Hits a chord here as I am deep in FM synthesis. I put AI to work with feeding it with the OPx4 manual and DX7 references and asked it about making specific sounds. After a while correcting wrong answers, it turned into a super awesome sidekick!
Hard to pick a favorite but my childhood memories of me in the 90s visiting Baltimore to see my maternal family, the same era where Toonami was hella dope (Rurouni Kenshin etc.) and I gamed a lot. Heck pretty much all of the 90s are my favorite memories.
I went to the aquarium in Baltimore while on tour for marvel and had a great time there! I definitely miss the toonami jams where they’d play clips of the shows. Was such a vibe
yes motion is so important. When i design sound i like to think of real things and the history of what is happening. That way I can extract how a sound is happening. For Example imagine you break a branch, what is happening over time and what causes the sound to sound like it sound. If you imagine breaking a branch you will see that it is wood, the wood is made of many plant fibers, while you break the branch all these fibers are breaking and all together make a specific sound. I dont know if i get my point across XD
Yep. You become aware of what builds a world and how sound has a relationship in it. Thats why sometimes making sound design to game or movie scenes are fun because it challenges your ability to notice the nuance of the action, subject, and small intricacies that make the scene more believable
@@Alckemy How do you struggle with lack of direction? I've been experimenting for 6 years now and I'm in a very dark place now not sure if it's even worth it to try. Maybe I need therapy but was just wondering what your take is. Have you ever been lost musically?
Why does every harmonic all the way up sound like a "crappy saw wave" and not white noise in the wavetable editor? this is because the wavetable editor is not "every frequency" but instead, only the frequencies present in the harmonic series it's not quite "ironic" that it sounds like a "crappy saw wave". It is actually to be expected White noise contains an even spread of frequencies, where a wavetable editor, not so much by design, but by the nature of wavetables, only contains harmonics harmonics, have a mathematic relation to the fundamental. If the fundamental is 1, the first harmonic is 2, the second is 3, the third is 4 and so on this means you don't actually have an even spread of frequencies, but a cascading spread where each consecutive frequency is related directly to the fundamental it is "noisy" sounding, but is still intrinsically "harmonious". If you think about this, it means that the frequency density of a wavetable, has much larger gaps between lower partials. As you mention, there's a whole octave between the fundamental and first harmonic, there's a fifth between the first and second, a fourth between the second and third, and the gap shrinks between each harmonic. This gives much more emphasis on the fundamental and a repeating pattern that always corresponds to the fundamental as well.
@@Alckemy I'm sorry, I'm not ready to jump on your mistakes or anything. I hope it didn't read like a criticism of your video, I was trying to provide some informational context for anyone who was curious about it or who might mistake it as some sort of unique quirk to Phase Plant
Fav memory is probably parents renting N64 for a birthday or being allowed to rent Alien before I should have been able to. Enjoyed the vid.
Again... love these talking head videos
Hits a chord here as I am deep in FM synthesis. I put AI to work with feeding it with the OPx4 manual and DX7 references and asked it about making specific sounds. After a while correcting wrong answers, it turned into a super awesome sidekick!
More videos like this man. Amazing, I like talking about things in depth, and in bigger perspective.
thank you! I have a lot of these Ive posted recently
Dude, this was amazing. Absolutely love your perspective about sounds & music, extremely inspiring
Absolutely appreciate these talking head vids, been learning so much. One of my favorite memories gotta be my first time landing a kick flip :)
Yoooo I know that feeling and it’s magnificent
Hard to pick a favorite but my childhood memories of me in the 90s visiting Baltimore to see my maternal family, the same era where Toonami was hella dope (Rurouni Kenshin etc.) and I gamed a lot. Heck pretty much all of the 90s are my favorite memories.
I went to the aquarium in Baltimore while on tour for marvel and had a great time there! I definitely miss the toonami jams where they’d play clips of the shows. Was such a vibe
@@Alckemy that's dope! Baltimore's a cool city lots to check out. Oh ya I miss those too the music on there was so on point likewise Adult Swim
extremely inspiring
honestly i would love to hear a video where you discuss motion and how to understand and create it more consistently and intentionally
I have so much content on this
yes motion is so important. When i design sound i like to think of real things and the history of what is happening. That way I can extract how a sound is happening. For Example imagine you break a branch, what is happening over time and what causes the sound to sound like it sound. If you imagine breaking a branch you will see that it is wood, the wood is made of many plant fibers, while you break the branch all these fibers are breaking and all together make a specific sound. I dont know if i get my point across XD
Yep. You become aware of what builds a world and how sound has a relationship in it. Thats why sometimes making sound design to game or movie scenes are fun because it challenges your ability to notice the nuance of the action, subject, and small intricacies that make the scene more believable
@@Alckemy How do you struggle with lack of direction? I've been experimenting for 6 years now and I'm in a very dark place now not sure if it's even worth it to try. Maybe I need therapy but was just wondering what your take is. Have you ever been lost musically?
Good video, do you have a video explaining more in depth the sounds context or do you recommend any video?
check the bassline tutorial I just put up or really any of the talking head videos^^
Why does every harmonic all the way up sound like a "crappy saw wave" and not white noise in the wavetable editor?
this is because the wavetable editor is not "every frequency" but instead, only the frequencies present in the harmonic series
it's not quite "ironic" that it sounds like a "crappy saw wave". It is actually to be expected
White noise contains an even spread of frequencies, where a wavetable editor, not so much by design, but by the nature of wavetables, only contains harmonics
harmonics, have a mathematic relation to the fundamental. If the fundamental is 1, the first harmonic is 2, the second is 3, the third is 4 and so on
this means you don't actually have an even spread of frequencies, but a cascading spread where each consecutive frequency is related directly to the fundamental
it is "noisy" sounding, but is still intrinsically "harmonious". If you think about this, it means that the frequency density of a wavetable, has much larger gaps between lower partials. As you mention, there's a whole octave between the fundamental and first harmonic, there's a fifth between the first and second, a fourth between the second and third, and the gap shrinks between each harmonic.
This gives much more emphasis on the fundamental and a repeating pattern that always corresponds to the fundamental as well.
Yep, totally forgot it’s a harmonic table and not a frequency table. I’m glad someone’s always ready to jump on my mistakes 👍
@@Alckemy I'm sorry, I'm not ready to jump on your mistakes or anything. I hope it didn't read like a criticism of your video, I was trying to provide some informational context for anyone who was curious about it or who might mistake it as some sort of unique quirk to Phase Plant
@@DataBroth oh no, you were absolutely right. Was trying to keep it lighthearted
Fav might be when I was at the electronics club and building my own big flashing arrow that worked. That was in like 1982 or so aha. I was 12.