Just write a repetitive melody with every measure's 3rd or 4th beat being a random acciaccatura leading into a random quarter. I feel like that would have this sort of predictable random glitchy feel, although I don't have a piano in front of me to see if that would sound like garbage or not.
Man I remember my friend who was really into Aphex Twin and Autechre doing these glitchy beats on his S-1000 in the late 90”s.. Basic drum loops came from a TR-606 and then he added sampled sounds from a broken CD that he played, TV and radio static and synth sounds that were pitched and what have you. it took ages to edit the sounds and the midi. But damn it sounded nice. Now it’s done pretty simple. Time flies.
Thank you - you're so good at teaching stuff about producing and music theory!! I especially like your FM synthesis video - really helpful and welldone
I must apologize because I've been watching your videos for like 2 years and just subscribed... I thought I had done that a long time ago. Jeeez. Just recently getting back into production since I've been gigging live on keys for the last few years, so these videos have been on repeat. Thanks for the gems!
erm... you didn't even bother your arse to tune your guitar? Don't bother even posting, you're wasting everyone's time. If you can play guitar, which it sounds like you might be able to, TUNE THE FECKIN THING! LAZY!
You are one of the few youtubers I've been following for a couple years without getting bored of your content! Keep up the good... SNAILS (got you there)
Great video! Love me some glitchy beats. I would also recommend the Glitch VST to those on a budget (The older version 1.3? Is free. It might not be a 100% stable in a modern daw on windows 10, but 99% of the time it works just fine). Just running a simple drum loop through that gives some really awesome results. Also try running some synth stuff or guitar riffs through it, super rad.
I’d love to get into modular. I already have too much music stuff in my tiny LA apartment but if I ever get a proper studio, there’s going to be some eurorack modules. I’ve messed with some stuff that just sounds fantastic and the possibilities are near endless
This is wicked. Can I suggest for those who don't have the space or money for a modular that they delve into the world of Max, specifically Max for Live? I feel like everything you went over is very achievable with a drum rack and Max, with the further flexibility of finely tuning things with the wide range of programmable modules within it. :)
Overwhelmed by the mass of wires, then at just about the end of the video I realize that the main module is "just" (???) a beefed up version of the analog arp unit we had back in '87 in the e music class I took in college. That thing had just 8 or so knobs I think. One must have been a clock pulse speed, and the rest were CV up/down offsets. You ran a CV line into it and at your arp came out the output CV line. We had *nothing* like a CV driven effects unit, though. Just a basic reverb box. This gear looks like a bit too much for me for just a hobby, but thanks for the show!
Inspiring,as always! Watching your videos it’s like having a pro producer friend that gives you tips and explain things clearly,with passion. I believe a good teacher is the one who can radiate hard things with simplicity,keepin’ you focused on what he/shes saying without feeling the weight of a “lesson”. Without even thinking that you’re learning. That’s exactly what you do. It feels just like having a good time with a friend. Always looking forward for new videos. Love from Italy bro!!
One of my proudest patching moments was making an auto-glitch patch on the TC Electronics Fireworx years ago. I can't remember exactly how it worked, but it's a combination of random modulators and intermittent envelopes that drop delay, chorus and reverb in and out of the signal path in a choppy semi-beatsynced way, rapidly modulating the delay parameters to do that classic "buffer loop" glitch effect. It still gets used occasionally when I'm feeling lazy!
Something else to experiment is to place random short percussive samples on every 16th note, only they are pitched up 3-4 octaves. Sprinkle in some retriggering and you got something glitchy!
I'm interested in glitch because when you make a glitchy sound work in your song it gives it a whole new level of earcandy. Always evolving yet in pocket
I hope that you're making good playlist. If you keep making videos like this, you will eventually have a really comprehensive intro to modular synthesizers that can be widely shared
I wish you wouldve shown a way to do this in ableton alone. While i love the module videos, i dont have one myself and i feel like its an expensive thing to get into. Maybe do a video on cheaper modules or just dont forget about ableton videos. Thank u ily 💛
The whole Predictable and Un-prejabbadub things makes me think of the Flat Zone song from Game & Watch. It had a random bunch of noises going on over a predictable beat with a set melody over it all and sounds pretty cool.
Andrew is amassing modular synths. Soon he could build a castle from 'em. I've also wondered how semi-extreme ambient is created. Lots of delay, reverb, sustain and a long release for sure.
You could quite easily do stuff like this with Ableton, native plug-ins and ........... Modular gear is awesome, but beware it's highly addictive and extremely expensive to build these huge set-ups when you're not being sent free gear all the time like these influencers are.
Also, Both "The Finger" and "Molekular" by Native Intruments are both excellent tools for rhythmic effects. The Finger is great for people who program drums via midi, and molekular is great for ambient effects and people using loops. Also Rounds Is another NI plugin thats great for creating musical variation in arpeggiated sounds. Cheers
sample offset is always a fun way to glitch things out too. delaying an entire beat with every instrument in odd fill-spots can cause some delicious chaos.
hi Andrew, I've been watching since 20,000 subs and I love your videos so much. I do not make music, but you have inspired me to maybe make some in the future
Hey Andrew! I really can see how much fun you have by experimenting with these modules and stuff, and that's great! I do enjoy most of the informations, but I can't really pull any use out of it, because i do not work with such things. Don't get me wrong, keep doing what you want to do, but I'd really apreciate seeing some Videos in the Style you had 3 Months ago and before. Maybe you find a way to connect these two video-types? PS: I won't be the only one, but I'm gonna tell you this nevertheless: You inspire people, including me. Don't stop doing this. Please. Thanks.😊🙌🏻
Hey Andrew Im a new producer I just started making beats a few weeks ago and I just started a uTube chanel a few days ago. I uploaded some of my beats please if you could give me some tips Id be very thankful🙏🙏
Sample & Hold and noise wave LFO's with adjustable depth/intensity go a along way for some hot glitching on anything. Random wave LFO onto a delay timer was a fave of mine. Definitely need its depth/intensity controlled otherwise the timing goes mental!
I have a different take on this. 1- Have your anchor beat, something very simple with kick and snare/clap. 2- Write a drum sequence over your base beat, it should always vary (off-beats for instance!), but it doesn't need to go crazy. 3- Sprinkle your sequence with glitchy stuff 4- If desired, change the anchor beat every once in a while to emphasize interesting portions of your song, but be conservative about it unless you're really going Autechre with it
hEy LoOk A nIcKeL
I need that *NiCkLe*
Did he throw a Nicole on the floor just so he could do that
Katie Dennis now i know why nickelback is calling so. I don't like to look in a dictionary
Time to make music with that sample.
*I WANT A NICKEL*
now to figure out how to write a piano piece with these concepts in mind
Just write a repetitive melody with every measure's 3rd or 4th beat being a random acciaccatura leading into a random quarter. I feel like that would have this sort of predictable random glitchy feel, although I don't have a piano in front of me to see if that would sound like garbage or not.
th-cam.com/video/qXeAeNMTZ9M/w-d-xo.html
Too late
It sounds so good.
Jezuz.
Thanks, man.
Someone made a Melodyne tutorial on creating guitar slides within a piano piece, that could help, unless you're going entirely acoustic.
Just get a module and push a button. :P
Man I remember my friend who was really into Aphex Twin and Autechre doing these glitchy beats on his S-1000 in the late 90”s.. Basic drum loops came from a TR-606 and then he added sampled sounds from a broken CD that he played, TV and radio static and synth sounds that were pitched and what have you. it took ages to edit the sounds and the midi. But damn it sounded nice. Now it’s done pretty simple. Time flies.
unsnails
MrDinovog lol you got pinned
MrDinovog AAAHHH! ITS THE LICH!
Funny how right when i saw this he said it
only came to the comments for the un..snails
“Oh look a nickel!” You Better get your Nickel Back.
*_OOOOOOHHHHHHH_*
Look at this graph!
Oooh nice
look at this photogra- oh look a nickel!
Hey.
The amount of effort you put into each video and the results you yield make this legitimately one of the greatest channels on TH-cam. Wow.
Best part of the day is Andrew Huang notifications!!!!
Sam Johnson and nickels
"I have a short attention span" anyway, here's some modules I spent a long time patching together
Hyperfocusing ya know
Never go full random.
Full random works well on granular and graintable synths tho.
Lol... inspired by the movie Tropic Thunder
how random is random?
Perfectly vidible on his chart😂😂
making something sound chaotic is a very deliberate endeavor
Isn't it cool that you can set up a sequence with this and run it forever and always have new music to listen to?
Max Aiello check out Tom cosms automatic glitch machine. It's exactly that.
yesssss, i like applying lots of random lfos to parameters from lots of plugins to make tasty eternal ambient drones
Step 1. Be andrew huang
lol
And have several thousand dollars to spunk on hardware.
seriously
Thank you - you're so good at teaching stuff about producing and music theory!! I especially like your FM synthesis video - really helpful and welldone
Man I can’t state how much i love your videos❤️❤️
This is awesome! Exactly what I've been looking for! Great tutorial as always 😊
I must apologize because I've been watching your videos for like 2 years and just subscribed... I thought I had done that a long time ago. Jeeez. Just recently getting back into production since I've been gigging live on keys for the last few years, so these videos have been on repeat. Thanks for the gems!
1:59 FULL POPCORN MODE ACTIVATED
Me: **watches and is very confused with no idea as to what's going on**
Also me: Oh okay. **likes**
Well this video was totally un-
predictable.
snail
Fifgubujub
MasBeats exactly what I was gonna say dude..
I knew you were going to say that.
snail
Hey Andrew, I have been watching ur vids for bout 2 yrs and love them, keep up the great work #NOTIFICATIONSQUAD
Gonna make a glitch track myself now
Ayyyyyyyy
M SpookyCarrot1 let me know how it works out man
So? 2 yrs later did u pull through?
3:19 mirrored Andrew looks like a pineapple
Lol 😂😂
This is perfect thank you Andrew!
erm... you didn't even bother your arse to tune your guitar? Don't bother even posting, you're wasting everyone's time. If you can play guitar, which it sounds like you might be able to, TUNE THE FECKIN THING! LAZY!
1. Establish an Anchor 0:54
2. Fills/Beat variations 1:07
3. MicroVariations
4. Unpredictable Sounds
5. Effect Automation, bitcrushing etc
Collab with Seth Everman
Testing all my FM synths while playing Dancing Queen by ABBA
Genre: ?????
Instrument: audio samples randomly pulled from TH-cam
Collab with Seth AND Anthony Vincent.
You are one of the few youtubers I've been following for a couple years without getting bored of your content! Keep up the good...
SNAILS (got you there)
Make a beat with Wilhelm scream!!
+
Yes
I don’t know about my dreams
Sungazer - Why We Fight
The Simpsons already did it
Chris Pouliot Adam Neely! My man
You sir have he ability to shake the heavens above us.
Great video! Love me some glitchy beats. I would also recommend the Glitch VST to those on a budget (The older version 1.3? Is free. It might not be a 100% stable in a modern daw on windows 10, but 99% of the time it works just fine). Just running a simple drum loop through that gives some really awesome results. Also try running some synth stuff or guitar riffs through it, super rad.
That sequencer is just... I love that sequencer and I'm having one. I didn't know that existed. What a crazy module.
6:28 it's been so long since I heard this background music I missed it so muchhhhhhh
Also, Linkin Park's Mr. Hahn was experimenting on glitchy beats using CDJ or DVS gear like in from "Session- Meteora" or "Cure for the itch"
thanks for this !
I’d love to get into modular. I already have too much music stuff in my tiny LA apartment but if I ever get a proper studio, there’s going to be some eurorack modules. I’ve messed with some stuff that just sounds fantastic and the possibilities are near endless
This is wicked.
Can I suggest for those who don't have the space or money for a modular that they delve into the world of Max, specifically Max for Live? I feel like everything you went over is very achievable with a drum rack and Max, with the further flexibility of finely tuning things with the wide range of programmable modules within it. :)
Matt Good its funny, I've had Max for Live for about 3 months now and haven't touched it
Don't spend money on things like this!
VCV rack!
VCV rack LETSGO
Dude i swear you get cooler every video I watch, so much love dude
3:19 pineapple man
I'm so glad that you are taking more about how to make music. It has been pretty helpful so far
you should do more videos like this! this is super interesting and helpful
Nice explanation of the basics of glitch as a genre of electronic music - pattern vs random, predictability vs unpredictability. Thanks.
You got a Nickleback.
Overwhelmed by the mass of wires, then at just about the end of the video I realize that the main module is "just" (???) a beefed up version of the analog arp unit we had back in '87 in the e music class I took in college. That thing had just 8 or so knobs I think. One must have been a clock pulse speed, and the rest were CV up/down offsets. You ran a CV line into it and at your arp came out the output CV line.
We had *nothing* like a CV driven effects unit, though. Just a basic reverb box.
This gear looks like a bit too much for me for just a hobby, but thanks for the show!
"Predictable and UN....fejurbejur"
I'm glad Andrew is pretty transparent with his sponsorship. Also, I am glad that his sponsors are not lame like squarespace...oh... wait...
5:28 is there to remind us that we are living in the black mirror version of the 2000's
Andrew's videos just make me happy. Keep doin you man!
5:30 the robot -est? sounding Siri
Inspiring,as always! Watching your videos it’s like having a pro producer friend that gives you tips and explain things clearly,with passion. I believe a good teacher is the one who can radiate hard things with simplicity,keepin’ you focused on what he/shes saying without feeling the weight of a “lesson”. Without even thinking that you’re learning. That’s exactly what you do. It feels just like having a good time with a friend. Always looking forward for new videos. Love from Italy bro!!
Epic Rap Battle:
Roomie vs Andrew vs Dave vs Rob
Predictable, and UN...... Expected! It was so easy Andrew. Keep up the awesome, buddy.
3:18 those are my kinda beeps
Andrew, the thumbnail (and intro glitch) were AWESOME!
you wnat to click on video capture
One of my proudest patching moments was making an auto-glitch patch on the TC Electronics Fireworx years ago. I can't remember exactly how it worked, but it's a combination of random modulators and intermittent envelopes that drop delay, chorus and reverb in and out of the signal path in a choppy semi-beatsynced way, rapidly modulating the delay parameters to do that classic "buffer loop" glitch effect. It still gets used occasionally when I'm feeling lazy!
you should collab with Look Mum No Computer! you guys could make a module!
Nick My Guy this!
+1
do it!
So good!! Really interesting to hear the balance between predictable/unpredictable 🐌 Great to see how those tiptop modules work in more detail too!
This is a very goo-oh look a nickel
One of your best. I love it when you get into music and sound design theory stuff like this!
3:18
*Wat a handsome boi*
Something else to experiment is to place random short percussive samples on every 16th note, only they are pitched up 3-4 octaves. Sprinkle in some retriggering and you got something glitchy!
2:58 EFF = effect. That is how I choose to interpret it. :D
1:11 ---- 1:19 I was totally convinced that you would start to sing the explanation along with the rhythm.
- Hey there’s a nickel! I’m going to get that Nickelback
I'm interested in glitch because when you make a glitchy sound work in your song it gives it a whole new level of earcandy. Always evolving yet in pocket
Is there a way to let Ableton pick random samples from my sample folders?
That's a cool idea. Make a M4L plug-in and let me know when you do.
Close it eyes lol
Yes with Ableton follow actions and a drumrack
I hope that you're making good playlist. If you keep making videos like this, you will eventually have a really comprehensive intro to modular synthesizers that can be widely shared
A fantastic "glitch song" I know is called Gold Pilot. Check it out!
I wish you wouldve shown a way to do this in ableton alone. While i love the module videos, i dont have one myself and i feel like its an expensive thing to get into. Maybe do a video on cheaper modules or just dont forget about ableton videos. Thank u ily 💛
I bet you could make great music with anything :-)
The whole Predictable and Un-prejabbadub things makes me think of the Flat Zone song from Game & Watch. It had a random bunch of noises going on over a predictable beat with a set melody over it all and sounds pretty cool.
Just Monika.
Just monika
Just Monika
Just Monika.
Just Natsuki.
Just Monika.
Love it. Keep up the crazy and unique flavour that all your videos are filled with!!
Take a shot everytime he says Unpredictable or Predictable...
Enjoy
Modules look like some of the most complex things made by man..
And yet you find a way to make them simple to understand
Never go full random
Just gonna point this out, the thumbnail looks like that poster for “Unsane”.
Great video as always, Andrew.
Un... SNAILS
Andrew is amassing modular synths. Soon he could build a castle from 'em.
I've also wondered how semi-extreme ambient is created. Lots of delay, reverb, sustain and a long release for sure.
You could quite easily do stuff like this with Ableton, native plug-ins and ...........
Modular gear is awesome, but beware it's highly addictive and extremely expensive to build these huge set-ups when you're not being sent free gear all the time like these influencers are.
Aphex Twin approves
Scandisk7 he would, this reminds me of St Michels mont
Autechre does not
You are informative, inspiring, humble, and yet somehow you still end up FLEXING
3:18 JoႱ
*YTP vibes*
i’m willing to bet that he either genuinely got distracted by that nickel
OR
he placed the nickel for dramatic effect bc he’s a KING
this video was very un-fejubajuh
Caleb Packo un-SnAiLs
Also, Both "The Finger" and "Molekular" by Native Intruments are both excellent tools for rhythmic effects. The Finger is great for people who program drums via midi, and molekular is great for ambient effects and people using loops. Also Rounds Is another NI plugin thats great for creating musical variation in arpeggiated sounds. Cheers
Or you could just make a song and then smash your computer
4:05 > owww this fast sequence thingy with the funkyness.
coool !
Cool process to work too.
Really interesting to watch :-)
How are you so perfect
sample offset is always a fun way to glitch things out too. delaying an entire beat with every instrument in odd fill-spots can cause some delicious chaos.
case in point soundcloud.com/mandrasigma/it-came-from-another-dimension
Don't understand anything
Just kidding I understand my name
hi Andrew, I've been watching since 20,000 subs and I love your videos so much. I do not make music, but you have inspired me to maybe make some in the future
Like Glitchstep?
Like IDM
Yes or Psytrance,Neuro Hop and Breakcore. Breakcore example: Venetian Snares - Gentleman
Hey Andrew!
I really can see how much fun you have by experimenting with these modules and stuff, and that's great!
I do enjoy most of the informations, but I can't really pull any use out of it, because i do not work with such things. Don't get me wrong, keep doing what you want to do, but I'd really apreciate seeing some Videos in the Style you had 3 Months ago and before. Maybe you find a way to connect these two video-types?
PS: I won't be the only one, but I'm gonna tell you this nevertheless: You inspire people, including me. Don't stop doing this. Please. Thanks.😊🙌🏻
Hey Andrew Im a new producer I just started making beats a few weeks ago and I just started a uTube chanel a few days ago. I uploaded some of my beats please if you could give me some tips Id be very thankful🙏🙏
Sample & Hold and noise wave LFO's with adjustable depth/intensity go a along way for some hot glitching on anything.
Random wave LFO onto a delay timer was a fave of mine. Definitely need its depth/intensity controlled otherwise the timing goes mental!
Early squaaaaaad
I love how hooking up the modules looks way more complicated than actually "writing" the music.
I have a different take on this.
1- Have your anchor beat, something very simple with kick and snare/clap.
2- Write a drum sequence over your base beat, it should always vary (off-beats for instance!), but it doesn't need to go crazy.
3- Sprinkle your sequence with glitchy stuff
4- If desired, change the anchor beat every once in a while to emphasize interesting portions of your song, but be conservative about it unless you're really going Autechre with it
Amaaaaaazing as always, Andrew! 🍾😁
When he played the full random at 1:59 I totally thought of some one going to town popping bubble rap
Always a good time when I see an Andrew Huang notification!
I know nothing about music but these videos are oddly fun to watch