All language subtitles for 12-07 - Introduction To Synthesized Sounds - deadmau5 Teaches Electronic Music Production

The crucial thing to know about

Synthesizers to make

Music is it's just that you have to understand that they're all the same more last sound

Learning

Since in general is just a good way to you know

Get you closer to being able to like all I want I want a really humming

You know based drone in there in you'll know

That you need to low up a few saw way distributor or squares or something like that and then put

You know what I filter a low pass filter on it a bit and then you know play low notes and that kind of stuff maybe

Depending on how

Bright or dark you want the sound you'll know that it's

This is all a lot to do with the filter coefficient

And

You know you did because you'll know that you'll know how to use any sense to get that kind of sound

I like hearing what scent they used and then hearing it

Annoying in my mind do you know of how he was treated and process to not sound like how it does when I just plugged

Nothing directly in in Monitor and listen to it

More often than not you know it's like yep I know what song that was on I know what song that was on I know what song was that was on

My favorite was

I ain't got bunch of mentality bunch

Plays at The Prodigy with a Firestarter they were big fans of the scent that came out now

Course didn't know this at the time but I had to

Found a Accord prophecy long time ago one of these weird alien spaceship looking things is kind of like at the

Time the Holy Grail of the Neuse in things and a buddy of mine had one so I go over to his place and check it out and you know

I'm like pressing something else changed some patches in De

Courses this one patch is it sounds amazing as like as cool

Like

8-bit the presentation kind of textural washing it was called fire

Star and it's like II

Preset on on the cork thing and then of course it's the opening

Like of the track Firestarter by The Prodigy and I thought that was love like the most hilarious

I need the whole track after a preset which they used in the first thing the thing and that was kind of cool

But

Dino golf course that gets abused a lot so you know like that's okay

Like

Arthur the sensor program patches are plugins and stuff like that and then of course he's artist going they grab them

Hit the one now and then and then there it is on the island and then and then you know

I think eighty percent of the population saying wow that's the coolest thing I've ever heard and then

It's always like you know

But 10% within the temperature center of the of the unit producer population just

Rolling their eyes like a g seeing like they didn't even do anything tonight

The quickest way to learn you know synthesis in general I'm is is just you know downloading

Cheapest free

Or free you no plugins in the end messing around with them

So you're going to have

Yeah this is

It's just

Straight Outta the way there with the filter all the way open

And then you can add it is is me mixing in and out

Square wave with it

Square and then a sine wave

The pure

Percentage will wait for him and then

Cruciate

Triangles

Noise

And then it's all about like well Unison is just

What I'm doing here is I'm just cranking up the number of voices and then D tuning each Royce out

Fan

So it's going to give you more of a

Lush sound because you have loved out

Hank 6 Voices playing at a time there and then they all go get processed through

Remember this filter

So the filters either like an opening and closing on that now I'm just doing a manually but then you can assign envelopes to do

That so the Decay amount of that envelope

You know it's set wide open so it's going to take a long time for that to decay

Of course the shorter

I made that envelope

You know the

The quicker the Decay on on the closing of the low-pass filter

At the low pass filter of course they're different types of filter so you have a bandpass witches

Going to go it's like a band of frequency band that's just going to sweep as opposed to

Just closing off the the high-end

Cutting

The high

Frequency

Then there's the opposite of a low pass filter which is a high-pass filter

And then the resonance is the is the queue of the cube basically filters and eat Q

So the residence is

Just you know.

Pica the Q that's

Goblin

At what frequency hear you're sliding it around on

So it's it's more pronounced on low-pass filters

So that's that's more or less how they work now this is just

Basic additive synthesis so

That's one way to do things now and other synthesizers of course you could have

Multiple rays of oscillators and then have certain oscillators cross-feed and and cross modulate other

Oscillator is giving you a whole variety of

Yeah

Different like tonal

Thinks I'm

But usually more often than not what kind of gives the sound it sound is is is something that you're putting on after it

So if you have

That

That kind of sounding and it's just you know

You want to

Drive it a bit then I mean Ableton has an Overdrive

Plug in an amp

Lemcor suggesting the filter and then without later hi resident speak in it and it going into like a Nova

Overdrive pedals going to get really like squelch

Sound

So there's there's like just

Limitless routing possibilities you can do

Synthesizers

Envelopes in lfos and BCAAs and all that stuff are just basically extensions of you know how to

Internally control your synthesis so

If you take

Serum for example to do the exact same thing here on producing ass Always by default

So here I have an envelope and I have three envelopes they're all pretty blank right now right so

Envelope won by default in the in this Plug-In or you could assign it otherwise it's just link to the

Amplitude of the oscillator coming through so

An envelope is exactly what it sounds and something that envelopes the the sound that you're trying to do

And then you know shapes it in such a way

So you can actually see in

On a graph here is like

They attended the

Damp of the of the VCA which is

This envelope

So

You can shape and a taxon

That kind of thing now you can also take an envelope to and then assign it to you know

Controlling your filters on me

So now if I go to this envelope now and I've also got one controlling the

Amp of the of the signalmen

Now that one's doing the filter

Now in any sense it's always going to have some kind of modulation Matrix

Where are you know you can say oh and belong to I want it

This is the source this is the amount in this is the destination and then there's auxiliary sources and all that stuff Tucson

David Thompson

The same applies for LFO which stands for low-frequency oscillation

Which is

Some like it as you play a lower know you know your

Your waves get bigger and

Longer overtime kind of thing so there really low frequency oscillations but low frequencies like

You know

Some 30 hurts kind of stuff

So if I take an ally Fowler and I assign it to you know the filter cutoff

It's

Call just disabled

So what that is is just

But psycho oscillation

So this is

Ineffective Sawtooth wave file

And then of course

The higher the pitch of that oscillator

And now you're starting to get into cross modulation after you go like you know pretty fast if I take the synth off

What about a hundred herds

You can actually

Start a producer

You know some really weird cross modulations

So that's that

In principle I guess my signature sound was this

Dead

Clock kind of sound right which was

Essentially we'd have once oscillator going into a filter but instead of one I would take like 4

And then go into two filters

And then kind of stereo spread the filters a b****** for a little stereo with

And then add an envelope that just controlled the decay of it so

I can probably do it

Serum

Really quickly

So when I play it

Since going to play you know it's

Initial program which is just

Straight saw I was just actually pretty close to what we want

So I'm going to turn on a filter there

Okay so then I'm going to

Putting unison

For meaning there's four oscillators playing at the same time being detuned by this amount so

This is straight

MSI start to detune it

The computer automatically are the the the plug-in automatically fans out the voices and then you can set the blending then

You can do this all day long it just takes like

10 minutes you know to do that kind of thing.

Action route not stuffing it

You know your sin starts

Does it look like spaghetti and all that stopped by time it gets to this point even so

But it's it's it's good exercise is fun to do in the analog world but if you just want

A quick rough

Drafted that sound you can

Diesel use of BST for that

So now another thing we need to do is Maybe

Taking lf009 you could

Do an envelope for this but just for simplicity's sake will take a low-frequency oscillation attach it to the

Filter cutoff

So you're going to get that

But you want the rate to be an 8 to note so here you can just lock it to a VPN

Good enough

And then

Curious

Your filter coefficient and then your envelope amount

It's not quite there so it's like

I mean within this plug-in you can add a Reverb which basically means

Oh okay so after I'm coming out of that since I'm going to go into a rack Reverb earthy Eventide or

Or whatever

Effects pedal

So now

That's just a built-in Reverb that comes with the plugin

So I'll work and then I want to delay on that to like you know

I need to know as well

Because of the viesti I can always go back and say oh I don't want the Reverb for the delays.

A bit much

Or I want to change the delay you know I'm that kind of stuff like super quick and easy to do a PS3 plugins but the sacrifice you're making

Nearest the sound do you know

So you got to you got to pick and choose your battles really

If it's if it's a background thing that's you know just kind of

Adding into a mixet

Totally find

Do it this way or something like that you know but if it's a big feature element that's going to be solo then I I-10

The go and use an external senthamarai

Some analog equipment for that kind of thing

Did the first bits of gear that I got

You don't not nothing glorious nothing like much-sought-after or anything like that but

I think my first kind of cool piece of gear was a rolling mc-303 which was if any

He was familiar with that it's like a

An old

All-in-one kind of music-making since he was it was really weird it's like looking back now I was like

The biggest joke of a thing if you were serious musician at that time but

It was it was really handy to get my hands on you know a piece of equipment that I could learn inside

Sidon Hound because

A lot of the knowledge that I gained from just that one stupid little thin

And it's

Basic functions and stuff like that the still apply with

Even the most high-end gear today and stuff like that because that's what they were trying to emulate out of this little box and stuff like that and then

The controls weren't all there so you know I said do some menu diving and stuff like that but you know you got really quick and fast

I didn't stuff like that so

Having that said you know you learn I learned the

Fundamentals of a cutoff frequency and resonance and envelopes how they work and how they affect sound

Different waveforms of audio in and all that

Stealth like just translates over to it

Understand someone

When I got this

Beatbox this

Mc-303 thing with the sandwiches basic I just used it for the sin

I could then

No go to music store and see all these other since and then immediately dive in and and know what

Parameters doing what and all that stuff basically wants you to learn the basic food group so fly

Synthesis then

There's no plug and no

That's just going to come in and completely mystify you you know because it's all the same

Principles