Hey Alex! Loved your video on spectral audio effects. I found it very insightful. I think these effects can add a unique touch, especially in genres that don’t typically use them. In genres like Color Bass and Botanica, where they're common, it might be interesting to explore new ways to stand out. Have you considered making a video on achieving unique sounds in these genres using free plugins? I believe it would be incredibly helpful for producers who rely on free tools. Thanks for the fantastic content!
@@AlexReidStudios No problem, my friend! I genuinely believe your insights could be a game-changer for many EDM producers, including those in Color Bass, Dubstep, and Botanica genres. Thanks again for the outstanding content!
spectral effects are so dominant on sounddesign youtube rn, i can't even keep myself out of that myself. it's just a super hypnotising category of plugins. i wonder how long it will take until we hear a really thick beat with heavy preringing artefacts in the pop charts. who will be the first to destroy the hype? :D
Thank you for the video. I want to say a few words about the last year when I started making music. I've tried many different virtual synthesizers and FX, but the only virtual synthesizer in which I can create a very high quality and “fat”/saturated sound is Avenger 2. I can create something similar in Vital or Pigments or ANa 2, but I have to add a couple more effects to the synth. That's my experience. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, I don't know. Best of luck.
@AlexReidStudios regarding specops: infiltrator 2 also have spectral/fft effects. Just wondering, does the quality of specops differ in any way, or could the same things from specops be achieved in infiltrator 2? (any examples, not finding comparisons 😅)
SpecOps let's you decide which frequencies to affect, is like a three band multi-spectral-effect. That said, I mentioned it because it's often very cheap, and Infiltrator is more expensive
@@AlexReidStudios ahh i see. A follow up question please; can bitwig divide frequencies/fft in a similar way to specops (then use infiltrator for further processing)? (yes, I'm trying to convince myself I don't need specops 😅)
anyone who watches this. this is the principal of the times evolving. one day it was analog to digital being the newest change. now it's spectral effects, and very niche and limited to what we know. then this will pass too, and a couple more decades past. it goes on and on. but it's very cool.
Meh. Spectral effects are the most self limiting and no, it doesn't make your music unique. It makes you sound like any color bass producer. That would be the same as copying techniques from a gabber video and create another titled "how to use distortion effects to make your music 1000x times more unique".
Hey Alex! Loved your video on spectral audio effects. I found it very insightful. I think these effects can add a unique touch, especially in genres that don’t typically use them. In genres like Color Bass and Botanica, where they're common, it might be interesting to explore new ways to stand out. Have you considered making a video on achieving unique sounds in these genres using free plugins? I believe it would be incredibly helpful for producers who rely on free tools. Thanks for the fantastic content!
@@UneriumDaLion2560 Thank you for this comment :). It's a great idea, let me experiment a bit to see if I can create something
@@AlexReidStudios No problem, my friend! I genuinely believe your insights could be a game-changer for many EDM producers, including those in Color Bass, Dubstep, and Botanica genres. Thanks again for the outstanding content!
@@UneriumDaLion2560 yoo thanks a lot
4:03 They don’t use more cpu as you go up. The latency is caused by time required to process a full window. The larger the window- more latency.
in bitwig you can compensate that latency by using Time shift
@@Italliving you can do that in most daws. What I mean is that you cannot use it in real time. 1024 samples is noticeable
spectral is nice. anything that changes sounds is my thing, granular..spectral...weeeee
I'm sure there are spectral granular stuff too
@@AlexReidStudios I do own a delay that is kind of that^^
@@daviHuggMonster Me and the dev behind grans mirror actually go to uni together. We are working on a spectral granular synth.
@@ewanbristow coooooool
The grainstorm app mixes spectral and granular stuff, it's quite awesome but not a plugin yet
I love the Bitwig ones so much. The Melda ones are amazing too. But these free ones seem so rad.
same Bitwigs are GOATed
@@buckycore You'll love the next video then
4:49 FIRE MICRODROP!!!
@@Nebvla Yoo thank you
i use spectral effects heavily in making interesting pad samples, esp specops
It's like a phaser on steroids; I like it. I wouldn't want to overuse it, however (genre dependent). What a great ingredient to add to the spice rack!
Agree! But they are really fun to use!
spectral stuff is fun. im still getting into it
spectral effects are so dominant on sounddesign youtube rn, i can't even keep myself out of that myself. it's just a super hypnotising category of plugins. i wonder how long it will take until we hear a really thick beat with heavy preringing artefacts in the pop charts. who will be the first to destroy the hype? :D
They are so fun. I hope it lasts a little longer
Thank you for the video.
I want to say a few words about the last year when I started making music. I've tried many different virtual synthesizers and FX, but the only virtual synthesizer in which I can create a very high quality and “fat”/saturated sound is Avenger 2.
I can create something similar in Vital or Pigments or ANa 2, but I have to add a couple more effects to the synth. That's my experience. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, I don't know.
Best of luck.
@@michail_777 All synths are different but in the sense all of us have different workflows and preferences, so it's good :)
@AlexReidStudios regarding specops: infiltrator 2 also have spectral/fft effects. Just wondering, does the quality of specops differ in any way, or could the same things from specops be achieved in infiltrator 2? (any examples, not finding comparisons 😅)
SpecOps let's you decide which frequencies to affect, is like a three band multi-spectral-effect. That said, I mentioned it because it's often very cheap, and Infiltrator is more expensive
@@AlexReidStudios ahh i see. A follow up question please; can bitwig divide frequencies/fft in a similar way to specops (then use infiltrator for further processing)? (yes, I'm trying to convince myself I don't need specops 😅)
Can one do these tricks with bitwig native devices? :) ❤️
Yes! Next video :)
@@AlexReidStudios awesome, thanks! :)
Don't forget Spectral Compressor!
That is really good, but it has been well covered already :)
Harmor is the best spectral synth
@@akira20ish No joke I recently updated my old FL license to b3 able to play with it
💪💪
anyone who watches this. this is the principal of the times evolving. one day it was analog to digital being the newest change. now it's spectral effects, and very niche and limited to what we know. then this will pass too, and a couple more decades past. it goes on and on. but it's very cool.
Let's enjoy it while it's high :)
It’s not that we don’t know how to. It’s just not commercialized yet. This spectral technique has been around for more than two decades now.
Unique doesn't mean good
but it can
A lot of people disagree 🤣
@@ewanbristow Acquired taste perhaps
blah blah blah blah
@@philip6252 🤔
Meh. Spectral effects are the most self limiting and no, it doesn't make your music unique. It makes you sound like any color bass producer.
That would be the same as copying techniques from a gabber video and create another titled "how to use distortion effects to make your music 1000x times more unique".
Dissgree, depends entirely on how you use them
"most self limiting"
You ever used a frequency spectrum visualiser to help with eq? That's gone through spectral DSP.
@@AlexReidStudios Yes, for example, I don't think of Aphex Twin tracks with spectral effects as "color bass".