NI Razor tutorial - An Introduction to Razor
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
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NI Razor is a totally different beast, this amazing additive synthesizer allows you to create complex and especially unique refreshing sounds using just sine waves.
First let's dive in to the main controls and concepts so that we have a clear understanding of what this synth can do.
Additive synthesis is very different from all the other forms of sound design since it uses only sine waves to build more complex waves.
Joseph Fourier, who lived somewhere in the 18th century stated that every sound could be replicated by just using sine waves, multiplying them, adding new sine waves with different frequencies, etc.
Because sine waves are the most basic waves around, you can pretty much build anything with it.
Think of it like Lego, when you have lots of small Lego pieces you can build a hole house, but if you have inconvenient big blocks with corners and different pieces on it that you never could get off (am I right?) then it suddenly gets a lot more difficult to build something nice.
Razor uses this "building with sine waves" technique to build its basic saw waves but also a lot of other cool sounds.
All the effects in Razor are based on this as well, they will not really change the existing sound, they really change the harmonics to create a new sound.
This results in a very clean and precise sound that stand out because of clarity and focus.
It takes a little while getting used to though, thats why I explain the whole interface first in this video.
The first thing to take notice of is that you can change pretty much all modules inside Razor by clicking on their name.
This opens a window with a lot of different sound sources and effects to choose from, all with different control panels and different sounds.
The routing is very simple from left to right with all the modulation sources at the bottom, this makes it very easy to visualise what it happens, especially with the help of main analyser window.
This window exactly shows what we've talked about, you can see the harmonics changing, shifting higher, getting louder, or softer when filtered.
Keep an eye on this display while designing your first sounds to get an idea of what a sound is doing, and how it works, this will make your learning curve a lot steeper and you'll get a bigger understanding of additive synthesis pretty quikly!
Thats it for this first tutorial, check back next week when we are going to create some actual sound with it!
-Jor
Bought razor a few weeks back, this tutorial is great timing for me... Can't wait for the next tutorial
Awesome - yeah, more to come very soon!
Great introduction to Razor, keep'em coming :)
Thanks - more later this week.
I'm kinda late but anyway, nice video, you seem to be a genuinely nice guy, do you have your own channel or do you upload only on ADSR' channel?
Btw have you already played with Harmor, it's a really amazing additive synth that's even more powerful than Razor
Great tutorial!
Fl studio cant open Razor in Generators.. only in effects
Would getting two or sythns make sense? I recently purchase Serum, and love it. But some of the features Razor has arn't in Serum. Also, the majority of music producers uses Serum and I would want to stand out and be different from the rest. Keep up the great tutorials!
All synths, no matter what type of synthesis, can do a lot of similar stuff, so unless you´ve already mastered Serum, it would be a better idea to spend your money elsewhere. There´s a reason why Serum is so popular, although it certainly isn´t the best in the business. On a sidenote, Razor isn´t really "the best" additive synthesizer, other additives like f.e. IL Harmor are in my opinion a better option to choose from.
There is no limit as to how many synths one can have. This was a topic on the KVR Forums and the answer is this: Number of synths one should have = Number of synths you can have that are available
So yea man...not that you should go out and start buying everything you see, but having a variety is to your advantage. I use Serum, Razor, Sylenth, Massive, Zebra2, Omnisphere 2, and other stock ones that come in Digital Performer, Live, and ProTools as well as bridged 32bit ones from the HG Fortune Library (huge free library...the guy that coded them died and now they're all free). From my experience, trying to make the same sound in different synths, I find that one sits better in the song I'm working on than the others.
K Cox If you have Serum only...there's very little you can't do in terms of making most of the sounds you've heard up to now. I'm into sound design...so, yes, if you want to invent new sounds, learn FM8. That is real FM synthesis by way of phase modulation. People make wavetables for Serum out of FM8 sampled sound but most of them are amateurs. If you're serious about music and sound design...there's no such thing as having too many synths. It all depends if you can afford the hobby.
SW15H I'd like to add, if you're going to try different synths...start with FM first because it's better to start with something that most people discover they should have started with after they learned that they could make everything from FM...albeit a tiny bit more difficult but with better results if done right.
SW15H I guess it did seem like that but I remember when I was asking the same question a few years back, so I can relate to his concern. But yea, it does seem biased. Personally, I own all the top synths out now and I use Serum the most for EDM. I use FM8 to make the wavetables that I import into Serum though or I just design new sounds with FM8 because the results are pristine, obviously, because it's a direct source of generated sound from within the box. Besides, I know how to program in FM synthesis with FM8.
what is that ratio knob?
Merci beaucoup
How on earth do i change the pitch bend range ?
Came here to find out and I'm sure you already figured it out but for anyone else, just figured out you click on the little PB icon underneath where it says pitch and then adjust as needed.
what is the ratio?
Why does razor take up so much CPU?
Because it is essentially using 320 oscillators/partials, its not that bad though! You can try to increase your buffer size if your system can't handle it otherwise :)
why is massive not an additive synth? you can also start from a sine wave and than go on . maybe i didn't understand it
PYRITE Massive uses wavetables, kind of like Serum but additive synthesis is the addition of modulators that modulate the carrier signal. That carrier signal can be modeled mathematically as a sine wave, which is why we associate sound with sine waves, and each addition of modulation, "modulates" the frequency of the signal which inherently produces harmonics or partials that you hear. Massive doesn't do that by way of additive synthesis. It uses the wavetables created by an additive synthesizer. If this all sends confusing, it's because it is. Just take your time and study a little everyday and in a short time you'll be a pro. Fortunately, you actually don't need math or physics knowledge for this. If you did though, things make more sense and results are more predictable instead of guessing. By the way, when you say Massive starts off with a sine wave, yes it does...but it's a wavetable of one, not a generated one that you can modulate directly, only morph to another wavetable.
@@matrixate WTH? Additive synthesis has nothing to do with modulation. It's additive meaning you add as many partials as the synth can generate. Massive uses wavetables... which can be made with any form of synthesis (not necessarily additive) or made with editing software. Massive doesn't "start with" a sine wave. It starts with a wavetable which can have any sort of waveforms in it.
i know this is years old but ppl are still going to view it and read the comments and this last comment is completely incorrect.
Btw, there is plenty that you can't do with Serum. i too design sounds, i wouldn't advise "start with FM", you can design sound with many different forms of synthesis. Lastly wth is the advice to learn FM because you will discover that you should have learned it sooner? I don't mean to sound so critical but the internet has become one giant pool of misinformation.
@@crysstoll1191 What I wrote is correct. I think you were reading with the hope to find something wrong and interpreted my words to mean something that I didn't say. I'm not changing anything. What I wrote is directly from some design theory. I think you may need to go back and re-read what I wrote carefully.
@@matrixate I reread it a few times, it is not correct, hence my post.
@@crysstoll1191Every website on additive synthesis says the same thing I said, additive synthesis is basically just adding sine waves (modulators under the hood). The only other thing I could have added is that sine waves are not sound, rather they are just trigonometric functions that model graphically, the differing level of pressures that propagate through air from a mechanical source (like a speaker or human diaphragm pushing air through vocal cords). Combining differing pressures by changing frequencies and power, causes different sounds (and harmonics). That is what you're doing with an additive synthesizer...Massive is NOT that... which answers the OP's original question.
02:47 this is the main bitch here.. BTW great tutorial, thanks :)
12:56 LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA, OO HOO HOO.
Lost my ears on that one but thanx for the tuto ! :)
Yada yada yada... Fell asleep.... zzzz
Good for you
Oh so basically it's Harmor
No
"bitch"
There are no sounds in a synth. There are signals, Sound is acoustic. The use of block diagrams would increase the functionality of the tutorial so that readers could understand how [and why] the myth functions.
That's true, so when You make your tutorials you should definitely put some block diagrams. i agree they are very helpful, as is rtfm.