5 Common Psytrance Synth Sounds and How to make them in Serum VST! 

You're welcome. I actually designed these not to long ago so I had to go back and see which part of the patch was important...

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Great! 🤘🏿

i thought the same lol

Lol

Thanks a lot man! that means really much to me! Welcome to the channel

Thanks man! that's really cool to hear!

My pleasure!

You're welcome! Hope you enjoy using this trick!

It's really good even though it's a decade old I think...

Thanks man!

Thanks, don't mind the rest of the tutorial ahah I was just starting out so I didn't know how to talk to a camera yet ahgah

ahh thanks! I'm glad I could help, even though I don't do house music!

you're welcome bro! glad you like it!

No problem! Thanks for watching!

you're welcome!

Thanks man! Glad you liked it!

Glad to help!

No problem!

Ive been producing for 20+ years. This is good but actually quite basic. This comment makes me realise just how deep and vast our knowledge as Producers really is. It's all like automatic and second nature at this stage.

@@mackcarlo Well... I've been producing for at least 20 years too! I always found that fiddling around with knobs and sliders in synths are usually kind of unintuitive and I don't notice any difference, and when I *do* notice a difference I don't know how it changes the sound so I don't really learn anything from it. So in the end I don't know what I am doing and am stuck using pre-made presets, except for changing some basic effect sliders like reverb, phaser or similar. It feels sad because I have tons of creativity but because I think it's so difficult to use synths to their full potential it just holds me back so much. This is more when it comes to psytrance in general, but another similar problem is I found that bass sound presets for synths always sound like trash so I am stuck using bass samples from sample packs in order to make a bassline that sounds good and modern. One of many reasons I haven't produced a track for 4 years...

@@Spiriax here’s some advice for Synths. Focus on using the decay, sustain and release knobs on the Filter Envelope section and turn up the Env Amount on that section! If you have the attack set at 0 or instant.. Then turn up the Env Amount to 75% (or 3oclock)… Then play with the decay and have it short… about 10 to 20%… So you don’t over complicate things.. Have just the single OSC Oscillator turned on and use the Saw Wave shape for a Bass. The ADSR on your AMP Envelope section is equally important. You don’t want a long sustain or release on a Bass sound for example! You want an instant 0% attack for them snappy bass sounds. The ADSR on Synths on the Filter section and Amp section are the key to shaping your sound! Making sure you have only a single Osc turned on first and playing with that single sound is also a good place to start! Peace ✌️

@@mackcarlo Thanks a lot for those tips! I'll make sure to go through it diligently once I try produce again. 😊👌

you're welcome! glad the old content still gets some love.

Thanks man! I'm so glad I can help so many people! BTW I have a whole playlist dedicated to sound design specific tutorials & individual synth sounds: ru-vid.com/group/PLiHjNW26F3PtOLd3NI-tdadSuHGBVJzKm

@@Projektor_music very nice you have so many importants videos i need to see. I ll definetly check it later, always learning and creating my own presets with your classes

@@archdelic Nice Thanks for enjoying & supporting the content!

Great! join my discord and send me a track when you finish!

@@Projektor_music soon bro soon :)

Thanks! I did another one here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bp5L11rRwsc.html

You are welcome!

Thanks for the sub

Most of them require you to hold down a single note, or play fast 16th notes. I'd personally always trigger sounds in the sub bass register to start with when experimenting with which key to use...

Cool I'm glad you like them! Let me hear if you can use them in your tracks!

@@Projektor_music OK I will.

I think they all play the bass octave, but you can experiment with that to get brighter sounds, especially for the squelches

I'm automating the macro, which in term is modulating the parameters inside serum

I'm automating macro 1 which is routed to the filter cutoff...

@@Projektor_music Thanks for the reply. Try as I might I can't replicate your first sound. Your saw wave is very clicky. Mine has no clicks at all unless I drop heaps of octaves. It sounds like a smooth saw with the bandpass running up and down :( I followed every step exactly (in FL) not sure how to make it 'click'. Thanks anyway.

@@switchmain1956 You want to play it as the sub bass octave. i don't know which octave it is in fl's piano roll but I use the 0 octave on ableton!

@@switchmain1956 You can also use a pitch bend upward to go from smooth to clicky which is a really cool effect. If you do it fast enough like within a 1/8 note it can be used in the drop as a rhythmic element too!

Thank you so much! I'll give it a try today - good to know I was on the right path with the octaves. Thanks again, your diligent replies put your tutorials in a class of their own.

I get that a lot yeah

I'm actually Vida Domagoj, the Croatian football player...

Did you automate the macro?

@@Projektor_music yes. but i think wrong. do you have a tutorial for that?

@@Projektor_musichow do I automate it on cubase do u know?

@@TRAVELLER-PsyTrance I have no idea...

@@Sohneg I know this is late but try lowering the octave

serum fx are really good though

@@profet1385 Yes ofcourse.I agree.My opinion was based on something totally different

Hey, The fat knob applies an analogue stile drive to the frequencies around the filter cutoff. I use this button together with resonance to dial in nicer tones around the cutoff frequency! For your second point, I wanted to show how good you can make sounds within serum. Even though I agree external FX are better for the sound, I wanted to keep in mind that some people aren't great producers and that they might find the video too complicated to follow when I start adding too many plugins/effects. Again, you are right in this case, but for the sake of the tutorial it's better to use the internal FX! Your last point, though, is a bit weirder. I assume you're talking about either "phase distortion" or "phase cancellation" which are 2 important but very different terms. Phase Distortion is a term used to describe the effect filters have on the phase of individual harmonics of a signal, while phase cancellation is a term used to describe the effect where 2 signals might lose all or part of it's spectrum content or volume because it's paired with a similar, but out of phase signal. Now for your main point: In the case of these sounds in the video, we are mostly dealing with phase distortion form the huge amount of filtering we do (Remember that steeper filters, which contribute to the psytrance sound, introduce more phase distortion). Therefor setting the phase to a certain value is not going t mean anything because of the phase distortion which is introduced later. Furthermore phase cancellation's effect is much more noticeable on lower frequencies. Finally the delay and reverb introduce another possibility of phase issues, both through their filters and the fact that they preform a time based effect. All together this means that setting a predetermined phase for your sound really doesn't do anything for the sound as there is too much uncertainty in the later processing to really make a difference. Sorry for this long wall of text but I just wanted to clear this up! Cheers!

@@Projektor_music you dont need to be sorry for sharing ypur opinion.I totally agree with you and im glad that we haved normal conversation with amount of opinions.Can you send me your sc so i can follow you

@@Projektor_music Btw,wyczuwam polski akcent. Zgadłem, towarzyszu? :)

no Ableton takes input from my standard keyboard so I can trigger sounds with that...

This is ableton live 10