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When i search on youtube all I find is bullshit about "How to make a skrillex fat heavy drop bass", or "Knife Party crazy talking bass", etc. etc.

I really just want a few pointers on where I can find helpful tutorials of some sort where I can better enhance my sound design. I seem to be struggling to make a track sound like a real track. My tracks sound really cheesy and amateur because i can't create the right sounding instruments :/

Do a search for basic synthesis techniques then rather than searching for growls or bass farts.

Get a book called How to Make a noise by Simon Cann, learn how to synthesize basic sounds using fundamental waveforms and go from there.
Dissect existing patches you like.
Learn how to use basic sounds to paint a larger picture.

Electric_Head wrote:Do a search for basic synthesis techniques then rather than searching for growls or bass farts.

Get a book called How to Make a noise by Simon Cann, learn how to synthesize basic sounds using fundamental waveforms and go from there.
Dissect existing patches you like.
Learn how to use basic sounds to paint a larger picture.

All of this. Backwards engineering existing patches is a good way to go.

That's pretty much it. ^

Or, if you're not the reading type, just find one synth you really like and spend a day just twisting knobs.

You don't really need to get a book.
There are some really good tutorials on youtube for using massive in general (if that is your synth).

Icetickle wrote:You don't really need to get a book.
There are some really good tutorials on youtube for using massive in general (if that is your synth).

A general guide will help you more in the long term, if you only learn massive you'll be fucked when a new flavour of the month(well a bit longer than that) synth comes about.

A tip that helped me was to watch a tutorial on how to make a sound in a synth you don't own then replicate it as best you can in another synth, this forces you to actually think about what is going on not just where the knob is turned to

i've learnt all i know (admittedly not much lol) just by twisting knobs on massive and various other synths

I read it in books.

Icetickle wrote:You don't really need to get a book.
There are some really good tutorials on youtube for using massive in general (if that is your synth).

Did you really miss the point of my post?

Like, everywhere. Fucking around in synths.

SoundOnSound Synth Secrets, Wikipedia, Soft synth manuels, DSF, IDMF, KVR Audio, but most of all hours, and hours fucking around with synths, and samplers.

Brothulhu wrote:

Icetickle wrote:You don't really need to get a book.
There are some really good tutorials on youtube for using massive in general (if that is your synth).

A general guide will help you more in the long term, if you only learn massive you'll be fucked when a new flavour of the month(well a bit longer than that) synth comes about.

A tip that helped me was to watch a tutorial on how to make a sound in a synth you don't own then replicate it as best you can in another synth, this forces you to actually think about what is going on not just where the knob is turned to

That's what I so whenever I buy a new synth. Ill try and recreate patches from one in another. Helped a lot.

dont forget to really learn post processing. many sounds you are hearing are (generally) not coming straight out of a synth but can be loaded with fx

eq, compression, automation, other fx, parralel processing, frequency splitting, send tracks, etc are all great tools

Taught myself the basics, learned several synths inside and out, recreated stuff I've heard in popular songs..

Read the manual for you synth then learn about the basic waveforms and mess about

Is there a lot of difference between the types of synthesis? As a new producer I felt interested into learning FM but i'm not sure if it's "limited" to certain kinds of sounds or if i'll be able to reproduce the same sounds i could do in a subtractive synth, for example

youtube tutorials, synthesizer manuals. where else?

dca wrote:dont forget to really learn post processing. many sounds you are hearing are (generally) not coming straight out of a synth but can be loaded with fx

eq, compression, automation, other fx, parralel processing, frequency splitting, send tracks, etc are all great tools

no shit m8

i learnt my sound design in a crappy small bedroom with a locked door

sunny_b_uk wrote:i learnt my sound design in a crappy small bedroom with a locked door

you have 808 followers lol