That cello to synth morph melted my brain. I'm legitimately intrigued by the possibilities of additive synthesis now.

@neonblack211

2 жыл бұрын

Same.... I'd really love to see a tutorial on how that process worked

@guitatronik-music

Жыл бұрын

@@neonblack211 exactly, I'd love to hear more about that

@ChronicalV

Жыл бұрын

@@neonblack211 was there ever a video?

@neonblack211

Жыл бұрын

@@ChronicalV no not that i know of

When you said "additive synthesis is the future" I thought "prove it, dude". Later, you played that "cello" clip from one of your tracks. I then thought "well, this dude has certainly proved it". Excellent video, man. Truly fascinating stuff. Thank you.

@blitbleep

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, i almost throw my laptop out of my window when i heard that!

@kaktotak8267

4 жыл бұрын

That's how lossy audio codecs work as well. MP3, AAC, Ogg, etc. store audio data as spectral information and whenever you play any of these formats (e.g., when you are watching a KZread video), the original sound is recreated (imprecisely) based on the harmonics. That doesn't prove that "additive synthesis is the future" though. The problem is in manipulating the properties of the synthesized sound in a meaningful way.

@Pictor13

Жыл бұрын

@@kaktotak8267 that’s where deep learning can help. Retain the signature characteristics of a sound and then manipulate to obtain new sounds with similar characteristics (if i understood correctly). Lossy audio formats do the process in the opposite way, simplifying an existing sound, while here is about generating it without having a source sample but only a machine learning model that predisposes the additive synth to get a specific sound rather than doing that manually as human. This doesn’t mean there is not a musician or sound engineer behind that. It’ll be just the future way to synthesise audio on any type with a standardised tool; other types of synthesis will remain, according to the producer’s taste of course.

Explained so well! thanks for the video

"Additive synthesis is the future." I told my friend that years ago after researching the additive synthesis timbre morph capabilities in Kyma and and Alchemy. I don't think any reputable sound designer would doubt that. It's just a matter of getting computers powerful enough to render a FFT fast enough and with enough detail that it eclipses what humans can naturally hear. Just like how our sample rate and bit depth cover the resolution of human hearing. Of course, that bar will be raised once we invent cybernetic cochlear implants that not just restore hearing, but expand it. There's all sorts of fun directions that this discussion can go.

@JiMMy-xd8nu

3 жыл бұрын

same goes with sight or smell. With cybernetic enhancements, more wavelengths (frequencies) would be visually detectable by humans, now this could either mean new colors, or something completly different that we can't even begin to imagine. And for smell, we could smell certain substances (like gasoline, which is, I'm pretty sure, odorless) instead of adding smelly chemicals to the substance.

I'd love to see a video showing the process of you creating that cello sound if that's at all possible? Love the channel dude!

@EarleMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see that too

This was unbelievable. Awesome explanation, and an amazing implementation.

This is the most impressive thing I've seen on the internet in the last week. Thank you.

I have no understanding of what I'm listening to but please keep making more.

This is the first video I've seen on your channel, it's incredibly well structured and researched, I subbed straight away

Thank you for this video, you've inspired a project that I am pursuing for my Computer Science thesis project. I just got approval from the department today to design an fpga based additive synthesiser. I'll post all about it when I can, but it's about a year from full realization.

@woulg

3 жыл бұрын

What happened? Did you do it? I've been waiting for 2 years! Haha

@mihailmilev9909

3 жыл бұрын

That's so cool, so how did it go

@mihailmilev9909

3 жыл бұрын

@@woulg Yeah lmao

As someone without a technical degree or a sound engineering background, just getting into music production, this video honestly shat on my ego and made me want to run in the other direction. Watching it a second time, I really appreciate the complexity, effort, and time that went into making this skillful demonstration and definitely want to start looking into additive synthesis and some of the terminology he covers on my own, so I don’t feel so retarded next time.

that cello transforming between the realistic sound into the various synths and back again was sooo cool!

Dude, thank you for the time you put into this to explain it to us. I get it much more now, the small amount of time I spent with additive synths made me think they were somewhat limited, I was so very wrong!

You're really a sound alchemist!! Such an amazing videos. Thanks!

Would love to see a followup video demonstrating more about that cello resynthesis!

I hope you end up doing a part 2 to this, as it is a very fascinating subject. Covering how you did the cello and beyond would be fun to listen to (though I don't know if it'd be fun for your to make). Cheers.

Brilliant video Benn. Loved it.

Really dig that Cello randomisation, the way it alludes to the truth behind the sound's construction

I'd like to thank all those mathematicians & engineers whose insight have vested on us a way to understand how systems work. Moreover, all these transforms are all related... Even on quantum mechanics! And Ben, you've done an outstanding job. Thank you.

I never realized that you liked analysis/resynthesis. Me too! But man you are so great at explaining and doing the math and all. 😍

Woah, that was mind blowing. Awesome video, loved it!!

Really an inspiring introduction to additive synthesis!

this was fantastic, thank you im a uni student and have chosen additive synthesis as my main topic for an online presentation. this helped a lot. thanks dude!

wow...I love the sound you make...I LOVE that album..!

Where is your video covering the noise portion of the sound?

@becketthor6478

3 жыл бұрын

Its pretty much necessary if you want to make flute sounds

Cool to see Fourier analysis taught this way. As a scientist who deals with these algorithms, I mostly approve lol

dude. this is like. the best video i've ever seen.

wow, amazing, I'm looking up your track now, it sounds great. thanks for the video :)

mate you're an incredible wealth of knowledge! thank you

Oh wow, what a gem to hear the isolated track from Piety and the method to which you created it.

Very nice introduction and example about Additive synthesis

i love the 3d graphics! great production value

OH MY GOODNESS!! the cello business had me floored. just amazing man

You're running through this sooo fast! Yet, I've found it incredible useful 👍 really enjoying Piety of Ashes now 🤖

Thank you for clearing that up. Useful info.

Outstanding video, thank you ! I am studying csound in my free time in order to program cool synthesizers. I've got some pretty good results so far, but I hope there will be a video on csound on your channel one day.

Amazing video - great content and well explained.

As soon as you mentioned Machine Learning my mind went in to infinity 🧠

Benn, Just friggin Awesome! Looked you up on Spotify. Holy carp! Awesome!!!!Awesome!!!Awesome!!!

Excellent content, thanks so much.

Mind Blending! Thank you a lot!

Hi, I really like the way you are explaining things in your videos Benn! I am actually trying to create additive synthesis for my master project, so I am really looking forward to seeing the next level tutorial... We can find some almost similar explanations here and there, but one always lack of deeper understanding for going further, in order to reach more realistic results... I am not talking of perfect or high level recreation, but more how to enter in the real world of additive synthesis after the basics... Hope you'll find the time for us man, and long live your channel! Greg

Great intro to additive synthesis, very educational (even if i don't completely understand everything)! Loving your content so far! How would you program this in Csound?

I'd love to see part 2 of this!

Wait, did you _create_ that cello in Starlight? Was that a synthesized cello that you created?? How on earth did you model the bow-on-string attack and stuff?? WHAT AM I LISTENING TO

@EvilDragon666

5 жыл бұрын

I think he mentions swapping. So obviously there is the sample and then it crossfades between it and the modelled version, which sounds mangled. Not sure if that's correct, but sounds that way to me.

@cobiwilliams

5 жыл бұрын

@@EvilDragon666 I got the impression, both from what he says and the video caption, that the cello is entirely additive. I think he might have used a sample and some sort of machine learning to get it spot on.

@Eimost

5 жыл бұрын

@@EvilDragon666 Nope, that's definitely not crossfading. He also mentions he starts randomising the partials that make up 'what you thought was a cello'. Seems pretty clear to me. TBH if the modelled sound was that far off why would he demo it as it'd disprove his entire argument.

@ChamiCh

4 жыл бұрын

likely just adjusting partials with envelopes. the Harmor plugin in FL Studio is an additive synth plugin that i believe lets you do things like this, but it sounds like he's pretty in tune with low-level synth programming stuff so it's hard telling what tools he used for it.

@nottieru

2 жыл бұрын

I actually tried resynthesizing a violin in Alchemy, by just importing a random violin piece that was in no way prepared for that, and Alchemy made an additive synth patch that sounded very close to the violin. I believe one could prepare a sample in a certain way for the additive engine to have an easier time analysing and recreating it, so these things are real. I easily believe this was an additive cello.

Fascinating video, definitely subbed, and at this point in time, I'm seeking it video content like these to really become better at sound design, and understanding how to make anything from basically nothing 🤔👀 thanks for this video tho, learned a lot

The Kawai K5000 was a hardware synth released in 1996. It could do a lot of similar stuff to what is demonstrated here. I have a Cello patch similar in terms of realism, will get around to sharing my patch soon to other K5000 owners.

Video quality is great!

I kinda understood this, thanks for the video :D

This was lovely!

Awesome: thanks for making this.

You are awesome! Thanks engineer!

Excellent video , really helped me to understand this synth business better :D ty

Very informative, thanks!

not gonna lie. those last 50 seconds was simply mindblowing and inspiring!

I love this video!

Pleaaaaase do more videos about additive synthesis and modelling! The track with the chello is bonkers! I really want to know how to do things like this

These videos are so great, man. I'm pretty stupid but still followed. Up until deep learning making sampling obsolete, but that's neither here nor there. I would love to have a video dedicated to that cello sound because my mind is seriously in pieces right now. Actually it'd be cool for you to do little breakdown videos of other things you've used in your music too. Just so we have real world applications in a creative setting- and then an explanation of how you got there.

Utter dope ness merci boontjes

This is encredible. What the heckeroonies.

This is awesome!

impresive awesome

Even though synthesizing could require less space in disk since it only require parameters for the sound, the process of synthesizing is heavy for processors, that is why some digital/computer synthesizers usually create a temporary library with all the notes/pitches. Like a pre synthesis of the sound, so it reduce amount required process for rendering and live play. Nice vídeo, thanks for sharing!

This is brilliant.

So where's part 2? What synth were you using for the Cello? Great videos by the way.

Forgive my ignorance but I'm just now realizing I'm watching THEE flashbulb! The lawn wake series got me through a lot of hard times. Thanks not only for the music, but for the education too

This is incredible, basically with the correct maths you can make any sound that you can think of, and you can make incredibly detailed instruments without have massive sample banks, similar to your piano tec video, or is my understanding wrong

amazing video !!!

This was such a sick explanation mate, so fuckin cool

Hi Ben. Great video. I fucking love your channel. I disagree about "made sampling obsolete" however. I would argue that sampling isn't just about capturing the tone of an instrument. I think this makes instrument sample libraries a thing of the past, but actual sampling, as is the case in a lot of hip hop, for example, is about taking little chunks of a performance, usually recorded with gear you wouldn't have access to, or in a way you personally wouldn't. Sampling can be about creating a musical collage, rather than just digitising an instrument.

I dropped out less than a year before I could finish my math degree so I’m glad I have practical use for Fourier analysis now.

Ummm I'm a cellist, and i was like oh great, here comes another weak cello imitati- 11:41 when the pitch bend of a hard cello bowing came through, I was beyond shook I don't know whether to be offended or amazed, I chose fearfully amazed🙏

Not a musician, just a DJ but absolutely in love with your channel. Thank you so much for all your educative work!! It really means a lot to get input from down to earth people who embrace science !!!

@JiMMy-xd8nu

3 жыл бұрын

DJs mix stuff that they didn't even make at parties, events, they don't program synthesizers to play unique instruments and make songs. The flashbulb is definitely a musician.

@goldfish3385

3 жыл бұрын

@@JiMMy-xd8nu I was refering to myself (the dj) and just praising the musician (benn Jordan) for his amazing educative work. (as a DJ I highly value musicians dedication and passion for music creation).

@JiMMy-xd8nu

3 жыл бұрын

@@goldfish3385 Oh I completely missunderstood your comment, that's my bad.

@goldfish3385

3 жыл бұрын

@@JiMMy-xd8nu no worries, my english isnt tip top, so can easely leed to confusion

@JiMMy-xd8nu

3 жыл бұрын

@@goldfish3385 Hey, my english isn't the best either, and your comment wasn't that confusing, I just stopped functioning while reading it the first time.

You are a genious!

man you're a master programmer, nice video!

Amazing video, love this Benn! Where did you find that shirt at? It's dope as hell.

I still prefer my vintage analog additive synth from the 1960s. It has nine harmonic sine oscillators called ‘tonewheels’ and full polyphony.

this is great

I can't understand what you saying but I truly appreciate this video and will be re-watching this to try and grasp each thing that you are saying, because I just started learning and designing synthesis and for some reason I would subtract everything until I got the frequency range that wanted, regardless of dB and just say to my self, I wish I could layer over or bulk up the dB of this range because I have the sounds sculpted to the way I wanted. Kind of a novice, dumb, and borderline unintelligible comment, but the entire video I was saying: I don't understand what you are saying, but to a degree, I get what you are doing, I'm just not formally educated on the matter. Thanks for this! Hopefully I can grasp some of these theories and notions sometime soon so I can explain what I already kind of knew to others! The sine is pretty much the water of sound haha

Awesome!

these motion graphics are next level

Please, tell us how you programmed your cello!!!! (I'm binging Piety of Ashes rn).....a-lot of amazing synthesis in it!

Blew my freakin' mind.

Very good video

3 years later and I'm curious how far additive stuff has come.

Are you still planning to do another Additive Synthesis video? That bit from Starlight was beautiful.

Did you ever do the follow up video? I haven't been able to find it

Wow! I had no idea of the power of additive synth until this video. I'm now on a mission to emulate a clavinet this way. You said your demonstratrion of capturing the melodica's timbre is "not the most efficient way of doing additive synthesis in 2017." What is a more efficient process?

Wendy Carlos was so ahead of her time. She started using additive synths in the 80’s. I believe Tron was done with an additive synth.

Wow. Not easy for me to follow, but the content is great and the video is very well done. Thanks. I'd be interested in physical modeling and eurorack patching :)

I didn't know the flashbulb was making videos, wow, just wow!

I work in Linux, and recently I've gotten obsessed with experimenting with the additive synth "Organic", which is an eight channel additive synth in LMMS. I feel like, like everything else, this is taking me down a road.

I'm not exaggerating, when you said:"combined with deep learning", I jumped around and cheered for 15 seconds. From now on, I'm gonna start recommending this channel to ppl.

What if you had essentially 128 resonators for each key of the piano. Essentially each key is a very sharp EQ correlating to the note. You could also put a gate on each key and a trigger so the amplitude of the individual resonator notes would trigger MIDI on a synth. You could also do things like have each resonator's pitch stretched or arranged in a microtuning so when audio is fed through it, only harmonics relating to the current tuning of this resonator synth can pass through.

You should make a video on how you made that cello!

Sine waves adding up to look like different things reminds me of string theory

There's a new VST synth that builds it's sounds using nothing but sine waves, and a lot of clever modulation. Sines, lovely!

I didn't know you were the flashbulb, I've never sat through the entirety of red extensions of me, but sensual data is one of my favorite songs ever.

The Hammond Organ is like that too

super keen but cant find that follow up additive synthesis video on your channel....