Flume Synth with Sylenth1 Several interviews revealed Lennar Digital's Sylenth1 as Flume's go-to synth and source for many of his popular lead sounds. So we sat down to take a shot at recreating the sound of flume's lead synth in his remix for "Lorde - Tennis Court (Flume Remix)". We are working with Sylenth1 VST and dividing the sound design process into 7 steps:   Saw Wave: We're using a saw wave in oscillator A1, taking 8 voices and pulling up detuning to create a full and spread-out sound. Square Wave 1: Oscillator A2 uses a pulse wave (square wave), with 3 voices and...

  We had requests for a tutorial on the synth sound of "Mura Masa - Firefly" (also known: Mura Masa Someday Somewhere, Firefly, Love For That, What If I Go, Liana Bank$). So PML contributor Borys (k-pizza) opened his Ableton and Xfer Serum and remade the wobbly filtered main synths of this nice tune.   Presets are included in our "Beach Styles" SERUM preset pack.   Watch the tutorial:   Keywords: Mura Masa Synth Serum Presets, Ableton Project File, .als, template download    

  In this tutorial, we're showing you how to design a Future Bass LFO Wobble Pad sound with Xfer Serum in the style similar to Louis the Child, Darren Ashley, etc.     Also: Check out our new Future Bass presets for Xfer Serum!  

  In this 20 minute tutorial, we are going through the functions of Native Instruments Massive - covering the following subjects: Oscillators / Wavetables Modulation Filters Effects Envelopes Voicing LFOs Routing and Macro Controls   .   Additionally, we offer different styles of Massive Presets:     Keywords: How to use Massive, How to make presets in Massive, How to Bass in massive, How does Massive work  

Flume Sound Massive Synth - Designing the Sound from Lorde - Tennis Court (Flume Remix) We sat down to take a shot at recreating the sound of flume's lead synth in his remix for "Lorde - Tennis Court (Flume Remix)". We're working with our Ableton Live 9 Suite version, Operator and NI Massive. After rebuilding the chords in the first step, we're dividing the sound into 6 layers in the second step:   Sub-Bass: We're using an instance of Operator and select a sine wave for our sub bass frequencies (update: we now put this together in a template and...

  In this tutorial we're designing a gliding bass sound from NI Massive's init patch in Ableton. How to design a Gliding Bass sound with NI Massive (e.g. for Chillstep, Dubstep, RnB, HipHop, Trap).   Key tasks   1) Make sure you put your Massive on "Monophonic" 2) Make sure your bass notes are "overlapping" on the edges       FREE DOWNLOAD: Get this Massive preset "Gliding Bass" (by going through our facebook page): http://bit.ly/pml_freedld   Template in this video: Black Nights   Keywords:  Ableton Live Template RnB, .als file download, free .als midi files download Hip Hop, ableton alp...

  Sometimes you've got your drums right, the bass is perfect and maybe one or two instrument tracks are already playing nicely along. Still, your track sounds a little empty. Depending on the genre you're working on, you can add a background pad to fill up the frequency gaps and increase the overall atmosphere of your track. Over here, Francois explains how to do this with NI Massive, Sylenth1, Arturia Minimoog and Tal-U-No-Lx. Download the Background Pad Preset for Massive, Sylenth1 and Tal for free here.         Listen to previews of our Massive preset packs:   Keywords: free massive...