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What's the difference between "FM synthesis" and "MIDI synthesis"?
There's really no such thing as MIDI Synthesis.
Synthesis is the process by which sounds are 'synthesised' using various modulation and generation techniques.
MIDI is the "Musical Instrument ...
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How to use unison without voice beating/phasing
Beating will always be there whenever there are two or more signals close in frequency but there are a few things that may help, depending on the synthesizer. All options will make it sound different ...
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Tropical Ambience: creating a minimal background using synths
First, you should have some field recordings to use as a reference, at least. Depending on the verisimilitude you are looking for, you might need to really hone in on the exact type of forest that is ...
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Is it possible to use frequency modulation synthesis to play human voice?
The way to understand this is to break down the terminology. First one to look at is "Modulation" which is the term used to describe the encoding of a "carrier" signal with another "source" signal.
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Modulating Ratio in FM8
Actually, you can.
If you use the Pitch Envelope, you can set it to loop (or use one of the "Loop" presets). Turn off Pitch Envelope modulation for all the ops except the one you want to modulate. ...
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How is this specific sound synthesized?
Try 2 sawtooth oscillators on a mono synth with a small detune (perhaps just 1 cent) on one of the oscillators. Set a smooth but fairly quick attack and release for these oscillators. Send them ...
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Any good quality neuro and reese bass tutorials [massive, FM8, Serum]
I would recommend using square and saw waves detuned with some unison. I recommend you start with massive but serum is better if you have it. Modulate the wavetables in bend+/- or bend plus or bend - ...
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Tool for creating a WAV given a function of time/sample
The first thing that comes to mind is a tool like Matlab (from the Matthworks). You can download a free trial, but you would have to learn some prograsmming (or Matlabs language). But I believe it ...
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Sound Design: water, river, streams etc using a synth
guess I've found a good starting point for bubbling:
pink noise --> plugin called "Hysterisis" --> preset ASD_Juicer
but also
pink noise --> plugin called "Molekular" --> preset Sheperd_Sortie
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Does shifting harmonics change the resulting sound
The effect of changing the phase of a harmonic, might simply equate to (acoustically) that particular harmonic coming (to the ears) from a slightly different distance than the fundamental. Thinking ...
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Synthesize droning strings
At around 4:31 here Leon Dewan gets whats sounds to me like droning string sounds with (what he describes as) a wave-folding synthesis approach. I haven't been able to test it, but, based on his ...
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Is there a way to synthesize somebody saying "Aah" like in melbourne bounce?
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Find a vocal sample that has a defined note and is low enough to be pitched upwards.
Take a 250ms chop from this vocal, preferably one in which there is a slight amount of pitch movement (...
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Do Opus And AAC Use Artistic License To Improve Sound Quality By Sacrificing Accuracy?
You can read up on how the Opus codec works here: http://opus-codec.org/
Opus is entirely open-source, so you can even read the source-code to determine how it works.
Here is a paper on how MP3 and ...
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Tropical Ambience: creating a minimal background using synths
this is a perfect example of what I'm looking for ..
https://soundcloud.com/matzo/jungle-sound-design
all synth-based made on Serum ..
now I have to figure out how he did lol
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Tropical Ambience: creating a minimal background using synths
I remember a patch on the Roland D5 that had a nice jungle patch - it had a mix of sounds - jungle drums, crickets/frogs. I dont recall the patch number though! Outside of that I would suggest ...
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Miss Independent Synth
The sound is created by a low pass filter sweeping up very quickly on the sound, creating a subtle, but distinct attack profile.
Start with the detuned saw you were working on (this part is correct).
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Miss Independent Synth
First things, first.. The original song (I heard the synth in) is much, much different than the link you shared. FYI - it is NSFW!-- https://youtu.be/oXfMoXIWfcI .
I guess it would be helpful to know ...
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What is this sound? Some kind of LFO synth? Song: Heart of a Lion, Kid Cudi
long story short, experiment with the lfo on the pitch, and the volume, im not in front of my daw at the moment. but thats a good place to start. Also it sounds as though some of those sounds have a ...
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Is it possible to synthesize speech?
"Is it possible to create a voice from scratch with no recordings."
One system I was looking at is from the 1970's called VOSIM. (Just wrote a Java version of the basic algorithm about a month ago. ...
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Hardware FM synthesizer similar to DX-7?
Korg Kronos will do all you want and import dx7 patches.
You may also look for older synths like the sy77 and sy99 or yamaha synths that will accept an add-on card (plg-150dx) like motif es or S90es ...
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Hardware FM synthesizer similar to DX-7?
Yes , the new Volca FM, takes up all the DX 7 stuff & sounds:
the Volca FM is set to be its finest example so far: a three-voice polyphonic FM synthesizer, which is FULLY compatible with the old ...
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What effect(s) are used to make this sweeping delay?
It's pitched up and the time interval is exponentially shortened. If it wasn't done manually with a sequencer or sampler, which it most probably was, then it would most likely be a delay module with ...
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Speech synthesis in MATLAB : diphthongs
According to formant synthesis, this should be mostly a question of finding the correct transition duration T1 between the two formant configurations, i.e.:
t=0 to t=T1: linear transition from ...
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Japanese Anime/Arcade 'Shing' sound
Here is a link to a 6 min you tube video on how to make this "shing" sound.
I always thought of it as a sword sound effect. The guy in this video makes it from three ...
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Novation Bass Station II
Try learning synthesis in general. Bass Station 2 is a relatively easy synth, with classic parameters. You'll need to understand what each module or function is doing. I can recommend syntorial for ...
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Mixing Subbass and kick. How to replicate this tech house bass
This one is pretty simple actually. It's purely sounds like a sidechained sub line. I'll break it down in more detail with what I think he did.
It sounds like a kick with mediocre low end but ...
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Mixing Subbass and kick. How to replicate this tech house bass
What this guy actually does (to my ears), he has the kick with some "ok" low end and then when the bass part comes he adds the sub.
The context is a very powerful tool when mixing, makes things sound ...
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How can I achieve this sound?
The bass sound under there is a slight hoover effect, the bass oscillators are slightly detuned and one of them is rough like a square wave or something with very wide frequencies...
they take that ...
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How can I achieve this sound?
That sounds like a relatively simple wobble and I'm sure there are a massive amount of different techniques for achieving this. I would start with a basic approach, that being the somewhat archaic ...
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