Making Music In Bitwig: Sound Design In The Grid

learn to design your own instruments and sounds in bitwigs poly grid

What you'll learn

Understand many Fundamental Audio Principles

Understand Bitwigs Grid and how to use it for Sound Design

Develop your own Instruments and new Synthesis Techniques

Problem Solve Patches

Create Generative Sound Design Ideas

Requirements

some experience with music production

Description

The much requested grid course is here:Learn to design your own sounds and instruments in Bitwigs Poly Grid.I'll walk you all the way from creating the basic components of any synthesizers to advanced sound design and modulation techniques, covering many subjects such as oscillator types, envelopes, filters & fx, modulation & CV signals, ring & amplitude modulation, phase & frequency modulation, hard sync, bycicle spoke synthesis, pitch processing, creating arpeggiators, grid logic & troubleshooting & many more. Almost every lesson comes with an exercise at the end that will help you explore the concepts discussed further. I designed these to start out quite simple and get increasingly more challenging, they're all very archievable but i do want to make you use your brain a bit. After all you're here to learn how to design your own Instruments and FX and gain the confidence to explore further on your own.If you ever get stuck, don't hesitate to ask away in the comments and i'll get back to you asap.To take this course I would recommend some previous experience with music production, you don't need to know anything about the grid specifically, but if you've never used a synthesizer before, this course may be a bit challenging for you.See you in the course!~yona

Overview

Section 1: Intro

Lecture 0 An intro to The Grid:

Lecture 1 Building your first synthesizer:

Lecture 2 Layering and mixing in The Grid:

Lecture 3 Incorporating the Post FX Chain

Section 2: Modulation

Lecture 4 Controlled Modulation Sources

Lecture 5 Random Modulation Sources

Lecture 6 Processing and Combining CV Signals

Lecture 7 Example Patches 1

Section 3: AM, RM, FM, PM, Hard Sync & Beyond: Audio Rate Modulation

Lecture 8 AM/RM

Lecture 9 Phase & Frequency Modulation

Lecture 10 Hard Sync and Bycicle Spoke Synthesis

Lecture 11 Filter & FX Modulation at Audio Rate

Lecture 12 The DC Offset Trick

Lecture 13 Example Patches 2

Section 4: Physical Modelling Techniques

Lecture 14 Karplus Strong and Modal Synthesis

Lecture 15 Feedback with Long Delay and its Limitations

Lecture 16 Types of Exciters

Lecture 17 Polyphonic Interresonance

Lecture 18 Example Patches 3

Section 5: Pre Processing Pitch:

Lecture 19 Pitch Glide

Lecture 20 Vibrato

Lecture 21 Types of Pitch Envelopes

Lecture 22 Advanced Pitch Movement

Lecture 23 Building an Arpeggiator

Lecture 24 Example Patches 4

Section 6: The Finale

Lecture 25 Where to go from here & Final Exercises

Lecture 26 Patch from Scratch 1: An expressive, chaotic instrument

Lecture 27 Patch from Scratch 2: A percussion generator

Lecture 28 Patch from Scratch 3: A neuro bass

Bitwig Users wanting to learn how to use the Grid