Thanks for this video, I'm slowly finding my feet with Alchemy, & mixing my sounds with happy accidents & sounds I'm after using this synth. I love what you created esp the bass mixing so well with the PAD & samples you added at the end. Very good video. I need a new keyboard though, using the on-screen K.B is difficult when using Alchemy/Logic. Anyway look forward to watching your hour-long Alchemy video
Hi scroez, thanks for getting in touch! Glad u enjoyed this video and the sounds I was creating. Alchemy is indeed a very deep synth, a bit tricky to get around sometimes but I really like it. The 1 hour Alchemy video has tona of sound design tips, let me know what you think about that one too. Yeah onscreen keyboard is only good when testing out sounds quickly, not good for long period usage, its like a last resort keyboard. ;) Happy holidays!
Sitting by the fireplace creating these super warm ambient sounds with Alchemy seems like an excellent idea on a cold winter day. Thanks again, it's a great way to get a better understanding of this amazing synth, even on a warm day in spring!
Composing by the fireplace is the best. I have the piano just 5 meters away, it's cosy. Today we had the first really hot day in northern Sweden, 20 degrees. ;) So it's barbeque and shorts time. Thanks for the feedback. Always happy to hear my content inspires. 🌞
I've been playing and recording music for a long time but I've been blessed to have people around me taking care of the sound design aspect of it most of the time up until recently. Now that I'm doing it myself I have a newfound respect for Sound Designers in general and the skillset required to be good at the craft. Your video tutorials are the best out there imo. You do not only explain how to do specific things but you also incorporate basic theory into it so that you can apply principles to whatever it is that you want to do. Thanks for sharing, I appreciate you!
Hi Gabriel, totally know what you mean. I was once there too. Thanks for the nice round of feedback on my video tutorials on sound design. I've been doing sound design and game music (and releasing albums with bands) for many years. It's my pleasure to share what I've collected through the years to the newer generation of creatives. I love doing these videos and articles and hope to continue doing so! I am lucky the channel is growing steadily and getting nice feedback on the content. More is coming! I appreciate you too Gabriel! It's thanks to you all the channel is blooming out. ;D 🌞🌻🌞PS: I also got a fresh new Alchemy preset pack coming out soon with tons of awesome new sounds! // Matt
@@MattiasHolmgren Nice, I will be looking into it for sure. I need some inspiration for programming a synth lead for my hardbass project right about now! :D
Absolutely, I always have an spectrum analyzer at the end of a chain when designing sounds. You can see / hear problems and how the sound evolve very quickly! Thumbs up!
@@richiesun9676 with an analyzer your get extra info on how the sound is building up. So you can easily see if you have too little / much freq content in certain areas. Especially low / low-mids. It's always good practise to have a spectrum analyzer at the end of the chain while doing sound design.
Thanks for the useful and cool video! I expected the video in russian, but the subtitles were well translated and i understand the information of the video. Thanks again!
Hi Johnny, super thanks. I just started translating the titles and description to Russian since I see alot of subscribers and viewers from Russia. Its just google translate, nothing fancy but I hope it works. ;) Thanks for watching my videos, and thanks for the nice feedback! Happy holidays Johnny!
Hey David, thanks. Yeah, Alchemy is a great allrounder! Neat that it's native within Logic too. Not many DAWs comes with such a great synth. And capable of FM too! =) The move is soooon over. Move a few boxes and TVs today, almost a wrap. PHEW! Thanks for checking in!
Trae, I was baking an ambient cake with some weird ingredients. Always fun to have you come by and drop fun lines like that. ;) Glad to have u onboard! ;)
Nice Video Mattias! As someone completely new to all this, it can be a bit overwhelming, but I guess it just takes time. Is there a video where you also explain how you created the analogue arp?
Hi Koen! Oh yes, it does take some time to get used to sound design. Especially if you are new to the game (so to speak). I've been doing this for many years. Great idea on the analogue arp preset, I will make the next Alchemy video on this subject. ;) Thanks for the tip. I totally forgot to include that sound since this tutorial was about creating ambient pads. Happy to hear you enjoy my Logic videos. Have a nice friday!
Why oh why this amazing synth is now confined to Mac/Logic users only? I still have the old 1.5 version, the last one before the death of Alchemy's vast users base, it is an amazing piece of software with outstanding quality even nowadays, but it is not anymore a must-have state of the art leader vst in music industry.
Oh you still have the original 1.5!? Do you still use it? Yeah it was a tragic end for Camel Audio and Alchemy. Fortunately its also available on iPad, but its not the same smooth thing as having the app within your DAW. I still think its a solid plugin. But today there is many other superb vst synth / samplers like Phase Plant, Rapid, Omnisphere 2 etc.
Fortunately, Harmor is available for Windows, and it’s also... absurdly good at sampling and manipulation. I’m here watching Alchemy videos partially out of curiosity, and partially to try to learn more about Harmor, and I’m finding out that Alchemy is awesome (I figured it would be) and I’m excited to try it out at some point. I think Apple and Windows users alike are lucky to have such powerful and exciting stock plugins.
Hi Patrick, what version of Logic Pro X are you using? Might be a bug, because I double checked just now and if you select the FM filter in any of the slots (including) master page in Alchemy, the filter shows Note value instead of Hz. Glad you enjoy my Logic video Patrick! // Cheers, Mattias
Happy to hear it worked out for u Patrick. Did u check the latest Logic Pro X 10. 5 update? I did a recent live stream on it. The replay is up if you check my Discord. I Will also post another Logic video on granular synthesis with the new sampler today. Happy friday!
Hi Sepanta, absolutely more to come on Logic and Alchemy too. Be sure to sub at my website too so you don’t miss out on any articles, you also get a free Creative Booster Guide! Https://www.morningdewmedia.com Thanks for subscribing. ;)
Nice quick exercise in pads, as always, thanks for an interesting video, Mattias! I also seem to see the title and description in Russian, surprisingly, glad to see :) Have never used Alchemy and even haven't happened to see any video on that just before this, and it seems, the synth is nice. It's so easy to attract me with beautiful interface, and here it's quite sharp and clear, like how you handle it. And yes, I like the vibe of the whole snippet, too. So cinematic and, in my opinion, suits very well to your new fireplace in the background :) As a side question: you use quite built-in effects in Alchemy quite deeply here, but in general, do you better prefer internal, external effects or it so much depends on the context? I think, I usually try to use external effects, as they seem to be a little easier and more flexible in manipulating and more future-proof in case I would switch to some another synth.
Hi Alexey, yes Alchemy is indeed a very nice synth which comes with Logic Pro X as a native synth. Neat! ;) Yes often I tend to use external (third party) effects like Valhalla Room Reverb, Trash 2 (saturation) and Replika XT as delay. But with Alchemy the included effects are quite powerful and does indeed sound very ”appealing” so I can use them with confidence. I always liked the convolution reverb included with Logic called, Space Designer and its available directly from Alchemy too. So it’s awesome. Nice interface design and appealing UI/UX sells me too. You work with your ears AND your eyes so it’s always cool to have some nice interface rhat works WIth you and not against you. ;) Glad you enjoyed the sounds. And again thanks for checking in Alexey!
@@MattiasHolmgren Yes, exactly, absolutely agree. UI and UX influence the creative process so much. It's quite important for me, as I personally have this problem of not usually so much enjoying of working on the track. I mean, it's easy to write down ideas or something, but sometimes it's not so comfortable to make it a finished track, you know :) For example, as I'm also a software developer, programming process (sometimes!) feels more interesting and fluent, and I can't help 'escaping' to programming in some key moments :) But this UI beauty and some other pleasant little things are the ones that could pull me back)
@@MattiasHolmgren Hi Matthias, nice video. I just felt I should leave a few thoughts as I'm a long time Alchemy user. It's been one of my favourite soft synths for years, still is to this day. I still just can't get over what the developers did, deciding to sell to Apple. I guess I know under the hood there are improvements but I actually prefer the appearance of the older interface, not a minimal but still somehow seems clearer and more intuitive to me. Not enough of a significant difference sonically to convince me to switch platforms to Apple/Logic. Real shame it's only native to Logic nowadays and no longer supported for other formats...
You are not alone in these thoughts my friend. I had similar feelings, but then again I switched to Logic and realized it needed a good solid native allround synth (read Omnisphere) and as Logic user I was happy for that. At the same time I also thought it would be good to be able to use Alchemy in any DAW like before... but I got Omnisphere for that. As I now roll Logic, Bitwig, FL and sometimes other DAWs it sometimes bother me that Alchemy is Logic only. But these days we have so many plugins in our lists. I have so many I forget which I have and stick to the ones I remember. ;)
Hey thanks for checking in Beep! Yeah, I think it's sad too. Wish it was available on all platforms (including Linux)! A lovely synth indeed! Though there's still a phlora of similar synths, like Omnisphere etc. =)
got omni and falcon but falcon is no fun to use. nice sounds btw. hope to see some good bitwig modulation tuts aswell as im totally annoyed about the bitwig manual (coming from renoise tracker)...keep up the good work matthias : -)
English is the universal language on earth, so most people can understand it. You can always use subtitles (some of my videos are translated). I didn’t translate 50minute videos though... out of obvious reasons. ;) my german is not very good. It stretches to: sagt mir nicht das du wurst geessen hast? 😉
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Thanks for this video, I'm slowly finding my feet with Alchemy, & mixing my sounds with happy accidents & sounds I'm after using this synth. I love what you created esp the bass mixing so well with the PAD & samples you added at the end. Very good video. I need a new keyboard though, using the on-screen K.B is difficult when using Alchemy/Logic. Anyway look forward to watching your hour-long Alchemy video
Hi scroez, thanks for getting in touch! Glad u enjoyed this video and the sounds I was creating. Alchemy is indeed a very deep synth, a bit tricky to get around sometimes but I really like it. The 1 hour Alchemy video has tona of sound design tips, let me know what you think about that one too. Yeah onscreen keyboard is only good when testing out sounds quickly, not good for long period usage, its like a last resort keyboard. ;) Happy holidays!
Sitting by the fireplace creating these super warm ambient sounds with Alchemy seems like an excellent idea on a cold winter day. Thanks again, it's a great way to get a better understanding of this amazing synth, even on a warm day in spring!
Composing by the fireplace is the best. I have the piano just 5 meters away, it's cosy. Today we had the first really hot day in northern Sweden, 20 degrees. ;) So it's barbeque and shorts time. Thanks for the feedback. Always happy to hear my content inspires. 🌞
I've been playing and recording music for a long time but I've been blessed to have people around me taking care of the sound design aspect of it most of the time up until recently. Now that I'm doing it myself I have a newfound respect for Sound Designers in general and the skillset required to be good at the craft. Your video tutorials are the best out there imo. You do not only explain how to do specific things but you also incorporate basic theory into it so that you can apply principles to whatever it is that you want to do. Thanks for sharing, I appreciate you!
Hi Gabriel, totally know what you mean. I was once there too. Thanks for the nice round of feedback on my video tutorials on sound design. I've been doing sound design and game music (and releasing albums with bands) for many years. It's my pleasure to share what I've collected through the years to the newer generation of creatives. I love doing these videos and articles and hope to continue doing so! I am lucky the channel is growing steadily and getting nice feedback on the content. More is coming! I appreciate you too Gabriel! It's thanks to you all the channel is blooming out. ;D 🌞🌻🌞PS: I also got a fresh new Alchemy preset pack coming out soon with tons of awesome new sounds! // Matt
@@MattiasHolmgren Nice, I will be looking into it for sure. I need some inspiration for programming a synth lead for my hardbass project right about now! :D
No one has described alchemy from the basics like you have done... Thanks!
You are most welcome Rudresh. Glad you enjoy my Logic / Alchemy videos!
It's a pleasure watching you sculpt.
Thanks, I always have a blast wiggling music gear! ;)
this is one of the real valuable ones.. a guy that know what he is doing and is only talking for clicks
Great, happy to share 😉💯
Maybe the one man who really explaining all Logic's things :)
Thanks for writing Igor. 😉🌞
That's fantastic. Had no clue about what power dwells in Alchemy! So pumped to do my own pads now!
Hi, yeah Alchemy is a really deep and versatile synth / sampler. Love it!
Dude, loved the fireplace. The demo was both cinematic and musical. Enjoyed thoroughly.
Hi Richie, thanks yeah I love that fireplace. Alchemy is a wonderful synth to get free with Logic Pro X. Glad you like the little demo Richie!
Amazing tutorial...Loved that bass creation
Hey Rahesh, thanks. Glad you enjoy the Alchemy tutorial video. I have a new Alchemy video coming out today! See you around! Thanks!
sounds reaaaaally great
Thanks! 😉
That’s a good tip to use a frequency analyser when making FM sounds. Thanks.
Absolutely, I always have an spectrum analyzer at the end of a chain when designing sounds. You can see / hear problems and how the sound evolve very quickly! Thumbs up!
What kind of problems would you see with an analyzer?
@@richiesun9676 with an analyzer your get extra info on how the sound is building up. So you can easily see if you have too little / much freq content in certain areas. Especially low / low-mids. It's always good practise to have a spectrum analyzer at the end of the chain while doing sound design.
Awesome video. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise. I learned so much in just 19 minutes. Amazing!
Very cool sounds, and great instruction!
Thanks Drew. Glad you enjoy the sounds!
Thanks for the useful and cool video! I expected the video in russian, but the subtitles were well translated and i understand the information of the video. Thanks again!
Hi Johnny, super thanks. I just started translating the titles and description to Russian since I see alot of subscribers and viewers from Russia. Its just google translate, nothing fancy but I hope it works. ;) Thanks for watching my videos, and thanks for the nice feedback! Happy holidays Johnny!
@@MattiasHolmgren Happy holidays!)
Amazing! I really appreciate for you sharing your knowledge. Really really thank you.
Hey Salt, appreciate your kind feedback. Thanks for watching, more Logic tuts to come! ;)
Thank you very much for this very helpful video.
You are welcome, I appreciate your kind feedback on my Logic tutorial, and have a wonderful weekend. Stay safe my friend!
That sound is excellent when you are high on mushrooms
Haha funny 🥳🍿
great video man
Thanks Honour.
Sounds incredible :)
Thanks Will. Ive got a new Alchemy pack on the way.
Great video! Really love using alchemy :D
Hope your move is going well!
Hey David, thanks. Yeah, Alchemy is a great allrounder! Neat that it's native within Logic too. Not many DAWs comes with such a great synth. And capable of FM too! =) The move is soooon over. Move a few boxes and TVs today, almost a wrap. PHEW! Thanks for checking in!
@@MattiasHolmgren Always a pleasure
great explanations thank you
Thanks Scott! Always happy to share! Im working hard on a full Logic Pro course that will be released soon. Keep your eyes open on my channel! 👌🥁😄
I don't understand what you are doing, but I enjoyed watching it just the same! :)
Trae, I was baking an ambient cake with some weird ingredients. Always fun to have you come by and drop fun lines like that. ;) Glad to have u onboard! ;)
that was fresh....thank you so much
You are so welcome, thanks! ☀️
thanks ! now i know this a new world will open for me hahaha
Nice Video Mattias! As someone completely new to all this, it can be a bit overwhelming, but I guess it just takes time. Is there a video where you also explain how you created the analogue arp?
Hi Koen! Oh yes, it does take some time to get used to sound design. Especially if you are new to the game (so to speak). I've been doing this for many years. Great idea on the analogue arp preset, I will make the next Alchemy video on this subject. ;) Thanks for the tip. I totally forgot to include that sound since this tutorial was about creating ambient pads. Happy to hear you enjoy my Logic videos. Have a nice friday!
Sounds awesome.
Thanks Damiin!
Why oh why this amazing synth is now confined to Mac/Logic users only? I still have the old 1.5 version, the last one before the death of Alchemy's vast users base, it is an amazing piece of software with outstanding quality even nowadays, but it is not anymore a must-have state of the art leader vst in music industry.
Oh you still have the original 1.5!? Do you still use it? Yeah it was a tragic end for Camel Audio and Alchemy. Fortunately its also available on iPad, but its not the same smooth thing as having the app within your DAW. I still think its a solid plugin. But today there is many other superb vst synth / samplers like Phase Plant, Rapid, Omnisphere 2 etc.
Fortunately, Harmor is available for Windows, and it’s also... absurdly good at sampling and manipulation. I’m here watching Alchemy videos partially out of curiosity, and partially to try to learn more about Harmor, and I’m finding out that Alchemy is awesome (I figured it would be) and I’m excited to try it out at some point. I think Apple and Windows users alike are lucky to have such powerful and exciting stock plugins.
Hey, thanks for the vid!
When I load up the FM filter in B, the first control is displayed in Hz and not notes. Any idea how to change this? Thanks!
Hi Patrick, what version of Logic Pro X are you using? Might be a bug, because I double checked just now and if you select the FM filter in any of the slots (including) master page in Alchemy, the filter shows Note value instead of Hz. Glad you enjoy my Logic video Patrick!
// Cheers, Mattias
Mattias Holmgren I just updated to the latest and its fixed! Thanks so much man
Happy to hear it worked out for u Patrick. Did u check the latest Logic Pro X 10. 5 update? I did a recent live stream on it. The replay is up if you check my Discord. I Will also post another Logic video on granular synthesis with the new sampler today. Happy friday!
A real thanks to you. No seriously :)
Thanks Filip. ;)
Great video, Thanks for sharing what you know. subscribed for sure. Please make more video.
Hi Sepanta, absolutely more to come on Logic and Alchemy too. Be sure to sub at my website too so you don’t miss out on any articles, you also get a free Creative Booster Guide! Https://www.morningdewmedia.com Thanks for subscribing. ;)
Wow!
Thanks! 😋
thank you
You are welcome Jirka.
Nice quick exercise in pads, as always, thanks for an interesting video, Mattias! I also seem to see the title and description in Russian, surprisingly, glad to see :)
Have never used Alchemy and even haven't happened to see any video on that just before this, and it seems, the synth is nice. It's so easy to attract me with beautiful interface, and here it's quite sharp and clear, like how you handle it. And yes, I like the vibe of the whole snippet, too. So cinematic and, in my opinion, suits very well to your new fireplace in the background :)
As a side question: you use quite built-in effects in Alchemy quite deeply here, but in general, do you better prefer internal, external effects or it so much depends on the context? I think, I usually try to use external effects, as they seem to be a little easier and more flexible in manipulating and more future-proof in case I would switch to some another synth.
Hi Alexey, yes Alchemy is indeed a very nice synth which comes with Logic Pro X as a native synth. Neat! ;) Yes often I tend to use external (third party) effects like Valhalla Room Reverb, Trash 2 (saturation) and Replika XT as delay. But with Alchemy the included effects are quite powerful and does indeed sound very ”appealing” so I can use them with confidence. I always liked the convolution reverb included with Logic called, Space Designer and its available directly from Alchemy too. So it’s awesome. Nice interface design and appealing UI/UX sells me too. You work with your ears AND your eyes so it’s always cool to have some nice interface rhat works WIth you and not against you. ;) Glad you enjoyed the sounds. And again thanks for checking in Alexey!
@@MattiasHolmgren Yes, exactly, absolutely agree. UI and UX influence the creative process so much. It's quite important for me, as I personally have this problem of not usually so much enjoying of working on the track. I mean, it's easy to write down ideas or something, but sometimes it's not so comfortable to make it a finished track, you know :) For example, as I'm also a software developer, programming process (sometimes!) feels more interesting and fluent, and I can't help 'escaping' to programming in some key moments :) But this UI beauty and some other pleasant little things are the ones that could pull me back)
@@MattiasHolmgren Hi Matthias, nice video. I just felt I should leave a few thoughts as I'm a long time Alchemy user. It's been one of my favourite soft synths for years, still is to this day. I still just can't get over what the developers did, deciding to sell to Apple. I guess I know under the hood there are improvements but I actually prefer the appearance of the older interface, not a minimal but still somehow seems clearer and more intuitive to me. Not enough of a significant difference sonically to convince me to switch platforms to Apple/Logic. Real shame it's only native to Logic nowadays and no longer supported for other formats...
You are not alone in these thoughts my friend. I had similar feelings, but then again I switched to Logic and realized it needed a good solid native allround synth (read Omnisphere) and as Logic user I was happy for that. At the same time I also thought it would be good to be able to use Alchemy in any DAW like before... but I got Omnisphere for that. As I now roll Logic, Bitwig, FL and sometimes other DAWs it sometimes bother me that Alchemy is Logic only. But these days we have so many plugins in our lists. I have so many I forget which I have and stick to the ones I remember. ;)
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Make this a song its dope asf!
Thanks, I'm working on it. ;D
Gibt es diesen Track zu hören?
I was improvising this piece as in many of my videos. Some tracks I do release. Check my Spotify for either Mattias Holmgren or as Gelhein. Thanks!
I suscribe !!!!
Hey, thanks, happy to have you onboard!
where do you find alchemy ? I don't find this
Alchemy is stock plugin in Logic PRO X since version...can't recall exact version nr. Just make sure you are at The latest.
Mattias Holmgren thanks I find it finally 🙏🏾
A shame..the great camel audio alchemy now only on apple. too bad
Hey thanks for checking in Beep! Yeah, I think it's sad too. Wish it was available on all platforms (including Linux)! A lovely synth indeed! Though there's still a phlora of similar synths, like Omnisphere etc. =)
got omni and falcon but falcon is no fun to use. nice sounds btw. hope to see some good bitwig modulation tuts aswell as im totally annoyed about the bitwig manual (coming from renoise tracker)...keep up the good work matthias : -)
Mattias Holmgren are you using skype or something?
You can join my Discord channel.
Mattias Holmgren nice...where to go?
najzz
I love how he wasted no time with the shameless plug
Warum in Englisch????
English is the universal language on earth, so most people can understand it. You can always use subtitles (some of my videos are translated). I didn’t translate 50minute videos though... out of obvious reasons. ;) my german is not very good. It stretches to: sagt mir nicht das du wurst geessen hast? 😉