I have been trying to use custom impulses with fruity convolver lately but had trouble finding ones that sounded good. This tutorial is very inspiring thank you Au5 you're a legend.
Oh snap this is a powerful technique. I'm not even halfway done the tutorial and it's already helping me rethink my current M.O. right now I try and use Mr. Bill's fractal effects for my reverb and delays, now I can stack delays and record the response and then repeat it. Cant wait to finish watching this so I can try this out
For all you nerds out there who are following the narrative with dis boy, you can take it one step further: Convolution Reverb comes with a companion device called 'Measurement Device' which can generate an IR for use in the convolution. So if, say, you had a particular SerumFX chain that, say, was a delay-based effect (he's talking about Static Chorus), you could generate an IR for that effect. Another tip: you can make it respond non-linearly with frequency using the sweep function.
I fell in love with the M4L convolution tool and even went around and gathered some of my own impulse samples in various auditoriums and such that I liked. Quite a powerful device!
I find it so awesome when music producers share their techniques/ideas with their fans. Like, you don't have to do this, yet you do. I can't think of any other word besides awesome. You're an awesome guy.
YES! Finally someone else who uses this technique AND teaches it in an amazing manner! I had an idea on how this technique could be possible due to the nature of convolution reverb, but I sorta kinda did not go in a specific direction with my reverb, just messing around to try to find direction and struggling to find patterns. This tutorial not only made me feel more confident that there are merits to using convolution reverb, but also that there were things I was doing on accident that I needed to take further during my experimentation due to how much potential there is with it! Big fan of your tutorials Au5 ;)
Fun taking white noise and then throwing different filters (think modulated resonant combs) on it, automating those filters (separate mono channel per ear) and then bouncing that out as an IR
I think Germany is for trance and techno, as England if for DNB, France for House, Russia for Neurofunk and USA is for dubstep. Real electronic music played all over the world. This guy is part of the good producers around the world
Super cool tutorial! I like to reverse the convolution process to make morphing granular soundbeds. Load the melody or what have you as an impulse and use an actual impulse as the dry signal.
You can turn pretty much anything into a pad by convolving it with white noise that has a volume envelope with a slow attack and slow release. Great content as always my dude.
I have a handpan (fantastic instrument, if you don't know it, you should definitely check it out) and thanks to you I had the idea the use the handpan with the Convolution Reverb as resonator of other instruments. So I loaded samples of each tones of the handpan in a Convolution Reverb. Then I grouped them parallel in an Audio Effect Rack and let every Convolution respond to the corresponding frequencies of the incoming sound. So I now have the sound of my handpan, resonating with the audio signal. It sounds really nice on a some double bass and Xylophone sounds. It's giving the sounds this really nice spherical touch, that I love so much about the handpan. Especially the Xylophone has this nice tonal resonating reverb, it also really sounds great with Saw Lead Synths and sparkly pluck sounds. It also gives drums some tonal harmonic reverb. I am really grateful for this nice tutorial, I never thought, something like this was possible. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, Austin (I really should join your sound design masterclass). Love from Germany!❤
try putting vinyl crackling into the convolver and then play a short bleep through it - you will get weird arhythmical (i think that is the word for that) delays because vinyl crackling is pretty much just a bunch of impulses!
Use chunks of the song itself as the IR. Take a bar or two of your full mix, tail it out, pop it in as the IR, and drive it at 100% wetness with something like a snare which has a nice mix of distinct fundamental and full high end. Arpeggiate it over a large octave range, matching the note to whatever notes are going on in your song (ie, activating the IR where notes exist as opposed to where they do not). Filter the different components at various stages to taste. You'll probably have to take out some lows and boost some highs (at the IR stage) and add a notch filter after convolution to eliminate some natural resonance points. Great as a subtle layer of beef, space, and interest during a second chorus. Also try bouncing only the synths to be used as the IR with a short tail and use the drums as the driver. Great for a spacey build up as the drums will be triggering the same chord repeatedly.
Great video. One thing I'd like to point out is that Wider uses a combination of allpass and comb filters to process the signal. Your recreation sounded great, but you can definitely hear a complete reflection in it, where with Wider you can only notice some phasing effects if you're paying attention.
really cool vid man! i've been using convolution reverbs for years but never considered actually sound designing my own impulse. this is gonna be fun :D
You magnificient magician you! I gotta get my finances in check a little more but I'm definitely gonna take that course someday. Hopefully by the end of this year. Cause sound design and mixing is where my greatest weaknesses are right now. Thanks for thiese interesting tips. It' fascinating how you have really the basics of all this stuff down. Such an incredibly inventive and curious approach you have to this stuff.
It's so so fun watching you mess with stuff and enjoying the results, it inspires me so much to go and just try things out by myself, personally, I think this is an underrated plugin and since in the mix tutorial about how to use them I was making more practical uses of that, and he explained me the fundamentals of it, and it was such a great tutorial, and it just prepared me to come here to the "advanced tutorial" on how to get crazy with all the sorts of things you can do with impulses, you really showed how much creativity you have, no wonder your tracks sound so unique and different from one another. I've been waiting for your tutorials! because they really help out, I'm still using the static chorus effect, the cool hypergrowl with my twist which really spiced my dubstep track and definitely the tutorial on how to design your own drums, this one was totally my motivation to go on and design my own sample pack that I am using to this day in my tracks :D Anyways, really want to see you make more tutorials like that, we're enjoying seeing you enjoying playing with buttons, so we all win ;)
I would like to mention that Ozone Imager (mode 1) works in a similar way. In order: Set up a parallel chain, one dry and one with the following: Delay from 1ms to 20ms left polarity invert extract the side signal (so that you don't get anything left in mono) The dry signal is just a normal stereo width but anything above 50% (width knob) adds the wet chain, anything below 50% reduces the dry signal's sides. ie, 50% is the completely neutral state. Something I wish they'd add is a highpass so you can center the sound again. I recommend setting up a Null test to get the settings just right.
This is brilliant. I hope one day we'll get to emulate dynamics and stuff just like we do with spectrum and time data. This would be revolutionary in the sound design field.
If you right click on top of EQ3, there is a field named "flat response". If you deactivate it, i experienced the clicky effect being a bit more intensive.
Damn, I overlooked convolution reverb all this time, but this is fantastic. Thanks for demonstrating its uses. So bloody cool. It will, of course, require some experimentation though. Will be worth it in the end, though.
Oh man! Thanks for that really awesome tutorial :)) Will you make another one, for drums like there? They sounds very powerful, but organic and realistic))
Downloaded your impulse sample, click on it in browser - hear it, load it on an audio track and play - don't hear it, even if I put audio effects on it. And also it's waveform looks different from what I saw in a video :0 But the tutorial is awesome😍
Sick bro. I literally was watching your hypegrowl video last night again and applying it cuz my growls never sound growly. Something with the serum stock wavetables not cutting it because I follow all the steps.
Yes! It is loud af and kinda shocking. I watch a lot of tutorials at night and I am concerned with keeping the volume level reasonable as not to give myself a heart attack.
I knew about convolution already, and have in fact recently been experimenting with Drone/Ambient impulses from freesound - convolution is invaluable in sound design (even outside of reverb), especially when coupled with other practical effects, such as algorithmic reverb, etc. Good stuff as always!
dope man, thanks!! BTW, when you gonna drop some Neuro DnB? Or some of those new school roller type tunes? I think you'd kill it for sure. Just food for thought man, love your tunes.
I like throwing random drum sounds in and using them on synths sometimes you get weird results. I don't know how long samples can be in Ableton but throwing ambience Foley can be cool
very very rare to see a good teacher who is equally as good of an actual musician. this dude really has it all.
he's pretty au5ome
@@guwunfish hehe
Doesnt even take me 2 seconds to see this notification and click it too. Cant get enough of you man
Same
I have been trying to use custom impulses with fruity convolver lately but had trouble finding ones that sounded good. This tutorial is very inspiring thank you Au5 you're a legend.
can we take a minute to appreciate that slick intro?
Oh snap this is a powerful technique. I'm not even halfway done the tutorial and it's already helping me rethink my current M.O. right now I try and use Mr. Bill's fractal effects for my reverb and delays, now I can stack delays and record the response and then repeat it. Cant wait to finish watching this so I can try this out
Hey Spencer, what are Mr. Bills fractal effects?
@@lollern1234567 a great technique I learned from Mr. Bill on stacking effects, check it out :
ruclips.net/video/ecqiPCJlaG4/видео.html
I love the video Au5
not even a third of the way in and there's so much to chew on. you know your craft
I think im never just using a reverb plugin again, thank you so much for making these vids ❤️
For all you nerds out there who are following the narrative with dis boy, you can take it one step further:
Convolution Reverb comes with a companion device called 'Measurement Device' which can generate an IR for use in the convolution.
So if, say, you had a particular SerumFX chain that, say, was a delay-based effect (he's talking about Static Chorus), you could generate an IR for that effect.
Another tip: you can make it respond non-linearly with frequency using the sweep function.
I fell in love with the M4L convolution tool and even went around and gathered some of my own impulse samples in various auditoriums and such that I liked. Quite a powerful device!
0 dislikes, THAT'S how good this guy's content is
The intro visuals are so good
I find it so awesome when music producers share their techniques/ideas with their fans. Like, you don't have to do this, yet you do. I can't think of any other word besides awesome.
You're an awesome guy.
I don't.
Bass music industry must hate this guy for revealing so much knowledge
im so happy to be this early. doing homework but this is more important!
If I start making music one day, your tutorials will be the first I go to!
YES! Finally someone else who uses this technique AND teaches it in an amazing manner!
I had an idea on how this technique could be possible due to the nature of convolution reverb, but I sorta kinda did not go in a specific direction with my reverb, just messing around to try to find direction and struggling to find patterns. This tutorial not only made me feel more confident that there are merits to using convolution reverb, but also that there were things I was doing on accident that I needed to take further during my experimentation due to how much potential there is with it! Big fan of your tutorials Au5 ;)
You genius, we just talked about reverbs like a day ago in your server with you😂
I really like how well you explain the inner workings of effects that many of us take for granted, and manage to recreate them in instructive ways!
Fun taking white noise and then throwing different filters (think modulated resonant combs) on it, automating those filters (separate mono channel per ear) and then bouncing that out as an IR
I think Germany is for trance and techno, as England if for DNB, France for House, Russia for Neurofunk and USA is for dubstep. Real electronic music played all over the world. This guy is part of the good producers around the world
Someone knows how to make a top notch tutorial. This guy is a genius!!
Good guy AU5 using the accessable plugins.
Awesome !! Best sound design guy on RUclips !!
Extremely cool stuff from Au5 as always
Super cool tutorial! I like to reverse the convolution process to make morphing granular soundbeds. Load the melody or what have you as an impulse and use an actual impulse as the dry signal.
can't wait to see you out here in Madison! hoping to meet ya
You can turn pretty much anything into a pad by convolving it with white noise that has a volume envelope with a slow attack and slow release.
Great content as always my dude.
Dude you're freaking genious !! Amazing technique
0:20
yes, yes, i know some of these words
now i know how to use a convolver in many cool ways, thanks! :D
that "woh" moment at 11:08 ! I love watching Au5 experiment!
Austin u always being giving unique inspiring technique I've never known before
Try putting a 16th note chord stack as the impulse for adding s p a r k l e to your basses
I was so confused about what Space Designer actually did. Thanks for explaining it, I'm excited to practice this.
I'm 5 seconds in and I'm already loving it...that new intro is DOPE
Best tutorial I have ever seen!!!!!
I’m still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor. Ridiculously amazing!!!
I love these tutorials thank you so much.
holy shit your knowledge knows no bounds this is incredible.
You are a sea of knowledge. Thank you for all the experimenting and the imparting of the same.
One thing I like doing is sampling a rhythmic pattern into a convolver and adding it to just about anything. Gives it a cool non-linear vibe
I love how you can see him make the “not bad” face with the watery drum reverb
Thanks for making this! Huge fan.
I’m pretty sure the white noise vocoder thing at 10:51 is how skrillex did the cool clap thing at the end of “Doompy Poomp”
dude, actually loved just listening to this while working on stuff, so chill and actually taught me something in the process too. Fricken love you man
I have a handpan (fantastic instrument, if you don't know it, you should definitely check it out) and thanks to you I had the idea the use the handpan with the Convolution Reverb as resonator of other instruments. So I loaded samples of each tones of the handpan in a Convolution Reverb. Then I grouped them parallel in an Audio Effect Rack and let every Convolution respond to the corresponding frequencies of the incoming sound. So I now have the sound of my handpan, resonating with the audio signal. It sounds really nice on a some double bass and Xylophone sounds. It's giving the sounds this really nice spherical touch, that I love so much about the handpan. Especially the Xylophone has this nice tonal resonating reverb, it also really sounds great with Saw Lead Synths and sparkly pluck sounds. It also gives drums some tonal harmonic reverb.
I am really grateful for this nice tutorial, I never thought, something like this was possible. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, Austin (I really should join your sound design masterclass). Love from Germany!❤
Your tutorials belong to the best on music production 👌
try putting vinyl crackling into the convolver and then play a short bleep through it - you will get weird arhythmical (i think that is the word for that) delays because vinyl crackling is pretty much just a bunch of impulses!
What a great tutorial, I am using the Convolution Reverb since months, but I never knew that I could simply load in my own files. Thank you Austin!
Really great video, like usually!
You should beta test Msf and Vital. A lot of crazy possibilities.
Man you always make such wholesome tutorials, thank you and look forward to more!
A new Au5 tutorial? Yes please :)
Use chunks of the song itself as the IR.
Take a bar or two of your full mix, tail it out, pop it in as the IR, and drive it at 100% wetness with something like a snare which has a nice mix of distinct fundamental and full high end. Arpeggiate it over a large octave range, matching the note to whatever notes are going on in your song (ie, activating the IR where notes exist as opposed to where they do not). Filter the different components at various stages to taste. You'll probably have to take out some lows and boost some highs (at the IR stage) and add a notch filter after convolution to eliminate some natural resonance points. Great as a subtle layer of beef, space, and interest during a second chorus.
Also try bouncing only the synths to be used as the IR with a short tail and use the drums as the driver. Great for a spacey build up as the drums will be triggering the same chord repeatedly.
Very cool! now i know why I don't like that plugin 'wider'
Great video. One thing I'd like to point out is that Wider uses a combination of allpass and comb filters to process the signal. Your recreation sounded great, but you can definitely hear a complete reflection in it, where with Wider you can only notice some phasing effects if you're paying attention.
Love this - never thought of creating custom impulses before!
Your Growl Tutorial Was The Best Video
What a fantastic video. I def underutilize convolution reverb, that I know now!
This is insane. I need to try this out for myself. Making basses will be so much more intense with this method..!
really cool vid man! i've been using convolution reverbs for years but never considered actually sound designing my own impulse. this is gonna be fun :D
6 seconds in and I'm impressed by the production level of that intro.. or maybe i'm just a fanboy who knows
Good stuff! Makes sense to use white noise with the fast high rolloff because it imitates actual impulse responses quite well 🙂
Finally a video by Au5. Good tutorial. 👍
You magnificient magician you! I gotta get my finances in check a little more but I'm definitely gonna take that course someday. Hopefully by the end of this year. Cause sound design and mixing is where my greatest weaknesses are right now. Thanks for thiese interesting tips. It' fascinating how you have really the basics of all this stuff down. Such an incredibly inventive and curious approach you have to this stuff.
Absolutely amazing of you to make tutorials like this! I really appreciate it!
Au5 always out here with the groundbreaking tutorials how does he do it 🤔
all your vids are quality man
It's so so fun watching you mess with stuff and enjoying the results, it inspires me so much to go and just try things out by myself, personally, I think this is an underrated plugin and since in the mix tutorial about how to use them I was making more practical uses of that, and he explained me the fundamentals of it, and it was such a great tutorial, and it just prepared me to come here to the "advanced tutorial" on how to get crazy with all the sorts of things you can do with impulses, you really showed how much creativity you have, no wonder your tracks sound so unique and different from one another.
I've been waiting for your tutorials! because they really help out, I'm still using the static chorus effect, the cool hypergrowl with my twist which really spiced my dubstep track and definitely the tutorial on how to design your own drums, this one was totally my motivation to go on and design my own sample pack that I am using to this day in my tracks :D
Anyways, really want to see you make more tutorials like that, we're enjoying seeing you enjoying playing with buttons, so we all win ;)
owo what’s this? A new Au5 tutorial??
* sniff sniff *
I would like to mention that Ozone Imager (mode 1) works in a similar way.
In order:
Set up a parallel chain, one dry and one with the following:
Delay from 1ms to 20ms
left polarity invert
extract the side signal (so that you don't get anything left in mono)
The dry signal is just a normal stereo width but anything above 50% (width knob) adds the wet chain, anything below 50% reduces the dry signal's sides. ie, 50% is the completely neutral state.
Something I wish they'd add is a highpass so you can center the sound again.
I recommend setting up a Null test to get the settings just right.
thanks for the great tutorials Au5. Do you have any other channel recommendations as for learning more production stuff? Thanks
This is brilliant. I hope one day we'll get to emulate dynamics and stuff just like we do with spectrum and time data. This would be revolutionary in the sound design field.
If you right click on top of EQ3, there is a field named "flat response". If you deactivate it, i experienced the clicky effect being a bit more intensive.
That's my boy (ableton)😊
Damn, I overlooked convolution reverb all this time, but this is fantastic. Thanks for demonstrating its uses. So bloody cool. It will, of course, require some experimentation though. Will be worth it in the end, though.
Oh man! Thanks for that really awesome tutorial :))
Will you make another one, for drums like there? They sounds very powerful, but organic and realistic))
Downloaded your impulse sample, click on it in browser - hear it, load it on an audio track and play - don't hear it, even if I put audio effects on it. And also it's waveform looks different from what I saw in a video :0 But the tutorial is awesome😍
_neptune make sure auto-fade clips, and warp is disabled.
@@au5music Thank you!
really amazing teacher
Really useful video! Great content!
Sick bro. I literally was watching your hypegrowl video last night again and applying it cuz my growls never sound growly. Something with the serum stock wavetables not cutting it because I follow all the steps.
This is amazing 🙌🏽🙌🏽
That intro 😩😫
Yes! It is loud af and kinda shocking. I watch a lot of tutorials at night and I am concerned with keeping the volume level reasonable as not to give myself a heart attack.
Au5 always blows my mind with his techniques. Never disappoints. He's like a Jedi Master of Ableton! Thanks for the knowledge Master Au5.
You just earned a sub, very well done
You inspiring me. Thank You.
Is there any particular difference between resampling and freezing/flattening a track?
Because you get the same audio signal using both ways.
Freezing can take supremely longer if youre working in a large project and only want to resample a small section of time.
I knew about convolution already, and have in fact recently been experimenting with Drone/Ambient impulses from freesound - convolution is invaluable in sound design (even outside of reverb), especially when coupled with other practical effects, such as algorithmic reverb, etc. Good stuff as always!
I love your videos
You know quite a lot sir. wow!
Very informative, thanks for sharing!
man your technical knowledge is just fucking insane!! thank you for sharing it with us!!
dope man, thanks!! BTW, when you gonna drop some Neuro DnB? Or some of those new school roller type tunes? I think you'd kill it for sure. Just food for thought man, love your tunes.
LOL this is rocket science.
YES!
You are truly a king
Great Video man!
I like throwing random drum sounds in and using them on synths sometimes you get weird results. I don't know how long samples can be in Ableton but throwing ambience Foley can be cool
why that intro it's always sooo pleasing
Super intresting video. You can explain really well. Love what you do🔥✌
Nice tricks, as always