Surge VST Tutorial | physical modeling woodwinds

[@oyajiru]

Love your Surge videos. Thanks for pointing out a different way to do something similar with Vital too. By the way, your licks and riffs when trying out the sounds are always great to hear.

[@vajrasattva1]

Your Surge patch is a good approximation of a penny whistle, suitable for Celtic music. 👍

[@platipo]

Thank you. Yes, I could have bothered getting into the itty bitty details of how to make a flute, a clarinet or every single woodwind, but I just stopped at the "rough" idea, which you're right, ends up sounding something akin to a penny whistle.

[@nickw123]

I like your tutorials a lot. Easy to understand and informative. You mentioned you learnt how to make this flute from some detailed information written in the 2000s about sound design have you got a link to these, they sound like a great read. You mention wanting ideas for synth tutorials. I am trying to work out how to make a metal clanging sound, like 2 swords hitting each other. Many thanks.

[@platipo]

I don't have a link here at hand, but asking a search engine of your liking for Gordon Reid's synth secrets, you'll definitely get there :) Thank you for the comment and the compliments, highly appreciated, I wish I had more time for making videos

[@nickw123]

@@platipo excellent found a pdf looks great reading. Thanks.

[@platipo]

@@nickw123 you're welcome :)

[@cloudthief8918]

I'm also trying to work out how to make metallic sounds

[@platipo]

@@cloudthief8918 on Surge? I'm quite sure I made a video about that in Vital, on surge well... I could and should get discussing it :)

[@StefHaynes]

love your videos!

[@trardac]

Nice one as always. I am thinking of starting sound synthesis with vital since ui looks more beginner friendly with all these graphs. Do you think surge is more capable or vital has all you need for sound synthesis?

[@platipo]

They are a bit different. Which one is more "capable" is really a matter of preferences imho, they shine in different departments. Vital has a much clearer interface, and it's very easy to program deep and complex things, I never pressed "save" as often in any other synth; on the other hand, it is very CPU hungry. Surge has its sound, a wide array of interesting oscillators, very convincing filters, a huge array of effects, and it is very light on the CPU, but on the other hand it isn't as comfortable to program, even if you know what you're doing... Yet, they're both free, why not use both?

[@trardac]

@@platipo Thanks for that great answer. I didn’t know they have their own advantages in different ways. I will start learning surge after I get somewhat comfortable with vital.

[@andewprod]

@@trardac well my take on It is that they are just different. Vital is an obvious clone of serum and serum is a very capable softsynth, if not one of the best out there. You have 3 wavetable osc which timbre can be changed seperatly with fancy FX/distortion. It is very good for digital / harsh stuff. You have your 10 audio effects and can route and modulate them as you wish. Thats also good but your limited in the options for the different FX (f ex different types of reverb/distortion etc). This is where surge imo is better (for me). You may have not the crazy sound shaping possibilities in the oscillators but you have many interesting oscillator types which have different characters. The filters just sound very good and if you come from a analog synth background you will enjoy this a lot since they sound really good. For me, the modulators are very nicely displayed and i really like the sample and hold and sequencer on that. And one very strong point is the endless number of FX you have. Like damn these are a lot. In general surge gives (me at least) a more "analog" or "hardware" feel while vital is more of the digital, flexible workhorse. Surge works better for me, maybe for you vital works better :) peace

[@trardac]

@@andewprod Thanks.