What’s up guys! My name is LAR and today we’re going to take a look at a synth stab in Serum - so let’s have a little look at what I’m working on. It’s a very nice, clean sound - very useful to use as a lead or something like that. The MIDI we’re using here is taken from a pack from Ben Bohmer. As for the sound it’s taken from the pack by Furcloud called Innerbloom - really nice sound called Radiance. Let’s deconstruct this sound and go through all its elements. First let’s engage the A Oscillator,...

  Hi guys! In this tutorial you’re going to see how to make a pretty basic bass sound for deep house productions or also for techno and electronic music productions. It’s a long bass and it has a lot of power - and it’s also very easy to make for example with Serum. Let’s check out how it sounds: It’s this wam and long thing you want to put in the back - if you’re not looking for a rhythmic bass. Let’s make this patch from scratch! We can take the default wave from Oscillator A. We definitely need a...

  Hi! I’m Francois. If you’ve been following me for a while you might know that I enjoy learning about sound design by reverse engineering tracks from artists that I like.  Casper Koman is an artist I really like. I listen to a lot of his music and I like his style which is sort of spherical, but also very intelligent and groovy. He’s paying a lot of attention to details and it’s also great to listen to from a producer’s perspective. It was quite a challenge to sit down and remake his work as there are many layers to...

  What's up guys! Welcome to The Sound Design Channel - my name is LAR and today we're going to look at five key elements from Ben Böhmer’s sound - so let's have a listen to what we've got:     It's this really nice, warm, melodic sound that was really signature from Böhmer. I used some patches from Serum to make this. Let's go through some of the things in here including the drums. Everything is taken from Ben Böhmer’s pack which he made with Production Music Live. Let's have a look at the drums which are also taken...

In this list we’ve compiled our top 10 Free Vintage Synth Emulations which work on both PC & Mac in a 64-bit format. We’ve tested all of the plugins below in 2024 to confirm they are working. Let’s get started!  1. Oberheim OB-X — OB-Xd - Most likely the best free vintage synth emulator. The Oberheim OB-X became one of the most iconic synthesizers of all time. Its new, completely free emulator captures all of its magic in a VST form. It's really well designed from the very detailed, ultra-realistic, fat sound, up to the visual details. It comes with a huge selection...

A More "Basic" Version In this session above, Francois shows how to recreate a Stephan Bodzin Bass / Lead sound with Sylenth1 and Ableton and goes through different production and sound design techniques. Resources / Files:  Check out: Analog Deep Techno Bundle Full Course: Analog Melodic Techno Track from Start to Finish Advanced Version  We had a very helpful addition to creating typical Stephan Bodzin sounds by user "M4l731". Here's how he achieved the sounds - there's a soundcloud example in the end of the text - the text is quoted from a youtube comment and slightly edited: "Let me put some more tips on...

1. Supersaw wavetables To make your Serum supersaws even fuller, try recording a supersaw (if you can, try an analog sounding synth) and importing it into Serum’s oscillator. Now you can use an LFO to move between frames of the wavetable. Now the oscillator sounds like a supersaw even if you’re using just one voice. If you increase the unison and detune now, the sound all of the sudden becomes huge. Doing this along with the “Unison stack” option in the Global tab can give you really fat supersaws. 2. Unison stack Did you know that you can use more than...

1. Unison VS Detune The Mini V3 allows for two ways of creating a supersaw: One is available only in the Monophonic mode and is accessed by the Unison switch at the top. Depending on how big the “Poly” value is at the bottom of the screen, the synth will generate a supersaw that consists of that many voices. You can then decide how much you want the voices to be detuned by using the “Voice Detune” knob. This technique works for huge bass or lead sounds, but won’t give you access to polyphony. To design a polyphonic supersaw you...

Understanding the ADSR envelope (shape): We are shaping our sound with attack, decay, sustain and release parameters. Attack-Time:This is the time we are taking from 0 to max. amplitude as soon as the key is pressed.Decay-Time:Follows directly after the attack time. Its the time the amplitude takes to go from maximum level to sustain level.Sustain-Level:This is the Level of amplitude we are keeping as long as the key is pressed.Release-Time:Starts as soon as key is released. Amplitude goes from sustain level to 0 - the release time sets how long this will take. So, Attack, Decay and Release are time parameters. Sustain...

This video is taken out of the course "Analog Melodic Techno Track from Start To Finish". Francois shows you how to create some nice lead sound overtones using the Arturia Mini V3. Download the free overtones preset.    Resources / Files:  You can buy the Ableton Live Project file here Check out: Analog Deep Techno Bundle Sound Design Course with Arturia Mini V3   Learn more about producing melodic techno: NEW PML 6h+ Course: Producing an Analog Melodic Techno Track from Start to Finish in Ableton     Keywords: melodic techno drum programming session ableton live, arturia mini v3, francois, techno production, sub...