Code-It-Yourself! Sound Synthesizer #1 - Basic Noises
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- This tutorial is a programmers entry point into sound synthesis. The code is available from my blog.
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Ha, re-watching this 8 months later. I obviously had a sore throat... or my lapel mic (at the time) had no treble response!
You should have more views. I guess C++ is a niche subject in the days of Unity an JavaScript, but I'm an old man at heart. I'm learning C++ first because it seems like the most fun (to learn and to know). I can take C++ and program the cheapest of the cheap microcontrollers or make some puredata objects to use with its very flexible ui....
Hi ajahn, thanks buddy I appreciate that. I think the beauty of C++ is you can use it anywhere for anything, it's stable and will be around for another 20 years at least. May not be what the cool kids are into but gets the job done! 😁
I love your work! Have been using C/C++ for 15+ years and if Unity wasn't coming in my way I think I still would. But Unity changed everything. I would love to see you acting as if the 20 years were over (or you said that 1998 ^^) and see you experimenting with Unity and C#. That would be awesome and would generate more views as a bonus :-) Keep up the great work!
This is honestly amazing. Im going to school for computer science but I was originally going to go for music. Just understanding how these synths work and the formulas that are used in them is going to make me a better sound designer. This was an amazing video and I look forward to watching your other ones!
no its all good, its super hard to find good info on this...good stuff!
i am eventually combining my two most beloved hobbies, music and programming. Good bye, social life
Yup, that happens, embrace it, respect it and dont let anybody get in your way...
check out magenta js if you haven't already :D it's not as cool as C++ programming, but it rocks
SAME lmao
lol same here
Check out CSound, it's an outstanding way to combine these hobbies :)
If you started with a completely blank project and you're getting errors that look like: "exception thrown: write access violation." make sure you click the dropdown next to the run arrow at the top of Visual Studio and change the x64 to x86. I believe it's a result of your program using 64 bit addresses for variables when the sound api expects 32 bit addresses.
legend
Is this project possible in 64 bit?
@@Test-iv4pm
You need olcnoicemaker that is compiler for 64bit
good person you are thanks
THANKS A LOT
"He made him an 8-bit offer he couldn't refuse"
Underrated comment
I don't even use C++ but I watch your videos anyway because you're comfy to listen to. Subbed x
lol, thanks SirCouchus much appreciated, comfy is not a description Ive been given before :D
I wish my school & uni teachers had been this good at explaining stuff.
Hey thanks John, On the whole I dont think programming is taught very well, but that might be because I believe its a personal journey someone should take. You can be shown the basics, but it takes solo practice to really learn how to do it.
javidx9 this is true, though it is also due to bad teaching. For example my lecturer never taught us about UML for OOP or any of the weird terms for it, we just looked at sample code without understanding what the hell was going on.
school sucks nowadays , this kind of videos are really helping people, specialy , people who live in a third world country like me! Thank You jav!
I'm a couple decades out, but when I was studying CS in the mid 90s, the core graphics stuff was like pre-school to what I had to learn in the industry when I graduated. No comparison. There was virtually NO audio courses in my day. The best you might get is a good understanding of wave forms from the EE side of the house if you dared go over there. This was long before stuff like this was available online. THEN when I finally landed a job in the field, it turned out the engineer career path really didn't progress so I jumped to the business route and my coding chops have long since dwindled. SO GLAD there is stuff like this online now.
I agree, I also agree with jav, teachers just say what's happening but don't teach, their is a big difference, I attempted a diploma costing 15k, and when I ask for them to explain more they tell me to look it up on TH-cam.. why am I paying you lol
Wow, I was literally searching for this exact info all over the place a few months ago, couldn't find anything of quality anywhere. Now I'm subbed to your channel, and you have a freaking 4 part series on it? Because of course you do, you somehow have a video on everything. You've made me very happy
Lol thanks Geli, I hope the channel provides you with some useful information!
Javid, thank you so much for doing this! I love technology and music, and it's wonderful watching the two come together!!!
It was like opening a treature chest when I entered your channel.
I don't plan to dive deep into audio programming (or may change my mind in the future, who knows). But always a pure pleasure to watch your videos regardless of the topic. Your presentation style is so clear and unique. Thank you for these awesome videos!
Thanks Srey!
Your channel is a miracle. I am honestly so hooked to your videos, they are so educational and also inspiring. I am so glad i discovered your channel and thank you for sharing your knowledge/ experience.
Bro you're so smart and such a hard-worker, you better be getting paid those big bucks for all these skills. I can't stand the thought of you working past age 50.
Thanks for the great video! Please note that at 27:58 or so when you add the second sine wave + 20 Hz, that the extra +20 Hz still plays when a key is not depressed because that extra frequency is leftover after dFrequencyOutput is set to 0.0.
Work as a software engineer now, but my first degree was in music and second one on CS. I LOVE THIS VIDEO MAN
I've just stumbled across this video. I'm a programmer with knowledge of Java and C# but recently I've been trying to teach myself C++. I'll be honest - I really enjoyed this little tutorial - I'm often afraid to try things I've never done before but I thought "What the heck I'll give it a go!" I'm so glad I did, because it was very satisfying when the code actually worked (I decided not to look at your ready-made code and instead followed along with you in the video). I have subscribed to your channel and I will be trying a few of the other Code-It-Yourself exercises!
I FINALLY found a programming project that I was interested in doing myself! This video series is awesome!
I can always count on you to have informative videos on everything
Wow! Amazing. Very detailed and in depth explanation, yet easy to understand. Thank you again for another great video!
I've started learning how to code when I was 13 and I started with C++ (like a masochist XD). Now I'm 20, studying theoretical math and working part time as a back-end developer. After some time, I've switched from C++ to some more 'modern' languages, but I've always had some fondness for it, even tho I didn't understand it well. Now, I'm slowly getting back into it and your channel has been amazing for both refreshing some stuff I've forgotten and for learning the true potential of the language through very interesting, yet simple projects. I'm subbed and I can't wait to binge everything that you have here! Awesome stuff!
"started with C++ (like a masochist)" lmao I feel ya :')
I started with C++ in college. It's definitely a rough one to start with, but it's my favorite programming language by far now that I'm more experienced.
Awesome tutorial!! Hearing that first beep made me happy. I had 2 very small problems but nothing google couldn't help with. I am using the Code::Blocks IDE which might have been the cause. 1) I had to include in the olcNoiseMaker due to the "std::find" function(error was "no matching function for call to 'find' ") and 2)I had to revert the "atomic dFrequen..." back to just "double dFreq.." as i was getting "use of deleted function" error.
Hey King Kodo that's really cool! I'm pleased you got it beeping! It never gets old.
Thanks for making this! I haven't the first clue of where to begin with coding, but this has given me hope that I may one day create my dream softsynth 😊
In VS 17, I get a "C2664" error. I looked in the comments below and they gave me the hint.
If you get this error select Project-> Properties. Select 'General' tab. Select 'Character Set'. Change to Unicode Character Set.
Crazy Unicode lovers.... its like there is a whole world out there that does not use ASCII. :D
Oh, and I just upvoted this fab video.
lol thanks Marc! Glad you got it sorted!
Thank you!
Thank you, you have saved me a lot of time.
whoooohooo! thanks!
what I've done:
- Select 'Character Set'. Change to Unicode Character Set
- Rebuild solution
but error persist :S
Error C2664 'void std::vector::push_back(const std::basic_string &)': el argumento 1 no puede convertirse de 'CHAR [32]' a 'std::basic_string &&'
help me please ...
I don't know how to thank you. Yesterday started with this video and implemented it today on my visual studio. Just finished the first and Im gonna finish the remaining three, loved it. Encountering your channel made my day in these Coronavirus isolation period. Thank you so much.
Thanks Hasan! I agree programming is really helping the time fly by.
cant believe I've only stubbled across your videos tremendous work 10/10
Been writing a video editor recently and this video helped so much :D Creating and drawing video frames is easy as you present the whole thing at once, but audio has a time factor involved which just makes it naturally more finicky to use
I just found your videos a few hours ago. I've been going through the MIT audio programming book and finding it a bit slow because it's teaching C at the same time. Thanks for providing this as it gets me a little farther a little faster in some things I want to try while still working through the book. Great job!
Hey cheers and no problem David, Im pleased you are finding it useful! Good luck!
David Peterson Harvey whats the name of the book? thanks
Checked out your blog during the intro, and when I came back you were explaining music in terms of waveforms and math equations with a promise of C++ to come.
Also noticed that episode #4 includes DuckTales in the title...
I have never clicked a SUBSCRIBE button faster in my life. :D
Of course you acted fast, it had Ducktales in the title... XD
Thank you so much for these videos. I am trying to start programming about my favorite hobby which are synthesizers! This is so helpful!
Haha, been searching for a tutorial on this topic for ages back then and now I see you have uploaded a video about this. Great!
Your channel is absolutely amazing. Audio programming? NES emulator? 3D game engine? C++? It's EXACTLY WHAT IM LOOKING FOR.
I am literally learning programming, computer science's theory and physics. Man I love this channel subbeeddd
This is really great chap. It’s good to see how one can apply ones knowledge to getting a software project started. Done a lot of programming in the past in the days when you could access ‘the metal’ ie the days of PCs with 386 processor running Windows 3.1 ...I’ve been frustrated as the OS have advanced gradually locking you out of the system..
The teacher I wish I had. Beautiful content. Hope to watch most of your lessons. Thanks.
"Sorry if you lost your speakers" lmao
Awesome video! I'm a college student studying music technology, and you described digital sound synthesis really well! I learned some stuff I did not know before!
A friend of mine talked about the joy of "reinventing the wheel." In the day of Web Audio API (and more, let's not name all of it!) this is certainly it.
4:24 IMPORTANT!!!! he is using a type of synthesis, that is called FM (Frequency Modulating) synthesis
WRONG!!!! That's ring modulation, not frequency modulation.
Great video inspired me to a project like this off my own. For a while I have tried researching online how to implement this kind of things but haven't had much progress. I love the way you teach and the teaching side comments you give throughout the video.
Hi Joseph, hey that's great to hear, always good when someone gets the urge to just go and code something! Cheers buddy and good luck!
you know what? i like how you find joy in the little things. thank you for sharing.
Thank you Monirul!, You gotta make life worth living you know?
I never in my life thought I would use the trig equations i learned in precalc
I was LITERALLY thinking about this topic an hour ago, did the algorithm read my mind?
I have created something that plays morse with this tutorial. I like this channel and I am subscribed.
I can't tell you often enough how much i love your videos :)
fantastic project, thanks so much
Cheers Liam. Hopefully getting some more sound stuff together in the not too distant future.
Your videos are truly one of a kind! Thank you for taking the time to put this out there.
lol thanks again Damian!
Love this video! Clearly explained and great editing, thanks for this :)
Thank you for this. I’ve been looking for something to teach me about this topic for quite a while.
Hey no problem - I'll be doing more synth stuff in 2019.
This was the best! Thanks for taking the time and creating this video. I feel like I was given the cheat codes 😂.
man this is the best for a music producer like me
Your videos are awesome, I learn a lot from them even when random watching before sleep. You deserve much more attention.
Thanks, I literally wanted to know how to code an oscilator in c++. Was not disapointed.
Nice start to a journey on DSP!
Ahh, my favourite key: J# XD Thank's for the great video with such detailed explenations!
didn`t expect the video to be helpful like this.. just wow
This part about noises. I will play only "the nice sound waves" :) Great video!
Magic Javid, this has been just great. I will definatley be following the next videos in this series. Well presented thanks. I can imagine a window with controls to adjust as in real synth...
Suuuper cool video! I am really excited to learn about the interface with the sound hardware :)
It is so rewarding that all the maths and physics I learned in school and college gets put into practical application in your video :) keep it up
I agree, this is where the fun begins
This guy is incredible! Gonna watch all the coding videos
lol, thanks fossegutten!
Oh no... I was looking for doing sound synthesis in python and then found this video. This got to be madness... like a 3d engine from first principles :D
This is a rare gem!
Dude you're an actual legend
Just discovered this channel,
realizing I so needed this kind of thing
Hi, javidx9! I've been looking for a nice & easy tutorial on how to build a very very basic synth, and found this. Amazing work. You're very inspiring. :D
Hey thanks for the support Felix, much appreciated!
Would you consider creating a video with good C++ programming practices/standrds for noobs and/or self-taught programmers?
Like this video of his?
th-cam.com/video/vVRCJ52g5m4/w-d-xo.html
I got an error saying that an exception was thrown. "Exception thrown: write access violation. It seems to happen in a header called xatomic.h
How can I fix this?
If anyone gets this, I think it has to with choosing a x64 console. Follow the video he made on using visual studio 2019 with olcPixelGameEngine (use it as reference).
Oh, and it's important to mention that for this particular project, leave the "C++ Language Standard" as "Default."
(Don't change to c++17 standard as seen in video I recommended)
If left on c++17 you will get errors about bytes.
Hey, I just stumbled upon this video. I was working on my own voice synthesizer (in C++), but I had to abandon it because it will take too long. I need to devote my time to my virtual world instead. When I get it running, then maybe I will return to my voice synthesizer. I was using formant synthesis. Anyways, your series will be a lot of viewing for me, so I'll have to watch it in small chunks at a time.
I worked on something like this in Unity, and I was able to make a harmonics function were I could make different sounds by plugging in 16 different doubles at different amplitudes (0-1), and play them on the keyboard.
Thats cool Muncheybobo - I've not got much familiarity with unity, so I didnt know you could make instruments using it.
your a very good teacher...i've serached in your videos the explanation of NoiseMaker but i havent find it. it would have been nice to learn something about that code...
Thanks! A little bit of it is explained in Code It Yourself Synthesized part 4. It has recently been replaced by olcSoundWaveEngine which has a similar usage, but is cross platform too.
Thank you, kindly. Your candor is much appreciated.
this is awesome, thanks for making these, i love the videos!
Thanks happily confused dog!
As a programmer and a musician, this INTRIGUES me
Amazing series and explaination, this is just what i was looking for ! I hope you come up with some more videos about synthesis in the future
Thank you, I will be doing more things with sound soon - I feel its often neglected among programmers, but it presents loads of interesting real-time challenges to solve.
javidx9 indeed! Plus its always fun to code synthesizers , and a substitute for us who dream about a Moog but can't afford it.
man the fun I would have if I could afford a Moog, lol!
I'm trying to make an MIDI analog-digital shynth on a raspberry (digital part is the oscillators, and analog the rest) and this is the most useful video/webpage I found, thanks!
And since I know just the basics on programming, I've seen that I have to learn quite a lot before I can even make it.
Hi Farruquito thanks, sounds like a great project. Good luck!
I'm doing this for s mini project in college. This video was very helpful. Alright, time to go be serious now.
You provide such amazing and creative content - thank you for all your work!
hey my pleasure Shomz, thanks!
awesome. I love synthesizers
Thank you for this amazing series!
This is educational content as amazing as it gets. Kudos on your generous and obviosuly passioned effort, for trying and fostering the interest in real programming of audio applications. Your style is informative and still very entertaining, however intellectually demanding it is the subject. Seeing you typing code lines at such a confident speed is a source of wonder. Would you please consider the option of furnishing the video watchers with a bit of basic info, as of the IDE software and C++ libraries required to follow your programming examples? Keep up with the good work, spreading the word for serious digital knowedge in a silly world of irrelevant social media characters.
Thank you Paolo for you kind words. After I did this series I focussed on creating a compiler and platform independent tool that's just include and use called olcPixelGameEngine. Its purpose was to do what you describe, just in a different manner, it does not require any knowledge about setting up! I have a couple of videos that look at the environment I use on my javidx9 extra channel. Also, there's a large discord community of users and programming enthusiasts of all ability levels working and helping each other. Would be great to see you there!
@@javidx9 Many thanks Javid for your quick feedback, and for the useful info about your own development environment. I have already located the GitHub repository for olcPixelGameEngine, and will surely have a look at the related videos to start writing/running something. And, of course, will be happy to be part of the community in my spare time! Cheers :-)
Wow, really great stuff! I've been following the same philosophy on my channel, but trying to build a hardware synth while I learn along with the users. Not an easy task. lol Been thinking recently, since I have been a software professional for most of my life, it might be beneficial if I tried to create the software version of the synth I'm making, to deepen my understanding of how this all works, and for really easy access for new users. Being a musician for just about all my life, it is so absolutely fascinating to see how all these things truly work down on the metal. Subbed and curious to see what else you get up to! Keep up the awesome work! 🙂
I want you to be my best friend. Lol. I love all your videos brother. keep it up!
Lol thank you Kirk, I'm pleased you're enjoying them 🙂
I love this video! The first programming tutorial I found that I've found myself using the program after learned how to code it. Thank you javidx9! You are an awesome teacher.
Oh my god . This is exactly what I was looking for.
It's great that you are sharing with us all this knowledge, I'm trying to implement the same on an android, I know it will take quite sometime.
Hello javid, first of all: Thanks for that video!
I was trying to copy the code for main.cpp from your video, and I included the olcNoiseMaker header, but when I try to run the programm, I'm getting two Errors:
class "olcNoiseMaker" has no member "SetUserFunction"
and
'SetUserFunction': is not a member of 'olcNoiseMaker'
I then tried using your source code from github, loaded up "main1.cpp" and tried running it again: Only one error this time, but basically the same:
'SetUserFunction': is not a member of 'olcNoiseMaker'
I am pretty much a newbie when it comes to programming (I have done a little bit of C in school a few years ago), so I am sorry if this is a stupid question. But if anyone could help me out or point me in the right direction it'd be greatly appreciated.
II discovered your videos today. I am very happy! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. 🙂
yo holy canoli this is freaking great. oh wow now its time for chords
Love your videos. So man inspirational topics. Stumbled upon this video while creating a GameBoy emulator, and finally starting to implement sound. This helps me a great deal (as will the 2 follow up videos as well). Thank you so much, keep doing what you're doing!
this is awesome!! ive been wanting to create a software LFO module for a while - your tutorial is superbe!! 🎹 🙏🏻
bro, you my kinda bro. dope melody to begin.
Thank you very much for this great tutorial!!!
Paolo Maria Guardiani
thank you for the great tutorial as usual
I 4got to mention that I was going to expand my voice synthesizer to be able to generate musical instruments, including percussion. The waveforms for most musical instruments are simpler than for the human voice.
Excellent video, I ended up using NFDriver so I can start with cross platform in mind, but was able to easily apply what you taught! Thinking of using a cross platform MIDI in/out library instead of keyboard input as well.
Thanks, will definitely sub and watch the rest of your videos.
Great video. When I run this, I am getting an access violation on the atomic unsigned int increment (++) (Line 226,variable is ' m_nBlockFree') Now I am sure it is some wierd compiler setting and not a code bug. But I cannot seem to find a solution. Would really like to continue with all these videos, but I need to get the first program to work. I have stepped through the code and I can see some successful -- operations, it goes down to 6, then the next ++ causes the exception. I do hear a tiny 'blip' of the sound, then the exception is thrown. It is probably easy, but do dept to figure it out. Many thanks...
Me too, I'm using the community version of VS 2022. Need to dig further into the exception data when I get chance.
@@DoItYourselfAndy I figured it out. I was compiling to 64 bit application. The exception went away when I set it to 32-bit. Hope that is your problem so you can continue. Cheers.
@@jlawrence71 Cheers, I was just about to share the same light bulb moment with you 😅
Possibly not quite the same tho, I was compiling x86 code, but the debugger was running in x64 mode. I think if we'd executed the cmd line build separately, if would have been fine, as the project was a win32 console target. You'd expect the debugger to default to x86 because of this, but it's a good example of where a bit of hand-holding ends up causing problems. Once had to re-write a setup procedure for some Ind Controls kit, as the technician found the network config didn't work. Seems I'd missed out telling him to press "enter" after typing the subnet mask 🤣
ola, complex for music people but interesting, we see code process for soft synth ;) best vibes
How have I never seen this before?! Thanks for sharing 😁
Awesome video man. Seriously.
great video man. I love your channel. You do great work.
Thank you Daniel!
@15:33 "Were still in the learning and the debugging phase so.. um... calm down!"
Thanks! Really helpful and fun to learn with these videos!
Hey thanks Mats!