How To Listen To A Sound and Know How To Make It
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"How To Listen To A Sound and Know How To Make It"
"Get enough experience to recognize the steps taken to make it."
Everything's a reminder of how time is the most important resource.
ahahahhaa i like your point
syntheseisidisi..synthsesiisus..synthestistu.. basics!
VaylewMusic Love when Seamless screws up words like this :D
neclovekSK he can't even words right now
2:00 " The basics of synthththt...sypfhsthu... god damn that word.. the basics of synthjsn.. THE BASICS ! " always makes my day lol
xD
You should definitely compile all of these vlog-style videos into one playlist, for ease of use.
You should also make a genre of music called Vlogstyle. It could be like Hardstyle, but made entirely using samples from your vlogs.
Much respect to you for all these videos you've done. I also followed the "wing it until you get the hang of it" school of thought, and it's been a long, frustrating 10 years of not knowing fundamentals to branch out from the niche I carved. Some of these tutorials can be a little difficult to watch, but I always learn something, which is all I can ask for. Thanks for deciding to share this knowledge after you made the change to learn the mechanics behind everything.
Casually rewatching this video after like 5 years and I know about everything you mention here. Im so proud of myself rn, thank you 💙💜
🎉 Cheers
Of every video you've ever put out that I've watched, I think this has been the single most informative of them all (in my opinion). Thank you for your time sir, I shall go study now.
Great video mate. All of them (or at least the heap of them that I've seen so far) have been very insightful and i commend you on that. I see you active on reddit regularly and you're a huge pillar of the community and i thank you for your work.
75 thousand is a massive footprint and i'm sure every single one of those fine people would thank you for this wealth of information that's going to influence probably millions of music enthusiasts down the line.
i make sure to like every video of yours that i watch because i use adblock and i guess that's essentially stealing from you haha but still, thanks heaps man, i love you
I just started watching your videos. Seamless, you seem very level headed and competent. (I mean compared to most people.) You seem like a real cool guy. Thanks for sharing your experiences, opinions, advice, and wisdom with those who will listen. I subscribed and can't wait to dive in and have you to teach me the ins and outs of FL.
"I think I need to blow my... neck" ~SemlisR 2015
you're amazing man, loved your video, it was like listening to myself only with more experience, and thanx for helping me to look at things not from a different, but wider perspective. never agreed with what people said in a video so much, keep up the good work man!
I watch a lot of your videos, and feel like this one was particularly eye-opening. I really think you should continue doing these types of videos along with your tutorials.
Thanks man your videos are always informative and right on point for me.
Thanks you so much for those informations !
dude, you're a master teacher!! keep up the good work seamlessr
Seamless, thx for the vids man, you help out lots of ppl out there !
u da man!! Merry Christmas!!!
I go way back with fl before it was flstudio and your good, your always in my tube playlist. .
I have a goal to learn synthesis through every ONE of your tutorials!! Thanks for all the insight!!
This is the value of presets in a nutshell. Bringing the crazy sound you heard into your DAW and being able to figure out how they got there by virtue of tweaking it endlessly
I love your personnality, you seems so cool haha ! And its incredible to see your oponer :"HI im seamless" in all your video, don't change anything !
Ps : Im wainting for your reverse engeenering video ;)
Honestly, thanks. I rarely ever comment, but I've been watching for a while. And yeah, thanks. And your How To Synth series is exactly what I've been looking for, since I'm a really new and a complete dumbass when it comes to understanding the basic concepts. I tried watching How To Bass and got so lost XD I'll return to it when I learn some more haha
You are such a good teacher.
I use live and just got the Harmor Vst plugin last month and I gotta say. it's a beauty!
What I usually do when I recreate sounds for my tutorials is I first listen to the sound a few times, and try to recreate the sound with my mouth. After that, I think about how exactly I recreated that sound and what elements I used (vibrato, pitch bend, high pass filter... ect.) then I use those elements (along with some trial and error) to achieve the same kind of sound in my synth patch.
Nice tutorial Micheal, great video to get us started. May you tell - how do I link two or more channels (in the rack channel) as to share the sa
Seamless-sama, could you do Boards of Canada-esque track from scratch, please?
Or maybe the most analog sounding track with digital tools
2:01 Sound it out, Seamless... lol
SeamlessR = Sensei
Ausome vid thanks man.
Besides the valuable information, SeamlessR has a great set of teeth!
How do you mix the voice/commentary on your videos? It's so perfect. I use a multiband compressor, limiter with noise gate, and beef up the lows a bit, but your audio is just so crisp! Id be really interested.
Have you ever thought uploading this kind of videos to soundcloud as a podcast?
Great tips man. Which wave forms do you think were created to make the lead from the melody from the song Right On Time by Skrillex, 12th Planet , and Kill The Noise?
Seamless, I would like some tips on how to fit more instruments in a song.
I find it hard mixing the bass and drums in a power chords riff and wanted some tips in general c:
Fobia™ this is cool topic! definetly need seamless.
What i do i search for sounds which have their own place in frequency range and doesnt need much EQing, for example, drums most on 80 - 100 HZ + 6000 for click; then bass from 90 to 700 Hz and take - 2 DB around 200 Hz to reduce muddy sound; Then Power chords from 200 to 3000 Hz around and match with bass sound so it sounds good. Add high frequency 3000HZ + and make sure it doesnt sound so thiny. Level all frequency range so it peaks little bit on drums and 6000 Hz. To add more stuff you can Pan so it isnt all in the center and gives nice usage of space. If its sounds bad to you after 1 or 2 listens then it is bad and you need to change particular sounds. :D
Fobia™ You're basically asking how to mix :p
+Fobia™ Watch his videos on mixing and EQing, they're very helpful.
In fact, just watch all of his videos. They are a gold mine of free information.
you gotta learn eq fundamentals & ranges, compression & bus processing
cool video, really intresting
hey seam please there a melody u did in a synthesis course u use harmor i really want to know how u design it
Thanks bro
Thanks
What is the automations used in the pre chorus for the song ''applause '' by lady gaga at 0 : 41
Thanks!
Wow! This is amazingly educational! Please just slow down by 1 bpm...
You're like a volunteer music professor :)
Hi Seamless!
first of all Great Tutorials! I just wanted to ask you if you got Skills and knowledge in Deep / Tech House. It would be great to see some Basics knowledge in a Video from you :)
Seamless where did you learn all that about FM synthesis?
Seamless. I've been using Sytrus, because it's the only synth plugin (outside of 3xOsc, but lol) that I can grasp. Let's say I'd like to experience other plugins.. what ones would you recommend?
You speak posivitively about Massive in this video.
I have a friend who recommends Sylenth1
Please give your word.
Mid Nat Massive and Serum. Both really easy to use and will get to basically any sound you'd like to get to. Serum has more filter variations, and more wavetable synthesis than Massive, but Massive has an easier work flow with more oscillators for additive synthesis and it will help you to understand certain things you didn't understand before.
I do recommend Massive. It is a great synth.
***** It's funny because I don't know how to use Sytrus. XD
I started out with Massive, and from Massive I automatically learned how to use many other synths, except Sytrus because all the operators confuse me. But I don't think I'll ever need to learn Sytrus, since I can do everything that is done in Sytrus, I can do in any other Synth. :)
***** Thank you loads. I haven't actually seen Serum yet. :)
I'll look into it.
I never really listened to your videos, even though I’ve known about this channel for a while. Your style of teaching is really down to earth and this is going to help quite a bit. Especially like your advice around having a short pipeline for CZcams videos. I’m trying to improve my CZcams video quality and, yea, I can see it taking a lot longer than what I’ve done in the past. I gotta keep an eye on that for sure.
Alot of words hope others don't get confused with all the synthesises (say that three times fast lol). Summing up the video. Learn the basics, experiment, and expand to advance unknown techniques. There are so many unknown techniques that i still haven't discovered and the ones i have i have to make up names for and most of the time it requires doing something the dev's didn't expect you to do and could break things ( I broke Serum a few times that way). Nothing much to it,but taking the first step to learn from the bottom up and do your own thing which many pioneers of sound design did to claim a sound to their name.
Man i'd love to know how the main bass of noisestorm - solar was made it's so awesome :D
15:15 plugins that sound good with minimal effort are what I want when creating a track ;)
You talked about how razor gave you new insights on how to rock harmor a few times now, you should make a video to elaborate on that, I'm rather curious, as I have harmor but never tried razor.
acYm It was relatively simple stuff like it didn't occur to me to take specific swaths of harmonics and move them around together. Easily done using the Prism knob but it just wouldn't have occurred to me to do that quite like that.
I always find myself coming back to this video...
Hey could u please hear this beat and help me re create it i asked the producer and he is ignoring me im in love with this sound but i have no idea how to recreate it or find what he used
flangers and chorus belong to time/delay thats right.. but phasers belong to filters... but yet you could say filters actually play also into the time/delay group.. but frequency depending (phase shift) ...and thats how a phaser work... it's a group of multiple allpass filters which are modulated (mostly by an lfo).. all shifting the phase around.. and then fed back (feedback knob obviously)
so yes it is also a time based effect but not in a way like a delay but in phase.. so it belongs to filters
Can anyone can help me on this question Im still new. What gives a wavetable its tone. I know that a sine wave creates a smooth bass sound and saw has more of a distorted sharper sound. But why. How does the peaks and slopes into negative and positive represent what kind of overall sound you will get. Is it just the speed of the oscillation which is why a noise shape gives it that well high noise sound because its oscillating at a faster rate?
Can you do a tutorial on pads ?
I love your beard
The contrast between your face and everything kinda makes it creepy
He looks like Zordon from power rangers
Filters, LFO-less delays and reverb can all be done using convolution.
That fumbling moment was savage
I still have a lot of studying to do with all of this terminology. Nevertheless, it's fun to just experiment with a bunch of settings in 3xOsc. Discovering stuff by experimentation is a fun way to go about things.
How to listen to a sound and know how to make it... ... Some Visual/audible examples maybe? ... It seems to work on most occasions.
"I think i need to blow, my neck."
haha, Seamless i love your awkward/weird personality.
by the way awesome video!
What category would granular synthesis fall into?
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Frequency Modulaton
F M
Wayne lauro ... What about it?
SL75 It sucks
SL75 i was answering a question in the comments section
Wayne lauro Yes, I listen to the Radio?
***** Yes me too
and another thing.. not every so called fm synths (and/or fm options).. does it the same.. often it is called FM but is actually PM (phase modulation)
What does the F and M mean in FM?
If you're taking any 75k early, I NEED THE ROOTKIT DEEP HOUSE SYNTH
Reference 1: Build the Cities (Rootkit Remix)
Reference 2: Real love - Rootkit
How are we gonna be able to request sounds? Reddit?
Basically, train your ear to eventually recognize the sound by endless experimenting...done.
noice
EEK! noice
13:15 so true.
you help me bro in some way thanks
Do you have a ponytail?
Hey Seamless how did you learn so much about how to make music in Fl Studio. I would love to make music as great as you.
EHD Years and years of derping around and making crappy things. Then slowly getting better at it little by little each time he did. :)
5ilver42 Yeah but how did he hearn to sound design, and how to modulate sounds like in dubstep? :)
EHD See answer above. Second answer:
Forget what SeamlessR did; there are far, far more resources out there now than when he was learning. Hit up CZcams and look up every sound design tutorial you can find, and just watch what they're doing. Sooner or later you start noticing some real similarities between different sounds, and your knowledge will gradually be filled in the more you study.
Mockingbirch I cant actually find I good tutorial on dubstep, I have found pretty much any other genre besides dubstep, and I cant figure it out, I've seen some flp's and there automation clips everywhere so confusing. Plus I don't really know what to do like for an intro and stuff.
EHD There are so many dubstep tutorials out there. Like, so, so many. If you "cant find them," you're not looking hard enough.
Your super saw comment is sooooo on point.
I need launchpad tutorial... the mixer mode, the keyboard mode, etc.
Your floating head makes you look like Zordon from power rangers
i had to pause at 2:30 to correct something.
Types of synthesis
1 Additive synthesis
2 Subtractive synthesis
3 Frequency Modulation (FM Synthesis)
4 Amplitude Modulation (AM Synthesis)
5 Wavetable synthesis
6 Granular synthesis
7 Physical Modeling
8 Waveshaping synthesis (drawing the waveshapes that are used)
9 Resampling (closer to granular synth than anything. taking a cycle or a few cycles of audio, and looping them and treating samples as OSCs for subtractive synth, but they're samples)
Considering seamlessR has one of the better AM tutorials i've seen, i'm surprised these didn't get listed considering how differently they all sound and act.
therealquade "The basics synthesis" that he sort out which can recreate most of the other synthesis. In this video, he doesn't have to instruct us every specs of an apple and its skin and seeds before peeling and eating it, he just instruct us how to eat the apple. #metaphor
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therealquade You must be a lot of fun at parties.
What is physical modelling?
therealquade You missed phase distortion... Unless that's the same as one of the others you've cited?
hey seamless, if ya haven't already, pick up a surface pro for fruityloops, you can thank me whenever :)
You forgot physical modeling synthesis,as in Sakura and native instruments prism
seamless how is it I don't think I've heard you ever discus ogun. it is hugely advanced even next to harmor and it's also imageline. and pre-dates it. and has way way more harmonics.
therealquade There are specific things Ogun is good at but mostly I don't use it because it gives you like 1/50th the control over what its doing vs something like Harmor.
SeamlessR yeah, I get that. an ogun 2.0 is in order. with prism and resynthesis.
therealquade you could always use edison and to record different parts of any plugin to lower ram load when dealing with heavy synths like nexus2
DJ LNR I'm not having a ram problem though. The thing about Ogun that interested me, was that harmor only uses pre-set saw/square harmonics and you can adjust their pitch to nolonger be in series, Whereas Ogun it seems includes a HUGE list of inharmonic bands all together with it, so that if you played every band, you would get white noise, which is incredibly useful for snares, and "metallic" sounds, and bells.
The problem is, with Ogun, you can't automate everything. it's either a pluck with a custom envelope, or a sustained note. you can't automate harmonics other than fade out or fade in over time. Ogun is fairly static.
and as for re-sampling Ogun... If I wanted to preserve everything I'd have to bump my sample rate way up and in edison save as an uncompressed wav and not an mp3, which creates a HUGE amount of size bloat. I can buy more ram for cheap, but I'm on an SSD, I can't afford that much bloat and repeated disk writes.
therealquade good reply, I get you, it's once in a long while I meet someone on this big Web that actually knows what they are doing and can actually comment on exactly what they were trying to do. You have strong knowledge as the best of us good work.. When you have time and I mean time because I go back and forth but trust me when I say, Synth maker is amazing, it reminds me of the early 80's with amiga's and atari's consoles with what people would call now mild gui desktops or even 16bit Cli's .. How much ram do you have by the way? Ever thought of running an old stable ver of flstudio in an vista virtual box all in one vhd which will sit on some ramdisk software? I have tried something similar long long ago when using fl rewire back to the host fl and now there's software such as soundmeter banana we can make our systems think anything and not depend on ram ram ram or hard disk rewrites and that's why I said vhd rather than a vdi image, vdi will use mist resources of vbox aka graphics and a daw would do much better if graphics were always last to cause system to buffer. . So Synth maker which is native flstudio and voicemeter, check then out. Bless
That's all great and stuff but how do I make real instruments in Sakura now?
Just kidding, even though this video is based around electronic sound design it helped me a lot for, ya know, electronic sound design 😉
This. I wish he made some sakura tutorials, but he's got east west so he doesn't need sakura.
"My voice changed. My voice changed a LOT. That's weird. If you have any questions about that, please let me know."So uhh... Did it change in a good way?
Seamless please do a tutorial on newtone
8bitheroes86 I'm actually planning on doing one myself in the future, so if you're interested, I encourage you to check out my stuff.
ShalMusicFX you should fix your thumbnails. they are very messy and deterring
***** what about them is messy?
ShalMusicFX the Text and there is too much going on
*****
Duly noted. I'm going to go back and revise some of them.
"I think I need to blow my... Neck" lol
This demystification kinda made me lose my fire, the analytical part of me really inhibits me to actually feel the sound 😭 how do I get to create again?
My voice changed.... My voice changed a lot. hahaha the power of having a good ear you listen to yourself....
man can someone properly explain me what are filters ?
"The more you learn, the more you earn"
hey dude where does the r come from in your name? :L
Reaktor(6) is waaay better than Harmor and is Razors engine.
I only have Serum, so many sounds are very buzzy for the most part. Annoying.
tweak stuff in presets, find out what it's doing, grats you a win, cookie
shout out to syntorial
watch this one video, ya know what just watch them all they will teach you shit
Got me laughin over here
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Really looking forward to the reverse engineering video!
bruh bruh, calm down.... the train's not leaving