The ONE Synth Trick you should know // I use this on EVERY patch.

[@teknical100]

'I've wanted to talk about this for a while but it's pretty nerdy'. Absolutely no one leaves the room.

[@buster9915]

It's been a long time since a music production video has made me smile this much. Your love and passion is infectious and it's a joy to watch you still exhibit as much wide eyed child excitement as you probably did the first time you used a synth. Watching the last 60 seconds made me realise I'd hire you in a heartbeat if I owned a synth compamy. Subbing and will be back often to enjoy your show Ricky.

[@ddawsonwilsondawg7967]

I can tell you from experience that making a beautiful sound like this with NOBODY in person to hear it, makes me wanna cry... EVERY TIME!!!

[@Ohjeezno]

Got my Summit this week. This tutorial is by far the most valuable I've seen so far. This gives so much insight. Trying everything you do at this moment. There is a world to explore

[@jshx709]

Been struggling to find motivatation for music recently, but after watching this all I wanna do is storm out of the office, drive home and jam. Thanks for the inspiration. Keep it up.

[@iNerdier]

One weird trick, synthesiser manufacturers hate him!

[@RickyTinez]

hahaha i wanted to name it something like that too. Doctors hate when patients know about LFOs

[@MrJemabaris]

Ten Synth Secrets anyone needs to know. Number five made me cry!

[@isweartofuckinggod]

Take this simple quiz about LFOs and we'll predict the name of your next patch! (Yes, it really works!)

[@TheParanoidAndroid79]

@@isweartofuckinggod I got Hagrid- keeper of the keys and grounds. My patch is both a father figure and a friend. That's sooo like my next patch.

[@lukemrsl]

ahahah literally saw this in my suggested feed rolled my eyes and said okay fine you got me. glad i clicked tho 😂

[@madguy228]

that was an entire ambient composition in a single patch wow

[@RickyTinez]

exactly!!! its crazy

[@fakshen1973]

You blissed out at the end Glad you had a moment.

[@freejay6091]

what does "patch" here mean ? i always thought that a patch on my Circuit would be like a synth-settings patch ?

[@sebastianshuster5229]

Free Jay - patch, as in how the synthesizer has all it’s settings set.

[@freejay6091]

@@sebastianshuster5229 thanks! apparently this is a term for "many synths then :)

[@Old_Man_Jay]

I absolutely LOVE this guys enthusiasm for sound design. Seems really chill too. Seems like the type of guy I'd chill with while messing around with synths and smoking some bud :D

[@matthewflorianz]

Brilliant tip, thank you so much! Korg Prologue users can menu dive to achieve this. Edit Mode > Program Edit. 5th Red glowing button press till > LFO KEY Sync ON / LFO Voice Sync Off / EG Velocity (value). Don't forget to set LFO RATE and INT.

[@mikeexits]

Can the Minilogue or Minilogue xd come anywhere close to doing this? I know my OG Minilogue can't. Unless I don't know it as much as I thought I did.

[@nohpetsallowed]

Mikeureko wondering the same thing. I'll try it out on my Minilogue xd later today and let you know

[@RobbekenSynthMusic]

nohpetsallowed any luck? I’m going to try too!

[@RobbekenSynthMusic]

Mikeureko’s Prologue settings work about the same for the Minilogue! Got some wild dancing oscillators going on. Settings work just a little differently on the Minilogue XD at least: hit edit mode and then press the fourth lit button on the sequence bar to change the LFO settings. EG settings are the fifth light.

[@matthewflorianz]

@@RobbekenSynthMusic brilliant - thanks for following up.

[@jppagetoo]

Part of the beauty of modern synths is discovering all this power. Vintage synths... are very cool and led us to where we are. But modern synths with great tuning and multiple LFO's and powerful routing configuarations. Yeah, gimme that!

[@flightvision]

The DeepMind 12 has that implemented in a much more convenient way: You do not have to set that for each LFO but instead you select: * Key Sync on/off * Phase poly/mono/spread (selectable 0-180°)

[@denniso7937]

got my DM12 here and was like "ah..would love to do that aswell...but dont have those options" and then i saw your comment. Thanks buddie!

[@happyone234]

but you aren't able to make the rhythm yourself

[@paulrowntree2800]

That was astonishing Enrique! I actually found the part at the end very moving. Thank you, from one nerd to another. The geek shall inherit the earth.

[@leanderlumen1868]

„This was an initialized patch not long ago..“ Since working with Peak this thought has appeared so often in my mind. Such a versatile and lovely instrument. Thanks for this great information!

[@GM-xy5tw]

“LFOs. Don’t know what to tell you. Use them.” Wow, what sage advice!

[@robbret]

Dude, I know nothing at all about music or synths but I keep coming back. I just enjoy watching someone with such intimate knowledge of the topic. I wish I had a subject for which I had such expertise.

[@zooblestyx]

Never feel embarrassed about getting excited over nerdery. These are the moments we all connect with you the deepest, hermano. ^_^

[@sophoclese65]

Your enthusiasm is so contagious. I am returning to sound design after being away for over 30 years. This was inspiring.

[@chonkypixel1006]

I guess this is handled differently on different synths. Sometimes you just don't get the option. Sometimes you set the LFO to be used as an envelope. Sometimes you create an envelope with a repeating section...

[@savedbyasong4627]

When those unsynched LFOs first kicked in I almost had tears in my eyes. So moving. Man, this video is awesome. I could watch this forever. THANKS! (Plus, now I have to get a Peak haha)

[@gregtechno506]

The enthusiasm with which you explain all this stuff is infectious. I just found out about your channel and can't wait to see the rest of your videos. Keep it up Ricky.

[@RickyTinez]

Woooo Welcome Greg, stay as long as you'd like. I appreciate the kind words

[@KamilKisiel]

Here's another trick for dephasing LFOs, not sure if it applies to the Peak but I use this on my Prophet 12: In the mod matrix assign note value to LFO rate by a small amount. Now every note you play will change the rate of the LFO slightly so they will never really be in phase with each other.

[@SebCasanovaOfficial]

I could not get it to work on my prophet 12 any advice? Thanks

[@futurebeats898]

Thanks

[@MeAlexSenna]

If you want that analog magic Do the same (Note Value) and matrixe it to the SCALING by a small amount of -1 or -2 That would do the trick if you want to leave the LFO’s alone. It Works on prophet 8 REV2 also

[@Chaosbar]

Novation should add a "Random" option for the LFO Phase setting to do this automatically. (That won't let you control relative offsets, but voices don't necessarily play in order anyway.) A fixed phase offset for every next note played could also be pretty interesting. Or, imagine adding a sequencer track to control LFO phase and running it in key trigger mode.

[@keybeardist]

100% agree with this, a 'random' and 'spread' phase option might work well, where 'spread' sets evenly spread phase offsets across the voices. As an aside, it would also be nice if there was a way to reset the LFO at initial keypress when the arp is on, without it resetting for every note that the arp plays...

[@samiam9059]

Not really any true Random in digital. It would make a "seed" value as the changing number for a random value. Analog is where real "random" is possible.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

True but Rick just showed how to make the patch so just copy him.

[@Musikkeller-Innsider]

What I like about that: it's putting something like an organic, slightly chaotic vibe to an otherwise rather sterile, "disciplined" patch. Will try to reproduce this with the rather cheap hardware I have at my disposal (DM 12)...

[@lundsweden]

It is a good tip. I've been making sounds since the 90s but had'nt thought of this, definately will try it out!

[@Ariakiri_]

Thank you so much, man. I have a Korg Minilogue XD and I was always confused about why the Envelope Generator was synced to each voice, but the LFO wasn't. It was listed as something I didn't understand, so I never messed with it. Now numerous patches are exactly what I wanted them to be. Thanks again!

[@crifox16]

one thing i love about your vids is how much in depth you go while explaining the subject of the video, but then as soon as you send us off you go totally nuts with the synth. great stuff!

[@disastrousrobots]

Love this trick, I like how the LFO's on the Octatrack can be oscillated by other LFO's, or in a modular set up, lot's of fun and craziness.

[@connerdacus1344]

At 11:22 you unlocked such a beautiful chord. I'll be trying this trick when I get a poly synth one day!

[@Mo-tf9jb]

This is such an incredible piece of work. The depth of the content, the light style of explaining it and the beauty of the sounds. Thanks so much!

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

This is basically what i constantly do on my custom Roland Gaia patches and it's really really easy to achieve on that synth. You can either link all 3 Synth layers together so they all use the same LFO routing parameters or you assign them individually. I mostly use it a lot for dynamic pads or for self-oscillating filter noise sounds. It's insane how complex they become even with just 3 individual layers. Combined with some delay and reverb (or pitch-shift) you can shape it even more.

[@mandr0id223]

@Ricky Tinez - You need to make more videos at this level! with you 100%! It's clear you have a lot of really deep knowledge to share, due to your closeness to the companies that design these things.

[@tomhawkins6349]

This was a seriously great lesson in using LFO’s , I never thought of doing this but I’ll be trying it and using it a lot , thank you

[@JulianFrank]

Please make a part 2 to this where you make a song using these patches! I need to hear some drums on this!

[@bertrambraun5205]

@RickyTinez: Thanks for this awesome video. As some other guys on this channel I tried it immediately on my peak, virus ti2 and prophet rev 2. It's quite interesting that on rev 2 you can get a similar sounding effect pressing the key sync knob. Switching on the virus all of the lfos are oscillating as free as they should from the beginning. So this seems to be a special thing on the peak (may be a bug?) as switching on this great machine the lfos of each voice are in synchronized phase . Once you brought the lfos to real independing oscillating it works on every patch.

[@djshiva]

T shirt request: "I'm not a scientist, just a regular nerd."

[@acc373r4t0r]

can i get a "I'm not a regular nerd, i'm a scientist." ?

[@rabmccudden683]

Merch report 🤓

[@Spudcore]

I'll take ten!

[@Dea_Decay]

Absolutely loved this video! Learned some new things that I'm pretty sure I can bring to my Deepmind 12. As it is I already love the parameter drift capability on it and often set my lfo's to different things like you did here. If I actually have one per voice that I can set free like that to the different voices though I will be incredibly stoked! I love LFO's and this is is like learning instead of 2 I might actually have 2 for each of the 12 voices? That's insane to even think about!

[@EmThePenguin]

Hey did it work on the deepmind?

[@Lokua]

This is cool but you know what would be cooler? A phase spread option! Also, a way to reset the phases of all free running LFOs or at LEAST let them start at 0 when they get a MIDI start. Same problem with the Digitakt. Every time you press play the phase is different, weak sauce. Non deterministic free running synced LFOs are common but it doesn't have to be that way! It took until Live 10 for Ableton to get this right but now even their stock max LFOs start at the correct phase points relative to MIDI clock (just start a track mid beat and watch the phase on the LFO jump to the correct spot - AMAZING)

[@Lokua]

What if your sequencer behaved this way? Just starting at a different phase in the sequence dependent on what time you turned the sequencer on! You'd say it was broken!

[@RickyTinez]

Daaaammnn... that’d be awesome! Another one of my favorites to do is key track the LFO rate

[@keirlong4573]

Beautiful examples here Ricky. The idea of the LFOs for each voice being in sync but starting at different phase points is brilliant - you can't hear them, but they're off and running in the background, waiting for something to be played so they can do their thing...nice! Many thanks.

[@matiasveraaravena7261]

Damn that was a strong finish. That take of your studio still and silent after what you achieved with the peak was just wow

[@beschuitfluiter]

Synths are the things that connect your soul to the world. Man that sounded massive

[@nutritionontape]

Thanks so much for sharing this trick Ricky. I was able to get it going on the Peak and breathe new life into patches. Your videos are uplifting!

[@TonyAndersonMusic]

RICKY YOU ARE A GENEROUS MAN!!!!! Thank you for caring. For the detail. For the passion.

[@donmurowski9421]

Holy moly, this tip really speaks to me dude, thank you so much for this. hopefully i can make this work on my deepmind as well

[@RickyTinez]

You got this! hopefully it works

[@MrChinner118]

I feel like you’re trying really hard NOT to sell me peak and it’s not working. Great vid as always!

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

He sold me a Peak... not sorry about that purchase at all! (He also sold me a Digitakt too...so... I think Ricky Tinez is bad for my wallet!) :-)

[@RickyTinez]

@@MrMarcLaflamme hahaha oops!

[@bobrogue]

@@RickyTinez I just started exploring mine, and dammit! It's pretty great.

[@neocortexlab]

@@MrMarcLaflamme is this overpower my ye aulde Virus-B?

[@xDRAGONSHAGGERx]

Great ad for peak though :)

[@samtully6949]

This is may favorite of your videos by far. I don’t even have a Peak but i’m obsessed with this video

[@jasonvance8234]

I love how excited you are about what you are teaching! Makes me more excited to learn. Thank you

[@duelinmarkers1]

Other polysynths might require fairly different approaches to get similar results. For example I don't think the Synthstrom Deluge allows its polyphonic LFO (LFO2) to have phase adjusted or offers a "free," but it does allow modulating frequency by note with adjustable depth (for repeating unpredictable rhythms) or by a random value for each note (for non-repeating rhythms).

[@enygma3d]

This is so cool! I've just started messing around a bit with LFOs on my Peak. The way you manage to make this synth sound just makes me fall in love with it more and more.

[@RickyTinez]

its crazy how far you can push it. and the wavetale OSCs give each patch a new sound and texture to start from which is nice. vs the traditional analog waveshapes that can feel rinsed pretty quickly.

[@metasim]

More of these please! This is fantastic. And I love how easy the Peak is to understand.!

[@tonipepperoni3424]

You shouldn't be embarrassed about getting excited, from my own experiences, new knowledge or new gear, those are the kinds of things that inspire me to produce even if I've procrastinated, it keeps me coming back to producing😀😀🎛🎹

[@EmThePenguin]

Ricky, I'd love to see some more Peak videos. Your tutorials are the best ✌️

[@DKH712]

Dude thanks. I got a peak a couple of weeks ago and I've been looking for ways to add more movement to my patches. This is perfect! Great vid

[@3DPDK]

A customize-able arpeggiator. Also, the slight and out of sync frequency shifting is noticeable and (usually) pleasing to our ears because like our eyes that focus more on movement, our ears also "pay attention" more to phase shifting sounds, which also indicate movement. Our legacy instincts have a huge effect on how we respond to external stimulation. Phase shifted sound is why a lot of people love the way a full orchestra violin section sounds, but don't really care for a solo violin. Each violin may be playing the same note (frequency), but the strings are vibrating at minutely different phases. This also happens if each violin is a few hertz (cents) off in either direction from the actual note. We hear the intended note but the cyclic phase shifting creates a tone rich in harmonics.

[@MichaelGilboe]

This is one of the best tips I’ve heard, and I haven’t seen this anywhere else!

[@mandr0id223]

Awesome! I love this kind of thing that happens, when your knowledge in two separate fields gives you a unique insight (in this case, the synth circuit/engineering and the music)

[@5stringaustin]

Your reactions to the things you do are the absolute best part of your videos. So good.

[@gregonater]

I loved hearing you jam out on something a bit more ambient than usual at the end. Great patch!

[@Ebbelwoy]

Since you are working for novation, couldn't you propose a feature where the LFO phases are randomised as soon as common is turned off?

[@frankstetka7206]

I think people seem to miss the point in setting it yourself.

[@donaldpriola1807]

My sincere thanks for all of your work! I love your reaction to a good patch; all of us synth nerds do that, and it's a source of joy.

[@jsogman]

Great idea for a vid/great vid! For me I realized this evolving concept when I first used pcm sample based synths like Roland D550 or K2000 because they are based on partials each with their own multistage envelopes so creating lush evolving pads means spending some time editing those, of course synthesis provides many ways of "evolution" of different parameters and this is also a great one.... (and on THIS tip I would say I learned about this concept from eurorack/modular when I encountered Quadrature functions/ oscillators with different spread parameters as is possible with 0_c )

[@daxgramuglia3035]

Dude. Full good vibes on this channel and the way you go over things. Draws one in and maintains attention voluntarily. Thanks for making this. Was super solid to watch and learned a lot. 🤙

[@daxgramuglia3035]

Also - could totally feel that shift into happy inspirational buzz when you turned fixed chord off (@17:24) and then sunk into that progression and let it journey. That shit was beautiful. Haha thanks again homie!

[@btvonders]

Since you work for novation and all.. could you ask them to add "Rndm" as an option for the Phase Point value? Then we can save it in the patch and have this awesomeness immediately. Novation is usually great with the updates.

[@MichaelDowComposer]

does he really? Please prove, this would be hilarious

[@kintozero3169]

@@MichaelDowComposer he says it early on in the video 0:35 "full disclosure, I work for Novation"

[@mickeythompson9537]

Cool, but the reset seems one hell of a faff around on the Peak. I've had plenty of synths which had synced or not-synced setting on the LFOs and could do this straight off.

[@roborobmusic]

i love your channel man. i may not speak out in the comments but i watch every video and you influence my sound design and gear purchases man. thanks for everything you do. It's greatly appreciated.

[@RetroPlus]

That is indeed a very fun trick, I love little tricks like these in synthesisers. It's really fun finding new tricks by experimenting.

[@airwindows]

This really is quite good, for anything that's polyphonic and runs an LFO per voice and can run free. I've fooled around with a lot of synth gear, but I'd never thought of this exact one: thank you :)

[@jseal8064]

That Jam at the end was epic! Great work and great video. Props!

[@rars0n]

This is a really cool technique. You have done a great job of helping me better understand how modulation can be used to create motion in patches. This is something I often hear but can't intuitively replicate in my head because modulation can get pretty complex pretty quickly. I will have to do more experimenting and learning because it's probably one of the coolest aspects of a synthesizer.

[@BrockDavisson]

That is awesome. So kinda like having a pad sound but with a arp / sequence coming over top of it later.

[@kaptainkool101]

If you want to do this in serum, you can modulate the fine tuning with an envelope set to retrig and then double down and modulate that fine tune with either (or both!) chaos filters I like to uncheck the BPM box in the envelope settings to create a less specific timing of it. You can also do the above (Retrig/Chaos) of that timing of the envelope for some truly crazy beautiful sounds.

[@Omanaite]

A similar thing can be done looping a sample, specially if the sample has a percussive element to it, or a transient thing. You start paying attention to how your fingers hit the keys, and how you can play with the looping texture in the pad just by playing a single chord with different timing for each note.

[@Piehash]

Your outro gave me goosebumps, thank you for that. Regrettably, I don't believe I will be able to easily achieve this trick with my current mono semi modular analog synth. Being broke and wanting polyphony isn't fun, but we will see what the future holds.

[@tylerdaigle3266]

Thank you for this. I just got the peak yesterday and it is ridiculously powerful and fun to use

[@monomakes]

I love those ideas and new ways of working that sometimes comes with familiarity with a synth!

[@overseastom]

Love the enthusiasm, mate :) It was indeed a truly lovely sound, at the part when you said "oof, I'm done". Warm, smooth sounds, with a little rhythm to it. Good stuff.

[@Jibbai]

Great tutorials man ! I like the vibe how u explain things is so chilled ;) no stress only passion for music

[@wiredbassclarinet]

I know this will get buried, but I just wanted to thank you, Ricki. This helped me think about LFOs in a new way and I put it into good use!

[@RickyTinez]

No sweat Nathan! thanks for hanging out and im glad you found this tip useful!

[@wiredbassclarinet]

@@RickyTinez You are too kind 🙏 I'd be honored if you checked out my stuff (specifically my "new patch" video) because it is thanks to you - but I wouldn't want to post a link here. Thank you for making such great videos and sharing the love!

[@jorisdaniel1566]

Nice! Sick patch too!! On the Prophet 5 and 6 you can achieve this free flowing LFO thing with the Polymod! OSC 2 becomes the LFO in Low Freq mode, but if you leave "Key tracking" on, the higher you play, the faster the LFO for that voice is. This creates so much organic movement. Good stuff!

[@Konzertheld]

Dude that was extremely helpful insight! I am now sitting here staring at my (lately) not so much used Peak. I HAD NO IDEA. Time to plug some cords and get my hands on the keyboard.

[@SpawnoftheEd]

"I'm not a scientist, I'm just a regular nerd" - Ricky Tinez

[@Kuuewukung]

SpawnoftheEd imagine what happens when both, nerd and scientist, are combined. Pasta with its sauce.

[@elossa]

Ok wow I just figured out a really powerful feature in Bitwig Studio. I was mimicking the technique Ricky shows in this video so I created an LFO modulator for the pitch of a simple synth patch. Then when I had the LFO modulator selected I saw in the inspector panel (on the left) there's a tickbox for Per-voice which means that that particular modulator (whichever not only for LFOs!!!) will produce the modulator outputs polyphonicaly. Damn powerful feature!

[@rook9309]

Bruh the way you explained makes sense like it unlocked some kind of doors in my mind. i'm more of a presets user, I wish i knew how to use synths like that, i'd probably buy that Peak and would get pleasantly lost exploring all these sound design possibilities lol

[@Sirius-qr4vu]

stop using presets and learn doing sounddesign. it takes time but it's so worth it. sometimed i like sounddesign even more than making a track with those sounds ^^

[@LightboxX]

one of the great things about jx3p and a small handful of other roland poly synths of the time was the introduction of the 'delay' parameter on the LFO

[@davidalovell]

This was a really great video. The synth techniques are of course totally inspiring, but more than that, the video was just super calm and a pleasure to watch. Thank you

[@roccothamanoidis]

Love my peak! Goosebumps while exploring from scratch = priceless.

[@hiqwertyhi]

6:57 kinda sounds like the synth version of a knobs loop and i love it

[@Cesiumswimsuit]

Damn... definitely to check this out on my Peak. Always learn something new when I watch these vids man, thanks for sharing this great tip!

[@jacktietjen]

Wow this is freaking amazing ... like its own sequencer ... thank you as always Ricky I love watching

[@richardjagodzinski1724]

The sounds at 10:00 and 11:40: chef's kiss :D

[@JoelCardinal]

YES!!! I have a Peak and love it, please keep the these videos coming!

[@Ub3rMario]

Ricky i subscribe BECAUSE of you geeking out on details. There aren't a ton of content providers who do this, and in such a genuine manner. It's so easy to get engaged by your videos because it's obvious you truly care and are excited by what you talk about. So fuck any who turn their nose up at details, for they are blind to the joys of the rabbit hole.

[@arandomthought199]

That was amazing at the end! I gotta do some menu diving with my MicroKorg but this inspired me to create some new patches using LFO's to my advantage. Thank you for this.

[@anick2144]

Shit dude, I didn't know the peak could sound so hazy... best use of it I've seen

[@freejay6091]

I spent the last 4 months digging and diving into sound synthesis and it just makes me smile to listen to you and just understand what you are talking about and mean. nice teaching and take care! (also: is it the m100 or the m200s that youre wearing?) :)

[@jamestom2510]

Creates a greater depth to the sound, almost an amorphous movement.

[@THEeatBUG]

Amazing video man. I have learned so much from you already, and this took things to the next level. So excited to take some time playing with this tomorrow!!

[@benhoughtonmusic]

thank you! I've been aware of trying to achieve this on my peak but didn't know the right settings to use!!

[@ConwayBob]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is beautiful, Ricky. Thanks.

[@pierbover]

Next step, you can use the note value to modulate the speed of the LFO for each voice.

[@winddealer1]

Thanks Ricky for "Peaking" into these cool and yet subtle tweaks that yield almost infinite possibilities. Back to the Peak to practice your inspiration.