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Anorak on "Well actually..." This isn't wavetable synthesis. Wavetable synthesis is when you take a series of two or more single cycle waveforms, and morph between them using interpolation, a digital process that calculates intermediate stages between different waveforms in the wavetable to create smooth transitions between them. Which can be built in Reaktor, but the process is quite a lot more complex than this (fun to build though, and a powerful sound design tool). Still a useful tutorial on how to build a basic classic VCO-style oscillator with selectable waveforms for subtractive synthesis, but that's not a "wavetable". Yeah it's a sort of "table" from which you can select "waves", but by that logic a Minimoog is a wavetable synthesizer, which it clearly is not. On a minimoog (or any other classic subtractive synthesizer) you don´t scan through a wavetable: you pick a couple of waveforms, and if you're lucky enough to have more than one oscillator, combine them in a mixer to create a timbre, which then gets fed into your filter for further shaping. Calling that "wavetable synthesis" is like describing the transpose buttons on your keyboard as "FM synthesis". The thing that makes wavetable synthesis its own thing is the interpolation between the waveforms creating the ability to smoothly transition between them, or picking out unique sounding waveforms resulting from that interpolation. No interpolation = no wavetable synthesis. You could emulate something that sounds a tiny little bit like wavetable synthesis (more akin to vector synthesis actually) by using a scanner or a couple of crossfaders instead of a mixer to smoothly crossfade between the 4 oscillators. Or you could try and do something clever with a single control controlling the 4 different levels of your mixer, if you want to "morph" between different mixed combinations of them, creating something that sounds vaguely like you are scanning between different waveforms in a wavetable. But you're actually still just mixing and matching, as you would on any standard subtractive synthesizer, like your trusty old minimoog.
Thanks for watching! 🙏Click here for way more no-talking Pure Data patch-from-scratch videos: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6ESr9SuBYJARJkETfp12Dp3&si=gYDWfq1dECkmWG19
Thanks for watching! 😄 Check out more about game sound & music in my "Listening to Videogames" playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6FTPIPlP2nJYxVTN0w1_zPo&si=M2F7AWi2-zmNXOWJ
Thanks all for watching! 😄 You can check out more no-talking Pd tutorials here: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6ESr9SuBYJARJkETfp12Dp3&si=0wXXEaoYPk2kvm0i
Hope you all find this video helpful! 🤓 If you're looking for more Logic Pro X 🎚videos, check out the rest of my playlist here: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6EsQDcfc08me0D2TrjiQm2c&si=OFpYl1RJyHYkwpGn
Hope you all find this video helpful! 🤓 If you're looking for more Logic Pro X videos, check out the rest of my playlist here: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6EsQDcfc08me0D2TrjiQm2c&si=OFpYl1RJyHYkwpGn and you can grab the final version of the track in this video on Bandcamp here: simonhutchinson.bandcamp.com/album/imagine-the-future or, i
Thanks to everyone for watching! 🤓 You can grab the final version of the track on Bandcamp here: simonhutchinson.bandcamp.com/album/causal-systems-vol-2 or, if you're looking for more Logic videos, check out the rest of my playlist here: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6EsQDcfc08me0D2TrjiQm2c&si=OFpYl1RJyHYkwpGn
Thanks to everyone for watching! 🙏🙏I've got a whole playlist of Logic videos here if you're looking for more tips: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6EsQDcfc08me0D2TrjiQm2c&si=OFpYl1RJyHYkwpGn
Thanks to everyone for watching! I've got a whole playlist of Logic videos here: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6EsQDcfc08me0D2TrjiQm2c&si=OFpYl1RJyHYkwpGn
Glad that so many folks are finding this video helpful! 😃 Check out more of my Pd tutorials here: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6FB_mmJ77C6fdV8G6L4zDut&si=tX2efc5kGcwkyFC9
Glad to see that folks are excited about making databent sound! ❤ For more, check out the "databending audio" playlist here: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6HfT-FoqQ1ukW2G__l0fTr6&si=Lgoa7TvpKgb9mmj6 And more Pd tutorials here: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6FB_mmJ77C6fdV8G6L4zDut&si=KhRGVuJgmBUeXCi6
So glad that folks are still checking out this video 📞(and hopefully making their own lo-fi microphones). You can check out more hands-on audio electronic projects here: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6F_MAwxOJbq73HXdG0OjdXn&si=_XQPAsQ1lX0wRF3O
Thanks all for watching! 🙏 Check out some more "cybernetic" music experiments here: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6GtdiwZLSrDL3BhBjZngMKa&si=yz0fLbPp6fFy2GXU
Thanks to all for watching! 🙏 Remember to check out the rest of this series here: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6H9iE7Nuvo0vtQHDfXPzTVE&si=Q74GPy8BqnxMt3FI ....and then check out the intermediate tutorials here: ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6HQ6JrYWso_B3gaLAHQheYG&si=czzFuLjSITOl9uLg
Thanks for watching! Check out this playlist for more music and sound design with neurons/neural networks - ru-vid.com/group/PL7w4cOVVxL6GojicLv-6sTL-l63pVSPQP
Super-stoked that so many people have watched this video, and I love picturing all the beautiful databent sonic creations that you're all releasing on the world. 👂If you liked this video, consider subscribing for more experimental audio ideas! ru-vid.com
I am super-thrilled that this video I made three years ago continues to help people wrap their brains around MIDI messages. 😁 If you enjoy this video, please consider subscribing and checking out my other videos for more synthesis and audio tutorials - ru-vid.com
I had a ton of fun with this track. 🦊 I'm not sure why I ended up grabbing the fox mask for this recording, but it seemed appropriate. I really like how muting different tracks of a super-fast, super-busy beat on the DrumBrute Impact worked, and I hope you all enjoy this track as much as I did making it. If you like it, just a reminder that you can grab it on Bandcamp - simonhutchinson.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-things
Wow! I really didn't expect PD to have the processing power to do this cross-modulated FM synthesis. This makes me think maybe I could try a Jupiter-6 configuration, if I can find out how to do the filters for the "dystopian" coldness the Jupiter-6 was known for.
Absolutely! I don't really run into any limits with the processing power of Pd that I wouldn't in any other software (e.g. if I cranked up the sample rate and really tried to tax it). Try that Jupiter-6 configuration and let me know how it turns out!
I was recommended by a friend of mine to check you out for your Reaktor work, but I gotta say This is Wicked!!!!! Great sequencing, great voices, amazing build ups and little percs... What a Great Performance!!
Since these are files on the computer, they're all digital. I will admit, though, that I checked through a bunch of different file-types before making this video, to find ones that would be cool. For example, I remember that .jpgs are not great (just sounded like white noise), but .psd files and Reaktor .ens were. I wonder if Pd files themselves would sound cool. Try lots of things and I'm sure you'll find some good ones!
Maybe it wasn’t clear, but my question about the analogness of your files was trying to be funny. You know, the analogness of a .psd opened in pd really has a warmth and a weight that a jpeg doesn’t. JPEG files sound too compressed anyway. Jokes aside, I looked through some files too but didn’t think about trying a pd file. On my end, some DLL were cool with some variation but as you mentioned, a lot of white noise. I managed to get a nice hi hat machine with some controls reacting to midi notes and a little bit of clone/pow magic for the enveloppe. I will work on more control over the part to be played instead of full randomness. Anyway, great video, thank you !
Boy, that's a good question. I'm not sure. The microphone part (the carbon mic that I make in this video) I think would be high impedance, but if you (mis)use the earpiece as a microphone, I think it would probably be low impedance, since, as a speaker, it designed to be low impedance. I'm happy to be corrected if anyone knows for sure!
Glad you like it. Man, does it ever deliver! I spent most of my life doing digital synthesis, since I couldn't figure out what analog had to offer. Turns out the answer was feedback.
@@SimonHutchinson Have to say I really like that area of crunchiness bordering on squealing that you achieve in some of your videos - dropping things out focus out so the element is barely recognisable but still present and then back again or taking it in a different direction. Grand job 👏 My feedback experiments continue ;) 👂 💥
@@SimonHutchinson Quite right, my friend! it’s funny that should mention sharing as I have literally just picked up Zoom H4N, which I noticed you appear to be using in your video. I have a tripod and a cold shoe mount here waiting to be used with a new iPhone. I hope that it is not too much to ask, would you be able to tell me what software you are using to create your videos with? Thanks so much.
Yeah, this is definitely not the full explanation. If your interested, check out the non-short video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MJKGQCkZwMA.htmlsi=i7QR0Up0wScHGHUU
It's a lot of fun! It features prominently alongside more tonal/traditional stuff in this new track I did too: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3o_Gxn3V7R0.html
I'm lucky to have bumped into this video because it contains all the information I always wanted to know with regards to MIDI. I just couldn't find a source from where to obtain such information. And I have to say well done, as it is presented in a very professional manner. I've also watched the other video which is up to standard like this one. I will download both to keep them for my reference. I like using MIDI to be able to use external synths from my DAW and to use VSTs etc... I see it as a nice subject that seems to be always expanding, there is almost always something else to learn. Thank you and if you have further videos like these by all means send them to us 👍
