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Human Synthetics
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 17 ม.ค. 2020
Your motivational music production internet friend, streaming Wednesdays at 8pm UK time.
Hi, my name's Alex and I make electronic music as Human Synthetics.
I make jungle, drum and bass, breakbeat, idm, house, techno, electro, lofi, dubstep, bass music, garage, ambient and whatever I can try my hand at.
I livestream my creative process as a music producer using Ableton Live as much as possible. I make music every day whenever and wherever I can and I want share this process with the world.
If you like my content and want to support me, there are a few ways you can do that, including subscribing, streaming my music on Spotify, buying it on Bandcamp, or becoming a patron on Patreon.
- Stream & buy my music + socials: linktr.ee/humansynthetics
- Patreon: www.patreon.com/humansynthetics?fan_landing=true
- Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/00VVArgqdqCEO9XLG8wP4m?si=Tl26POsBSomB4gS-XaiF2A
Hi, my name's Alex and I make electronic music as Human Synthetics.
I make jungle, drum and bass, breakbeat, idm, house, techno, electro, lofi, dubstep, bass music, garage, ambient and whatever I can try my hand at.
I livestream my creative process as a music producer using Ableton Live as much as possible. I make music every day whenever and wherever I can and I want share this process with the world.
If you like my content and want to support me, there are a few ways you can do that, including subscribing, streaming my music on Spotify, buying it on Bandcamp, or becoming a patron on Patreon.
- Stream & buy my music + socials: linktr.ee/humansynthetics
- Patreon: www.patreon.com/humansynthetics?fan_landing=true
- Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/00VVArgqdqCEO9XLG8wP4m?si=Tl26POsBSomB4gS-XaiF2A
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How on earth do you manage to get the soul pride chopped that cleanly?! I'm having such a headache trying to get everything to work properly. Do you do a lot of warp mode manipulation before you put it into the sampler?
Thanks for the great content. I enjoyed every single second in this video. That lush pad is outstanding ear candy!
Badass! Thank you!!!
Been really looking forward to some break programming and hardcore bass lines. Not sure what music it is your making this time
Pretty cool tutorial. Thank you.
Thanks a lot! Always my pleasure sharing :)
so u got this for free and want us to pay huh?
Only if you dig the sound! I did get these for free with the purpose of recording a review, but since doing that they've remained pretty high up in my sonic arsenal list. I would highly recommend them (in fact all of the monomono M4L stuff) if you're after Ableton-centric EQ/tape saturation/LA2 style optical compression effects. I know the dev too and they really go into the nitty gritty modelling the actually irl og gear, and all in Max where anyone can open it up and see what's happening. I do get a small kick back if anyone uses the affiliate links to purchase stuff but that's where it ends. I'm always keen to try M4L native stuff that's a bit more akin to something you'd see in a VST that's a lot more and I think monomono nailed it with these. I thought that would be a good thing to share :)
Bro. Again with the Reaktor. Love it.
Haha I always forget how good the effects are! They just sound soo good.
Well in reality you'd have more than 4 instances - I think you could have 30~ samples loaded into memory in octamed and then just swap between them on the 4 channels per step...
Thanks Trevor - I feel I need to actually try making something on an actual Amiga to properly understand the benefits and limitations - and to speak from real life experience! I guess the way a tracker plays back samples is more sympathetic to a sampler like Amigo, or on the Amiga, rather Ableton, where loading c.30 Amigos would be quite hard to navigate, especially in like a Drum Rack, which might give a comparable sequencing experience! I have looked at Amiga's on eBay and Akais aren't as pricey as I thought they'd be... maybe one day when I have some more space! Cheers
started producing this genre a few years ago through ned rush videos. Only recently found yourself and learning so much about mixing this genre. Thank you very much <3
You're most welcome. Really glad to hear that - thank you. I am by no means an expert, and everything I've learnt has just been from experience and testing it out on sound systems. If you can get to hear your mixes on a proper rig - that is invaluable experience that really feeds back into future mixes. Thanks again :)
niceee
Amazing video. Did you have a producer mentor and a who are your jungle dnb influences?
Thanks so much :) Ah, good questions! I guess I'd say I'm largely self taught with the DAW, but that would be discounting the wealth of sick content across the internet, particularly from the likes of Ned Rush, Stranjah, Groovin in G, Thought-Forms, and others. I learnt a lot about mixing from Dave Pensado's videos and Recording Revolution, even if they're more band focussed. My life background is as a guitarist and live performer, and as a chorister earlier in life ha. I've been playing most of my life in one form or another, bands, or on my own, and this has definitely given me a leg up across all my electronic, DAW based stuff. This included recording in analogue and digital studios, where I got to work with experienced engineers. I also studied classical guitar and did my exams, so I have that perspective too, which I try to use to inform my music, not dictate it. I love music theory and pondering why and how music does what it does to us as human beings - I think that touches on the meaning of life for us here and now, or a sense of beyondness that speaks to the human experience, as with all art, really. DNB jungle wise, I got into all of that through my mates, especially at uni where we used to go to Hospitality nights, and Breakthru here in Birmingham. So, it was largely liquid and jump up then, with some techier stuff. Back then it was producers like Logistics, High Contrast, Commix, that I noticed, along with Pendulum's early stuff, especially tracks like 'Vault'. I also really loved minimal house and tech that was everywhere in 2006/7. Birmingham had a great scene for stuff like that. I've always just loved to go to nights, or listen to mixes, and just be inspired by the overall vibe of stuff I've heard. I can often remember it all, and this informs how I produce - it won't necessarily be one producer I'm really digging into. That said - some of my fave jungle/dnb producers atm are Paradox (especially his Alaska tracks), Seba, Photek, Fracture, PFM, Arcane, Tim Reaper, ASC, love all the stuff on Deep Jungle Recs too, Subjects, Kid Lib, Phineus II, Dwarde, Orca, I like mad neuro stuff like Current Value too ... really there are so many, and I'm influenced by so many different types of music it all kind of merges together. I've got to shout out producers on TH-cam too, especially the likes of arcologies who is just totally my vibe it's kind of doppelganger haha. I find if I get too into any one musician, I end up trying to copy them, so I'll often just listen to mixes and not try to read the tracklist! I love all electronic music, all music really, and I just love finding new weird stuff to get into, jungle dnb or otherwise. Also my mates send me lots of new stuff - good to have a good circle of music friends to keep you inspired. Got to say, I think a background in guitar shred fuels my breakbeat nitty grittiness, I love fast technical sounding stuff lol. Hope this gives an insight, and thanks for asking me to talk about myself haha. Thanks again :)
Roomy vaper is my fav. Love it. Brilliant. Keep it up.
Yeah that was a nice one. Was giving me J Dilla vibes. Been listening to a lot of his instrumentals lately.
I was a raver in the 90s late 90s and every tune delivered an aggressive drop and the tune always delivered to your soul. The art of music theory seems to have disappeared, just listen to freestyler by boomfunk mc. That’s how u deliver.
Yeah sick tune! Wicked video too! And slide guitar, who'd have thought?!
i use an MPC one and watch lmao
Ha this is amazing to me. The way I work, and what I bang on about on stream, I try to make it DAW/equipment agnostic. The creative process knows no bounds in this respect. And largely you can do the same thing across so much gear, in fact it can help to try and transfer one way of working in any given DAW, Or on an MPC, to other bits of gear, or DAWs. Especially true when I try using trackers! Cheers @originaljungle :)
Bro, I love that you’re using Reaktor here
Thanks! You don't see it much now do you? I got it cos I read Sully liked Steam Pipe, which is a great stock synth in it. Tbh, I just use presets, but given there are so many, and so many third party devices in the Reaktor community, you can easily find new sounds its unlikely anyone else has used. Big fan of Kontakt too!
@@HumanSynthetics I've used Steampipe to make this amazing feedback sound that I can key track to actual scales. Much better than hardening Ableton's Return Signals for random feedback IMO.
@@mybiggrin Ooo yeah? Like a karplus strong type thing? Really cool! Yep I still love pulling out every now and again, I always find something cool in it.
Always a good time seeing a notification of an upload from you. It's impossible for me to catch your live streams, so these are a godsend. Cheers mate.
Aw thanks so much Jesse! It's a joy sharing the music with people. I get to make music and share what I've picked up along the way with such a positive community - that's a privilege. I'm glad you and others enjoy watching me do that. Thanks again.
In logic we have the new version of camel fat, it has crazy stuff in it, filter section has one called gritty. Turn up the res and drive after saturation in tal for a smashed sound that u get from the old days. Must be something similar in abelton.
Sick! Reckon roar could be the device for that. I have looked at the standalone camel fat before, looks mad. Also, I've got the TAL! Loving it, especially the resampling. Been looking at s3000xls too, cheaper than I thought they'd be but don't have the space atm. One day?!
Tal is bad to use as it has no undo button. So when u chop up a break u have to save the whole project every cut just in case u screw up. But it’s worth it for the sound that comes out of it.
@@Endle185 haha yeah I've noticed that! I've been creating my own presets for anything I chop in there - thanks for the heads up. Also some of the presets that come with it are pretty sick. I've been blown away by the sound of it tho, and comparing directly against Sampler, it's a one horse race. Lovely interface to it as well, and can be scaled up and down easily.
Timestamps up if you want to skip through. In this stream, I chop a break to a Drum Rack slicing preset. To create your own preset you can follow along with this video in which I do that: th-cam.com/video/5PsjhbkfGEc/w-d-xo.html
How do u change between sounds like the stretched snare that hit only sometimes and not for all the break
You have to program a different MIDI note for each of the separate sounds. It can be fiddly and time consuming, but worth it! :) Hope that helps, let me know if not.
Thinking and perceiving. Seba and paradox, good luck out there lads, creativity is not copying what has been done before, push the envelope, use all new tech for new sounds and effects that no one has heard before
Been rinsing that in the car. 'Back from Eternity' I keep coming back to. That and 'Atka' - I love the minimalism of the Alaska sound. Just picking up TAL Sampler!
You can watch the whole sordid affair here: th-cam.com/play/PLerLtHwIDOSV1eWjFhUEitOHeuwnqtWE1.html&si=DhaqZZCWUcxentzU
cool and simple tutorial about breakbeat slicing in ableton. 🤟
Aw thanks Pretend Passing, thanks for checking in on stream this evening :)
This video is insane, the amount things I have learned is incredible. And probably I'm going to rewatch it again. Thanks!!!
What a lovely comment, thank you @maroxcore I'm glad to share it and thank you for letting me know you enjoyed it. Big up!
we need to be able to sync over a stream daswotsup.
Square pusher uploaded his album yesterday and u made a tune in his style
Need to check it out! Yeah it's those tightly chopped amens!
Alex, could you do a video for your workflow using multiple breaks at a time? Do you create sampler chains with specific velocities for specific chains?
Hey bupkis, you've read my mind! This is something I've been obsessing over lately. I often use many breaks in tunes, layered, but often I'm just employing EQ to filter out the low end of whatever is the secondary break. I'm keen to really advance things here, to create my own breaks using slices and phrases from many other breakbeat samples. I recently completed my 'Make Your Own Jungle Live Set' tutorial series on Patreon (this isn't a sell!) which is the format I'd like to follow to explore 'Layering Breaks' - I say explore as really I feel it's an area of my production I could, and want to improve. Also, the aim of doing a longer form series like this will be that I can make a properly researched, informed short video at the end of it. But in the meantime, maybe when I've really started to make progress I can cover what I've learnt so far on stream? As for your question about sampler chains, I do make use of different velocities in my patterns sometimes, whether I've chopped the break to a Simpler, Sampler, or Drum Rack. There are so many ways to approach chopping and I would encourage regular practice to explore all of them and find out what you connect with most, and makes the process most enjoyable. But, in short - yes and yes :)
@@HumanSynthetics Already on the patreon and ill check it out. love your work and tutorials!!
@@bupkis7505 Aww sweet! great stuff. Well, it's in the works but I've been doing a lot of prep for it. Are there are any producers that come to mind as sonic reference points?
@@HumanSynthetics i think paradox is well known for this and iirc he goes into his process on his dogsonacid qna session. Its been a bit since i read it
You're obviously in denial.
Aren't we all?
Breaks are a funny thing, no one does it right anymore, they crush a 120 Bpm in to a 170 bpm, leaving the hit short and the gap in between in? That’s not drum n bass. Leaving it less aggressive
The break is the tune. Then everything else is around it.
love from north ldn big up enfield junction lol
Halcyon days stuck on the M25 between Waltham Abbey and Enfield on my way to school! ;)
There’s a Moomin theme park?!?
www.moominworld.fi/ haha I would love to go.
Great video. Thank you
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it :)
Your new jungle ambient live set walkthrough is legendary!
Noice 💖
what's the pad patch in the intro
A couple of Groovin in G samples! From his New Horizon pack, I think? Vocal is from an old 90s pack. Tbh I just pulled this all together quickly when I thought it might be nice to have some ambient music to intro the stream. Most of the sounds are going into fx of some sort too, on the return channels.
Meld allows you to create cool generative arpeggios!
It's sick isn't it?! Yeah I need to dig back into it, spent a lot of time with Roar recently. Loving the new 12 devices!
@@HumanSynthetics Why is it sick ? The method of generating ambient sounds that you suggested in the video is great! I liked the idea of slowing down the pace significantly - then it turns out an interesting generativity
@@Serge_Era Sick as in good!! Such a cool idea, I can't believe it's not been in Live sooner. But thanks so much. Yeah adjusting the tempo was a very happy accident!
Awesome video buddy 😎
Cheers AO :) I originally intended to more of these with other breaks, still on the back burner but kind of feel @nedrush covered that with his A-Z breaks series recently. Thanks for the kind comment.
Brillant !
Thanks very much :)
Encountered your channel not long ago. You've been a great teacher! I love how you explain things. I was wondering if you have considered using a program that displays your keyboard presses/hotkeys as an additional tool to learn your methodologies? Big ups <3
Hey Jesse, thanks so much for this. I love making music, but I also love helping others in their musical endeavours. It's always great to hear when things 'click'. That's a great idea! I actually used a mouse highlighter on my most recent stream, and will make a habit of it for the future. Keystrokes I have tried before in tutorials I've filmed, but it can get quite hectic as I do a lot of them! Maybe I can find something that allows me to have them discreetly displayed, that would be ideal. I'll see what's out there :) Big ups to you too! And thanks for pledging on Patreon. Cheers
@@HumanSynthetics I've found a great way to add this to OBS just using the native keyboard viewer for Mac. Shoot me a message if you need help setting up :) ✌
Always time for an Amen tune!
Amens for life! haha
Dude , I dont want to come across as a fanboy but f8ck some of those tunes you crank out. Same with George btw...
Aww man, thank you sooo much! I'm sure George would agree, this is all a very humbling experience. To me, and I'm sure it's the same with every producer - you often only hear what's 'missing', or where the gaps are. In my mind, things are clear on where I'd like this tune to end up, the rest is a question of alignment. But maybe it's already not far off? Thanks for all your support @VNDM-MUSIC it means the world :)
Thank you so much for the midi pack! gonna download and program some cool beats
You're welcome! Let me know how you get on!
so sick bro
Big up! Thanks so much. Had great fun with this, need to dig deeper with it!
This track takes me back.
Thanks so much! I reckon the Amigo is probably a lot easier to use then tools were back 1994-00 haha, we live in a blessed time for music production!
@@HumanSynthetics Infinitely easier.
Wicked!! Will add this to the playlist, thank you!!
sheeeeesh that's a bad man!
Aww glad you got to listen to this man! You would've enjoyed irl!
This is hot as hell
Thanks so much! Been a while since I heard this, great to see people enjoying it still :)
Another solid video!! Lol at 1:46 “so what we’re gonna do now we’re gonna take a break…” “aww but we only just got started!” 😂
haha you know I can't dare to watch these back in full lol! I never thought making these would lead to where things are now with the channel and my music - so it's great to see people still enjoying them. Guess useful info is useful as long as it's relevant to the tools we're using! Thanks again
Woah bro thank you SO SO much!! this is an absolute game changer for me! been trynna figure out the best way to make jungle beats for some time now and nothing i've come across strips things down so simply! and the fact that you provide the project file is astonishing! you're a true gem, can't thank you enough <3
The pleasure is all mine! Thanks so much for such a nice comment, glad to see this video is still helping people. Yeah the stuff with the different warp modes I kind of just stumbled across, but I think it gives a pretty decent jungle flavour, with relative ease and speed. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the support on Patreon :)