This series has some of the best synthesis tutorials I've seen on youtube or in any electronic music class I've taken in college. Thank you for the lesson and keep up the good work!
I just picked one of these up and I gotta say, you gave me an absolute education with these videos. Learning about envelopes, carriers, operators, modulation.. you go through it all. This is called applied learning and you have done an excellent job.
These in depth videos are the best. I've learned almost everything I know about synthesis from them. You really put a lot into them and they really help. Just wanted to say thanks.
I use a Rack Extension in Reason, called "PX7". I've been able to get some pretty interesting patches out of it... but truthfully, just through trial & error... & completely by ear. This explanation of the way Envelopes within Operators & Level Scaling actually function... is indispensable! Thanks man! :]
These videos are incredibly useful. (New to your channel!) Thank you! The Volca FM is my first synthesizer and this series is how I'm starting learnings.
AutomaticGainsay Parody or not, it's a great 80s funk pastiche! I find that style very appealing when done tastefully, as you have! There's a lot more gaudy, awful things you could have done! ;) I've been on an Automatic Gainsay watching binge today, which I do from time to time. Love your work Marc!
7:23 idk if someone else already mentioned it yet but rate (amount) equals to speed, so less rate means less speed means it takes longer to reach to the set level. Like when you drive your car from point A to B. Btw I learned this from cuckoo's tutorial videos. You can blame him if this is not right :)
If your EG level 4 is anything other than zero the sound will never finish releasing and just continue droning, because the final release level is non-zero. Get it? This is more useful when the operator is a modulator.
I was wondering the same thing, but I don't think there is a pure, preset, sine wave you can begin with. I think Marc is eluding to all of the programs/presets being sine waves. I would be curious to know which preset is a preferred beginning point and why...
Great video AG. FYI Rate means speed, but we're used to thinking about envelope attack as time. I know this, but I have to remind myself every time. It's not intuitive. :-)
Really helpful, thank you. If I can offer some constructive criticism, we can easily understand you if you just explain each concept one time, not multiple times like you did for the envelope discussion.
These tutorials are great, but they are also really illustrating why FM just never gelled with me. I just don't like programming sounds that way, and I love sound design otherwise.
I think a couple more illustrations or graphs could have helped to understand the more complicated parameters you've covered. This is definitely the weakest part of the set so far, I get that possibly you're having a hard time understanding what you're trying to explain too. FWIW, looking for example at the screen on a software plugin or on the Kronos definitely makes these advanced things like complex envelope and keytracking parameters easier to understand.
Narancia Ghirga It has to be complex for a reason. Its the only form of synthesis that can do just about any sound you can hear and many you havent heard. Thats why its complex. I have been programming my DX7 for 26 years. And its still surprising me. Just when you think youve hit the wall of limitation. It gives you something new. Ive got some of the best drum sounds you will ever hear out of my DX7. From crisp bright hi hats, to the best electro toms. And the best electro clap ever. I am going to make a demo soon just to show these sounds off with a bassline. Theyre too good.
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This series has some of the best synthesis tutorials I've seen on youtube or in any electronic music class I've taken in college. Thank you for the lesson and keep up the good work!
Thank you very much!
I just picked one of these up and I gotta say, you gave me an absolute education with these videos. Learning about envelopes, carriers, operators, modulation.. you go through it all. This is called applied learning and you have done an excellent job.
The best FM tutorial I've seen so far. Thank you!
These in depth videos are the best. I've learned almost everything I know about synthesis from them. You really put a lot into them and they really help. Just wanted to say thanks.
Thank you very much! I'm glad I could help!
You are breaking open the barriers of FM synthesis for me man! Thank you 🤘
I use a Rack Extension in Reason, called "PX7".
I've been able to get some pretty interesting patches out of it... but truthfully, just through trial & error... & completely by ear.
This explanation of the way Envelopes within Operators & Level Scaling actually function... is indispensable!
Thanks man! :]
Yours are the best tutorials about these machines man... Thanks a lot!!!!!!
Best Regards from North Lima, Peru!
This helps a ton. I can't(*) wait to get home from work and start playing with edit mode. Thanks for making the video!
These videos are incredibly useful. (New to your channel!) Thank you! The Volca FM is my first synthesizer and this series is how I'm starting learnings.
Thank you!
Thanks for explaining stuff about FM that I never bothered to find out on my own :)
The intro music here is the funkiest jam I've heard from you in a while Marc! Great stuff!
Thank you very much, sir! That means a lot coming from you!
It was sort of meant to be a parody of the sort of typical FM usage of 1985 or so. :D
AutomaticGainsay Parody or not, it's a great 80s funk pastiche! I find that style very appealing when done tastefully, as you have! There's a lot more gaudy, awful things you could have done! ;) I've been on an Automatic Gainsay watching binge today, which I do from time to time. Love your work Marc!
Thank you SO much, Matt! And likewise!
Thanks Marc! I've been waiting for a video with some deeper FM programming.
You're a good communicator. Thanks!
7:23 idk if someone else already mentioned it yet but rate (amount) equals to speed, so less rate means less speed means it takes longer to reach to the set level. Like when you drive your car from point A to B. Btw I learned this from cuckoo's tutorial videos. You can blame him if this is not right :)
This is correct. It's mathematically the derivative, ie rate of change.
Great series definily! Thanks again! Greetings from Brasil!
very use full review! I'm really looking forward to the next, and maby buy myself a fm synthesizer in the future!
keep up the good work!
If your EG level 4 is anything other than zero the sound will never finish releasing and just continue droning, because the final release level is non-zero. Get it? This is more useful when the operator is a modulator.
Hi! Great tutorial. How can I manage to create a sound just with one operator on from scratch?
How does one clear a program so we're starting with one operator on, straight sine wave, build from there?
I was wondering the same thing, but I don't think there is a pure, preset, sine wave you can begin with. I think Marc is eluding to all of the programs/presets being sine waves. I would be curious to know which preset is a preferred beginning point and why...
Thanks a lot, I learnt a lot!
How do you deal with those envelopes clicks ? They're driving me crazy :(
Great video AG. FYI Rate means speed, but we're used to thinking about envelope attack as time. I know this, but I have to remind myself every time. It's not intuitive. :-)
10:20 he says clicking noise because of a 'potent' envelope, what does he mean by this? thanks
Good tutorial. Think i will stick with the reface DX.
Very nice Marc
Was the new sound imported via midi, or can you create it directly on volca?
Really helpful, thank you.
If I can offer some constructive criticism, we can easily understand you if you just explain each concept one time, not multiple times like you did for the envelope discussion.
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
thanks 😊
Really helpfull. Thank u!
FM always does my head in lol
all the comedians on youtube < this video
I laughed so many times
These tutorials are great, but they are also really illustrating why FM just never gelled with me. I just don't like programming sounds that way, and I love sound design otherwise.
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I think a couple more illustrations or graphs could have helped to understand the more complicated parameters you've covered. This is definitely the weakest part of the set so far, I get that possibly you're having a hard time understanding what you're trying to explain too.
FWIW, looking for example at the screen on a software plugin or on the Kronos definitely makes these advanced things like complex envelope and keytracking parameters easier to understand.
FM synthesis is the equivalent of the offside rule in football.
Wait. I thought you only liked analog synthesis???
I'm full of surprises!
the fm synthesis is really complex
Narancia Ghirga
It has to be complex for a reason. Its the only form of synthesis that can do just about any sound you can hear and many you havent heard. Thats why its complex. I have been programming my DX7 for 26 years. And its still surprising me. Just when you think youve hit the wall of limitation. It gives you something new. Ive got some of the best drum sounds you will ever hear out of my DX7. From crisp bright hi hats, to the best electro toms. And the best electro clap ever. I am going to make a demo soon just to show these sounds off with a bassline. Theyre too good.
Damnit mate, you owe me €132
Sorrryyyyyy
God damn this shit is complicated.