Hi, thanks for the great content! I have a question hopefully you can help me with, adding an EQ to a channel seems to add gain, but no perceived volume and I don't understand what's going on, all im doing with the EQ Is high passing and low passing and watching one of your other videos I learnt that this is a good way to achieve louder mixes by cutting any un used frequencies by removing it with a high pass, but doing this seems to add 2.3db of gain on my meter,
I SWEAR THIS VIDEO IS PURE GOLD. THX SO MUCH THERE'S ALMOST NOBODY SPEAKING SERIUSLY OF LAYERS WHEN IS THE MAIN KEY OF PROFESIONAL PRODUCTIONS! BLESSINGS! THX SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent stuff. When I only had a 2012 4-core duo I was forced to have very few VSTs and tracks. Now I can have endless tracks I produce mudwave! This video is perfect. This week I've been doing a deep dive into Davinci Resolve Studio 18 and I'm loving the power. 😄 I went into Birmingham today and had a play with a Sony A7iv, expensive but fabulous. That's the road to never-ending expense. Lenses, gimbals, filters, lights, tripods. Heck.
@@EDMTips Samples and Kontakt libraries cause the proliferation of new SSDs. I'm sure that video data is an order of magnitude worse. Roll on quantum storage, a petabyte for £100.
Thanks for this video Will! Most of the things you shared I was familiar with but haven't really spent the (seemingly) tedious amount of time crafting my sound with all these tools so today I did. This and several other videos have been a big help. One point is that perhaps I can speak for others that have watched a million videos about music production when I say it's the "little things" you do that a keen watcher might notice that are one of your most valuable qualities. Great video production makes watching over your shoulder a joy. Keep up the amazing work! ~ Trav
I just want to thank you for these videos. I've made so much improvement this past year. A lot of which is directly due to your lessons. I'm almost ready to start releasing music. Just need a little more experience
Ok, all of these are fantastic ideas, but polyphonic layering just blew my mind! 😂 Add this to a list of awesome things I had no idea you could do with Ableton.
My favourite techniques you covered were sampling middle C of the original synth while messing with the loop points, and sampling the entire original synth line while playing with the formants in complex pro. I never thought of these two tricks and found immediate use for them in a track I'm working on right now. You're doing great things for the production community and I appreciate your work. Always excited to see a video notification from you!
Thanks for all of your videos. Been geeking out on them.I want to produce jams like UB40's - She Caught The Train. It has an 80's synth vibe with world music or reggae. Then add spanish lyrics. That's my dream right there. To produce the best Latin Album of this time. About to get Ableton and Komplete 14. I'm not new to music. Just left it for a few years, but now I just have this fire in my soul to make music again. Thanks for all the great insights.
I think you just saved the life of a big collection of sounds I purchased and all of a sudden (may be I used better headphones meanwhile) I realized they were lacking substance. Thank you again!
Wow, the last ones my favourite, it brings so much extra detail into the mix. I thin your last two videos have been amazing. I loved them all really :) Thanks for the tips Will.
Brilliant ideas, I was only doing a few of these but usually have pretty bland synths so this info will take them to the next level! Thanks as always Will! 👍
hahahah Will great job..........I was just taking notes and then your comments at around 28:00 I busted laughing out loud.........and yes that Crystalizer turned the synth magic sauce for sure!
I tried out the pitch envelopes and the extreme ranges, and it just added so much high energy and sounded great! But it haven't yet been transported from one physical location to another, so I think I still have a lot to learn ;)
@@EDMTips Not sure...I quite liked the use of noise patches. It adds a nice quality to the synth. I also never thought of using pitch envelopes...I might play around with that and see if I have can make it work anywhere.
(I know tihs is in the description, but posting this as a comment for future self. TYSM for this helpful video!) 02:31 - Call and Response 05:01 - Sample Layer 06:52 - Looping Sample 09:43 - Formant Shifter 12:10 - Extreme Pitch Range 14:06 - Polyphonic Splitting 16:26 - Noise Patches 18:31 - Pitch Envelopes 20:40 - The Jiffy Bag (AKA, the Double-envelope) 23:42 - Grouping / Bussing 25:26 - Auxiliary Effects
Hell Yeah Brother! Very nice one... the polyphonic splitting tip showed exactly what I had been doing. Add extra layer and then remove notes.. this is much easier and faster 🙂
Think I'm going to give all of them a go but the Polyphonic splitting stands out, it looks really interesting. It's all new information for me to absorb haha Nice one!
This was absolutely top draw stuff, many of the techniques I had never seen used before; the polyphonic splitting gave me hours of experimentation and the double envelope technique was superb, changed the way I think about my synths and how I should approach synth layering sound design. Thank you, Will, this tutorial was terrific.😀
hell yeah. just found your chanel few days ago. this is totally what i needed, very help full and im looking forward to see more and one day do your masterclass
@@EDMTips overall I'm pretty savvy with the engineering and sound design, I struggle with finding the right synths/patches for chords and getting them to fit in the mix without being pushed too far back or too forward in the mix
How often does a google search lead you to exactly the info you want? I was wondering how to choose which synth sounds to layer. I googled it but I wasn't optimistic. Well, this video gave me exactly what I was looking for at 1:11. I don't have much production experience, but I understood everything. Very exciting.
i dedicate my MC707 to melodic content, and i always layer a sub with my other bass, and an organ or e.Piano or Rhodes an octive up, like a band proper would have a horn section, not usually just 1 horn...
How refreshing! Great vid as ever - and thanks for not calling it "11 Synth Layering Techniques That Changed My LIFE!!!!" or some equally tawdry clickbait... 😏
19:45 It doesn't go smoothly from high to low but plays distinct notes. Sounds good in a way but is surely not the method you were aiming at. In other techniques where you use samples of the original sound itself you record in realtime instead of utilizing some kind of bounce which is much faster than that and also catches the whole clip reliably. Hell, you even had the count in turned on which makes the method slower still.
Another belta mate! i reversed the chord progression and added another instance of SERUM ontop at the end of 8 bars or 16 was getting extra high and low notes happy accident indeed but wow man it jacks i will show you what ive been doing once i am more confident thanks again!! Hope you still do 1-2-1 as i think its time to step it up a bit!!
Awesome, I am glad you found it helpful! We still do, during our Accelerator program. You can apply by following a link in the video description when you're ready
At first, thanks for all your Videos....they helps me a lot. But what about Hardwares on Ableton? I have the SE-02 and the TR-8 from Roland and I want to try to create my Music on the fly. But the USB connections of both are not detected from Ableton....I connect them with Jack Cable on my Soundcard but with this option I haven't any control of my Gears with Ableton...I just have à Audio signal. How can I change this? I found nothing about the subject.....help are welcome....THX
All these ping pong techniques will Logic Pro X do it ? You end results sound great. How you you think Pop Muzik and Duran Duran and let shop boys did it. How would they do it in Logic Pro X same with Devo tones. ??? Anyone got tech synth total solutions thanks
I swear this video was the last piece i needed to understand everything on how to make a professional track. If i could i would donate but im broke after investing too much on sound the last year. I would even s7ck your d7ck for this amazing video bro. I made like 5 pholios of awesome information and finally understood why there are a lot of "bad presets" made for profesionals. How the profesionals have such amount of dinamism in their songs and also how can they made such original songs, song after song when the sound design doesnt give that tool by itself. Like i had to meditate like 2 hours on my mind and made conexions between my grey cells on how layering sticked all the knowledge i had gattered in 10 months studying sound full time. Now everything mades sense! I had also problem on my mixings getting a correct frecuencial balance that i couldnt fix it by just Eq cause my sounds lacked the necesary frecuencies to fullfill the spectre. Really THANK YOU SO MUCH It was the most dense tutorial for me i saw in like 3k tutorials around this past x10 months. Almost no one is showing the potencial of layering. Im sorry that are my words the only thing that i can offer but really deep thanks from this begginner sound student. Eternal gratefull.
