Sound Design Theory: 8 Types of Audio Synthesis

Old episode about harmonics and overtones:

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Additive Synthesis
2:37 Subtractive Synthesis
3:59 Wavetable Synthesis
5:40 AM Synthesis
8:48 FM Synthesis
11:11 Waveshaping
11:41 Hard Sync
14:04 Granular Synthesis
17:08 Conclusion

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[advnturenick]

Great quality video. Presentation is spot on. 👍

[sampound]

amazing vid!! slave and master oscillator is crazy though

[Geopholus]

This is seriously one of the best tutorials on synthesis I have seen so far. Very straightforward, accurate, and to the point.

[yeahboiii]

Man, you underrated as fuck, you deserve more subs, your theory videos are great.

[pablodemorais]

criminally underrated channel. keep up the good work

[victornoagbodji]

🙏 🙏 🙏 😸
outstanding work!! this has to be the most comprehensive i have seen on youtube.
i know bits and pieces from here and there but you put all of this together in one video!!

[DJMRAsingh]

7:22: The reason fast LFO (audible range) starts creating harmonics is that it starts affecting the individual cycles of the carrier’s signal, effectively adjusting its wave shape.

[longroads_]

These tutorials are seriously decent, high quality content.

[cybergwen]

Two more types I'm kind of missing in this video are phase modulation and physical modeling.

It's interesting to me how wavetables and granular synthesis are something in the middle between traditional synthesis and sample playback. They wouldn't exist without samples, yet they produce unique new sounds.

[Marijavera]

Around August and september of last year i was lookin for good sound design vids but didnt find any. Glad i found this one now. The algorithm has blessed me

[lexiray]

This is excellent. I am lucky to have stumbled upon this series.

[sgnal_]

Highly informative, visually pleasing, and straight to the point! I've been producing music for a while, and even I had a couple of "aha!" moments.

The only thing to note is you forgot to distinguish between Linear and Exponential FM Synthesis - the first examples were of exponential FM, whereas everything from the DX7 to Dexxed uses linear FM. Hard Sync could've also used the (stereo-)typical Sawtooth + pitch enveloped Squarewave example, but that's just me being a big nerd. :D

Good stuff, either way!

[descrisleuthy]

Thank you for making this video! I've been learning music production on my own and I'm just so grateful to learn from amazing free educational content like this on Youtube :)

[lathryx]

I can't believe this content is free to me. 🤯🔥

[Taylorz]

As someone who is extremely dependent on visual learning to full understand concepts. I can't thank you enough for this tutorial. I've learned more in this vid than like 10 years of tweaking knobs guessing what's happening lol.

[dalinwaldo]

amazing amazing amazing you explain everything soooo easy! compared to how complex some people do it!
Also fun fact DX7 was indeed famous for its "FM" - but it was actually phase modulation - but u probably already knew that ^___^ But many thxx really really props for your way of explaining all this in such a sort video -- you'd make a gr8 teacher! :D

[salmonsandwich]

wow. super informative. This is essential for Minilogue XD owners. especially the first half

[makscee]

Wow, thank you for a great video, didn't expect to learn so much! I might finally know what to do with my volca modular haha

[agv]

straight to the point, clear like water

[carbonfeather]

Great video! Thanks for what you are doing