Use FM Synthesis The Right Way

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[@ZenWorld]

Serum is the Boamb Ninjas

[@tullau9810]

3XOSC>Serum Now watch the hate flow in.

[@cashew3147]

ok

[@xXSubZeroGamesXx]

Tullau 3xOsc is actually pretty good for what it is, especially if you use some of FL's built in controllers creatively

[@markmike5791]

Love Zen's short films in every video! :D Am i only the one?

[@markb4416]

Very useful tutorial thanks for posting :) (plus Serum looks great I must give it another chance)

[@KingCoCo]

Awesome thanks Zen!! 💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ARBeatz]

Excellent work!

[@Galucettz]

I wasn't ready for that "baby come back" 😂

[@gepvpr]

holy fuck zen I've been following you for maybe 3 years now, some instances I felt whatever about your tutorials but lately it's been fucking tight !!! especially with Rezz's bass tutorial, thank you ! appreciation from yours truly !

[@sumant6523]

can you make a tutorial on a mesto pluck like the one in BRUH (the one at around 1:45), Not going home and his new ID Chances

[@iamkonus]

Zen says "dont use a saw for your fm" Here i am with 40% of my fm saw basses. I feel low key roasted

[@wired-up5677]

Konus he meant when first starting out ,after you get the hang of it go crazy

[@rot_studios]

Same, sawtooth (combined with square) is fucking insane with FM synthesis :D

[@Kazwell96]

DrummingEvil especially with bit crush and hyper dimension haha

[@IDontReadReplies42069]

well lets hear your shit? If it sounds good then no problem, if you sound like your typicial soundcloud producer then ...well. yeah roasted.

[@OhShootKid]

@@IDontReadReplies42069 Konus been real quiet since you posted this lmao

[@xXSubZeroGamesXx]

Hi Zen, I know you probably know this but I'm just pointing out that people generally use a sine wave for a bend +/- effect. But sometimes a triangle wave helps for a cleaner PWM sort of deal. Really like the video, keep up the good work man

[@chaostheory4911]

dope sound at the end

[@Kazwell96]

I use a pwm on b and use some bit crush. And made it a muted pluck. Turned out awesome lol

[@ricexzeeb]

can't believe this only has 15k views. awesome video

[@yizhaqdesirebey5138]

Love your terminology. One "tiity" lol!. Good tuts bruh. Keep it up!

[@escal3488]

lol first time I read this I thought u mistyped tit for tut

[@alexmunozluna5641]

Got me intrigued to wavetable synthesis

[@lukas-uy6qd]

please could you make a tutorial on the lead sound of Afrojack - Ten feet tall or tell me how to get that sound? I would REALLY appreciete it.

[@malvenik]

Hello zen I have a question does beats studio wirless headphones are they good for edm music production?

[@MinecraftAmatorPL]

you can fm some complex wavetables to make them heavier, or just go full hardcore and watch SeamlessR, he uses FM almost like he was the one to invent it

[@ZenWorld]

I find using 2 complex waveforms like Spectrals tend to fck the signal up big time. It can be done smoothly but I prefer using it FM with the basic waveforms and evolving from there. Didn't go much into it but check out how to make wavetables easier for that.

[@MinecraftAmatorPL]

2 examples​: 1. VR's Crispy SQ fm'd by +2oct sine with some remapping 2. Cymatics Blaze, 1st one normal and 2nd one squarified and fm'd by a 0oct sine from a sub osc

[@OSCOMusic]

I feel with serum you have to go to extra lengths to get a nice complex sound out of it as you can only fm one oscillator to the other (i.e 2 operators if we are talking FM). You can create more complex sounds when you have more operators like in FM8, Sytrus and Ableton's Operator. Serum is great don't get me wrong. I use it all the time but for the sounds you are talking about try a synth that is dedicated to FM.

[@David-iq5on]

Great!!!

[@R3BBiT]

Omg, please continue the intros, Zen xD

[@fabio3361]

great video, can you help me with FM on Spire?

[@Winterfly]

Serum just needs more oscillators^^

[@realventuress]

look into sytrus

[@headphonezmusic1727]

VItal Is The Alternative, With 3 Oscillators and It's free

[@mertakdeniz5498]

vital

[@jackaustin2487]

"ONE TITTY" LMFAOOO

[@mickeywalker4327]

great tips sir...Tony Junior get down bass wobble tutorial please..

[@riverkelly3025]

this is fucking awesome ! I was looking for this sound

[@julianguffogg]

Are they waveforms, not wavetables??

[@marvomusic]

8:29

[@luistomaslamadrid2761]

"it's gonna have one mountain, one titty" holy fuck I just spit a lung laughing

[@abigailr5287]

that intro... i can't comprehend that shit

[@esoteric6178]

do you ever do any videos about pure fm, dx7, fm 8 synthesis?

[@Aileron90]

i doubt it, his FM synthesis knowledge is quite limited.

[@pranavmahajan3561]

epic,!!!

[@leopohl5093]

I like the intros :D

[@masseffect3922]

cool

[@bassmaxxofficial]

G.J. Mendel would be proud of you ZEN...😎✌😂😂😂

[@terrann8797]

Too bad you'll never do Alchemy tutorial, that synth is amazing

[@dickinthewind9006]

the way i understand fm, is you're pulling up frequencies from B into the A wave form or vise versa, because you can't here certain tones normally bringing them up into hearing range at a % rate of volume and frequency. You tend to notice the higher % you go the more inaudible the tone gets. when people fm complicated wavetables its much harder because youre basically looking for the % where the tones line up from one wavetable to another, as sinewaves hit all of them its always going to sound nice, using square for example skips every 2nd one making it harder to find a nice spot where the volume cuts out the off frequencies but brings out the ones youre looking for. saws can sometimes work because of the freqencies but ideally youre looking for a needle in a haystack. its better to find/make good wavetables and use sinewaves than it is to fm something with a saw or a crazy wavetable. ideally if you want something to be fmed because you want something strong just use resynthesis and keep creating new wavetables and dropping them in and fming again.

[@phucduongnguyen67]

Thnks man,gonna study this for a while

[@ani9705]

Hey Zen. I really want your advice because you are one of the most experienced people I know in the EDM scene. So I have really strict parents and besides school I take private lessons everyday. I barely have time for producing but I really love to do it. It's like something I really really enjoy. Can you give me an advice to how to solve this? I'd love that, have a nice day

[@phucduongnguyen67]

Just keep working,everything is gonna be fine if you never lose sight,keep your mind chill in circumstances too

[@cmd_f5]

Dx7 for life \M/

[@ID4rkStr]

That intro 😂 thanks

[@Luftbubblan]

What's up with the outro track? :P Ment as a joke? If it was in tune and more interesting tail of kick/bass it wouldn't sound all that bad.

[@kaeptn]

Dun dun oeer BABY COME BACK!

[@cursedsound]

Serum!!!! 😂 I prefer spire tho

[@R3BBiT]

Cursed Sound Eeew

[@cursedsound]

You dont like spire?

[@OSCOMusic]

Anyone that makes bass music knows its all about FM8

[@chaostheory4911]

totally different instruments to me... the spire layers can make me feel euphoric or something I love most of the soft synths though

[@PsyCodeqz]

@@OSCOMusic and Blue 2

[@LamassuMedia]

you said in the 80's they used ratios and stuff so what happened to the ratios and stuff?

[@kaitsu9608]

Came romplers and virtual analogs

[@HrafnNordhri]

ok now, show us this on a hardware synth like the DX9.

[@adiputra3927]

I NEED THAT PRESET THO

[@thebigarchive]

I was just making a patch in Sytrus and then I saw this video notification :o

[@ZenWorld]

totally different vibe than Serum brother.

[@thebigarchive]

Yes but it's FM Synthesis aswell. Sytrus is alot more advanced on the FM part obviously but Serum is a wavetable synthesizer afterall :)

[@ZenWorld]

Yeah and it's not that advanced it's just more choices which sometimes messes with creativity but sure. Try out doxxed too

[@thebigarchive]

Zen World Well, compared to Serums FM capabilities Sytrus is rather advanced. But even compared to other FM synths, like FM8. Sytrus has so many more features.

[@ZenWorld]

Nah more. choices brother they are the same. You just feed osc into each other. Different algorithms though but same concept also OPERATOR IS GOOD

[@christianmarin3376]

That face you make in thumbnail 😂

[@NebulousFumes]

Beep beep

[@prophet9358]

dis intro duuuh

[@escal3488]

+Zen World I'm trying to remix Paris by the chainsmokers but the chords don't match with the acapella. Plz do a video on how to work with vocals like this

[@ViktorAdriaansens]

true_ pikachu fuck the chainsmokers brah, they're trash. Do your own original stuff instead of another shitty remix. or try to fi d new chords that fit with the acapella

[@escal3488]

lol what I'm trying to say is that the vocal is offset with the rest of the track

[@LelikPyatitskiyZver]

Serum is wavetable

[@MrSnazK]

Zen please please please brother make a dubstep tutorial video :'(

[@svg98]

6:01 RTD2, is that you?

[@jamiesondube3871]

intro=fantastic roast

[@louiskohler1951]

this hat makes you look like you work at mc donalds

[@MrKallanmanMusic]

6:42

[@Drovoceka]

why so many dislikes I don't get it this is a great tutorial! Thanks a lot, learned some new stuff here

[@defaultcolor]

Because it’s not how fm synthesis works lol

[@gvoid]

You gotta mess with the semi octaves and detune both oscillators a bit to get better sounds.....didn't gain much here.

[@estesenor7248]

hahaha ly máster

[@onlinescammer8291]

Definitely use waveforms other than sine, though.

[@onlinescammer8291]

The ideal saw just has a shitload of upper harmonics. It's gonna have a lot of roughness. You gotta shave down your upper harmonics as appropriate, or let only a few high frequencies ring out for a lo-fi digital sound. There's a lot of amazing sounds that show up pretty easily once you have some experience. Also, other intervals than octaves and perfect 5ths are good. Less consonant intervals play nicer with one or two octaves of distance from the root note, but you can use close intervals for more clang and / or beating. It's just about experimenting, although staying conservative can be a safe bet I guess.

[@imsamposener]

It hasn't been taken advantage of!!! Looooool

[@MegaJavys]

8:28 hahaha what a foo

[@empyreal9625]

I love you

[@nichttuntun3364]

you hopefully don´t think there is a "right" way to use a synthesis form? ;)

[@luisnannini]

8:28 haahahahahha

[@Brandonheat1]

hahaha its serumified

[@mau3389]

español porfavor : )

[@xTool26r]

You shaved!!! :(

[@josephm4305]

JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA!!!

[@KupKakeMusic]

Dang I am early lol

[@KupKakeMusic]

Lol

[@ZenWorld]

[@R3BBiT]

Zen World Nice tuts, bro xD

[@chvnnel2283]

this is hilarious

[@patrickluna6291]

"SERHUUUUM"

[@craigchubs3476]

first!!

[@Breakerisaac]

second

[@unclesam530]

Serum makes me wet

[@adamforce7742]

first

[@scottwylie8568]

This guy ‘explaining’ FM is like a toddler trying to teach nuclear physics. He just got some software poked around a bit and made this video pretending like he knows all about it. Still, everyone thinks he’s great so he must be doing something right. Perhaps he has the coolest hat or something.

[@ZenWorld]

Yeah, it probably it is as I don't understand the gist of what goes on behind FM Synthesizers to the extent I could program or create an FM Synth. With every video, I just explain what I know and use to create sounds for my soundbanks. The FM in Serum is dope, but it's like you said very basic compared to some more complex FM Synths out in the market that allow you to utilize more operators. Wish you the best take care.

[@Coowallsky]

My DX7 is older than he is.

[@Alex-cz9kt]

Thrid