0:00 Check out similar tutorial on Massive 0:28 Hide main interface and keyboard. File menu. 1:19 Set sound back to default. Arpeggiator on/off button. Morph pad. Polyphony control. CPU usage. 2:07 Spectrum view that shows harmonics in the sound. Can be viewed in Spect in more detail. 2:29 Panic button, kills all sound. MIDI mapping button. 3:25 Effects presets. Programs option. 3:35 Programs. Program List. List of patches. PC for Programme Change. 4:02 Can Import and Export programme lists, like for a live performance. 4:18 Attributes of preset 4:40 Master section 5:27 Unison section. Stereo spread the voices (Pan). 5:56 Dynamic button. Expert panel to make the sound more complex. You only hear the panning when you let go of the Pan slider. 6:54 Number of voices for keys pressed. Thins out the unison. 8:24 Pitch controls. Double click to reset. Transpose. 8:40 PB (pitch bend) mode. Lowest (bends the lowest note you press). Key On - stops bending it when you release. Latest - bends latest note played. 10:28 Portamento, get a gliding effect. Auto is a legato feature but just works in monophonic mode. 11:13 Arpeggiator. Rate of arpeggiation. Key Sync - every time you press a new note it restarts the step sequencer in the Arpeggiator. 12:23 Quality. More obvious with more polyphony. Analog kind of does the same thing as Detune, it's also kind of random. 13:24 Quality: Digital, will reduce the sample rate and bit depth of the audio output, affects the harmonic spectrum. Fuzzy high frequency stuff. 14:02 Effects. Add things as you please. 14:43 Cabinet to emulate guitars/amps. Responsive Shelving EQ. 15:05 Peak EQ. Two peaks, make them wide or narrow. Talk Wah, vocalises. Assign the Modwheel. 16:06 Vibrato set up by default in the Mod section. Demo of Modwheel. 16:28 Phaser. Flanger. Tremolo - has Stereo mode. Demo of tremolo effects. 16:58 Reverb, straightforward controls. PsycheDelay with Reverse option, transpose. 17:39. For every feedback repeat the pitch will go up by 2 semitones. 18:10 Chorus/Delay. In chorus mode if set to a low value and delay mode if set a high value. 18:25 Master control for Effects. Templates/presets for Effects. 18:44 Arpeggiator also a step sequencer/ Pattern Editor. On button. There are presets. 19:17 Hold button. 19:30. Down button, makes it arpeggiate high to low. 19:53 Wrap. Direction settings. Demo of Pause. 20:30 One Shot, only works with Key Sync on. 21:02 With Tempo Sync off you can change the tempo. Arpeggiation rate, Triplets and Dotted. Note Length, Shuffle (rhythm) 22:05 Expression: Velocity. Introduce velocity sensitivity. 22:36 Turn on Velocity. Define Velocity and Accent, choose which steps have the accent. 22:52 Split. Which side of the split uses the arpeggiator. Learn button to learn where the split is. 23:27 Up to 32 steps in pattern Editor. Customise the On, Tie, Accent, Note Order (click to customise further), Octave 24:25 Octave and Transpose customisation. Hit the dice button to randomise everything. And you can Reset everything. 25:12 A bug? Turning on Key Sync makes it skip the first step the first time. 26:37 Arrows shift the sequence forwards or back. 26:53 Easy/Morph section. Need a preset. 27:16. Can quickly tweak parameters from the preset without the Expert section. Altering Attack. 27:56 Timbre. Harmonic, Brightness, Detune, Velocity setting. 28:48 Output section, overall volume. Stereo Width, Velocity. 29:30 Quick access to Effects. 29:56 Morph X-Y grid. Morph between 4 different states. Can go to Browser and load another different preset by dragging and dropping into the morph at the top. 31:09 Can drag between the 4 presets now. Find a cool spot then hit Normalize Timbres to spread it across the 4 quadrants. It creates a new patch. 32:05 Different presets for further demo. Can spread it across the Y and X axis with sliders to take value from more positions at once, and can drag it all around. 33:15 Click Random Seed to change the pattern. 33:34 Some parameters morph and some don't. Anything with the morph pad icon morphs, things from other sections too. 34:37 Not all jump, some move gradually. 35:00 Create your own morphs. Morphing with effects. Morph from 100% to 0%. Square goes red when it records the change. 36:09 Expert page where the FM synth stuff happens. A to F are individual operators. 36:51 See other videos and his course at macprovideo. com for explanations of operators and FM synthesis. 37:06 Operator A. Ops button to see the essential parameters. Env button. Mod section - Modulation Matrix, 2 LFOs for modulating, and MIDI controls. 37:57 KeySc button. Microtuning, tuning presets, custom tunings. Spect button - spectrum view. 38:35 Pitch, for pitch bending. 38:44 FM Matrix. Bottom section is the output. Double click to delete. Click and drag. Below is panning. 39:49 Right click to activate other modulators. E.g. can make D modulate F, arrow shows direction of modulation. D can also be a carrier. Can create complex signal paths. 40:39 Create feedback path. Individual modulators can modulate themselves. 41:08 Presets. Quantity of Carriers and Modulators. Demo. Can be morphed. Can save them. 41:40 X is a noise generator and saturator. F going into X. Add asymmetry. F and X going to the output. Asym affects noise signal. 42:56 Z is a filter. It's like Massive. Mixing between 2 filters. Par/Ser (parallel or series). Can switch to high pass. 43:50 2nd filter takes the cutoff from filter 1 and offsets it with the Spread dial. 44:13 Controls on the Operators. In FM Synthesis, tuning is adjusted in ratios. Think of it as a multiplier. 44:56 Offset to the tuning. Demo with E and F. Offset is fixed, value more obvious as you go lower and less as you go higher. 46:13 For a consistent change in tuning, use the Ratio. 46:40 Waveform. More waveforms than just Sine. Key Sync, pressing a new note, the waveform resets to the zero crossing. Pitch Env, Pitch (button) section. 47:49 A-F Operator pages are identical. Operators tab. Velocity sensitivity control. X and Z. 48:40 Can tweak the Envelope. Grid base interface. Right click to add nodes. 49:26 Set back to default (Gate). There are presets. Demo of changing an Envelope. E is looping. To stop it looping turn off the Sustain (Sus). 51:00 Some additional controls. Tempo Sync. Drag the view around. Parameters: can adjust Rel T (relative time). 51:57 Change Slide mode (Mode SLD). Cool presets. 4-Blip Loop. 52:37 Envelope section differs from the Operator envelope sections - you can see an overview of the other envelopes and you can copy and paste them. Click Link of the one you want to copy, it links it to another Operator. You can unlink them to copy and it to another and keep it independent. 53:56 Modulation Matrix. 2 LFOs can modulate any of the Operators and the overall pitch. PB Up + PB Dn, Pitch bend range. AT - aftertouch. 55:00 Ctrl 1 and 2. Define in the Master section. 55:24 56:02 Sync. Key Sync resets shape to 0. Use any modulator to affect the level of the Operators. 56:48 Z. 57:26 For X it's volume. 58:08 For each note you can define how loud it'll be. 59:18 Reduce the brightness of notes. 1:00:00 That's Key Scaling for every Operator. Microtuning presets. 1:00:32 Spect - visualiser. Pitch section. Mod. 1:01:15 Pitch Envelope. Velocity sensitivity. 1:02:33 That's everything. He has a book on how to create sounds using FM8, book could be helpful
Great video. Some features you explained got me all excited, but really, I don’t do much sound design - mainly just use presets. However, part of me wants to tackle fm synthesis ever since I played my first DX7 in the 80s. The depth of synths and sampled instruments in Komplete 14 is over-whelming at times. These legacy synths like FM8, Forms, Reacktor are often over looked and yet, they can create some amazing sounds. 😊
That glitch in the arpeggiator doesn't happen is you make sure to hit the lowest note first. When you play a chord organically on a keyboard you often end up hitting the middle note first, which starts the arpeggiation on the second note. But if you do a little trill with your hand starting at the lowest note it doesn't happen.
46:13 - Now I know why some low notes on some bass sounds on my FM7 sound out of tune, it must have an offset on the operator. I always wondered thy this was, and your vid explained it! Thanks!
Could you tell me i've changed from 1.3.2 to .1.4.6 and i used to launch it threw FL so i tried on my new desktop load my older projcts and it seems FL cant recognise fm8 so i guess it cant be loaded from newer one i have Can it be resolved idk?
Hi, I am trying to create a bass sound, with an lfo filter cutoff modulation, now, I wanted to change the lfo speed during the note (like a dubstep bass wah loop). In Massive, it's easy to do, but in Fm8, is not so obvious how to go about it. Thanks, if is not possible to do it with Fm8 thanks anyway.
The unison panner is like that (only evaluated at note on) due to CPU optimization. :) Also "Auto" portamento mode simply cannot happen in polyphonic case, just think about it, it's logical why.
0:00 Check out similar tutorial on Massive
0:28 Hide main interface and keyboard. File menu.
1:19 Set sound back to default. Arpeggiator on/off button. Morph pad. Polyphony control. CPU usage.
2:07 Spectrum view that shows harmonics in the sound. Can be viewed in Spect in more detail.
2:29 Panic button, kills all sound. MIDI mapping button.
3:25 Effects presets. Programs option.
3:35 Programs. Program List. List of patches. PC for Programme Change.
4:02 Can Import and Export programme lists, like for a live performance.
4:18 Attributes of preset
4:40 Master section
5:27 Unison section. Stereo spread the voices (Pan).
5:56 Dynamic button. Expert panel to make the sound more complex. You only hear the panning when you let go of the Pan slider.
6:54 Number of voices for keys pressed. Thins out the unison.
8:24 Pitch controls. Double click to reset. Transpose.
8:40 PB (pitch bend) mode. Lowest (bends the lowest note you press). Key On - stops bending it when you release. Latest - bends latest note played.
10:28 Portamento, get a gliding effect. Auto is a legato feature but just works in monophonic mode.
11:13 Arpeggiator. Rate of arpeggiation. Key Sync - every time you press a new note it restarts the step sequencer in the Arpeggiator.
12:23 Quality. More obvious with more polyphony. Analog kind of does the same thing as Detune, it's also kind of random.
13:24 Quality: Digital, will reduce the sample rate and bit depth of the audio output, affects the harmonic spectrum. Fuzzy high frequency stuff.
14:02 Effects. Add things as you please.
14:43 Cabinet to emulate guitars/amps. Responsive Shelving EQ.
15:05 Peak EQ. Two peaks, make them wide or narrow. Talk Wah, vocalises. Assign the Modwheel.
16:06 Vibrato set up by default in the Mod section. Demo of Modwheel.
16:28 Phaser. Flanger. Tremolo - has Stereo mode. Demo of tremolo effects.
16:58 Reverb, straightforward controls. PsycheDelay with Reverse option, transpose. 17:39. For every feedback repeat the pitch will go up by 2 semitones.
18:10 Chorus/Delay. In chorus mode if set to a low value and delay mode if set a high value.
18:25 Master control for Effects. Templates/presets for Effects.
18:44 Arpeggiator also a step sequencer/ Pattern Editor. On button. There are presets.
19:17 Hold button.
19:30. Down button, makes it arpeggiate high to low.
19:53 Wrap. Direction settings. Demo of Pause.
20:30 One Shot, only works with Key Sync on.
21:02 With Tempo Sync off you can change the tempo. Arpeggiation rate, Triplets and Dotted. Note Length, Shuffle (rhythm)
22:05 Expression: Velocity. Introduce velocity sensitivity. 22:36 Turn on Velocity. Define Velocity and Accent, choose which steps have the accent.
22:52 Split. Which side of the split uses the arpeggiator. Learn button to learn where the split is.
23:27 Up to 32 steps in pattern Editor. Customise the On, Tie, Accent, Note Order (click to customise further), Octave
24:25 Octave and Transpose customisation. Hit the dice button to randomise everything. And you can Reset everything.
25:12 A bug? Turning on Key Sync makes it skip the first step the first time.
26:37 Arrows shift the sequence forwards or back.
26:53 Easy/Morph section. Need a preset. 27:16. Can quickly tweak parameters from the preset without the Expert section. Altering Attack.
27:56 Timbre. Harmonic, Brightness, Detune, Velocity setting.
28:48 Output section, overall volume. Stereo Width, Velocity.
29:30 Quick access to Effects.
29:56 Morph X-Y grid. Morph between 4 different states. Can go to Browser and load another different preset by dragging and dropping into the morph at the top.
31:09 Can drag between the 4 presets now. Find a cool spot then hit Normalize Timbres to spread it across the 4 quadrants. It creates a new patch.
32:05 Different presets for further demo. Can spread it across the Y and X axis with sliders to take value from more positions at once, and can drag it all around.
33:15 Click Random Seed to change the pattern.
33:34 Some parameters morph and some don't. Anything with the morph pad icon morphs, things from other sections too.
34:37 Not all jump, some move gradually.
35:00 Create your own morphs. Morphing with effects. Morph from 100% to 0%. Square goes red when it records the change.
36:09 Expert page where the FM synth stuff happens. A to F are individual operators.
36:51 See other videos and his course at macprovideo. com for explanations of operators and FM synthesis.
37:06 Operator A. Ops button to see the essential parameters. Env button. Mod section - Modulation Matrix, 2 LFOs for modulating, and MIDI controls.
37:57 KeySc button. Microtuning, tuning presets, custom tunings. Spect button - spectrum view.
38:35 Pitch, for pitch bending.
38:44 FM Matrix. Bottom section is the output. Double click to delete. Click and drag. Below is panning.
39:49 Right click to activate other modulators. E.g. can make D modulate F, arrow shows direction of modulation. D can also be a carrier. Can create complex signal paths.
40:39 Create feedback path. Individual modulators can modulate themselves.
41:08 Presets. Quantity of Carriers and Modulators. Demo. Can be morphed. Can save them.
41:40 X is a noise generator and saturator. F going into X. Add asymmetry. F and X going to the output. Asym affects noise signal.
42:56 Z is a filter. It's like Massive. Mixing between 2 filters. Par/Ser (parallel or series). Can switch to high pass.
43:50 2nd filter takes the cutoff from filter 1 and offsets it with the Spread dial.
44:13 Controls on the Operators. In FM Synthesis, tuning is adjusted in ratios. Think of it as a multiplier.
44:56 Offset to the tuning. Demo with E and F. Offset is fixed, value more obvious as you go lower and less as you go higher.
46:13 For a consistent change in tuning, use the Ratio.
46:40 Waveform. More waveforms than just Sine. Key Sync, pressing a new note, the waveform resets to the zero crossing. Pitch Env, Pitch (button) section.
47:49 A-F Operator pages are identical. Operators tab. Velocity sensitivity control. X and Z.
48:40 Can tweak the Envelope. Grid base interface. Right click to add nodes.
49:26 Set back to default (Gate). There are presets. Demo of changing an Envelope. E is looping. To stop it looping turn off the Sustain (Sus).
51:00 Some additional controls. Tempo Sync. Drag the view around. Parameters: can adjust Rel T (relative time).
51:57 Change Slide mode (Mode SLD). Cool presets. 4-Blip Loop.
52:37 Envelope section differs from the Operator envelope sections - you can see an overview of the other envelopes and you can copy and paste them. Click Link of the one you want to copy, it links it to another Operator. You can unlink them to copy and it to another and keep it independent.
53:56 Modulation Matrix. 2 LFOs can modulate any of the Operators and the overall pitch. PB Up + PB Dn, Pitch bend range. AT - aftertouch.
55:00 Ctrl 1 and 2. Define in the Master section.
55:24
56:02 Sync. Key Sync resets shape to 0. Use any modulator to affect the level of the Operators.
56:48 Z.
57:26 For X it's volume.
58:08 For each note you can define how loud it'll be.
59:18 Reduce the brightness of notes.
1:00:00 That's Key Scaling for every Operator. Microtuning presets.
1:00:32 Spect - visualiser. Pitch section. Mod.
1:01:15 Pitch Envelope. Velocity sensitivity.
1:02:33 That's everything. He has a book on how to create sounds using FM8, book could be helpful
After watching some fm8 videos, this is BY FAR the best one!
Thank you for this in depth tutorial!
You sir made the best FM8 guide I've ever seen.
Thanks so much again! Your videos are really thorough, well layed out and nicely presented.
This was a great and indepth tutorial! Very useful!
A great in-depth overview of everything. Also, thank you for pointing out quirks and duplicate sections that would definitely have confused me.
Just bought Komplete 13 ! Allready in love with it !
Great video. Some features you explained got me all excited, but really, I don’t do much sound design - mainly just use presets. However, part of me wants to tackle fm synthesis ever since I played my first DX7 in the 80s. The depth of synths and sampled instruments in Komplete 14 is over-whelming at times. These legacy synths like FM8, Forms, Reacktor are often over looked and yet, they can create some amazing sounds. 😊
Amazing tutorial, thank you for this!
Wow! What a wonderful lesson! Much appreciated!
The "E" in the application control bar is an indicator that the patch you are working on has been altered (like a save reminder).
Stephen Bailey awesome! Makes sense. Thanks for the info.
@@rishabhrajan no problem. Great video! I love this kind of tutorial!
This is a perfect instructional video. Thank you SO much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
That glitch in the arpeggiator doesn't happen is you make sure to hit the lowest note first. When you play a chord organically on a keyboard you often end up hitting the middle note first, which starts the arpeggiation on the second note. But if you do a little trill with your hand starting at the lowest note it doesn't happen.
Thank you for this material. Has been very helpful!
Great tutorial - thanks!
GREAT Tutorial!!
Thank you
Great video thanks you so much, you explain things very clearly, will be co ming back to this lots
FM8 is extremely slept on
Thank you very much for your brilliant video.
🖖🏽🍀
Cheers!
THank you so much, best tutorial.
Great work! 👍 Thank you so much! 🖐
46:13 - Now I know why some low notes on some bass sounds on my FM7 sound out of tune, it must have an offset on the operator. I always wondered thy this was, and your vid explained it! Thanks!
That was superb …many thanks/…off to check out your book now
I'm curious if what you do in the Arpeggiator section can be sent out via midi to an analog hardware synth for instance.
Brilliant Tutorial. .... thank you.
Really fantastic video! Super helpful
Thank you a lot!
thank you so much!
Thanks for this man!
thanks a LOT buddy!!!
so the ratio can`t be modulated/automated from within the synth right?
Could you tell me i've changed from 1.3.2 to .1.4.6 and i used to launch it threw FL so i tried on my new desktop load my older projcts and it seems FL cant recognise fm8 so i guess it cant be loaded from newer one i have
Can it be resolved idk?
so how i can to choose onlye ys200 sounds or another library from only one especific keyboard ?
Hi, I am trying to create a bass sound, with an lfo filter cutoff modulation, now, I wanted to change the lfo speed during the note (like a dubstep bass wah loop). In Massive, it's easy to do, but in Fm8, is not so obvious how to go about it. Thanks, if is not possible to do it with Fm8 thanks anyway.
Thanks for this awesome vid! But where you can learn how those parameters really affect the sound? Is it only trial-and-error for an amateur?
When i try to play it makes no sound?
Love your videos! Have you tried Dexed? I have Dexed but your tutorial is making me want to learn FM8 instead haha
Thanks! I've heard a lot about it. Never really like the user interface so never got into it. haha
@@rishabhrajan yeah - i think that is also what has prevented me from diving into it!
perfect thanks ,, please make one for u-he zebra 2 :)
The unison panner is like that (only evaluated at note on) due to CPU optimization. :)
Also "Auto" portamento mode simply cannot happen in polyphonic case, just think about it, it's logical why.
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Thank you! Unfortunately I’ve never used phase plant.
ur a god
Gracias
you did i great job but i just connect with this thing... its too buggy for me
on point. :)
how to resize
I am not the a user of an apple, but I really care about this book, is there any other option to buy?
I have a specific FM8 question for you. I would be happy to hire you to answer this question. Please let me know if you are available.
Interesting and helpfull but difficult to listen too much bloopers mistakes and "basically speaking"
Brilliant.. Thank you..