The example @22:08 and the very last pad example had me shook. It's 2:46 AM and I've decided to dedicate the rest of my night to watching your videos and taking literal notes in a notebook. Thanks so much for the amazing tutorials.
Love it! I've made 4 tracks in the last two days because of this. Best part about this tutorial is that it leaves room for freedom of expression by outlining a general strategy. Great work!
Thanks for this. Made me realise using a key editor to write isn’t too onerous and helps get new ideas down and that if it works with a basic piano sound chances are it’ll be good when you put the synth sounds in. Really enjoyed this. 👍
I worship this channel so much! Thank you for everything you have ever done for us amateur producers dreaming of becoming the next Miami Nights! Peace brotha
This is absolutely fantastic. It all makes so much sense, isn't overly complicated and when the synth sounds are added it's mind-blowing how such a simple theory can sound so beautiful. The real mastery is adding and arranging everything else I guess. This is all pretty new to me but I'm having a lot of fun and pleasure learning and discovering how things work. Your videos along with others are insanely helpful. Yours especially because you break things down and explain things clearly and simply to newbies like me but without being condescending or anything like that. Do you have a video explaining the tricks around the piano roll like copying etc?
oh my... finaly i get it. Thanks a lot. Iam using this ghost channel technic but did't know instruments are laying down in a different pitch. Plus i didn't know the bassline lay down so low. Really thank you man!
haha nice dropping that A down essentially creates a 7th chord creating that dreamy sound! personally I like the play Root as 7th chord and the fourth as 7th chord that is especially dreamy imho.
It's the 6-4-1-5 progression that's all over the pop charts, although it's slightly more common in the 1-5-6-4 order from 'Let it Be' and all the other songs featured in the famous Axis of Awesome videos.
Great tutorial, very useful. My question is, when you have the full chord midi clip with the bass chords arps and melody, how are different synth sounds assigned to each part of what seems like one midi clip?
I am pretty sure they aren't assigned differently. You'd just have to copy the sections into new patterns individually to assign separate synths/instruments to each section. I think he just put them all in one pattern to show you how you develop ideas. That said, I'm new to this myself so maybe there are ways to assign different synths/instruments to each part as one 1 pattern. Probably better to have them as different patterns though so you can tweak and manipulate each section itself rather than a whole.
Awesome tutorial. You're a good tutor and this lesson is really helpful. Just out of interest, how would you go about making synthwave tracks which don't make use of block chords as much? When I listen to tracks like 'Breakazoid' and 'Thanks for Playing' by Mitch Murder, it is hard for me to distinguish the chord progressions, as most of the harmony seems to be created by the melody being accompanied by the bass and some kind of counter-melody. What would be your process into making songs like those?
There's usually a virtual analogue synth bundled with every DAW, but you can add to that by using an emulation of a Juno-60 for pads and leads, and a miniMoog for bass and arpeggios. You can even make Sylenth or Serum sound analogue if you use some lo-fi detuning tricks. Plenty of presets can be found/bought if you just search for synthwave presets.
Well thanks, you just proved synthwave sounds like crap when it's played back on piano! And that it is so simple, you just keep repeating the same notes. Awesome.
My question with this is how do you make all that 1 big pattern in the piano and then assign different instruments/synths to different parts of that same pattern?
JUST go to the big pattern, select the notes you are interested in for the instrument, press ctrl+c(copy), create new instrument, go to it's piano roll, and and press ctrl+v(paste) , you don't need ghost notes to copy by hand, cheers!
There are thousands of dance tracks and Europop hits (and tons of TH-cam tutorials) that only use Am, F, and G. e.g. Rhythm is a Dancer, Mr Vain, Rippin Kittin. You can't really go wrong by making a progression that uses an arrangement of those three chords.
THank you so much for this. really well explained. can you tell me what plug ins you use to get the dreamy synth-wave sounds? I have just bought Diva but all the presets sound to EDM. Any tips would be greatly appreciated
@@douchemonkey44 Probably he's saying that there shouldn't be any 3 adjacent notes in the riff (like A4, A#4, B4 here). It's determined by which chords belong to the tonality.
the part im ALWAYS getting stuck on is the part that was skipped LOL :(. i write good chords and melodies but I just spend 8 hours of each session trying to find a synth that sounds good and its like one in every 230498 i try sounds good for the genre. How do people that don't know how to make synths perfect from scratch come across amazing sounds like this so effortlessly. i can use omnisphere and find a couple but there just infinite sifting through ones that don't work.
Learn to make your own sounds, scrolling through presets is a huge time waster. Once you learn the fundamentals of sound design you can make sounds close enough to what you want, and once you get better you can make exactly what you want
Sorry again TT I already have the TAL-U-NO-62 installed and the Timecop1983 downloaded, but how can I use the sounds on the plugin? I tried to import bank but there are in individual files :/ By the way, the files are in PJUNOXL format
If there is no pad sound in a track, how do you create the arp and lead ? With the Bass scale ? Major + Minor ? A lot of tracks have a pad but really in the background and not looped, just used for transition.
I believe that TC1983's presets only work with TAL U NO LX, which is the paid version of the plugin. It's relatively cheap and it's absolutely worth the money.
Hi mate, ive had a look back at the project file and it seems I didn't save the synthwave parts, so I'm not sure what they are sorry, I think they might be from the Jup 8 vst
The example @22:08 and the very last pad example had me shook. It's 2:46 AM and I've decided to dedicate the rest of my night to watching your videos and taking literal notes in a notebook. Thanks so much for the amazing tutorials.
Read this before watching. Hopefully I came to the right place
Currently sitting with my notepad and pen in hand. Just the videos I needed!
holy smokes it's three years and this is the first time I'm seeing this and I'm doing the same here at 2:53am XD
Same Here! Notebook and pen in hand like I’m in class.
We never leave school, do we? :)
Love it! I've made 4 tracks in the last two days because of this. Best part about this tutorial is that it leaves room for freedom of expression by outlining a general strategy. Great work!
The transformation when you added the synth instruments is unreal!
Youve thought me major principles about chordbuilding in just one video, thank you a lot for putting this online!
Thanks for this. Made me realise using a key editor to write isn’t too onerous and helps get new ideas down and that if it works with a basic piano sound chances are it’ll be good when you put the synth sounds in. Really enjoyed this. 👍
One of the best tutorials I have seen
Your synthwave tutorials are the best I've ever seen. Thanks, these are amazing!
I worship this channel so much! Thank you for everything you have ever done for us amateur producers dreaming of becoming the next Miami Nights! Peace brotha
I learned more in this little video than so many other tutorials. It broke it down, really simple. Thanks so much! :)
Wow! This is the best tutorial on writing melodies I've seen so far -- and I have watched a lot of them recently :D
This is absolutely fantastic. It all makes so much sense, isn't overly complicated and when the synth sounds are added it's mind-blowing how such a simple theory can sound so beautiful. The real mastery is adding and arranging everything else I guess. This is all pretty new to me but I'm having a lot of fun and pleasure learning and discovering how things work. Your videos along with others are insanely helpful. Yours especially because you break things down and explain things clearly and simply to newbies like me but without being condescending or anything like that. Do you have a video explaining the tricks around the piano roll like copying etc?
I have just started making my own synthwave music and had no idea where to start, your tutorials have helped me out so much you deserve way more views
I need this pad preset.
Excellent vid mate cheers
oh my... finaly i get it. Thanks a lot. Iam using this ghost channel technic but did't know instruments are laying down in a different pitch. Plus i didn't know the bassline lay down so low. Really thank you man!
haha nice dropping that A down essentially creates a 7th chord creating that dreamy sound! personally I like the play Root as 7th chord and the fourth as 7th chord that is especially dreamy imho.
Wow, that was great, thanks for being helpful!
A great video, you both give advice and make 3 different practical examples
aaand it helped.... for hardstyle.... woops
This is fucking revolutionary. Thank you so much for this!
Thank you sir, really enriching knowledge 🧐👏
great tutorial !!!
brilliant stuff!
Loving these tutorials
Easy to understand tutorial! I'm tired and going to bed but I want to make a good sounding song lol.
Big ups to this guy; this stuff works
"Very Nice" (Patrick Bateman)
Let's see Paul Allen's synthwave tutorial
Hey bro thanks i learn a lot of you , yo're really amazing , hugs from colombia for u
this is awesome. MORE!!
excellent tutorials i am now subscriber
Thanks you bro, I was searching a tutoriel like this for many days
6:45 one of the most famous chords in music hahaha idk but it almost always sounds good!
The example in 12:00 is just the same in the music of numb by Linkin park
this is gold, thank you
Great job dude, where you can see the effect settings for this track? i mean moment 21:33 , 22:06, 22:32 (on vst FX)
rewatched it now and i think it would be great to explain the difference between bridge and verse and the ways to make it sounds different.
wow this turned out amazing. i would be interested if there was an approach to start with the melody and end at the bass
Dude..fkn awesome tutorial
Good to see !
good stuff
8:03 sounds like the chords for the pre chorus for still loving you by scorpions (dropped a half step down)
It's the 6-4-1-5 progression that's all over the pop charts, although it's slightly more common in the 1-5-6-4 order from 'Let it Be' and all the other songs featured in the famous Axis of Awesome videos.
21:30 magic
SythwaVEY & Dreamae. Had me snickering but I appreciate the video brutha. Thanks
Also gained a new subscriber!
You're the man
Great tutorial, very useful. My question is, when you have the full chord midi clip with the bass chords arps and melody, how are different synth sounds assigned to each part of what seems like one midi clip?
I am pretty sure they aren't assigned differently. You'd just have to copy the sections into new patterns individually to assign separate synths/instruments to each section. I think he just put them all in one pattern to show you how you develop ideas. That said, I'm new to this myself so maybe there are ways to assign different synths/instruments to each part as one 1 pattern. Probably better to have them as different patterns though so you can tweak and manipulate each section itself rather than a whole.
gold thanks for the video
Awesome tutorial. You're a good tutor and this lesson is really helpful. Just out of interest, how would you go about making synthwave tracks which don't make use of block chords as much? When I listen to tracks like 'Breakazoid' and 'Thanks for Playing' by Mitch Murder, it is hard for me to distinguish the chord progressions, as most of the harmony seems to be created by the melody being accompanied by the bass and some kind of counter-melody. What would be your process into making songs like those?
This guy is awesome
hey man, one question, can you share what different types of plugins do you use?
lol this is Linkin Park - Crawling , synthwave version :))
Dirk Diggler nice comeback Yoda...
Synthetic Md watch Out, we've got a badass Over here
Ahhh... *inhales* ...Fresh youtube comments. Makes you feel alive.
Groundbreaking ! the best basic theory tutorial ive ever seen tbh
Thank you for this😊.. Now I know how to make a real synthwave
3:19 "Do it, try it."
8:41 - That's really close to being Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche xD
Where can I get some presets for this kind of music? I like the sounds uses in this video but most of what I have does not sound close to this.
There's usually a virtual analogue synth bundled with every DAW, but you can add to that by using an emulation of a Juno-60 for pads and leads, and a miniMoog for bass and arpeggios. You can even make Sylenth or Serum sound analogue if you use some lo-fi detuning tricks. Plenty of presets can be found/bought if you just search for synthwave presets.
What represent the chords in the sound mix , pads, bass , what represent ?
that pad sounds awesome! what vst and preset is it ?
That were proper bo i tell thee
Well thanks, you just proved synthwave sounds like crap when it's played back on piano! And that it is so simple, you just keep repeating the same notes. Awesome.
My question with this is how do you make all that 1 big pattern in the piano and then assign different instruments/synths to different parts of that same pattern?
Ignore me. I figured it out. I created a new instruments in the channel rack and then the ghost patterns are there to copy over. Nice!
JUST go to the big pattern, select the notes you are interested in for the instrument, press ctrl+c(copy), create new instrument, go to it's piano roll, and and press ctrl+v(paste) , you don't need ghost notes to copy by hand, cheers!
Any chance you can show which synth sounds you used!
1:36 I feel like I've heard that progression so many times
There are thousands of dance tracks and Europop hits (and tons of TH-cam tutorials) that only use Am, F, and G. e.g. Rhythm is a Dancer, Mr Vain, Rippin Kittin. You can't really go wrong by making a progression that uses an arrangement of those three chords.
1:38 sounds like "back dat azz up" by juvenile
Straight up hahah
I knew that this sounded familiar!
With another note down and some side-chain you get Ghosts n Stuff by Deadmau5 XD
THank you so much for this. really well explained. can you tell me what plug ins you use to get the dreamy synth-wave sounds? I have just bought Diva but all the presets sound to EDM.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated
Skitz mix sent me here....
Moonlight shadow. 🤪
I was wondering if you could just clarify when you say no three notes in row in a riff what you mean, I don't quite follow!
Paul Round he's referring to a triad, or a 3 note chord rather than 2 notes.
Ahhh makes sense now, thank you :)
@@paulroundandroundandround i still totally don't get this haha
@@douchemonkey44 Probably he's saying that there shouldn't be any 3 adjacent notes in the riff (like A4, A#4, B4 here). It's determined by which chords belong to the tonality.
@@sergeik7331 is A#4 like right above A4 im really new to music. Where would A#4 be located in regards to A4?
Can you please list what instruments you use in the finalized example? Are they FL Studio native plugins?
Hi is it ok if there is no lead because I will put vocals in it? Im new here sry
Great tutorial. How do you assign the synths, bass, arps to the individual notes?
He just gets the synth he wants, copy the notes from the piano that he wants it to play, and pastes it into the piano roll of that synth.
the part im ALWAYS getting stuck on is the part that was skipped LOL :(. i write good chords and melodies but I just spend 8 hours of each session trying to find a synth that sounds good and its like one in every 230498 i try sounds good for the genre. How do people that don't know how to make synths perfect from scratch come across amazing sounds like this so effortlessly. i can use omnisphere and find a couple but there just infinite sifting through ones that don't work.
Learn to make your own sounds, scrolling through presets is a huge time waster. Once you learn the fundamentals of sound design you can make sounds close enough to what you want, and once you get better you can make exactly what you want
Divas great for this type of sound
Sorry again TT
I already have the TAL-U-NO-62 installed and the Timecop1983 downloaded, but how can I use the sounds on the plugin? I tried to import bank but there are in individual files :/
By the way, the files are in PJUNOXL format
If there is no pad sound in a track, how do you create the arp and lead ? With the Bass scale ? Major + Minor ?
A lot of tracks have a pad but really in the background and not looped, just used for transition.
you can still add a pad in but don't use it, you can just use it for reference to help write your leads
I'll try.
I tried the technic of this video and in 20 min (write and search synth sounds), I did a Timecop1983 style loop.
Really good technic !
which plugins is you used in here?
Have you got whole song with that Synthwave second riff? It sounds so chilled and just awesome!
I love it!
So for melodies you start by mixing every instrument into one vst (pad lead etc) and splitting them after into different instruments ?
No, I start by making the main drop in the track, so i make a 16 bar loop with all the items in then i build the track from there
I mean just for melody, maybe it was just for example in the video and not the way you design them
What plugins did you use to create that pad and base?? It would help me a lot
TAL U NO LX. The timecop soundbank, which is available from the patchbay The pad preset was called Analog Pad and the bass was called JUNO 106.
THANKS! But it says "THE PAGE YOU REQUESTED CANNOT BE FOUND!" when I enter to thepatchbay.co.uk/Retro-Production-Pack:(
Where else can I get it?
thepatchbay.co.uk/Timecop1983-Synthwave-Soundset-vol1
Thank you again :)!
I believe that TC1983's presets only work with TAL U NO LX, which is the paid version of the plugin. It's relatively cheap and it's absolutely worth the money.
What's the software you're using? Thanks for the tuts )
truetothemark i believe i is FL studio. I had to look it up als well
whats the software?
What software are you working with here? Thanks for this! it's super helpful!
It's FL studio.
What pad, lead and arp sounds did you use for each track? I'm struggling with finding the right sound and i like the ones you're employing.
Hi mate, ive had a look back at the project file and it seems I didn't save the synthwave parts, so I'm not sure what they are sorry, I think they might be from the Jup 8 vst
Thanks mate :)
This was great , have you gone on to show how to add all the pads etc?
What is the name of vst did you used?
which part?
21:40 sound wave
TAL U NO LX
Thanks i love your style and sound !
yeah!
What DAW is this?
FL Studio
a lot of this is playing by ear. you need a good ear to make good chords. but everything you do fits theory
Fuck yeah
good tutorial but you forget the main part, how to copy paste the notes verticaly !!!!!
what program is this??
FL Studio 12
It drills ur head XD
The chords were one away from being this th-cam.com/video/QV8eiSA4vqc/w-d-xo.html
So a major is 3 chords in a row and minor is 2 or less in a row?
Do you have good to great music theory? how you make all these styles ?
no not really, you need to learn some basic stuff. to make different styles try to copy some of your different songs in the genre you want to make
Deadmau5 - ghosts n stuff
almost
tutoria for "synth" wave all hear is piano..nice one
STINK WAVE !