I love Polymer as both a synth and as an interface concept for the Grid. Try as I might I just can't get myself to really enjoy using or learning the Grid itself, so Polymer offers a wonderful set of options for me. It can be both simple and complex (enough for my purposes anyway) with all the modulators, effects chains etc. Either way it's a joy for me to explore It'd be pretty dope to see some future exploration of interface-designing concepts like Polymer in Bitwig imo
I’d really like polymer to be like, blocks or segments that you can add or replace too. Which really seeing a daw interface earn the verticality of phaseplant would be amazing
I agree that some way to build your own interfaces would be fantastic. The control panels are barely adequate. I've heard some eurorack designers talk about a "hierarchy" among controls, eg the cutoff frequency knob is usual the biggest, and the control panel makes everything the same color and same size and you can't even rename the knobs unless they're macros instead of literal controls.
Great video man! I really like your presentation style - organized but laidback. The building up of a sound from scratch was great to see and hear. For that final rack you show - THE PREDATOR - sounds like theres some cool comb filtering stuff going on? Also, just because I'm curious, why do you have everything in all caps? Stylistic choice?
Nice video! Learned a few neat tricks. Re 11:00 (key tracking) - its relative to the cut off, e.g. set cut-off to C3 and press C3 and the cut-off will be unchanged.
14:13 the reason it does this is because the saturator is creating more/less harmonics of the fundamental. If the low pass is turned down, the harmonics of the fundamental are not created leaving you with only the fundamental which will sound "cleaner". If you turn the low pass up, the saturator will create as many harmonics of the fundamental as possible within the selected frequency spectrum. It will sound more distorted the more you increase the drive because the drive its only increasing the level of the harmonics and not the level of the fundamental.
I think the filter in saturator acts before the wave shaper, so the cleaner sound is more an effect of less intermodulation (and less aliasing) rather than fewer harmonics of the fundamental.
i wonder if the fatness of your wavetables comes from the nonlinearities in vca and filter, they have some in built drive. if you ever want a clean result you need to turn down filter input gain by quite a bit
This video is awesome.... Again... At 14min, you ask why the Low Pass filter of the saturator makes the sound crunchier when activated and more pleasant and smooth when not. I think it is because when you low pass, the saturator hasn't to work anymore on the loud part of the bass so it only works on the medium trebble that are as a result more impacted. When you turn back the bass, it gives a lot of work to the saturator and it affects less the medium and trebble (roughly similar logic than compressor), hence smoother sound.
I haven't tested, but i would guess that the filter, even totally open with drive at zero dB, is going to saturate a bit. Especially since the default resonance saturation is -10 dB.
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36:43 here from the future just to say that Filter+ puts all the filters and wave shapers from the grid into a regular effect
Mhm, this video is a few years old
I love Polymer as both a synth and as an interface concept for the Grid. Try as I might I just can't get myself to really enjoy using or learning the Grid itself, so Polymer offers a wonderful set of options for me. It can be both simple and complex (enough for my purposes anyway) with all the modulators, effects chains etc. Either way it's a joy for me to explore
It'd be pretty dope to see some future exploration of interface-designing concepts like Polymer in Bitwig imo
I’d really like polymer to be like, blocks or segments that you can add or replace too. Which really seeing a daw interface earn the verticality of phaseplant would be amazing
I agree that some way to build your own interfaces would be fantastic. The control panels are barely adequate. I've heard some eurorack designers talk about a "hierarchy" among controls, eg the cutoff frequency knob is usual the biggest, and the control panel makes everything the same color and same size and you can't even rename the knobs unless they're macros instead of literal controls.
Great video man! I really like your presentation style - organized but laidback. The building up of a sound from scratch was great to see and hear. For that final rack you show - THE PREDATOR - sounds like theres some cool comb filtering stuff going on? Also, just because I'm curious, why do you have everything in all caps? Stylistic choice?
Thank you! Everything is in all caps because I constantly have the virtual keyboard turned on lol
@@Alckemy All for the practicality man, love it!
Nice video! Learned a few neat tricks.
Re 11:00 (key tracking) - its relative to the cut off, e.g. set cut-off to C3 and press C3 and the cut-off will be unchanged.
14:13 the reason it does this is because the saturator is creating more/less harmonics of the fundamental. If the low pass is turned down, the harmonics of the fundamental are not created leaving you with only the fundamental which will sound "cleaner". If you turn the low pass up, the saturator will create as many harmonics of the fundamental as possible within the selected frequency spectrum. It will sound more distorted the more you increase the drive because the drive its only increasing the level of the harmonics and not the level of the fundamental.
I think the filter in saturator acts before the wave shaper, so the cleaner sound is more an effect of less intermodulation (and less aliasing) rather than fewer harmonics of the fundamental.
Just bought your Bitwig pack, it's awesome.
Great stuff 🎉
i wonder if the fatness of your wavetables comes from the nonlinearities in vca and filter, they have some in built drive. if you ever want a clean result you need to turn down filter input gain by quite a bit
_got me stoked on bitwig bro, I'm gonna give it go!_
Wait for a sale or use my discount code!
This video is awesome.... Again... At 14min, you ask why the Low Pass filter of the saturator makes the sound crunchier when activated and more pleasant and smooth when not. I think it is because when you low pass, the saturator hasn't to work anymore on the loud part of the bass so it only works on the medium trebble that are as a result more impacted. When you turn back the bass, it gives a lot of work to the saturator and it affects less the medium and trebble (roughly similar logic than compressor), hence smoother sound.
That’s the presets everybody was waiting for… 🔥
They’re available on my website :)
Had no idea about converting to polygrid. Super sick
WOW. Amazing bass tutorial. TY
Glad you like it!
Id love them to flesh out FM-4 a bit
I haven't tested, but i would guess that the filter, even totally open with drive at zero dB, is going to saturate a bit. Especially since the default resonance saturation is -10 dB.
Great Channel!
Keep going...
Thanks! Been around a while, here to stay
Did you shutdown your twitch channel? Tried looking for it but cant seem to find. Thanks for the video!!!
No it’s under alckemy_official but I haven’t streamed to twitch in years. I broadcast on RUclips 4 days a week though
9:04 bless you
Thank you!
are your wavetables up for sale anywhere? thanks!
Hello, on my website I have some labeled as alckemys bestiary. 50 morphing wavetables
Watching this on the phone is a torture. Please zoom in the GUI next time :)
on desktop is not much better. I think you should have 50 inch tv :D
@@sebaszwarc I have. But not while I'm commuting on a metro to home from work :P
@@Artek604 czyli jesteś z Warszawy? :]
@@sebaszwarc Tak :)
@@Artek604 To ja nie mam tego problemu bo u nas nie ma metra :D za to tramwaje tak skrzypią że nie dałoby się i tak oglądać :(
Why the only quality available is 360p?
the video is still processing. will be available in hd in a bit
Polymer is a bit like Serum
polymer is worth eploring imo
it definitely deserves attention!
too large screen so I can't see detail.
Although I’ve addressed this in future videos, you can zoom in:)
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I love the teachings, but i really don’t get the sounds, to me it sounds demonic….
An, I see you found my cult. Welcome