SONICWARE 8Bit Warps Drum Synthesis & Programming - Accessible Synth Tutorial

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Here are the other 8Bit Warps tutorials I mention at the beginning of the video.
Sweep function: • Sonicware Liven 8bit W...
Synth engines: • How to Use the Sonicwa...
Analog style kick and clap: • Analog Style Kicks & C...
How to use the looper: • Sonicware Liven 8bit W...
I've been promising this for a while so I thought it was about time I got round to recording it. Here is how to make your own drum sounds on the Sonicware 8Bit Warps.
The basic idea is that we create a single drum sound and use automation to move settings as the pattern plays to access other drum sounds.
To give a bit more detail, in the FM engine the modulation LFO restarts on each note so we can use the reverse logarithmic LFO shape as an envelope for our FM modulation that goes quickly from bright to mellow as our drum sound plays creating. Using the sweep function we can make our drum sound start at a high pitch and end at a low pitch. These are quite abstract drum sounds we're making but that's similar to the way real drum sounds are created with a bright initial transient hit giving away to a resonant body sound. A rapidly sweeping pitch stops out ear from perceiving the sound as pitched so that gives us our non-pitched element to our sound.
The snare sound needs to be a bit higher in pitch as it's a smaller drum and have much more noise to represent the wire snares so we use different FM settings that create a brighter sound for this.
When creating the hi-hat sounds we need a short decay so a very short gate time is used to create short notes. Also we turn on an upward pitch envelope as this makes use of digital aliasing to give a metallic sound to our hi-hats
If you'd like to read up more about drum synthesis I recommend the Sound on Sound Synth Secrets Series (try saying that 3 times fast!), it's an excellent resource and free too:
www.soundonsound.com/series/s...
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@musictech_10us 2 месяца назад

excellent stuff. this is basically implementing the concept of linear drumming (where drummers only hit one drum at a time). super cool how the limitations of the machine forces an approach that has a parallel to an actual drumming technique/style.

@fatkev1983 2 года назад

Such a great synth compact and I highly recommend it. You can get lost in among all the multi purpose buttons but stick with it. You can also get some great noises out of it. I love the fact you're still making videos for these synths too. You were the reason I bought the 8But Warps unit.

@ChrisLodyMusic 2 года назад

Oh thank you. There is a lot of functionality packed into it so yeah there's a fair amount to take in control wise but it's well worth exploring, gives it lots of diversity in its sound which is a good thing 😁

@edgeof60 2 года назад

Thanks for the ongoing 8bit Warps tutorials! I've decided to try to master this thing (or at least become proficient) before even considering getting the XFM. There is so much depth to these boxes, especially for the price. Dr. Endo deserves a Nobel Prize for synth design.

@ChrisLodyMusic 2 года назад

You're welcome. I'd love it if there were a synth design category in the Nobel Prize, awesome 😂 This was the last 8Bit Warps tutorial on my list but if need any help with anything let me know. Tons of XFM tutorials waiting to be made though

@edgeof60 2 года назад

@@ChrisLodyMusic Can't think of anything specific, your tutorials have been invaluable in helping me get a handle on this beast. I'd still like to see a side-by-side comparison of the two Livens, whenever you can get around to it.

@ChrisLodyMusic 2 года назад

No problem. A comparison video is on the to do list

@dinogoldie9716 2 года назад

Perfect tutorial. Many thanks.

@ChrisLodyMusic 2 года назад

You're welcome, hope you find it useful :)

@jthorpe4droid 2 года назад

Awesome drums

@ChrisLodyMusic 2 года назад

Thanks 😁

@Mr.Tubster 2 года назад

Thx 4 the upload 😊

@ChrisLodyMusic 2 года назад

You're welcome, I hope it's helpful :)

@truedanbo 2 года назад

This is amazing! Very well organised and explained well. I guess you need deep FM synth theory in order to know how to adjust the sound the way you want. Well done!

@ChrisLodyMusic 2 года назад

Thanks very much. The drum synthesis theory helps a lot but there's only a few parameters to adjust on the 8Bit Warps FM engine so a bit of knowledge and a lot of experimentation are key I'd say.

@jmichell1880 Год назад

Great series of tutorials. Thanks so much for making these. I noticed a button that says "alias noise" and another video tutorial maker on the 8bit Warp said he couldn't figure out what it was for. Do you have any idea? I was hoping it would allow adding noise to a sound.

@ChrisLodyMusic Год назад

Thank you. The alias noise button allows the sound to be more lo-fi, it allows more aliasing to the output than normal which adds a bit of crunch at the top end. It's fairly subtle but most noticeable when playing sounds higher up the keyboard so try that

@jmichell1880 Год назад

@@ChrisLodyMusic ah. Thanks!

@Skiazo_chu Год назад

I can't seem to get the hi-hat sound When I turn down the gate, nothing changes

@ChrisLodyMusic Год назад

The gate time only affects steps programmed into the sequence so it won't change anything if you're playing them by hand. If you are playing them rather than programming them try changing the envelope shape instead of using the gate. Also the method of holding multiple steps to program in parameter locks may have changed so if that's the issue program parameter locks into each step separately

@BendApparatus 2 года назад

QUESTION!🖐️ Do the U-# banks only hold pure waves created by wave edit? I noticed patches are saved to PT banks for example PT-91 Yet U-# banks can be accessed from the warp/attack/morph engines... Why is there access to them from the performance engines?

@ChrisLodyMusic 2 года назад

So the U-# banks just store waveforms created by the user using either wave edit mode of capture, the PT-# banks are pattern memories that store notes, synth settings etc. Only warp\attack\morph can access the waveforms but the FM engine doesn't use the waveforms. Beyond that, I'm not sure what you mean by performance engines to be honest 😄

@BendApparatus 2 года назад

@@ChrisLodyMusic lol sorry about that. I call warp/morph/X-lfo on these modules performance engines...😁 I know it's basically all just modulation, but it's kind of these units selling point. Thanks as that basically answers my question in new light as I didn't know captured waves went into U-# banks.

@RobbekenSynthMusic 2 года назад

I’ve been working on using my XFM as a drum machine too! Any chance that you made some of the presets of the drum sounds included? If you did it is much appreciated!

@ChrisLodyMusic 2 года назад

I did yeah, I really like making drum sounds. There's a download of a chart available on sonicwares website that shows who made what actually, a few different sound designers worked on it. One of the kick drums is awesome, L.KCK I think it is, not mine that but it's super nice 👌

@RobbekenSynthMusic 2 года назад

@@ChrisLodyMusic that’s awesome! You and the team did good work! And that kick in particular is one of my go to’s. Thanks for continuing these tutorial style videos. I’m finding the Liven series of synthesizers to be surprisingly intuitive the more I play, but any tips are always nice.

@ChrisLodyMusic 2 года назад

Thank you 😁 I'll make a tutorial about using the XFM as a drum machine too. There's a few tricks I've found like using the an instant pitch sweep to change the pitch of the drums

@RobbekenSynthMusic 2 года назад

@@ChrisLodyMusic fantastic! 🙌

@Cjwilly333 3 месяца назад

How do I keep my pattern on 1/5 only? Mine keeps wanting to switch in between 1/5 and 2/6. This is probably the most confusing product I’ve had lol I’m so lost

@ChrisLodyMusic 3 месяца назад

That will be because your pattern is set to longer that 16 steps. You can change the pattern length with Func+the 4th keyboard key (Length). I'd usually point you to one of my tutorials at this point, but I started working with Sonicware just after this launched. But there's a really good full length tutorial for it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V08AbRyZHMw.html

@Cjwilly333 3 месяца назад

@@ChrisLodyMusic thank you for the info. I’ve never had a synth before and it’s kinda thrown me for a loop. Slowly getting it.