Sound Design and Synth Fundamentals

In this video, I show you the fundamental basics of sound design and synthesis so that you can start creating sounds with confidence. I cover a wide variety of topics ranging from the basic starting blocks of sound to more complex sound design techniques and share some tips and tricks in the video too.

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▶Time Stamps
0:00 - Overview
0:30 - Basic Waveforms
3:10 - Additive and Subtractive Synthesis
4:35 - Unison
6:50 - Filters
8:15 - Envelopes (ADSR)
11:00 - LFOs
13:20 - FX Processors

There will be more advanced sound design videos in the following weeks so stay tuned for more.
Thanks for watching,
Michael

[inthemix]

▶Time Stamps
0:30 - Basic Waveforms
3:10 - Additive and Subtractive Synthesis
4:35 - Unison
6:50 - Filters
8:15 - Envelopes (ADSR)
11:00 - LFOs
13:20 - FX Processors

There will be more advanced sound design videos in the following weeks so stay tuned for more.
Thanks for watching,

Michael

[Piercemxpx]

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[aldenfarias]

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[fionalewispersonalemail]

Hi, I’m a 66 year old lady and have played music all of my life. I bought myself a really nice keyboard and decided I should learn about sound design, so that I can understand what I am looking at. I’m not really wanting to be a sound designer, I just want to do some simple things and know what I’m doing. Your video is fantastic, very good yet simple to understand and I am going to make some notes and draw some diagrams to help me to use what you are showing us. Thank you so much. Yes you are a good person. I appreciate your time and what you are giving us. Fiona x

[amondhawes-khalifa]

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[nut]

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[MrGus]

I graduated from Full Sail University with a Recording Arts degree. I don’t work in the entertainment industry anymore. When I hear someone who wants to pursue a career in music production or audio engineering, I always tell then that there is no need to spend that amount of money in education; anyone can learn it in YouTube and from books. This is an example of accurate information for FREE!

Great video!!!

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[edgarnelson]

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[chamboyette]

I looked at a lot of tutorials trying to figure out what LFO meant. And they were all unclear to me. This guy on this video said the magic phrase which made LFO's so much more understandable to me: that the low frequency was not about pitch or low frequencies but that it simply oscillating at rate/speeds which are relatively "slow" meaning that we can hear the changes quite well. Thanks so much. You are the only video which made this clear.

[thomasbreton]

Damn, I wish there were so short and simple tutorials on synthesis when I began makin music back in the days...
Thank you!

[ashj]

Without this channel, I wouldn't have learned shit about music production. He has such an amazing way of explaining and simplifying seemingly complicated things.

[icebymusic]

This was absolutely perfect. No time wasted, comprehensively covering the most important components with clear examples. Thank you!

[anuraagsaikia]

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[SuperThemelody]

Please go deeper into sound design, I love when you explain everything so clearly Michael :)

[sanchit]

Explained it so simply.. This is my first sound design tutorial and I didn't feel out of place. Kudos to you!

[BeamGraphix]

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[Tinyradio]

Watched a few sound design videos. They *sort of* made sense. But once you do a video on it, it all seems to settle in the mind. You're a great communicator. Keep at it. And thanks,

[GLamoRousCooKie]

Thank you so very much. I'm a classically trained pianist who just got into electronic music production and needless to say the sound design is making my head hurt. A lot. Thank you so much for your clear explanation, you've honestly helped me more than any other tutorial.

[prat]

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