FM3 Synth Drones Tutorial
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You have a very deep and sophisticated understanding of how to use the FM3 - Impressive. Thanks
The FM3 legit becomes an instrument in the right hands. Awesome
Amazing how things sometimes just fall into your lap right when you're looking for them. Was trying to create something like this just the other day for making mode/arpeggio practice more interesting. Your approach is way better than the one I came up with. Only thing I changed was used the channel inc/dec footswitch option and set the range from A to C and had it wrap.
This is surely one of your best videos. So many fascinating ideas and possibilities there which I didn't even know were possible. Really good stuff, Leon.
A choppy trem pattern with those drones and a bangin' EDM beat with an offbeat hi-hat. And the Boss Slicer said 'hold my beer'.
This is awesome, what a knwoledge of FM3 and I'm just starting! Thanks for sharing and amazing playing!! :-)
Great array of tones/vibes and feelings!!!! With my job I've got to set up quite a few guitar rigs with the Kemper Profiler but never had the chance to play through it there. On a second note the guitar tech for Nancy Wilson from Heart that I was working with handed me one of her guitars to have fun with through the huge amphitheater P.A. Another time Frank Hannon from Tesla let me play his Therimin through the huge P.A. beyond awesome "D"
Geez that would have been an EPIC experience man
Im sold to the FM3 because of how you demo it. I hope I don’t get disappointed when I get it.
Leon! You just opened my world even further with this video! I'm a long time instrumentalist/looper and I take a Boss GR-55 and a Carvin NS1 nylon synth guitar to lay down these orchestrated "drones" to solo over with my other guitars, but doing it with an FM3 (when I get mine!) will be awesome and will reduce my gear load when I go out to play! Thank you very much for these videos, as I have commented before, they are so helpful!
With a few extra little additions the synth block would be monstrous in the FM3. Gotta love gear that consolidates several items into one!
@@LeonTodd Hey Leon, just added myself to the Axe FX-III wait list also! Not sure I can wait until late this year or early next year for the FM3! Trying to be patient, but you know how us "Gear Hounds" are and I want to be ready to go with some of your models, drones and presets etc. when our world returns to some sense of normalcy! With the Axe FX-III, let us know if you prefer the FC6 or FC12 Ok? Have an awesome and safe week!!
LEON!!! WOWZERS!!!! I know this vids been out awhile now, but this will be perfect for my praise and worship tunes!!! IF...I can make this work with my FM9?
Just love the drones.
Before joining LT's channel I could have counted the number of times I heard the word Glorious used in a sentence on one hand and still have fingers left over.,. LMAO
Gloooorious
Well done Brother! Fine Tutorial and Demonstration! Cool Thumbnail!
Thanks for sharing and Be Well Leon and All!
Thanks for sharing the present.
My pleasure!
Most Glorious! I've only used the basic setup for this in a David Gilmour type vibe. I'm keen to try this with the open triads using the pitch block though.
Very cool!
Brilliant !!!!
Thanks for nice patch
Damn this so cool Leon,can't wait to try this out on some patches. Thanks for the tips and tricks, very informative and inspiring like always.
Awesome! Now you got me thinking how I can turn this in to an Ableton Live patch to do similar things... but I need more coffee first... a lot more coffee...! haha Great stuff man!
oh shit! the purple Smurf hat is back, fresh out of the dryer! 136th thumbs up!
Tea cosy returns!
Leon that was amazing. Thanks a lot for sharing
I am not so far and deep in my Fm3 that i can handle that. Anyway very interesting whats possible with the FM3. Will load the preset in my FM3 to follow Leons explainations. Great Tip
Unreal
Amazing sounding! I wonder what the possibilities are to combine an FM3 with a Boss SY-1000. Hmmm...
LOTS
That was fun and very helpful. Thanks!
Great stuff Leon, still waiting for the Thin Lizzy five killer riffs!
Is there a way to change the transition time between scenes? so it doesn't just jump instantaneously from one chord to another? More of a gently sweep from one to another over a couple of seconds?
It must be good did you see his face contortions in the first shred... i loved it👍
Amazing tutorial... hey bro fix a dedicated playlist for all the FM3 tutorial videos u have...so i dont need to scroll to all your videos..just a bit of request 😬
Ask and you shall receive - czcams.com/play/PLJ2NORIYLYH6Q435TGbkRBtHv9hf2HBWD.html
Leon Todd thank you so much bro... amazing tutorials... more tutorials for fm3😬 i will be receiving it next month 🤗
Holy shit it's awsome
I have a footswitch toggling 2 presets. One is a synth pad and the other is a rhythm tone with reverb. Is it possible to allow the synth to spillover?
Damn! I got inspired to mess with the synth block after watching one of your other videos, but I was trying to get the harmonies with the synth block voices. Never crossed my mind to use pitch block. Duhhhh! So much easier. Thank you for this video!
Take it next level and dial in some harmonies using custom scales :D
@@LeonTodd Thanks Leon. I'm noticing something strange with the synth block. I have voices 2 and 3 both set to 100 Hz just like you do in the video, but they sound slightly different in pitch. To get them to sound identical, I need to move voice 3 up to 111.60 Hz. From what I can see, all the other params are identical. Any thoughts as to what I might be missing?
Just figured it out. Even though the "Shift" knob read 0, it was somehow slightly not 0. I reset it to 0 by typing it in and then the two voices synced up in pitch.
New to fractal and axe Fx3 and the drones. I play guitars tuned down half step. Any drone patches I’ve found are always in 440 tuning. So when playing a drone patch where scenes are switching keys they are in 440 and it m 1/2 step down. Is there anything simple I can do to transpose these patches? I know a lot of times I’ll put a pitch block in and tune up 1 tone so I can practice a song that was recorded at pitch. I don’t think what I want to do now though is that simple.
There was a Whitesnake concert where D. Aldrich teared the sky apart with a similar thing.
Yeah Doug's live solo with the big keys underneath is god tower, what a player
Very cool. I like to use the reverb block’s hold function to generate a pad. This has me thinking about putting a pitch block after it to generate harmonies with maybe just 5ths. Wouldn’t get quite the depth of a full chord, but could use any note from any key? Hmmm
Better yet, try the Plex shift block - it has a hold function and gives you pitched verbs!
Also - crazy to think you could add an FC6 and have all the chords in a scale available at your feet. That would be sweet.
Ohhhhh yes!
wow ... just awesome! I assume all of this can equally be done on the FM9 ..?
Yes!
Awesome … I’m on the fence with FM3 and FM9 … leaning towards FM9 for more CPU, ability for two reverb blocks. I loved your video … kinda has some Pink Floyd drones with Gilmour style leads and tones … love it and I just need to make a decision and place my order … I appreciate your playing and expertise! Cheers!
@@Ambient.Music.Studio 2 verbs, 2 delays and 2 amps in every preset makes the FM9 so powerful!
Hi Leon i'm new with my FM3 and i have a couple of questions for you...what cabinet are you using here in this preset? and i followed the steps on the video because i want to learn how to create presets, and i can change the channels with the mouse, but with the pedal i can't and i don't know why XD, greetings from chile and thanks a lot for this videos.
Hey would it be possible to send midi notes as a drone to a hardware synth. That would be so cool !
You would love the Zoia! It's the first pedal I hooked up on the Fm3!
Been very tempted to grab one, as I'm loving the Poly Digit which kind of does some of those things. Still, one can never have too many creative tools!
Wow, fo you mind if I ask how you added this pedal to the zoia and how did u use them together. I'm buying both pedals very soon.
@@brianbridges8124 I still have the Zoia but not the Fm3. In the end I was always trying to mimick my real amps and using just 2 sounds. So I kept the real amp and got rid of the digital one... 😋
@@dantahoua so you still use the zoia?
@@brianbridges8124 Yes a lot! :) It's an amazing pedal!
Epic!
Is there a way to use the pitch of the guitar to choose the chord root note (while of course keeping the other voices diatonic to the chosen root note?
Custom scales in the pitch block should do that
Whats means CPU 79%? CPU of your computer or CPU of FM3? because if it's from FM3 then you really do not have a many posibilities in same time with FM3.
Would be perfect for gilmour style stuff
I’m considering getting the FM3. I like my HX Stomp but have just found that some of the limitations kinda turns me off of it. Don’t get me wrong the Stomp sounds great but the lack of cpu space and processing has lately been a bit of a hindrance. Just the FM3 is a big chunk of change🤷🏻♂️
Yeah the stomp does what it does very well, great unit. The FM3 offers significantly more power and flexibility, but it is a little bit bigger and more expensive.
Are you playing the synth and guitar over that all in one patch at the same time?
Everything you hear is from the patch at the same time
Do you have a vid discussing the output EQ settings for live? actual output 1
I just set them flat. I've got a few videos detailing my main live preset and how I use a PEQ to do a similar job though
Would there be any way to cycle through the chords using an lfo rather than manually switching them?
That could be made to work, especially with the LFO quantize feature. I'll try it
Awesome !!! Can you make the same presets in AXE FX III ?
The III has two synth and pitch blocks so you can take this up another notch
Leon Todd Ok ! Thank you for your answer ! And thank you for your amazing and helpful videos. I watch every single one. Cheers from France 🇫🇷
Interesting...odd Fractal doesn't include direct Note/Chord selections vs a freq input knob in the synth block. Seems like it could be setup in a more musical way. When I get my FM3 going to have to try this out. 👍
The other way to do this would be to generate a tone and use the pitch block to switch the frequencies, which can be done an a note by note basis. I'd love if they supported midi notes though so you could plug a keyboard or controller in to play the synth.
@@LeonTodd That's how I do this on my ancient 2101.😁 👍
@@dan_perry
How do you generate and process the tone on your 2101? I'm new to this unit and would love to try this out.
@@johanneschristopherstahle3395 The 2101 has a built in tone generator, you can side chain a couple pitch shifters to it to make chords. Add some modulation, delay and verb for more atmosphere.
Note that's all that will be tough on the base unit...you really need the extra PPC-210 that came on the limited edition 2101s.
@@dan_perry is the tone generator you're talking about the tuning reference?
So the input block is your guitar...when you set the parallel chain for the synth block,you don’t have to set an input block for it??Just got my FM3 last week..
You can trigger the synth with your guitar, but in this case it's setup to play chords automatically and independently from the guitar
Leon Todd I guess that’s what I meant to ask....how are you triggering the synth independently from the guitar?
This is awesome. Would this be possible with the HxStomp???
Not sure - hopefully a HX user can chime in!
Not a line6 user but what you basically need is a tone generator. The hx has a 3 note OSC synth but I think that it's triggered by playing.
Shit - now I can play Gary Moore's "Dunluce" all by myself😃
Hi Leon. I've been a long time plugging a guitar into an amp guy. So I'm wondering if you could do a setup for noobs video explaining how you connect the FM3 into whatever you have to connect it to, to get sound? I'm thinking what type of speakers or cabs, connectors. And does it h ave to go through a computer? etc. Thanks.
You don't need a computer to use it at all. Here's a few basic vids
With a tube amp for fx only - czcams.com/video/RaYffPQRqNQ/video.html
With a full range speaker - czcams.com/video/uod-XzY6-lw/video.html
As the "brain" of a pedalboard - czcams.com/video/9PmvxX1C4Xg/video.html
Finally, the Axe-Fx basics series I did a while back applies to the Fm3 too - czcams.com/video/DVZ_nu6x9-w/video.html
@@LeonTodd Thanks
Once I get my Fm3 can I download this preset?
Yes indeed! It's in several of my free preset packs
Where to download the preset?....As always awesome and thank you!
Right here, enjoy! axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=8122
Amazing! :) If my guitar is tuned down to D, what would I change?
Play two frets higher :p
In all seriousness, get the synth frequencies set to the root note you want and then set the relevant key in the pitch block.
@@LeonTodd Thanks a lot! :)
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i have the fm3 i only use one preset a friedman be100 with a little delay and reverb haven't touched the unit in over a month
Lol @ thumbnail.
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