The thing that blew my mind was that he was using the same transient for the kick and snare, adds continuity between the hits and glues the sounds together more!
saw this tutorial, made two projects for generating kicks and snares, and have never looked back on the cancer known as cymatics ever since. thank you so so much! note: all of this can be replicated using sytrus (and serum for the consistent noise transients)
@@notrogueking I never pretended that Cymatics are the must have, I just said that it's good to have some samples when you are too lazy to make yours, but I don't use really more than 3 cymatics samples per track haha
@@oxymoreproducer Yeah, I totally understand, I usually cant be arsed to make hi-hat samples so using Cymatics and other sample packs isnt bad, its just generically better to make your own.
Awesome! Drums synthesis is something I think I widely overlooked in EDM production, and I personally do that all the time. Great tips and ideas here - thanks, Au5! :)
thanks for this awesome tutorial! one of my passions is drum synthesis and i never thought it would possible to get such an awesome snare with just one instance on Operator (i spent many hours experimenting with okay results, but never anything that good). You made me fall in love with Operator again! :D
@apoplexia same here. same meh results for ages and one video does this to me. i need a visit to the psychologist. thank you au5. for that and for the comment above...
I have been using Ableton for almost 10 years and I never knew you could freeze a track and then drag and drop it to audio without having to flatten it. Absolutely incredible tip there
Dude. Wow. This was amazing lol. I loved the part where you said, "I'm getting a little carried away" I thought... What?! No keep going! You blow my mind with the possibilities and ideas of using different stock plugins. Just.... Wow. Thank you! I'm subbing lol
0:00 Onwards talks about making a snare 15:40 Onwards talks about making a kick, for the most part I believe Leaving this comment for myself & for workflow purposes! Hopefully it helps you guys out too!
Dude I cant thank you enough for these videos. I know as a producer its hard to give away your secrets, I have so much respect for you giving others the opportunity to learn from someone like yourself. Stay awesome.
I've never seen such clear instructions in an Ableton tutorial. Please keep making these! Even if you were to set up a Patreon or something, I'd donate to keep these coming!
OMG AU5 I love you thank you so much for taking the time to explain the science behind what you do, it really separates you from all those 12 year old youtubers who just use samples, slam and eq on it and say they made a punchy drum. Saving my ass once again au5 thank you!
I highly recommend school of bass. For me worth every penny. Money well spent. I myself have to watch though it several times to fully understand but any time I’m stuck it’s my go too.
Out of two dozen or so popular drum design tuts I’ve seen, I like this one the best. As far as ideas go, I was super impressed with Virtual Riot’s snare tutorial with Serum. Since the envelopes are tempo sync’d he was able to lengthen or shorten the snare based on the bpm. Check it out if you haven’t seen it.
Honestly, I've seen hundreds of Ableton related vids, this hands down the best! Definitely the most informative, simple, comfortable to follow and interesting all together.. thank you so much bro
My man, this is the best tutorial I watched. And over the years I watched thousands. Your technique is very clean and uncomplicated. And the video is very rich of alot of information and tips. Cheers
Would love more tutorials on drums! You make a lot of sound design videos and for good reason but I for one could really use some help on how to structure drums / rhythms. Thanks for the knowledge!
Au5 you have knowledge that I dont see many people have, is most of this coming from your own trial and error or do you have any particular mentors/producers that you talk to? Mr. Bill, BT and fractal perhaps? Thanks!!
I've taught myself most of what I know. People I meet along the way have shown me useful techniques and tips which inspire me to dig deeper into on my own time. My insatiable drive to create and to explore is what has brought me to the level I'm at.
you can tell from these tutorials alone that Au5 is just a very intelligent person. from watching other tutorials he is so much more knowledgable than most producers i come across, not only in techniques, but what is actually occurring to the sound when using filters, compression, flangers, chorus, drive, etc. keep learning folks, never stop!
make a tutorial about your reese bases or your "blaster bass" sound and i hope you will notice it and do a tutorial about it because all i wanted to know is this type of sound design :) note:your biggest fan
It is such an honor to get lessons from you AU5, i've been following you're music from quite along time and it is the most epic thing ever. You are the biggest inspiration for me to make Electronic music. Thankful for sharing such rare knowledge. #Respect !!
Great info my dude! Tho why tune it a snare to 200hz instead of actual notes like "196hz = G" or "220hz = A"? Especially on Kicks. Otherwise this is super similar to what I do plus I learned some new things! :)
Thanks! And since I'm not making a song, 200 seemed to be a simple number. Besides I could just tune it +20hz with the frequency shifter for tuning to A.
I was actually looking for a tutorial like this about two weeks ago, and I did not find jack squat until Au5 uploaded this. I was looking for a tutorial on how to make drums from scratch, and holy shit does this help. Thanks, Austin!
Here's a good snare one I found recently th-cam.com/video/l4EBpazl_68/w-d-xo.html The guy uses Harmor there but even if you don't own that there's lots of good fundamental knowledge about snare design you could apply to other synths Looks like he has kick tutorials too but I haven't watched them yet
I just found this tutorial and i just wanna say thank you!! Been wanting tutorial on drum synthesis for so long but i just could't find one, until i stumbled upon your tutorial. Thx so much dude
I'm a little late to the party, but a good video for cymbal and hi hat sound design is Virtual Riot's Studio Time video on making your own drums, it's S2 E2 I think
Loving the tutorials, some really good info. Main thing I would suggest for future is to put a sample of the finished product at the start of video. Also correct me if I'm wrong but at 9:25 would that not be *downward* expansion? And quick tip: if you hold alt while dragging a bell or shelf node in EQ8 their Q can be adjusted :)
Wanted to ask a similar thing so I scoured the comment section. It seems to me it's upward expansion for the mids and upward compression for the highs?
Wow, that's genius. Finally there's a great way to make my dream drum and bass snares. I have Ableton Live 11 Lite so I guess I'll just try it with Vital and with free alternative to glue and multiband comp.
This is giving me lots of good ideas in fact; I've seen the suggestion to use Frequency Shifter to retune drums a few times but I still feel like you have to shift the body too much to get an appreciable change in the noise character - you could Repitch the sample down (or up) first, then retune using Frequency Shifter to place the body tone back at 200Hz. Everything but the body would be shifted.
NF2K Yes, as I mention, frequency shifter will transpose pitch of the body yet preserve the timbre. If you want to change the timbre while preserving the pitch of the body, transpose the clip and frequency shift the pitch back.
I learned so much about Ableton from this one video
true haha
@@bartoszjanprzybyszewski1891 tru x2
Same. I'm like, "Oh, so THAT's how the ADSR envelope in Operator works." and "so THAT's what Multiband Dynamics does!"
Yeah, I learned the difference between a freeze 'n drag and a resampling track. Very useful!
@@altgraymedia3655 i actually resampled most of my sounds and now i learnt the difference
I bow down to you once again oh mighty lord of sound design 🙌🙇
And that modern talking at the end cleansed my soul.
The thing that blew my mind was that he was using the same transient for the kick and snare, adds continuity between the hits and glues the sounds together more!
I never thought of using a frequency shifter to transpose the snare. Absolutely ingenious stuff. Your tutorials are super helpful.
hey
This is the only snare tutorial ive ever seen where it already sounds great at 3 minutes lol respect!!
Excellant tutorial, even six years later. Thanks!
Bought the school of bass and serum master class. Craziest shit ever.
5 yrs later and still some of the most relevant tools for drum design. Austin you’re a god amongst men
✋😔🤚
saw this tutorial, made two projects for generating kicks and snares, and have never looked back on the cancer known as cymatics ever since. thank you so so much!
note: all of this can be replicated using sytrus (and serum for the consistent noise transients)
lmfao why do you hate Cymatics this much ? XD
I know that Au5 > anyone else, but Cymatics sometimes have some dope samples !
@@oxymoreproducer cymatics makes you rely on others sounds, making you music less unique, its generically better to make your own sounds
@@notrogueking I never pretended that Cymatics are the must have, I just said that it's good to have some samples when you are too lazy to make yours, but I don't use really more than 3 cymatics samples per track haha
@@oxymoreproducer Yeah, I totally understand, I usually cant be arsed to make hi-hat samples so using Cymatics and other sample packs isnt bad, its just generically better to make your own.
@@notrogueking fully agree :D
Your tutorials are hands down some of the best i have seen. Keep up the good work!
This is the best kick drum tutorial in youtube
most underrated sound design video on youtube
Awesome! Drums synthesis is something I think I widely overlooked in EDM production, and I personally do that all the time.
Great tips and ideas here - thanks, Au5! :)
One of the best drum synth tutorials on TH-cam.
au5 just also secretly dropped the secret recipe to the Pan snare too.... WE LOVE YOU AUSTIN
Probably the most waited video ever.
Dude, you already have the best production tutorial series on the internet
thanks for this awesome tutorial! one of my passions is drum synthesis and i never thought it would possible to get such an awesome snare with just one instance on Operator (i spent many hours experimenting with okay results, but never anything that good). You made me fall in love with Operator again! :D
Simplicity and optimization from the start is key.
@apoplexia same here. same meh results for ages and one video does this to me. i need a visit to the psychologist. thank you au5. for that and for the comment above...
I have been using Ableton for almost 10 years and I never knew you could freeze a track and then drag and drop it to audio without having to flatten it. Absolutely incredible tip there
Holy moly. As of writing this, I'm 7mins and 23 seconds in, and I'm SOLD. This is awesome!
You have no idea how much this leveled up my drum game! THANK YOU!
Dude. Wow. This was amazing lol. I loved the part where you said, "I'm getting a little carried away" I thought... What?! No keep going! You blow my mind with the possibilities and ideas of using different stock plugins. Just.... Wow. Thank you! I'm subbing lol
0:00 Onwards talks about making a snare
15:40 Onwards talks about making a kick, for the most part I believe
Leaving this comment for myself & for workflow purposes! Hopefully it helps you guys out too!
Dude I cant thank you enough for these videos. I know as a producer its hard to give away your secrets, I have so much respect for you giving others the opportunity to learn from someone like yourself. Stay awesome.
This opens a whole new door to drum synth sound design for me. Thanks so much for the wonderful tutorial!
I've never seen such clear instructions in an Ableton tutorial. Please keep making these! Even if you were to set up a Patreon or something, I'd donate to keep these coming!
OMG AU5 I love you thank you so much for taking the time to explain the science behind what you do, it really separates you from all those 12 year old youtubers who just use samples, slam and eq on it and say they made a punchy drum. Saving my ass once again au5 thank you!
Kick synth begins at 15:40
Thank you!
Thx
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the modern talking at the end XDXD
Dude the world has been waiting for this tutorial ever since you came on the scene. Amazing.
I highly recommend school of bass. For me worth every penny. Money well spent. I myself have to watch though it several times to fully understand but any time I’m stuck it’s my go too.
fluid. best snare tutorial on youtube.
Creating your own drums changes the game man
This makes me miss designing drums using synths when I was in university and college. Might have to give this another go
my drums gonna be so punchy now. One of the best tutorials
Out of two dozen or so popular drum design tuts I’ve seen, I like this one the best.
As far as ideas go, I was super impressed with Virtual Riot’s snare tutorial with Serum. Since the envelopes are tempo sync’d he was able to lengthen or shorten the snare based on the bpm. Check it out if you haven’t seen it.
Honestly, I've seen hundreds of Ableton related vids, this hands down the best! Definitely the most informative, simple, comfortable to follow and interesting all together.. thank you so much bro
never gets old... ty you helped many producers grow and develop their own sound design skills 🙏
My man, this is the best tutorial I watched. And over the years I watched thousands. Your technique is very clean and uncomplicated. And the video is very rich of alot of information and tips. Cheers
Would love more tutorials on drums! You make a lot of sound design videos and for good reason but I for one could really use some help on how to structure drums / rhythms. Thanks for the knowledge!
Au5 you have knowledge that I dont see many people have, is most of this coming from your own trial and error or do you have any particular mentors/producers that you talk to? Mr. Bill, BT and fractal perhaps? Thanks!!
I've taught myself most of what I know. People I meet along the way have shown me useful techniques and tips which inspire me to dig deeper into on my own time. My insatiable drive to create and to explore is what has brought me to the level I'm at.
Au5 Thanks for answering dude! Also any chance you coming to DC soon? I saw you some time back at U street music hall and you killed it!
you can tell from these tutorials alone that Au5 is just a very intelligent person. from watching other tutorials he is so much more knowledgable than most producers i come across, not only in techniques, but what is actually occurring to the sound when using filters, compression, flangers, chorus, drive, etc. keep learning folks, never stop!
make a tutorial about your reese bases or your "blaster bass" sound and i hope you will notice it and do a tutorial about it because all i wanted to know is this type of sound design :)
note:your biggest fan
Have you watched virtual riot’s bass tutorials?
Oh even Derpcat is here
Ohhh myy gooddd thank you soooo much, now I finally can stop relying on sample packs. Thank you!!!
This content is GOLD!!! Thank you for making this!!!
Oh Au5 I love you dude. I want you as a teacher, your explanations are so clear ;-;
GOLD FOR NEW PRODUCERS
Man this is the absolute BEST drum sound design I've done up to date. Thanks so much. Cheers from Madrid.
It is such an honor to get lessons from you AU5, i've been following you're music from quite along time and it is the most epic thing ever. You are the biggest inspiration for me to make Electronic music.
Thankful for sharing such rare knowledge.
#Respect !!
This blew my mind. I've tried making drums in Serum, and just couldn't get it right. I think this will work much better for me. Thank You so much!
1:15 Let's tune it to 200... *subtle Terror Squad*
Best tutorial I've ever seen about this topic. Thank you!
Great info my dude! Tho why tune it a snare to 200hz instead of actual notes like "196hz = G" or "220hz = A"? Especially on Kicks. Otherwise this is super similar to what I do plus I learned some new things! :)
Thanks! And since I'm not making a song, 200 seemed to be a simple number. Besides I could just tune it +20hz with the frequency shifter for tuning to A.
I was actually looking for a tutorial like this about two weeks ago, and I did not find jack squat until Au5 uploaded this. I was looking for a tutorial on how to make drums from scratch, and holy shit does this help. Thanks, Austin!
Here's a good snare one I found recently th-cam.com/video/l4EBpazl_68/w-d-xo.html
The guy uses Harmor there but even if you don't own that there's lots of good fundamental knowledge about snare design you could apply to other synths
Looks like he has kick tutorials too but I haven't watched them yet
most in depth snare synthesis tut ive seen. ur vids are always exciting!
The best I've seen or heard...HANDS DOWN !!!
cant even begin to describe how thankful I am, great video thank you for taking the time!
au5 always with that high quality
So happy you're doing these tutorials for us.
i looped the intro sound atleast 20 times.. so smooth
I just found this tutorial and i just wanna say thank you!! Been wanting tutorial on drum synthesis for so long but i just could't find one, until i stumbled upon your tutorial. Thx so much dude
Please do more drum sound design tutorials like this! So helpful and interesting! Rim shots, hats etc would be amazing
Thank you!
I'm a little late to the party, but a good video for cymbal and hi hat sound design is Virtual Riot's Studio Time video on making your own drums, it's S2 E2 I think
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I swear you come through with a tut for exactly what i need to know at the exact right time 👌👌👌
This tutorial is so we'll optimized for watching on mobile, thank you
I start to produce electronic music in 2014 , and i think it's time to make my own drums
I'm finally getting around to learning how to do this. Thanks for sharing the knowledge Au5
Amazing work. I've never seen such a good explanation on drum synthesis. Very good work, and thanks for sharing!
Loving the tutorials, some really good info. Main thing I would suggest for future is to put a sample of the finished product at the start of video.
Also correct me if I'm wrong but at 9:25 would that not be *downward* expansion?
And quick tip: if you hold alt while dragging a bell or shelf node in EQ8 their Q can be adjusted :)
Wanted to ask a similar thing so I scoured the comment section. It seems to me it's upward expansion for the mids and upward compression for the highs?
This guy is a wizard.
U make the best tutorial out there by far
Best operator drum tutorial
Absolutely brilliant ideas. Thanks for sharing
Wow, that's genius. Finally there's a great way to make my dream drum and bass snares.
I have Ableton Live 11 Lite so I guess I'll just try it with Vital and with free alternative to glue and multiband comp.
The best tutorial...Au5, you are great !!!
Such a helpful video. Thank you very much! 👍👍👍
The kickdrum tutorial is very nice!
I hope you continue these; they are very well done and very helpful.
omg this video is pure joy to watch
thank you so much for this tutorial man
Your tutorials are amazing! Please keep doing these!
Hey! I was thinking of that idea to make Dubstep Snares. Good video!
This tutorial is just excellent, thank you!
Really nice tutorial. This inspired me to make my own drums and I'm quite satisfied with my snares :)
Thanks for sharing this! Really impressive!
Very nice! For this type of sound, I recommend setting envelope loop mode in Operator to Trigger.
This is giving me lots of good ideas in fact; I've seen the suggestion to use Frequency Shifter to retune drums a few times but I still feel like you have to shift the body too much to get an appreciable change in the noise character - you could Repitch the sample down (or up) first, then retune using Frequency Shifter to place the body tone back at 200Hz. Everything but the body would be shifted.
NF2K Yes, as I mention, frequency shifter will transpose pitch of the body yet preserve the timbre. If you want to change the timbre while preserving the pitch of the body, transpose the clip and frequency shift the pitch back.
I stay creative and inspired because of video like this! So thank youu
Wow... Just wow. so much info to take in and love the depth. Thanks dude
Which key combo did you use to crossfade? When I try to crossfade, ableton doesn't allow it because the sample is to short...
Amazing! This changed my life... thanks!
You could make tutorials about melodies and scales that you use. Your melodies are amazing!
I found this method and the way you presented it much better than Bills! Still Love you both, thank you!
that is literally amazing! Thank you very much!! 🙏
this was immensely helpful on so many levels. thank you so much
Amazing video, very good and efficient approach on a well known technique! Refreshing!
Snare is awesome!!!
very well done video and well explained
Good lord you know your shit that was a journey.. Do you offer full courses on music production I would be very interested in learning more from you.
Incredible !