"Phase Mod" Anything With Serum - My Secret Bass Design Technique
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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In this tutorial I show you:
How to modulate any parameter in Serum with any waveform
How to import perfectly tuned waves into Serum's NoiseOSC
How to use keytracked Serum FX on non-Serum audio sources
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9:49 you got it!
You're a genius, Steve! Thanks for blessing us with this spiritual technology, stoked on what's to come :)
legend, steve! so cool to see you involved with the community
How do we do it though because that sounds super useful
thanks for making this brilliant instrument, much love :D
I've seen this addition in the plugin it's great! although right now I believe the noise in can only be mono is there a fix for this?
I love it when great producers share their knowledge on producing, but it must not be easy to share these secrets with everyone else. Much respect to you, and thanks for the fantastic tutorial!
yeah that mentality was just a product of first generation producers......95% of homies holding things down nowadays have learned from those dudes sharing, or from YEARS of struggling, and therefore theres no second thought when it comes to sharing information/ helping out
I think he does't care bcs anyone can use his tips better than him. And beacause he's the King, of course.
@@splatsquatch3934 this actually nearly happened with another tutorial, i think it was his iconic bass thing, he said something on it iirc
oh, and yeah neuro production is definitely something lacking in tutorial and assistance! glad its been getting better in the recent years
@@DuskfoxOfficial nobody's individuality worth anything at all is dependent on one technique or 'secret'... plus one day AI will be able to bridge every possible technical outcome so the playingfield is growing ever and ever more balanced, and unique music in no way can depend on a secret technique
4:36 "Some will sound more profound than others" *snorts cocaine* *short pause* "Heres another example!"
Hahaha brill
hahahahah
Underrated comment lmaooo
That intro is the sexiest thing
FUCK YEAH I REPEATED A LOT
Reminds me of the playstation intro for some reason
oh hi
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Wow I just found this by searching for "mapping mod knob serum ableton" and I got a whole lot more than I expected! Amazing tutorial I liked and subscribed!
You’re a beast. Would be cool to see you do some work with vr someday
I took a shit while i was watching this...at 5:35 i simultaneously shat in the exact same pitch. I think i've opened a wormhole or something.
That's the best intro I've ever seen...thank you for this amazing tutorial :)
That profile pic matches what you said so well lmao
Learned a lot from this bravo!! "So si-i-i-i-i-ick" at the end lmaoo
Shit no wonder all your music sounds so good. You're a master of your craft!
Wow that's a sick intro!
The outro is even sicker!
For anyone who can't get their waveform to loop seamlessly:
I found that I had to render/freeze the MIDI to 48K 32-bit audio for it to loop without clicks. Any other configuration would lead to audible clicks as well as imperfect behaviour as a modulator in Serum.
Once the audio had been rendered, it still looped perfectly once converted to 44.1K 16-bit. For some reason though, freezing the Serum MIDI with those settings never yielded the same result.
I'm using REAPER but I'm guessing this might also occur in other DAWS - perhaps even Ableton.
Hope this helps. Also - get Au5's sound design course ya shmucks
I'm still getting clicks. Also when he demos his sine at the beginning of the video you can hear clicks
I had no idea this possibility even existed. Yet again I'm blown away! This is all so clever!
Buddy at my work likes to say being a producer is just pushing a button and that's it, can't wait to show him this as I have no idea what the fuck you're doing 👍🏼
Shadow Walsh lol same here, it makes me want to quit seeing how ingenious he is.
That's dope af. I've been trying to figure out how to make a stomach growly farty buzzy bass kinda like you hear in pixel terror tunes and I had no idea where to start and this video shows me where to start. Muchos gracias!
yea the noise mod thing was cool but aux mod is the thing i was looking for for ages and started thinking its impossible... I always learn so much from these videos aside from the topic it's mainly about
6:54 "Very neat." I'm subbing for that moment alone haha
Dude this is insane, never even thought this kind of modulation was possible without some insane automation and LFO work. Your view and take on synthesis is so interesting to learn from, loving the videos dude
Not only are you someone who is really well versed in legitimate sound design, but you are perhaps one of the few musicians that teaches their audience WHY things sound the way they do rather than "hey do this it sounds cool lol".
Dude, just came across this video of yours from years ago, and just realized that what you said at the end of the video may just be what you've shared on your Instagram the other day? 🤔 Nevertheless, awesome video, and thanks for sharing these weird intricate tips and things, because I've come to realize that music production is more than just notes and sounds, but also the weird and whacky things you discover along the way, and just straight up out of the box usage for various different things. And that's one thing I know you do a lot, and I appreciate that 😌
MY FUCKING GOD .Its first time i did not understand what a guy was doing on serum. Legend.
Sir, your voice sounds like someone to be trusted when acquisition of knowledge is concered, so i clicked on thumb-up 30 secs in.
Using midi from external instrument > serum fx for keytracked effects alone is a HUGE DEAL for me. Thanks Austin!
What an epic intro, tutorial and ending tho
I've been producing for 20 years now. I'd say my knowledge and skills are somewhat decent. But after watching this I feel like a total n00b. How are you coming up with these ideas? Guys like you have a deep understanding of what is actually going on. Respect :)
HOLY FUKKKING SHIT YOURE SUCH A G FOR THIS IVE BEEN WONDERING FOR LIKE A YEAR AND A HALF HOW TO GET THIS EFFECT FROM MASSIVE IN SERUM 💚
1 minute into the video and I understood why this guy is a genius.
BRO CHAPEAUX. NO WORDS FOR YOUR AMAZING MIND.
Your intro is actually fricken amazing! XD
you are light years ahead, great tut again. more more more. bless you
Every time I watch one of the mini tutorials, some parts of my brain just implode on the load of information and the possibilities that Serum inherits, and which Austin is discovering.
Thanks so much for the ongoing uploads of techniques and secrets!
Greets from Germany :)
I actually imported a lot of single cycle shapes in the noises just for FM, especially if I wanted double FM and the sub shapes weren't exactly what I wanted to use, but I never thought I could use it to modulate it directly, sometimes it creates FM but not necessarily, that's a really cool technique
Brooo that Vocoding at the end was amazing Austin. Thanks for the tips and tricks, I will definitely apply this to macros in my favorite patch bays.
I thought I got pretty far into Noise Osc experimentation until I saw this. DAAAAAAYUUUUMMMMNNN.
Thanks homie!
epic intro!
I used the Adventure Kid Waveforms, they are single cycle already so lots of fun too be had with all of those as the noise Osc. Plus the VST 3 format will let us use external audio as a source.Once Live 10.1 is released(can use VST3's) and Serum becomes a VST 3 synth/fx.(if its not already..Steve?)Cheers Mr S
I Don't understand how he can put so much high end and movement into his sounds and have it not get all swishy and lose all of its attenuation when it gets uploaded to soundcloud. But everytime I hear an Au5 track on soundcloud it sounds pristine. My mind is always blown.
without going into great detail like Meredith tried - phase over time IS frequency. if a sine wave is the modulator then the interpolation is effectively equivalent. So we may as well see this latter part of the video using the variable delay as MIDI sidechained FM. Unfortunately we don't have the capacity to set up a complex modulator here with another FM operator by modulating the modulator a.k.a. frequency modulation index. If we dump a sample into sampler and in the oscillator tab turn on FM we get a pretty good darn control there but unfortunately we have to load in an entire sample so we don't have real time, and although we get an ADSR we can't modulate the modulator. This concept keeps coming up and it just seems like nobody's made one. Then I start thinking will shit maybe I should just do it and Max so I have it… But is that really true nobody has made this?
Idk about Ableton, but in Reaper you can modulate any VST parameter by essentially sidechaining it to another audio track. If you set the attack and decay of that sidechain to zero, you can get a similar effect to here, but with live audio.
I am sooo happy i stumbled upon you my friend. Wow.
Subscribed lol. 👌
Those recent tutorials are excellent and exceptionally explained! Those have taught me things I haven't even thought of before.
Keep 'em coming!
amazing video!
Omg I love this thank you for these tutorials. I love the intro and especially the hilarious outro.
You are my fav EDM artist. So different and inspiring. Your tracks always give me chills. How do you produce the sound that sounds like a creaky door opening in one of your monstercat releases?
Could you be any more vague? lol
I'm not a native Ableton user so it took me a long-ass time to figure out that external instrument MIDI routing... and then it's in this tutorial lol
hei thanks, this is super helpful! Love to see a tutorial with a deep technical understanding of digital synthesis.
Very nice technique, I used to do the same thing with the audio in of FM8 but this way looks much more interesting
I've tried that a long time ago, but kept encountering a problem. When I routed a modulator into the audio input it would take the plugin at least 1 full minute to produce an effect. How successful was the FM8 method for you?
You're an absolute legend for doing these! One request - if you could slow down your talking a little bit it would be helpful. Just because you're giving us a lot to take in :)
You should take a look at Bitwig's audio rate modulation. It does exactly what you're looking for, and allows CV like routing between any parameter of a VST and any audio source (including live audio)
THIS IS INAVATIVE MAN GREAT JOB LOVE ALL YOUR WORK TY FOR HELPING USE NEWBIES OUT WITH GREAT KNOWLEDGE!
maaan your tutorials are amazing, thanks! wish there was more videos like this!
Nice, I never knew Live could route track midi to effects on the same track.
Your tutorials are next level man. I really appreciate this
Thank you so much. I've just watched two tutorials by you and already learnt a bunch of new stuff. Love your work.
Amazing tip Austin! Thank you for sharing this with us, can't wait for more tutorials.
That's insane! Thanks for sharing :)
Genius! Never would've thought of that myself.
Awesome tutorial. Also showed me a better way than creating new midi tracks to be able to trigger serumfx :)
Im still learning so this went way over my head! Left a thumbs up tho. Gonna save it for later!
WE NEED MORE OF THIS AU5
an interesting note about FM in serum. from my testing, the "FM" A to B, or B to A is actually phase modulation, and FM from the noise or sub oscillators into A or B is frequency modulation. it's very common for synths to refer to both of these as FM, which leads to a lot of people using the terms inconsistently.
what's going on at 6:19 with the chorus is also a version of phase modulation, because modulating the delays of the chorus effectively moves back and forth over the waveform, which (more or less) changes the phase. it might still sound different than modulating using "FM (from B)" (this was hard to test, i don't entirely know the inner workings). "FM (from B)" seems to pair up the individual unison voices between the modulator and carrier (or something like that). the chorus trick grabs the whole sound, after unison, and phases over that, by a much larger amount.
the way I always check if something is PM or FM is the behavior with a few different waveforms as the modulator. note, if you use "FM (from B)", then B is the modulator, and if you use "FM noise OSC" then noise is the modulator. start by making the modulator a really low pitch, like 1hz or something, with the carrier at a normal audible pitch, e.g. around middle C (in serum i've found it's easiest to play a low note and pitch the modulator down and the carrier up). a triangle wave modulator with PM will make two distinct tones, and switch between them (no sliding/gliding sound). a triangle wave modulator with FM will slide between two pitches. a square wave modulator with PM will probably make a bunch of glitchy clicking sounds (depends on the exact square wave the synth puts out). square wave modulator with FM will jump between two sounds without gliding. you'll probably have to move around the FM amount to hear the difference, and keep in mind that if it's too high, the pitch can flip all over the place because it's going below 0hz.
note those triangle wave tests with the noise OSC -> chorus setup shown here don't seem to work (not sure why, it seems to work with higher modulator frequencies).
a useful way to think about it is that phase modulation is a version of frequency modulation with an extra step. FM takes the modulator and maps it directly to the frequency of the carrier, similar to using an LFO to change the pitch (not exactly the same because it's frequency and not pitch :P). with PM, we take the rate of change of the modulator, and map *that* to the frequency. that is, if the modulator is moving up in a straight line (like the upwards part of a triangle wave), then the frequency stays still at a high value, and if its moving down at a consistent rate, the frequency stays still at a lower value. this explains the square wave modulator with PM too, because a square wave has two flat lines. a flat line is not changing at all, so most of the time there's no effect, but there's a really fast change to switch between the high and low parts of a square wave, which tends to make a glitchy click. curved waveforms get more complicated, except sine is almost the same in both PM/FM.
the other difference is that PM will effectively modulate the pitch, rather than the frequency, so a triangle wave modulator with PM will move the same amount of semitones above and below the normal carrier pitch.
some of the finer details might also vary between different synths, but hopefully i've covered the general ideas involved with PM and FM.
holy shit dude, this is absolutely INSANE
Finally figured this out! Awesome tutorial :D
I guess this is the trick I've been needing. Only thing is idk how to get a sine perfect for the noise channel in FL lmao
did you figured it out already? I have the same problem xD
@@MeesterGgaming Me too :P
been searching for this info for months! So glad I finally found it :D
Absolute Goat thank you
this is fucking sick holy balls
Thanks you!
Great channel! This inspires me to make more music
This totally blew my mind.
Awesome technique! Thanks!
Would be cool to see some vowel-bass design or track mastering.
Hmm that's pretty smart. I would of never of thought of that....guess I'm not smart. This gave me a lot of ideas to try though. You could use a reed or some insect sound like a locust....
I love your music,and the tutorials are awesome.I really wish you streamed on twitch :-D
every time i watch an au5 tutorial i have to replay the intro at least 15 times
Awesome tutorial. Damn you're smart!
amazing
imma big fan!
Please post the video about creating one of your tracks!
Oh please keep making these!
Fucking badass dude, excellent tutorial! Love the ending too haha
Brilliant. Thanks so much!
thanks for the video Au5. I watched the entire thing! (i own serum too!)
love your music. thanks
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing the knowledge
Awesome tutorial.
first time i've seen an intro on youtube that wasn't shit nice work
your intro looks so frikking cool
Wow Thanks!!!
The best tutorial!
Thank you for cool tutorial!
Thank you very much for this.
awesome vid
Deep!
Very advanced technique, genius actually. Au5, I've always said you were the most talented producer there is, even back in the day. I've been producing for 5 years and this shit, along with the hyper growl tutorial are baffling. I doubt you'll answer since this video is so old, but what instruments did you play growing up? When did you start producing? I've noticed my 15 years of piano helped me so much when I got into producing
Thanks!
Classically trained in piano for a decade and then bass guitar for another decade
this blew my mind
dude that's so creative
Thanks man that's so inspiring
Amazing tutorial. Thanks dude!
Sick!