FM SYNTHS in under 4 minutes
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FM SYNTHS in under 4 minutes | Andrew Huang
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As someone starting to dive into synthing and feeling overwhelmed at times this is extremely valuable
hi Sammy
Keep up my guy, been doing this for almost 7 years now and still can learn something new.
Shut the hell up peasant. NO ONE CARES WHAT THAT YOURE EXPLORING SYNTHEZIZEEE!
samuraisynthesis
So cool to see you here Samurai!
Dude, that was THE BEST explanation of FM synthesis. Ever. And I have a degree in Electronic Music.
Michael Rinehart where u got to school for tht and is it paying off yet
This was your best FM synthesis explanation? Don't brag about your degree then...
Here, have a proper tutorial about FM from someone who actually explains the engineering behind it: th-cam.com/video/glvRz-ASpRs/w-d-xo.html
Larry Tough Love University of Tennessee. Go Vols. I wound up web developing instead of music making.
Cristi Ceausu Wasn't bragging. Just leaving a compliment for Andrew.
+HORNGEN4 you sound like an unnecessarily butt hurt idiot
my god, this is so easy to understand. thanks!
heiakim Music why tf are you here japanese translate music guy? lol
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rly happy you uploaded this separately!
This is easily one of my favorite things you've done.
So glad you made this as a standalone video. This goes straight to my "best videos of February" list
This is fantastic!
MUCH NEEDED
I'm working with the YM2612, a 4 operator chip. Was having difficulties grasping how it fully worked. This helps explain things a LOT. Thank you so much.
You would make a great instructor. These videos are very helpful. Love learning about sound synthesis. I subscribed to your other channel! 👋✨
Yes! I was hoping you would do this thank you
same!!
As a teacher (now retired) I had to constantly remind myself i was teaching stuff to people who didn't know what i knew. Here in synthi-land (or space) it seems most of the vids like to talk tech fast and complicated to show off their own knowledge. Finely! Somebody who knows how to explain some synth tech so we newbs can understand what the heck it is. The paper squares very nice - and the patch chords brilliant! I understand! A miracle!
visual learning is underrated, you're a genius. thank you!
Honestly, THIS CHANNEL IS ACTUALLY THE BEST!!! A GOLD MINE OF MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE!!! Any upcoming musical theory content?
I have been watching your videos for years now, inspired to create different music and slowly piecing together my sound equipment. Right at the doorway of acquiring Operator for live 11, I wanted to learn about FM and discovered your video. This is probably the most informative Neuro-Div friendly explanation I have ever received. Thank you Andrew, my sound design and musical understanding are forever changed because of your short video.
FM synthesis was mainly used in Yamaha synthesizers (such as the DX7) and Yamaha sound chips (such as in '80s arcade games and the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console).
this is a wild overstatement, while Yamaha popularized FM with the DX virtually every modern digital synth incorporates FM
This has to be one of the best videos I've seen explaining synthesis. Well constructed!
this stuff is what really sparked my intirest in electronics, its so much fun to wire digital circuits (for square waves) and using a digital to analog converter to make a sine wave. its so interesting and fun to me.
Awesome! I thought this was such a creative and unique way of describing FM synthesis. I'm glad you decided to spin it into it's own video.
You are so talented. I strive to make music like you do. You are a model for the music community!
Yes, second that Zack. I'm a music theory teacher and I love showing Andrew Huang videos to my class on Fridays. Andrew really is a model musician for the community on so many levels.
I live in the Gta to and I just appreciate how you inspire us. If you can keep teaching us how to learn the less common skills of music!! Love you dude:) (Dave from boy in a band is sick to!)
Hey! You need any help starting music producting? We could talk sometime and i can help you with what you need to get started! :)
Dude! that would be great. that is so kind of you. If you are familiar with lmms I have learned my way around that and have a good idea of samples. I need work on my theory and notes but I play the drums. Thanks alot
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Ive been watching you for a long time and I have to say that you're skills with video design and production have really developed impressively. Your content is such high quality in every way. Thanks :)
I love how concise and on point this video is! No bullshit, just content. LOVE IT!
This is so clear! Incredible delivery of great info!!
more of these types of videos, love them! Keep it up Andrew!
Videos like this are amazing! Thanks, I've been wondering about this recently.
Thanks Andrew, I was actually wondering this all week but didn't have time to dive into it. Your videos seem to always be so well timed according to my life
This was awesome!! Keep doing content like this!!!
Oh my...
Coming from the Berklee channel on the basics of synthesis, and I gotta say you surpassed their pedagogy and power of synthesis (yeeeyyy it's a pun) on this somehow complicated topic!
Thank you Andrew! I've started a music career (based on live sound reinforcement) but we're seeing it from many different areas, and FM synthesis is one of the most interesting next to the Physics o sound.
Your other video on harmonics (blew my mind) is astonishingly simple and entertaining 🎶❤
Hi Andrew, I find you videos to the best out there for music production. You remain honest and humble and teach things in a fun and interactive way. Cheers mate, I have subscribed.
love the way you presented this makes it very easy to understand thanks!
This video breaks it down so clearly, simply and concisely. Great work.
Such an excellent video. Thanks so much Andrew!
One of the best videos explaining FM I found so far, thank you
Very clear and concise explanation - not droning on and on for 30 minutes without getting to the point. I never realized to what extent FM synthesis "branched out" in all directions - I thought there were never more than one modulator for a carrier.
Love IT!!!! My Favorite video you've done! Thanks Dude!
Simply brilliant presentation, Mr. Huang! Never could I have wrapped my mind around this content without such visual detail. Thank you!
Hey man just wanted to say your videos are kickass. Educational, fun and truly inspiring. Keep it up!
Ive been looking for this explanation for a while and couldn't find anything. great video, really appreciate it.
Sega Genesis brought me here
This is wonderful, thank you for this information! Youre a big inspiration of mine and I wish you the best in the future with your career and hearing!
have been waiting for this. pls more like this
Perfect! I'll have to link to this in any videos I make about FM - fantastic explanation, very easy to follow.
Thank you for making this video, I’ve been looking for a video explaining FM synthesis :)
You're a great teacher.
Wow, the only person on the internet that uses grammar lol.
Next time: Do a video on Linear Arithmetic Synthesis *WITH HISTORY!!!*
Favourited! That was such a great crash course - you've explained everything so clearly and succinctly. Keep doing more videos like these! :D
very well explained and visual, keep up the good job!!!
Best video I have ever seen about sound design.
Really good video Andrew! I'm writing an assignment on FM for my production class and this explains things in a nice straightforward way.
Greeeeeat video, love it!! Super clear.
Came across your channel pretty recently and it killls!
Please do more of these! This was awesome to watch
Andrew this is so sick- very helpful!! And so simply laid out, thanks man- do more stuff like this!
I love your videos, I being an electronic musician find them very informative and helpful. You really know your stuff, keep making awesome videos!
I agree! This was incredibly helpful. Thank you for explaining each aspect of basic FM Synthesis
Brilliant as always. I really appreciate your CREATIVE clarity. (Or clear creativity?) I have my students watch your videos all the time.
Awesome video. Love the paper and string. You've got one more subscriber!
One point that needs to be made is that while FM synthesis can be done in the analogue realm, it's tough because analogue is so, well, analogue. If you have 4 operators stacked up, the slightest oscillator drift could completely change the resutling sound. Chowning figured this out early on and did his research on computers, but affordable FM synthesis had to wait until that kind of processing power became reasonably affordable. The result was the Yamaha DX7.
Brian T Djdnt Chowning sell his patent for the idea to Yamaha as a result? So they could manufacture it and realise his idea because he didn’t have the means/money
I'm so glad you said this. Right at 1:10, Andrew describes that setting both operators to the same ratio, then raising the amplitude on the modulator, will make a laser shooting type of sound. But every time I try to do this on my Digitone (Digital FM synth), it does not sound like that. Which makes sense, considering the fact that a 1:1 ratio creates even harmonics. When the Frequency Ratio between Modulator and Carrier is 1:1, that is, they have the same value, this will create a Sawtooth Wave (a Sawtooth describes a wave that contains all harmonics). (source yamahasynth.com/yamaha-synth-rss/fm-basic-waveforms)
So, on the Digitone, if you set your carrier and modulator to be the same pitch, then brought the volume up on the modulator to a level of 50, you've created a sawtooth waveform. And if you brought the level to 100, you've created more even harmonics in the spectrum. This doesn't, and shouldn't create a laser type of sound. There shouldn't be any movement happening, from everything I have read, and experimented with.
However, if he is using analog oscillators, it would make sense, because they might be slightly detuned, resulting the movement that he created.
Do you know if he was using analog oscillators to create this video?
Dope video! love them patch cables!
very creative...visuals help anchor what is to some a very difficult concept to understand..thanks for thinking it through and offering it up!
Thank you, this was the clearest and most concise explanation of this concept I was able to find anywhere!
"Leme just grab another patch cable" 🤣
Clear and instructive. Wonderful. Thank you!
It finally makes sense. Dude. Thank you sm for this video. Really put things into perspective. Much love 🙌🏻🕉🖤
Watched this video a few months ago, and it was great to help understand. But we started FM synthesis in class today using Arturia DX7 and coming back to this video REALLY helped now that I’m truly diving into it. Thanks Andrew for you invaluable information 🙏🏽
What a great concise and well explained video! Huge props to you.
Stay Awesome
Rory @ Hyper Production
PERFECT!!!! This explanation was very helpful!!! Thanks
Great explanation and a pleasure to watch! Thanks
I'd love to see more explanation videos like this. This was really entertaining and informative
Thank you so much for this! I’ve always wondered how to use modulators. You’re amazing!
Really unique presentation. Which is a quality I admire about your videos, but you really knocked it outta the park on this one.
I really like the way you explained it! Thank you.
yes it was very helpful i needed this info on fm synths and was so relieved to find andrew huang made a video on it :')))
I love the use of the pieces of paper! Very creative Mr. Huang!
dude, first of all let me just say I love your videos! I think you should do a whole series on stuff like this, about how synths work and that kind of thing. It'd be really helpful to a lot of people who have just picked up a synth and don't know what they're doing or people who are starting to learn some basic music production.
Great video! Thanks, Andrew!
Thank you so much for posting this. It finally makes sense.
This was a nice simplification this will help me understand going forward. Thank you so much!
this video is amazing!! great job.
you did a really good job explaining this. I feel like FM synthesis is making a huge comeback, thanks to the digitone im sure
I for one welcome its return. I've been playing around with OPL instruments in OpenMPT a lot, and I feel like Andrew really explained the concept well to newcomers.
YOU ARE INCREDIBLE! ITS SO EASY TO UNDERSTAND! Now all i need to do is work out how to use that knowledge in soundation!
Well-explained! One of the few tutorials on here that I thought was short, sweet, and to the point. Glad I found your channel ;-)
The modulation action is actually slightly more complicated than was explained here.
The pitch modulation doesn't actually follow the shape of the waveform of the mlodulator like you'd expect, but instead follows the *derivative* of that waveform. Meaning, if you put a sawtooth wave modulating a sine wave, all you'd get is a slightly deeper sine wave. Use a triangle wave to modulate, you'll get the sine wave alternating between two constant pitches really fast.
The derivative wave of the sine wave is just another sine wave (just phase shifted by π/2 radians), so this fact doesn't affect it's use as a modulator, but you have to keep this in mind when you want to use other waveforms.
Reydriel Why? Is this some special issue with the way Yamaha FM synths work? I can not imagine how this would apply to a simple custom modular patch of just some oscillators.
Love the style, this was a great idea, and that was the best explanation I've heard, 10/10
This is a very complex subject that I wasn't really trying to understand, I just enjoy your videos, but after watching this a couple of times I think I *do* actually understand it a little bit now. That's really cool. Thank you, you're such a great teacher
What an original way to explain this topic! Great video, as always.
thank you so much!!!!! i realy searched long time for this kind of video!!!!
Very easy to understand! Super helpful video!
Simple and clear. Fantastic
Just to thank you for the very useful information. Very well explained!
I love these kinds of videos
plz make more of these! there ssoo good and very helpfull
Operator is actually an oscillator that has its own amplitude envelope and sometimes filter. So in a sense, an operator is sort of a 1 osc mini synth within the synth.
Awesome Video, thx for that! Was pretty easy to understand.
Such a good explanation! Thank you!
The best and most concise explanation on FM synthesis. Thanks man!
THANK YOU!! I needed this for a school project, and no one could explain it better!
Very clear, just what I needed. Thanks
Really creative way to explain and super cool video and sound editing. Not complicated and effective.
Thanks this is a great explanation of a complex subject!
oh man you've helped me understand this so much better than a 3 hour workshop I just did on fm synthesis could.