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40:08 "The way that a multiband compressor works is it needs to have split points... The way that a splitter works is by using EQs, and the way that an EQ works is via delays and phase." The sign of a great teacher is one who can break things down to it's essential properties and use these basic ideas to explain the most complex uses. Thank you for this lil nugget Mr. Bill. (Also Woulg is awesome)
Audience member: "Hey, Mr. Bill. You're amazing, love your music. How do you approach X thing that most people have a specific answer on and say there's a right and wrong way to do?" Mr. Bill: "Yeah I just fuck around and do everything wrong on purpose and then I find cool shit and then when it sounds bad later I do more super wrong shit until it sounds cool again. Also I don't really have any structure in general. That would be weird, it sounds like a nightmare. I would fucking hate that *chuckles*. But that might be good for some people." Audience member: "Uhhhhh.....ok, thanks?"
man i love recognizing the level you guys are at, i just been dabbling for 2 years, went to Pyramind (love you guys) in SF for music production. I enjoy these tutorials
that was incredibly helpful. Great to see someone developing techniques around the fact they sound good, not because people have told you not to do something. Super un-traditional production, which is fucking amazing.
20 minutes in and he already has 15 audio effects grouped into one Operator, and still dinking around with it. This is what I came here to see, now it's time to get the popcorn!
1:22:00 Makes me think of something Amon Tobin said in an AMA which I remember as 'the more I work as an artist, the more convinced I am my role is simply to say yes or no'...
im like 35 minutes in and already impressed. (1) the man came prepared but even better (2) he has actually no qualms sharing his process / knowledge (because hes confident in his music meaning: not everyone who has the 'secret knowledge', will get the same sound / quality of tracks).
This video is so insanely helpful, like holy crap thanks so much mr bill. Seriously, this video is so dense with useful info it makes my brain hurt. Time to go "idea jam" with all the new cool techniques I just learnt!
Awesome vid, it's amazing how much of this translates over to logic. I appreciate some of the insight into using "idea jams" to grab snapshots of different sounds. The playhead trick is a huge reason I'm interested in ableton as logic can't do that. Have you ever looked into Bitwig?
Bill's so right about boosting frequencies and bumping db on effects like crazy cause they literally birth results - they wouldn't be included in daws/tools for no reason its, cool to see someone actually demonstrating it.
Really love the concept he starts on with approaching sound design from effects as a starting point. Gets a little harder to pay attention once he starts on the knob tweaking but great stuff conceptually
This shit convinced me to give you money. Apophenia is killer too, been listening to it nonstop. Gonna try and catch you at Meow Wolf. Thanks for everything man.
48:45 basically, fast-fourier transform (FFT) is one of the core algorithms of digital signal processing, and is based on the law that states any signal of any complexity can be reproduced through a sum of individual sine waves.
38:19 Idea Jams The concept is to take the tools at your disposal, use them in ways they're not supposed to be used or just really creative ways, record the output and figure out how to contextualize it for music later.
I like this approach. It's so odd how he's advocating for printing your sounds as quickly as possible, but also playing for hours. So much better than ages spent tinkering.
27:53 It seems like adding some clicking sound on top makes it all coherent, so that crazy note jumps in midi are any notes of a chord progression but just velocity information which by the way sounding very funky / progressive. 39:15 Serum FX has more than just one all pass filter. It has that ott compression too.Turning the compression ratio to max to use it as a limiter. Or you can turn the rate of a phaser to zero to use it kind of a single allpass filter. A phaser is anything else but just a regularly moving allpass filter.
58:25 In Ableton 10 you can alt-drag from the playhead in the clip window, and it won't shorten or lengthen in the arrangement. Saves some time not having to do the whole duplicate thing! I'm thoroughly enjoying your content though, awesome stuff
Wow, it's nice to feel like I'm doing things right for once. My most used synth is 3xOsc and this is why! Start with something minuscule and just pile on fx.
Yeah, that always comes later. The main idea is just trying to come up with things that are sonically interesting. Justifying those sonically interesting things as music is a whole other challenge.
@@MrBillsTunes Thank you very much for the reply! Makes sense 👌🏻 I'll give it a shot. And thank for all of the content you put out, I appreciate you taking the time to educate, I'll bake you a mud pie some time.
Does anybody know if there is a device like the external instrument that can send audio instead of midi? i wanna send audio to more then 2 tracks without having to dublicate it
Hi Mr Bill I'm trying to find a video that I saw demonstrating how to play with tempo and construct a build up like Infected Mushrooms 'Bliss on Mushrooms'. If I remember correctly, it was possible to drastically manipulate the tempo of one track whilst keeping the global tempo stagnant. Can anyone point me in the right direction?? I've searched for hours now for this illusive video....
Do you tend to just design most of your sounds in C so it is easy to transpose them to the correct key when needed? I noticed how quick you transposed that sample about 55 minutes in.
Depends what you’re using it for. A soft clipper will limit your signal but will produce distortion, which is desirable in many cases. A basic limiter generally won’t distort as much but high amounts of gain reduction will suffocate the sound in an unpleasant way.
