Ultimate Sound Design: Mastering Sound Design

U1:Introduction

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

U2:Basic Physics of Sound
- What is Timbre?
- Harmonics and Partials
- Overtones
- Waveforms

U3:Essential Tools: Sound Generators

- 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

U4:Essential Tools: The Filter

- 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

U5: Device 1: Ableton's Analog Instrument

- 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

U6: Essential Tools: Envelopes

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

U7:Preset Analysis

- Preset: FatEric
- Preset: Sadness Pad

U8:Methods for Creating Sounds

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

U9:Other Types of Synthesis

- Applying the Essential Tools to Other Synthesis Types
- The Other Synthesis Types

U10: FM Synthesis

- What is FM Synthesis?
- Musical Examples
- What is the Same?

U11: FM8 Plugin (Native Instruments)

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

U12: Additive Synthesis

- What is Additive Synthesis?
- Musical Examples
- What is the Same?

U13: Device 3: Ableton Live's Operator Synthesizer

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

U14: Wavetable Synthesis

- What is Wavetable Synthesis?
- Music Examples
- What is the Same?

U15: Device 4: Serum

- 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?

U16: Physical Modeling Synthesis

- What is Physical Modeling?
- Musical Examples
- What is the Same?

U17: Device 5: Ableton Live's Electric

- Setup
- The Model
- The Mallet Section
- The Fork Section
- The Damper Section
- The Pickup Section
- The Global Section

U18: Analog Insturments

- 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

U19:Sound Design Recipes

- How to use Recipes
- Verbalizing Sound
- "Recipe Books"

U20: Making Bass Sounds: Sound Design Bass Recipes

- Deep House Bass
- Dirty Dubstep Bass
- Pluck House Bass
- Growly Resonant Bass
- Warm Foundational Bass

U21: Making Lead Sounds: Sound Design Lead Recipes

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

U22: Making Drum Sounds: Sound Design Drum Recipes
- The Ableton Drum Rack
- Synth Kick
- Synth Hats/Hi-Hats
- Synth Snare
- Synth Toms

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