I managed to create a FM and a PM Wavetable hybrid monstrosity in The Grid using the All Pass Filter among many other things. This thing can create infinite sounds. You should go play around there sometime, I'm sure someone of your intellect would get lost in it.

Very useful and cool video. Thank you. 👏🏻🔥

Thanks for this interesting video!

Excellent and very knowledgeable video. Thank you very much

I started making music last year and I've played around with vital a lot. I recently tried serum mainly because its much easier to find presets (splice). Theres tones of awesome presets that I love but serum dosnt have the same sound that I like with vital. Everything I make in vital just sounds better. Maybe I'm somehow using serum wrong but I dont see how.

Thank you !!!

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This was a great video, thank you

Drop and drag sample wavetable?! I love vital

how do i get the multiple sines @ 5:15? im new to synths please help!

Nice to see a proper comparison between PM and PD.

Thank you for taking the time with this video. I've been thinking about getting the Legacy bundle but keep holding off for Zebra 3. This video is now making me think about getting it anyway. You're right, U-He are excellent at designing synths that work well as learning tools for synthesis. I'm in the middle of having set myself the project of doing a 3 track ep only using Bazille - all sounds created from scratch for everything. I've learnt so much in the process as well as the value of selecting one synth and doing my best to learn it inside out and well. This morning I just watched Urs Heckman talking about Zebra 3 at Superbooth. He made a fleeting comment about maybe, just maybe showcasing something at Namm, so I reckon this still gives enough time to learn Zebra 2 along with Zebrelette 3 ready for when Zebra 3 is released. I enjoyed this video. Thank you!

this tutorial came like ordered for me, your channel is super cool man, I appreciate you sharing all this knowledge.

Nice tutorials, but your audio levels are way too low

It's wonderfully clever and definitely helps me better understand the conceptual difference between the two synths. It would be too much to ask that you make a video explaining the corners of the sound that you synthesized at minute 14:30. Thank you in every way for your videos and I hope you make content with SERUM again, your knowledge is very vast.!

which skin are you using in the video? Looks nice

This is the tutorial I was looking for!

I've grown quite fond of Sytrus in FL Studio. I find it difficult to go back to using either Serum or Vital. Sometimes I have to though, as not everyone uses FL and Sytrus being a stock plugin is tied to that.

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A friend told me his grandfather owned a Zebra like an outdoor pet. Bad idea. It was ill tempered and it could kick in a 180 degree arc.

Great video. Makes me want to get Serum 😅 I prefer a more modular interface for complex patches, which I guess is why i haven't gravitated towards Vital, tending to prefer Polymer --> Poly Grid

You have a nice voice sir

Awesome, would love to see your thoughts on zebralette 3 beta

I love what you did here but talking is best

U can make unlimited sounds with these synths still after 10 years later

This is the one paid synth I was tempted to buy when it was discounted. But on the other hand I don't think I need to make diverse farts for my music. I have Massive for farts and although I bought it to make farts I don't remember making too many farts with it. I think geeks get obsessed with making farts. However Phase plant may have just the right sound for someone who wants to make nice sounding music but wants to venture in fartland every once in a while. Someone like me.

I'll mention few free synths that may not be too diverse but are good sounding and definitely worth checking out. GR 8-it souds amazing even before you put filters and effects. One trick pony but a good one. One by Kilohearts- it looks simple but it sounds very organic and it's very straight forward. It has a litle bit of FM, morphing between some basic wave shapes and a voice filter which adds some intrest to the sound. Apricot-cheesy sounding and basic but perfect for trance plucks and some trance leads. There is more, but for someone like me who doesn't want to get bogged into deep sond design and still want good sounds these are good synths. If you dig enough in the depths of interwebs there is more obscure synths that got forgotten that sound amazing but I will stop here. Of the shown in the video Odin is for me. I can easily open one generator and make some basic wave with unison, open second one and make another wave. Blend them together and put a litle bit of LFO and bam-new sound.

Great intro man & informative comparison, came here because I'm debating whether to get Serum because of the price

Great video, as always. Should we expect you to continue (no videos have been released for half a year)?

Awesome my friend.

Liked and subbed for bigwig

Zebra 2 Is my main soft synth. For at least a decade. Made several successful tracks with this bad boy.

I use Bitwig Studio (DAW), which you might know. Bitwig Studio contains a modular environment to build up ... almost anything from simple effects up to real modular all in everything modular patch... well, that's not my intention. But all of Bitwig Studio's oscillators inside this modular environment come with different kinds of pitch/frequency control. Most notably there are a Pitch In and a Phase In, which tell basically their intended goal. Most users don't really use FM, because using the Pitch In with linear signals realizes a quite non-linear (and btw non-symmetric - in no understanding)kind of frequency modulation with odd sound, not "pitch-true"... not really that good musically controllable. But... almost all of them overlook a very simple method, which can be used to re-calculate the modulation signals in a way, that makes the concerning oscillator behave as if it is controlled by a linear frequency input - hence enabling _ t r u e _ ( =linear) FM, which can even quite simply be patched, so that you can control a value, which you might know as "modulation factor". In my understanding linear FM has a very ugly disadvantage: If you modulate crossing the "0 Hz" barrier, the sound begins to behave more and more like exponential FM, which doesn't keep the pitch played, because the generated frequencies are not longer "symmetrical" to the carrier frequency, which otherwise is the case fore modulation factors up to 1. Although linear FM in my ears at least sound more "warm" than phase modulation (PM), this disadvantage especially begins to limit it's use in case of the need for exact pitches... this said: Linear FM used with high modulation factors might give interesting sounding sond sources for all kinds of technoid music, but... as long as it is supposed to sound "smooth" and "tamed" this modulation factor has to be limited to 1. This symmetry though remains in PM - independent of the modulation factor - up to very extreme sounds - making a much better musically controllable sound... which imho was the reason, why PM has made it's way as _ t h e _ preferred modulation method against linear FM. This linear FM might be interesting to "thicken" an otherwise too "silent" sounding deep (pure sine) bass, but... that can be achieved using PM and some filtering (presumed a pitch-following modulation depth as well as filtering).

OnLy 263 viewmeans to me that u b doing right, amigomio!LOVE listening/hearing youe explainationa!! will NOT sub ya cos dont wish to be tracked!! you are DEFO THE one m8

If you're interested in making your videos better for people like me i.e. those who choose carefully which plugins to invest time to you could try to explain how well the synth suits different scenarios like playing live, using it as a sort of groovebox, quickly finding a proper lead tone, constructing a complex evolving pad.

I use to love Surge. I used it all the time. But it use to crash all the time :( Obviously I stopped using it & then the paid version was stopped probably because it was torrented to death. But since the relaunch every time I open it I get reminded of the amount of lost work due to crashes & I close it again. Hearing you say some solidly positive things about it has made me pic it back us & I will ad it to the synths I use again!

This is how I learned years ago. I took my laptop to a friends & he made music & sounds for a year on it while ei did a lot of washing. & he talked out loud a little & answered questions .. Vids like these are way better than edited ones for getting a feel of what's being done! Love it! thanks

Its actually a common approach to create "FM" patches for wavetable synths such as vital

I'm happy I own both.

Still use this. If it works and sounds good, it's still of use. That said, Zebra 3 will take things to another level.

Phase Plant

Brilliant!

For everything that's involving post effect processing, for instance, making a reverb highpass, or distording it, i find Multipass and Snapheap to be really useful, they allow me to avoid any post processing when designing a patch carefully

what serum packs do u recommend for complex ideas. maybe u can make one, id buy it thanks for great comparison vid

Thank you so much! Great video!

When you speak you seem Platone. Platone=Platipo ;( Are you a prof ?

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yes to zebra patches

Wowah I need that swing! How did you build that?

Fresh take. Love it. Have been around since before these sounds existed and love those itchy sounds. Will definely put some of this in my work.