How to learn any synthesizer

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In this video I show you:
- A quick overview of how ALL synthesizers work
- A simple workout on how to familiarize yourself with with any synth you get
- Some simple synth recipes
- An example of this process using the Roland SH-101
- A sound design technique called "self-oscillating" filters, to create sounds like Jamie XX - Gosh.
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Contents:
0:00 Introduction
1:07 Subtractive synthesis concept
3:20 The synthesis diagram
3:39 The synth workout
5:44 Synth fomulas
6:16 The value of a limited synth
8:09 The synth workout on an SH101
13:01 Doing the synth fomulas on the SH101
15:32 The advantages of more advanced synths
17:42 Sound design technique: Self-oscillating filters

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28 апр 2024

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@OscarUnderdog 2 года назад

Find Oscar's video courses here: courses.underdog.brussels 🖤🖤🖤 Join the Underdog Discord channel: discord.gg/z5N9CTA 👾👾👾 Sign up to the mailing list here: tinyurl.com/yy92sx5u 💌💌💌 Pledge to the Patreon: www.patreon.com/underdogmusicschool 🌱🌱🌱

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@chuckgillespie1 Год назад

Awesome - Thank you sir.

@djtall3090 2 года назад

This is how "How To" videos should be made. Straight and to the point, no BS

@gaetanlepage5385 4 месяца назад

09:44 "Sounds pretty good to me..." (three seconds later @ 09:47) "Great! That's everything we need to know; we now understand how the oscillator works."

@Meknassih Год назад

If this is the quality of your "free courses", I can’t imagine the value that is in your paid courses. Exceptional teaching skills !

@alwayslate4081 Год назад

Was thinking exactly the same

@harrisbeatsfrankou6304 Год назад

100% mate

@ricardojmestre Год назад

Oh they are totally worth the money!

@eljeffrinho 2 года назад

I feel like I've learned more in an hour from watching a couple of your videos than I did in a decade of tinkering around with synths! What an absolutely amazing teacher

@OscarUnderdog 2 года назад

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@diemcarl5546 9 месяцев назад

Same 😂🎉❤

@MashterMusic 2 года назад

you are killer . Covering concepts with so much clarity. hats off to u.

@OscarUnderdog 2 года назад

Cheers 🤠

@djnebuchanezzer 2 года назад

should've said hi-hats off to you

@Babidibubidi 2 года назад

@@djnebuchanezzer should have said hi-hats offbeat to you

@djnebuchanezzer 2 года назад

@@Babidibubidi haha i didnt see that one :)

@abrahamofei1063 2 года назад

I'm dazzled by this guy's teaching skills.

@bauhausoffice 2 года назад

If he was my teacher in every class in school I’d be an effing genius today running the world.

@OscarUnderdog 2 года назад

Hahahahaha

@danielrivera1833 2 года назад

Get your kids a private tutor like the elites do..

@estesenor7248 2 года назад

But he's our teacher online so whats your Excuse?

@bauhausoffice 2 года назад

@@estesenor7248 I am complementing him you fool.

@estesenor7248 2 года назад

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@spidericemidasiosmusicprod1309 2 года назад

My Synthesizer obsession started with a Korg MS10 at 11 years old in middle school music classes (1981). Amazingly by an interesting turn of events and coincidences 24 years later in 2005 I actually became the owner of that very same Synth from my old school. It was just about to be thrown away in a skip, still in fair working order, but in need of a good cleanout, new CMOS Chip and re-calibration. I got it for no money at all! I stripped it down for cleaning and then sent it to Korg UK for the technical repairs. Still looking and working good as new now in 2021. I cannot describe how wonderful it felt to be reunited and the owner of my first love after all those years ❤️ These days I’m a synth sound designer for the iOS platform but still love to tinker with my old MS10 and a few other remaining hardware synths.

@OscarUnderdog 2 года назад

What a beautiful story 😊💚 Thanks for sharing!

@rosateresacastro-vargas8592 2 года назад

Finally, I understand synthesizer. I’m a musician, classically trained, and I’ve been wanting to understand synths forever. Thank you. Please, talk about the fm ones soon. I have one!

@YourFreeBeats 2 года назад

You are kidding me. This is surreal (or fake). First what exactly did you learn. Seriously. I am a “musician” too. I guess. I have been playing instruments since the early 70’s…most notably the….synthesizer. So perhaps it’s hard for to delineate but I saw him read a script about the three attributes of sound (pitch, tone, volume ) and what the Control names on most synths are. Seriously I am in straight screen saver mode just staring at your comment. So… you have been wanting to understand synths “forever”…but then you watched this video and now you feel you insert and synths? What ones do you own and how did you apply anything from this video to it? Once again not talking these comihrer epigrams because if you are musician then you (wait for it…play actual instruments so which ones have you struggle with but then this video opened your eyes? I am being serious. Not trying to get you upset or anything but this is literally surreal to me (but part of me things it fake or…well,….WOWg

@YourFreeBeats 2 года назад

By the way re: FM synthesis, trust me dude doesn’t know about that stuff. He will read somethint then do a video. Now, I have quite a few FM synths. I implemented FM additive, subtractive, wavetable, etc. FM is altered through modulation. Here are some examples. FM synth - soundcloud.app.goo.gl/zaA2PWFzDe4h9R1a8 WaveTable - soundcloud.app.goo.gl/4qhfToVCtPasVN1z9 Analogue - soundcloud.app.goo.gl/UbWhjejp119X6sSt8

@Mr.J2U 2 года назад

@@YourFreeBeats Lol, you're such a hater... Why do you care so much that this dude gave the OP a compliment? And the way you not so subtly humble brag is hilarious considering... Let's just put it this way: You're def not god's gift to music production lol! You shouldn't talk so much shit.

@paulklasmann1218 2 года назад

@@Mr.J2U Those are the ones with the least skill and never really progress. It's also called hubris. Good luck exploring synths.

@ir0npichulka 2 года назад

@@YourFreeBeats The video is perfectly explained, i was able to understand Synths in a few minutes, aswell as music theory and a lot more from his other videos, he explains the subjects really well, calm, in a mature and straight forward way, wich i really like. If you are using synths since the 70s,that means you are an old adult, and you come here, braggin about your knowledge, talking shit about Underdog, plug your own stuff from soundcloud and on top of that, you are what? 60 yo? and you go by "check a bitch beats" .... lame.

@sebastianshuster5229 2 года назад

When I started watching your channel I think you had a smidge over 1k subscribers. Now you’re over 36k in such a short time. The reason is quality content and anticipation of your next quality content. I even hit the bell 😬 and I hardly ever do that! Congrats and thank you very much for bringing us interesting quality videos filled to the brim with awesome musical knowledge.

@OscarUnderdog 2 года назад

It's so great to hear this. Thanks for the support, I think RU-vid is quite sensitive to this kind of positive signals, it's the reason the channel has grown so much I think! ✨🙏🐩

@Andre-gu5qd 2 года назад

yes , same here never hit the bell, but his content has been really relevant so far

@danvandal4127 2 года назад

@@OscarUnderdog Keep doing it, it's great and the world needs better informed musicians or artists!

@ravirana2001 2 года назад

@@OscarUnderdog I bet you will get 1 mil within this year keep teaching great things congratulations in advance 🙏

@DeiNostri 2 года назад

@@OscarUnderdog The possitive response comes from you releasing good material. Making better content than the majority of channels and doing that in a relaxed humble manner is what makes some channels, like yours attractive to new and old electronic musicians around the world. This channel helps alot of people learn new things, and rediscover old methods.

@paulochon4415 5 дней назад

Amazing teaching capacity! Clear, no repetition, straight to the point and an amazing knowledge! Thank you very much

@DanielStepp 2 года назад

Incredibly concise and easy to follow. If you had a full course on synthesis, I'd buy it for sure

@hothatchpa 2 месяца назад

EXACTLY what I was looking for. Saving this as I ramp up to my first synth from my electric piano.

@axedoctor 2 года назад

You have just blown me away with how you just broke down synths in a way that I actually understand. Thank you.

@SynergistN7 2 года назад

3:20 I love that you always show a diagram with every lesson (that's I've seen so far). For visual learners like me it's invaluable. I'm not new to music making or audio engineering and I have lots of hardware synths, but I've never seen a synth explained like in this diagram and it will help me a lot in the future when making patches.

@tuxitalk1World 5 месяцев назад

I need this. My current method is turn it on, turn a knob, hit a switch and start hitting the keys.

@urphakeandgey6308 2 года назад

I knew a lot of these concepts already, but your "nasal" example of resonance was so good! Always wanted to try and emulate it vocally or something.

@loganp82 2 года назад

bro you just get write down to business and explain things simply and its easy to understand. I appreciate you.

@andrewhertzberg6889 2 года назад

Massive respect for how careful and clear these videos are. Thank you.

@TomaszRykala 2 года назад

The best music content on youtube currently.

@kackaritze3476 2 года назад

I like the calm way you explain things. And your methods, for example the use of flowcharts, fit extremely well and are very catchy. Also that you manage to reduce the topics to their core information. Thumbs up 👍🏻you are a good teacher

@stoptwo 2 года назад

Your videos are like learning from a friend and not from a "teacher" ... well done and congrats to the well earned 30k !

@brunocpimenta 2 года назад

So true, I feel the same way

@bleedyellow 3 дня назад

unbelievably helpful and straight-forward . applause.

@Marcus_Sylvester 2 года назад

Your ''Intro to Subtractive Synthesis'' video and this one are the most useful presentations of how synths work that I have watched since I began my exploration a few months ago! Clear explanations, concrete visual illustrations, etc. The courses of your online school must have an over the top usefulness. I love the telling name of your RU-vid channel. No need to be a superstar musician, producer or a millionaire to love and play electronic music. Like André before, since all the years I have watched YT videos, I never clicked the bell button, but I did it for your channel today. Thanks a lot for convincing me to do it by the quality of your content! 👍 👍

@OscarUnderdog 2 года назад

Wow thanks Marcus! This is such a sweet comment. ❤ really appreciate the support!

@repasiv 2 года назад

I know synths very well and was only curious about this tutorial. Very good job man. I wish I had somebody to tell me these things back in the day. This makes it so easy to understand for a beginner. I used to read manuals of gear to know that they were doing. There was a user manual of the yamaha cs-5 or something with diagrams and explanation. That was my schoolbook, but not everybody starts to read manuals, and there are better and worse manuals of course. Really well done, very good tutorial.

@OscarUnderdog 2 года назад

Yessss, happy to be of service :)

@ekummel 2 года назад

Back in the day, I wanted a synth really badly. I scoured the local use market for something and a Yamaha DX21 with a Pevey keyboard amp/speaker popped up for under $200. Never heard of FM synthesis other than what my Sound Blaster board did in my computer...but boy did I bite off more than I could chew with that. Dumped right into the most complicated synth sound design system possible! I spend thousands of hours with that keyboard. Learned everything I could and saved up my money and was able to get used Yamaha DX7-FD. I also picked up an FB01 and with all my synths, I was able to get some amazing sounds...Then one day, I picked up a Korg. I was lost. I had no idea what any of those things meant on that keyboard. I still struggle with them. But this video really took it down to the very basics. Makes me want to go into my closet and bring that Korg out into the light of day and try some of these things!

@vishnusekhara 2 года назад

Yours is one of the best you tube channel for production learning...everything so well explained in simple and detailed manner...Plz keep up the good work...Its really helpful for us producers all across the globe...thank you

@Ryan-id9rj 2 года назад

Amazing tutorial. You explain everything so easyily in all your tutorials - thanks mate!

@Garethduffy707 Год назад

This is great, love how clear and well explained everything is

@brittthomas5946 9 месяцев назад

Explained it so well. I've been just randomly adjusting my synths without any idea what I was doing.

@charleyeastman1795 2 года назад

MOST helpful synth video I’ve ever seen. Every beginner is lucky to have this resource. I’ve never used the “four recipes” approach, so I’ve gone back into my synths to try it. Fun!

@sonusanimae 2 месяца назад

I think I have never watched a tutorial as concise and essential as this one. Even though I am already familiar with most of the material covered in it, it was a pleasure to watch. Nicely done!

@MrIanji 4 месяца назад

That was awesome. Im a guitar player and just bought a Minibrute2 for Pads/drones and I was completely lost. Cheers

@peterhaerens3014 2 года назад

Amazing how you resume rather complex seeming processes to make them understandable.

@hazehunter_au Год назад

This is the exact video I was looking for as a beginner, to help understand synths! thank you so much! 🙏🏼🙌

@Karinsky77 2 года назад

I really enjoy your straight to the point approach in all of your videos. Bravo!

@icncpt Год назад

from Oscar i learn more than 1000 videos about music and Ableton! Thank you so much!

@siprturo 2 года назад

Oscar, I honestly can't begin to thank you enough. I have been looking all over the place for such quality of teaching and such attention to detail and such focus on the important basics of electronic music and I couldn't find anything like this, free or paid. Every other "beginner" production course goes straight into creating tracks on Ableton and I would always get stuck as I needed to understand exactly those basics. Please don't stop making those videos, I am willing to pay you for production lessons if need be.

@_bleaux 8 месяцев назад

Dude thank you so much!! I have been trying to figure out what VCO VCA VCF means for so long online and I didn’t know what to even google

@danieljohnson2271 2 года назад

Oscar & Underdog - thanks so much for these videos. I'm addicted! GREAT content! Can't wait for more and more and more and more. Inspiring!

@italdisc0 2 года назад

I wish I had this video years ago when I bought my first synth, now it makes me appreciate my Prologue even more. Thanks a million!

@jonathanwingmusic 2 года назад

This is a great refresher! From my perspective with the general synth recipes, I would add a fifth that I think is always helpful to at least understand - a simple "brass" sound. To me this is a good way to learn a filter and envelopes because of that kind of "wah" sound you have to sculpt.

@pathworker2010 9 месяцев назад

Brilliant, complexity simplified.

@psyonaraevents 2 года назад

this is the best music production channel out there !! Thanks for your work ! Keep up the good stuff ♥

@matthewmargetts8516 17 дней назад

Excellent resource. Thank you.

@pavithraj2303 2 года назад

You sir changed my life in 20 mins god bless you

@OscarUnderdog 2 года назад

I aim to please haha 🤘😁

@breadman7733 2 года назад

Yep another amazing video. Thank you Oscar! I love your energy

@marielanunez5435 2 года назад

Thank you so much for this informative video. May you have a wonderful rest of your day

@MikeH_PR 2 года назад

You just unlocked a whole new world for me. At last, an explanation of subtractive synthesis that makes sense first time 💪

@david41127 Год назад

Thanks for this workshop, it was very instructive and I hope that this video will stay forever !

@davidpetersonharvey Год назад

Well done, sir! That's pretty much what many of us do when approaching a new synth before we take the deep dive.

@ryancaille2749 Год назад

This is so helpful. This video really makes understanding synths much easier. Once you tie everything together in the "Doing the synth fomulas on the SH101" section it's like a lightbulb went off in my head.

@rishabhparmar4482 2 года назад

Thank you for helping us. Really appreciate your work ❤️

@user-wi1gq9kh2c 2 месяца назад

Brilliant explanations! 👏🏾

@okashasunami32 2 года назад

As a synth enthusiast since my first Roland Juno 6. I must say I absolutely enjoy your concise tutorials on electronic production. I'm not a know-it-all. And I am reminded of this through your videos and through comments from your subscribers! :) Thank you for your time and instruction.

@OscarUnderdog 2 года назад

Thanks for that 😊

@ariannagabriellegressiruiz4511 2 года назад

I was looking for any good tutorial of how to use this, thanks for existing Oscar 🖤❤️🖤❤️

@alsoondae5662 11 месяцев назад

I started my discovery of these principles with your video and thanks to your straightforward explanations I'm now having a lot of fun trying every possible sound. Thanks a lot I'm not sure there are many videos giving these basics efficiently and quickly :D

@Simulacrum1310 Год назад

I am amazed by the quality of your explanation and production, and every single day, I am more amazed by the quality of RU-vid content creators, especially for technical stuff, in every field! Thank you, keep going, and subscriber earned.

@alienzardsketter.9076 Год назад

You know Oscar.,,that is a wonderful name for a artist the Underdog ,,,Its kicking .

@Bob38594 2 года назад

Your video is very underrated. Thank you for all the information.

@feliksaksyonov7191 2 года назад

I am so lucky to find this channel! Good luck with your project!

@arturlins1 2 года назад

A qualidade do teu conteúdo é excepcional. Um dos melhores canais de produção que ja encontrei.

@DiscoTuna 2 года назад

Looks like you are picking up about 5k new users every couple of days! Good for you. So well deserved, and so good for us to have you churning out this awesome informative content.

@tiagocavalcante2854 2 года назад

My god, this is top notch content. Thank you so much for this!

@Pablo_Anunnaki 11 месяцев назад

Great. This video was added to my musical production box. I´m practicing this with the Surge XT synth. Now I´m beginning to understand it. Thanks so much.

@JSRF420 2 года назад

The fact that I have been doing tons of reading and tinkering prior to this REALLY helps my self esteem and knowledge references. I'm further along than I had originally thought and the videos you provide really help encourage me to keep pushing. I bought about 10 hardwares and 1 VST. This makes me feel like the universe is my oyster xD Thank you again so much for your videos. I am certain I will be attending the classes in the near future FOR SURE!!!!

@spectralknights2 2 года назад

The best music production tutorial so far. Thank u👍

@sarkarparijat Год назад

Such an incredibly well explained and clear video - thank you for sharing this knowledge!

@Cubase-sb8nn 10 месяцев назад

Really nicely laid out tutorial with clear explanations and examples. Thanks very much !

@cathaldeegan2067 5 месяцев назад

Awesome video. Just so precise and easy to understand. Thank you so much for taking the time to teach us the way you do!

@stuartleighton 2 года назад

This is awesome, exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you.

@srajanvet 8 месяцев назад

Very nice of you! Without dragging and focusing to the point is highlight! Also it is very informative. Thanks lot.

@MRANSHULCHAUDHARY 2 года назад

I would say "this is the easiest way to learn a synth" Thanks Oscar - this helped a lot

@SamuelHaak 2 года назад

Dude this was amazingly helpful. Thanks!

@yashsurana3216 2 года назад

this is what is i was looking for! ❤❤❤❤❤ you're the best. 👌

@leonm.burroughs4807 6 месяцев назад

I love the synthesizer so it's really cool to see in depth videos like this Thanks!

@SmartStr33t Год назад

Thanks for this. Just spent all morning looking at cheap starter analogue synths, but I'm going to take your lesson and muck about with some Logic Pro synths and my midi keyboard. You've really opened it up for me.

@user-vd3cu5es4d 13 дней назад

Superb tutorial. Thanks.

@rafeek6730 2 года назад

Cant be more happier to see ur channel grow day after day 🥳

@SkinnyDJ89 2 года назад

Rex The Dog - Teufelsbergis also a perfect example of self oscillating filter :) Nice video!

@TheYub33 2 года назад

This video is changing my life. Thank you so much Oscar !

@jazzcat007 Год назад

That Oscillator->Filter->Amp->Speaker diagram would make a great t-shirt.

@dkolko Год назад

Very helpful. Concise and informative. Love it.

@Kuzurinibubu Год назад

Really great Video for getting into the topic. Thanks alot for your work!

@Alandpope 5 месяцев назад

you are my hero!! Thank you very much I am a classical pianist who always wanted to incorporate synths but it was just to difficult to get a grip, but you have synthesized synths in such a easy-to-understand way. Thank you so much!

@crybo 2 года назад

Such a great channel. Excellent stuff as usual.

@ipezmusic 27 дней назад

Clear and straight to the point!

@TheirIAre 2 года назад

thank you! You are so concise. The best !

@markhensonguitarist-composer 2 года назад

Brilliant video, this is the most straight forward and understandable explanation of how synthesizers work I have ever heard ! Bravo Sir !

@OscarUnderdog 2 года назад

Cheers Mark!

@DrBenOne Год назад

Brilliant, many thanks. I'm coming back to watch some more. Very helpful to understand the architecture and function of synth components. I wish I'd seen this a long time ago!

@AntonArhipov Год назад

This is probably the best channel on the topic I have found on RU-vid. BIG thanks for these lessons! Will definitely try to find time to subscribe to the course!

@VincentBA2011 2 года назад

Super helpful tutorial as always. Thank you 😊

@jaywood5831 2 года назад

I needed a video like this a year or two ago. I remember being kind of intimidated from buying my first synth but after I got one it made so much more sense. This video is perfect for someone who really doesn't have a concept of how it works. Great job!

@originaali 2 года назад

What was your first synth 😎?

@jaywood5831 2 года назад

@@originaali well Ive always been obsessed with vintage analog but as you know they are crazy expensive so I found a technics sy-1010 which was perfect for a beginner synth and it's from the 80's so it's vintage lol only bummer is that it only has one wave form but other than that it will always hold a special place in my heart :')

@originaali 2 года назад

@@jaywood5831 nice! That's a quite rare pick for a first synth. Well it might lack on amount of oscillators but not in sound 😎👌.

@SirMalikCobra 2 года назад

You are an excellent teacher... Your style and approach is super easy to understand. You dive right in without unnecessary babble which most can appreciate. Thank you and I appreciate you. I actually learned the theory behind what I was already doing now I have the technical theory, thank you!

@ambientthrill6687 2 года назад

Huge respect sir 🙏🏻 you covered all these amazing concepts of synth with such an ease that it is ultra simple now ....thank you very much.

@adieumusique 2 года назад

what a great explanation! thank you so much!

@frankmason5525 2 года назад

What a fantastic explanation! Thank you so much, this is the first time I have been able to get my head around synthesis. You made it easy for me. Cheers.

@OscarUnderdog 2 года назад

Niiiice, glad it helped!

@k3nrgkaan920 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for this! I immediately used your exercise to properly reintroduce myself to my gear. Influential to my growth is an understatement. You're the best, Oscar!