7 Best Ways To Use Quanta from Audio Damage | Granular Synthesis Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- Quanta from Audio Damage is one of the best granular synthesizer plug-ins out there, but I'm not gonna lie, there's a learning curve.
After spending a lot of time with Quanta, it's become one of my favorite plug-ins not just for granular synthesis but for sound design and finding inspiration.
Today you're gonna learn 7 of the best ways to use Quanta so that you can stop scratching your head in front of it and start using it to sound like Flume or whoever else is using granular synthesis these days.
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TIMELINE
00:00 What You'll Learn
00:22 What is granular synthesis
01:08 Best Use 1: Automate the Position Knob
04:24 Best Use 2: Layer Quanta with something less abstract
07:40 Best Use 3: Assign LFOs to Position knob
10:04 Best Use 4: Playing monophonically
11:50 Best Use 5: Best Knobs to Mess with
12:54 Best Use 6: Using and Assigning the FEGs
13:56 Best Use 7: Turn off the OSC
14:40 See ya later!
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Thank you very much for this video. Nice walk through. Been wanting this VST for a long time and finally got it on Audio Damage's 40% off sale last night. I record my samples straight into Edison and then bring them into my playlist. This is exciting.
Nice job on getting it on sale. Sales often make it possible for me to buy a plugin.
Quanta is fantastic. A bit niche but I always feels like it gives you something unique.
yooo thank you this was super helpful, would love to see you do more videos on quanta sound design!
Niiiice! Quanta is so underrated. I've been loving this plugin so maybe I'll do more in the future
great video and great editing with the tips on the side keep it up!!! 👍🏽😊
Sweet! Glad those tips on the side help. I feel like they help me make sure I'm explaining everything in the best way I can to everyone out there
you’re such a great teacher. good one ❗️
Thanks for the feedback! I really try my best. Hope you were able to learn a few tricks!
thanks for this video man, loved it super useuful
Niiiiice! Glad you found it helpful!
Cool video, sounds and approaches. Thanks. Cheers
Hey thanks! This was one of my favorite videos to make. I really hope that Quanta gets more love, it's so fun to play with.
Muy buen tutorial, recién estoy aprendiendo. Me ayudó mucho. Saludos👍
Cool tips, thanks 😁
This is a Beautiful Series
Hey thanks! I love making these plugin videos and sharing what i think are the best things about them! I saw that you subscribed too, thanks so much for that!
This was super helpful!!! Thank you
Nice!! Thank for watching and letting me know this video was helpful. It's always good to hear that feedback
Very clear and comprehensive.
Thanks for watching and I'm so glad this video could help!
your intro called me out, way too accurate, great job
haha, it happens to the best of us. Thanks for watching. Hopefully when i get back to YT content, I can make a video on Quanta 2
Thx man super helpful!
You're very welcome. Thanks so much for watching!
Thank you for the great videos.
Thank you Paul, that means the world to me. I want to keep making great videos so you and other producers can make music that you're proud of.
thank you for the video dude seriously
You're welcome, thanks for watching! These comments always mean a lot.
thanks. great video keep them up!
Hey thanks! Glad to help
Regarding playing Quanta as polyphonic instrument:
First load a sample which has only one pitch at a time - for example a vocal chop
and then use the OSC to tune the sample by playing a note and altering the pitch of the sample until you get unison. I recorded myself singing different vowels for example and made a choir patch out of it.
Hey! Thanks for the tips, I really want to give that a try next week.
Do you find that quanta gives you more interesting textures with your method compared to using a polyphonic Sampler?
@@ThisIsOnesto Yeah definitely, I like the fluttery and glitchy texture polyphonic granular keys can give. Often times you have to tame them for example with a multiband transient shaper or layer them with other key sounds as you showed in your example but the exploration is often worth it. On the other Hand you could get away with using a granular FX like Output portal on key sounds to get similar results.
@@can__top2 oh nice, even more good ideas. Good to know about the multiband transient shaper, I never would have figured that out.
I do have portal and it's been so good to use to add in some quick interest. Thanks for helping me out
@@ThisIsOnesto I love to give something back, your Videos are very helpful. I just checked your portal videos out! 👍🏽
@@can__top2 so happy you found them helpful. I always wonder if this stuff is any good or not. So whenever a fellow producer gives a compliment I'm so relieved that I'm not leading anyone astray
these videos are so good please keep doing these
Alex! My gosh, that made my day. Imma keep doing these videos for sure. Next week I'll be sticking with the granular synthesis theme by talking about Portal from Output. It's gonna be good!
Also next week I'm gonna launch a website that will include all the samples and presets I make from these videos. And the best part is that you can download them for free
@@ThisIsOnesto Portal is the GOAT of granular fx I am hype
You have a dope studio sir!
Haha thanks! Sadly I have a new space that isn't quite what it used to be. However, later this year I'll be transforming my garage into a studio.
Thanks for watching!
Try Quanta for FREE : bit.ly/quanta-vst
Yooo! Hope you learned something useful from this video. What other plugins do you find yourself wishing you understood better?
Def would like to get the most out of Crystallizer
Does anyone know how to manually assign the root note for the sample on the keyboard?
Can file position be linked to midi key - like a regular sampler?
How to import own sound? Please
that first iglooghost inspired demo was fireee wtf
Haha! I took a listen again to it because I forgot and it was a lot better than what I remember haha! Thanks for enjoying it!
Man absolutely cool, I've to try similar but I'm using DIY Synth.:D 👍🙂
If you're trying granular synthesis with a DIY Synth, you're definitely way cooler
Sorry, but how can i sync grain with bpm ?
How to use without a sample? I just want to play guitar and I want it to sample a very short segment of it constantly and then apply like a reverb/echo
Great question. I think that what you're trying to do will require a Granular Synthesis Effects plugin, like Output Portal, rather than Quanta which is a Granular Synthesis Instrument.
If you want to learn more about Portal which is my favorite granular synthesis effects plugin, check out this video: th-cam.com/video/P9qBJbtSgz0/w-d-xo.html
Commenting for the algorithm.
Thanks I really appreciate it. This is certainly one way to support a channel haha!
Where can I found this track you made?
Hey Rohit! Glad you're interested in the track. What you heard was just a demonstration, so unfortunately it lives no where else besides here. Maybe I'll work on developing it and releasing it in the future?
thank you, a very useful video
you got it! Thanks for watching!
do the keys you play on the keyboard automatically sync to the right notes?
Really good question. They don't automatically sync, but you can set the key inside of Quanta so that it matches your keyboard. Of course this works best on one-shot notes.
#BWSGANG!
Greetings! There's not many of us out there, but there should be
how do you tune things you've made in quanta?
That's a great question, and it's one of those tricky things about Quanta.
There's a couple things I usually do if it's a single note, that's easy. What I usually do is drop in my sample, and then tune it with the Tune knob so that the pitch matches and tracks with my Keyboard.
However if I'm using a melody or chord progression in Quanta, I'm often using my ear. It is trickier but I find it to be worth it for the unique textures you get from it. One tip is that instead of playing my midi keyboard for different pitches, I'll just hold out the middle C on MIDI, and then I'll move the play head inside Quanta by click around the loop until I find a new "melody".
Of course, that's just one way of doing it, but I find it to be a lot of fun that way
@@ThisIsOnesto appreciate the reply, i've been using it for about a week now and really struggling to blend it well, i watched the entire video but nothing is clicking for meat the moment. i agree i like sampling full melodies as you get a more lush sound, i havent really tried single notes yet. i'll definitely try out what you've said :)
to be fair, iglooghosts music could beat up all of our music!!
that sparkly saw string run through quanta sounds a lot like flume-- he's huge into granulation (is that a word lmao)-- keep up the good work sir, i subbed!
ugh, iglooghost is so cool. The music and intention is so dialed in. it always feels other worldly.
And thanks for watching subbing. That always gives my ego the little that bump that it needs sometimes.
Yee Brainfeeder always been ahead of the curve
which daw is this?
I'm using Bitwig Studio. It's a lot like Ableton but nerdier. I highly recommend checking it out. I'm not sure if it will ever become a "popular" DAW, but certainly deserves to be.
how to get quanta ver 1.0? not ver 2.0…
Hey, great question. I checked the website for any links to ver 1.0 and couldn’t find any. If I were you I’d join their Discord and ask your question there: discord.gg/audiodamage
When i drag & drop sample.. nothing happens :/
U cant drop too short samples
full of bugs, shame
‘You have to allow yourself to be surprised’ That cracked me up.
It’s another way of saying you won’t necessarily get what you
want.
Haha it definitely is one way to interpret that. I was more so trying to say "it's hard to predict what you're going to get"
I think Portal takes a long time to understand and control so at the beginning you may to be open to the unexpected