Convolution: The Secret Weapon Of Sound Design 🤫
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Howdy! In this video, we're going bravely forward into the wild and whacky world of convolution: one of my favorite sound design tools that's as easy as it is powerful!
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0:00 Get Woke'd
0:44 Howdy
1:27 WTF Is Convolution?
3:09 How Can You Use Convolution?
9:13 Let's Get Interesting
11:03 Capturing Some IRs
11:54 Let's Try Them!
14:22 Other Ideas With Convolution
19:24 Closing Thoughts
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everything is music
Very cool! Picked up Convolver and I also have quite a few other convolution reverbs. One cool sound is dropping coins...
the coupon doesn work anymore?
That entire video was SIIIIck!!!
Lo it this worksawesome❤
Convology XT is free and you can add your own IR’s in WAV format in case one doesn’t have 39 buckaroos or needs another bandanna
I does crash ever so often but other than that is pretty good.
or Fruity Convolver for FL users
Need to keep these dreads back. Ty so much
Lovitabsolutely🎉😂❤
Does it have all the same features as convolver?
One of the coolest way to make some very rich pads is to load pink or white noise in the convolution reverb and run any instrument through it. Most will sound really good, then is just a matter of applying some filtering to "mold" it better afterwards.
Will def try this!
Convolution is one of my favorite effects because you can make any sound interesting with it.
Something worth mentioning and not explicitly said, but with convolution you can synthesize your own reverbs as well. With some noise and whatever effect you want you can make the craziest reverbs. For instance, one with automated bitcrush to have a sort of degrading tail.
It became my favorite effect too in only a matter of days. There's literally nothing you can slap on a convolver that wont sound interesting. I love recording random bits of videos (dialogue works particularly well) and put it over a drum loop. I gotta try your reverb trick aswell!
The quality of this channel really stands out in the UA-cam music production space it's kinda crazy
These intros get better each time
He's evolving.
I'm ashamed to admit how much time goes into videos these days and how much of that time is dedicated to the intro haha.
That intro was the best thing on the internet
At the very beginning i thought it was an ad, and was wondering why there was no skip button haha
Wow this is one of the most inspiring episodes I have seen, thanks a lot I will put KHS Convolver to work
Glad it gave you some ideas to play around with! Happy noisemaking!
For those that felt a little lost on the definition of impulse response: I had this problem too through three different courses on control systems in college. It wasn't until years later that somebody gave me a wonderful explanation of what it is. You're basically hitting something with a hammer and describing what it does. The "impulse" being the hammer whack and the response being what this unknown thing does as a reaction.
Cameron's relationship, with sound, it's convoluted.. especially when the wifey walks in and catches you messing around with the dryer.
I absolutely love every video you make! Always so informative and inspiring. Seriously. I am moving away from making “trap,” because you have convinced me to express my true passion of making ambient soundscapes and just letting out all of my creativity. Even more so, I am trying to blend the two to see what I can create. Please don’t stop making music and videos!
Actually same man. I started with trap and found a love for Jazz music theory, vintage synths, and ambient music. I'll still make trap here and there but I enjoy making ambient music a lot more and want to learn how to create video game ambient soundscapes.
@@ivansoto9723 not that you asked for it! But if you love jazz theory, like I do, I recently took a huge step in my playing and production, by getting IRealpro, and playing jazz! And stealing ideas from the progressions I liked and making tracks out of them!
Once you buy the app you can get the chords for literally 1400 jazz pieces, as well as hundreds of other songs from other tracks,
It’s been really freeing to experiment with chord charts and focus on how to voice them in my own way :)
Instead of constantly forcing myself to come up with something harmonically original EVERYTIME I SIT DOWN!
It’s been a relief and a great way to practice all that theory knowledge I’ve been building up
I want to make ambient, and sacrificed a dream of making deathstep to do so. I have one demo and numerous failed attempts. Tuning convolution reverb for me is a nightmare.
Those piano and kalimba clips sounded so cool, with the convolver adding pad-like sounds and rhythmic ambience 👏
I've been a lifelong musician and composer, but just learned how to program midi early last year. It's been such a fun ride learning all this stuff, and I've been hitting the music super hard for almost two years. This channel in particular has been a huge source of information, inspiration and humor. Thank your for your continued amazing work!
Great video and well explained. I recently submerged three speakers [two bookshelves and one sub] in a pond, did an underwater IR, recording with two hydrophones. Now I can run stuff under water with my waves plugin. Caves, culverts, barns, suitcase, guitar and tubes I have also captured and documented on video. I love this process.
A little bit of fun along the way. Yes.
A nice mathematical property of convolution is that it is associative just like multiplication. I.e. a * b * c * d is the same as a * x if x=b * c * d. This means that if the convolution plugin is eating up your CPU and you don't have a need to adjust parameters of individual convolution instances while the tune is playing, you can run the first impulse response through the following convolution steps and get a combined impulse response that sounds just like all of the convolutions together.
vibraphone thru the dryer was cool af
Well, that's pretty convoluted topic. Nice video!
This video made clear a few things I didn't understand about using convolution appropriately. Suddenly it makes much more sense and using it is like magic. Adding tones, textures and space all in a way very friendly to experimentation.
Thanks!
Awesome ideas. I like the idea of putting a drum loop through a chord sample.
From a theory perspective any linear effect (like a delay or a filter) does a combination of delaying and attenuating (or amplifying) a frequency or set of frequencies. A convolution works by applying a delay and an attenuation/amplification to every frequency in the signal, separately. Therefore you can use a convolution to implement ANY linear effect (or set of linear effects), you just need to come up with the right IR. It can't do anything nonlinear (like saturation or compression) but otherwise it is an incredibly powerful tool.
That's not really a limitation! Anything non-linear you want to do, you can do either to the inputs or to the output! The "inputs" include both the signal and the IR, so you can pre-distort your IR, your signal both, or the convolved result, each with a different result.
@@bobdeadbeef You can definitely run one in serial with a nonlinear effect. But preprocessing the IR with a nonlinear effect will still result in a linear convolution, just a different linear convolution.
@@jamesperry1358 Right. What I'm trying to say is that convolution doesn't get in the way of anything nonlinear you'd like to do.
So if you have compression C, and convolution f * g, you can do C(f) * g, f * C(g), or C(f * g).
It's more of an advantage than a limitation.
Nonlinear processes don't combine so nicely.
12:50 ---> You are sooo into BrianEno territory here... :-)
Just brilliant ! Love this section/chapter.
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This is one of the things I heard about in a podcast.
You just store it as a; 'I gotta try that' ... and then you forget about it.
Thanks for this reminder :-)
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Thumbs up 👍.
I laughed my ass off. Then I paid close attention. Then I bough this plug-in. Fun will had. Much appreciated!!
Awesome vid! I have the KHS subscription for quite some time now and the possibilities with the entire package (MultiPass, SnapHeap, PhasePlant and the many plugins) are nothing short of endless. It can get really overwhelming so these vids that give pointers to applying certain modules to inspire creativity are most welcome. Thank you! 🙏
It can be quite fun to have vocal recordings in the convolver =)
Truly a great channel. With decades of experience, these videos still provide me a ton of inspiration and
And...? :P
@@mikeexits man wtf you talking bout?
This is one of the most interesting and helpful tutorials I’ve seen in a long time, thank you
This is a really great video. Really appreciate that you showed the basic use case but moved onto using it in interesting/novel ways.
Thanks man! Was waiting for a convultion reverb explanation, cudnt find it anything, that was clear as yours👌
Sidenote from the amazing tips in this video... your channel and all your work is just insanely incredible and super inspiring!
That intro and howdy segment beginning sent tf outta me
Excellent explanation! Very inspirational and educational. Thanks so much for your time and devotion to help us to understand this elusive and abstract concept. 👍
Thank you for this excellent video. I've been using convolution since it first appeared but you have reminded me that it really is a powerhouse for creativity 😊
This channel has some of the coolest videos on YT. You do a great job!
Convolution processing is one of my most favorite sound design techniques
Clear, focused, useful, unique. This is great content. Subscribed.
This is really great stuff! Very inspiring. Thanks Cameron!!!
Everything IS the reverb of the Big Bang
love ur videos man, every time i watch one it motivates me to open up ableton again. bless
This was incredibly inspiring. Game changer for sure. Thank you!
just to say that, at the moment for Convology XT is free and it has all these features. not to many impulse factory sets but it lets you use custom ones so that's awesome. I was watching along and playing around. great video as always. next step is learn how to make my own custom impulses, very into the glitch and synths sounds you got out of this today. you sir are on tap inspiration. hats off
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I bought this tonight and just went down the rabbite hole
recording impulse files with my webcam...............This is the best plugin I've used in ages and ages!!!!! It's going to change my sound design life and I've been doing it for 20 years.
Thanks!
Really interesting video, love your channel !
I bought the KHS Convolver as soon as it came out, awesome plugin !
Lot of sick impulses responses, like cabinets, glitches, filter formant.... And I love the fade in/out functions ! Cherry on the cake, really light on CPU :)
Another wonderful lesson! Very entertaining and interesting! Thank you!
Your videos have been real helpful!!! Keep it up
This is by far your best video yet man keep doin what you’re doin🙏
Your intros are consistently so entirely hilarious. Gotta watch 'em like 5 times through to take it all in, there's so much to unpack. Oh, and very educational and interesting videos, too!
Glad to hear it haha - good to know all the effort that goes into it doesn't go unnoticed!
Oh, this is right up my alley. I have this weird habit of just recording random cool-sounding stuff (well, cool to me, lol). I particularly like setting up my recorder for rain/storms. I tinkered with convolution ages ago but my computer couldn't keep up. This opens a whole realm of new possibilities today! Cheers!
Yup - had a big impulse response catalogue back in the day to make ADR and foley match the environment.
When i do get big....im definitely gonna shout you out. I've only watched a handful of your videos but I knew to subscribe after the first one! I love how you give so much information in such little time! The genre of music I make is very different than yours but you are teaching me a lot!!! Much appreciated.
You always have a creative “approach”.
Very nice.
It's like a digital talkbox but you can change the shape of the talkbox or your "mouth" as much as you like. Super interesting
So I put smash mouth in a convultion reverb on a stock sytrus preset, it turned into an ambient pad.
Added a drum break and a 808 and It's lowkey kinda fire.
Love the intro! Experimenting with IRs has been on my list of stuff to check out for a while (it's a long list and I don't get round to most of it!). This was really informative, and has given me quite a few ideas, cheers.
Very useful information! Thanks 🙏
One with the verb!!! Love it😂🤣😂🤣🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❕❕❕
These uploads have been seriously awesome lately. Your "turning sound design into a career video" was amazing. Now we get this banger on top? This channel is so underrated.
Glad you've been enjoying the videos!
This retroelectro producer loves anything that reminds me about reverb(s) and therefore I MONSTER LOVE this SUPERIOR tutorial. THANK YOU! Time to go shopping….
Defenitly the most useful and interesting sound design video I’ve seen in a while!
The video was a quarter over and I was still laughing at the intro 🤣 Also, that thing with the chord sounded awesome! Thanks for the super interesting and useful content.
Wow, this video is awesome! 💙 Thank you 🙏
0:06 got that DANK 😂
Excellent video per usual. These types of videos and the inspiration they bring are incredible!
Glad it was helpful!
That’s a really cool idea for making a chain of different IR’s! I have done two at once with Reverberate since it has two slots before but never multiple plugins of it layered. Excited to get weird with it 😄
Thank you Mr. Alan Watts!
Amazing sounds mate; I do love kHs Convolver because of this!
Thanks for an inspirational video & ideas - hope you’re well!
Really nice explanation, thank you.
Thanks for introducing me to this technique. God Bless! 🙂🙏🏻❤
Thanks for the link and discount code! Love the channel :)
it's SO powerful.........Lord.
It sounds SO good as you experiment.
Thanks
Amazing demo and tutorial for convolution! I'll be trying it out on my next track for sure.
Thanks, it's really inspiring!
Cameron! You are a family man, head of house hold, responsible and provider to others that depend of you, but most of all you’re an Artist from the heart. As an artist, it is common that you will have folks against you, for not liking your style of your art. Meaning that you will have followers, people that connect with you and cherish your passion. The subside of that is the people who don’t care for you as an artist, therefore, it funnels down to not liking you as a person. Why, the connection, who the heck knows? And you should careless!!!! What you feel, or felt, we all have felt. At a time and form or at another. Take a look at van Gough’s life, an artist consider a crazy man when alive, a geniuses when dead. That inspire others like him to continue with what they love no matter what. His life example gave us, “Starry, starry, nights”. The way, van Gough, was treated when alive, is the treatment to a thousand of other people!!!!!
My advice, buddy!!! Give that situation, the attention that it deservers, no less, no more… Concentrate on things that matters, to you, amigo!!!
convolver is a magical plugin. i wanted to make a video about it too but it's not easy to put the spectrum of applications into short words. you did a good job at that
I have used vocals, kick drums white noise. You name it through a convolution reverb. They are great.
Thank you Cameron for a great video!
I'm using Logic only because of the space designer build in to create amazing sounds! Convolution seams to be very underrated in sound design.
Cannot wait to use this in Phaseplant…mostly dubstep production…heavier side…and this is going to be amazing to utilize!
Dude that's what I was going to say, riddim dubstep anyone?
reversing the impulse on a reese, of a reese :)
@@Overxpossed what is impulse?
@@cooperlyle8781 any that fits for a rversing reeese. Maybe the same reesse could be that impulse. Have you tried kHs Convolver Tool? Yo ucan load anything as impulse.
@@cooperlyle8781 An impulse is a sample that could be veery short, and it's used to blend sounds. For example, when you have a cabinet emulator you have there different impulses recorded from different cabinets, so when you plug a guitar in that virtual cabinet, depending on the impulse you select, the timbre of the guitar sounds according to from where that impulse was taken.
I owned a convolution plugin but didn't know how to use it. Thank you so much for the tutorial , it really opens up a new portal to a whole new dimension
Very interesting video...so much so that I followed the link and bought it. Thanks!
Dear Sir, thank you kindly! This was inspiring and very educational!
Your best video ever! Actually, the best sound design video ever!
I've been meaning to play with doing convolution with non-spatial, non-filter impulse responses since forever. Well, since I learned about convolution almost 50 years ago as part of the EE side of my education. If I had realized it could be this interesting, I'd have jumped into it the first time I encountered a convolution reverb!
To add to the irony, back then I was trying to design a digital synth/dedicated DAW. I was totally over my head, and it was too early for even the FM techniques I was trying (and I didn't know about Chowning's work, or I would have headed to Stanford and had a very different life!). Digital real-time convolution was FAR in the future.
But in all that time, I assumed that playing with IRs this way would be weird (which can be good) but also not really controllable, in the way that FM can be hard to control, so I never put in the time. Embarrassingly wrong!
So now I had the idea of using a table of convolutions and doing it wave table synthesis style, modifying the IR w/ time. Except-mathematically, you did that, when you put IR's in series! In fact, when I saw you do that, I thought, "why not pre-convolve them"-for about 200 ms, before I thought "what, and lose all that dynamic control?!!"
You still might want to do that to save on CPU in some circumstances.
Still, I think there's room for an actual wave-table approach, to allow for real-time modulation the way wave table synths do. So instead of just proceeding linearly through the variations from the 2nd IR, you can do things like sweep back and forth, or change the start point.
The key here is that convolution is is commutative, associative, and distributive, so it doesn't matter which order we do them in, or whether we convolve each of two signals and add, or add two signals and convolve.
So now you've tempted me to not just play around and make cool sounds, but maybe write my own plugin!
EDIT: If anyone wants to steal the idea-by all means, go for it!
Awesome! I was only familiarized with impulse responses in the context of recording guitars through VST Amplifiers. Convolution seems to be a very powerful technique for ambient music! Thanks for the video. I'm going to subscribe!
holy shit... all this time I had this amazing tool and never even knew! dude I cannot thank you enough!!
My favorite impulse response is the “Angel Hair on a Glockenspiel” sample from Makenoise
Always floored by this gentle soul... despite lack of actual magnetic nose ring!
Some great sound design ideas can be realized with convolution. You did a great overview.
That intro is the best!! Great vid thank you!!
Very nice video man.. love the intro :)
Thanks for sharing
I've been messing around with reversed convolution reverb effect on vocals recently.. mad effects.. render flip render flip.. take care 🙂
My Favorites are:
REVerence because it comes with Cubase^^
Audiothing Fog Convolver
meldaproduction MPhatic, because it can restore the original dynamics.
Voxengo Deconvolver, it is an easy and free tool to create your own response impulses with a sine-sweep or when you clap in a room, cave, wathever with a great reverb.
Sheesh this was dope! Thanks for the education on convolution! Never thought of using it in this context.
Spitfire Phobos introduced me what a power hiding behind convolution years ago. It's strange that this plugin didn't become that popular.
Oh boy 😄that chord a 6:50. This is quality stuff. Thanks a lot man!
I love experimenting with kHz Convolver. If you're looking for a "dusty" piano that sounds like it was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building, but all you have is a regular piano and the checkout page for a $99 Kontakt "broken piano" library, then here's what to do. Load a 1-second sample of (loud, dense) vinyl crackles and hiss into the convolver, adjust the range handles to taste, and play your piano through it. Dust will be served in large quantities. Add a pinch of pitch wobble and you can close all the Kontakt tabs in your browser and keep your money.
Caution: you *may* spend the night trying out other kinds of noise; various machine-like rattles and electric hums are also great.
Oh my, the vibraphone and the dryer are INSANE
Oh Jizz, how I miss this kind of videos! Don't get me wrong Cameron, I love your new type of videos too,
DAMN. I never really paid much attention to convolution, although I have always loved the sound, mainly from movie scores. But I am now truly inspired by the great depth of tone you get.
This is the best intro to a UA-cam video there ever was and will ever be.
@Venus Theory, we have been watching your channel for a while are big fans. We, as Quantum Electric Monk, just joined your Discord server. That may not be a good thing.
Normally, we would not reach out like this but, we have been using convolution (mics, speakers, mic booms, room shape, dynamic spacial changes, random sharp sounds, random deep sounds, other background noises, etc) for a while and (the mathematician amongst us) has a formula for it. Collab?
Maybe. No harm, no foul. Keep up the good work.
Very useful, and this is available in my beloved UVI Falcon so I will test run this idea. Thanks Cameron!
Don't forget the effects rack in Falcon - with that some pretty crazy things are possible!
@@VenusTheory Falcon is a new exploration each time I work with it... and I always find gold at the end of the rainbow.
Awesome video, cool subject, I learned plenty, and you bet I’m inspired to make something (as always Cameron!)