Granular Synthesis and Test Equipment Soundpack for Audio Damage Quanta
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- In which I talk about the sound pack for the Audiodamage Quanta Granular Synthesizer I made from test equipment sounds.
Chris Randall of Audio Damage saw my video on the Princeton Applied Research 124A Lock-In Amplifier and was impressed: he asked me if I could make a pack on basis of that machine for their synth Quanta, and I was more than happy to do that. Granular synthesis has been an old love of mine, it was even part of my masters exam back in University. Combining the test equipment with the granular tools was a perfect fit, and I was so happy with the pack that I incorporated it in my live and travel setup. In the video I describe the process, talk a bit about Quanta and go into the context of how I use these sounds personally.
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I was visiting Ircam in Paris about 20 years ago, as a sound engineer , and they managed to make me a special tour and discussion in Xenakis work because I’m Greek! What a great day it was.....
I was excited when I saw this collaboration on Instagram and I am blown away by the result!!! Audio Damage kill it and you are by far one of the most creative guys on here, so thank yous very much for this! I continue to buy Audio Damage's products just because I think they are cool (plus, I gather quite a collection there that enables me to make better music) and I will get one of your shirts for Superbooth now just because you did this cool project and rock it while I'm there, haha! Brilliant!
My grandmother went to university with Xenakis in Athens. Apparently they used to hang out with a few other people, I really should ask her more about him.
Oh yes! It must have been such an intense time.
iNerdier please let us know.
12:36 that UBM kick is insane
I've had quanta for a year on my ipad and never really dug into it. This video reminded me I have it and that there's a whole world to explore
You should make a video about what you studied, where, and whats part of your degree.
Oh that is very long ago, but I did rap in the oral exam.
Granular Synthesis is life... I just finished reading Microsound the other day and I have to say, there's a lot I didn't understand, all the technical aspects (which are a lot), but I found lots of inspiration in it as well. Maybe you have other sources where one could read about Granular Synthesis? Cheers!
Formalized Music (Xenakis) is a great read, Feichtinger wrote some standards on Gabor analysis which was essential back in my studies, though more for the analysis part. Microsound by Roads you have read already, Barry Truax had some essays if I remember correctly.
@@Hainbach Oh sweet, I will have a look, thanks!
I find Composing Electronic Music from Roads a great book for all types of synthesis in electronic music. It can get technical but it's an official book from Oxford University, it goes deep and it means business.
@@ethermod307 I will check it out, thanks!
I love iPads so much because of all the different "keyboards" and weird input methods. The Moog Model 15 is a freaking marvel on the iPad with the built in Animoog style MPE keyboard. I haven't used a computer for music for more than 8 years or so, relying fully on the ipad. Drambo as a sequencer inside AUM driving all sorts of cool soft synths is my preferred way of working. It's like a modular Electron box with great UI and immense flexibility. Nothing like it exists on PC and there's no way for me to go back to working on pc/mac at this point. I just love having absolutely everything I need right there at my fingertips. My workflow on an ipad is probably 2x what it would be with a mouse and kbd.
The AUM workflow is pretty much as dawless as you're gonna get on a tablet, and I absolutely love it. There are DAWs on ipads as well, but I literally never use them anymore. I find the workflow saddening and tedious. I'd rather work within the limitations of dawlessness than have to work in a DAW at this point. I'm sure it would be different if I made more normal music, but for my tastes, can't get much better than AUM and Drambo + thousand bucks worth of soft synths and effects.
the track at 11:37 has an insane Battlefield 4 loading screen vibe to it
Very nice. Quanta on my iPad has been a go to for a while. I like playing it with with my Eigenharp for the mpe expression. Thanks for the soundpack.
I thought I didn’t need any more granular synths but loved this. The pack is awesome! Thanks.
Ugh! That test equipment track sounded gorgeous. Love your heavier stuff
Thank you! I am working on a new album of heavy test equipment music. So much fun. Hopefully autumn release
@@Hainbach Nice! I'll be looking forward to that one for sure x
Granular synthesis was big part of my University course work. Thanks for posting
Quanta is a joy to use. It yields amazing results quickly. I have it on IPad.
Congrats on the fine sponsor. I'm a long time supporter of Audio Damage! I'm looking forward to trying out Quanta. Thanks for another fine, informative video. Have a great day!
Been messing with this on the iPad! So happy to stumble upon this!
Wonderful thank you. Granular is my favorite synthesis method and I use Quanta all the time. Really looking forward to try this pack.
I haven’t even started watching but know I’ll like it. Love me some Quanta/ Audio Damage
also has microtonal support, which makes it pretty appealing to me
Microtonal yummy
Absolutely awesome production! Thank you for posting this; what a pleasure to watch and listen ❤️😌🙏☝️
Sounds very organic, I love it!
Thank you, Hainbach, these sound fantastic!
The sound layers you shared in at min 12 til 13 were really good. Would be great songs and scores for film.
thanks for the pack. amazing sounds.
Excellent work, the app looks and sounds great. I just coincidentally posted some sounds from an experiment with Borderlands granular with samples from the Soma Ether loaded into it. I'm definitely interested in exploring this further, thanks for shining a light!
Thank you. Some great sounds. Inspiring
Awesome!
Thank you really beautiful sounds
Hainbach, with so much equipment I hope you never have to move. Looks daunting.
jeeeeez that test equipment kick is huuuugeeee
Inevitable.Thank You!Let us know how your search for OP-1 alternative goes. Most of the gear you use has the same price point issue :plumbutter, $1300, CBA pedals at $500 a piece, etc. etc. Maybe the iPad with a few instances of Quanta and Enso looper and a few other Audio Damage plugins isn't such a bad alternative after all :-)
Great content man thank you so much
Good one. Thank you!
Amount of math and calculations behind the screen must be astounding.
this is immense!
Totally love it, but I have to admit I was expecting a plug in version of the lock-in amplifier. 🤷🏻♀️
Hello Hainbach I'm glad to have you back. If I don't have a DAW of any sort can I download this as samples?
You can get the original test equipment sounds on Patreon.com/Hainbach if you sub to the 7.5 ips tier. You can then process them as you like. The granular sounds are not available as samples.
@@Hainbach looks like I'll be your next patreon
Nice! There are close to 40 packs now, much it sounds you can't get anywhere else. And I am adding a new one each month.
Love granular synthesis. Quickest path to alien worlds. So many pretty examples in this video. On a slightly unrelated note, do I spy a CooperFX Outward V2 lurking on that desk? I'll take that off your hands if you're just going to leave it there. (one can dream)
Oh I am making a video on that! So dreamy.
It would be nice if you could directly link any given control to a modulation source (similar to Arturia Pigments) instead of relying on a less user friendly matrix panel. But a decent granular synth nonetheless
them grannies are powerful :D
what do you use for in/out from your ipad?
At the moment just the out, looking at many options
cant load samples into this, keeps playing the init?
Hi Hainbach. Really interested to learn more about granular synthesis, coming from a physics background myself i'm specifically interested in the cues from quantum mechanics that you mentioned. Have you got any recommended reading?
Gabor made a ground breaking essay in 1946, that is a good start. He developed the idea of sound quanta Vs Fourier, and Xenakis, being interested in science as he is, soaked that up. Else, Microsound by Curtis Roads is very good.
more like - hi, im heinbach. good to have you Bach. haha amirite?
Thanks for the video! What is the piece by Xenakis called , that you are referring to in the beginning of the video?
Analogique A+B, usually played as conversation between orchestra and tape.
That is the first "granular" piece, made using baskets full of tape splices.
@@Hainbach merci vielmals, for the quick response 👍.
What is the VST/AU you are using for the feedback sounds around 6:40?
Crusher-X
H - may I give the tiniest of nudges about the quadraverb video?
I have a pretty stupid and simple question about quanta: can anyone tell me how quanta organizes the pitch of the samples? My logic would say quanta takes the exact same pitch of that sample and if you press a key for instance three semi tones above it, quanta should play that sound three semitones above the original pitch.
In a lot of cases something strange happens like: I put in a c# sample. Next I try to find some harmonies and have to find out that many tones of the c# scales sound inharmonious (in this case for instance works the c maj scale best)
Can anyone help me with that problem?
If you sample a c# pressing c will play that sample at that root note, which is c#. Quanta does not know the pitch of you sample, it will only transpose in relation, as will most samplers. So that is why the c scale you play works. It's actually c#.
@@Hainbach thank you!
"Gabber Atom" (1946)
Link is dead! 😭
Oh you have to contact audio damage, it was hosted by them
@@Hainbach Thanks - more please!
I did! apps.apple.com/us/app/fluss-granular-playground/id6443472888
great video but it would be nice for Quanta to have a better algorithm to sample key track.. you can find an amazing pad sound in one note.. try a different note and it sounds like the worst sampler you can ever have... pretty sad
Audio glitch at 4:30 ?
Yes! I left it in because I liked the sound.
@@Hainbach A true sound artist :D
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Free? Thanks!
+Bauchtanz... ;) extra danke dafuer...
gruesse....
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Ugh! That test equipment track sounded gorgeous. Love your heavier stuff