How to learn any synthesizer
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2024
- In this video I show you:
- A quick overview of how ALL synthesizers work
- A simple workout on how to familiarize yourself with with any synth you get
- Some simple synth recipes
- An example of this process using the Roland SH-101
- A sound design technique called "self-oscillating" filters, to create sounds like Jamie XX - Gosh.
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Contents:
0:00 Introduction
1:07 Subtractive synthesis concept
3:20 The synthesis diagram
3:39 The synth workout
5:44 Synth fomulas
6:16 The value of a limited synth
8:09 The synth workout on an SH101
13:01 Doing the synth fomulas on the SH101
15:32 The advantages of more advanced synths
17:42 Sound design technique: Self-oscillating filters
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Awesome - Thank you sir.
This is how "How To" videos should be made. Straight and to the point, no BS
09:44 "Sounds pretty good to me..." (three seconds later @ 09:47) "Great! That's everything we need to know; we now understand how the oscillator works."
If this is the quality of your "free courses", I can’t imagine the value that is in your paid courses. Exceptional teaching skills !
Was thinking exactly the same
100% mate
Oh they are totally worth the money!
@ricardojmestre what courses did you take? (just interesting, thinking about paid courses too :) )
I feel like I've learned more in an hour from watching a couple of your videos than I did in a decade of tinkering around with synths! What an absolutely amazing teacher
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Same 😂🎉❤
If he was my teacher in every class in school I’d be an effing genius today running the world.
Hahahahaha
Get your kids a private tutor like the elites do..
But he's our teacher online so whats your Excuse?
@@estesenor7248 I am complementing him you fool.
@@bauhausoffice ok boomer
When I started watching your channel I think you had a smidge over 1k subscribers. Now you’re over 36k in such a short time. The reason is quality content and anticipation of your next quality content. I even hit the bell 😬 and I hardly ever do that! Congrats and thank you very much for bringing us interesting quality videos filled to the brim with awesome musical knowledge.
It's so great to hear this. Thanks for the support, I think UA-cam is quite sensitive to this kind of positive signals, it's the reason the channel has grown so much I think! ✨🙏🐩
yes , same here never hit the bell, but his content has been really relevant so far
@@OscarUnderdog Keep doing it, it's great and the world needs better informed musicians or artists!
@@OscarUnderdog I bet you will get 1 mil within this year keep teaching great things congratulations in advance 🙏
@@OscarUnderdog The possitive response comes from you releasing good material. Making better content than the majority of channels and doing that in a relaxed humble manner is what makes some channels, like yours attractive to new and old electronic musicians around the world. This channel helps alot of people learn new things, and rediscover old methods.
Finally, I understand synthesizer. I’m a musician, classically trained, and I’ve been wanting to understand synths forever. Thank you. Please, talk about the fm ones soon. I have one!
You are kidding me. This is surreal (or fake). First what exactly did you learn. Seriously. I am a “musician” too. I guess. I have been playing instruments since the early 70’s…most notably the….synthesizer. So perhaps it’s hard for to delineate but I saw him read a script about the three attributes of sound (pitch, tone, volume ) and what the Control names on most synths are.
Seriously I am in straight screen saver mode just staring at your comment. So… you have been wanting to understand synths “forever”…but then you watched this video and now you feel you insert and synths? What ones do you own and how did you apply anything from this video to it? Once again not talking these comihrer epigrams because if you are musician then you (wait for it…play actual instruments so which ones have you struggle with but then this video opened your eyes? I am being serious. Not trying to get you upset or anything but this is literally surreal to me (but part of me things it fake or…well,….WOWg
By the way re: FM synthesis, trust me dude doesn’t know about that stuff. He will read somethint then do a video. Now, I have quite a few FM synths. I implemented FM additive, subtractive, wavetable, etc. FM is altered through modulation.
Here are some examples.
FM synth - soundcloud.app.goo.gl/zaA2PWFzDe4h9R1a8
WaveTable - soundcloud.app.goo.gl/4qhfToVCtPasVN1z9
Analogue - soundcloud.app.goo.gl/UbWhjejp119X6sSt8
@@YourFreeBeats Lol, you're such a hater... Why do you care so much that this dude gave the OP a compliment? And the way you not so subtly humble brag is hilarious considering... Let's just put it this way: You're def not god's gift to music production lol! You shouldn't talk so much shit.
@@Mr.J2U Those are the ones with the least skill and never really progress. It's also called hubris. Good luck exploring synths.
@@YourFreeBeats The video is perfectly explained, i was able to understand Synths in a few minutes, aswell as music theory and a lot more from his other videos, he explains the subjects really well, calm, in a mature and straight forward way, wich i really like.
If you are using synths since the 70s,that means you are an old adult, and you come here, braggin about your knowledge, talking shit about Underdog, plug your own stuff from soundcloud and on top of that, you are what? 60 yo? and you go by "check a bitch beats" .... lame.
you are killer . Covering concepts with so much clarity. hats off to u.
Cheers 🤠
should've said hi-hats off to you
@@djnebuchanezzer should have said hi-hats offbeat to you
@@Babidibubidi haha i didnt see that one :)
I'm dazzled by this guy's teaching skills.
My Synthesizer obsession started with a Korg MS10 at 11 years old in middle school music classes (1981).
Amazingly by an interesting turn of events and coincidences 24 years later in 2005 I actually became the owner of that very same Synth from my old school. It was just about to be thrown away in a skip, still in fair working order, but in need of a good cleanout, new CMOS Chip and re-calibration. I got it for no money at all! I stripped it down for cleaning and then sent it to Korg UK for the technical repairs. Still looking and working good as new now in 2021.
I cannot describe how wonderful it felt to be reunited and the owner of my first love after all those years ❤️
These days I’m a synth sound designer for the iOS platform but still love to tinker with my old MS10 and a few other remaining hardware synths.
What a beautiful story 😊💚 Thanks for sharing!
What a story!
Incredibly concise and easy to follow. If you had a full course on synthesis, I'd buy it for sure
You have just blown me away with how you just broke down synths in a way that I actually understand. Thank you.
Massive respect for how careful and clear these videos are. Thank you.
The best music content on youtube currently.
I wish I had this video years ago when I bought my first synth, now it makes me appreciate my Prologue even more. Thanks a million!
Amazing teaching capacity! Clear, no repetition, straight to the point and an amazing knowledge! Thank you very much
Oscar, I honestly can't begin to thank you enough. I have been looking all over the place for such quality of teaching and such attention to detail and such focus on the important basics of electronic music and I couldn't find anything like this, free or paid. Every other "beginner" production course goes straight into creating tracks on Ableton and I would always get stuck as I needed to understand exactly those basics. Please don't stop making those videos, I am willing to pay you for production lessons if need be.
Your videos are like learning from a friend and not from a "teacher" ... well done and congrats to the well earned 30k !
So true, I feel the same way
Yours is one of the best you tube channel for production learning...everything so well explained in simple and detailed manner...Plz keep up the good work...Its really helpful for us producers all across the globe...thank you
MOST helpful synth video I’ve ever seen. Every beginner is lucky to have this resource. I’ve never used the “four recipes” approach, so I’ve gone back into my synths to try it. Fun!
bro you just get write down to business and explain things simply and its easy to understand. I appreciate you.
I like the calm way you explain things. And your methods, for example the use of flowcharts, fit extremely well and are very catchy. Also that you manage to reduce the topics to their core information. Thumbs up 👍🏻you are a good teacher
3:20 I love that you always show a diagram with every lesson (that's I've seen so far). For visual learners like me it's invaluable. I'm not new to music making or audio engineering and I have lots of hardware synths, but I've never seen a synth explained like in this diagram and it will help me a lot in the future when making patches.
I need this. My current method is turn it on, turn a knob, hit a switch and start hitting the keys.
This is a great refresher! From my perspective with the general synth recipes, I would add a fifth that I think is always helpful to at least understand - a simple "brass" sound. To me this is a good way to learn a filter and envelopes because of that kind of "wah" sound you have to sculpt.
EXACTLY what I was looking for. Saving this as I ramp up to my first synth from my electric piano.
The fact that I have been doing tons of reading and tinkering prior to this REALLY helps my self esteem and knowledge references. I'm further along than I had originally thought and the videos you provide really help encourage me to keep pushing.
I bought about 10 hardwares and 1 VST.
This makes me feel like the universe is my oyster xD
Thank you again so much for your videos.
I am certain I will be attending the classes in the near future FOR SURE!!!!
I knew a lot of these concepts already, but your "nasal" example of resonance was so good! Always wanted to try and emulate it vocally or something.
This is the exact video I was looking for as a beginner, to help understand synths! thank you so much! 🙏🏼🙌
Amazing tutorial. You explain everything so easyily in all your tutorials - thanks mate!
This is so helpful. This video really makes understanding synths much easier. Once you tie everything together in the "Doing the synth fomulas on the SH101" section it's like a lightbulb went off in my head.
This is great, love how clear and well explained everything is
Looks like you are picking up about 5k new users every couple of days! Good for you. So well deserved, and so good for us to have you churning out this awesome informative content.
i recovered my production vein with ur videos
So happy to hear this.
This is awesome, exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you.
Yep another amazing video. Thank you Oscar! I love your energy
I just got my first synth yesterday (MicroFreak)…don’t know how to even play any instrument…and you immediately cleared up one of my initial questions about shaping with it. Thanks!
Oscar & Underdog - thanks so much for these videos. I'm addicted! GREAT content! Can't wait for more and more and more and more. Inspiring!
this is the best music production channel out there !! Thanks for your work ! Keep up the good stuff ♥
Thank you for helping us. Really appreciate your work ❤️
Great. This video was added to my musical production box. I´m practicing this with the Surge XT synth. Now I´m beginning to understand it. Thanks so much.
This is pure gold. Thanks!
Thanks for this workshop, it was very instructive and I hope that this video will stay forever !
I just randomly watched it, and left it without giving a try. I usually do play presets on any Synth. But, after watching this started customising the Synth and I was able to make it exactly what I wanted to sound like. I had to search for this video just for thanking you.
I think I have never watched a tutorial as concise and essential as this one. Even though I am already familiar with most of the material covered in it, it was a pleasure to watch. Nicely done!
Thank you for this! I immediately used your exercise to properly reintroduce myself to my gear. Influential to my growth is an understatement. You're the best, Oscar!
I just wanted to play around with synths and electronic music. But the more you talk about it. The more i wanna dive into it
I started my discovery of these principles with your video and thanks to your straightforward explanations I'm now having a lot of fun trying every possible sound. Thanks a lot I'm not sure there are many videos giving these basics efficiently and quickly :D
Hey Oscar, Oscar here. Good stuff -- this came up as an automatic recommendation so I watched this vid while reading instruction manuals for some new bits of gear and had an all round good time.
From one Oscar to another, cheers! 😁🙏
Well done, sir! That's pretty much what many of us do when approaching a new synth before we take the deep dive.
You just unlocked a whole new world for me. At last, an explanation of subtractive synthesis that makes sense first time 💪
My god, this is top notch content. Thank you so much for this!
I really enjoy your straight to the point approach in all of your videos. Bravo!
I was looking for any good tutorial of how to use this, thanks for existing Oscar 🖤❤️🖤❤️
I would say "this is the easiest way to learn a synth" Thanks Oscar - this helped a lot
A qualidade do teu conteúdo é excepcional. Um dos melhores canais de produção que ja encontrei.
Dude this was amazingly helpful. Thanks!
Excellent resource. Thank you.
As a synth enthusiast since my first Roland Juno 6. I must say I absolutely enjoy your concise tutorials on electronic production. I'm not a know-it-all. And I am reminded of this through your videos and through comments from your subscribers! :) Thank you for your time and instruction.
Thanks for that 😊
This video is changing my life. Thank you so much Oscar !
Brilliant, as always.
this is what is i was looking for! ❤❤❤❤❤
you're the best. 👌
This is absolutely brilliant. Thanks a lot!!
Clear and straight to the point!
Really great Video for getting into the topic. Thanks alot for your work!
That was so awesome! Thank you!! Learned alot!!
Thank you so much for this informative video. May you have a wonderful rest of your day
this is such a gem of a video
thank you! You are so concise. The best !
now it is more clear to me, thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for this.
Cant be more happier to see ur channel grow day after day 🥳
I am amazed by the quality of your explanation and production, and every single day, I am more amazed by the quality of UA-cam content creators, especially for technical stuff, in every field! Thank you, keep going, and subscriber earned.
This might be the single most useful video for novice producers
what a great explanation! thank you so much!
Although I don’t plan on making electronic music (or any music), I’ve always wanted to understand the process and what artists are doing. You are the only channel that I have seen that does exactly what I wanted. This is amazing.
Back in the day, I wanted a synth really badly. I scoured the local use market for something and a Yamaha DX21 with a Pevey keyboard amp/speaker popped up for under $200. Never heard of FM synthesis other than what my Sound Blaster board did in my computer...but boy did I bite off more than I could chew with that. Dumped right into the most complicated synth sound design system possible! I spend thousands of hours with that keyboard. Learned everything I could and saved up my money and was able to get used Yamaha DX7-FD. I also picked up an FB01 and with all my synths, I was able to get some amazing sounds...Then one day, I picked up a Korg. I was lost. I had no idea what any of those things meant on that keyboard. I still struggle with them. But this video really took it down to the very basics. Makes me want to go into my closet and bring that Korg out into the light of day and try some of these things!
Dude thank you so much!!
I have been trying to figure out what VCO VCA VCF means for so long online and I didn’t know what to even google
No other school breaking it down as effective as underdog.
Huge respect sir 🙏🏻 you covered all these amazing concepts of synth with such an ease that it is ultra simple now ....thank you very much.
Your amazing! I was using microkorg from for 4 years and even had performances with it but have never understand how it works. Now it`s getting clearer. Thank you!
Great video, i have been looking for this for years. Thanks
Top quality tutorials. Thanks!
Thanks for this. Just spent all morning looking at cheap starter analogue synths, but I'm going to take your lesson and muck about with some Logic Pro synths and my midi keyboard.
You've really opened it up for me.
Absolutely fantastic!
Brilliant explanations! 👏🏾
I love the synthesizer so it's really cool to see in depth videos like this
Thanks!
Really enjoyed this. Thanks for the info
Brilliant, complexity simplified.
Explained it so well. I've been just randomly adjusting my synths without any idea what I was doing.
Insane video mate ! keep up the good work !
from Oscar i learn more than 1000 videos about music and Ableton! Thank you so much!
this really helps me a lot
excellent tutorial, thank you!
Excellent video mate. Thanks!
That's a good breakdown and starting point for any novice!
Really nicely laid out tutorial with clear explanations and examples. Thanks very much !
Truly great, thank you.
Awesome video. Just so precise and easy to understand. Thank you so much for taking the time to teach us the way you do!
I've been mucking with synths for 25 years and this is the best explainer I've heard as far as what synthesis actually is.
Your ''Intro to Subtractive Synthesis'' video and this one are the most useful presentations of how synths work that I have watched since I began my exploration a few months ago! Clear explanations, concrete visual illustrations, etc.
The courses of your online school must have an over the top usefulness.
I love the telling name of your UA-cam channel. No need to be a superstar musician, producer or a millionaire to love and play electronic music.
Like André before, since all the years I have watched YT videos, I never clicked the bell button, but I did it for your channel today.
Thanks a lot for convincing me to do it by the quality of your content! 👍 👍
Wow thanks Marcus! This is such a sweet comment. ❤ really appreciate the support!
Great content as always.