Frequency Modulation Explained
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3 is part of the harmonic series. A perfect 5th. It doesn't wobble cause it's a perfect note. Semi shifts fine tune up or down are imperfect and they wobble more like a Reese bass would.
Yeah just like I was expecting, thanks for clearing that up!
That's not totally true, at least not in the way I talked about it. In this video the 'wobble/movement' refers to the audio display of the vectorscope scrubbing back and forth, this has nothing to do with the movement created by phase cancellation but instead with the tuning of the sound.
ARTFX STUDIOS thank you man! I love your channel. Keep the good stuff flowing. Cheers!
I know this is five years ago, but a much easier and elegant way to look at it is you’re simply adding another cycle to the waveform when increasing the ratio or course knob value.
Yo man, really appreciate your stuff, thanks for putting in the time, has inspired me to try again with FM.
FM8 would be awesome, it's a very underrated plugin
Well now that any kid can sound like Skrillex with a Serum preset pack, it's died out even more.
What I mean is that FM8 gets most of it's praise from awesome basses. Personally, had it not been for the whole dubstep thing going on a few years ago I would have never gotten into it. People told me you could make crazy basses in it. And I gave it a shot and got some good results.
And that was my point; that nobody is willing to give it a try anymore since they can make the same sound in serum.
However, if you have enough experience in using it you can make pretty much anything (and the sounds you make tend to sound nicer than subtractive/wavetable synths in my opinion). The problem is FM is one of those things that is hard to master.
I would really like to see a video on it. Maybe we'll see some new producers use it to make some unique sounds, instead of taking the easy route and making generic patches in serum.
its kind of the only synth im interested in using right now. i find it the least limiting as a matter of fact and there are some things you can do easily this it that simply dont exist with other synths. there are a few tweaks i would make to a new version but unfortunately i dont work for NI
Dude I think I got your point, but even that you praised a bit the plugin possibilities, you almost summarize all the existence and people's interest in FM8 as ''Sound like Skrillex''... even when he and dubstep was top trend, producers didn't move their effort to FM8, instead was mostly for NI Massive, in a way that til now none of these youtubers was really able to recreate skrillex early stuff, whatever, I'm not interest in growls, less yet in sound like Skrillex and probably lot more of producers here neither are, I just commented about FM8 first cause I've bought recently and i'm putting some focus on it, and instead of people's saying or think the FM possibilities of FM8 is waaay ahead of Serum's capabilities.
+ELVISFX of course is FM8 better at FM than Serum. Serum isn't even an FM synth to begin with, same as Massive. They are both subtractive wavetable synths that have a very basic FM module, however this is not the same as a real FM synth. FM synthesis is a much harder form of synthesis to learn and it looks much more daunting than a regular synth. I think that is why it hasn't been that popular with starting producers. I know for a fact that many big name producers in the Drum and Bass scene all love FM8 to make basslines with.
Incredible work
can never learn enough about FM, great vid!
Yes, more videos about FM! Would really like to know the theory behind FMing from different waveforms, how they actually change their form being modulated by sine/triangle/square/saw or non-basic shapes.
That depends on the synth, for instance I know that the FM in Serum operates very different to most FM synths. However in your standard FM synth it works like this: the operator used as a modulator will act like an LFO attached to the frequency of the operator it's modulating. So in theory it's similar to setting an LFO to the pitch (in this case frequency) of an oscillator, just the speed at which it operates is much quicker than with an LFO. This causes the movement on the frequency to sound like a steady tone because the speed of that modulator is too quick to distinguish as movement. Now depending on the waveform chosen as a modulator the shape of that frequency movement will change in tone, because the frequency is being altered in a slightly different way.
Good to see you back brother hope your stomach troubles are getting better if that's what it was not sure I remember rightly from the last video, also any chance of a run down on your ableton user browser folders and the thought process behind them and how they help you produce quickly? :)
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Would love to see you do a video on FM with serum
ARTFX STUDIOS nice video man, question how did you get wave candy in Ableton are you using JBridge or something like that?
Wave Candy is also available in VST format.
Thanks for the video. I'm struggling to get my head round what exactly the ratio is. What exactly do the numbers refer to? (I understand ratio in maths, just not what it means within the context of FM synth!)
Ratio in an FM synth can best be compared to how the pitch works in regular synths, except instead of being in semitones, it's specified in a ratio that correlates to the root pitch. Therefore it works slightly different, if you want to increase the pitch of an oscillator with 1 octave you have to double the ratio. So if you play a C1 MIDI note and you want the oscillator to play C2, you set the ratio of the oscillator to 2. To now get the same oscillator to play C3, you would set it to a ratio of 4, C4 is a ratio of 8, and so on.
@@artfxdnb Okay, now it makes sense I think! Essentially it's the frequency of the oscillator's output relative to the note being played? At a ratio of 2.000, pressing an A4 note (440hz) will produce a frequency of 880hz?
@@MattDoesSound Yes you are correct!
@@artfxdnb Great, thank you! :)
Awsome video!
Could you make some jump up?
no doubt
How to install wave candy on ableton ?
Thank you very much
You can get the VST version on the Image Line website, think it's part of the Juice Pack.
ARTFX thank you very much! Its the best osciloscope ive ever seen.
Also your content is always really helpful, thanks man
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