Been using Ableton over 12 years now and I still can't stop watching people use it, You always learn something new. Although I hardly ever find something I don't know about it, I still love seeing people do their own thing. Great tutorial man.
I started learning about it a week ago and most of the stuff on there looks like the control panel of a spaceship. Only thing forward is to keep practicing 💪
What you did so beautifully in your video would only have taken place 30 years ago in a studio that charges a minimum of £3000 an hour and has a ton of equipment and 5 sound engineers. Thanks for sharing and so much caring!
11:47 the clicky sound at start tells you, that the wave starts not at 0, you can avoid it by zooming in and select another start point (or like you by crossfading it).
@@koraamis5568 If you can find a clean 0 point without cutting off too much, you can get a much more seamless loop that way. However if there are no clean 0 points near the start or end, than a very sharp attack and decay envelope can get it almost unnoticeable on the raw loop, and if you're using effects then it will be enough to cover it up most of the time. Both are valid methods and each has it's own ideal use case. ;)
Agree, the climax of Annihilation had insaaane sound design, I was floored when I first heard it. The uncanny, unsettling, and unearthly sound fit that scene perfectly.
Unfortunately the most important part of the whole soundtrack is not on the soundtrack, and it's mostly uncredited that Moderat - The mark was inspiration and set the tone for the complete soundtrack. This scene, with this track is EPIC ruclips.net/video/o_-U9_Wg5dE/видео.html
Sound design challenge: 1. Realistic sound of lightning and thunder. 2. Sound of snow squeaking under your shoes when you walk in -27°C. 3. The sound of chewing you hear inside your head when eating.
Extremely useful tutorial if you're new to samplers and the possibilities of sampling in general. Thanks for the very clear and good way of explaining the sampling workflow!
@@Driven2Beats depends where i am or if i have my field recorder with me. for a lot of them I use an app called 'smart recorder' on my galaxy s22 - this will work well on any phone that has a good microphone as part of the hardware. occasionally will mean more post-processing but not always.
I have to say, I've been making music (as a hobby) for a while now, but still get soo much inspiration from your tutorials. Also, the subjects you touch are always quite unique. I really hope this channel becomes huge, you deserve it! Awesome work!
7:42 there’s a google chrome extension that you can find in the chrome web store that samples audio from the browser so that you don’t have to go to a RUclips to mp3 website. I think it’s just called sampler.
11:38 No quite, actually it means that you're starting on a point of the sample that isn't at the zero point of the amplitude. So you start with the top of a piece of audio for example and therefore the audio is jumping from 0 to say 8 (out of 10) in a split second which then counts to the speaker as a sound, and that sound is a click.
I did this with the movie The Matrix once, among other samples, even the movie 1984, using only the sounds from the film to make an entire album. It's a wild trap and thanks to Ableton you can do it. Sampling is very powerful, and makes anything an instrument.
I've done this before for a D+B track, but not with a film, with vocal samples I recorded ... made the drums the bass and everything, you could barely tell it used a voice except for the fact I intentionally left some vocally sounding bits in there for certain sounds. It was so much fun to make. I did it for half of a Acid Jungle tune another time , but with using just Canadian geese squark noise samples, and one single rouge Mongoose croak(?!) sample, to see if my mate who was into Canadian geese at the time (and the reason I decided to make it in the first place) could tell them apart... xD
The reason you get "clicks" is due to the sample starting off the zero point. Adjusting your envelope is the bandaid to the fix. If you move the start/end positions so they are on the zero point, that fixes it usually.
THANK YOU! You have sold this pure .vst composer on sampling. And not the pretentious "you need a $10000 microphone" sampling. I've been wanting to incorporate it into my music, but everything I can find on it up until now is hip hop sampling, which I totally do sometimes, but is very different from what I want to do. Thanks!
@@OscarUnderdog Yeah it seems a bit crazy when people like you do so much for their brand - I mean its hardly that exclusive a program nowadays - anyway - love your work - Thank you
every time i watch one of your videos, my mind is blown. and yet, the explanation & demo are clear and i understand how to proceed, even with little experience. thank you so much, Oscar!
I'll def try using a sampler and recording foleys. Things look much easier in Audacity compared to LMMS but also more complex. That said it's a pretty cool DAW. Thanks for helping make things fun and easy to learn! Sometimes the hardest questions have the easiest answers in sound design. Experimentation is key.
Nice. I recently sampled new model D ‘s demo from Sweetwater ,added Arturia Moog filter fx , put it in instrument rack make fake 3 Osc by copying ,with micros I made kinda controls mimicking original ,made my own little simplified moog. Good enough for simple bass.
I enjoy resampling bass patches from Serum and tweaking and resampling until I get that perfect gutteral growl sound that'll make my doberman tremble in fear. I never thought about using my voice to growl and then utilizing the above process. I bet that'll introduce some gnarly sounds. I'ma have to try that here in a minute
This is a really great idea and opens tons of creative ideas. One additional suggestion - back at 3:15 where you have the basic loop of your voice, if you zoom in and set the start and stop trim points so the waveform shape continues cleanly from the end point back to the start point, you can avoid the pop at the cut and then use any arbitrary length of it.
For sampling from RUclips I,just use my phone or iPad and use that as my audio input arm a track and record it. I actually only watch tv or listen to music this way so I can play with any sound that is inspiring
I really have no excuse for not having a mic other than being lazy... I'm not planning to deliver crisp lead vocals or record the perfect drum anyway, and my style always has at least some intentionally raw aspects, I'd probably be fine with a half decent mic while terrible ones may have unique uses too. It's kind of a blessing not going for a super clean sound when it comes to recording space too, as long as I EQ out anything too serious etc. Also great to see a Matt Johnson shoutout! It's crazy we've got musicians we love right here on RUclips. Bonus tip: There's vocal extraction algorithms (I use vocalremover) out on the internet too, mostly messy results but it's not always an issue if you're again not planning to use it for crisp lead sounds. Can download both the isolated vocals and instrumental! I've gotten tons of use out of it.
Tip I learned from messing around with izotope's vocal harmonizer: I tend to get a better tone when the input note is in the higher side of my range. Maybe it's just my voice, but I don't think so.
FUUUNNY you mention that synth sound from "Anihiliation." I have BEEN seeking out the like in preset packs.... I'd like to make it of course as well. But I never would sample it... this vid may have changed my mind!!! I just assumed there was limitations or a lack of "cleanness" to using a sample. THANKS!!! This vid was dope and you're an awesome teacher and artist!!!
Hello there great work as always man, thank you. Does anyone knows if there is a tutorial you are demonstrating this kind of beat, as in this track ?! cheers
I was today years old when I learned that you could just drop an audio file onto a midi track to open it in Simpler. You've no idea the time and frustration this simple tip has saved me!!! 😱
Really cool. ! I was doing those kind of things with my voice at the begining of samplers in 1987 (Emax) but i’m still learning things and tips with new technologies in your vidéos. Thanks.
i've never understood why people buy sampled sound and then FX the crap out of it when it's so much more fun to create your own - it's unique to you (especially if you use your voice), and there is no copyright infringement to worry about - i particularly love using Paulstretch to turn everyday found sounds into massively strange synthetic jungles - DIY sound design (including foley) are for me, the holy grails of soundscaping - especially if you're one of those people who *listen* to movies rather than just watch them - it doesn't take long before you recognise which sound from which sound library is being used, which apart from being plain lazy, kinda takes the magic out of the moment - original sound is an invitation to go deeper into the imagination of the filmmakers
Hi Oscar, would it be possible for you to make a video about separating certain sounds from a sample, and the various tools available to do so? E.g. how to separate vocals from another track and have it sound clear? I have so many ideas for sampling parts of other tracks but I’m not sure how other people manage to get the source of the sample sound so clean and not have other backing instruments in the background. Thanks!
nice tutorial, I did that voice synthesizing once accidentialy but binned it, because it didn't fit my project, but never tried that again, maybe I'll take a second approach to it again. :D
Very cool Oscar, I had a few ideas I wanted to do with my audio recordings I've collected over the years, this opens up the possibilities to do lots great weird and wonderful things.
Been using Ableton over 12 years now and I still can't stop watching people use it, You always learn something new. Although I hardly ever find something I don't know about it, I still love seeing people do their own thing. Great tutorial man.
If you want to learn something new like sample expanding, reshape or percussion sustaining, take a look to the "Synthesizer Keyboard".
I started learning about it a week ago and most of the stuff on there looks like the control panel of a spaceship. Only thing forward is to keep practicing 💪
@@stormpegasus121I also started a week ago, good luck! Been trying to do a (shitty) beat every day to try and drill in these techniques
@@z.j.mcelwain2025 That's how you do it haha keep going! I'm really into hard techno so I hope to be able to create it myself one day
Using Ableton never and I’ve heard of simpler
I like the feeling after watching your videos, like a new world has just been born
Making any sound you've heard is the ultimate goal of sound design. It takes years to learn but it's worth it.
What you did so beautifully in your video would only have taken place 30 years ago in a studio that charges a minimum of £3000 an hour and has a ton of equipment and 5 sound engineers. Thanks for sharing and so much caring!
I like how you actually have good taste. That spoils most of the music production videos I've seen :)
11:47 the clicky sound at start tells you, that the wave starts not at 0, you can avoid it by zooming in and select another start point (or like you by crossfading it).
yes, but had some trouble with stereo sounds to find a 0 point, the fade seems quite practical.
@@koraamis5568 If you can find a clean 0 point without cutting off too much, you can get a much more seamless loop that way. However if there are no clean 0 points near the start or end, than a very sharp attack and decay envelope can get it almost unnoticeable on the raw loop, and if you're using effects then it will be enough to cover it up most of the time. Both are valid methods and each has it's own ideal use case. ;)
Agree, the climax of Annihilation had insaaane sound design, I was floored when I first heard it. The uncanny, unsettling, and unearthly sound fit that scene perfectly.
Unfortunately the most important part of the whole soundtrack is not on the soundtrack, and it's mostly uncredited that Moderat - The mark was inspiration and set the tone for the complete soundtrack. This scene, with this track is EPIC ruclips.net/video/o_-U9_Wg5dE/видео.html
@@JanParkHolm Yep, great music choices for a crap film.
@@robertszordykowski4919 Crap film? Nah, Annihilation is great.
@@Brendan-Black Visually yes, but the writing made me facepalm so hard I got a concussion.
Agreed!!! That sound is masterful!!
Sound design challenge: 1. Realistic sound of lightning and thunder. 2. Sound of snow squeaking under your shoes when you walk in -27°C. 3. The sound of chewing you hear inside your head when eating.
wow this has to be one of the most incredible videos you've ever made. This video actually blew my mind, thank you infinitely for this
Extremely useful tutorial if you're new to samplers and the possibilities of sampling in general. Thanks for the very clear and good way of explaining the sampling workflow!
Sampling and granular synthesis is my favorite way to make instruments. There's something about it that is infinitely inspiring to me
Congratulations for letting the world know what it did not know was missing!
you have a gift for teaching. i’m sure it’s not the first time someone told you but thank you!
This is wild. I can imagine some very reasonable ambient techno is available from just your voice & various household objects
this is how i make most of my music. a synth, and field recordings. all my drums are made from me hitting something with something.
@@AKAtAGG inspiring as fuck, coming from a guy whos last name is Foley ahahaha
@@1Angus33 hahah I love it, would be even better if you share DNA with the great man himself...
@@AKAtAGGwhat do you use to record them sounds and transfer them into the computer , just a studio mic or you actually have an app on your phone ?
@@Driven2Beats depends where i am or if i have my field recorder with me. for a lot of them I use an app called 'smart recorder' on my galaxy s22 - this will work well on any phone that has a good microphone as part of the hardware. occasionally will mean more post-processing but not always.
I like it, in particular, when a smile gets into your face, because you are obviously happy with the outcome that you have created :-) Great channel!
Great video again. You master the stroytelling of music production! 😀
Bro explained a concept ive been struggling with within 3 minutes wtf! Your badass man!
I have to say, I've been making music (as a hobby) for a while now, but still get soo much inspiration from your tutorials. Also, the subjects you touch are always quite unique. I really hope this channel becomes huge, you deserve it! Awesome work!
Dude, if you were around ten years ago, I would never have given up making dance music. This is fantastic stuff.
Nice one. Learnt a lot from this. Thank you!!
7:42 there’s a google chrome extension that you can find in the chrome web store that samples audio from the browser so that you don’t have to go to a RUclips to mp3 website. I think it’s just called sampler.
11:38 No quite, actually it means that you're starting on a point of the sample that isn't at the zero point of the amplitude.
So you start with the top of a piece of audio for example and therefore the audio is jumping from 0 to say 8 (out of 10) in a split second which then counts to the speaker as a sound, and that sound is a click.
Wow this blew my mind! I never knew the Ableton Sampler was so powerful. I'm going to sample EVERYTHING now.
I did this with the movie The Matrix once, among other samples, even the movie 1984, using only the sounds from the film to make an entire album. It's a wild trap and thanks to Ableton you can do it. Sampling is very powerful, and makes anything an instrument.
I've done this before for a D+B track, but not with a film, with vocal samples I recorded ... made the drums the bass and everything, you could barely tell it used a voice except for the fact I intentionally left some vocally sounding bits in there for certain sounds. It was so much fun to make.
I did it for half of a Acid Jungle tune another time , but with using just Canadian geese squark noise samples, and one single rouge Mongoose croak(?!) sample, to see if my mate who was into Canadian geese at the time (and the reason I decided to make it in the first place) could tell them apart... xD
@@DaftFader sampling can create mysterious results.
The reason you get "clicks" is due to the sample starting off the zero point. Adjusting your envelope is the bandaid to the fix. If you move the start/end positions so they are on the zero point, that fixes it usually.
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*due to the sample NOT starting at the zero point
@@TheValueOfN That's basically what he said.
@@JohnDoe-kh3rc Yeah, I read it wrong.
@@TheValueOfN ..actually, you've helped me, thanks mate.. 🥃🥦
I laughed when he heard his voice 🤣 keep up the good work pal good info 👍🏼
such valuable knowledge thank u!!!
Wow this is awesome men!! the vocal synth makes such lush sound. definitely gonna incorporate this technique in some tracks
Your my favorite person on RUclips now … this is dope man … real knowledge 🙏🏽
That vowel chopping sample technique was quite prominent in the 90s uk garage scene, mainly with female vocals.
Very smart tool the sampler and a very smart teacher too ...
THANK YOU! You have sold this pure .vst composer on sampling. And not the pretentious "you need a $10000 microphone" sampling. I've been wanting to incorporate it into my music, but everything I can find on it up until now is hip hop sampling, which I totally do sometimes, but is very different from what I want to do.
Thanks!
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Woooow the quality in your videos is only evolving. 🤯
Great to see you actually work the sound with the sampler, to see it is really helpfull.
Are you a cetified Ableton instructor yet Oscar ? - because if not - you definately should be - I have learned so much fro watching you
Hahaha no ableton is asking me to jump through too many hoops to make it happen, i really dont understand their mentality 🤷♂️
@@OscarUnderdog Yeah it seems a bit crazy when people like you do so much for their brand - I mean its hardly that exclusive a program nowadays - anyway - love your work - Thank you
Man that track from Annihilation is absolutely incredible, great tune to make a little edit of and open a set with it for a palette cleanser
Dios mío, era lo que estaba buscando. Gracias hermano!
every time i watch one of your videos, my mind is blown. and yet, the explanation & demo are clear and i understand how to proceed, even with little experience. thank you so much, Oscar!
That's a good human right there
Humaning done properly
Nice Oscar
Great video! I'm inspired now. Nothing I didn't already know, but just seeing you do it for some reason gave me a bunch of ideas. Thanks!
I'm not disappointed by this recommendation, subscribed
Can't stop watching this vid. Good work. Great Tutorial too.
Wow 👏👏👏..Thanks a lot 🙏 . Today I learned a new technique 😀
Love your lil dances at the end lately 👍🏼 top marks 💯
So cool that expl. About the sampler! Loving it!
The sound crafting aspect of this is super useful for my dawless setup.
I do like the idea of grabbing RUclips samples
This was great, shared. Thanks!
Ableton’s built sampler tools seem really nice
That was such a fun tutorial. I love how we can change any sound into a musical instrument. Thanks and God bless! 🙂🙏🏻❤
I'll def try using a sampler and recording foleys. Things look much easier in Audacity compared to LMMS but also more complex. That said it's a pretty cool DAW. Thanks for helping make things fun and easy to learn! Sometimes the hardest questions have the easiest answers in sound design. Experimentation is key.
Nice. I recently sampled new model D ‘s demo from Sweetwater ,added Arturia Moog filter fx , put it in instrument rack make fake 3 Osc by copying ,with micros I made kinda controls mimicking original ,made my own little simplified moog. Good enough for simple bass.
I love you for making these videos.
I enjoy resampling bass patches from Serum and tweaking and resampling until I get that perfect gutteral growl sound that'll make my doberman tremble in fear. I never thought about using my voice to growl and then utilizing the above process. I bet that'll introduce some gnarly sounds. I'ma have to try that here in a minute
"Special magical universes that you might be emotionally attached to but you didn't have to create from scratch." 👏
Oscar - excellent example. Thank you for sharing. Your explanations are fantastic. Cheers Sir!
So good. This is now inspiring me to make a track only from one voice
really love you tu es tellement sympathique 🙂 and also the best teacher!!
😌❤
stellar work teach'
This is a really great idea and opens tons of creative ideas. One additional suggestion - back at 3:15 where you have the basic loop of your voice, if you zoom in and set the start and stop trim points so the waveform shape continues cleanly from the end point back to the start point, you can avoid the pop at the cut and then use any arbitrary length of it.
For sampling from RUclips I,just use my phone or iPad and use that as my audio input arm a track and record it. I actually only watch tv or listen to music this way so I can play with any sound that is inspiring
Nice. That bass line at the end was FUN!
This was amazing! Thanks a bunch for the video, this explains a lot! I love the ideas a lot
I really have no excuse for not having a mic other than being lazy... I'm not planning to deliver crisp lead vocals or record the perfect drum anyway, and my style always has at least some intentionally raw aspects, I'd probably be fine with a half decent mic while terrible ones may have unique uses too. It's kind of a blessing not going for a super clean sound when it comes to recording space too, as long as I EQ out anything too serious etc.
Also great to see a Matt Johnson shoutout! It's crazy we've got musicians we love right here on RUclips.
Bonus tip: There's vocal extraction algorithms (I use vocalremover) out on the internet too, mostly messy results but it's not always an issue if you're again not planning to use it for crisp lead sounds. Can download both the isolated vocals and instrumental! I've gotten tons of use out of it.
Tip I learned from messing around with izotope's vocal harmonizer: I tend to get a better tone when the input note is in the higher side of my range. Maybe it's just my voice, but I don't think so.
Interesting! Makes sense somehow!
Fantastic, will try this thanks for sharing
Really great and helpful videos! Love your tune in this too
FUUUNNY you mention that synth sound from "Anihiliation." I have BEEN seeking out the like in preset packs.... I'd like to make it of course as well. But I never would sample it... this vid may have changed my mind!!!
I just assumed there was limitations or a lack of "cleanness" to using a sample. THANKS!!! This vid was dope and you're an awesome teacher and artist!!!
This is actually amazing congrats on your success also dude
Brilliant video my bro 🤘
beautiful examples and useful points all the way
Clearly a realy cool moody sound ^^ that’s a think that i should use more. Ty for the lessons and for your energy that is realy relaxing !
Good ideas. I needed this reminder.
voice to synth,, too good!
Hi Alex, vielen Dank für die super tollen Tricks. Endlich wieder mal einen Beitrag über's Samplen. Gibt zu wenige von denen, wie ich finde. 🤗
GREAT lesson. Thanks.
Brilliant explanation
really love this, thanks from brazil!
I absolutely love your videos!!!! I have learned so much in the past 3 months watching your tutorials. Thanks for sharing
Legend - thanks bro! When you been thinking about how to do something and then you tube just comes up with the perfect solution 😁🙏
Your channel is awesome! I am learning something new every time !
Thanks!
Hello there great work as always man, thank you. Does anyone knows if there is a tutorial you are demonstrating this kind of beat, as in this track ?! cheers
you tell us about simpler's potential, I'm amazed at Oscar's potential!
I learn so much with you man! Thanks a lot!
Love u bro Ty
been thinking about grabing some samples myself, Must give it a go.
this has been sooo helpful thank you so much
I was today years old when I learned that you could just drop an audio file onto a midi track to open it in Simpler. You've no idea the time and frustration this simple tip has saved me!!! 😱
😁😁😁
Really cool. ! I was doing those kind of things with my voice at the begining of samplers in 1987 (Emax) but i’m still learning things and tips with new technologies in your vidéos. Thanks.
god bless you, fantastic video
Always, always, always x10….. Inspirational, informative and just dam good!👍💯🙏❤️
I love how it goes all Aphex Twin Ambient Works esque
Great video. Shows that you don't have to make everything complicated in life and music.
i've never understood why people buy sampled sound and then FX the crap out of it when it's so much more fun to create your own - it's unique to you (especially if you use your voice), and there is no copyright infringement to worry about - i particularly love using Paulstretch to turn everyday found sounds into massively strange synthetic jungles - DIY sound design (including foley) are for me, the holy grails of soundscaping - especially if you're one of those people who *listen* to movies rather than just watch them - it doesn't take long before you recognise which sound from which sound library is being used, which apart from being plain lazy, kinda takes the magic out of the moment - original sound is an invitation to go deeper into the imagination of the filmmakers
This track gives me Apparat vibes. Great info Oscar
Digging your approach to teaching. Could you explain how the clap/snare in Masters at Work’s The Ha Dance was created?
Hi Oscar, would it be possible for you to make a video about separating certain sounds from a sample, and the various tools available to do so? E.g. how to separate vocals from another track and have it sound clear? I have so many ideas for sampling parts of other tracks but I’m not sure how other people manage to get the source of the sample sound so clean and not have other backing instruments in the background. Thanks!
You try the peel vst .
RX 10
@jamie s
You would want to check out RipX DeepRemix (On sale until 8th December 2022).
Check the intro video: ruclips.net/video/9SzY3Xe1HS4/видео.html
you can use the latest (free) version of virtual dj. You can separate stems (vocal, drum, melody...) in it now.
@@Rizamusic RX10 as a beginner producer, yeah right
Great Video, thanks a lot lot 🙏
nice tutorial, I did that voice synthesizing once accidentialy but binned it, because it didn't fit my project, but never tried that again, maybe I'll take a second approach to it again. :D
Very cool Oscar, I had a few ideas I wanted to do with my audio recordings I've collected over the years, this opens up the possibilities to do lots great weird and wonderful things.
Oh yes! One of the last scenes from Annihilation has the coolest and most fitting synths when "the thing" is revealed.
One of my fav scores recently! The sound design in that film is on another level