SURGE XT THE MOVIE : Amazing FREE Synthesizer - Full In-Depth Tutorial 

Hey guys, Wanted to do an update to my surge the movie video.... I felt it was warranted. I know this video is extremely long, I felt it was necessary to cover everything this synth can do. I've chaptered it to make it easier to skip to the parts you want. I do recommend watching the entire video though as there may be some things in there you weren't aware of, I certainly found some new things while preparing this video! :) Thank you for watching and please leave a like if you enjoyed it and subscribe for more! :D In a video this long i am bound to miss some details so I will list anything i missed that is picked up here. *in Modern oscillator - with right click options you can set Triangle to other waveforms and change it into sub oscillator mode too. - Evil Dragon As always thank you so much to my patrons, I will have some extra surge sound design content for you guys soon... I'm working on it now

This synth and its funcionalities should be taught in every electronic music school/academy

Thank you for putting in the effort to do this twice. That's some real love and dedication to the craft. 🌻

Ironically, I actually started the video, then installed Surge XT and played with it, made a patch and figured out pretty much everything without watching. It has a UI that can be explained very quickly to a experienced synthesist. But then, I've programmed my own softsynth engines, so I probably know more than most ;) With the XT additions, Surge ranks among the most comprehensive "desert island" synths. It's almost easier to talk about what's missing than what's present. Pretty much everything in the gamut of standard synth timbres is possible, some of the most common ones often have a dedicated oscillator engine in "Twist", you can do modulations from the simplest envelope up to "code a procedurally generated sequence in a formula LFO and control it with MPE", and you can also do the entire FX chain on top of that. Your DAW could "plug in" to a complex Surge patch and just be used to trigger scenes and move macro knobs. It's not a multi-sampler, and it doesn't have complex physical modelling like e.g. Pianoteq or the AAS plug-ins, or complex additive synthesis like Harmour. It could always have more filter or FX modes. But it already covers so much that you'll never run out of sounds.

One of the most comprehensive, yet easy to follow overviews of any synth I've seen on youtube. I've been a little intimidated by this synth up til now. I 'm ready to dig into it.Thank you.

1:42:20 that is so beautiful 😭

I can't believe the "Follow me I'm delicious" guy has such synth knowledge. This is amazing.

I ran my guitar into my DAW and used the Surge ring mod effect and WOW!

This is one very cool synth. I was able to make it actually count from 0 to 10 in the vowel/speech engine oscillator! And you've produced a great tutorial thanks a lot!

Got surge yesterday, looked very intimidating but now I feel I know how it's structured. Thank you!

The "Twist" OSC is based on Mutable Instruments "Plaits".

Fantastic walkthrough. Should probably be mentioned that it now has the Eurorack modules Clouds and Plaits included as fx & oscillators. Kind of a big deal for some.

As a complete noob I massively appreciate the effort that has gone into this video. Fantastic. Every section is a rabbit hole!

Thank you for the video, very helpful!

Excellent tutorial / walkthrough! Thanks.

Fantastically clear and informative. Thank-you!

Thank you for this. I love your dedication.

Thats the best tutorial Imhaver seen! Thank You.

Excellent walk-through, thanks!

Excellent and very informative video, thank you for creating and sharing it!

Amazing, and somehow even better than the last one. Well done! 🙂👍

Excellent show and tell video

Thanks a lot for this goldmine of informations. Surge is a hell of a synth, simply one of the best on the market, perheape THE one, and the fact that it's totally free is just fabulous. This new XT extension brings it to another level of epicness !

Wow amazing tutorial thank you! 😍

brilliant tutorial. thanks a lot.

Very kind of you to put even more time into updating this tutorial. This is extremely useful. Looking forward to composing with this new XT version. Much appreciated! Salud, Mr. G!

Thanks, That is so great !!

I can't thank you enough. This video got me going with programming my own sounds and actually understanding what I was doing

thank you for sharing this! Best synth movie I've ever seen 😃👍

Best Synth tutorial ever!

Excellent work, thank you!

Perfectly explained, I don't even think I had any doubts, awesome job making this video!

Thanks so much! Good work

Excellent video, recommended it to my friends Great channel in general!

amazing video - brilliant!

Awesome video, awesome synth, thank you!

Oh wow Am really impressed by this Thanks alot man Just getting into sound design and this had helped alot

yuuuuuup garronnnnnnn been trying to get my head around surge, looked up a tutorial and its my fellow fenian, its a rarity

Many thanks for this

This video was very helpful, as I have just downloaded this synth to my computer. As I watched, I was amazed at the power of this synth. Thanks for making this video!

You're awesome! Thank you for all your sound design videos.

Excellent work man, thank you. How in the living blazes the Surge team have given this to us for free is incomprehensible. I have a good few very decent paid synths but at just under an hour and a half in on this video and I have already had quite a number of WTF moments. A getter and keeper undoubtedly. Top stuff all round.

Very big heartedly thanks for your effort

Вот это да! Огромное спасибо за видео, колоссальная работа!

Amazinggggg thanks so much for this ♥️🐈‍⬛🎶

Great video man! Cheers! :)

thank you so much!

Great work 💪 thank you so much 🙏

Thanks friend. This is a life saver

Good, thanks for share!

this is amazing

Thank you, a great video!

thankyou 😊😊😊🔥❤❤awsm work keep up with your great work sir

thank you so much!! now it’ll get way easier to engineer my own sounds/instruments in surge 🙃

Thank you so much for this informative video!!

Thank you very much for the second installment! 🙏 Haven’t had time to watch this one yet but soon yay.

Thanks a lot for your effort!!! Great introduction in SURGE XT... helps me (as an absolute beginner) much understanding this great plugin and synths in general... 🙏🚀

I appreciate that in all your talking about things, you're not cussing and swearing. It's clean. Again, I appreciate it.

Oh and I think hour showing all these stuff around in Surge XT was really great!

You are awesome. :D Was wondering if you'd do the XT edition and was not disappointed. Great work and detailed walkthrough as always. Surge is really becoming a powerhouse! Cheers

Thank you for this! I learned so much, in a much more engaging format than reading the manual. It's a crash course that goes surprisingly deep. I feel like the control surface no longer is full of mystery, just an endless supply of awesome possibilities.

Very helpful! Just started out with using synths. Although the UI is self explanatory (for an electrical engineer anyway), this video covers everything that would otherwise take so much time to figure out. Thanks for taking the effort to make it!

Great overview! You have sadly missed the right-click options in Modern oscillator - you can set Triangle to other waveforms and change it into sub oscillator mode too. :)

Oh, man! I'm not new to synths by a long shot but this one has been difficult for me to get my head around. I tried simple things and getting a good sound is definitely not an automatic thing like my analog synths or even my digital hardware. This video has totally opened this up for me. I'm watching the part on the effects now and hoping you go into the macros and assignments for LFOs and the like next. I love the flexibility of a good routing matrix but this synth is wildly overcomplete and beefy without even going there, I'm stunned. Thanks for a great video! Watching it in bytes when I'm not in the studio or teaching music.

dude, holy shit, thank you

Great video! I have been using Surge with VCV Rack for about a year and love the modules but this is a gamechanger! Awesome1

OMG THANK YOU!!!! 🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😘😘😘😘 very helpful video THANKKKKK YOOOOUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, absolutely EPIC Thanks 4 putting this together ! Man, I think surgeXT has 95% of all the functions possible in a synth. Anyone disagree ? I can only think of granular , samples , & wavetable editor off the top of my head

Thanks to you and Venus Theory, I'm gonna save a lot of $! I was planning on buying a Hydrasynth Explorer, but Surge XT does even more! I just like creating sounds. (Bought a really nice laptop with 16 gigs of RAM for cheap. Surge runs smooth on it.) Thanks so much!

great video

What an amazingly comprehensive video. Thank you!

lá fhéile Pádraig sona :) Thanks for putting this up and taking the time.

It's taken me 2 weeks, but I've finally managed to watch it all. Thanks for the tutorial - I actually learned some stuff!

I started with a korg minilogue, then moved to vital, now learning this, it feels like every step has been exponentially more sound possibilities. I cant even fathom how far the rabbitthole of sound goes.

I was floored the minute I saw Waldorf wavetables. This thing is a monster and I thank you for explaining everything. I plan on mastering this synth to understand and improve in synthesis overall

Thanks for the video. The LFOs now have separately addressable outputs for the entire modulator, the raw shape, and just the EG.

Thanks for the video, man, I'm starting on sound design and this is extra helpful. I just realized that I don't need to buy any of those riser VSTs to have a riser that adapts to the song's timing because I can just time anything musically on Surge, just set the amp to immediate attack, full sustain and immediate release and LFO the gain to a musically timed saw shape(deformed to a smoothed curve I stead of the linear) on inverse motion. I guess you saved me some bucks so take my like and sub.

Thanks Garron again for this video. It is comparable to a college degree. I have learnt a lot. Cheers

Thx brother

This soft synth is together with vital a real synth-marketplace-crusher... - Thanks for this most complete tutorial. cheers*

Hi. I just stumbled across Surge XT yesterday. After installing it I was really impressed, -and a little intimidated as well. After watching your video I'm even more impressed but not as intimidated. Thank you for taking the time and energy to help other people finding their way around this amazing piece of free software. I really appreciate it. 🙌

Somebody has probably mentioned it already, but the Twist oscillator mode is indeed taken from something, in that case an Eurorack module (Mutable Instruments Plaits).

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Thank you for these videos, man!! I've watched the previous surge video/movie, and I'm watching this one from start to finish because I think they are super interesting. I like the way you explain things

best movie remake !

Very good and clear walkthrough! Its unfortunte that (at 22:00) the waveform display doesn't show the modulation of the wave, so _what you see_ is no longer _what you hear_ as soon as you use LFOs, etc. But surge seems so mighty, that I still want to continue watching/learning.

I have to say tht I have been trying different daws and instruments for some time now and also mainly on linux but couldny get this to load on my latest distro. I finally went back to an old windows laptop and managed to load it straight away onto my waveform daw. Convinced I now need very little else to have a full working setup. Half way through watching this but thanks again.

Thanks

Thanks a lot one more time... 😄

I've never used a synthesizer in my life before. But literally... for someone who has never used one before... this is a monster hahaha. I'm amazed by how many buttons there are. You could create anything you want with this if you understand how it works. I'm a noob so it's hard for me but with just playing around with it I'll get a long way.

Roger Linn sent me here (indirectly) :) I have a Linnstrument and I'm looking forward to trying Surge in MPE mode with that. Thank you, this was a really comprehensive video! I have just a handful of extra questions, but I'll check out the manual.

I just downloaded this and im a complete noob so i was very lost haha u saved me thank u so muuuch

doing god's work

The Window-thing looks and sounds kind of like what Bazille's Fractalize-thing do, this is the first time I see that Fractilize-thing in a plugin other than Bazille, it kind of Sync-ish sounding but still a different flavor, which I think is nice.

Love that you use Bitwig!

The MPE is a riot with a Jamstick Studio midi guitar.😁🎵🎸🎹🎶Play On

Thanks for making this video, which really helped a lot. Love the accent too. On another note, I've never understood the need to categorize 3rd party patches per author. If I need a bass sound that is not in the factory patches I need to wade through all the 3rd party names to find one.

Alwayz was interested in microtuning.I would appreciate a video on tuning in SurgeXT...

wow what a brilliant presentation. Thanks again - I finally found a great vst that does it all. Heading to your track put together. Can you point me to the putting it together as a song etc. Had a look on your site but cant see which one it is.

Thanks to Surge XT, I turned my wife's Casio CTK-710 into a Moog!