FM Synthesis Explained: A Musician's Guide To FM 🔥 | feat. Kilohearts Phase Plant

Howdy! Today we're here to talk all about FM Synthesis, some patch basics, and dive in to a handful of sound design tips to get you started creating your own FM Synth patches.

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0:00 Howdy
0:11 A History of FM Synth Stuff
2:35 Overview of FM Synthesis
3:49 What We're Doing Today
4:41 The Basics of FM
7:25 The Most Basic FM Patch
8:45 Your First FM Patch
12:10 Linear vs. Exponential
13:32 FM Sound Design Tip 1
14:51 FM Sound Design Tip 2
16:05 FM Sound Design Tip 3
16:31 FM Sound Design Tip 4
17:46 FM Sound Design Tip 5
18:17 FM Sound Design Tip 6
20:24 FM Sound Design Tip 7
21:38 FM Sound Design Tip 8
22:04 FM Sound Design Tip 9
22:37 Closing Thoughts

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[VenusTheory]

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[russellcameronthomas]

1st generation DX7 was my first synth. Mono output only. Being an Electrical Engineer, I picked up the programming fairly quickly. I probably spent most of my time exploring naturalistic instrument sounds such as horns, sax, and piano, and produced some interesting results. I discovered one of the biggest limitations was lack of a noise operator. It took 3 out of the 6 operators to create something like brown noise, but is wasn’t always adequate. Now that FM is integrated into multi-synths like Falcon 2 and Vital, we can use it for what it is best at - complex dynamic harmonics + inharmonics.

[Steve_Streza]

One of the best FM explanations I've ever seen. Cheers.

[BrofUJu]

This is fantastic. I feel like a lot of us have a good handle on basic synth stuff, ADSR, filters, oscillators etc, but I'm still trying to figure out some of the more complex things like FM so this rules.

[anantwashere]

Amazing. Phaseplant visually showed what could not be seen in Massive X, which I use regularly. And thank you so much, it is very informational.

[mwatkins]

i am not a fan of videos that start with intros, and overviews, and hey theres, and whatnots, but I am glad I stuck around for the sound design tips parts because they gave me a lot of ideas.

[philomelodia]

I am completely lost, totally confused and absolutely fascinated. It was so very interesting!

[djkymaera]

liked the operator gag, perfect for a segment on fm too.

[rabornjohnson]

This tutorial is simply stellar. I've been playing with synths for a long time without feeling like I get it. I have just about every major soft synth on the market, but something about Phase Plant just clicks with me. This video did for me what Phase Plant has been doing for me - it simplified synthesis. This is the single best video tutorial I've seen on synthesis period. Thank you!!

[hapleymusic]

I got PhasePlant because of your videos. I love it so much and my production work has really stepped up since I got it.

[XVIV]

the best FM synthesis video I've ever seen <3

[comalrec]

First of all, I am sorry for my poor English skills.  
This is the best video out of the many FM synths tutorial videos I've ever seen.
Phase Plant is the best instrument to visually understand the fundamentals of FM synthesizers. 
Honorable applause to Venus for choosing Phase Plant for the FM Synthesizer tutorial.

[akshaydabhadkarofficial]

Cameron, I wish you the best for growing your channel. Only if I could like multiple times in YouTube! Discovering your channel is one of the best achievements of my life. Also please add monetisation options on your channel. People would easily contribute for such quality content.

[rainbow_mess]

this is great, thanks so much for this visual guide to fm! makes doing it in phase plant specifically so much more obvious too

[davidpetersonharvey]

I think one of the best tools you can have handy for taking an FM synth is a low pass filter.

[johnlawson]

I gave up on YT tutorials a while back, maybe I just stopped needing them as much for the most part. I bought Phase Plant recently and there were a few things I couldn't figure out how to do or was wondering if there was a better way of doing them. This was my third video and I really got a lot out of it, just a great job all around.

[justinking]

Fantastic, Cameron, as usual. Thank you!

[dreamakah]

The origin of the Taco Bell bell is the best thing I have learned from a synth video in a long time.

[bartleblans]

Man, this is such a good channel. Top stuff Venus Theory!

[aethrya]

i can't believe this content on this channel is all just here for free. thanks man.