hello youtube and welcome to another episode of how to create a sound today i'm going to create a sound and for your entertainment i'm in this church and i will record an actual bell later i try to recreate that on not my solicitors or maybe two so I hope they're joyous with you let's go when I began making this video I expected this to be a simple task but it turned out I had to learn a thing or two hot metal objects being hit with a hammer now that I've recorded the bell sound I try to recreate it sound as closely as possible on two machines today first of course on the novation circuit and also on the vial of Blofeld both are virtual analog synthesizers and they are in some ways quite similar but each one has its own special features but first let's look at the oscilloscope graph of a bell recording as you can see the sound is a rather complex waveform at first and then tied down to a very clean sine wave Bell builders call these the strike sound and the ham sound if you listen closely the sound is also pulsating very slightly we'll start on the circuit with a default patch the sine wave is the easier part it will need a long decay and an LFO which modulates its volume very slightly to keep this video short here are the settings needed so far so good this sounds quite close to the real mail in its decay phase the strike term is much harder to recreate a welcome bell with sound five or more harmonic notes which are tuned one octave or twelve semitones higher than the ham tone most synthesizers will only use two or three oscillators for each sound so we have to find a workaround for these shortcomings in this example we'll set up oscillated to as a triangle wave and kuhn it up by twelve semitones then we'll use ring modulation leasing and density to create harmonic nodes will also use the macros to assign a different amp envelope and LFO to the second oscillator so it paid faster than oscillator one to speed things up here are all the settings you need pause the video to read them okay in the last part of the video we used we think density and ring modulation to add harmonics to our sound so it sounds a little bit more like real well but what do these things actually do let's try to find out according to novation documentation cranking up density were at virtual copies of the original wave to the mix which results in a thicker sound you can then use the detune option to create slightly shifted harmonic overtones you can hear the result in the background a ring modulator multiplies the signal of two oscillators for example if you multiply each value of the red wave in this picture with a corresponding value of the Blue Wave you'll end up with a greenway ring modulation also has harmonics to your signal making the sound more metal like and hollow the recent option will add copies of the oscillators wave to the mix each time the oscillator finishes its current cycle all other ways are then we started this also results in overtones which can then be tuned to your needs ok we're almost done let's add some fine-tuning to the sound I want to add a hit in the beginning of the sound and some ring modulation which then fades away we can achieve this with some more macros which apply the elbows to the noise generator and the ring modulator please pause the video if you want to examine the setup and now for our second sense the valve of blue belt this machine has a very nice user interface but for this video I'm using soft nuts editor for Blofeld you can find a link in the description of this video I'll set up all the oscillators just the same as on the circuit using a sine wave for the unturned and triangle way for the strike zone using the same envelopes LFOs and a chorus effect the main difference here is that the blow fell can use up to three oscillators for each patch and it can use frequency modulation or FM synthesis in a variety of ways FM takes the frequency of one wave and adds it to the frequency of the other wave adding the blue and the red wave results in the Green Wave please be aware that these pictures strongly simplified and understanding FM requires the deep understanding of math FM allows for deep complex sounds but it's also very hard to utilize in this example oscillated too will affect oscillator 3 so did I reach my goal obviously no but there are some insights to be gained from this the first one is you can't reuse and analogs and decided to recreate a real what instrument better use assembler for that or play real instrument and the other thing is the resulting sounds were not really bad I think they're quite usable perhaps add some dynamic filter ring to it to use that as an electric piano or something well and last thought I don't think I even scratched the surface of the bluebells sound creation possibilities so that's it for today thanks for watching and if you liked this video perhaps please subscribe to my channel thanks a lot too and good night