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

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.

"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.

Explained so well! thanks for the video

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!!

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!

Brilliant video Benn. Loved it.

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.

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.

Really an inspiring introduction to additive synthesis!

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

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

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

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

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

i love the 3d graphics! great production value

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

Thank you for clearing that up. Useful info.

Very nice introduction and example about Additive synthesis

Mind Blending! Thank you a lot!

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

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.

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

Amazing video - great content and well explained.

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

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

Excellent content, thanks so much.

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

Video quality is great!

This was lovely!

I love this video!

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.

Awesome: thanks for making this.

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?

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

Utter dope ness merci boontjes

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

Very informative, thanks!

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

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🙏

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

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.

This is encredible. What the heckeroonies.

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

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'd love to see part 2 of this!

You are awesome! Thanks engineer!

I kinda understood this, thanks for the video :D

This is brilliant.

This is awesome!

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

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 !!!

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

This was such a sick explanation mate, so fuckin cool

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.

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

Readditive synthesis is in sample based music is the future, i fucking love it.

amazing video !!!

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

impresive awesome

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.

this is great

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

You are a genious!

man you're a master programmer, nice video!

Awesome!

Blew my freakin' mind.

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

these motion graphics are next level

I really wish you were correct in being confident about the future, 6 years onwards... I'm still looking for a harmor equivalent that does resynthesis that's not daw locked ;__;

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

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

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

Does anyone know of another analyzer that can output the FFT partial information like this? 6:17

Very good video

Does anyone know if he posted a video on that cello sound? i like it a lot and I want to learn how to make stuff like that but I don't really know where to even pretend to start

dude you are amazing :O :O

The Hammond Organ is like that too

awesome

Thanks

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.