Great demonstration! Love this!

[@sweetwater]

Thanks Kevin! For those unaware of SYNTH CLIPS, here's a link to the first 30 videos: kzbin.info/aero/PLlczpwSXEOybYYaBCTcjxxKz1QmxytbIf

[@bobboulden]

That "Ring Thing" effect with one side going up while the other side goes down make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

[@timothayl]

That was great mate, thankyou.

[@mauriciomandara5946]

Love these series !!!!!!!

[@geraldgoodiii6993]

Arojnd 2:10 rigggghhtt before u hit the side bands it almost had a Reese bass sound. Dope !

[@Marcshaww]

Cool why is it called reeese bass

[@musicthattouches17]

Top!

[@geraldgoodiii6993]

I’m guilty of cranking up the rate too fast. Gonna try out the slow build. Thanks man!!

[@thaexception3406]

Informative

[@poweezy4882]

Nice videos!!!

[@pfmmodule5144]

Nice video as always. Got Grandmother (from Sweetwater) and a real old big briar MF102. Got some 1/4 to 1/8 cables, can I safely patch between the Grandmother and MF102 like swapping out the MF102 carrier with one of the GMs oscillators or patching the MF102 LFO into GM?

[@frankschneider7190]

thanks again and again...

[@sweetwater]

Hi Frank. It makes me really happy to hear that. Thanks for watching! -_Daniel_

[@simoantere7283]

This was good, came here to watch the Moogerfooger in action with the Grandmother. However, it would be super interesting to see a video of cross patching the two since the MF has inputs and outputs. I guess I do it myself in near future with my units! And by the way, ring mod is most powerful with more simple waveforms.

[@simoantere7283]

And by the way Dan, you are the best guy in KZbin when it comes to Moog!

[@oldguy5381]

What a rig, nice

[@mulkytool]

I would like to see a clip about the gated sequencer, like the one on the prophet rev 2, thanks :)

[@jjrusy7438]

towards the end, i was reminded of some of emerson's monkeyshines with ELP

[@ryanwolf5396]

intresting

[@MYGAS21]

Thank you for your informative video. I play guitar and I am fascinated by the ringmodulator effect. I understand I think the concept of the two sidebands one as the sum and the other as the difference. What I don't understand is what exactly is happening when I tune the internal modulator to a certain note of my guitars' carrier signal. How is this possible?

[@arcadeapocalypsemusic]

@5:25 making me wanna go play some Atari now

[@pretentiousname]

Ring modulated pedals

[@sweetwater]

Yup. -_Daniel_

[@zzzz-yw4zk]

Awesome! An idea - since you can patch the kb out into the rate in on the lfo, shouldn’t that make it so that it’s always in tune? Given that you first made sure both the lfo and osc is intune?

[@sweetwater]

Hi zz zz. That does work, but you may find that, on some synths, it only stays accurate for an octave or two. -_Daniel_

[@zzzz-yw4zk]

@@sweetwater sweet

[@geraldgoodiii6993]

Don’t forget it’s also called balanced modulation. Am and RM/BM are different. I’m sure u know that tho. Or to relallly be a nerd.. from modular land .. four Quadrant multiplier LoL

[@socialismsucks5404]

I gave the 420th thumbs up, nice 😎

[@englewoodmusic]

Work that jibby yall!!

[@wilsonmachado8695]

please, do a episode ''how to use synths sequencers

[@sweetwater]

Hi Wilson. Here are a couple that I've made: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5rNk5WCiqp0bqc kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqWknqF9e5hjodU -_Daniel_

[@wilsonmachado8695]

@@sweetwater wow !!! nice ! i will see ! thank you for your reply ! hugs from brazil

[@qqqkk3048]

Thanks a llllloootttt

[@dickschlitz1360]

Nice what keyboard is that?

[@sweetwater]

Hi DS. That's the discontinued Moog Grandmother Dark. The standard color Moog Grandmother can be found here: www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GRANDMother--moog-grandmother-semi-modular-analog-synthesizer-and-step-sequencer -_Daniel_

[@binikydragon]

DEVO = ring modulator

[@kevansmith5511]

Do whole songs! Others or your own.

[@andysw3]

Yo Dawg, we heard you like modulators...

[@graxjpg]

Modulators in your modulators so you can modulate while you modulate.

[@GohanBurner]

I recently lost my low-frequency hearing and now everyone sounds like they are robots in one ear kind of like this or dalek.

[@sweetwater]

Hi Gohanburner. I had an ear issue once, and it sounded like that to me as well. Good luck. -_Daniel_