 Hey, it's Anfa and you're watching a new format of my videos If you don't know me, I'm making music electronic music using Linux and open-source software And usually I I spend a lot of time editing my videos, but then I decided I just want to make more videos And I don't want to spend the time editing all of that and also OBS didn't want to record In the full blown mode as as I wanted and it just crapped out. So I said screw it I'm gonna live stream that So let's get to it in the previous videos. I've been talking about gion kick and It's time to actually show it in action and show you how to make some sounds so Today I want to make some kick drums So this is my ardor session. I've titled it drama queen just for the kicks and giggles and I have added already five tracks with gion kick in this session. This is ardor six by the way It's unstable. It can explode at any time and can be generally a pain in the butt, but it's not really All righty, so let's create a region. I'm gonna snap to quarter notes Yes, please Okay, so let's make ourselves a nice No, yeah, I'm gonna move this Yeah here now let's loop it Okay, so we can hear our basic pattern now let's open up gion kick And let me do this thing so we can see it better Okay, I'm gonna make it stay on top so it never goes below Can you see it? You can see it. Okay. I don't want to obscure the interface All righty, so this is gion kick. Let's make a kick drum out of that Also, I'm going to route it to my keyboard, so Now I can just press a key on my keyboard and it will play however that is Velocity sensitive. So if I press soft, it's gonna play quiet if I press hard It's gonna play loud, which is cool. You want this kind of expression? All righty, let's make a kick drum so And the previous video I've made an overview of the user interface So you already should be familiar with that. If not, I'm gonna put a card here somewhere maybe later To link you back if not search for introduction to gion kick or introducing gion kick on my channel You'll find that So we are on layer one. The layer one is enabled. We are on the layer one. We are on the general amplitude. Let's go to oscillator one frequency instead and now we have The frequency plot from one kilohertz to 20 hertz. I'm going to romp up the frequency First, let's start off with something we've been doing recently and that was a citron's kick So I'm going to insert a new point And bring it down somewhere like to 50 hertz Bring down this also to the same frequency and now let's play a note all righty This is kind of kick like but Not quite entirely Okay, that's better now. I think that So you see the amazing thing about gion kick is that you have this immediate feedback of your waveform You're just you just see what is the wave file generated under the hood And we can tweak the envelope And it immediately gives us New sound and double clicking to insert a point This sounds pretty okay Let's uh now maybe romp up the amplitude Now I am going to switch to the amplitude of the oscillator one and I'm going to make this A percussive classic percussive envelope now. Let's maybe make rise the amplitude envelope Power to 100 so we can see that like nothing changes in our envelope, but the maximum value changes So here our maximum value is 0.5 The same is true with the frequency if I switch to the frequency If I turn this knob it's going to change the maximum value of our envelope Let's go back to the amplitude we can The funny thing is we can emphasize different frequencies in our kick by By changing the amplitude envelope because the frequency is changing throughout the time And we can emphasize which parts of the kick drum are ladder and which are quieter Well, that basically changes how the kick is eq'd, right? I think this is a little bit too long. So I'm going to maybe use the general envelope and Just cut it short Another thing we could do is use the distortion, but you know what? I'm going to keep this for another kick So this is one of our kicks Let's call it sidekick As in a sidekick. Ah, you get it Sorry All right. I'm going to copy this region by Control dragging it Let's make a sequence of kicks All right, let's let's make another kick shall we I'm going to open another instance of gion kick Make sure you can see the whole thing Uh, yep. Oh, we didn't listen to our kick looped. Wait a minute What is that ping thing? I think it's a bug in our door. Also the tempo is wrong That's maybe 150 Oh, wait a minute Oh, no, it's just triggering the first note here. Right shouldn't Okay, that's how our first kick sounds like Let's go to the second kick Let's do that Okay, let's solo the track to make absolutely sure nothing else plays So it doesn't mess up or our Feeling and hearing on what's going on. I'm going to also assign the keyboard Sympath so I can play this kick too Now let's go for something more like drum and bass, maybe So this kick, um, it should be shorter Let's go for the oscillator frequency. Let me make the amplitude higher. Oh my goodness. Sorry That was loud Oh, that's weird Why does it end here? I think there's a real bug. I'm going to click away to a different Okay, and back and this yeah, this is a little bug I'm just going to click on this and whoa Now that's real weird You know, normally if if that was be Recorded and edited To a t I would not show you that probably wouldn't show you that but because it's live you you get to see all that crap Okay, this kick should be more snappy. It should be doesn't Shouldn't start as as high Uh, should be shorter. By the way, there's the general envelope length. We can just scale this down. It's a bit loud, isn't it? Alrighty, let's play around with the amplitude So we can maybe emphasize And the emphasize some parts As you see, I'm usually cutting off out something in this area I think this is where our 500 hertz should be Oh, no, it's 80. Okay, never mind Doing a silly thing Now what I want to do is add a noise layer. That's very cool Let's enable the noise generator noise source for this layer and now I can switch to noise amplitude So we can decide where the noise is and how loud it is throughout the whole Thing let's make it present very quietly throughout the whole sample Maybe it's good. Uh, I want to use the filter It's a lopas filter. Let's make it a band pass Alrighty I'm reading the chat by the way. I I shouldn't be I don't want to get distracted. Sorry, but I read you Hi Okay, I think I want to try some distortion this time Let's enable it and you can see it actually it immediately squared the whole something. Let's play it Pretty nasty stuff. I'm going to go to the general settings and reduce the amplitude And you see it it it rounded off Again, so I'm going to increase the volume of the distortion. It's actually the post Distortion volume. So this is the post gain it's actually the post the distortion attenuation and with the general amplitude we can tweak the pre distortion gain so Now with this general amplitude envelope we get to decide how much distortion every part of our kick gets So now the transient gets all the distortion Which makes it very very clipped and a harsh and now we can like Make this Or that really weird doesn't really sound like it should This sounds pretty decent Now the yeah, we could turn down the volume here To like listen to it on on lower level I think it's pretty decent. I think that would work for drum and bass Okay, let's call this GN Kick whatever Let's This one would require a special pattern Okay, I like that Now if if you chat have any ideas for for the kick styles I should cover um Go for it. Share your ideas. I'm gonna I'm gonna appreciate that Whoa, have all the kicks played at once Let's solo the kick free Let's open the plugin. I'm gonna make it keep above others Which is good. You know what? I'm gonna cover all the midi stuff. We don't need to see that We don't really using it when we're tweaking the sound What type of kick should that be let's try and make a A hard style kick. Yeah I like to keep that for the final final The the last stuff the last thing But I'm gonna definitely try to make a hard style kick with this I I probably will gonna fail, but I never tried it again before but I'm gonna try anyway Let's maybe now try to make a realistic sounding kick Let's try to put something that make something that sounds like a real kick drum Now what I would be it would not be having as much frequency changes throughout the whole sound and usual kicks like They are like around 100 hertz and they have this um algorithmic pattern and And They would be really Really, you know, like really soft rather I don't know if I will really be able to go to to produce a Acoustically sounding kick with with gn kick. I haven't tried it yet, but let's let's go for it I hope we can learn some things even if we fail That's really The goal of fiddling you try to do something and you fail and you will do something else, which is also cool Okay, that's um It should be quieter like it should fall fade out pretty quickly Oh, I insert a one extra point. Okay. Let's switch to a different envelope and switch back and we have this one Which should not be here. Let's fix that now Actually, you know, this sounds more like an 808 Screw it. Let's go for an 808 We could actually play a melody with it. Oh, it's a bit too Let's make it distorted noisy 808 Let's add some noise. Let's make it band pass Oh, that's loud. Sorry Holy noise amplitude. Let's make it also fade away It's still too loud It should be a little noise very little Okay, let's name it a filter and they'll be the store enable the distortion Pretty decent. Let's use a general Amplitude envelope to create a distorted Yeah, I think that's pretty Pretty okay, like we can play a we can play a melody with this, you know now we can It's gonna probably sound pretty pretty weird and distorted By the way, oh that kick should go for note c Let's go for note g. I know it's easier to just tune it for g Oh man, but what's gonna Snap, okay, so I enabled Tuning to the pitch of the of the key you press Okay, now I'm playing a g note And we get the sound we want so it is tuned to g Maybe it isn't let's go for oscillator frequency and see what that note is It's an f bum bum Now let's go for this It needs to be g Now without any reference, I can't really tell but you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna add a instrument tuner To tell me what note that is Okay Already, let's play a c It plays an a sharp so it's It's Two semitones off All right So if I All right I didn't plan to you like Okay, let's play a g Now that plays f what the hell Let's play a higher octave This plays f2, but it's a g on the keyboard So that means I am I'm two seven tones flat from what I should be so g g sharp I need to be playing an age. Oh, sorry and a Oh, that makes sense because a is like the the middle of the Ah And now I press g on the keyboard in place g It's real. Okay. Can I play c? It's place c Sweet we can make some trap with this But we're not gonna At least not in this video Okay, so now, you know how to make a a Fumping noisy powerful distorted at a weight With g on kick and how to tune it So it does play a melody All righty, let's go further. What what else should we do? Give me some suggestions Uh hard style is still hard style is gonna be the last one Hmm, let's uh Damn what could that be? Okay, let's not name it before we actually attempt to do the thing Let's just open it up and and start playing and see what we get Okay, let's go oscillator frequency Let's do some totally minimum Yeah, it's like like like make it a minimalistic tune like Very very delicate click. All righty Amplitude higher and now You'll slay to amplitude. Okay, I think it should decay more lot garrifmically Okay, that sounds that sounds pretty close to an acoustic kick Because they often are pretty high like Um All righty, what what we have to do now is add some noise component to this And you see for now, we've been only using one layer. We have three layers. We could do some pretty crazy things Let's enable this noise oscillator. Sorry noise generator Let's go band pass and try. Oh my goodness. I want to get the noise to sing for me Noise can you please sing for me? I want to get it in sync with the oscillator So the it produces something like a reverberation effect or Or the air in the drum. Oh, that's I'm trying to look at Oh, no, that's okay. I think I need to use the noise amplitude and cut it off or Yeah, cut it off before Before it gets So weird and noisy. Oh, it's pretty pretty kind of okay-ish Um, well, I'm streaming already for 21 minutes. That's ain't gonna be a short video, but whatever Who cares? Okay, that's one layer of noise. Let's use another layer Let's enable it. Let's disable the oscillator And just use the noise Whoa, sorry Again, let's use a band pass filter Make the cue lower Actually, that's the that's the that's inverse The cue should be higher for more resonant sounds. That's how it's that's how it works So Yuri Nistor or however you should pronounce your name. This should be backwards like this is backwards Lower cue means less seat filters Not a biggie, but it's makes it quite counter-intuitive Okay, all right So now I'm layering weird noise layers filter noise I'm starting to like this We could try this compressor But I really never understood. How does it work? Like it does stuff But how does it do stuff? I have no idea But it does some weird stuff and I like that It's pretty cool. No idea why but Why it works like this specifically, but I like that it it does things Let's maybe Play some play a bit with the distort. Wow There's strange things happening here How does it sound? I'm gonna play it three two one It's pretty loud, but it's not bad. Oh, that sounds acoustic That sounds acoustic freaking yes Take it. So this is a goose kick perfect dang a goose Nice, we got one two three four kicks done now. It's time for the start of the show which is gonna be a miserable miserable attempt to create a heart-style kick And we might even try and make it play a melody All righty Let's go for it oscillator Frequency Let's make the amplitude higher frequency. I think the the heart-style kicks have a pretty pretty intense Oh, I added one to one point too much. Okay, let's do that Oh my goodness, this is brutal Okay, I think I'm gonna add some noise to this make it Yeah, low pass it. I guess And use the filter No, no noise amplitude and I'm going to like I want the noise noise layer to swell Also, I probably should enable distortion right away Yeah, because that's gonna like Really like decide what what the whole thing is gonna sound like It's not bad. I'm gonna turn down the volume I think I should turn down the drive too because we're operating on some ridiculously low Amplitude levels. There's too little distortion in here Someone with a chinese name. I can't read says good evening anfa. Good evening. Someone with a chinese name. I can't read How are you? Now that swell is interesting, but Trying to to to make a triplet Thingy, but kind of failing never mind Oh, it's going up. I know I should be playing a a is the key to success. I mean to be able to play a melody Okay Let's try and tune it Okay, this ain't hard style in the slightest, but I think if we add more layers And maybe enable this compressor and just do something ridiculous with it It's gonna just just magically save the sound make it good Holy fuck almost there We could enable the global filter Oh, okay, let's let's use the global. Sorry general filter cutoff and just Make it Oh, okay. Ah, all right. You see I made okay. I made a frequency so low it nothing could be done Let's give this I think I should make this longer also um The oscillator frequency it just it falls off To something lower shouldn't it should stay on the note never fall off Can I have move on hurts? Okay, I got it. I don't know if this is hard style at all I think I need an something I need that noise layer. I need a noise layer and I need it to be Harsh I need filtered with band pass filter with which gonna be resonant And I need this resonant noise filter cutoff to be Doing things Oh, yeah, kind of like that Probably not the best way to do it Now there goes the monetization The thing I miss is the ability to modulate the distortion parameters with an envelope That would be really neat Okay, I think we are done with our five types of kick Made with gion kick Yes, not the best not the brightest But let's revisit them and listen to all the kicks in order Uh, I just need to rename this one. It's gonna be hard style kick. Wow such original nine Three two one go Okay, that was really unbalanced the sidekick was very very Quiet in comparison to the rest. I think I need to compensate that Wait a minute Let's enable the distortion And make the volume 100% and make this Just so we turn up the volume. I don't want to saturate it really So there you have it. It's five types of kick drum synthesized with gion kick a liber which means free and open source Drum synthesizer currently available for linux, but a windows version is coming soon I'm going to I'm going to Upload these patches for you so you can take them apart And hopefully that's gonna be of interest So, uh, I hope you've enjoyed this. I hope this video was useful. I don't have anything on my t-shirt here I am really In a need of for some good t-shirt ideas for open source music production I have some money to spend on printing t-shirts. If you have any cool ideas Let me know. I may I might just put these designs to a web store so you can buy them too if you'd like Why not? I don't want to make any money on that. I just want to make cool t-shirts So if you want to actually help me and like Give me your money because why wouldn't you? 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Thanks to everyone who's there in the live stream chat I wave to you Nobody complained about my voice being too quiet. So I think that's good I have Below one percent of dropped frames. So that's good If you really need that I can I can give you the raw footage so we can edit this video into something more coherent because everyone's recording it too And it somehow didn't bog down the whole system and it looks like the the frames per second is good And I'm rambling on for way too long right now You know what maybe I'll do another live stream like that tomorrow And show you how to make some awesome snares because why not? I want to make more stuff, but editing takes a lot of time. Let's live stream the whole thing then Okay, so that's that Once again, thank you all for being here and check all the stuff You'll find all the things in the video description Have a good one now go and make some music. Yes, I want to end the stream now