Convolution: The Secret Weapon Of Sound Design 🤫

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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[VenusTheory]

Go out and get woke'd this week ✌

[MrCowfood]

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

[lokelosk]

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.

[AndreasR]

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.

[ethan_webb]

The quality of this channel really stands out in the YouTube music production space it's kinda crazy

[rockobonaparte]

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.

[MattiasFlodin]

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.

[BorisBarroso]

Wow this is one of the most inspiring episodes I have seen, thanks a lot I will put KHS Convolver to work

[dalestrommusic]

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!

[powder_]

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!

[JakeFoster]

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.

[fakshen]

Cameron's relationship, with sound, it's convoluted.. especially when the wifey walks in and catches you messing around with the dryer.

[thejawshop-AdventureRecording]

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.

[jamesperry]

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.

[aumusic]

Everything IS the reverb of the Big Bang

[irishmossdubwise]

Truly a great channel. With decades of experience, these videos still provide me a ton of inspiration and

[hericiumcoralloides]

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!

[RANVAC]

Cannot wait to use this in Phaseplant…mostly dubstep production…heavier side…and this is going to be amazing to utilize!

[vzm]

Those piano and kalimba clips sounded so cool, with the convolver adding pad-like sounds and rhythmic ambience 👏

[PulsarGlitchMusic]

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!