Analog Four FM Synthesis Get Started Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
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Hello, here's a little tutorial on how to get started with the new pitch tracked LFO FM stuff, on the Analog Four, and Analog Keys by Elektron. This was introduced in software update 1.22. Basically you can tune an LFO to the keyboard, and send the LFO to any modifiable parameter. I think sending it to the filters is particularily nice :)
More soon!
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CUCKOO
Your hair is especially magical today.
Ha ha ha.. That's an especially magical comment, mate :)
This is no ' Get Started Tutorial' It's a brilliant 'Get Lost Tutorial'. Shows a totally different side of the A4. Love it!
Altough I own A4 already, you sold it to me, again.
Ha ha :-)
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Funny you watch all these vids before you own elektron gear and then once you get one.....you gotta go back and watch em allll again....then your like...ohhhhhhhh! Lol this feature is so fun I love it. My new fav number is 32 ;)
Mate, you've just saved me a lot of money on buying an FM synth. I also think you've got one of the best instructional styles I've come across, really mellow and chill with time for the information to sink in. What a brilliant video, thank you so much!
Love the tutorial.
I just wanted to point out that the ladder-filter isn't flat when the resonance is "0".
4-POLE LADDER FILTER
There is no way to turn the ladder filter completely off, but turning up the cutoff frequency will pass all frequencies through. It should be noted that zero resonance does not give the flattest frequency response - instead it drops some decibels both in the treble and in the bass. The flattest response is reached when resonance is somewhere around 25, which is also the default value.
Keep it up!
What a talented and creatively inspiring human! Good man, keep up the good work bro.
7yrs later still very relevant video for analog four users thx for the bass !
I kinda got the rytm because if your super nice tutorial videos. Was curious for a long time and now i'm full on elektron analog line music making! Still very new to the analog four tho. I hope elektron will drop a big update for these 2 devices soon :D
Well I shouldn't have watched this video while I was debating parting with my Analog Four Mk1. Great stuff.
a big tutorial on 4 MK2 would be great !!!!!!!
I have to say I have no idea what you're talking about most of the time since i don't know much about synths and stuff but the way you're so passionate about it makes it interesting and great to see and hear all those crazy sounds. Keep it up!
so thank you again! I am still watching all the elektron tutorials made by you and learning lots of usefull stuff. reading the manual is dry. watching your videos so fresh and even more direct for me. THANKS
Also, I just imagined you and Dataline collaborating and that thought makes me happy, your adorable/sincere pop over his super serious techo as heck.
+BROCK LEE it's always a joy to collaborate with Dataline. There are some recordings of some of our jams ua-cam.com/play/PLD5-YGxDn2JUjlLv8TXRzJusAaKnzCjO6.html
um, when is the album coming out?! you guys got chemistry happening there
This video really takes the A4 into new territory for me. Thanks so much.
Love the videos. You come across as genuine and entertaining in tutorials, which is hard to do. It's time I kicked down to you on Patreon; you have earned it!
Still very enjoyable to watch mid 2022. (;
I know this is an old video but FYI, at the 11 minute mark when modulating the oscillator pitch you are getting crazy modem noises, then wonder why it’s so weird sounding - the reason for that is because a feedback loop was created. The LFO syncs to the oscillator rate (hence keyboard modulates rate), then the LFO modulates the oscillator. That’s why there’s distortion and noise. Pretty neat trick!
When you modulate a volume (sound wave amplitude - DST VOL in analog4) it is called an "Amplitude Modulation", or AM. The AM overtones are not the same as the FM overtones, when you modulate the frequency of the oscillator, not the volume amplitude.
The real limitation of analog 4 in terms of AM/FM modulation is that you can't modulate the amount of AM/FM modulation with a dedicated envelope that launches with a triggers\key pressure. The Fade parameter is kinda works but you can't tune the envelope parameters like its response and attack stage. In Virus Ti you can assign an envelope to modulate to depth of the AM/FM so you got those classic FM sweeps with each new note\trigger.
+funky junky Yeah I know about the AM stuff. I think it's a nice way into getting an understanding of what's going on. There are two additional envelopes in the Analog Four that can be assigned to a lot of parameters. So this is not really a limitation. I think the limitation is the omission of sine waves. Sine FM is just so darn cool. ;-) But on the other hand you'd end up with the same old sounds that you've heard since the 80's.. So I totally respect that they're trying to create their own sound.
+cuckoomusic Sure you can. Filter a triangle with filter 1 to approximate a sine, and then modulate a narrow second filter to bring out only the overtones, or use the second filter at full resonance as a sinewave and modulate with a sine LFO. Does it sound like Yamaha-type FM? No! It's not actual FM synthesis, and definitely not phase modulation (Yamaha style FM)
So I just ordered one of these and am waiting on it to arrive. This video got me even more excited, thanks for sharing. I can't wait to lay down some vid tracks with this monster in my studio.
still loving it in 2022. it’s a wonderful machine.
I bought an analog keys because of this new feature. You're awesome dude. Thanks for the tutorials bro :)
Great tut! You must have been a teacher in your previous live! You can translate 'how' into wow! Thanks a lot!
@19:16.... Im with you on this brother. Feelin it. About to purchase the four in a couple weeks. This tutorial was quite helpful.
oH yEAh ::: please more Analog Four Tuturials ... i just brought one .... and im so happy with it !!!!
Keep up the good work ... Greetings from Berlin!!!
+Hannes Nolte Me Too !!...Mine arrived 3days ago.. greets from france ;-)
Excellent video exploring LFO tracking. Thank you for always providing quality content.
Was going to bed now at 03:40 but this one changed e v e r y t h i n g ! ! Amazing! :)
Been watching your videos a long time, and I have an Analog Keys arriving next week. 19:40 has me so psyched.
that bass sound on track 3 is delicious :)
lfo- low frequency oscillator: its just like your standard osc but too low (slow) to hear. an analog lfo is capable of being cycled into audio rate in which the wave cycles so fast that you can hear it....awesome when used to modulate a standard osc's pitch, pulse, filter, resi, etc... or FM : frequency modulation
love you cuckoo! killin that A4!!
Yeah, brain freeze there regarding the LFO.
And please, more Octatrack! It is so easy to get bogged down by what it doesn't do...even though it does so much!
You just added more life to my analog keys I can’t wait to design some new banging sounds
Man is truly a wizard! Both in looks and magic skills ;)
Hey friend! Been going back through all your Electron videos this last week. Was sick from work and was a great thing to spend my time doing while healing. Inspired me to dig back down into my RYTM and O8. Analog 4 is next! I'm feeling much better now and filled up with Cuckoo know-how! haha Also. dang it.. now I want a digitakt!
+Ron Millar ha ha! Get well soon mate!
Love it - giving me loads of ideas for things to do with the Analog Keys. Thanks!
Thank you yet again for another fantastic video
Amazing, thank you! I need this. I am learning. Keep rocking them tutorials. Very nice.
Not an analog guy here, but in digital world FM means you regulate pitch (frequency) of the sound. What you did there is AM/RM (I always get those two mixed, one only goes on-off and one does on-off-negative value, but it's basically volume modulation at >20hz frequencies :) )
Yeah the first one is definitely an AM something, even though it sounds different from the Oscillator level AM already available. But then the Pitch mod and Freq Mod I believe is going into the FM territory for sure.
Yeah, right. I wasn't precise enough, I just wanted to correct you on your "that sounds FM-like to me" when you were doing AM part.
Still a nice vid. Motivational, makes me want to really do something about my music, get it out there and earn money for hardware :D
He he. Do it! ;-)
Brilliant ! You're getting better and better man. I mean, it's really complete ! You nailed it !
Using the volume to explain everything is smart :)
Now I understand where I was failing !
Can't wait to try...
One question : LFO2 depths is not on LFO1 destination list, is it ?
Cool, thanks! I don't have it in front of me now, so I can't double check, but yeah, there are some limitations like that. Not sure why..
+cuckoomusic Still it must be possible to do it from Ableton via Overbridge. I wonder what it sounds like, adding another operator.
You got some really cool sounds, mate ! I'll blow my comrade's ears tomorrow !!!
:D
I gave a hard time thinking Overbridge will be fast enough to handle 2k LFO modification. Try it!
+cuckoomusic On LFO2 you can choose LFO1 as a destination !!! Shugoi !
Thank you Cuckoo, I’d like to donate when I can.
Wow cool thanks Cuckoo now I don't need to send my Analog 4 back and get a Digitone but I am tempted!
cool sounds
yeees, this was exactly the video I needed today!
+Emil Visti Great timing!! :) I hope it'll help you getting started.
Your tutorials are the best man! Thank you so much! =]
+No Soul To Sell thank you sir! :)
Amazing! You helped clear up a lot for me. Also, after watching your videos I am finding I am using the real time recording mode more on my AKeys. I am getting some way better results than just manually stepping everything in. I never learned piano so it just wasn't natural for me at first.
the sound cool you find at 12.00 is ALIASING 😊
like any numeric stuff do,
like my rs7000 for example!
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Love your ways man!
cuckoo you're my favorite
+dr nubstein thank you doctor!
Cool jam at the end 🤘
oh yeah thanks a lot for video!
Thanks Cuckoo your a good man more power to you!
Very cool tutorial, and super cool haircut as well. By the way, are you australian? you sound a bit like an australian friend of mine. 2000 hz for an lfo? or did I misunderstand? Thats awesome!
@cuckoomusic The new fm functionality will track the pitch even better if you activate the retrig function in the osc2 sub menu :p
Cool, thanks! That makes sense. Probably a lot cleaner that way!
"it goes a bit crazy" :-D yes for those with headphones be aware :-D thank you Cuckoo this is really helpful to me! kind regards
+ALIENNA thanks! I'm glad you found it helpful. I think I've just touched the surface of the FM stuff. Will continue to investigate.
+cuckoomusic Thank you for the reply :-) to be honoust for me in theory it's hard to wrap my head around this whole FM stuff (I hope to read more about it soon) . But the more I'm playing with it on the a4 it makes more sence! have a nice weekend, kind regards, A.
+ALIENNA you're welcome. I agree, FM is a bit cryptic. Rumours has it that the inventor of FM is the only one who fully understands it, he he. If you think of it as a vibrato or tremolo expression, that, as it goes faster and reaches the speed of sound waves, creates new waveforms. Yamaha's type of FM is probably the most famous due to the success of their old DX7 FM synthesiser. The forthcoming Korg Volca FM is based on the same formulas. I just love that old FM sound.
DX7 FM synthesiser: I always wanted that synth when I was a kid, my parents bought me a Casio instead :-) but I played on it anyway and had a lot of fun. I also like old sounds, It's magic to me :-) I read about the Korg volca FM, but for now I will stick to elektron, the next investment will probably be the octratrack to join the A4, it's very addictive :-D , I already have the Korg sampler ESX, although I love the ESX it's quite ennoying to load the samples :-/ thank you Cuckoo for your feedback
yr the best cuckoo. keep it up!
True wizard!
crazy inspiration! Thanks, man!
Hey Cuckoo, new sub here! I like your vibe dude, very original and full of knowledge :-)
good work. useful
I am confused. I thought this is a mono synth on each track? How are you able to perform chords ?
It's a 4 voice analog synth. You can distribute the polyphony between these 4 voices quite flexible. So one track can steal voices from the other tracks when it needs to. Tracks can also be set up to not share polyphony. It's pretty cool.
thank you for teaching me how to make baselines 😎😎
Makes me wanna buy an A4 !
I have the A4, but really do need a new shaving mirror!
Great tutorial Cuckoo. I really love the FM sound. Especially from YM2162 chip found in the Megadrive. It sounds like the analog four can achieve such gulpy bass, metallic craziness and tingly bells of that chip, would you agree?
I've been on the fence about getting an analog four. Mainly because of the cost, but as I mostly program my sequences, I feel this is the unit would be a good centre piece to my current OP-1, PO's and Circuit setup. Do you recommend this or anything else?
I'm certainly going to pick up a Volca FM though!
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Inspirational!
19:16 Holy shit! you might've hit the infamous brown note there...
Excellent video
The thing you started with was AM Synthesis.. amplitude modulation :)
10:30 modem sounds, awesome! haha
+davidevoid 13:00 great minds think alike, I was just about to ask if you can add an envelope to that effect and then you bring in the fade. The Analog Four still scares me but you get some nice distinct sounds out of it.
Sexy Synthesis... 'Sin Teases'
I think the machine has potential for filter FM, but the LFO generation seems too low resolution. You can actually use a filter to create the sine wave, but then the LFOs can't keep up. But I've gotten some grungy sounds out of it, just not the pure FM sounds one associates with it. Good tutorial
Yeah I agree. Filter FM is immediately appealing :) Really, I don't see why they didn't do analog sine waves as an option though. It would be cool with both AM and FM. I also think the LFO's are a bit low resolution.. probably.. hard to tell where the refresh rate resolution artefacts are.
The low resolution must be from the DACs - cpu costs nothing these days. What I wonder is if they addressed this in the Mk II?
I own the Analog Keys, and for some reason wish I had an Analog Four instead. Is that weird? I just find the Keys takes up too much room.
+alienanxiety yeah it is a bit big isn't it.. But most full sized keyboards are. If you don't care much for the keyboard, velocity, after touch and the joystick, perhaps the A4 would be better?
You’re the best
like that hairstyle ;D gonna let mine grow and be freee again too
can we see more of the po-20?
When you modulate the volume with a hi-lfo, it's am modulation right? I love Fm and have used this trick ever since I stumbled across it. Love your videos btw ❤
Cool vid and tips thank you kindly :)
18:45 mmmmm bass
Keeps failing my OS update , sent from Live and sysex ? overbridge wont recognise, tried midi and usb routes
In the beginning you're playing it polyphonically / chords - I thought the A4 couldn't do chords?
Oh yes it can indeed. In the Kit menu you can access the polyphony settings. The A4 has got a total of 4 poly shared over 4 tracks. You can select whether a track should take part in polyphony sharing or not. Like one track could be dedicated to a drone, and not share polyphony, while the remaining 3 tracks could allow polyphony voice sharing. This means that every track can use its own sound patch on all of the poly enabled tracks, at any time. If all of the tracks are using poly simultaneously the latest note will cut off earlier notes. Voice stealing I guess is the term :)
Ahh yeah I see! Googled a bit, too, and noticed polyphony was improved in an update. Thanks for the info; I'm really considering this synth myself. And keep on rocking, man - your videos are great! Have a great day :)
Janne Hatula Thanks mate! Yeah it's a really nice synth. It has its own beautiful sound, it's open, and it's got a deep sequencer, and a lot of memory to save projects, patterns and patches.
Do have any idea why, in realtime record, the portamento is not recording? Its non quntized and set to 1/8 scale and over a large amount of steps so that I can have a long sequence that has lots of silents space inbetween the notes. It doesnt play back the way it sounds when Im performing it. Its as if its not recording the sustain to produce the sliding portamento? The notes are pretty close together in the melodic phrase. Any suggestions as to why this is happening? Thanks
Sup Cockoo mate!? I absolutely love your analog four tutorials. As others have said, I too want to see more!!!! :)
I just got my A4 last week. I would like to see a tutorial on the file structure of the machine. The way you move sounds around from the pool etc, saving patterns and chaining you know?
Funny comment about the broken modem hehe :D
Thanks very much for this.
Don't they have tutorials about that stuff on the Elektron website?
*cuckoo to represent elektron, now!!!!!!!*
+dj digital addict he he, thanks mate! :)
cuckoomusic
its just the truth, nothing more!!!
Awesome! :) but the volume automation with another Osc that you used at first is actually AM! :D amplitude modulation, FM is Frequency Modulation
Yeah, these are all different variations of modulations. The AM available on oscillator 2 page 2 sound completely different though.
Sort of regretting selling it now... Sort of. I'll probably wait and see what they'll do next :)
+Sleepydog YOU SOLD YOUR A4? Get this man to a doctor!
anyone managed to get FM bell sounds?
If you apply chorus with high feedback on some low bass fm created sounds, you can get a bell sound. Haven't managed a straight patch without onboard effects though.
Not sure if anyone said this but it's low frequency oscillator not low frequency operator :)
+Sabotage Beats yeah I know. Brain stalled for a moment there :)
+cuckoomusic I figured it might have been addressed :)
+Sabotage Beats I honestly thought it was intentional given he's talking about FM synthesis, and he obviously knows what an lfo is. I thought he was making a funny ha.
Great tutorial ! Still wondering how you make the reset at the minute 15:50 even I saw it 5 time at 0.25 of the speed :-)
+nullpointer242 Ha ha, yeah you're right. It's a bit magical, isn't it? ;-) What I'm doing, after realising that it's modulated, I press function while turning the H knob, to snap to zero.
haha. OK... Great ! Thanks !
Hey Cuckoo. I'm trying to trigger a TM-2 drum brain with the A4 cv/gate. I've seen a video from AdamJay that does exactly that, but, he doesn't know how to get velocity out of the brain, just triggers at maximum velocity. I'm having a difficult time finding the voltage range than piezo sensors put out, and how to simulate that voltage via CV, rather than trigger on the A4, any recommendations?
Thanks for this. All the osc FM sounds you did sound very distorted, nothing like an old DX… but the filter FM sounds had more of a classic FM vibe. Can you comment on that? Did you manage to get some clean FM sounds?
+edmx around 20:25 is gets very DXish!
+edmx I think most classic FM sounds are acheived by using sine waves. As soon as it's not sine waves there's a sort of distorted feel right away. But when using FM on the filter frequency, I can smoothen the sound to sound almost like a sine wave, and then apply a sine wave LFO to it to achieve a more classic FM style sound. If the Analog Four had a sine oscillator I believe it would sound totally classic applying Sine FM on the oscillator.
+cuckoomusic thanks for the reply…… on that basis I wonder what it sounds like turning the osc to zero and putting the resonance full up on the filter. that should be a sinewave, no?? i think i will get one, just gotta decide minibox or keys version…..
Yeah. Self resonating filters at maximum resonance is very sine like. Beautiful. But perhaps setting the resonance to quite high, but not full, and applying a sine LFO to it might also create a sine sound. I'll dig around a little more. I prefer the keys because I'm a keyboard player. But the Four is more travel friendly, and totally cool too.
i can hear that bass
+mamakuproject it's like... OoOOOuuuugghhfff!!! I'm looking forward to this one! It should come out pretty soon.. like.. in a matter of weeks.
After the 17 minute mark I was sold lol. Also quick question... am I able to load my own sounds/samples into this machine?
The A4 doesn't do any sample playback, it's pure synthesis. The Rytm mk2 (and the Digitakt) can directly sample or load samples over USB. I own all three :)
Who rrrrrrrrr uu......awesome Video
that end xd
14:16 Sounds like Lil B - "Like a Martian"
Yes 4 voyager fm voices I just bought a analog 4 on ebay for 600$
*cuckoo, you look like the spanish guy, don quixote de la mancha....* ;-)
*i ask to my self, if this big trades, elektron, korg, roland, or other one, at least, say thanks to ppl like cuckoo, for the help they do to this onwers instruments...i dont see this trade employers or dealers teaching and show to us, things whe never know this instruments can do, like ppl like cuckoo show to us....i dont have a elektron, but if i have?i have to stay hours and hours, weeks, months, in front of it, if i have lucky, to do all the things this dificult machine can gave to us, ofcourse...like i said, at least, a "thank you" from elektron, and the other trades too, for ppl like cuckoo, in general!!!* ;-)
why don't I get any sounds out of my a4...?? i did factory reset but it doesn't help ...anybody help??? thank you
it's because I used power cord from octatrack lol
+Dragan Delic ouch! Dangerous game!
I feel like this and a Circuit is all you need for an album
Shut the fuck up Connor
Takk! Snadder video
Are you using Beyerdynamic headphones?
Yeah, I find the DT 770pro quite trustworthy
+cuckoomusic is that the 80ohm model you talking about?
Yeah, mine are 80 ohm. I was gonna buy the low ohm, but they were sold out.
+cuckoomusic is that because a difference in sound or because it would have adapted better to your gear? Ive read an ongoing debate about these headphones and still can't decide which one to go for..lol
What does the debate say! I was going for low power to have higher volume when I'm working with laptops and iPhones etc. It works pretty fine at 80ohm though.