amazing vid!! slave and master oscillator is crazy though
@Geopholus2 жыл бұрын
This is seriously one of the best tutorials on synthesis I have seen so far. Very straightforward, accurate, and to the point.
@Woochia2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot!
@Piano_Albert2 ай бұрын
I think this as well
@adv8nturenick9 ай бұрын
Great quality video. Presentation is spot on. 👍
@yeahboiii58284 жыл бұрын
Man, you underrated as fuck, you deserve more subs, your theory videos are great.
@pablodemorais93203 жыл бұрын
criminally underrated channel. keep up the good work
@DJMRAsingh2 жыл бұрын
7:22: The reason fast LFO (audible range) starts creating harmonics is that it starts affecting the individual cycles of the carrier’s signal, effectively adjusting its wave shape.
@victornoagbodji4 жыл бұрын
🙏 🙏 🙏 😸 outstanding work!! this has to be the most comprehensive i have seen on youtube. i know bits and pieces from here and there but you put all of this together in one video!!
@haslo_4 жыл бұрын
Two more types I'm kind of missing in this video are phase modulation and physical modeling. It's interesting to me how wavetables and granular synthesis are something in the middle between traditional synthesis and sample playback. They wouldn't exist without samples, yet they produce unique new sounds.
@MaurizioGiri2 жыл бұрын
Actually, he already quoted phase modulation, the DX7 is not FM, it is PM (despite how Yamaha advertises it). Any major instrument that claims to be FM (DX7, Ableton Operator, NativeInstruments FM8) uses phase modulation and not FM. Probably they use the wrong definition because they think it's sexier ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@MaurizioGirisupposedly, it's because the functional output of PM is nearly identical to "True" FM, with only minor edge cases
@polycrystallinecandy5 ай бұрын
@MaurizioGiri Bitwig has both true FM (FM-4) and PM (Phase-4). They behave quite differently
@longroads_55713 жыл бұрын
These tutorials are seriously decent, high quality content.
@1075Marijavera3 жыл бұрын
Around August and september of last year i was lookin for good sound design vids but didnt find any. Glad i found this one now. The algorithm has blessed me
@danielpirone80284 жыл бұрын
Very well done! Excellent resource
@anang7300 Жыл бұрын
Great value content. Thank you !
@lexiray11118 ай бұрын
This is excellent. I am lucky to have stumbled upon this series.
@Woochia8 ай бұрын
Thanks! Glad you like it :)
@descrisleuthy4 ай бұрын
Thank you for making this video! I've been learning music production on my own and I'm just so grateful to learn from amazing free educational content like this on KZbin :)
@Taylor370z2 жыл бұрын
As someone who is extremely dependent on visual learning to full understand concepts. I can't thank you enough for this tutorial. I've learned more in this vid than like 10 years of tweaking knobs guessing what's happening lol.
@Woochia2 жыл бұрын
Haha awesome! Thanks a lot 😁
@kalesyps7643 жыл бұрын
prefect refresher
@Dareyouhow2 жыл бұрын
Fine example of masking at 9:38, listen to the timbre of his voice while that peak is there (looks about 500hz I think) VS a couple seconds later when the ring modulation shifts it away and suddenly his voice fills out a lot more
@izokzu48514 жыл бұрын
nice explanations !
@dalinwaldo2 жыл бұрын
amazing amazing amazing you explain everything soooo easy! compared to how complex some people do it! Also fun fact DX7 was indeed famous for its "FM" - but it was actually phase modulation - but u probably already knew that ^___^ But many thxx really really props for your way of explaining all this in such a sort video -- you'd make a gr8 teacher! :D
@carbonfeather73724 жыл бұрын
Great video! Thanks for what you are doing
@wolfgang44684 жыл бұрын
Again, just excellent! Rarely have I seen such great educational content, not to mention your "by-the-way" hints and mini-workshops like the one from 15:07. One question: Granular II requires Ableton Live *Suite* incl. Max for Live, or is there a way to use it with Ableton Live Standard?
@wolfgang44684 жыл бұрын
@@Woochia Just had a look: Max for Live is 145 €. Still cheaper than buying the Suite.
@makscee4 жыл бұрын
Wow, thank you for a great video, didn't expect to learn so much! I might finally know what to do with my volca modular haha
@2112jonr4 жыл бұрын
Good video, thank you. Not so sure about AM and definitely not hard sync. No one every talks about either, though to your credit you did make that point about hard sync.
@drhextube6 ай бұрын
Easier explanation: Ring modulation = modulator * carrier Amplitude modulation = abs(modulator) * carrier (where abs = absolute value, i.e. flip negative values to positive)
@Woochia6 ай бұрын
Well put
@s1gnal_2 ай бұрын
Highly informative, visually pleasing, and straight to the point! I've been producing music for a while, and even I had a couple of "aha!" moments. The only thing to note is you forgot to distinguish between Linear and Exponential FM Synthesis - the first examples were of exponential FM, whereas everything from the DX7 to Dexxed uses linear FM. Hard Sync could've also used the (stereo-)typical Sawtooth + pitch enveloped Squarewave example, but that's just me being a big nerd. :D Good stuff, either way!
@Woochia2 ай бұрын
This is just the type of nerding I love! But I agree, for FM synthesis I thought about making a follow-up video to explain linear, exponential and through-zero FM as well. But now that there are shorts, that might be a good topic for shorts!
@s1gnal_2 ай бұрын
@@Woochia Shorts would be a fantastic idea!
@lathryx8 ай бұрын
I can't believe this content is free to me. 🤯🔥
@Woochia8 ай бұрын
Enjoy! 😂
@salmonsandwich31838 ай бұрын
wow. super informative. This is essential for Minilogue XD owners. especially the first half
@Jakester884 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@LucaskrillHC3 жыл бұрын
11:11 One cool thing about waveshaper is that if the input is a (perfect) sawtooth wave then the output is the distortion waveform
@agv17713 жыл бұрын
straight to the point , clear like water
@aakashchakrabarty42624 жыл бұрын
Hey from where did you got that max4live device which pops up at 11:15 ?
@mittwochsan38502 жыл бұрын
very nice summary! thank you!^^
@amandembla71093 жыл бұрын
COULD NOT WAIT FOR 11:12
@adv8nturenick9 ай бұрын
Nice tutorial, thank you
@Etrehumain1238 ай бұрын
Thank you so much, I was so confused with AM and FM
@sebastianvega89153 жыл бұрын
Man loved your video, you really are a great teacher!!!!
@squishmusic3 жыл бұрын
Im binge-watching all of these! Gr8 stuff. Hoping to uncover more knowledge on using mod-matrix in synths...
@JohnPaulBuce2 жыл бұрын
Have to rewatch this
@vj7248 Жыл бұрын
Great description of each synthesis type. You manually setting up each synthesis in that modular rack helped alot. Also explaining the use cases for each. Of course, you could technically make any sound with whatever, but there's a clear function for each type. So it's great knowing those patterns. I didn't even know about Hard Sync or how WaveShaping could be used in that way. Very cool! 😎
@Woochia Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad you liked it. If you want to see more about waveshaping, I have a full video just on that. And I might as well make a part 2 of it soon
@AARVMUSIC2 жыл бұрын
Great explanation 💯
@mikilin37053 жыл бұрын
This is very helpful! Thank you so much!
@PendelSteven2 жыл бұрын
0:20 You explained it well. Because of this, sometimes it is called Harmonic instead of Additive. Or Spectral. There may be subtle difference between them... Reply then. I'd like to include S&S, Sample & Synthesis, a more general term for what is called Linear Arithmetic Synthes in Roland's D50. S&S is also the method to generate the sounds in the Korg M1, it is Yamaha's AWM(2), Ensoniq called it Cross Wave Synthesis and Kawai Digital Multi Spectrum. Arguably we have Kontakt now, but the hybrid S&S is subtly different. I mean, Spectrasonics calls it Omnisphere :) And then there's Physical modeling... Which is partly Rhizomatic Plasmonic.
@Woochia2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I'll check out all that :)
@sandrainthesky1011 Жыл бұрын
Well done! Very clear and concise video!
@Woochia Жыл бұрын
Thank you :)
@MichaelGaidamaka4 жыл бұрын
Bravo!
@robertswartz30102 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great video!
@aevai2 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! Thank you
@vanity_.4 жыл бұрын
Quality content 👍
@Amistriotis3 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for putting these things together! This is great!
@hdsubstance111 ай бұрын
Super brilliant!
@BohanMusic4 ай бұрын
Super Helpful!Thank you!
@weltering3 жыл бұрын
This is the best synth tutorial ever.
@elcidleon65002 жыл бұрын
Are you familiar with Video Game sound chips? I'm trying to make sure if the SNES is a sampler or a wavetable synthesis? As far as I know, it uses a ADPCM tech, has envelopes, a FIR filter, unfortunately a Gauss filter, and some other quirks. The Mega Drive/Genesis uses 6 four operator channels, DAC, and a chip with three square channels with a noise channel. You talked about FM with this video and I'm familiar with it.
@AARVMUSIC2 жыл бұрын
@@Woochia yeah, the SNES simply uses recorded samples but hella compressed
@telumatramenti7250 Жыл бұрын
FM and Wavetable are my 2 favourites. But if I had to choose I'd probably stick with FM. If you have a decent multiple multi-timbral 6-8 operator, multiple voice FM synth you can go a long way stacking voices to create practically any sound possible. There aren't that many good hardware FM synths out there, definitely nothing in the "budget" range. But it really pays off to save up and get that one FM synth whose ergonomics you are most comfortable with. And if you don't want to or cannot spend this much, - there are many great sounding FM DAWs, FM8 by Native Instruments being my personal favourite. It's programable XY pad will give you a world of possibilities for dynamic sound.
@Excalibur323 жыл бұрын
No idea what's going on or how I got here but I like the funni sounds
@auehate3 жыл бұрын
That was excellently explained! super compact
@kentinjivek2 жыл бұрын
Juste parfait 💯
@lounge_by_sturdt89842 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@leinexkeith291 Жыл бұрын
1:44 Exactly like in Sytrus
@AaezZzze3 ай бұрын
Vraiment excellent 😉
@RogerioValgode2 жыл бұрын
Wow. This was the first video I found that explain this to me with true simplicity 🔥👍
@ghifardebs67282 жыл бұрын
nice. what do you use to visualise the waveform you produce.(e.g at 1:35 beside the spectrum)? is it a plugin ?
@Woochia2 жыл бұрын
It's a free max4live device called "visualiser". I got it from the max for live website.
@aqphen53413 жыл бұрын
Clean explanations Very constructive and well built ! And free Thanks a lot 🙌
@Nathanaelsun223 жыл бұрын
EXCELLENTLY EXPLAINED WOW SO CLEAR!!!
@ReckDemon4 жыл бұрын
Great work and effort. I subbed! Can you tell me which meters you used at 1:15? Is it Ableton EQ? What about the other on the right? See you for the next one!
@ReckDemon4 жыл бұрын
@@Woochia Genius! I'm only using software synths and I tend to understand and learn visually better. That's so helpful. Thank you forever!
@leinexkeith291 Жыл бұрын
10:53 one of the best freebies!
@JeffyG Жыл бұрын
Great video! I’m rediscovering NI FORM which is really a granular synth that was way ahead of it’s time. It’s interesting that NI never uses the term “grains” or “granular” in their marketing. 😊
@Woochia Жыл бұрын
Oh I don't know this one. Sound interesting!
@BigMTBrain Жыл бұрын
Excellent! Curious... is Physical Modeling considered its own style of sound synthesis, or does it fit into one or more of the other categories?
@Woochia Жыл бұрын
I'd say that's its own kind of synthesis. Though in a way, it uses these other kind of synthesis (like, it uses filtering for the simulation of the body, which is subtractive synthesis)
@BigMTBrain Жыл бұрын
@@Woochia Agreed, with both points.
@liviou20047 ай бұрын
Hard Sync is not a specific synthesis method. It is a technique used in old substractive analog synths (Minimoog, Arp Odyssey, etc...), and in many current analog and virtual analog substractive synths.
@Woochia7 ай бұрын
I agree. I just wanted to include it here to explain what it is and show what it sounded like.
@Van_Verder3 жыл бұрын
Super helpful, Thx!
@agv17713 жыл бұрын
thanks
@paulhazel3 жыл бұрын
Very nice. Thank you.
@robertsabharwal97872 жыл бұрын
Good video.
@Ange1Monty3 жыл бұрын
como podría hacer un modulador fm en vcv donde la entrada sea el micrófono de mi headset?
@HaharuRecords Жыл бұрын
17:04 are you kidding me,. I love to know how you do the Basses..😳🙏
@Woochia Жыл бұрын
I would take a kick and put it in a sampler. Then I would loop a tiny part of the kick to get just a few waveform cycles and start from there :)
@dvamateur2 жыл бұрын
How about phase modulation (i.e. distortion), when the readout speed of a single-cycle waveform is modulated? How about bringing up the filter modulation (a.k.a. growl) into the the audio range? How about bringing up the pulse width modulation into the audio range? By the way, the granular "synthesis" you explain here, seems more like a DSP algorithm than a synthesis. Ditto for the wavetable scanning, which is similar to wave sequencing, which is is not really a synthesis, unless you bring up the scan speed into audio range and end up with new sidebands. And since you call waveshaping a synthesis, then you can call everything a synthesis. Distortion, phasing, flanging, etc. These are simply DSP algorithms that modify the waveforms. In my opinion, synthesis has to do with single-cycle wave generation. For that, additive, FM, PD, and subtractive synthesis are sufficient methods. And if you think about it, subtractive synthesis eventually collapses all waves into sine wave. So, when you start opening up the filter, you are adding the harmonics back. You can consider that an additive synthesis macro. So whether you call something and additive and subtractive synthesis, it really just a point of view. Anyway, all these "synthesis" methods are just shortcuts to achieve same results, a desired waveform or a frequency spectrum. All in all, sound is nothing more than amplitude changes against time, which is an amplitude modulation. And that's what every single sound is: amplitude modulation.
@Пердун-ж9ч4 жыл бұрын
what's the name of the app where you make your own sounds?
@Пердун-ж9ч4 жыл бұрын
@@Woochia not the editor; by that I didnt mean Ableton (Fl, Cubase and others). I mean where you were making your own synths
@Пердун-ж9ч4 жыл бұрын
@@Woochia thx man
@xxamulyaxx3 жыл бұрын
Wow, just wow
@Anamnesia2 жыл бұрын
Is Hard Sync anything like Cross Modulation? I have an X-Mod parameter on my Roland JX-8P but I could never visualise what it was doing...
@Woochia2 жыл бұрын
Not sure this is hard sync but it could be. Cross modulation means that one oscillator modulates a parameter of another oscillator. Usually it modulates the pitch, so this is more FM synthesis, but it could be modulating the volume of the other oscillator, which would be Am synthesis at this point
@EBBn4CHAN3 жыл бұрын
I learned a SHIT ton from this video. Thanks man
@Oi-mj6dv3 жыл бұрын
Man whats that wave visualizer you are using? Its incredibly useful too also be able to see what you are doing rather than going only by ear
@peterwan8163 жыл бұрын
I would like to know if sound Synthesis is the same as audio synthesis? plz could you help me with this one, they sound similar but I don't want to risk that difference in 1 word when searching for information.
@AlvaroALorite2 жыл бұрын
What oscilloscope do you use?
@RemitheDreamfox Жыл бұрын
Just a heads up that your AM Synthesis bookmark for the video is broken Fantastic video though, 10/10, brain grew many wrinkles
@cheapnoise90143 жыл бұрын
Sais-tu si un synthétiseur qui mélange des formes d'ondes basiques (saw, square, triangle) avec des samples? Je connais les Roland D-50 d'autrefois mais le prix et l'entretien sont beaucoup trop élevé.
@cheapnoise90143 жыл бұрын
@@Woochia Merci beaucoup. Donc, ce programme devrait fonctionner sur le NTS-1 également?
@josephwright59213 жыл бұрын
Pick up a Roland D05 module. It is a boutique module that Roland issued about 3 years ago. Get one quickly because prices are going up and supply is limited. It is the same engine as the D 50.
@anshuksahu92073 жыл бұрын
IM hhErE FoR SciENCE
@rederickfroders19788 ай бұрын
Oh hey thats me!🤡
@ifwsedm Жыл бұрын
. @Woochia Yo! Nice explanation of all the types of synthesis and, I am so many thankful for the good examples and key tips :D So... I got a question, is Hard Sync a type of 'synthesis' which is referred or seems like in explain as, the significance of phase in sound design as its the main type of constructive/destructive kinda type of interferences? I think I am done w/ this haha if you have a second to respond to me, I would be really grateful witheet :) So many thanks anticipated lol
@Woochia11 ай бұрын
Hard sync is not really considered as a type of synthesis, or at least I don't think so. Hard sync doesn't give a lot of options to create a new waveform (not as much as other types of synthesis like waveshaping or additive synthesis). Though it's a way to modify the sound by using only the oscillators, that's why I wanted to include it here.
@letlhogonolomasebe5598 Жыл бұрын
Eish I wish I had ur sound intuition....I'm still trying to learn fourie series and transformation and apply it in audio signals more special music....My vision is to be sound engineer and build any desired sound with synthesizer .I'm still learn electronic engineering via Utube how to build LPF,HPF,BAND REJECTand band pass using LCR...limter using diode and resistors...I can see ur integrating electronics engineering in music...please advice me how can I have knowledge like u
@Woochia Жыл бұрын
Damn I would love to know electronics and be able to build my own components of a synth!
@blendertutorialdotnet3 жыл бұрын
What program do you use for the graphic animations?
@blendertutorialdotnet3 жыл бұрын
@@Woochia Amazing work!
@shahikalakar10 ай бұрын
4:27
@quadracycle40003 жыл бұрын
3:02 RetroAhoy, is that you?
@minaunohf60622 жыл бұрын
What Synthsoftware are you using ? :)
@boogs8112 Жыл бұрын
I am pretty sure it's VCV rack
@jobedosan Жыл бұрын
I don't speak or understand English so we'll, I don't know if you say the Name of the plugin you use in the video, can you give me it's name ?
@Woochia Жыл бұрын
The one with whites modules is VCV rack, then I use Ableton's stock modules and Serum
@Woochia Жыл бұрын
Also, if you prefer a text version of this tutorial, you can find it on my website woochia.com
@themeofsuddenroundabout5 ай бұрын
i find it very weird that granular is supposed to be a type of synthesis. it's sample playback. it doesn't synthesize anything, it effects something. it's an audio effect. but yeah, the name kinda stuck.
@Cr1z4n63L3 жыл бұрын
9:49 f(x) = sin(1/x) !
@amandembla71093 жыл бұрын
SUBSCRIBED
@nesofearth Жыл бұрын
🔥
@imSachdeva1234 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍
@amandembla71093 жыл бұрын
Nobody told me what you just explained.
@lexiray11118 ай бұрын
👏
@nitroanilinmusic2 жыл бұрын
It's so rare to find someone speaking about FM Synthesis the way it should be spoken about. (That is, with harmonics instead of just showing us the waveforms)