Reverse Engineering Synth Sounds Explained

Synth guru Thomas Cochran presents awesome synth sound design video tutorials! Have you ever heard a killer synth patch and wondered how it's made? Follow along with Thomas as he shows you how to listen to a patch and then recreate it from scratch, using any modern synth! These videos are designed for beginner hardware or virtual synth users.

Videos

• Selecting Synthesizers (06:01) - Thomas introduces the course and shows you how selecting different types of synths can help you make the various different synth sounds.

• Listening to Oscillators Pt. 1 (11:31) - This video covers the basic subtractive synthesizer waves and how they sound in context, and also discusses which waves to chose for different types of sounds.

• Listening to Oscillators Pt. 2 (08:10) - Now learn how to listen for different types of wavetable oscillators and what makes them sound different from one another. This video also shows you how to go about re-creating different wavetable sounds.

• Noise Layers (09:40) - Discover how to identify and re-create different types of noise layers.

• Unison & Detuning (07:14) - Learn how to hear the difference between Oscillator Detuning and Unison Controls, and when to use each of these features.

• The Filters (13:14) - Learn what the different filter types sound like and when the use them to create different sounds.

• Volume Envelopes (05:37) - In this video, Thomas explains how to identify the different parts of a volume envelope and how each part shapes the sound that you are wanting to create.

• Filter Envelopes (09:33) - Now see how to approach and tweak filter envelopes when re-creating synth sounds.

• LFOs & Modulation (07:23) - Learn how to identify LFOs, their effect on synth patches, and how to re-create the effect they are having on a sound.

• Applying Effects (11:04) - This video covers how to approach using effects on sounds, what different effects layered together sound like, and how to identify them.

• Recreating a Lead Synth Pt. 1 (11:08) - Thomas uses a lead patch from the Serum synth and applies the methods discussed earlier to re-create the patch from scratch.

• Recreating a Lead Synth Pt. 2 (05:32) - In this video, Thomas wraps up the discussion on the lead by making some final adjustments to the patch.

• Recreating a Bass (09:37) - Thomas now auditions a bass patch from the Serum sound bank and uses the methods learned previously to re-create the patch from scratch.

• Recreating a Pad (16:17) - In this final video, Thomas shows you a pad patch from the Serum sound bank and utilizes the methods shown to re-create the patch from scratch.