Sytrus Tutorial - Everything You Need to Know

Sytrus is an excellent FL Studio synth in Producer Edition and above.
In this tutorial, you'll gain the confidence to use it in your own productions.

▶ Time Stamps/topics covered
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Overview
1:45 - Operators - Where the sound comes from
3:00 - Matrix Introduction (Volume)
4:10 - (ADSR) Operator Envelopes
5:30 - LFO
5:50 - Unison (Adding more voices!)
6:35 - Sound Quality
7:20 - Filters
8:00 - Matrix (Filter)
9:10 - More filter controls
12:00 - FX (Reverb, Chorus and Delay)
15:05 - General settings
16:15 - FM and RM with the Matrix (Advanced)
18:40 - Thanks for watching

[OlbaidMusic]

Producers are usually afraid when open sytrus for the first time, seems too complex, but with that comes a huge flexibility and power.
Sytrus and Harmor are easily the most powerfull synths of FL Studio. If you learn how to use them, external synths are virtually unnecesary.
Great explanation! I made the same in depth, almost 2 hrs of videos lol.

[User]

Sytrus interface is like rocket science. In the mix explains it like its 1+1. Cannot be more grateful!

[mli]

From explaining every FL plugin to giving us everything we need to know about FM synthesis in 20 minutes, Michael is on a mission to provide us a universal theory of everything by year's end

[Yourmotwashum]

This synth is a nightmare without a proper guide. And a proper guide has arrived. Thank you sensei.

[yuvrajmehra]

YOU ABSOLUTE GOD. I fell asleep last night watching somebody else's Sytrus tutorial and literally dreamt about DMing you to ask you to make stock synth tutorials for Sytrus, Harmor, Sakura, etc.
And then I woke up to this.

[legendneo]

I can't believe you just explained Sytrus to me in under 20 min. You're a blessing to all new producers. Thank you for your great videos! This is by far my favorite Youtube Channel.

[SultiJaber]

9 years of experimenting and reading and trying to understand FM Synthesis and here is this random guy on youtube with a British accent laying it down in 20 minutes.

[onaucc]

Comes in at the PERFECT time. I just a few days thought "Man, i don't know anything about Sytrus, i better learn it" aaaand here you are. :D

[Mike_Wazowskii]

Holy what you read my mind! I've actually been wanting to learn this for years 😂 it must be time

[vamsikrishnavempati]

Let's get this dude to a million subs by the end of the year. He definitely deserves it.

[marek]

Ok, that's a miracle I guess. I was about to look for Sytrus tutorial and you just release it on channel! <3 Thanks in advance for doing it (It's obvious it'll be good).
Have a nice day!

[nostan]

I've been waiting for this!

Sytrus is one of my favourite synths and it's a shame it gets neglected fairly often. The 6 oscillators really give you so much control, and so many ways to get to whatever sound you're looking for.

Some of the other things that weren't mentioned, but are really cool:

1) Harmonic editor - Really powerful for shaping sound. Allows you to additively synthesize sounds and merge that with the FM matrix and subtractive elements to really shape sound. There's one for each of the 6 oscillators.
2) Unison editor - You can individually control parameters like volume, panning, pitch, modulation amount, etc. for each unison voice. Seriously powerful.

[EversonBernardes]

One note about the video:

Turning up the FX knob on a operator row will send that operator *raw* signal through the effects and output that. If you want the filters to be applied before the FX, you have to turn up the FX knob that sits on that filter row in the matrix.

Neat thing about the operators in Sytrus: you can set them up so they're working with multiples of the fundamental frequency (1x, 2x, 3x, 0.5x), good for getting say a sub voice, or a harmonizing voice one fifth above the fundamental; or you can set them up so they're running at a constant frequency (say, 10Hz), useful for ring modulation.

One neat trick using FM is setting up one OP (I usually do it with OP6) with a constant frequency, say 4Hz and using it to modulate the other operators. Vibrato! You can then control OP6 volume to define how much vibrato you want, through an envelope, etc.

[wilydingus]

To think I messed with these dials for years before watching this, doh! The goat is back thanks so much

[yxshmusic]

Just needed this! Thank you so much! :)))

[wfilms]

The amount of knowledge conveyed in 20 minutes is unbelievable, thank you

[faddlewaddle]

You're the epitome of what an excellent online teacher should be all about.
THANK YOU!

[gavinhewitt]

I’ve watched a bunch of other videos on sytrus, and all of them just made me more overwhelmed. You made very good sense of this for me and I feel confident to make my own sounds with it now! Thank you.

[termsofuniverse]

I highly recommend learning Sytrus, its an incredibly powerful synth.

[charmawow]

After decades of having FL Studio on my computers, I’m finally making a concerted effort to use it. Discovering your channel has been a real find....and at last I can get my head around Sytrus! Thanks very much for these fantastic tutorials.