PickVidsBest Music theory, synthesis & production Videos
The 103 Music theory, synthesis & production videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 14 introductory, 14 intermediate, 74 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Tantacrul, Adam Neely, Rick Beato.
Samplerates: The Higher the Better, Right?
Dan Worrall explains when higher sample rates help in recording and mixing, and when they do not.
Music on Reality TV is Insanely Manipulative
Tantacrul analyzes how stock music in reality TV uses blunt, repeated tropes to manipulate viewers, comparing it to nature documentaries.
First Techno (Kraftwerk 1970)
The earliest existing concert video of Kraftwerk, from a 1970 performance shortly after the band formed.
Corporate Music - How to Compose with no Soul
Composer Tantacrul explores how corporatism produces soulless background music, and how some companies use such music in propaganda-style campaigns.
How A London Orchestra Broke International Law
12tone tells the story of pitch inflation and how concert A came to be standardized at 440 Hz, including attempts at legal standards.
Polyend Tracker // Review and Full Tutorial from Sample to Song
Loopop reviews the Polyend Tracker hardware tracker-style sequencer and walks through a tutorial from sampling to finishing a song.
CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford
Nigel Stanford's music video Cymatics, in which real science experiments, such as Chladni plates, ferrofluid and water, visualize the audio.
Using AI To Detect AI Music (and other music industry data-porn)
Musician Benn Jordan uses AI to detect AI-generated music and digs into music industry data, including streaming payouts and sample library copyright problems.
The music theory of V A P O R W A V E
Adam Neely analyzes vaporwave through music theory, timbre and nostalgia, and includes a parody track made for the video.
The Story Behind Audacity
Tantacrul tells the story of Audacity, the widely used free audio editor, and announces his involvement in the project.
My Squirrel Recording is in a MOVIE! 📽 DUNE: Mark Mangini, Oscar Winning Sound Designer
Wildlife videographer Dani Connor Wild talks with Oscar-winning sound designer Mark Mangini about how her red squirrel recording became the desert mouse sound in Dune.
sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!
A 2006 promotional video for sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!, a music software project that analyzes and reassembles sampled audio and video in real time, tied to themes of sampling and copyright.
Don Knuth - Constraint Based Composition
Donald Knuth explains at Stanford's CCRMA the constraint-based methods he is using to compose a major work for pipe organ.
Kefrens - Desert Dream - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)
Kefrens' Desert Dream, an Amiga demoscene production released at The Gathering in 1993, recaptured in HD at 50fps.
Charanjit Singh - Raga Bhairav (1982)
The opening track of Charanjit Singh's 1982 album Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat, recorded in Bombay.
Bytebeat: Music from very short programs - the 3rd iteration
Viznut's third bytebeat video presents music generated by very short C programs and JavaScript expressions.
Amiga music: Captain - Space Debris
A 1991 Amiga tracker module, 'Space Debris' by Captain (Markus Kaarlonen), uploaded as a video of the music.
How to replicate Teenage Engineering OP-1 and OP-1 Field for free. | GAS Therapy #35
A tutorial in the GAS Therapy series showing how to recreate the Teenage Engineering OP-1 and OP-1 Field with free software.
Microsoft Songsmith Commercial
A promotional commercial for Microsoft Songsmith, software that generates backing music from a vocal recording.
Quarter-comma Meantone with split sharps
A short recording of a 1565 organ in Mantua tuned in quarter-comma meantone, showing split sharps in use.
John Chowning - Stria (1977)
John Chowning's 1977 computer music piece Stria, composed with FM synthesis, which he discovered in 1967.
Vader's Redemption: The Imperial March in a Major Key
A complete rendition of John Williams' Imperial March rearranged in a major key.
Shepard Tone
A five-minute demonstration of the Shepard tone, an audio illusion made from octave-separated tones that makes pitch seem to rise endlessly without ever getting higher.
Will We Ever Run Out of New Music?
Vsauce asks whether music will ever run out of new melodies.