It would be nice if you did another tutorial and focused more on making a granulizer sound good. I've been messing with them a bit, and it's rare for me to make a patch that sounds as good as the granulized sounds in your tunes usually do
I already know about granular synthesis but I wanted to learn more. The way you explained the concept by counting is really amazing. This makes it easier for beginners to understand easily. Thanks for the tutorial Bill.
All of the Glitch Machines stuff is so good, I'm so happy you threw that in there. Definitely do a whole video on FM and PM synthesis, it would greatly appreciated to see it from your perspective . Thanks Bill #hardcore
Yeah. Glitchmachines stuff is so great. They are doing upgrades right now with resizable GUI. Process is very slow but the waiting is so rewarding. Makes their tools awesome. For granular crusher-x too is extremely deep. Cheers
Genius, I was walking home listening to Jon Hopkins new album and wondering how to achieve different sounding ambient textures and I think around 9.20+ is after nailing it for me.... So happy thank you.
Loving these videos! Quick Palindrome tip: you can drag and drop samples into the waveform display or load from any file, not just the factory sounds file. Keep up the great work!
one of the coolest things with granular synthesis is that you cannot produce some granular sounds using traditional synthesis propellerhead has a very cool video with an easy to understand explanation of what grains are etc. granular is the future :D
Probably a stupid question, but does this all apply to Logic as well? Like the free Ableton plug ins etc. Never used Ableton, but am really interested in making EDM
you are the best. thank you for the free mr bill season 2 pack. I cant remember why i got it for free, i think i found a bug or something on the site but i could be wrong, but still, thank you for your music, your tutorials, your influence on a lot of producers ranging from twisted reggae to pop to psytrance and ofc glitch
Nice work man. Another great one. Can you please tell us how are you recording audio and the screen of your pc at the same time? Are you using voicemeter or something similar? I cannot figure out how to do it. I'll be forever grateful for this if you could answer back.
Awesome tutorial! You are always dropping gems. So just to clarify regarding the playback speed for pad sounds you were talking about earlier, it depends on the spray speed? I know samples play slower in lower octaves so that's in play as well but I wanted to clarify is that what Wikipedia meant by the playback speed. Also, my biggest issue with granular synthesis is I have put different sounds trying to make innovative leads or pads that are melodic in tone, and they all end up sounding like this cloud sound you were talking about earlier. Is that normal because I'm trying to get new sounds out of them. They end up sounding like the same cloud sound even though they are different samples. Other than that, granular for understanding what it is doing to the audio is fine, but I just don't get why with different samples, I can't get different tones for making new lead or pad sounds. Once again I end up with that cloud sound in the end result so any tips from your constant use of granular to fix this issue would be helpful
Nice. CrusherX (for Mac) is a highly comprehensive granulator too. And check out the work of Curtis Roads, a founding master who composes music/sound purely with granular synthesis.
Granular synthesis as a definition is not sampling based. Basic granular synthesis uses sine waves. It can use samples as it's input, instead of sine waves. They also don't need to be offset randomly. Granular synthesis is just sound particles. Micro sounds which when played back together sound as one. The way granular synthesis is typically used is 99% of the time, just the "cloud" form of it. But there's so much unexplored territory within it.
"Every single person on the planet knows what counting sounds like." I think you're forgetting drummers Bill. We only know how to count to 4 and repeat! :P
Random Person I think alchemy can do most if not all of what granulator can. I remember I used to have a copy of this synth back when it was still made by camel audio and it allowed u to use granular synthesis.
what is that thing attached to his nose, is it something to curb a chronic nose picking habit or is he borneo-again-headhunter ,( bye the bye this is not hate? ). like the talk on the granulating of sound, very interesting . and he, like true gent saves the best bit for last, cracked me up no end. a great piece of dry humour.
