Sound Design Secrets in 2024

Which piano teq instrument do you use?

nice

how fun, thanks Guy

Thank you so very much! Happy Holidays from Texas USA!

If we would make "Guy bounces an midi track, reverses a copy of it and crossfades the two" into a drinking game, no one of us would ever see the end of those videos ... :D Cheers, Guy!

BTW: This time you seem to have overlapped the two copies significantly in reverse phase, resulting in a notable drop of volume during the crossfade. Interesting, never thought of that!

you've almost convinced me to switch to Cubase! What headset are you using?

do is not si. si is si.

This is like watching Bob Ross do a painting! Whole canvas covered with blue sky and you're like "So what?" Several paint strokes later and you're looking at a cabin in the mountains with an amazing sky!

You play a piano chord that you don't know why you played in the first place - So what? Several mouse clicks and render in places later, now you got something that sounds incredible and that John Williams might want. 😁

🥧 🦃 Happy Thanksgiving!!! 🦃 🥧

Guy, you most love Granular synthesis, do you? A lot of what you do here manually is what Granular does. 😊

Hi Guy, would you go with another Software than Ableton for film music? Some other DAWs seem to be better for this genre. If yes, do you have a clear favourite regarding Cubase or (the cheaper) Studio One or are both good choices?

Excellent Guy, thank you from the sunny cotswolds

I can't believe all this time I've been using 3rd party plugins to do that pitch bend and all along it's in Cubase!! Holy smokes!!!

Very interesting, thank you! I would use this approach manipulating the audio from an acoustic track and superimposing the manipulated audio on top of it. It would create an organic augmentation of the orchestration.

master

I'm so glad I'm using Ableton Live. Also, thanks for the inspiration.

I don't even have Cubase but watched the whole thing haha

One of your best gems yet. Thank you!

LFO?? I recognize the term. So Cubase 14 has a built-in synthesizer?

Brilliant - as usual!

I like to do something like that at three in the morning. Sometimes when I put the headphones on I forget to turn off the speakers. My neighbors love it.

You're doing a fantastic job! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?

found you from your music theory in 16 mins. so nice to see more genuine teaching come up on my feed.

Thanks for sharing Guy! You inspire many of us to push our music and creativity in general!!!

😂 I wonder if this is how aliens compose their music for our sci-fi documentaries...Just kidding, Guy! Love your on-the-fly compositions. You're the closest thing to sitting next to a composer and getting to see how composers do what they do. Thanks so much!❤

Simply brilliant!

Love it ....be hier...

A little reminiscent of "Day in the Life"?

Sorry mate. I don't use Cubase. Love your stuff though so keep it up.

Nicely done Guy! For people who want to get into sound design, but whose DAWs don’t have as good sound design capabilities as Cubase or Bitwig Studio, I recommend the free Kilohearts essentials collection of effects plugins (34 and growing), which includes reverser, tape stop, distortion, pitch shifter, frequency shifter, filter, delay, reverb, etc.. These can be used as standalone plugins, or they can be used as “snapins” in one of the Kilohearts snapin hosts, such as Snap Heap, Multipass, or their brilliant Phase Plant synthesizer. All of these have the ability to hook up multiple controls to individual MIDI controllers, or to a rich variety of LFO’s (low frequency oscillators). The $29 Snap Heap plugin lets you set up serial and parallel effects chains. The $99 Multipass plugin lets you process separate frequency bands.

😁 well, you’re the AI nightmare 👻 ! Congratulations, love that 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Excellent tutorial Guy, thanks for the wealth of information.
I'm sure most people know this, but I had a problem that reversing all similar audio clips
To solve this, I found a tip to the effect that if you go to: file->preferences->audio->“on processing shared clips” dropdown=create new version"
Worked for me!

tip: you don´t need "Black Hole".... very similar to this is the new Cubase 14 "Shimmer" FX plugin!

That timestretch is epic!

Nice one! I learnt a lot

Hello guy, I hope you’re well. I know it’s all personal choice…but, I'm in a bit of a pickle. I have got some very good deals on 3 libraries. Spitfire SSO $377, Steinberg iconica opus $350 (which i have been waiting for) and Berlin strings $270
I know Berlin is just a string library
Time is running out, if it was you, which one?

Great fun.

Possibilities are endless, i bet you could also layer 2 of the samples and detune 1 of them like you do on a analogue synth

I love the high note samples at the end. It would be a great sound for a funny spacecraft flyby..

Great! Thanks

Hey, man. We don't need to see a little picture of you in the corner. It just gets in the way.
Great video. X

Awesome. Would like to see even more of your sound design tips. Thanks for sharing!

Hello! There is a New Year's theme! I encountered writing a New Year's composition, and in particular with such an effect as "magic dust". I do not fully understand how to do it perfectly. I understand that you can give a quick "bell" when answering on high notes, but this is not quite right, or should I use a granulator? In general, if possible, tell me how to correctly create such effects. Thanks in advance.

Thank you for the cool motivational video!

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