Course Highlights
  • Fundamentals of Sound Design
  • Physics of Sound
  • Manipulating Overtones
  • Sound Generators
  • Filters
  • Envelopes
  • FM Synthesis
  • The FM8 Plugin
  • Additive Synthesis
  • The Operator Synthesizer
  • Wavetable Synthesis
  • Serum Plugin
  • Physical Modeling Synthesis
  • Analog Synthesis
  • Moog Mother 32
  • Making Leads with Synthesis
  • Making Drums with Synthesis
  • Making Bass with Synthesis
  • And much, much more!
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum

4 Topics
Introduction
My Approach to Sound Design
Tools You Will Need
Physics of Sound

4 Topics
What is Timbre?
Harmonics and Partials
Overtones
Waveforms

9 Topics
The Sound Generator in Synthesis
Oscillators
Waveforms: Sine Waves
Waveforms: Square Waves
Waveforms: Triangle Waves
Waveforms: Sawtooth Waves
Waveshapes Under the Spectrogram
Noise Generators
Other Sound Generators

7 Topics
Subtractive Synthesis
The Filter and The EQ
Gain and Q
Filter Types: Low Pass Filters
Filter Types: High Pass Filters
Filter Types: Bandpass Filters
Filter Types: Notch Filters

9 Topics
Looking at Devices
The Sound Generators and Filters
Deeper into the Oscillator Section
Deeper into the Filter Section
Signal Flow
Why Two Amps?
The LFO
The Wub-Wubs
Quick Routing

5 Topics
What are Envelopes?
The ADSR Format
More than Just Amplitude
Applying Envelopes
Other Ways Envelopes Can Look

2 Topics
Preset: FatEric
Preset: Sadness Pad

4 Topics
Waveforms: Thick or Thin?
Filters: High or Low?
Amplitude: Short or Long?
LFO: Motion or Stillness?

2 Topics
Applying the Essential Tools to Other Synthesis Types
The Other Synthesis Types

3 Topics
What is FM Synthesis?
Musical Examples
What is the Same?

6 Topics
Installing FM8
The Browser
Building our own Patches
Getting to a Default Patch
Adding a Modulator
Adding More Modulators and Experimenting

3 Topics
What is Additive Synthesis?
Musical Examples
What is the Same?

5 Topics
Setting Up Operator
Simple Additive Patch Using the Oscillator Editor
The Overtone Series
Additive Synthesis with Oscillators
Applying Filters and Envelopes

3 Topics
What is Wavetable Synthesis?
Music Examples
What is the Same?

8 Topics
Setting Up Serum
Serum Basic Layout
Wavetables
Serum's Warp Menu
Unison Settings
Other Controls
Creating Your Own Wavetables in Serum
Wait! Isn't that Just Sampling?

3 Topics
What is Physical Modeling?
Musical Examples
What is the Same?

7 Topics
Setup
The Model
The Mallet Section
The Fork Section
The Damper Section
The Pickup Section
The Global Section

5 Topics
What we Find in Analog Instruments
My Analog Synthesizers
Device 6: The Korg Monotribe
Device 7: The Moog Mother 32
The Moog Mother 32 Controls

3 Topics
How to use Recipes
Verbalizing Sound
"Recipe Books"

5 Topics
Deep House Bass
Dirty Dubstep Bass
Pluck House Bass
Growly Resonant Bass
Warm Foundational Bass

5 Topics
Plinky Little Wavetable
Buzzy Wavetable
Sine-Based Lead
Aggressive Operator Lead
FM8 Drive Lead

5 Topics
Plinky Little Wavetable
Buzzy Wavetable
Sine-Based Lead
Aggressive Operator Lead
FM8 Drive Lead

1 Topic
Stems to Remix!

3 Topics
What Comes Next?
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