Overtones, harmonics and Additive synthesis
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Overtones are the basic building block of sound. Come and learn how to construct sounds at www.synthschool...
This video is about additive synthesis, and how sounds can be constructed by pure sine waves. If you are a musician or sound engineer, this video is a must for you!
On our site there is also a download for the harmonic explorer, which is the device used to create this video. so you can explore for yourself!
thats a damn good summary of frequencies.
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In terms of giving the kind of clear, easy-to-understand explanation of the process of waves and harmonic overtones, this is the best tutorial I have experienced. Well done.
this is by far the best ive ever seen
there is hardly any other synth sound as satisfying as a sine wave that continuously becomes more and more of a saw wave by adding harmonics
"satisfying"
Excellent accurate graphics, accurate generators, accurate reproduction, and accurate , easy to understand and clear description and tutorial! Just what the doctor ordered.
As a student of signal processing and a long-time musician, nice work! Very clear and still simple.
THIS is a good video, exactly what I've been looking for. Everything else I've found is riddled with irrelevant information, doesn't tell me anything new, and doesn't answer my questions. Very well done!
This is one of my FAVORITE videos EVER.
THIS IS THE BEST EXPLANATION OF SOUNDWAVE AND HARMONICS EVER!!!!!!!!
Yes yes yes, this is blooddy marvalous, thankyou
I remember watching this video when I was like 14 and barely learning what audio engineering or synthesis was and it helped so much. Thank you for kickstarting my interest in the one thing I'm good at. :p
@WARDISWARD
What i meant was that harmonics occur naturally...
However, sine waves occur naturally too. Just like circles and balls occur naturally (soap bubble, planets orbits, and so on) however those are usually not as pure as synthesized sine waves.
I agree the sentence came out linguistically wrong, but I'm a synth teacher, not an english teacher :)
Why are people arguing on this thread? Great video, very informative and straight forward. Kudos! I learned something new!
Thanks - that's a really good intro to harmonics - the basis of music - way more useful place to start than whatever they did in school that was just confusing and ungrounded in how the phenomenon works. Thank you thank you.
Wow! I had an epiphanic moment when you compared the osciloscope's positive and negative values to that position of the speaker's membrane! Thank you so much!
@soundsalvo You do make a valid point and it is one that many people could easily confuse, but it does depend on what you mean by 'slower.' Lower frequencies ARE slower wave oscillations compared to higher frequencies. But as you mean to point out, ALL sounds--regardless of their frequency, travel through the same medium or environment at the same speed. In this video, he does not actually say that the sound is travelling slower to our ears, but it is true that he could have been more clear.
Thanks for this man. You answered a few questions ive always wondered in my head.
Same for me
Unreal. I feel like I've always known this stuff. Had synths for years and years. Now high pass filter makes sense. It takes out the harmonics (in the first saw example)!
Do you often wonder in your head?
@@jamienliston9072 I mostly wonder in code that runs in my lymphatic system
This is Fourier series. Great!
Excellent basic sound wave tutorial. I'm a vocalist and though I've learned about the basics of sound (overtones, harmonics, etc), I've never seen it put so simply like this. Having visual and audio reference makes all the difference. Thank you.
Finally, I got a good explanation of sine waves and frequencies. Great video.
Great video! I'm not even a musician, I just fell down the internet vortex of curiosity, and your explanation was very clear!
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Wow. I just spent the last couple hours trying to learn this, and your video was the one that helped me understand! Thank you!
This is amazing. So clear. Thank you for this. Musicology professors have spoken more and explained less than this video.
Such a great video. I would recommend it to all musicians period!
Very well done and explanatory video. Thanks for posting!
This was an absolutely fantastic video, I have been using synths for at least two years but never really understood the basic building blocks of sound until now, this was honestly a humbling experience to watch. :)
I'm pretty sure he was talking about the "real musical instruments" the entire time. Everything that produces sound produces a waveform that is built up of a base frequency (sine wave) and varying overtones. This video was not an exercise in reproducing acoustic sound (which has been done quite successfully, by the way). Its purpose was to inform the viewer as to how frequencies interacted to produce common synth sounds. I found it highly informative and interesting.
Kudos to you my friend, you have made a truly excellent educational video here. Thank you very much!!!
Thank you very much!" This is the best explanation of sound I have ever seen! Awesome work!
I am human and i find that synthesized sounds are very pleasing to my human ears ;)
SynthSchool is it possible to use this tool or download it anywhere?
Hi, why your website is not working anymore?
Excellent video! Now I understand why same tone on guitar and piano would sound different despite the same frequency (fundamental frequency) . Thanks.
best representation of harmonics I've seen so far. Thanks.
Excellent! Thanks for the solid tutorial, You totally nailed it, many thumbs up
the best demo i have ever watched ( relating to the complex nature of the experiment, made dynamically simple) ..best regards to u Sir..
I love the explanations!! Finally I know now how sawtooth waves and square waves are generated from sine waves!
I like this so much!!
I wish there was a second like button
best tutorial ever
I am a trumpet major and am trying to learn more about overtones and the affect on timbre. This video was very helpful. Thank you.
This is a great tool for understanding harmonics and timbre.
Amazing tutorial! I wish I would have found this video before my Signals and Systems exam, it could have been so much easier. :S :)
This is a great example of Fourier's theorem, and how it can be put into practice.
Seriously! What a great video! Well explained, demonstrated and easy to follow! Thank you so much!
Cheers!
can't believe you made this just for the course!! amazing. we want more :)
Thanks for this, really useful and with all the concepts wall explained in short time.
This was an amazing video, sums up synthesis concisely, and in a way that makes perfect sense! Made me think about how this is applied in organs, which I never really thought about before, but now it makes sense - they're altering what harmonic frequencies are used in the organ! This will really help with my music, thank you so much!
Don't forget the exponentials. Any mathematical function (i.e. audio signal) can be built using combinations of sinusoids and exponentials. Good video, thanks for posting.
this is the best explanation ever ! thank you very much sir !
Took 10 minutes to watch but took all afternoon to understand.I have such a wondering mind that the only way i get these things down is by writing them down slowly,anyway thank you one more piece of the big puzzle.It all helps in the end :)
Damn man, you answered so many questions. Keep demystifying! Subscribed!
This is such a great video, my university don’t even teach it! Thank you very much 👍🏻
It's not about limiting creativity, it's about creating working models.
@WARDISWARD Sine waves are actually quite common in nature. From the Wikipedia entry: This wave pattern occurs often in nature, including ocean waves, sound waves, and light waves.
It exists, therefor it occurs in nature.
very helpful! thank you
This particular video is one of the best i have seen so far !! Great work guys and some excellent demonstrations.
Very good and easy-to-understand tutorial
So easy to understand, great tuto, thank you so much !
@DownFlex subtractive synthesis is when you use filters to modify the harmonic series. filters emphasize and/or remove specific harmonics.
Thanks so much for taking the time to do this video.
Bravo!
square waves are made with sine waves. They include the fundamental(main low frequency). Then its either all odd(1/3/5/7) or even(2/4/6/8...) overtones above it. there's a video explaining how to create a square wave with sine waves somewhere on youtube
This visual lesson really helped thanks
This is amazing. Everything makes sense - THANK YOU SO MUCH
thkq so much for this wonderful tutorial.this open ups many things to me
jeez, you deserve a lot of cash. thanks.
Wow! The best explanation ever! Thanks a lot!
Hi I came from Fl Studio's reference manual, bye :)
Brilliant tutorial, thanks!
Please open the synth school! Keen!
This is gold
Brilliant video. Must be my third time watching it.
Greetings, I used a small part of this great video in my video "nem indivíduo, nem sociedade: o transindividual". Thank you!
Who are the 18 people who don't like this?!?!? Beautiful tutorial!
Thank you, SynthShool, for making a really informative video. I definitely plan on checking out your site, as I'd love to know something about synths beyond their sound.
No wonder saws sound so rich! Great explanation!
great presentation--lots of insight
Excellent and thank you for that great demo !!
This is how all tutorials should be done.
Thanks for that concise and understandable!
Great Tutorial. Big Thumb !
Any sound that humankind can hear has three basic qualities, it's pitch or frequency, it's loudness, and it's tone or timbre, the timbre of a sound, is determined by it's fundamental frequency and all harmonics that are present, a note played on a brass instrument, such as a Trombone will sound different when compared to the same exact note played on a woodwind instrument, such as a Clarinet, both instruments may be playing an A 440Hz note, but notice how much brighter and louder the Trombone sounds in comparison to the Clarinet, and also notice how a Sawtooth wave has a similar bright and brassy timbre like the Trombone, or how a Square wave has a hollow timbre like the Clarinet, Sawtooth wave has a mixture of both odd and even harmonics, whereas the Square wave has mainly odd harmonics in it.
this is the best video ever ,thanx
Best explanation out there
thankxxx for sharing man! i love synthesis........
Very good work, thank you.
From 5:15 to 5:50, if you had continued adding those harmonics my head would have melted off my shoulders.
It's like I'm preparing for graduation from Singularity School where God teaches it's first Elemental Soul Group how to construct the Cosmos.
lmao, same
Hi
Yes God ( Sound) said Let there be Light.’ The word ‘Sound’ is STILL utilised to express something trustworthy, something that RESONATES! Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua ( The LIGHT)
Fare enough. But it never hurts to learn a bit about something you enjoy doing, in or outside of class.
this was amazing. thanks very much
I like the sound of the incomplete sawtooth. The "bells" of each added harmonic seem quite musical. With all the harmonics its the usual harsh buzzing. But it seems to be the low fundamental that starts to "not belong", not the added harmonics. Without musical background, the terminology - octave, minor, fifth, third - seems rather unintuitive, and I'm lost there. I do understand what a third harmonic would be, but not major (larger?) third. An even-only harmonic series makes a strange "smoothed sawtooth".
Great explanation and visuals. thank you :)
This is very clear and informative, thanks!
great explanation. loved it..
Beautiful presentation!
Lovely lesson! Thanks for this
Beautifully presented... thanks for this!
Very well explained.
This is FUCKING AWESOME I love OVERTONE S it's SO COOL
This changed my life
this is going to be big, nice one.
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Awesome video!