WTF Is Spectral Synthesis? (ft. Steinberg X-Stream)

[@RedMeansRecording]

Get the free Spectral Synthesizer X-Stream here: www.steinberg.net/vst-instruments/x-stream/ After X-Stream is activated and installed, get my presets here: download.steinberg.net/assets/X-Stream/X-Stream_RMR.vstsound Get an entirely free (and free to use anywhere) collection of music made with X-Stream here: jjbbllkk.itch.io/spectral-landscapes Transcript and sources: www.patreon.com/posts/114388972

[@nicksaya]

how do i initialize the patch? I don't have an Init preset

[@nicksaya]

when I assign an LFO to an interval I don't see the dot moving.. Why isn't the assigned LFO doing anything? thanks for video

[@alexgrunde6682]

13:58 this is why transients are one of the most important yet overlooked elements in sound design for synth patches. A quick, almost imperceptible burst of noise, filter sweep, pitch warble, wavefolder, etc at the start of a sound will do wonders to giving a patch a more musical feel and less like electronic farts.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

wowee, i can imagine how much time and effort it took to put this vid together! amazing job and very interesting, thx!

[@Nicoya]

Harmonics and sidebands are actually two separate phenomenon. Harmonics are signals that repeat at rational multiples of the fundamental frequency (usually integral multiples), whereas sidebands are signals that appear when you multiply together (aka modulate) signals of different frequencies; you get one sideband at the sum of the two frequencies and one sideband at the difference of the two frequencies, the upper and lower sidebands respectively. Of course these sidebands may then have their own harmonics.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Thanks for the clarification

[@krazywabbit]

thank you for not having a quiz at the end or I would fail. Respect on the work done to educate.

[@GeorgeL909]

This question was fundamentally answered by an episode of Star Trek TNG. Commander Troi asked Commander Data to make a clay sculpture representing music, and Data complained that music was just a series of sounds manifest as reverberations. But Troi was like, sculpt how the music makes you feel, show me what music looks like! So Data sculpted a mask that turned out to be the avatar of an ancient evil sun goddess who tormented a race of aliens inside a floating ice comet that had the ability to transform the enterprise into a death cult temple erected to appease the cruel goddess and lull her back to sleep so she would no longer torture them.... Sound!

[@els1f]

This really resonated with me 😌

[@resetreboot]

Wow, this video is deep and informative, man. And also, fun to listen with the smol jokes here and there. It's a pity X-Stream won't work in my box (I have to use WINE as this is a Linux box) so I'll have to look for alternatives. It's sad because those presets sound amazing!

[@KrisSlyka]

I love my smooth null friends!

[@zxfguiklnm]

Incredibly well made video. Messed up that algorithm is not pushing it more, deserves several orders of magnitude more views.

[@Owofbfbajfbsnsn]

I appreciate how you approach sponsored content

[@ShoutingStatue]

I love furrier analysis

[@the_washington_monument_am9714]

This is not a video to listen to in the background- I was understanding completely, then turned my attention to tie my necktie, and found myself in spectral freefall. Damn good video 😊

[@ZauTa]

quite the coincidence that RMR makes this video while im taking Signals, Systems, and Transforms and learning Fourier series shenanigans.

[@els1f]

How'd you make a search button🔎 for Fourier series, magical person?! 🤯

[@Nornec]

I think i understand now. Sound *IS*

[@RedMeansRecording]

God it really is.

[@dirg3music]

"People don't think sound be like it is, but it do" - Neil DeGrasse Tyson

[@kaitlyn__L]

I need to stop 2 minutes in to say "smooth null friend" absolutely killed me. You little devil, sneaking this stuff in ;) Anyway, let's get round to the rest of the video. I'm especially interested to learn how this is different from traditional additive synthesis, or Synclavier's resynthesis (where the additive components are individually shifted and altered, which does seem quite similar from that little clip of the Steinberg software.)

[@laryngis431]

I fucking love your videos Jeremy. They're the Jerembest

[@RedMeansRecording]

i try very hard to jerem in every video

[@Nick-kb6jd]

@@RedMeansRecording We need JereMORE! tehee

[@ddffdfff-s2c]

I think they are horrible for the same reason

[@Nick-kb6jd]

@@ddffdfff-s2c Then you should stop watching them.

[@ddffdfff-s2c]

@ who asked you? Go invade a music festival.

[@mikey303]

I am spectrally synthesizing RIGHT NOW and there is NOTHING you can do to stop me

[@els1f]

OMG this video is amazing! You summed up every mind blowing thing I've been learning over the last several years in a few minutes🤯🤣🔥✌️

[@mortensmodules]

25:22 OMG Love! 😍 This is an insanely cool video Jeremy - Love it! Will certainly give X-Stream a spin👏🏻

[@Italliving]

Makes me Think of Paul Stretch and Granular Combination , Nice Demo btw .

[@pinnkfrost]

Omg! This video was fantastic! ❤ Incredible explanation of this information. This plugin reminds me so much of Paul Stretch but with a way better workflow. I’m definitely picking it up!

[@jean-pierremartineau4136]

Great content as usual! I thought I knew most of this, but your thorough research proved me wrong!

[@sound.workshop]

Wow this video is incredibly well done. Thanks for sharing this story!

[@craftycurate]

This is concisely taught and beautifully presented. Thanks!

[@DivKid]

This is great! X-Stream is cool but the look at spectral synthesis and it's history was really interesting.

[@plscks]

This was a great video! Not only really informative with an excellent demonstration, but the soundscapes you’ve made are beautiful. Well done and thank you for creating this and sharing it with us!

[@derrickdaugherty3445]

I lost my sh*t at the R.M. Golden portrait. Outstanding video and research!

[@gregwilson007]

Such a cool video - thank you!

[@ChrisPrudhomme]

This was amazing!! I have a more solid anchor now for the different synth terms in relationship to sound. Incredible amount of effort into this. Thank you

[@314Firmas]

Thank you so much! Everything you do is super high quality, I love how you explain complicated things with humor and visuals.

[@Silkynight]

Pure gold Jeremy! Bravo!

[@jacobdevine9031]

One thing missing from the history portion is the russian ANS spectral synthesizer from the 40s. It is the granddaddy of MetaSynth software.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Oh snap

[@audiblevideo]

Awesome work, design, and explanation!

[@Inkthiefmusic]

This video is deeeeep. Nice work!

[@EZBOT_]

Awesome presentation! Thanks Jeremy

[@dylnn-music]

this is some high quality content 🔥

[@BeniRoseMusic]

What's always blown my mind a bit is that fundamentals are sine waves and sine waves are literally the sound of a circle. You're literally hearing what electricity moving in a circle sound likes. And then you can also make virtually any sound imaginable by adding up the sounds of circles at different volumes over time. Fucking circles dude!!

[@edrochagoncalves]

Great video Jeremy 👏👏

[@ben_burnes]

I wanted to make an ambient album for the NaSoAlMo (November album in a month). Good timing! Looking forward to messing around with this

[@paintingwithnoise]

incredible editing skills... some day I'll get there.

[@DavidChristiansenUK]

Excellent work @red

[@MonsterCC]

This video is awesome! Learning so much about SOUND

[@marleenvos4126]

Great video! Looks like a very interesting product.

[@Derrapatec-k6u]

Que gran trabajo bro

[@MurderhouseOfficial]

I’ve never needed to know this but now I do, thanks!

[@teleman-11]

This was really awesome, ty!

[@kaitlyn__L]

Okay, pausing again at 5 minutes, I thought I recognised "Music Club" from that opening chord but I kept listening in case it was a suspiciously-similar track... nope, it's the same one! I freaking love that whole track, but especially that chill melodic cool-jazz kinda intro. Great choice to make a loop out of it. (Here's where I discover that's a royalty free loop that Chase n Status just, used, or something, lmao)

[@doelman]

Cool, super interesting! Well explained.

[@Soundwrecker]

* BAM! * The Fourier transform of an impulse response is the frequency response.

[@4mb127]

So Teleharmonium was basically a Motor Synth.

[@gattearthrid]

4:07 I love my stomping ground 🤣 wobble wobble 🤣

[@adamrkob]

Fourier transforms for life.

[@postsolarpunk]

gunna call it furrier transform from now on

[@fallboardmusic]

This owns J thanks for schooling me uwu

[@RudeMyDude]

i love you sine waves

[@JoeBrown1]

5:00 chase and status music club!

[@Alkatross]

Harmor uses more sine waves for re synthesizing audio. You can time stretch audio so slow it stops, but maintains perfect spectral fidelity. Wish there was a hardware version of that.

[@aeon136]

BRAVO Jeremy!💯%... THANK U!🤗🦋✨👽...

[@GruffBillyGoat]

22:25 accidental Windows 95 startup sound (or was it intentional?)

[@rickwoods5274]

"One frequency" but... I hear pitch changes, even on the tightest bandpass...

[@va941]

Hey, you, big Red, what is that visualizer at 0:35 ? I saw (i think) the same visualizer on the Ben Jordan/mr.bill/drop video...i need it.❤

[@pthelo]

Hi friend! The visualizer is from iZotope INSIGHT 2. Unfortunately, it's hella pricey if you just want it for the spectrogram visualizer - $199!

[@RedMeansRecording]

Top is Ableton EQ bottom is isotope insight. Best visualizer I've found is Vision 4x.

[@va941]

Thanks, i have Vision4x, its great, but i love the 3d look of that thing❤​@@RedMeansRecording

[@datashat]

16:10 ...because the process of installing it is a kafkaesque nightmare fractal

[@NicStage]

I'm impressed that you got past an unironic use of the term "kinks". 😅

[@Gnosizbeats]

Lol @ one of the pre sets being named Ketamine Fanfare 😂

[@HYENABLOOD]

thinking evil ambient thoughts with this. also I fear Outer Wilds fans are going to hear the Listen Carefully preset and have endgame war flashbacks.

[@kevinlloyd3047]

YET ANOTHER use of Fourier transforms is in time series data analysis to model repeating patterns (e.g. sales of a product)

[@justinbernal1]

@5:19 why do I get the terrible feeling that the next trendy hipster lo-fi degenerative pedal will be a Sinusoidal Helmholtz resonator... smh 🙄 Chase Bliss will be first up with many posers to soon follow 😮‍💨😆

[@TommieTrumper-TFC1200]

I don’t care I just like it 😁

[@nicksaya]

how do i initialize the patch? I don't have an Init preset

[@jazneptune]

ketamine fanfare 👀

[@vlaskz]

If you change the words just a little it’ll be a lot funnier. But ya, I love his videos as well

[@nolyspe]

FYI, IRCAM is pronounced "EAR-CAM", not "EYE AHR CAM"

[@chrisjohnson8262]

Metasynth did it over 20 years ago

[@alwysgreen1781]

667th view sorry lucifer

[@RonaldApple-jq2go]

Enjoyable video. Reminded about music down the phone line with Telharmonium. sinusoidal pronunciation sai - nuh- soy - dl