Amazing. I don't believe it. Gave a good, clear and concise definition in about a minute and provided the summary along with it instead of making you wade through 10 minutes of bullshit... and then offered examples... holy shit you purple unicorn you
Thank you so much. It’s weird to watch a video for the first time, and instantly knowing my whole life is changing because of it. This is the world I want to explore
I genuinely thought that i invented it and i was probably the only person or one of a really small group of people that did it I was just messing with the LMMS's built in sampler called audiofileprocessor and decided to cut very short waveforms of random samples Then i got a youtube shorts recommended to me called "microsampling tutorial" And i thought "ok more ppl do this but not like i do cuz i use a bunch of different "micro chops" or whatever at the same time Then i came to this video Thank you very much by the way i rly enjoy how you edit your videos and your voice for some reason sz
I've always had a deep interest in modular synths since the Doepfer A-100 came in the scene in the mid 90's as it was young and new and not dusty, old and smelling of Kraftwerk, not in a bad sense ;-) , but they were the unaffordable synths we'd never ever get to play with and then suddenly we could all enjoy playing with them. With more powerful PC CPUs arriving in the late 90's/early 2000's, emulated synths became a thing and lowered the prices of everything. My own first experience of what I'll call 'ghetto mod synthing' was using the synths and modules in Reason (first version I got was 2.5) and patching them in a primitive fashion and using a keyboard with knobs on to get the closest I could get to the perceived experience and most importantly without wobbling pitch of the hot, old beasts. And here, in this video, you've got a good micro modular/travel unit and the units are affordable and with all the hands on feel and the immediacy of patching and jabbing a lead in a few different places out of pure experimentalism and just enjoying the warbling, burbling or grinding tones. Going to binge your content having recently found you after featuring in Sam look mum no computers's vid you featured in and now a new sub!
Easily the best explanation of granular synthesis I've ever heard - easy to understand and well presented: thanx! Subscribed: hope you'll be adding more videos!
There actually was a device that allowed to alter pitch and speed independently completely analog. The principle was pretty similar to granular synthesis: It head a read head that rotated above the tape. The speed with what it rotated can alter the pitch, while the linear movement of the tape can alter the speed.
Tempophon or Springer Machine, for reference. Not alot out there about this device! been around as early as the 50's, from what I can tell... Tried to cobble one together using the spinning tapehead from a VCR. No luck so far
Thanks I've been experimenting with granular synthesis in audiomulch but didn't really understand what I was doing. This has given me more things to try.
Thx much you just sold me with e features and workflow, the sound, being able to reduce speed and keep pitch ......this seems easier to navigate and get results desired for me than morphogene which I never warmed up to it....sorry 4 the typos
Great video, thank you. Being a newbie to synthesis (guitarist by nature) I have found a generous community willing to share info & technique! I am stepping away from iOS synths (love them dearly) into hardware synths. I have found a love for granular synthesis and all things modular. My musician friends give me a hard time but I’m finding some of them asking about it when I am listening to the Social Network soundtrack. Lol
Found my way back to your channel now that I've finally begun my modular journey! Love that you include VST examples here... another one I've been using is Reason's aptly named "Grain" which offers lots of control over things like loop points, playback direction, jitter etc
GlitchMachines make several VST plugins that include granulation in them. FractureXT and Quadrant are two examples. These plugins are meant to entitrely reprocess the source audio. The granular synthesis is a part of the larger overall sound processing engine. I watched your video so I could understand better how to use this processing. Thanks for the great info.
i like your volume balance. a lot of music making channels have their music way up so it sounds more big and impressive and probably so you can hear the details, but i just feel fatigued at the end of those videos and don't want to work on my own music anymore.
Absolutely brilliant explanation of granular synthesis! So inspiring! One small note is that the complex and complex pro warp modes in Ableton are actually spectral stretching, which just means you doing a Fourier transform on the signal, store the amp and phase of all the bins, and then play back from that buffer. You can sort of think of it as granular since the Fourier transform happens on little grains at a time (this is called your fft window), but depending on how you do either inverse fft or you can just resynthesize it by using a bunch of sine waves (that's sometimes called additive synthesis). The key difference is whether you do the Fourier transform or not, that's what makes it "spectral". Also, side note, there are other transforms you can use that do the same thing like wavelet or constant q, I think there are others as well, but they are less common afaik. In terms of how it sounds you can tell the difference by how sloshy it sounds, granular usually has sort of grainy sound (although that nebula thing sounds reaaaally smooth and nice) and spectral has more of a sloshy kind of sloppy sound. This is due to the fact that the Fourier transform has a trade off between fidelity in the frequency domain vs the time domain, you can kind of solve this with overlapping the fft windows but it does still sound kinda sloshy imo. Anyway, absolutely beautiful video again, I'm really happy to have found your channel and am looking forward to watching more. Great production, super clear explanations, wonderful sounds, all around brilliant. Edit: 3blue1brown does a couple good explanations of Fourier transforms and the Fourier series if you're interested
@@WhiteNoises would be awesome to see you do a video on that stuff too! I tried but I bunged it up pretty bad (I'm not a great presenter haha) so it would be awesome to see a pro like you handle it. There aren't many great videos on this stuff unfortunately (at least not that I've found), even tho it's in basically every daw now.
Thank you! As a self-producing singer/songwriter, I keep seeing granular VSTi's and I had no idea what that meant, until today! Now, I understand how granulation allows digital audio to be sped up and slowed down without changing the pitch. I grew up with a record player and used to play with changing the speed, so between that experence as a toddler, and your video, I really feel that I understand granulation now, in a very in-depth way, and how it could apply to my future projects.
THIS IS AMAZING!! I’ve been developing car sounds and I just recently had the “idea” : I wish I could use an engine sound sequence and then just loop a portion of the sound depending on the RPM… Well just discovered that that is granular synthesis, I wasn’t even sure if it was possible!
very nice explanation. helped me clarify some notions of granular synthesis. that new Nebulae is a real powerhouse! I also can't wait to see what mutable instruments has in store for this end of year.
Thank you teacher, well done : ) Your way of explaining this, compared to other things I'v seen and read was really easy to comprehend and I think you got to the core here. Good I can't afford all these tempting modules you and others demonstrate on youtube as I don't even have time to play enough with the gear I already got.
In love with the quality of your videos.. theyre all crazy informative at the depth i would want while never wasting time, always visually appealing, and educational in ways you never expect. All the while you actually source everything. Thanks so much and please keep it up!
Thanks for this explanation- I kind of stumbled into this world and learned some things intuitively before deciding to go back and try to be more intentional about it - though what I've found really satisfying is how this can happen as a performance, so you can settle on a particular algorithm (which itself can(should?) be modified in real time) and as you play and feed it input, it will output this beautiful cloud or cluster that's responsive in every way to what you've played- your own created world in a bubble, and as a performer you can float on top of it or dive beneath the surface. It reminds me of the struggle against entropy, and how allowing things to fly apart often doesn't result in chaos but in the emergence of new and unexpected patterns. It's been a while since I had my conception of music shaken up. Feels good.
Thanks for all your demos. I’m looking to start a modular set up before long. I love my Moog and my DSI Prophet, but I need some more options. Your tutorials really break it down and make it not so scary. You’re the best.
It is nice to get a simple explanation, that can help you understand the things that everyone else is jumping over. Thank you. I stated with the Grainstorm App. It would be fantastic if you explained the basic concepts using that.
Thank you very much for this clear explanation and sensible demo! I've heard granular pieces by other chaps and disliked the stuttering sound, but you use the effect tastefully, and now I want a granular module for my nascent rig!
Thank you for the great explanation and references. I would add Reaktor from NI to the list of software for granular experiments. You can build your own synth or use one from User Library
Thank you so much for explaining this in detail. Always wanted to know what Granular Synthesis was. Now I have a clear idea of what it is and which modules to chose. :)
"Granular" is an aptly-named granular synthesizer for Android. I haven't used it a lot, but at first glance it seems pretty powerful. Might be a pain to move samples to your phone and record/export back all the time though!
Thank you! Im a music student and you explained this in more clarity and detail in 10 mins than my tutor could in 2 hours. I didnt realise how interesting granular synthesis actually is. p.s. are you Loki?
Absolutely BADASS!! Great explanation of granular synthesis, and a damn fascinating module! Is that a custom build?? It almost makes the Moog Sub 37 look boring, but I think it could pair quite nicely going into that bad-boy!
I was very impressed by the fact that you recommended Curtis Roads' Microsound. It's a very nice book. By the way, you may want to check the seminal work by Canadian composer Barry Truax. "Pacific" comes to mind.
Something I thought might be neat would be to reconstruct dialog with random sound effects that closest match the required tone & texture. Like Bumblebee of the Transformers movie does, but more ... granular. Know of any software or hardware that does such a thing?
I did reaserch similar to this at the U of Maddison. You formed it very well and any professor would enjoy this synthesis explained. I admire you for reaching out to the younger generation with videos like this!
I came here because Hainbach showed his device for granular synthesis for the Bauhaus project and i don't know anything about it. And now i am spotting a Hainbach tape in the left upper corner.
Very informative... Thanks :-). Clouds was already on my radar, although it is now discontinued. I believe it is possible to find 3rd party builds of Clouds and I have been looking into that. Also, I believe that MI is developing a Clouds "successor" but there is no time scale on this yet. I wasn't aware of Nebulae, so that has certainly made me think about my options. And using both Nebulae and Clouds together sounds like an awesome idea. Although my Modular Journey is featuring sequencing at the moment I have spent the last couple of years creating drones in my DAW using a combination of Adaptiverb (Zynaptiq) and MGranularMB (Melda) which, from a software point of view are the ultimate drone VST effects (IMO of course). But I am trying to get to a point where I can create the same sort of stuff entirely with hardware. So, yeah, thanks again for this vid :-). Cheers, andy
Mutable did discontinue the Clouds module, but there's an excellent alternative called the uClouds, exactly the same sound and functionality but in 8hp. uclouds.site123.me/
That was very inspiring - thanks for sharing, a great step towards exploring further. Just a tiny thing, his name is pronounced as [ksenakis] as it’s the Greek letter ξ 😊
Thanks! Some people are releasing smaller versions of Clouds called uBurst or uClouds -- might be able to find one of those! It's the same thing but in a smaller package.
Amazing. I don't believe it. Gave a good, clear and concise definition in about a minute and provided the summary along with it instead of making you wade through 10 minutes of bullshit... and then offered examples... holy shit you purple unicorn you
Thank you so much. It’s weird to watch a video for the first time, and instantly knowing my whole life is changing because of it. This is the world I want to explore
watch a video online? Where have you been? lol
as weird as it sounds, i know what you mean
No
@@kojik4271 no
@@beatsbyguillermo8802 no
Oh wow, that was really nice! This combination of Nebulae and Clouds is mesmerizing... Thank you!
Your vocabulary when talking about sounds is so inspiring.
I use granular synthesis in almost all of my compositions. Bineural processing too.
I genuinely thought that i invented it and i was probably the only person or one of a really small group of people that did it
I was just messing with the LMMS's built in sampler called audiofileprocessor and decided to cut very short waveforms of random samples
Then i got a youtube shorts recommended to me called "microsampling tutorial"
And i thought "ok more ppl do this but not like i do cuz i use a bunch of different "micro chops" or whatever at the same time
Then i came to this video
Thank you very much by the way i rly enjoy how you edit your videos and your voice for some reason sz
so that's what culprate used at the start of Acid Rain... neat!
I've always had a deep interest in modular synths since the Doepfer A-100 came in the scene in the mid 90's as it was young and new and not dusty, old and smelling of Kraftwerk, not in a bad sense ;-) , but they were the unaffordable synths we'd never ever get to play with and then suddenly we could all enjoy playing with them.
With more powerful PC CPUs arriving in the late 90's/early 2000's, emulated synths became a thing and lowered the prices of everything. My own first experience of what I'll call 'ghetto mod synthing' was using the synths and modules in Reason (first version I got was 2.5) and patching them in a primitive fashion and using a keyboard with knobs on to get the closest I could get to the perceived experience and most importantly without wobbling pitch of the hot, old beasts.
And here, in this video, you've got a good micro modular/travel unit and the units are affordable and with all the hands on feel and the immediacy of patching and jabbing a lead in a few different places out of pure experimentalism and just enjoying the warbling, burbling or grinding tones.
Going to binge your content having recently found you after featuring in Sam look mum no computers's vid you featured in and now a new sub!
I put some granulated sugar in my coffee
Dammit. Me too.
😂😂😂😂😂
Easily the best explanation of granular synthesis I've ever heard - easy to understand and well presented: thanx! Subscribed: hope you'll be adding more videos!
damn bruh these ambients are amazing
Was just about to buy a microclouds, this video helps solidify the choice, thank you!
There actually was a device that allowed to alter pitch and speed independently completely analog. The principle was pretty similar to granular synthesis: It head a read head that rotated above the tape. The speed with what it rotated can alter the pitch, while the linear movement of the tape can alter the speed.
wow wow wow. this is the only youtube comment that i haven't regretted reading. thank you that's so so cool
Tempophon or Springer Machine, for reference. Not alot out there about this device! been around as early as the 50's, from what I can tell... Tried to cobble one together using the spinning tapehead from a VCR. No luck so far
If you like granular synthesis you should also try the GRM Tools, IRCAM's CataRT and Karlheinz Essl
's standalones. Great stuff !
@Margot Bucau
I’ve been looking for stuff like this, thank you!
Thanks I've been experimenting with granular synthesis in audiomulch but didn't really understand what I was doing. This has given me more things to try.
i love granular synthesis
Thx much you just sold me with e features and workflow, the sound, being able to reduce speed and keep pitch ......this seems easier to navigate and get results desired for me than morphogene which I never warmed up to it....sorry 4 the typos
Thank you. I've just started my journey into sound synthesis.
Great video, thank you. Being a newbie to synthesis (guitarist by nature) I have found a generous community willing to share info & technique! I am stepping away from iOS synths (love them dearly) into hardware synths. I have found a love for granular synthesis and all things modular. My musician friends give me a hard time but I’m finding some of them asking about it when I am listening to the Social Network soundtrack. Lol
You’re clever and I like you. Great book shots!!!
Found my way back to your channel now that I've finally begun my modular journey! Love that you include VST examples here... another one I've been using is Reason's aptly named "Grain" which offers lots of control over things like loop points, playback direction, jitter etc
GlitchMachines make several VST plugins that include granulation in them. FractureXT and Quadrant are two examples. These plugins are meant to entitrely reprocess the source audio. The granular synthesis is a part of the larger overall sound processing engine. I watched your video so I could understand better how to use this processing. Thanks for the great info.
i like your volume balance. a lot of music making channels have their music way up so it sounds more big and impressive and probably so you can hear the details, but i just feel fatigued at the end of those videos and don't want to work on my own music anymore.
Absolutely brilliant explanation of granular synthesis! So inspiring! One small note is that the complex and complex pro warp modes in Ableton are actually spectral stretching, which just means you doing a Fourier transform on the signal, store the amp and phase of all the bins, and then play back from that buffer. You can sort of think of it as granular since the Fourier transform happens on little grains at a time (this is called your fft window), but depending on how you do either inverse fft or you can just resynthesize it by using a bunch of sine waves (that's sometimes called additive synthesis). The key difference is whether you do the Fourier transform or not, that's what makes it "spectral". Also, side note, there are other transforms you can use that do the same thing like wavelet or constant q, I think there are others as well, but they are less common afaik. In terms of how it sounds you can tell the difference by how sloshy it sounds, granular usually has sort of grainy sound (although that nebula thing sounds reaaaally smooth and nice) and spectral has more of a sloshy kind of sloppy sound. This is due to the fact that the Fourier transform has a trade off between fidelity in the frequency domain vs the time domain, you can kind of solve this with overlapping the fft windows but it does still sound kinda sloshy imo.
Anyway, absolutely beautiful video again, I'm really happy to have found your channel and am looking forward to watching more. Great production, super clear explanations, wonderful sounds, all around brilliant.
Edit: 3blue1brown does a couple good explanations of Fourier transforms and the Fourier series if you're interested
Thanks very much for the explanation! Great to know
@@WhiteNoises would be awesome to see you do a video on that stuff too! I tried but I bunged it up pretty bad (I'm not a great presenter haha) so it would be awesome to see a pro like you handle it. There aren't many great videos on this stuff unfortunately (at least not that I've found), even tho it's in basically every daw now.
Thank you! As a self-producing singer/songwriter, I keep seeing granular VSTi's and I had no idea what that meant, until today! Now, I understand how granulation allows digital audio to be sped up and slowed down without changing the pitch. I grew up with a record player and used to play with changing the speed, so between that experence as a toddler, and your video, I really feel that I understand granulation now, in a very in-depth way, and how it could apply to my future projects.
THIS IS AMAZING!! I’ve been developing car sounds and I just recently had the “idea” : I wish I could use an engine sound sequence and then just loop a portion of the sound depending on the RPM…
Well just discovered that that is granular synthesis, I wasn’t even sure if it was possible!
very nice explanation. helped me clarify some notions of granular synthesis. that new Nebulae is a real powerhouse! I also can't wait to see what mutable instruments has in store for this end of year.
There´s the paul's extreme sound stretch plugin which is free and amazing
cool you mention Xenakis!
Dang, I just learned how to create crazy pads just by understanding this technique you showed
I really like the pitch change when slowing down, I understand that Nebulae undoes that...That chip,
Teensyduino.
I was very pleased to hear you cite the 2hp Pluck as pairing well with granular sounds. Couldn't agree more!
Thank you teacher, well done : ) Your way of explaining this, compared to other things I'v seen and read was really easy to comprehend and I think you got to the core here.
Good I can't afford all these tempting modules you and others demonstrate on youtube as I don't even have time to play enough with the gear I already got.
In love with the quality of your videos..
theyre all crazy informative at the depth i would want while never wasting time, always visually appealing, and educational in ways you never expect. All the while you actually source everything.
Thanks so much and please keep it up!
Thanks for this explanation- I kind of stumbled into this world and learned some things intuitively before deciding to go back and try to be more intentional about it - though what I've found really satisfying is how this can happen as a performance, so you can settle on a particular algorithm (which itself can(should?) be modified in real time) and as you play and feed it input, it will output this beautiful cloud or cluster that's responsive in every way to what you've played- your own created world in a bubble, and as a performer you can float on top of it or dive beneath the surface. It reminds me of the struggle against entropy, and how allowing things to fly apart often doesn't result in chaos but in the emergence of new and unexpected patterns. It's been a while since I had my conception of music shaken up. Feels good.
Loving my clouds but Nebulae sounds fantastic, thanks!
I already played with granular in UVI Falcon but still liked your explanation a lot, thanks for your clear videos.
I love this stuff, Squarepusher introduced this to me
great tutorial! you deserve more views
Thanks for all your demos. I’m looking to start a modular set up before long. I love my Moog and my DSI Prophet, but I need some more options. Your tutorials really break it down and make it not so scary. You’re the best.
It is nice to get a simple explanation, that can help you understand the things that everyone else is jumping over. Thank you.
I stated with the Grainstorm App.
It would be fantastic if you explained the basic concepts using that.
Thank you very much for this clear explanation and sensible demo! I've heard granular pieces by other chaps and disliked the stuttering sound, but you use the effect tastefully, and now I want a granular module for my nascent rig!
You never fail to make me want new modules! Fantastic job my man :) also I love the discreet hainbach cassette
You have the most insightful videos on synthesis, really appreciate what you're doing !
Thank you for the great explanation and references. I would add Reaktor from NI to the list of software for granular experiments. You can build your own synth or use one from User Library
Best video for granular synthesis around
Thank you so much for explaining this in detail. Always wanted to know what Granular Synthesis was. Now I have a clear idea of what it is and which modules to chose. :)
Excellent explanation! thank you!
Awesome lesson man! And an honourable commendation to your description 🙏
granular synth is not at all what i thought and this was a great explanation
"Granular" is an aptly-named granular synthesizer for Android. I haven't used it a lot, but at first glance it seems pretty powerful. Might be a pain to move samples to your phone and record/export back all the time though!
I know I'm 3 years late, but, I really enjoyed your video Cheers.
Don't forget to mention the king of all granular synth's, the one and only Tasty Chips GR-1 !!
Clean, supported by understandable examples, explanation , approachable to the wider audience , nice!
Thank you! Im a music student and you explained this in more clarity and detail in 10 mins than my tutor could in 2 hours. I didnt realise how interesting granular synthesis actually is.
p.s. are you Loki?
Sounds lovely
You have a gift for teaching...amazing video my friend!
Thank you so much from Argentina.
very useful i was was in between the morphagene and the Nebulea. But after seeing this video i'm pretty much convinced that i will get the NEBULAE
beautiful sounds, excellent and eminently understandable tutorial. this is how videos should be done. bravo. first class work!
You look like a good human; thank you. God bless...
Hey man miss your videos. Hope you're still writing music and doing well, whatever you're doing.
McEnroe911 he’s still quite active on Instagram and posts patch walkthroughs on his story every once in a while
@@caydilemma3309 What is his IG handle? I can't seem to find anything under the name "white noises".
Absolutely BADASS!! Great explanation of granular synthesis, and a damn fascinating module! Is that a custom build??
It almost makes the Moog Sub 37 look boring, but I think it could pair quite nicely going into that bad-boy!
Thanks for putting the time into explaining this!
This is a great explanation really cool thanks so much.
on iOS check out Borderlands and iDensity!
Such great content and presentation! Very awesome and much appreciated.
Beautiful sounds..
This is very enjoyable to watch. Looking into building my own rack. Keep up the good work!
I was very impressed by the fact that you recommended Curtis Roads' Microsound. It's a very nice book. By the way, you may want to check the seminal work by Canadian composer Barry Truax. "Pacific" comes to mind.
Great explanation and some really beautiful sounds.
This was mighty helpful. Thank you.
Amazed you didn't mention Logic Pro's Alchemy, granular synthesis and just about anythig else in one package
No way I spot 2 Gohan tapes! Thanks for the support
Gohan tapes rock!
@@WhiteNoises your video was really helpful. I ended up getting nebulae
Something I thought might be neat would be to reconstruct dialog with random sound effects that closest match the required tone & texture. Like Bumblebee of the Transformers movie does, but more ... granular. Know of any software or hardware that does such a thing?
excellent, clearly explained video. thankyou
I did reaserch similar to this at the U of Maddison. You formed it very well and any professor would enjoy this synthesis explained. I admire you for reaching out to the younger generation with videos like this!
for ableton (max for live) there is also dillon bastan's IOTA
Thanks a lot for this video! It was greatly explained!
Love granular synthesis.. this is such a great explanation. Fantastic video!
I came here because Hainbach showed his device for granular synthesis for the Bauhaus project and i don't know anything about it. And now i am spotting a Hainbach tape in the left upper corner.
Great tutorial. Thanks
Best explanation out there.. And a very cool module too!
I just found your channel this morning. Great stuff. Liked and subscribed.
Just discovered your channel. Incredible content, thank you so much!
Wow. I absolutely loved your explanation. It really helped me.
nice demo on this!
Hey i love your work..
Interesting stuff!
Amazingly educational and interesting video. Thank you so much
Thanks for this awesome video. I might get this module one fine day.
very helpful stuff! Thanks for this
Very informative... Thanks :-). Clouds was already on my radar, although it is now discontinued. I believe it is possible to find 3rd party builds of Clouds and I have been looking into that. Also, I believe that MI is developing a Clouds "successor" but there is no time scale on this yet. I wasn't aware of Nebulae, so that has certainly made me think about my options. And using both Nebulae and Clouds together sounds like an awesome idea. Although my Modular Journey is featuring sequencing at the moment I have spent the last couple of years creating drones in my DAW using a combination of Adaptiverb (Zynaptiq) and MGranularMB (Melda) which, from a software point of view are the ultimate drone VST effects (IMO of course). But I am trying to get to a point where I can create the same sort of stuff entirely with hardware. So, yeah, thanks again for this vid :-). Cheers, andy
Mutable did discontinue the Clouds module, but there's an excellent alternative called the uClouds, exactly the same sound and functionality but in 8hp. uclouds.site123.me/
This was such a helpful video! Clicked on "Subscribe" after. :)
That was very inspiring - thanks for sharing, a great step towards exploring further. Just a tiny thing, his name is pronounced as [ksenakis] as it’s the Greek letter ξ 😊
oh my god, is that a tuning fork module??
great explanaition thx for that! Unfortunately MI clouds is not anymore available can you recommend something similar module like that? thx again :)
Thanks! Some people are releasing smaller versions of Clouds called uBurst or uClouds -- might be able to find one of those! It's the same thing but in a smaller package.
That patch at 5:00 tho!
🌟❤️ This is all pretty awesome! Thanks for the explanation. Subscribing and passing along vid to class today.
this sounds very familiar! 3:42
I wonder where that's from! 🤭