You’re a true wizard when it comes to serum

Finally someone made a tutorial like this. The most I've ever heard about making cymbals and stuff was just "modulate volume of noise"

Make your own noise, don't actually use noise is the best advice for making cymbals

OK, so you said you would appreciate comments on the method. :) Here are the tweaks I've employed (and also showcased them in a video below): - I tried bumping OSC oversample up as we're dealing with FM. It's a tad clearer, I feel. - I've modified the source waves to be more complex and higher, thus... - thus my results are much more resemblant of a white noise. In fact, you can almost substitute one for another... - which would defeat the purpose, but I tried moving my FM amount with an envelope, getting from a "noisier" mode to a more "ridish" mode while the sound changes and evolves. It's a cool trick. It sounds rather natural and gives you a sense of control over the color without touching an EQ or something like a sample pitch. - I also use a different Amp envelope with a sharper attack and fast rolloff. I feel that "real rides" have very, very sharp amplitude bump compared to their long tail. The video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pZh7ash5q6nYYIk.html Thank you for the inspiration to mess around, because I usually have very different ideas and yours are always looking in your very specific direction. Awesome stuff, and also - huge thanks for NOT creating filler videos just for the sake of them. I hate when it happens and they do it all the time everywhere. Not so much here. You can tell you're really into the invention and that's why you're here to tell about it. Which is great. Feels great. Thanks, greetings from Russia.

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Hi @Au5, thanks a lot for this tutorial. As it needs to be paused and backwarded/forwarded, I create a timestamps I post here. Feel free to include/tweak it into the video description if you think it's a good idea: 00:00 Intro 00:28 Real cymbal wavefrom analysis 01:44 Set basic OSC wave form / remove note tracking 02:21 Set FM parameters - turn OSC2 down 03:07 Tweak unisson parameters 03:38 Set global settings to max unisson ranges 04:28 Manage filters and LFO 06:19 Change OSC2 wave form (PWM) 07:12 Add movment to the sound (LFO FM, Chaos detune) 08:29 Add some character (Eq, Reverb, phaser, combs filter) 11:48 Manage cymbals attack (bloom) 13:13 Chorus trick 14:43 New start - Create a ride cymbal 15:33 Global trick - change unisson mode (from linear to somehting else) 16:15 Set modulation for ride cymbal (Env, LFO) 19:08 Use the velocity to change how hard the hit sounds 21:44 Add some reverb at the end of the FX chain 22:06 New start - Create Hi-Hat 23:18 Use chaos on OSC1 detune 23:57 Change LFO to Env to manage endless time 24:27 Set an arpegiator / step sequencer to test Hi-Hat 24:57 Add second arpegiator / step sequencer to modulate velocity + add velocity as modulation source 25:21 Add some filters and FX 28:38 Final examples 29:03 Outro

i love how much i learn about serum and sound design in general in every tutorial you make. great video!

I'm so happy you're talking real drum synthesis Au5! I'm finally not feeling like the only one who teaches that on KZfaq. Thank you, these tutorials are brilliant, and even though I've been doing this for years, I'm very much enjoying your take on it. Make more!

These videos are always released after just enough time for me to forget about that amazing custom intro. I get pleasantly surprised every time 🤩🤩

There are no good cymbal tutorials online. I have been waiting for this. Thank you, Au5.

Aspiring new producer over here always here first to listen to all your releases. Super dope stuff man thanks for inspiring the community, you introduced me to my passion for sound and mixing. Have a good one mate.

Million thanks! I was searching for that tutorial for so so long, cymbals are the hardest thing to synthesize, and the main thing I was missing in my sample pack! this, together with your "making punchy drums in serum" tutorial are the best tutorials about sound designing drums, I would really love you to continue that and explain how to make more drum types, like percussion and maybe rims (like acoustic sounding snares or just rims) :)

best cymbal synthesis videotutorial on the internet hands down, thanks so much for sharing!

Love your tutorials some much! You explain really well and the tutorials are really in depth. Which is why they are so great. Pls keep going😉👌💪🔥

OMG! This video is jaw-dropping! I'm so surprised and impressed by how much knowledge you've shared. Thank you so much for creating such an amazing resource!

i appreciate it when you make these kinds of videos with serum. Thank you. When you showed the resonances in the samples i immediately thought comb filter and then when you didn’t use it until the end i was like “hey what gives?” lol

Dude, this is fucking amazing bro, first the hypergrowl, now this? dude Au5 and virtual riot man, crazy tutorials from both, I love it

Au5 can make anything out of anything, a true Genius!

thank you so much! we love you Austin!!!

Keep doing tutorial's !! Im about to get my computer then I can finally make music i see in my head with your help . you're a true Celestial Artist ❤🙅✨

At first I thought this was another overexplained half hour long video. But I stuck with it and realized it's long because you're showing 3 different types of cymbal sound. Big thumbs up

my gosh i love your tutorials! you explain everythin so well and detailed that even i, as an unmusical person, can understand it :D Love it!

real mastery ... thank you bro, you share your wisdom, your videos have to be watched only in sunday, right after i came back from church.

one of the best tutorials ive seen! goes deep while simply explained well done

always next level stuff from you

Core sound design. Awesome dude

Amazing! Can't help watching your tutorials😁

bro, I love serum and I love your serum skin. GIMMIE!

This is genius. Some of the stuff you pointed out here inspired me to make a patch for "howling wind" SFX, which I've been wanting to use in a track. It's a work in progress, but I think it will work!

Great video like always! We love these videos and nice serum skin!! Thanx again for these amazing videos they really help out so much! Keep up the amazing work and have a great day!

Thank you for sharing this in-depth view. One of the advantages of your approach is the ever varying sound quality of the percussion, it keeps the sound moving and interesting...

*you're a wizard Austin!*

Holy crap this is so cool. Being able to visualize fm synthesis like that kinda blew my mind

Idk i got this channel yesterday, and now i have my sample pack, deleted all the cancer called CYMATICS, hope he gets successful in life, thanks mate!

Pure gold thank you. I tried to make this in Phaseplant with 8 Squarewaves modulating each other but somehow yours turned out to be better just within serum :D

Yo. Finally. I've been searching for a while now.

Awesome job! You can also make a really high Q on that distortion filter (with the envelope controlling the value) and it will add a sine-y ride vibe to it. Makes it sound like a small ride plate instead.

21:30 there is really something special about that sound!

Tbh I'm probably never going to make my own cymbals but this is also a great starting point for making other metallic percussive sounds

the way you analyze audio signal is mesmerizing

Intro is amazing 💥💥💥

Really learned a lot from the video! Thank you so much for doing this!

Top notch man. Hats off to you

Great tutorial my man! Thanks for the knowledge!

Amazing master!! Thanksss!!

What a master, feel incredibly stuid right now, keep it Up :)

Every time this man uploads a tutorial, my mind is blown

Man I was JUST looking for this!

Thank you Austin

Watched these video many times. Thx

yessssss! your vids are the best

Just whoa!

Best video worth every second of it

wow a free tutorial from AU5!

I'm really glad to see this video! The energy transferring from the lower harmonics to the higher is something I've been thinking a lot about lately. I used to have access to a 36" gong, with a beautifully slow bloom, and have thought about possible ways to emulate that. I think that the same effect happens in a hard tom hit, but actually from the top harmonics downward, as the shockwave from the hit bounces off the rim and gradually gets transferred into the lower harmonics. My goal is to somehow synthesize a decent timpano. Regarding the phys modeling exciter source: if you shake a loose (maybe has to be old and stretched?) timpano head which isn't mounted, that lightning-like plastic flappy noise is what I really think should be the energy going into a phys modeling system - very different from white noise.

Holy lord.. i followed every min of this and copied everything and saved the patch.. thank you for the hard work.. i wish i new Serum like that haha.

Wow, this was a pleasant surprise! Already have some excellent kick/snare Serum sounds from the Masterclass, now some cymbals can complete the set!

Fucking incredible. Don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone make cymbals out of only sine waves lmao. Brilliant, as usual.

his 2 second long intro is better than everything i've made in my entire musical lifetime

Thanks for sharing this is so awesome

Incredible tutorial dude!

hope duda will see this amazing video

All I can say is.. wow! what a find.

thank you dude you are the best

Very impressive.

3:55 damn, I already recognise cymbal qualities in this sound. I never used frequency splitted oscilloscopes (or whatever that is called) but in this time frame, you have also convinced me how useful it is. Especially to analyse "model"sounds, you use. I think FL's Edison is capable of that kinda visualization too. Four minutes in and you already game me enough to dive into synthesis (via Vital in my case but that translates very easily from Serum ^^). But I am curious in what more you have to say. Back to the video. 🤣

Bro single handedly launched my sound design career

this is really fascinating :o

Though you were an android but the hair looks so silky. Great work, have no words for your talent!

17:00 what a gongshow! 📀🔨

brilliant man, thanks

Thaaank you!!!😍❤

Thank you very much!

Great technique! When o when will we get an update of Serum, we need better envelopes, more oscillators, a full EQ…

Another video from the sound design god

Ive missed you man

Thank you!

Awesome tutorial! What is the spectrogram you're using?

would love to see you try more stuff with phase plant : D

Damn.. Insane!

Can we pls have an AU5 x Virtual Riot collab cause they both are gods of sound design and that collab can only be good

best sound designer probs 👏😢

I figured it out when Current Value began to obviously use extreme unisons for anything in his tracks with his crazy signature sound (also Image-Line had a cymbal plugin years ago to do that kind of stuff - I don't remember the name tho, it's likely legacy by now). Thanks for the clear in-depth walkthru !

my dream is to one day have the skills you have

Sick !

Unbelievable. I was following along, and I was thinking, "Well, it sounds -kind of- like a cymbal, I guess." And then I put the flanger on, and my jaw hit the floor.

Yep, you are a wizard..

Thank you father.

So basically, just create your own noise AND use particular filters and audio effects to shape the timbre of that noise over time... Alongside the conventional volume shaping that is customary amongst cymbal sound design videos...

damn. That's. uh. That's deep. Who could think that this was possible ?

Just a suggestion can you hv some kind of remix competition? would luv to see that

Thanks! :D

That Serum skin 'bout to make me act up

28:40 if I didn't already know, I would never have been able to tell those first two cymbals were synthesized. Holy shit.

Legend

Au5: I'm gonna max out the Unison ranges PC: RIP

thank you

Just genius

Fm the second synth by noise, also add some noise in there. If you want to add more character

funny how the spectrogram is also the shape of a cymbal sample