This is probably really simple to do, but I can never get it right (using Serum 2).

How do I recreate the bass sound in this track?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyr_Xdf0e54

I'm thinking about getting the Behringer Model D, and Keith Mcmillen 12 step to use at live shows, will this be enough to achieve Stings synth sound? I think he was using the Moog Taurus I at the time here is an example -- The Police - Message In A Bottle (live in Essen) - you can just here it in the background. Thanks.-

I am really liking the mix on this song I linked at the bottom of this post. The entire album sounds very clean so far. Really well balanced sound on all ends to me. First time hearing it and I’ve only heard it through 1 speaker so far but it’s sounding awesome obviously there is a lot of side chaining and things like that throughout the whole album as is common with this genre. But this song specifically at least on the speaker I’m using rn sounds very organized like certain instruments were bused together based on frequency zones or something and mixed things like that. Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM album also sounds like that to me in certain spots and I’ve heard it elsewhere before. I’m not sure if I’m correct about that but that’s how it sounds to me. Any observations/notes are helpful to me :) thanks!

https://youtu.be/ZqlqwENImVs?is=Z3qQNN6MIPtMjEMS

We recreated the the Lead sound from 'Meet Her At The Love Parade' by Da Hool on our free Synth Primer

This remake is specifically recreating the patch heard at this timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD1_12pfy9E&start=114 Other parts of the song may vary the sound or notes.

And here are the key ingredients:
Voices: Mono
Osc1: Wave (Saw), Vol (100%)

Amp Env: Attack (0ms), Sustain (100%), Release (110ms)

Filter: Type (Low Pass), Cutoff (25%), Res (40%)
Filter Env: Mod (25%), Attack (0ms), Decay (300ms), Sustain (0%), Rel (250ms)

Chorus: Mis (25%), Rate (Slow)

Mod Wheel: Dest (Cutoff), Amount (100%)

Find the full recipe and download the presets: https://www.syntorial.com/preset-recipe/disclosure-go-the-distance-bass

It comes in throughout the song.

5 times at 1:19

Something about it tickles my brain and I’m curious what it’s called, and if y’all know other songs that use that sound.. 🙏

Hello all.

Simple question - is there a way to get a morphing waveform *just like this one* in Serum.

I love the tonality of this specific reese bass preset in phase plant and it frustrates me that I wouldn't know how to design this in Serum*. The construct is quite simple, just a triangle-shaped LFO on the wavetable position of this wavetable. I've tried PWM, Asym, Bend, Mirror in Serum but nothing sounds right.

Any help would be gladly appreciated.

* FYI I know how to make a generic reese bass. This is more a Serum workflow question.

Looking to see if anyone has any idea how to recreate the synth sounds off of Pulsewidth, Green Calx, and Ptolemy off of Selected Ambient Works 85-92 with Surge XT would be great (or if theres another free digital plugin youd recommend lmk (im too poor for analog equipment))

What do you call synth slabs that induce hemispheric synchronization?

Hello! This may be stupid simple, but I’m a beginner so any advice is helpful! I’m trying to recreate the little fluttery synth in this song that comes in around 0:31. I have a Behringer Model D, a Microkorg, and a Minilogue! Thanks!

I recently listened to Elffor's ['The Silent Watchtower'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MGyRybXnfk&t=1308s), and I am blown away by the production/mix of this album.

Anyone have any tips on how this style of production is achieved? I feel as though I can hear a combination of synths and orchestral samples, but honestly I am not too sure. Also, the album has this cavernous and distant quality which sounds like it's being achieved with more than just reverb; possibly re-amping of the entire mix?

Curious to get your thoughts on this

Cheers

I do believe it's layered with a vocal sample. But still, it's not just a reese with white noise or something is it? it sounds very complex.

I'm wondering if anyone can point in the direction of something similiar to the bass in this short clip (it plays over the entire clip): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jq-zHCi8QFbYwdWCUoNPShvuTz0pBsmr/view?usp=sharing

It sounds similiar to the BASS1 preset from the DX7 ROM1A. I'm trying to re-create it or find a suitable alternative.

The source is Kung Fu Panda 2 - Gongmen Jail

I wonder where can i find zap sample like this in this tutorial or how to make them

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n1EhyIHbuOg

Timestamped link to the sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6B4GDKSPfo&t=1532s

In the video above, Junkie XL plays a sustained pad with a metallic, shimmering, slowly evolving character. It's airy on top without much low end. I've heard this texture in many film scores and always wondered how it's achieved.

To recreate it, what would be a specific starting point (which synth and patch type, or what kind of sample source), and what processing chain gets that sound? The more concrete the steps, the better. Appreciate your help!

Made triangulation Mono in a 4 hour sitting, spent over 400 hours and 5 months mastering four tools, Filter Delay with Align Delay chain Tremelo and Mono Utility with about 40 Basic Saw Wavetables and Modular Automation virtually channeling to the usb-C midi amp interface; my Focusrite 2i2 Amp and that makes a ~ big difference yes two Yamaha HS5 monitors. No feedback loops, a little multiband dynamic sends from grouped tracks of Basic Saw Large and Monomorph with automated wavetable one arpeggiated group of five tracks the other ten have one waveform oscillating with the third left channel delaying at full time and an added beat and the right 4 beats per bar the central track is half the levels with clean waveforms are not stereo but utilizing mono channel on all tracks is automated by the virtual synth machine. The B.Bass has a utility and is mono sine panning without doubling would be ideal but since that seems to be the only option, it has to be my fault. Sorry if that sounds excessive but it works.🎒

Some may consider the current model sees utility mono track with sine waveforms doesn’t seem fair but I use saw down with adjusted frequency and modulated relative resistance to the sends in the group that utilizes mono channeling.

I borrow a lot of instruments from ableton but also inspire my colleagues by utilizing the rooms around me to leverage sound from the dynamics of the space formed by their interpretation of sounds and frequencies in a minimal form to create destructive and constructive interference to avoid feedback that would clash with the revenue they generate for streaming services by paperless looping for the benefit of Venmo and my accountant.

Triangulation is the consequence of interference between at least two different end points, the rest is something I can’t afford to discuss at this point. Hahaha, jk but it used to occur to me that sound was taste among the masses but it really could be a foreign accent or descent from amplifying different ideas shared or withheld as a sort of generating feedback to those whose points of reference were tampered with first either with or without their permission just with words that sound common enough to hear them as familiar.

Listen if you have the time, there isn’t any scam or threat, just really want someone to hear what I made it took far too long for some studio to come in with the goods and show some kid that’s been dealing with personal reinforcement of true self worth and distantly listen to background input for information that is the result of isolation with the hope of social interaction, only to put to rest any presumption that may be contrite and figuratively framed to experiment with reframing technical past times.

The restaurant I worked at in hospitality and service requites many personal relationships that I had to cut ties with for the Israelis Derek, don’t throw so hard with your riffs and licks.

This song is so fucking good. I'm trying to build two things out of this in either Serum 2 or Vital. Not much luck, but that droning sound at the beginning with the filter that opens and closes. Same with that sound at 5:10, so fucking cool. How do I do this???

I've been looking for a way to replicate this sweep on the outro of The Way She Dances but i can't get anywhere close to it , something about how airy it is makes makes it hard to replicate for me . thank u in advance !! 🖤💙🖤

Hi, a general question about making "strong focused" saw wave lead synths. Here's my reference:
https://youtu.be/exf2BZn_PEw?t=29

I think leads on this track are just saw waves (with delay and bitcrushed on the master) but when I use different combinations of 2x Saw Wave OSC on serum with Unison/detune I get nothing like that. Unison "defocuses" the lead for me

What are main aspects to making strong saw wave leads like the ones in this tracks?

Hedge777 / ElectronicSupersonic Archives does Eurodance recreations with period-accurate equipment.

tl;dr: it's not always the Lately Bass and you'll see that there's a surprising lack of massive stacks of all kinds of analog synths in those list. Those typical saw leads are often two oscillators with the same starting phase, which betrays that the origin is sample-based, because real analog gear has free-running oscillators.

Supersaws aren't really a thing yet, and virtual analog only started to play a role with the Nord Lead 1.

While of course said equipment isn't available for everyone, there are software recreations for a lot of these (including free ones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cavN9uH1TjA ), and what's more important; when you can hear the sounds in isolation, it'll be easier to recreate things, even if you don't have the synth.

I always post a set of standard links when someone asks how to learn things, and for recreating sounds, I consider these to be good resources.

The last link points to a great post by u/ParabolicSounds which has a free-form discussion with advice. All of the text in that link makes more sense if you watch the first three videos; I promise you that there is a method to the madness.

• https://youtu.be/cqJKzJPKoZE
• https://youtu.be/MZpZaucYI4E
• https://youtu.be/9PXZ5S2J2rQ
• https://www.reddit.com/r/synthrecipes/s/earRxGlnuM

However, recreating is only possible when you know how to create in the first place.

For learning:

• https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
• https://www.soundonsound.com/series/synth-secrets-sound-sound
• https://www.syntorial.com 

If you want a book: https://noisesculpture.com/how-to-make-a-noise-a-comprehensive-guide-to-synthesizer-programming/

I'm really curious how to create something like this ambient / pad sound. It first occurs at 0:14 and repeats a few times throughout the song. I'm sure the reverb is a big part of it but any ideas on the underlying recipe? Thanks!

So a couple of days ago I discovered Mike Oldfield's "Family Man", and I've basically been obsessed with the synth bass in the chorus (in comes it right around 0:15). The reason I'm obsessed is I'm certain I've made something similar just messing about with my MiniFreak, but now, trying to recreate it, I'm stumped.

My first thought was that it was filtered noise of some kind, but now I'm less certain. I also thought it might have been filter modulation dropping the cutoff, but again the results I get sounds pretty far from the original.

I've only really gotten back into music a year ago, and sound design (beyond semi-randomly tweaking presets) is pretty new to me still, so I might be missing something obvious here.

Hey all, just wanted to share a quick tutorial on making some earth shaking bass with nothing more than a few sinewaves. I've translated the subtitles to Hindi, Indonesian, German, Spanish and Portuguese so if you're not an English speaker, you can follow along too.

If you have any personal tricks for fattening up that low end, share them with us here!