realizing how impossible it is to narrow this down to a single video, you have done a tremendous job of simplifying it as much as possible, yet still covering all the basics....great job!!
I really appreciate this video. I am just getting into beat/instrumental production. 29, never played an instrument in my life and got an MPC Touch and a Komplete Kontrol M32 Keyboard. I just ordered the Deepmind 6 yesterday and was looking for some beginner/how to videos and this was perfect. I really appreciate the time you took to walk us through everything. You just taught me about the different wave types and I always wanted an explanation of that.
Literally the best synth overview i've seen on youtube. The envelope Generator/Cutoff/intensity section explained something so clearly that has been baffling for months. Thanks so much, Dave!
@@DaveStutts Thank You 🙏🏻 And where have you been all our lives?! What do you mean that you’re new to synths?!?!??!!! Haha that’s hilarious 😂🤣 . Bravo 👏! Thank You for sharing your knowledge with all of us. You have imparted information into people, like a most excellent patch that sounds like an instant vision of a complex process!!! Thank You ☺️ You are going to do amazing things on this planet 🌏 🌍 🌎 Dave Stutts! You are very important to music and fellow musicians and Thank You ☺️ Brilliant, Man! Very impressive! Very!
Before the prologue, there was the Korg Radias. I have not heard much about it on line, but it can do everything I am seeing here, plus you can stack up to four layers of sound including a number of features I am not seeing here. Most of the same left to right building which is useful to understand. This is still enlightening to understand though, appreciate the video.
Amp EG: manipulates the amplitude envelope of the played note/s at four segments of time (attack, decay, sustain, decay) EG: Low pass frequency filtering for each attack, decay, sustain, and decay segments of a played note/s. The cut off frequency, above which all frequencies are attenuated, is adjusted for each time segment. The min and max cut off frequency allowed for all segments is set by that big nob and EG INT nob respectively.
Noise wouldn't be noticeable because noise doesn't have a pitch. Also, key tracking has to do with how far the filter opens further up on the keybed, not how resonance behaves. ijs. Other than that, good guide for new users.
Does noise not have a pitch because it's made up of so many... "random bits"? I hope that makes sense. I didn't know this and I'm trying to wrap my head around it.
Kayleigh Saum noise is all pitches, basically. You can use different filters to get slightly different types of noise (pink, blue, brown, etc), but whatever key you press, it will be the same, generally.
You can't make "bad" sounds from the Wavestate. It is forgiving to beginners yet powerful for those who are more advanced. That was the feedback from a channel that reviewed and demonstrated the Korg Wavestate which will be my first synth,arriving tomorrow, and it was very helpful to learn the basics and de-mystify the terminology so that i feel ready to switch on and make some sounds ! I am going to combine a bit of study of music theory,watching tutorials and hands on playing and i can't wait to get started.Thanks Sam.
I wanted to learn how to play synth, I've been playing guitar for around 4 years and wanted to improve my music theory and just get a better understanding of music also get something thats new and different, My mom just got me the Roland system 8 I can't wait to learn how to play synth, it's such an awsome instrument, there's just a lot to learn about it.
Thanks a lot for this video, i'm currently learning to use a VST called PG 8X, i've never in my life used a synth before, and since i don´t have a manual for it, i found this video. It helped me a lot to understand the analog synth logics and now i can use my VST without problems! Thank so much
this is a great intro video. Keep up the great work. I just started using some synths for some audio drama production. It's a steep learning curve. Eager to go and try some of these tips.
In these kind of demo video, how is audio maintained ? - Is synth connected to external speaker ? - Is sound connected through computer/audio-video recorder/midi ? - Is synth sound directly coming from inbuild speakers ? I have never own synth and donot know how clean and rich sound is recorded for these kind of youtube videos.
GREAT TUTORIAL SAM. - I HAVE JUST BOUGHT MY FIRST SYNTH AFTER 60 YEARS OF PLAYING NORMAL INSTRUMENTS ! I ALWAYS WANTED TO CAPTURE THAT MAGIC 80's SOUND PLUS ALL THE NUANCES THEY GENERATE BUT HAVE SHIED AWAY "TIL NOW ! I"VE JUST BOUGHT A COBALT X AND IT'S GIVING ME SO MUCH MORE THAN MY WORKSTATION FOR SONGWRITING AND MUSIC STRUCTURE. I WAS TOTALLY IN THE DARK EVEN AFTER STUDYING THE MANUAL UNTIL I FOUND YOUR INTRODUCTION VIDEO.......WOW ! NOW I AM BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THE CONCORDE FLIGHT DECK !!!! LOL ! I LOOK FORWARD TO MORE OF YOUR VIDEOS SO THANKS AGAIN FOR SUCH TREMENDOUS HELP SAM. BEST REGARDS. - EDDIE - UK MUSICIAN.
14:29 literally sounded like the beginning of Paprika by Japanese Breakfast. Meaning they turned the “attack” up a bit. And now I understand how that works and holy cow I want a synth now. Shoot dang it. That was sweet
Yesss! Another hybrid synth that I love that is super intuitive and amazing for beginners is the Roland JD XI, I love mine and it's super portable. Both of these would be excellent options for someone learning.
Informative, welcoming, encouraging, engaging. Did not hear a sales pitch, just the path to make some music. So refreshing. Thank you Sam Ash, thank you Mr. Stutts, we're lucky to have you around.
You want a fun new drinking game? Take a drink every time a comment here says something like "a good drinking game is taking a drink every time he says pretty cool"
My god... I mean I love the synth, but any more price-friendly synths? The size and polyphony is great, you guys know of any of similar build for a better price?
imagine the ancient mathemathic musicians having acces to a tool that can shape sound like clay, making the beauty of music, the creativity and abstraction of Math collide in the infinity and dissolve beyond.
That's what I don't understand. Apparently the preset overwrites the knob settings BUT once you turn the knob, you change that particular setting I believe. The rest remain the same. Could somebody confirm?
Phi. Tes presets leave the knobs where they are physically and change the knob value digitally. So if you screw up a bunch of knobs, load a new preset, the knobs get ignored entirely until you move them individually. At that point they jump to the actual physical value of the knob. On the prologue there’s an indicator for the default position of each knob within your active preset so you know where the starting point of the preset sound is.
Pretty cool.
Pretty cool.
Pretty neat.
Pretty dope
Pretty Epic.
Pretty chingón 🎉
realizing how impossible it is to narrow this down to a single video, you have done a tremendous job of simplifying it as much as possible, yet still covering all the basics....great job!!
Bro, imagine if Mozart was around today how much he would love this thing.
Wendy Carlos is the closest thing we got
Mozart IS around.
Did you just assume Mozart's pronoun?
@@danielk9197 Mozart is his music and that is around. That really all that matters about Mozart and all he ever came here to do.
He'd call it witchcraft
0:50 Monophonic vs Polyphonic
02:20 Analog vs Digital Synths
2:45 Programs/Presets/patches
4:10 Initialize Preset (New Sound)
4:20 Synthesizer Layout (Processing Chain)
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5:30 Oscillators (He doesnt go over Sine wave I think so just know thats an option too)
5:38 Saw Wave
6:00 Triangle wave
6:26 Square Wave
7:02 Building a Sound (Based around a saw wave)
7:20 Shape Knob
7:40 Octave Switches
8:00 Trangle Bass Wave (Bottom Octave)
8:20 Mixer Levels
9:00 Noise Oscillator
10:35 Portamento (Note pitch glide)
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11:20 Cuttof Section
11:45 Cutoff Knob (Cutting off certain frequency bands)
12:30 Keytracking (Higher notes = More pitch resonance)
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13:20 Amp Section
13:30 ADSR Envelope
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17:55 Filter Section
18:00 Filter Envelope
21:25 LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator) Note: Adds Rhythmic Texture
23:50 LFO Applied to the Cuttoff Knob
25:20 LFO Applied to pitch
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26:00 Your Analogs Potential "Effects Rack"
26:50 Sequencers (Pressing a note plays a recorded sequence)
27:15 Arpeggiator
28:30 Detuning
Thank you
💜🙌🏽
Can someone find me a link or something to buy this synthesizer?
That's pretty cool.
Your a legend thank u
I like your video because you are using simple and understandable languages. No idioms, no insider's phrases. Thank you!
First dude on TH-cam I've seen who explains a synth in a comprehensive way.
This guy is gold. Thanks a lot!
this has helped me understand synths so much . THANK YOU GOD BLESS YOU ALL !!!!!!! IM SO STOKEDDDD
4reely ikr
YOOO.
IT TOOK ME UNTIL 2:17 TO REALIZE THIS DUDE HAD AN OPEN SHIRT AND NOT JUST A FUNKY TIE!!!!
Omg, I didn’t even notice until I read this!
JenzAr same
yeah a roland secret message
you watching on 144p bro?
wtf
13:41 "Hardcore synthesizer sh-stuff" nice save haha
i was just about to say the same thing lmao
Monophonic save
ha ha
13:42 nice save bud
Hahaha, thks for the laugh!
LOL
20:31
about sums up this whole video
I thought this video was 9:46
🤣🤣😂
😂😂😂
😂😂
I think 9:03
I really appreciate this video. I am just getting into beat/instrumental production. 29, never played an instrument in my life and got an MPC Touch and a Komplete Kontrol M32 Keyboard.
I just ordered the Deepmind 6 yesterday and was looking for some beginner/how to videos and this was perfect. I really appreciate the time you took to walk us through everything. You just taught me about the different wave types and I always wanted an explanation of that.
That's crazy. We are just about in the same boat lol
@@sarahmoravian2093 You just started making music or everything in General? Also its nice to see a another colorful face around these parts lol ;)
@Hectic Von kaos The 6 is PERFECT for a person with a small space.
I am a guitarist but now i think i should have a synth. Every musician should own one actualy
Bring back the unity of synth & guitar in one band. Just like it was in the 80’s.
@@speedtribejp pond, tame impala
kannonball Gorillaz homie
im here for the atmospheric bm
I'm no musician but I need one.
Literally the best synth overview i've seen on youtube. The envelope Generator/Cutoff/intensity section explained something so clearly that has been baffling for months. Thanks so much, Dave!
Drinking game : Everytime you hear 'Pretty cool'
Side note, good entry for beginners ;)
Yep, i'm in North Wales UK but i feel like jumping on a plane and coming over to slap him for everytime he said it.
Only joking of course but jeez!
drinking game: everytime he plays those same four chords take a shot lol
I died of alcohol poisoning
My first proper lesson and it suddenly seems less complicated than I imagined (feared!), thanks for this intro dude
7:18 I love how he is trying to create vibrato by moving his finger, makes me miss my Seaboard :(
Old habits die hard
Haha 🤣 😂! I know!!! And it worked too!
@@DaveStutts Thank You 🙏🏻
And where have you been all our lives?!
What do you mean that you’re new to synths?!?!??!!! Haha that’s hilarious 😂🤣 .
Bravo 👏! Thank You for sharing your knowledge with all of us. You have imparted information into people, like a most excellent patch that sounds like an instant vision of a complex process!!! Thank You ☺️ You are going to do amazing things on this planet 🌏 🌍 🌎 Dave Stutts! You are very important to music and fellow musicians and Thank You ☺️ Brilliant, Man! Very impressive! Very!
@@alisonderrick1067 you're high
If i had a penny everytime he says "Pretty cool" it'd be pretty cool
Love this guys passion! Makes the video so easy to watch.
Nice and clear tutorial. I loved the spacy "end result" and the cord progressions together. Thank you!
"So now I'm gonna take the shape and I'm gonna shape it" - great tutorial man seriously
I love that you get a visual for the sound waves!
Man you killed it in this video. 10/10 for breaking down the basics. Goin to check any other videos you may have. Absolutely phenomenal job.
It would be unfair for me to say anything else apart from Pretty Cool. Thanks for this. I really appreciate the work.
Before the prologue, there was the Korg Radias. I have not heard much about it on line, but it can do everything I am seeing here, plus you can stack up to four layers of sound including a number of features I am not seeing here. Most of the same left to right building which is useful to understand. This is still enlightening to understand though, appreciate the video.
I have to say... This was pretty cool!
Great video Dave! It is one those times when you get EXACTLY what you searched for. Absolutely fantastic video and teaching.
Great demonstration. You explained it in such a way that even a guitarist could understand. And I appreciate that ;)
amazing job! you explained everything in an easy to understand way for newcomers
Haven't touched my synthesizer in a long time, might thinking to go back
I wish I could like this video twice !
Cheers man , very helpful .
Hi Sam, This is a great intro to synths and what they are all about. Big thank you for posting this.
Amp EG: manipulates the amplitude envelope of the played note/s at four segments of time (attack, decay, sustain, decay)
EG: Low pass frequency filtering for each attack, decay, sustain, and decay segments of a played note/s. The cut off frequency, above which all frequencies are attenuated, is adjusted for each time segment. The min and max cut off frequency allowed for all segments is set by that big nob and EG INT nob respectively.
Love this guys passion makes the video so easy to watch
Super helpful video! Thank you!!
You explain this so very good - thank you!
Love this guy. He's pretty cool
Noise wouldn't be noticeable because noise doesn't have a pitch. Also, key tracking has to do with how far the filter opens further up on the keybed, not how resonance behaves. ijs. Other than that, good guide for new users.
Does noise not have a pitch because it's made up of so many... "random bits"? I hope that makes sense. I didn't know this and I'm trying to wrap my head around it.
Kayleigh Saum noise is all pitches, basically. You can use different filters to get slightly different types of noise (pink, blue, brown, etc), but whatever key you press, it will be the same, generally.
Brilliant video, perfect for a beginner like me, very informative, thanks.
Good job, I wanted to learn more about vco, dco why some dco claim to be fully analog, which I am to understand is in reference to the circuitry.
Thank you, I now have enough understanding to get started.
I want to see more tutorials from this guy. I love everything about this video. Pretty cool right? 😎
Great job!!! I am truly a beginner and you made me finally understand where and how to start. Thank you
You can't make "bad" sounds from the Wavestate. It is forgiving to beginners yet powerful for those who are more advanced.
That was the feedback from a channel that reviewed and demonstrated the Korg Wavestate which will be my first synth,arriving tomorrow, and it was very helpful to learn the basics and de-mystify the terminology so that i feel ready to switch on and make some sounds ! I am going to combine a bit of study of music theory,watching tutorials and hands on playing and i can't wait to get started.Thanks Sam.
portmanteau slowly rising makes a great basis for showing the addition of other effects upon that first, particularly predictable sound type
Stellar overview. You covered all the bases in an easy to understand and hands on manner
Never learned how to play any instrument before yet here I am. Honestly out of all the instruments this seems the most fun.
I wanted to learn how to play synth, I've been playing guitar for around 4 years and wanted to improve my music theory and just get a better understanding of music also get something thats new and different, My mom just got me the Roland system 8 I can't wait to learn how to play synth, it's such an awsome instrument, there's just a lot to learn about it.
That sound is so nostalgic. It reminds me of playing Super Nintendo in the '90s.
This was fantastic intro information. thank you so much
Really helpful, thank you.
Summary: Everything about synth is pretty cool.
Thank you so much for this video. I learned a lot today.
Nice intro, and the dude in the video is easy to understand!
Thanks a lot for this video, i'm currently learning to use a VST called PG 8X, i've never in my life used a synth before, and since i don´t have a manual for it, i found this video. It helped me a lot to understand the analog synth logics and now i can use my VST without problems! Thank so much
this is a great intro video. Keep up the great work. I just started using some synths for some audio drama production. It's a steep learning curve. Eager to go and try some of these tips.
In these kind of demo video, how is audio maintained ?
- Is synth connected to external speaker ?
- Is sound connected through computer/audio-video recorder/midi ?
- Is synth sound directly coming from inbuild speakers ?
I have never own synth and donot know how clean and rich sound is recorded for these kind of youtube videos.
Amazing content! Never seen anything about Synthesizers and this was perfectly explained. Thanks, dude!
Your great man. I've learnt more from you in one video then on my one in 2 days
GREAT TUTORIAL SAM. - I HAVE JUST BOUGHT MY FIRST SYNTH AFTER 60 YEARS OF PLAYING NORMAL INSTRUMENTS !
I ALWAYS WANTED TO CAPTURE THAT MAGIC 80's SOUND PLUS ALL THE NUANCES THEY GENERATE BUT HAVE SHIED AWAY "TIL NOW !
I"VE JUST BOUGHT A COBALT X AND IT'S GIVING ME SO MUCH MORE THAN MY WORKSTATION FOR SONGWRITING AND MUSIC STRUCTURE. I WAS TOTALLY IN THE DARK EVEN AFTER STUDYING THE MANUAL UNTIL I FOUND YOUR INTRODUCTION VIDEO.......WOW !
NOW I AM BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THE CONCORDE FLIGHT DECK !!!! LOL ! I LOOK FORWARD TO MORE OF YOUR VIDEOS SO THANKS AGAIN FOR SUCH TREMENDOUS HELP SAM. BEST REGARDS. - EDDIE - UK MUSICIAN.
14:29 literally sounded like the beginning of Paprika by Japanese Breakfast. Meaning they turned the “attack” up a bit. And now I understand how that works and holy cow I want a synth now. Shoot dang it. That was sweet
The Prologue has 2 analog VCOs and a digital multi engine, so it's a hybrid synth that can do both analog and digital sounds 🎹👌
Yesss! Another hybrid synth that I love that is super intuitive and amazing for beginners is the Roland JD XI, I love mine and it's super portable. Both of these would be excellent options for someone learning.
I really enjoyed watching him have fun on it. Made me laugh 😂 god knows i need a good laugh nowadays
Super helpful. thank you
This guy is great. Thank you!
Yeah he's pretty cool.
Hardcore synthesizer shhh-stuff
I just really want a synthesizer, man!
so where to begin.. like as newbie. which sythesiserz be good, mic, and cables to make sounds?? I just wanna play for myself at home .
at 29:21 you mentioned the word patch for the first time. Please explain. we are all beginners . thanks
"isn't that cool? were doing cool stuff here, were creating sound.. its awesome!" Love it
Thank you Dave for sharing that information. I don’t believe I have seen anyone else explain synthesizers for beginners before.
Such a great and informative video. Greatly appreciate this for my redial learning curves!
explanations and video is way better than you can imagine, Thank you sir ❤️
What an amazing attitude, thanks for the content, Dave
please do more synthesizers demos and tutorials!! this was great
Can't believe I watched it whole . I'm a noob guitar llayer
By the way, is this a Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch? Looks great!
13:41 "but this is some hardcore synthesizer sh-tufff" hahaha
Thank you so much! I never thought to stack up oscillators like that, and I never understood the point of detuning. This was really eye-opening! :)
Awesome explanation, thanks man! ⭐️
Amazing Video!!! Really cool dude great and fun speaker!
Informative, welcoming, encouraging, engaging. Did not hear a sales pitch, just the path to make some music.
So refreshing. Thank you Sam Ash, thank you Mr. Stutts, we're lucky to have you around.
You want a fun new drinking game? Take a drink every time a comment here says something like "a good drinking game is taking a drink every time he says pretty cool"
This was really helpful, thanks! Gotta make a stop at Sam Ash to try one bc I’m way too poor to buy one atm
Rlly cool vid and well explained, but is their a difference between “patches” and “presets”?
Elektron Analog Keys made me fall in love with synths and sound design. May be limiting to some but it gets the most beautiful odd sounds
Thank you for this, truly valuable🙏🏼
Exactly what I was looking for!
this is nice
i like this video
very educationally entertaining
3:34 Is that a specific song? I recognize it as if I've heard it many times before
Nvm i figured it out. I'ts "Dawn" by Turbo Knight.
Teacher: "Go to the principal's office!"
Everyone else in the classroom: 11:04
fantastic video!
My god... I mean I love the synth, but any more price-friendly synths? The size and polyphony is great, you guys know of any of similar build for a better price?
Thanks for simplifying!
damn when I move and get a place I gotta get another one of these
imagine the ancient mathemathic musicians having acces to a tool that can shape sound like clay, making the beauty of music, the creativity and abstraction of Math collide in the infinity and dissolve beyond.
What model do you have
Cheers, I learnt loads :)
Really enjoyed the video.
I’m just a little confused, when you select one of your preset sounds do the knobs turn to their positions for that sound?
nope they dont
but you can change them real time
That's what I don't understand. Apparently the preset overwrites the knob settings BUT once you turn the knob, you change that particular setting I believe. The rest remain the same. Could somebody confirm?
Phi. Tes that’s what I’m was trying to ask I just couldn’t figure out how to put it into words.. :) thx
Phi. Tes presets leave the knobs where they are physically and change the knob value digitally. So if you screw up a bunch of knobs, load a new preset, the knobs get ignored entirely until you move them individually. At that point they jump to the actual physical value of the knob. On the prologue there’s an indicator for the default position of each knob within your active preset so you know where the starting point of the preset sound is.
@@jackgilbert5077 thanks for the info. Where would I find that indicator with the default value of the current preset?
Loved this. Thank you!
awesome video.