This is a synth that, if you're not an experienced programmer, you'll think it's rather basic. But in the hand of a seasoned sound designer, it quickly becomes apparent just how efficient, fun, and deep the sound design of the Super 8 can be. Great for Boards of Canada type synthesis.
6:52 a little handy tip that I use all the time is if you wanna select all of the notes on a specific MIDI lane you can just click the note on the actual piano roll on the left and all of the MIDI notes (in this case the snare) will be selected. This way you don't have to fumble around trying to select them all in the editor window. Great stuff by the way! :)
hi jax, i still don't know how to do it, i just clicked around randomly until it started to work. i used to be quite good on ableton believe it or not but you quickly forget...
Great job as always Woody!! I always learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. The end product is quite pleasing to me. Thanks again for another fun video!
Hands down and hats off to you and this wonderful video! I am smiling happily while watching the whole thing. You did effectively bring me 25 or more years back... Born in the 70s, I am a music child of 80s, so this track resonates beautifully with me, in addition while in my late teens, I also got into synthesizers and keyboards and spent hundreds of hours and days and nights producing similar music tracks on my Commodore 64 and later on my Commodore Amiga... Thanks so much for this video and the joy and pleasure that comes with it! :) PS Coincidentally, I got myself a new Nord Electro 6 HP today (I need long piano weighted keys), and I have my eyes also on some second keyboard for synth / ambient sounds or eventually on a combination of a controller keyboard (Arturia perhaps) and a software synth / sequencer (Super 8 sounds lovely). My aim is now live playing - combination of piano with some ambient backgrounds, to accompany the yoga lessons which my wife is teaching... Very best regards from Praha! :) I'm an instant fan!
It's fun to look back at the 70-90s and see how music influenced synths, and then synths influenced music. Just imagine how it would upset the landscape of what we know as late 20th century music, if you could travel back in time with a MacBook, a USB MIDI controller, and Komplete Ultimate, and hand that over to any studio in LA.
Hey Woody, sounds great! I think I’m gonna pick this up. Just a quick Ableton tip, if you know how many bars you want a midi clip to be, just double click in the slot where you want to record to insert a one bar clip and then adjust the length (number of bars) on the clip menu, near the legato button you’re using. Then just start session record and you won’t have to worry about recording a clip longer than you want it to be, it will just loop automatically. Hope this saves you future frustration.
Dude, that's mind-blowing. Exactly what I was looking for! I have just discovered Super 8 for myself, and I was looking for some inspiration. You made my day!
The sound of this new N.I. synth reminds me of the Voyetra 8 as used by a lot of 80's bands like The Eurythmics and Depeche Mode etc. It has a nice mellow tone nice for synth strings and pads. Good stuff.
OK Woody, here's the thing. I've got Playground Sessions and I even paid for a lifetime license, but FFS I'd take a lesson from you over that ANY TIME. I was born in '82, been obsessed with '80s music since forever and your stuff has always kept me going. If you ever release a course with 80's stuff in it, you've got your first customer right 'ere. Greetings from MEXICO (yeah, the country sux but 80s nostalgia is yuge [NO pun intended] here). Hell, even some 90's stuff will do for me as I'm a 90's teenager too.
thanks for the words of encouragement! I think the sound is a lot to do with the chords progressions and voicings too aswell as the sounds, of course! greetings!
I'd love to see a part 2! I love the TR-707 drum kit and the entire track is really beautiful. :D What if you do a synthwave contest of sorts, where someone films themselves putting together a track in half an hour, posts it along with the finished track, and then you do something similar to the Espen Remix Challenge? :D
Thank you, Woody. I´m interested in anything that surrounds Synthwave and didn´t know this VST yet. A great achievement in 30 minutes. (Also, good to know there is still some Ableton love left. 90% of the Synthwave people seem to use FL Studio.)
24:57 just hit the "Capture MIDI" button in the top bar (between the left-pointing arrow and the circle) and it will grab the MIDI you forgot to record and make a clip out of it. This is one of my favorite Live features.
hi kris, i've been a user for years, if you go back on my channel you'll find it! i really enjoy AL for sketching songs, but for audio editing and production it's Reaper ftw!
Yeah that would be nice, I’ve got these plugings installed. Last week they updated the pack with some new ones. Sadly not all of them have been released yet, some like Darwin and Milpitas gadgets still need to be released.
@@WoodyPianoShack haha I'm currently watching your part 2 video. I've been bouncing between Ableton, Reason, Reaper, downloaded Studio one 4 and want to settle on one to get some work done...but having fun nerding out...
Interesting process video. This SUPER 8 vst seems pretty pedestrian though. It seems like you could have accomplished the same thing in the free Synth1 or a few dozen of other synths.
Hey Woody - I have a fun idea, if you're interested. Release the session file as a download and have a community cook-off for how to complete it as a song. :-) I could hear this going a couple ways - like The Naked and Famous, or Chicane... I would love to hear what others come up with.
hi! in this case kontrol is a container for reaktor which is a container for super 8... :) many layers to this cake! kontrol allows for integration with my keyboard controller, preset browsing and tweaking the params.
Great video Woody! Love the sounds and the setup of SUPER 8. Just shows what's possible in half an hour. Notice you're using the NI A49 recently - any chance of a quick review?
Love your videos. Love NI...I haven't picked this one up yet. I have the latest "Komplete", so I wonder if I can get it "free" (cough), or if it's an extra charge?
I'm pretty certain the only extra you will get is Massive X, which was always advertised as being part of the latest Komplete even though it wasn't ready to ship (and has been delayed). I don't think Super 8, Noire or anything else that has released since Komplete 12 went on sale will appear in the Komplete bundles until the next Komplete is released. If NI gave you anything more than they promised when you last bought or upgraded Komplete, they would have less (or even nothing) to tempt you into upgrading to the next Komplete. It is possible NI will start offering Komplete subscriptions which will include additional software released during the subscription, but the audio software producers seem less keen on subscriptions than companies such as Microsoft and Adobe.
@@DavidWood2 of course. Everyone else does the same: Arturia, Avid, toontrack...it's all about pushing the market and keeping the $$$ flowing. And that's understandable.
Depends on how badly you need the latest plugs. Komplete is always the collection as of a time, then they add more, which gets rolled into the next Komplete. So I just wait and upgrade every second release or so. Buy a single here and there when I get a 50% off coupon maybe. :-)
@@WoodyPianoShack Very true. I like when they release libraries under $100. Especially how often they seem to send e-coupons out. It seems every time I didn't win a contest I enter with them they send a $39 coupon. Will have to keep my eyes peeled!
You should try Fl Studio and see how it works out for you, ive been using it for 10+ years, so i might be a bit biased here, but the piano roll in fl studio is said by many people to be the best of any daw.
You can´t beat the FL Studio piano roll without a doubt. Everybody knows that. However, Ableton has other advantages that compensate. Maybe YOU should give it a try.
@@ErnestoAvilez92 Fair enough. I have licenses for both Ableton and FL Studio. I´m on the Mac since years, so unfortunately I don´t use FL Studio that much anymore (it still doesn´t run smoothly on the Mac, despite all their efforts). If not, I would probably be switching between them, all the time, because I like them both so much.
@@WoodyPianoShack !! I'm a beginner, just learning keyboard and I've bought Logic Pro X and some NI products such as Maschine Mikro Mk3, A25 and Select. I have therefore Alchemy, Massive and Monark. I'm hoping for the annual sale soon and a chance to get Komplete Standard and so FM8, Absynth and Massive X. I'm into 70s prog and 80s synth so Super 8 is interesting, but so is something like TAL UNO LX. Then again I have an e-voucher for £22 I have to spend in the next couple of day and this looks more interesting than the expansion I was considering
Hey, Woody. You can actually capture midi even when not recording it. I'm referring to 24:00. Here's how you'd do it. ua-cam.com/video/DuoWfmMA8t4/v-deo.html Ableton is awesome. I'm migrating from Reason 10 to it and finding it most liberating. Reason is so convoluted.
As soon as you played "that" synthwave progression I realized that everyone is doing it and that this whole thing is getting boring. That progression has been recycled too much. Also you know that synthwave is dead when Native Instruments makes a babbys first plugin for it
James Rustles: I must say you are not of-topic so you are not a troll. However, your comment doesn´t cause a good vibe either. I love Woody making Synthwave with Ableton. Why don´t you look for videos that you like instead of getting bored here?
This is a synth that, if you're not an experienced programmer, you'll think it's rather basic. But in the hand of a seasoned sound designer, it quickly becomes apparent just how efficient, fun, and deep the sound design of the Super 8 can be. Great for Boards of Canada type synthesis.
6:52 a little handy tip that I use all the time is if you wanna select all of the notes on a specific MIDI lane you can just click the note on the actual piano roll on the left and all of the MIDI notes (in this case the snare) will be selected. This way you don't have to fumble around trying to select them all in the editor window. Great stuff by the way! :)
Please do some more. I'd love to hear a full song fleshed out. Great video!
cool, noted, thanks for the feedback!
This was amazing to watch, Woody! It's so pleasing to see the entire process, including you being frustrated over the DAW. Thank you!
That was fun! Great instrument. I feel 35 years younger. :)
Just spotted this... absolutely awesome...learned so much from this vid thanku for all your time
Can't wait for part 2.Thanks for this prod vid they're great and helpful.
Man I could listen to this track whilst falling asleep. Thank you
yeah stick with it for the next vid woody, looking forward to it :)
I’m liking where this is going. I’d really like to hear the final product!
Watching Woody's process warts and all is so amazing 💜
OOOOH, I didn't know how to overdub! This changes everything!
hi jax, i still don't know how to do it, i just clicked around randomly until it started to work. i used to be quite good on ableton believe it or not but you quickly forget...
@@WoodyPianoShack I think it's the red circle to the right of record
Come ON ! That really wasn't too shabby ! Also the Super 8 sounds as if it were perfect for music like Disclosure - the pads remind me a lot of them.
Great job as always Woody!! I always learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. The end product is quite pleasing to me. Thanks again for another fun video!
nice of you to say so, thank you dan.
Great job. Love it! Resonance on the riff was quite nice.
Hands down and hats off to you and this wonderful video! I am smiling happily while watching the whole thing. You did effectively bring me 25 or more years back... Born in the 70s, I am a music child of 80s, so this track resonates beautifully with me, in addition while in my late teens, I also got into synthesizers and keyboards and spent hundreds of hours and days and nights producing similar music tracks on my Commodore 64 and later on my Commodore Amiga... Thanks so much for this video and the joy and pleasure that comes with it! :)
PS Coincidentally, I got myself a new Nord Electro 6 HP today (I need long piano weighted keys), and I have my eyes also on some second keyboard for synth / ambient sounds or eventually on a combination of a controller keyboard (Arturia perhaps) and a software synth / sequencer (Super 8 sounds lovely). My aim is now live playing - combination of piano with some ambient backgrounds, to accompany the yoga lessons which my wife is teaching... Very best regards from Praha! :) I'm an instant fan!
thx for the comment, so glad you enjoyed the vid & congrats on the electro, killer board!
Thanks Woody for that training full of nice 80' sounds ! Luv it ! MrB
I'd also be interested to see a part 2 where you show how you would continue developing the song in Ableton Live.
It's fun to look back at the 70-90s and see how music influenced synths, and then synths influenced music.
Just imagine how it would upset the landscape of what we know as late 20th century music, if you could travel back in time with a MacBook, a USB MIDI controller, and Komplete Ultimate, and hand that over to any studio in LA.
Hey Woody, sounds great! I think I’m gonna pick this up. Just a quick Ableton tip, if you know how many bars you want a midi clip to be, just double click in the slot where you want to record to insert a one bar clip and then adjust the length (number of bars) on the clip menu, near the legato button you’re using. Then just start session record and you won’t have to worry about recording a clip longer than you want it to be, it will just loop automatically. Hope this saves you future frustration.
thx for the sharing the tip ryan! am aware of that process but seems to destroy any spontaneous creativity to punch that in advance...
Truly amazing the sounds this can put out!! 80s for sure, I can hear the JUP 8, Prophet, but definitely the DX family in this.
Dude, that's mind-blowing. Exactly what I was looking for! I have just discovered Super 8 for myself, and I was looking for some inspiration. You made my day!
glad you liked it, thanks for the comment!
The sound of this new N.I. synth reminds me of the Voyetra 8 as used by a lot of 80's bands like The Eurythmics and Depeche Mode etc. It has a nice mellow tone nice for synth strings and pads. Good stuff.
Awesome stuff, thank you! Please keep them coming. And the track sounds beautiful, love it! :)
OK Woody, here's the thing. I've got Playground Sessions and I even paid for a lifetime license, but FFS I'd take a lesson from you over that ANY TIME. I was born in '82, been obsessed with '80s music since forever and your stuff has always kept me going. If you ever release a course with 80's stuff in it, you've got your first customer right 'ere. Greetings from MEXICO (yeah, the country sux but 80s nostalgia is yuge [NO pun intended] here). Hell, even some 90's stuff will do for me as I'm a 90's teenager too.
thanks for the words of encouragement! I think the sound is a lot to do with the chords progressions and voicings too aswell as the sounds, of course! greetings!
I like how you close the video, more like radio style of show :D
Impeccable timing on the drumtrack, Woody. Finished track sounds really nice.
That is because he quantized it...
For some reason, “Still Alive” by Lisa Miskovsky popped into my main when hearing your lead with all the other tracks.
Definitely worth a part 2!
Awesome video woody
its a Fun to see you on the Assembling ^^ with many awesome emotional Moments xD. And realy great Feeling of 80's
Very nice one. NI's Super 8 seems very promising.
Full synthwave album please woody 🎹🌊
I'd love to see a part 2! I love the TR-707 drum kit and the entire track is really beautiful. :D
What if you do a synthwave contest of sorts, where someone films themselves putting together a track in half an hour, posts it along with the finished track, and then you do something similar to the Espen Remix Challenge? :D
I like it. You and Espen should be the next Stock, Aitken & Waterman.
we should team up, which of the three do you want to be?
Definitely not the lyricist, whoever that was. Might have to run this track through my home toybox of doom and see what I can do🤓
go ahead! maybe i should publish my stems and let somebody else finish it off...
Amazing! it sounds sooooo good.
Sounds amazing Woody!!
Thank you, Woody. I´m interested in anything that surrounds Synthwave and didn´t know this VST yet. A great achievement in 30 minutes. (Also, good to know there is still some Ableton love left. 90% of the Synthwave people seem to use FL Studio.)
20 minutes when you take away the exploration of the synth! ;) reason daw does a great job too.
Sounds straight out of a John Hughes flick!
that's a good sign!
Sort of sounds like New Order's Thieves Like Us in places (primarily the sound of the drums and the pad sound). :D
Far out, man!
Great track Woody. Certainly got the 80's vibe as I remember it. Go on - stick some gated reverb on the drums - you know you want to.
OMG! Great!
Really nice
Super nice!
I enjoyed it.
This track is rather good. I'd like to hear the completed product. You could break down what you did in another video.
thank you, glad you liked it. Yeah, finishing off the track right now, and I'll share the result with you and what I did to get it done.
Excellent video woody, loving the sounds on the super 8. You should definatly finish that track, it has a great Miami vice sort of vibe to it.🎹🎶🎼😎🤟
ok mark, will do!
my main man woody making some stranger things bangers
Nice! Sounds like the of the UVI Wave Runner plugins, but I think I give the edge to UVI.
24:57 just hit the "Capture MIDI" button in the top bar (between the left-pointing arrow and the circle) and it will grab the MIDI you forgot to record and make a clip out of it. This is one of my favorite Live features.
Dope Reckful shirt!
🔥🔥🔥
This is the first time I see you using Ableton Live 😎
hi kris, i've been a user for years, if you go back on my channel you'll find it! i really enjoy AL for sketching songs, but for audio editing and production it's Reaper ftw!
Keep going
C'mon Korg, give Woody a copy of the Gadget Plugin pack for PC.
Yeah that would be nice, I’ve got these plugings installed. Last week they updated the pack with some new ones. Sadly not all of them have been released yet, some like Darwin and Milpitas gadgets still need to be released.
24:46 theres a post capture function as well its the brackets bfore the hollow circle.
Lovely tune! Would definitely make a great synthwave track. Maybe enhance the kick a little bit for more of a phat sounding punch? :D
hi rachel, i think i will swap out the drum kit completely, it didn't have much punch and was boring! stay tuned...
Great vid Woody. I enjoy them all. I've seen you use Ableton, Reason. Do you have a primary DAW that you use now?
these days i settled on reaper for recording and editing, ableton for music composition
@@WoodyPianoShack haha I'm currently watching your part 2 video. I've been bouncing between Ableton, Reason, Reaper, downloaded Studio one 4 and want to settle on one to get some work done...but having fun nerding out...
Interesting process video. This SUPER 8 vst seems pretty pedestrian though. It seems like you could have accomplished the same thing in the free Synth1 or a few dozen of other synths.
Hey Woody - I have a fun idea, if you're interested. Release the session file as a download and have a community cook-off for how to complete it as a song. :-)
I could hear this going a couple ways - like The Naked and Famous, or Chicane... I would love to hear what others come up with.
great suggestion Nick, totally considering how to do this!
Really enjoying this! Do you have to run Super 8 inside Komplete Kontrol, or something like that? Kontrol is a VST in its own right? Thanks.
hi! in this case kontrol is a container for reaktor which is a container for super 8... :) many layers to this cake! kontrol allows for integration with my keyboard controller, preset browsing and tweaking the params.
Part 2? Please do!
working on the track right now, sure, will upload something, thx for the request!
Did they leave it out in the sun for a few weeks? Where did the lettering go? Or did they wash it in bleach ultra?
Raise the copntrast just a tad, NI.
+1 on that brother. or give us an alternate dark skin, sounds weird but you know what i mean...
Beautiful, I want to upgrade to Komplete 13 but it's a bit expensive :)
now's probably the best day of the year to do it!
Is the LFO assignable to all waveforms and filters?
Great video Woody! Love the sounds and the setup of SUPER 8. Just shows what's possible in half an hour. Notice you're using the NI A49 recently - any chance of a quick review?
i think that ship has sailed a bit, so many other guys have covered that, but maybe i should give my take on it, thanks for the comment and suggest
Love your videos. Love NI...I haven't picked this one up yet. I have the latest "Komplete", so I wonder if I can get it "free" (cough), or if it's an extra charge?
That's how they get ya. I felt the same way when I got K11U. They never added any newbies. Well have to wait till k13 I bet.
@@Pur1st probably so.
I'm pretty certain the only extra you will get is Massive X, which was always advertised as being part of the latest Komplete even though it wasn't ready to ship (and has been delayed). I don't think Super 8, Noire or anything else that has released since Komplete 12 went on sale will appear in the Komplete bundles until the next Komplete is released.
If NI gave you anything more than they promised when you last bought or upgraded Komplete, they would have less (or even nothing) to tempt you into upgrading to the next Komplete. It is possible NI will start offering Komplete subscriptions which will include additional software released during the subscription, but the audio software producers seem less keen on subscriptions than companies such as Microsoft and Adobe.
@@DavidWood2 of course. Everyone else does the same: Arturia, Avid, toontrack...it's all about pushing the market and keeping the $$$ flowing. And that's understandable.
Depends on how badly you need the latest plugs. Komplete is always the collection as of a time, then they add more, which gets rolled into the next Komplete. So I just wait and upgrade every second release or so. Buy a single here and there when I get a 50% off coupon maybe. :-)
Eargasm
Do I wait for K13? Maybe the summer sale will make it 50% off? I want it now!! Lol
Thanks for making this!
good plan & thanks! it's relatively inexpensive if you can't wait... :)
@@WoodyPianoShack Very true. I like when they release libraries under $100. Especially how often they seem to send e-coupons out. It seems every time I didn't win a contest I enter with them they send a $39 coupon. Will have to keep my eyes peeled!
I absolutely love this track! You mind if I can put vocals to it?
go ahead, that would be fab!
It's full of happy accidents. :).
That was quite good track, the drum part reminded me of a song from Miami Sound Machine. btw, which version of ableton is that?
dykodesigns2yt - Falling In Love(Uh-Oh), that rim/clap rhythm.
@@xp50player Exactly, I was thinking of that track too.
I love the Ableton Skin. What is it called?
Use a Push (2), much more convenient :)
You should try Fl Studio and see how it works out for you, ive been using it for 10+ years, so i might be a bit biased here, but the piano roll in fl studio is said by many people to be the best of any daw.
You can´t beat the FL Studio piano roll without a doubt. Everybody knows that. However, Ableton has other advantages that compensate. Maybe YOU should give it a try.
Ive tried Ableton and also Cubase and reason, and ive stuck with Fl studio since i actually like the layout, especially fl studio 20. @@davidosolo
@@ErnestoAvilez92 Fair enough. I have licenses for both Ableton and FL Studio. I´m on the Mac since years, so unfortunately I don´t use FL Studio that much anymore (it still doesn´t run smoothly on the Mac, despite all their efforts). If not, I would probably be switching between them, all the time, because I like them both so much.
And yes, I still do miss that smooth workflow with the FL Studio piano roll ;).
i know a few guys that swear by FL, tried it myself on a few occasions but never bonded with the workflow. great program and instruments are cool.
Have you made the switch to Ableton from Reaper?
Nice little tune too, btw!
thanks doug e, no, use both, depends on the task, reaper for audio post-production, ableton for looped stuff.
So is it worth the money compared to other options?
which other options, there are hundreds...
@@WoodyPianoShack !! I'm a beginner, just learning keyboard and I've bought Logic Pro X and some NI products such as Maschine Mikro Mk3, A25 and Select. I have therefore Alchemy, Massive and Monark. I'm hoping for the annual sale soon and a chance to get Komplete Standard and so FM8, Absynth and Massive X. I'm into 70s prog and 80s synth so Super 8 is interesting, but so is something like TAL UNO LX. Then again I have an e-voucher for £22 I have to spend in the next couple of day and this looks more interesting than the expansion I was considering
Super , I see that now you work with Live 10 so there is a particular reason ?
so much quicker for these kind of musical sketches!
I wanna learn how to make Synthwava
What are those drums? :)
TR-707
Hey, Woody. You can actually capture midi even when not recording it. I'm referring to 24:00. Here's how you'd do it.
ua-cam.com/video/DuoWfmMA8t4/v-deo.html
Ableton is awesome. I'm migrating from Reason 10 to it and finding it most liberating. Reason is so convoluted.
need to start using that, thank you!
No problem. Are you gonna keep using Live?
OG, how slow it all is...
This is fast, for music production. Especially since the writing is also included in the video.
As soon as you played "that" synthwave progression I realized that everyone is doing it and that this whole thing is getting boring. That progression has been recycled too much. Also you know that synthwave is dead when Native Instruments makes a babbys first plugin for it
fair enough, didn't realise i'd nailed "that" progression, but familiar stuff tendsto comes easily to the fingers :)
Synthwave is far from dead.
James Rustles: I must say you are not of-topic so you are not a troll. However, your comment doesn´t cause a good vibe either. I love Woody making Synthwave with Ableton. Why don´t you look for videos that you like instead of getting bored here?
It’s just a product demo, besides, tell that to the people still making 12-bar blues records.
what is a "synthwave-progression" ?
I laughed so hard when you shout "super ennoying". I am exactly the same when i work in my studio on boring Synthwave basses :)