This is a synth that, if you're not an experienced programmer, you'll think it's rather basic. But in the hand of a seasoned sound designer, it quickly becomes apparent just how efficient, fun, and deep the sound design of the Super 8 can be. Great for Boards of Canada type synthesis.
6:52 a little handy tip that I use all the time is if you wanna select all of the notes on a specific MIDI lane you can just click the note on the actual piano roll on the left and all of the MIDI notes (in this case the snare) will be selected. This way you don't have to fumble around trying to select them all in the editor window. Great stuff by the way! :)
Great job as always Woody!! I always learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. The end product is quite pleasing to me. Thanks again for another fun video!
Dude, that's mind-blowing. Exactly what I was looking for! I have just discovered Super 8 for myself, and I was looking for some inspiration. You made my day!
hi jax, i still don't know how to do it, i just clicked around randomly until it started to work. i used to be quite good on ableton believe it or not but you quickly forget...
The sound of this new N.I. synth reminds me of the Voyetra 8 as used by a lot of 80's bands like The Eurythmics and Depeche Mode etc. It has a nice mellow tone nice for synth strings and pads. Good stuff.
It's fun to look back at the 70-90s and see how music influenced synths, and then synths influenced music. Just imagine how it would upset the landscape of what we know as late 20th century music, if you could travel back in time with a MacBook, a USB MIDI controller, and Komplete Ultimate, and hand that over to any studio in LA.
I'd love to see a part 2! I love the TR-707 drum kit and the entire track is really beautiful. :D What if you do a synthwave contest of sorts, where someone films themselves putting together a track in half an hour, posts it along with the finished track, and then you do something similar to the Espen Remix Challenge? :D
Hands down and hats off to you and this wonderful video! I am smiling happily while watching the whole thing. You did effectively bring me 25 or more years back... Born in the 70s, I am a music child of 80s, so this track resonates beautifully with me, in addition while in my late teens, I also got into synthesizers and keyboards and spent hundreds of hours and days and nights producing similar music tracks on my Commodore 64 and later on my Commodore Amiga... Thanks so much for this video and the joy and pleasure that comes with it! :) PS Coincidentally, I got myself a new Nord Electro 6 HP today (I need long piano weighted keys), and I have my eyes also on some second keyboard for synth / ambient sounds or eventually on a combination of a controller keyboard (Arturia perhaps) and a software synth / sequencer (Super 8 sounds lovely). My aim is now live playing - combination of piano with some ambient backgrounds, to accompany the yoga lessons which my wife is teaching... Very best regards from Praha! :) I'm an instant fan!
Hey Woody, sounds great! I think I’m gonna pick this up. Just a quick Ableton tip, if you know how many bars you want a midi clip to be, just double click in the slot where you want to record to insert a one bar clip and then adjust the length (number of bars) on the clip menu, near the legato button you’re using. Then just start session record and you won’t have to worry about recording a clip longer than you want it to be, it will just loop automatically. Hope this saves you future frustration.
Thank you, Woody. I´m interested in anything that surrounds Synthwave and didn´t know this VST yet. A great achievement in 30 minutes. (Also, good to know there is still some Ableton love left. 90% of the Synthwave people seem to use FL Studio.)
OK Woody, here's the thing. I've got Playground Sessions and I even paid for a lifetime license, but FFS I'd take a lesson from you over that ANY TIME. I was born in '82, been obsessed with '80s music since forever and your stuff has always kept me going. If you ever release a course with 80's stuff in it, you've got your first customer right 'ere. Greetings from MEXICO (yeah, the country sux but 80s nostalgia is yuge [NO pun intended] here). Hell, even some 90's stuff will do for me as I'm a 90's teenager too.
thanks for the words of encouragement! I think the sound is a lot to do with the chords progressions and voicings too aswell as the sounds, of course! greetings!
24:57 just hit the "Capture MIDI" button in the top bar (between the left-pointing arrow and the circle) and it will grab the MIDI you forgot to record and make a clip out of it. This is one of my favorite Live features.
Yeah that would be nice, I’ve got these plugings installed. Last week they updated the pack with some new ones. Sadly not all of them have been released yet, some like Darwin and Milpitas gadgets still need to be released.
@@WoodyPianoShack haha I'm currently watching your part 2 video. I've been bouncing between Ableton, Reason, Reaper, downloaded Studio one 4 and want to settle on one to get some work done...but having fun nerding out...
Love your videos. Love NI...I haven't picked this one up yet. I have the latest "Komplete", so I wonder if I can get it "free" (cough), or if it's an extra charge?
I'm pretty certain the only extra you will get is Massive X, which was always advertised as being part of the latest Komplete even though it wasn't ready to ship (and has been delayed). I don't think Super 8, Noire or anything else that has released since Komplete 12 went on sale will appear in the Komplete bundles until the next Komplete is released. If NI gave you anything more than they promised when you last bought or upgraded Komplete, they would have less (or even nothing) to tempt you into upgrading to the next Komplete. It is possible NI will start offering Komplete subscriptions which will include additional software released during the subscription, but the audio software producers seem less keen on subscriptions than companies such as Microsoft and Adobe.
@@DavidWood2 of course. Everyone else does the same: Arturia, Avid, toontrack...it's all about pushing the market and keeping the $$$ flowing. And that's understandable.
Depends on how badly you need the latest plugs. Komplete is always the collection as of a time, then they add more, which gets rolled into the next Komplete. So I just wait and upgrade every second release or so. Buy a single here and there when I get a 50% off coupon maybe. :-)
hi kris, i've been a user for years, if you go back on my channel you'll find it! i really enjoy AL for sketching songs, but for audio editing and production it's Reaper ftw!
Great video Woody! Love the sounds and the setup of SUPER 8. Just shows what's possible in half an hour. Notice you're using the NI A49 recently - any chance of a quick review?
Interesting process video. This SUPER 8 vst seems pretty pedestrian though. It seems like you could have accomplished the same thing in the free Synth1 or a few dozen of other synths.
Hey Woody - I have a fun idea, if you're interested. Release the session file as a download and have a community cook-off for how to complete it as a song. :-) I could hear this going a couple ways - like The Naked and Famous, or Chicane... I would love to hear what others come up with.
hi! in this case kontrol is a container for reaktor which is a container for super 8... :) many layers to this cake! kontrol allows for integration with my keyboard controller, preset browsing and tweaking the params.
@@WoodyPianoShack Very true. I like when they release libraries under $100. Especially how often they seem to send e-coupons out. It seems every time I didn't win a contest I enter with them they send a $39 coupon. Will have to keep my eyes peeled!
You should try Fl Studio and see how it works out for you, ive been using it for 10+ years, so i might be a bit biased here, but the piano roll in fl studio is said by many people to be the best of any daw.
You can´t beat the FL Studio piano roll without a doubt. Everybody knows that. However, Ableton has other advantages that compensate. Maybe YOU should give it a try.
@@ErnestoAvilez92 Fair enough. I have licenses for both Ableton and FL Studio. I´m on the Mac since years, so unfortunately I don´t use FL Studio that much anymore (it still doesn´t run smoothly on the Mac, despite all their efforts). If not, I would probably be switching between them, all the time, because I like them both so much.
@@WoodyPianoShack !! I'm a beginner, just learning keyboard and I've bought Logic Pro X and some NI products such as Maschine Mikro Mk3, A25 and Select. I have therefore Alchemy, Massive and Monark. I'm hoping for the annual sale soon and a chance to get Komplete Standard and so FM8, Absynth and Massive X. I'm into 70s prog and 80s synth so Super 8 is interesting, but so is something like TAL UNO LX. Then again I have an e-voucher for £22 I have to spend in the next couple of day and this looks more interesting than the expansion I was considering
Hey, Woody. You can actually capture midi even when not recording it. I'm referring to 24:00. Here's how you'd do it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DuoWfmMA8t4.html Ableton is awesome. I'm migrating from Reason 10 to it and finding it most liberating. Reason is so convoluted.
As soon as you played "that" synthwave progression I realized that everyone is doing it and that this whole thing is getting boring. That progression has been recycled too much. Also you know that synthwave is dead when Native Instruments makes a babbys first plugin for it
James Rustles: I must say you are not of-topic so you are not a troll. However, your comment doesn´t cause a good vibe either. I love Woody making Synthwave with Ableton. Why don´t you look for videos that you like instead of getting bored here?
