Great channel man. I've been playing rock and metal guitar for 30 years and found synthwave 10 years ago. Just started dabbling making my own songs recently. Thanks for all the effort you put into this!
This was brilliant. Thank you for the breakdown; I've been struggling with making music at the minute and I feel so much better now. I put a formula together while watching and broke down what was going on. That Energy Bus as a visualiser is a great way to lay out a track and make sure you stay on track too. Would be great to see more videos like this.
Hey, nice video ! 😎 But i don't understand how your ghosts notes on the bass line (under the Bass Chill 6:19) make some gate effect on one note each time (the four transparent ones), while the four colored ones make some kind of LFO effect. I am a beginner and english is not my native langage, so i hope what i said was understandable 🐍 Thx you a lot for your time
Hi John, those bass notes are resampled bass notes from the original bass line. I've just done a video on resampling that you can watch here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kHWaEiiD3hA.html Although it's not specific to bass instrument, it still showcases the power of resampling. I might make another video tutorial on this in the near future. Hope this helps.
Hi there and thank you for your tutorials, I enjoy the clarity of them, and having you getting to the point straight away! Although I have a something that has always prevented me of adding more layers like shown, how do you manage the octaves with those layers? Can the lead play on the same octave as the pads for example? Does an arp always has to be played on higher octaves? Is there any general rule on how to proceed?
Thanks for the comment. When adding layers, you can always thin out established layers to accommodate new layers For instance, you can remove notes from a chord to thin out a pad that is being layered. Leads can play in the same range as pads, especially in the event the pad has been low-passed while the leads higher harmonics are accentuated via eq, saturation, exciters etc... Or play them an octave higher... Ultimately, there seems to be no general rule. When soloed, some elements likes pads, leads and additional layers may seem anemic when you cut out a lot of the frequency ranges to make space in a mix but can sound great when playing simultaneously.
@@SynthwavePro Thank you so much for the advices, I think the point I wasn't getting was that it is simply choosing what instruments to emphasize specifically during certain sections. I was feeling stuck for quite a while on that thing so really, thank you for clarifying it! ✌✌
I hope this great tutorial is not just to advertise for your paid course. I loved your thoughts and would very much welcome more tutorials. Thanks a lot.
Hi Rayder, Thanks for dropping a comment and thanks for becoming a subscriber. The RU-vid tutorials are here to share some insight into production techniques that have taken me years to develop. I also get to share my passion for Synthwave music with others and hope that they make improvements in a shorter period of time. While I try to deliver useful techniques to the RU-vid community, a paid course goes well beyond the scope of RU-vid as it's literally 17 hours of content with 100s of tips, tricks and techniques. It would probably take me 3-5 years to share all of those tips in bite-sized RU-vid videos. Moreover, a lifetime membership to a paid course also means that I get to spend more time with the members where I have the honor of listening to their tracks, mixes and share music related ideas - not to mention giveaways, perks and downloads. Although I'm aware that a paid course isn't for everybody, it is however a great way to learn songwriting from the ground up. Thanks for letting me know you'd like to see more tutorial. More tutorials are on the way :-)
@@SynthwavePro I totally understand your point of view, and would never want to negatively comment on a paid course itself. I realize you put a lot of learning time into getting there and do not ask to give it all away. I was just hoping for more tutorials besides your paid material. It would of course benefit me but you as well, as you can grow a large community around the tutorials, a community that might be into the paid stuff. I wish you the best and thank you for your videos and responses.
