Synthesizers - The Absolute Basics
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- 2019 EDIT: There's a few issues with this video as it was recorded years ago. There's a few things I described incorrectly in this video, so take some of what I said with a grain of salt. Here's a few key notes/terminology that I got incorrect:
1. Frequency is cycle per second and not the distance between two consecutive peaks as described in this video.The distance between two consecutive peak is known as wave length. While effectively a similar concept, The terminology I used was incorrect.
2. Fine pitch works in increments of 100 cents. 100 cents make up a semitone, 12 semitones make up an octave. Course pitch doesn't fall under this system.
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This video attempts to explain the basic functions of most synthesizers throughout history. To the suprise of many, methods of sound synthesis have not changed for a very long time, dating back to the early 1900's. I hope this video helps you to better understand the basic functionality of the parts of a synth. Please rate this video and leave your opinions in the comment section below! Subscribe for future content!
Cheers!
-Julian
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"If you want to know more about this, I recommend you take Physics in school" haha. I like this guy. This is an awesome video.
Hahaha its the truth! physics is 90% of what music is.
Julian Gray Media Physics and maths. It's stupid to think that music is humanistic.
Balto Farlander No music has any humanism or emotion?
Balto Farlander given that music has been a part of every single humam civilization for thousands of years its fair to say that music is cultural as well as physical/mathematical
@@simonsky42 It depends on what you mean by music, you can certainly approach a piece of music purely from a standpoint of physics and mathematics, the same way you can approach a poem by analying its form and techniques. As for the line between musician and music, or music and listener, it's not clear. Music can motivate and inspire people a great deal, or be fruit of a great inspiration itself.
To say it's just mathematics in such a case is a gross oversimplification, even though it may not be wrong in a purely scientific sense. People will be different in the way they think about such things, to some music is among the greatest things the world and a revelation, others see it as entertainemnt or don't value it at all.
THANK YOU! Julian. I am 34 (sometimes feel too old to get into all this as there is SO much to learn), always interested in making music but struggle to understand the physics of sound. Thank you for taking the time to explain some of this. I truly appreciate it and it has inspired me to learn more.
"that's a little loud" *continues to clip tf out of the mic* lol
Yeah I really ought to redo this video.. lol
I found that funny as well ^^ that's a little loud, followed by his voice bursting my speakers. If you choose to redo the video, please don't just delete this though, I have this one bookmarked for rewatching purposes :)
Lol
Best Tutorial on Synthesizers ive seen, anyone count how many times he said the word "essentially" in this video?
essentially the best one. Essentially.
no hate...but i wanna point out that frequency is cycle per second and not the distance between two consecutive peaks.The distance between two consecutive peak("wave separation" as you call) is known as wave length....btw you are a great teacher....i just wanna point that out.
like and subscribed to you
Correct.
Excellent video, very impressed. I learnt more in this one video than over 5-6 hours of CZcams videos
Just getting started on my production journey and your videos are always a big help. Keep it up!
Glad they were able to help!
Thank you. I've learned a lot. You are an excellent teacher.
Thank you!
Super informative! I believe the real beauty of synthesizing is getting into it early in your musical journey and learning the art of synthesis by experimenting with your synth during a long period of time incrementally. But I never owned a real synthesiser so learning these things through CZcams is my best way to go currently when using DAWs as a way of synthesising. Though will definately buy a real synthesiser in the future, probably an FM synth.
This video is so valuable. How do people forget to explain what Synths are and just go ahead to talk about different synth plugins. I am a new producer and was just thinking of going to production section of reddit to ask peeps over there. I searched CZcams and yours appears to be the only one i find useful. Thank you for this.
thank you very much, this lesson is very helpful, you're able to simplified something that is complicated
Thanks so much for an articulate and simple breakdown. Great breakdown of the basics - thank you!.
Slight correction: the distance between one peak to the next is the wavelength. the inverse of the wavelength is the frequency.
Sort of. Distance between peaks is wavelength, but the inverse of wavelength isn't frequency, the units are wrong. Wavelength (λ) = (speed of sound)/frequency. The inverse of period (T) = frequency
DUUUDE THANK YOU SO MUCH !!! This video was so easy to understand. im a beginner so this really helped out a lot !
Steven Mani was
MAN LIKE JULIAN. Thank you so much for this video!!!
Glad it helped!
Bro...this so helpful. I one of people that don't just want to know that it works, but how it works.
Thank you, I've been looking for a video like this. Actually explaining what everything does and why in a way that is easily digestible!
The start of the video was a bit long to my taste, but that might be cause I knew the whole sound thing already. The rest helped me out a bunch, very informative and clear! Thanks
I love digital synthesis. I think it is one of the most fascinating things
this has helped me so much. You are amazing, you know so much and did it all in one take hats off to you. Thanks
I love Serum, so many possibilities. Thanks for the video!
Same! It's a very powerful synth! Love it
thanks man.great tutorial
Thank you for an awesome video. Very well explained!
Excellent teaching method. Really learn a lot
Damn dude respect for your help
You're welcome!
I love you Julian.
Love you spinoza
very good explanation, please do some advanced tutorials on serum.
+Reniar Legieps I will in the future! thanks for watching!
Kick ass vid man helped a lot
glad you dug it!
11:30
You to me: "Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah"
Me: "Uhh..."
Thank you so much this has helped me enormously!
Thanks
The constantly clipping vocals gets very fatiguing but overall great video
Yeah, I had a failing converter at the time. Sorry about that!
Too much ! unfortunately i had to stop watching although really cool vid :(
I really enjoyed this tutorial
Thank you! You made it very easy to understand.
good stuff. thanks mate
thanks for the awesome tutorial!
No problem man!! Glad you liked it! Subscribe for more
Nice! Thanks!👊
This is really helpful
You are awesome
thank you.
You missed noise though :P
Great video man!. although, you did say essentially so many times aha!
*Flashbacks to trig class*
Shut up nerd
Dude! very helpful video! covered all the aspects many videos skip. I feel educated. tx.
Wow. Great call using Serum, the visualization makes it super easy to follow what you're saying. Makes me want to get it, not that I need another synth VST...
glad you dug it!
Appreciated
I have sucked at math my whole life, and you seem like a math teacher, but damnit boy, if I don't want to learn all the things you have to show men. Bravo
Thanks for the clip, this helps me a lot. Though your cam monitor blocks the part you explain about the gliding.
This video is awesome. Thank you!!!
Thank you for your great tutorial!
Cheers!
Good helpful video.
great informative video, thanks!
+Berto Killamanjaro Thanks man! glad it could be of help!
You promised to tell us about fm and wavtable in another videos 😀
All of my serum videos are wavtable
@@JulianGrayMedia 😂🤣
And the difference between east and west coast synths :-)
dude, thank you so much for this
Thanks this really helps!
We will love to have more of this Basic Synthesizers please. By the way, your Mic.level was too high so it was breaking the sound. and the sounds of Serum, we just couldn't hear it at all. Thankyou very much ! looking for more of this tutorials/ Liked - Subscribed
thank you ! it really helped !
clever guy.
Are you able to program The The Frequency of the wave you create?
i'm looking to buy a synth, however, i'm really confused as to if i need a software for my computer to make music. Could i just buy a synth and record songs from that or do i need a software to do that? Thanks.
Two people gave ya a like but didn’t say crap. I’ll put what I know in. Which is that you can use a variety of free programs. The best in my opinion could be audacity. It’s very basic and real quick to figure out, yet offers a lot.
You get a synth that you can just plug into a computer?
GrimmSmilee thanks man for the help, in the end I managed to get a Macbook for 300 and got Logic Pro x for free. I found these other softwares too confusing for me, since I use logic at my college I got into the habit of it haha. Thanks for the considerate comment though :)
Aaron 102 no problem dude, only took a moment of my time ✌️
so software is completely necessary?
It is possible to record with all hardware components...but IMO software has a lot of free options and more modification potential.
Great vid and don't wanna be a dick but frequency is the rate of oscillation so the faster the oscillation or the higher the frequency then the higher thepitch will be (or lower ) not the distance between peaks that's wavelength
Yeah, minor mistake I made in the explanation. I know better now
You aren't being a dick for saying that.
I appreciate your explanation, but man, if I didn't study computer engineering a lot of that would have went straight over my head
JJCcubes42 yeah. Struggling a bit on this.
I didn’t study computer engineering and I understand most of it
Good
What kind of headphones do you preferably use, while working with synthesizers?
Video is not bad in what regards to contents; but a synth produces sound, right ? So as your microphone, right ? My advise is that on next videos you find a better setting for your mic, it's to agressive and I believe constantly hitting the red light on the recording.
I had a failing Pre-amp during this era of the channel.
Thanks for the reply, that explains it. Cheers.
This was very useful, thank you! Question: all those knobs in the Envelope... are they really still used in the real world of sound engineering? Or does the engineer simply draw out (the equivalent of) bezier curves using the mouse (or touch), to describe the exact envelope they want? Cheers.
a combination of both! envelopes vary very much between software synths, as developers can reimagine the traditional adsr system into whatever they see fit.
Thanks.
10:36 steps!
So the Serum is a software synth installed on a pc or Mac....? Is this similar or the same as a hardware digital synth?
It can work on both! and its the same general idea as a digital hardware synth yes, only when you use a hardware synth, it sometimes uses hardware to create and shape the sound instead of software.
Julian Gray Media Thanks.
i like so much vídeos👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
+Abelcarsio Chicoa Thanks man!!
I tried keeping up.😫
Realy educating video, that's what I was looking for, but damn, you're sound producer and you couldn't adjust the proper vocal level and it's distorted? :/
was the interface I was using at the time. the dac was dying on it
Bro the space between peak and peak is the wavelength
You're right, but when you graph a wave's amplitude over time , the distance between the peaks on that graph is frequency. That's what he was getting at.
Well I learned how to use the word “essentially”
i just want to make funky beats like homeshake :(
quick question: what theme are you using for ableton bc it's fckin beautiful.
Disco!
+Julian Gray Media Thanks!
the amount of times u said essentially gave me a headache
Essentially same
from this vid alone I can tell serum is multiple times better than my sylenth
I definitely prefer both for different things
Julian Gray Media Can you enlighten me, in which situations is one better or more practical than the other?
lol
I wouldn’t say it’s that much better, just different. Side by side, I agree Serum would come out on top. Especially for learning synthesis but as Sylenth is a subtractive Synth and Serum is a Wavetable synth- albeit one of the best wavetable synths on the market, they both have a place in music production and it’s definitely a good thing to have both. I find Sylenth is still the better option for shiny melodic parts of certain tracks I’ve worked on recently - whereas Serum is my “go-to” synth for dirty, harsher bass parts.
I wouldn’t write Sylenth off so soon though. But yeah, pretty much everything Sylenth can do, Serum can too. With bells on :)
If you guys really want to understand waveforms on an intimate level, study electrical engineering.
Good video, but please turn down your mic next time , its really hard to listen to 20 minutes of earrape
Interface was dying when I recorded. Had to be mad loud to get any sound at all. Since fixed this issue!
Julian Gray Media aight, it's better to have shitty sound than no sound at all ;P
For a video on understanding audio, the audio quality on the video (even with all his modern equipment) is just _terrible!_
- This is a REALLY mixed message, it renders _everything_ he's saying on the subject untrustworthy. O~O
Yeah my mic preamp was going bad at the time. It's unfortunate.
Nice, very imformative video but your voice is quite loud compared to the synth :)
Accident!
I like your effort but tbh not hitting the absolute basics my man
Kid, it's _et cetera_, not "eck setra".
Haha sorry