I've been planning on doing sound design and production tutorials for a while. Here's the first one. It's a bit weird being a content creator. I hear Youtube hates those. We'll see how long this lasts.

I briefly talk about phase and how it relates to synthesis. If you want to know a bit more, you should read all of Chapter 3 (every chapter really! It's short)
¤ http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/MusicAndComputers/

Some additional points I don't make (but should've) in the video:
¤ To set this rack up with any other synth, it needs to have two properties. First, you need to have a predictible starting point for phase. ie. it lets you either phase sync or set the phase somewhere. Razor has a "random phase" knob that by default is turned down. Secondly, you can't use any kind of randomization modules. This defeats the purpose of stacking identical waveforms. In Razor, the two noise oscs, the noise filter, and stereo mode are randomly generated. Do not use.
¤ The part about "curvy waveforms are bad" and "straight waveforms are good" is a very loose guideline for the exact patch I made. That wasn't meant to be a rule you need to follow, it's meant to show you that you should play with your patch and set a few rules about what you decide sounds good. This well help some of that "I made a cool patch, but I don't know what to do with it."
¤ I was going to talk about oscillator syncing as well, but the video would have been too long. Phase syncing has a very characteristic effect, but osc sync does too. It's useful for making those "ripping" or "tearing" kinds of sounds that Feed Me or Kill the Noise uses. Try matching the automation of an osc sync knob with a formant. In most cases, I would turn phase sync off for that.
¤ I wrote up some other notes for nerds here: http://tmblr.co/ZuNVmw136V5Jf

I'm not a neurohop producer, but I've done some tracks in the past that use these kinds of sounds
¤ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J_T1_cuzq4
¤ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG7cJMmVIPo


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