How To Make - Synthwave with The Midnight / 547

those vocals tho

Group Therapy With Above & Beyond Guest Mix this week? Same artist?

Great tutorial. I’ve been trying to figure out how to create guitar parts with synths and now I know! I always seem to learn more when I watch tutorials that use DAWs that I don’t use. I think it’s because I’m not trying to replicate every little thing. Instead, I’m just paying attention to the lesson since how it’s done is less important than what is being done.
Tim is also a very personable tutor who is easy to follow and fun to listen to. I didn’t catch myself nodding off after watching for a few hours.
The “blunders” and “goofs” added to the learning experience!

The initial synth is … DOPE!

cool course, very helpful !

It’s good but when he opens a synth and for the sound is like “I found it on some random bank and tweaked it from there” that’s all good, but how do we get “there” I copy what I see on the screen but there is obviously steps I can’t see behind other panels…

Awesome!

@alecritson I guess it keeps the focus on arrangement and mixing, not to get sidetracked into sound design, and there are other courses for that.

Thanks for doing this, Tim. Great course, great track :slight_smile:

Excellent.

Very good music and tutorial. I’ve enjoyed every second. Thank you very much!

Great tutorial!

Excellent music and tutorial, it was very informative.

Great all around. Really fun to watch and very informative. Thank you for taking the time to put this together Tim!

This is wonderful, he is a genious. But the problem is these stems are already so ready, subtle modiications wouldn’t teach much. if someone mixed Madonna’s Live To Tell (has veryy muffled stems but the final mix is amazing) it would be super helpful.
Big fan of The Midnight though!!

@cankucuck17 wow I also thinked about Madonna’s live to tell song some days ago, I’d love to know how emulate it.

About the dreamy synth… well, what do you have to do to actually make it so dreamy? At least with the main synth you see the process, but with the YAMAHA DX synth sound there’s no explanation at all.

This helped a lot dude. Thanks so much. It’s exactly what I needed and MY FAVOURITE TRACK. Godsend. Peace!

Great Work! Love the song and looking forward to learning from it.

Nice !!

So incredibly helpful. I love The Midnight, and I’ve been really exploring Synthwave/Retrowave recently. This series was a great course in understanding the components of this genre, and how to really put the picture together.

Tim is a phenomenal songwriter and producer. I joined the site just to access this course, and I am so happy that I did!

This was great to see how The Midnight works, and hear why he makes certain decisions. It could’ve gone into a little more detail about how to make some of the presets from scratch, but overall it was great to see the full process.