Ultimate Sound Design: Mastering Sound Design

U1:Introduction

• Introduction
• My Approach to Sound Design
• Tools You Will Need
• Physics of Sound

U2:Basic Physics of Sound

• What is Timbre?
• Harmonics and Partials
• Overtones
• Waveforms

U3:Essential Tools: Sound Generators

• The Sound Generator in Synthesis
• Oscillators
• Waveforms: Sine Waves
• Waveforms: Square Waves
• Waveforms: Triangle Waves
• Waveforms: Sawtooth Waves
• Waveshapes Under the Spectrogram
• Noise Generators
• Other Sound Generators

U4:Essential Tools: The Filter

• Subtractive Synthesis
• The Filter and The EQ
• Gain and Q
• Filter Types: Low Pass Filters
• Filter Types: High Pass Filters
• Filter Types: Bandpass Filters
• Filter Types: Notch Filters

U5: Device 1: Ableton's Analog Instrument

• Looking at Devices
• The Sound Generators and Filters
• Deeper into the Oscillator Section
• Deeper into the Filter Section
• Signal Flow
• Why Two Amps?
• The LFO
• The Wub-Wubs
• Quick Routing

U6: Essential Tools: Envelopes

• What are Envelopes?
• The ADSR Format
• More than Just Amplitude
• Applying Envelopes
• Other Ways Envelopes Can Look

U7:Preset Analysis

• Preset: FatEric
• Preset: Sadness Pad

U8:Methods for Creating Sounds

• Waveforms: Thick or Thin?
• Filters: High or Low?
• Amplitude: Short or Long?
• LFO: Motion or Stillness?

U9:Other Types of Synthesis

• Applying the Essential Tools to Other Synthesis Types
• The Other Synthesis Types

U10: FM Synthesis

• What is FM Synthesis?
• Musical Examples
• What is the Same?

U11: FM8 Plugin (Native Instruments)

• Installing FM8
• The Browser
• Building our own Patches
• Getting to a Default Patch
• Adding a Modulator
• Adding More Modulators and Experimenting

U12: Additive Synthesis

• What is Additive Synthesis?
• Musical Examples
• What is the Same?

U13: Device 3: Ableton Live's Operator Synthesizer

• Setting Up Operator
• Simple Additive Patch Using the Oscillator Editor
• The Overtone Series
• Additive Synthesis with Oscillators
• Applying Filters and Envelopes

U14: Wavetable Synthesis

• What is Wavetable Synthesis?
• Music Examples
• What is the Same?

U15: Device 4: Serum

• Setting Up Serum
• Serum Basic Layout
• Wavetables
• Serum's Warp Menu
• Unison Settings
• Other Controls
• Creating Your Own Wavetables in Serum
• Wait! Isn't that Just Sampling?

U16: Physical Modeling Synthesis

• What is Physical Modeling?
• Musical Examples
• What is the Same?

U17: Device 5: Ableton Live's Electric

• Setup
• The Model
• The Mallet Section
• The Fork Section
• The Damper Section
• The Pickup Section
• The Global Section

U18: Analog Insturments

• What we Find in Analog Instruments
• My Analog Synthesizers
• Device 6: The Korg Monotribe
• Device 7: The Moog Mother 32
• The Moog Mother 32 Controls

U19:Sound Design Recipes

• How to use Recipes
• Verbalizing Sound
• "Recipe Books"

U20: Making Bass Sounds: Sound Design Bass Recipes

• Deep House Bass
• Dirty Dubstep Bass
• Pluck House Bass
• Growly Resonant Bass
• Warm Foundational Bass

U21: Making Lead Sounds: Sound Design Lead Recipes

• Plinky Little Wavetable
• Buzzy Wavetable
• Sine-Based Lead
• Aggressive Operator Lead
• FM8 Drive Lead

U22: Making Drum Sounds: Sound Design Drum Recipes

• The Ableton Drum Rack
• Synth Kick
• Synth Hats/Hi-Hats
• Synth Snare
• Synth Toms

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