How To Bass 50: FM From The Ground Up Using FM8

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@lordshiva83 6 жыл бұрын

This is the BEST explanation of FM synthesis on KZfaq!! this confused me for sooo long but you simplified it for me when you used the EQ to show what it's doing to the frequencies. Great job man

@DJ_Colossal 7 жыл бұрын

So nice to see quick and informative with zero BS, will check out the other vids.

@JLabist 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks fucking god, you're using fm8... finally.

@jasonotto8573 11 жыл бұрын

Have you tried placing FM8 in a patcher and automating each modulator with an X-Y controller? This works without the internal mod wheel and its lack of sharpness by turning the speed on the controller all the way up. Also you can set the ranges of each modulator and the increase/decrease amount independently via a regular or inverse link to a master X-Y controller in the FX channel for patcher.

@badmojo380 8 жыл бұрын

Finally, i was just looking for fm8 tutorials, but you have managed to explain fm synth in words i can understand and process.. subbed, liked and gonna watch more of your stuff later :)

@nabeshin7741 2 жыл бұрын

You, sir, are a synth guru, you definitely know what you're talking about ( even though you talk a bit too fast ^^ ). Thanks a bunch for this highly informative video.

@dankesthours182 9 жыл бұрын

smoothing issues. i get that, you've clearly displayed that. however , skrillex attests to using mostly fm8 for his growls, and obviously he's a bit of a prodigy, but he figured it out. i wonder where along the line he did it. you're awesome SeamlessR. you're really an inspiration and i could never thank you enough for your valuable resources. wait a second, could you get rid of that issue by clipping upt the frozen clip and taking the smooth part out? i think so. thanks again just wanted to think out loud here anyone?

@Deltaboi4ever 11 жыл бұрын

You have helped me so much with my productions. Even through just giving me the basics.

@Stierenkloot 7 жыл бұрын

Very nice video, you really know you stuff and even though these sound things are a bit hard to grasp, you shed way more light on it than I see in most other videos, which makes certain things "click" easier in my head. You've earned a subscriber!

@AudioBoi1 Жыл бұрын

still learning it thank u for ton of great content, Seamless. Through all these years.

@electropunkzero Жыл бұрын

Every time I watch one of your videos I am more and more impressed with your knowledge. One day I wanna grow up to be like you

@williamroullier7759 10 жыл бұрын

anyone just looking at this and thinking wtf?!?! .. seamless ur soo good at this wish i could learn more about FL ive got FL11

@jessejohnson527 2 жыл бұрын

I want my new serum based tracks to have more of that fm flavor back because I stopped using FL and switched to Ableton and hopefully now I'll have that deep and intense and RICH sound design that fm synths give. My best tracks we're all Sytrus based tracks. Serum can't even beat that. Thanks for this.

@ProjectHMF Жыл бұрын

Fr FM is just another world, same goes for additive synthesis

@iacon 9 жыл бұрын

I'm never using Massive again! :D

@RobinThomasAndrews 11 жыл бұрын

I found this SO helpful, thank you.

@jaamtrak 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you for learning about FM synthesis !!! I learn au lot ! Really thanks ^^

@ericpark1121 11 жыл бұрын

Great video, and great explanations! Thanks!

@SeamlessR 11 жыл бұрын

Because I forgot to tell xSplit to record layered windows. Whoops :p

@jeffpehovy2184 11 жыл бұрын

Did you ever think of using Oscillator? It might be really helpful to see how waveform looks like while messing around in any synth, especially FM synths

@anthonyscacco304 10 жыл бұрын

Love the Vid man, Never stumbled upon yours before I'm interested in FM8's sound design and when you saying "smoothing" or "sharp" and how Fm8 doesn't sound like its hitting sharp possibly because you have a long attack in your envelope settings? which i didn't see you mess with in this video which in return wouldn't have a "Stab" to the sound but would also get rid of the build up on the vowel sound. Just my two cents..i have no problem with getting sharp growls with this synth. -Cheers!

@rockswede 9 жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial :)

@Unders 11 жыл бұрын

I like the new video window addition, for some reason it just seems nicer to watch you use words.

@MeisterEck 10 жыл бұрын

great and funny explanation! :) keep going

@Endevorin 10 жыл бұрын

brilliant !

@Unders 11 жыл бұрын

FYI seamless the Morph section is like the AB mix in Harmor but with 4 instead of 2 and obviously work via an XY style control (its abit more detailed but thats the jist) Its absolutely awesome for blending pads into each other.

@SwampWater 8 жыл бұрын

The sound you end up with reminds me of Gost. Cooool! :-p

@wolvAUS 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@brycesmartt 5 жыл бұрын

you saint lol i couldn't figure out how to modulate with the mod wheel to save my Life ,I was using a series of low pass filters and the wow filter with modulated distortion to replicate the same affect

@Girl5witGunz 9 жыл бұрын

Watched this in 2015. Got scared when I saw his beard wasn't there.

@SoundPeaks 5 жыл бұрын

Hello SeamlessR! Where can I see that Nucleon stuff you are talking about?

@mtbthiccness3605 11 жыл бұрын

its a bit much to handle at first but after about an hour i loved it

@quinxx12 5 жыл бұрын

Damn the FL Parametrics EQ is great to visualize those kind of movements. The Ableton and Fabfilter EQ both can't show the oscillations so nicely for me.

@rishu4800 5 жыл бұрын

life changer

@SeamlessR 11 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@dankesthours182 9 жыл бұрын

is there a way to change the level curve so that you can hear that type of modulation on the fly?

@iSyncronize 11 жыл бұрын

Hey seamless do you have a video similar to this for Sytrus? Where you walk through it from the ground up

@rabitec. 4 жыл бұрын

For some reason, when I in- or decrease the modulation leve of OP E to F it sounds kinda steppy for me. Does anyone know why that is and how to circumvent it / turn it off?

@SeamlessR 11 жыл бұрын

That would be How To Bass 6, as I mention in the video ;]

@nathanleman6822 9 жыл бұрын

I thought I was getting the hang of FM with Ableton's Operator, then I got FM8... :(

@scottstewart6180 9 жыл бұрын

Nathan Leman I'm sure something from Operator is transferable. Also Operator uses a different algorithm. I've gone back to use operator simply for the fact that it's easy to use, but also, running the exact same patch in FM8 and operator will create a slightly different sound.

@jacobmcr858 11 жыл бұрын

:D yay more vidierz!

@Mokaigo 11 жыл бұрын

Hi, You are Seamless

@Stierenkloot 7 жыл бұрын

Also dude I kind of have a problem pls help. I just downloaded FM8 and installed it, followed your steps exactly until about 3 minutes in, which is where you modulate F by E you say, when I do that absolutely nothing changes in my sound, your example has a drastic difference already but for me nothing happens. Also later when you mess with the ratio, my sound doesn't have that up and down wobble at all, it just seems to decrease in volume, below 0.3 I can barely hear anything where for you that range kind of gives a nice effect

@excelsiormusic532 10 жыл бұрын

If you ever get the time, you should do a how to bass in Operator from Ableton

@twebrand7932 7 жыл бұрын

You're right SR I had to turn my volume down on sytrus! I feel more knowledgeable

@LennartSchroot 11 жыл бұрын

wich program do you use to record screen/webcam/voice ?

@colseonlamb6020 9 жыл бұрын

What if you use the built in distortion in FM8 to create of fake kind of sharpness? Or turn up modulation from D to C?

@xaby996 9 жыл бұрын

Colseon Lamb What I've seen from experienced FM8 users is that some create a very soft, detailed sound in FM8 and then use external effects/filters to exaggerate the vowel sounds and distortion.

@danibrosio 11 жыл бұрын

it. fucking. rocks.

@L9X 11 жыл бұрын

Ableton has nothing over FL, apart from sometimes things are easier to set up and are more organised, you could theoretically replicate the entire macro system with some fruity formula controllers in a patcher setup, but that just creates problems as equally as it solves them. I'm starting to develop a macroish system with the FL SDK, but it's uncharted teritory, so wish me luck.

@sillyslimeball2220 8 жыл бұрын

bro this is some crazy calculus stuff

@sage_dmusic 11 жыл бұрын

I thought so. Get well soon.

@AQUEOUSI 11 жыл бұрын

very clear and consciously taught, thanks!

@RandomGuyProductions 11 жыл бұрын

New KZfaq version for Android rocks... Although it freezes sometimes

@mapletoonwork 10 жыл бұрын

The sound doesn't change for me when I change E-->F modulation thingy (when you raise the amplitude level). I use FL Studio 10. What do I do wrong?

@consoler111 10 жыл бұрын

I had the same problem first time round - I missed when he said to right-click on the 'E' in the FM Matrix to activate it :)

@tunnis7us 9 жыл бұрын

I've tested all the possibilities to automate and the smoothing issue is the same with everything. Only way to get the sharpness is to use the velocity and draw it there it can handle the fast phase, but trying to automate anything else makes the sound round like you showed here :/

@BlackAera 11 жыл бұрын

If anyone wonders why his sound is not getting modulated after pulling the modulation up: Rightclick on the operator in the modulation matrix.

@L9X 11 жыл бұрын

I hate how the time bar is only displayed in portrait view (though I think thats a compile error, they probably missed an if() or while() statement somewhere.

@gabrielsburg 11 жыл бұрын

I assume that trying FM8's high resolution performance option didn't help the sharpness?

@Michael64099 10 жыл бұрын

So is FM8 a good choice if I want to make more hard-edged bass growls for a better sound design?

@DD-sw1dd 10 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah. To quote Skrillex "My best monster bass sounds have come from FM8. People think they all come from Massive, but most of the ones that kids online are trying to recreate in Massive are actually from FM8." www.musicradar.com/us/news/tech/interview-skrillex-on-ableton-live-plug-ins-production-and-more-510973

@DD-sw1dd 10 жыл бұрын

FM8 has a learning curve. FM synthesis is so totally different from anything you'll find in traditional subtractive synths. Learn how the ratio's work 1st....this is a must!

@Michael64099 10 жыл бұрын

Dereck Dunn Okay! :3

@Hotdog7Music 10 жыл бұрын

Dereck Dunn halves... ratio time over xD

@puella_meiberu 10 жыл бұрын

God I am in love with FM8. I've barely even used it, but I like it so much better than Massive already.

@antanasmaciulskis3935 8 жыл бұрын

didint think that sound was so easy to make

@GabePlaysYT 10 жыл бұрын

If you don't mind me asking, how does Sytrus stack up against FM8?

@xaby996 9 жыл бұрын

Shiek927 Seamless likes to use Sytrus over FM8 because FM8's smoothing cannot be disabled.

@bobbertplays 11 жыл бұрын

Seamless, why couldn't we see the drop down pages in this video?

@user-mi2oy9wl5p 11 жыл бұрын

like!

@Gavdrums 8 жыл бұрын

Great vid. What DAW are you using?

@imtiazwillems7310 8 жыл бұрын

+Gavin Wheeler FL Studio

@Gavdrums 8 жыл бұрын

+Imtiaz Willems cheers. any idea what that parametric eq is? be handy for a project im working on.

@imtiazwillems7310 8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's the standard Paramatric eq 2 of FL

@Gavdrums 8 жыл бұрын

Cheers

@imtiazwillems7310 8 жыл бұрын

you're welcome

@elefinity1808 6 жыл бұрын

Take a drink everytime he mentions a different synth- Chug drink for as long as other synth is on screen get wasted p.s. I learned that this guy likes citrus

@googleboughtmee 11 жыл бұрын

If anybody still can't bass after 50 how to basses then they'll never be able to bass and should give up bassing

@Stierenkloot 7 жыл бұрын

Never mind my question I found the answer further down, had to right click the E to activate it, I feel stupid. It doesn't look obvious when you do it though, easy to skip over.

@InjexDnB 11 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, he is a g!

@WDShorty 11 жыл бұрын

3:10 Have fun.

@sage_dmusic 11 жыл бұрын

Do you like have an permanent cold or something?

@dncviorel 11 жыл бұрын

There are way to many great presets in order to start creating sounds of your own. I'd say it's a waste of time, even though it can be really fun.

@colinq7938 11 жыл бұрын

why i dont have FM8?

@KnucklesThe1st 11 жыл бұрын

50 th :3

@huntercimini5640 8 жыл бұрын

I live in a digital world, its what I do. hahaha!

@Upperhorny 11 жыл бұрын

anyone out there who knows a free synth which has a mod matrix like sytrus ?

@evillain999 10 жыл бұрын

nice tut, Rübezahl.

@CopperiumHD 11 жыл бұрын

65th :D

@lonelykid7691 5 жыл бұрын

why didn't I check out your videos first, I wasted so much time

@kidexemusic 8 жыл бұрын

Everyone has FM8 because... everyone steals it?

@Why0666 10 жыл бұрын

song made with fm8 ^ u ^ soundcloud.com/riveroftruth/merry-christmas-river-of-truth

@Why0666 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening dude!

@aspirativemusicproduction2135 9 жыл бұрын

can't open

@Why0666 9 жыл бұрын

Electro that shit is old as fuck but here you go: soundcloud.com/pizza_gang/merry-christmas-river-of-truth

@aspirativemusicproduction2135 9 жыл бұрын

Pizza Gang I'll check it out

@aspirativemusicproduction2135 9 жыл бұрын

Pizza Gang Not bad. It's a little too loud on the highs but "everyone" is trying to be loud now.

@lkb3rd 10 жыл бұрын

It sounds like you're eating a sandwich.

@masr19 9 жыл бұрын

chewing gum i guess, it's boring...

@DJ1Leffty 11 жыл бұрын

I thought it was called fishing...

@mtbthiccness3605 11 жыл бұрын

is it a curse? did you make fun of a wizard for his silly hat? or did you trade having a permanent cold for having insane bass skills.

@MaddDrEw 10 жыл бұрын

lol yois.....

@MrBaileyguitar 10 жыл бұрын

That EQ looks incredibly difficult and annoying to work with... Other than that, pretty cool.

@Naku_u 9 жыл бұрын

Parametric EQ2? That EQ is like the easiest thing ever.

@MrBaileyguitar 9 жыл бұрын

If I remember right, I was getting at the spectrum analysis of it. Not the EQ itself.

@Naku_u 9 жыл бұрын

Still pretty easy to work with. I use it countless times

@MrBaileyguitar 9 жыл бұрын

I guess it's just personal preference.

@adambristol5982 9 жыл бұрын

MrBaileyguitar The spectrum analysis is really annoying. It's hard to figure out where you need to boost something or cut because it all looks more or less the same.

@xomblei 8 жыл бұрын

you know what would be cool? if people who made these videos just talked about the subject matter and didn't act like people don't know what the fuck an LFO is... if you don't know what an LFO is you're on the wrong video, you're REALLY on the wrong video...

@mortalhordewarrior9285 8 жыл бұрын

+xomblei Hey idiot, its called FM From The Ground Up, meaning it starts assuming people have no knowledge and ends with all of it. I think you are on the wrong video.... REALLY wrong video.

@xomblei 8 жыл бұрын

+Nick Williams oh right because one video is going to show them everything they need to know before they get to FM synthesis. Get your head out of your ass these kinds of videos are obnoxious just like your shit attitude

@artfxdnb 8 жыл бұрын

+xomblei don't wanna burst your bubble but who came here with a shitty attitude in the first place? Right...

@xomblei 8 жыл бұрын

+ARTFX STUDIOS Actually i came here with a great attitude and wasted a shitload of valuable time waiting for homeboy to get to the point

@flythedragon1559 7 жыл бұрын

xomblei Dude, nobody knows what an LFO is. Are you looking for a way out where Seamless has to babysit you and define every single term in one video? If so…ouch, because of course he missed what the LFO actually is. Because this video isn't about LFOs. It's about how frequencies can be modulated in FM8. And consider this video a remix, because he was trying to remake a bass he made in Sytrus. Do you realize what it takes to do that? Do you have any idea how much time it takes Seamless to explain this stuff? Do you have any idea WHY Seamless explains this stuff? If your answer is no, that's completely fine! Each and every video goes into detail about one specific topic, which is why SeamlessR is so good in tutorial-making. However, if your answer is "no, and I want you to define specific terms every single video", YOU ARE ON THE WRONG CHANNEL!