How to make Daft Punk's Da Funk synth sound with Moog Grandmother 

Hey gang, not sure why this vid has so many more views than my other stuff, but thanks for watching! I few people commented that the sound is not 100% accurate. I hear you, I know, and I'm sorry. I ran across this patch by accident while experimenting with mixer feedback so I kinda got excited and shot the video without thinking too much lol, but I should have taken more time to study the original sound. Next time I'll try to be more prepared. In any case, I hope that getting in the rough ballpark is still useful to watch and that maybe you learned a thing or two along the way. See you in the next one!✌️🤘

I don't understand anything, but this is amazing

around 1.30 you've quite accurately re-created the "rollin' and scratchin'" sound!

at 1:37 sounded like the intro on "On Sight" by kanye west

It’s not far but those robots do know how to make music

Very interesting to see it patched up this way. Sounds really cool. The original is an MS20 (mark 1) fed back through its own external signal processor with the keyboard voltage tracking the cutoffs of the filters. And the MS20 type 35 filter scream is intrinsic. So different to yours, but similar effect. Was interesting to see it done this way around.

Playing knobs by hand is why I got into the game!

Rich understanding blows up my brain....Thanks Bro.

Great break down of one of my favorite tracks from DP. 😍

I am a beginner when it comes to synths. Your vids are amazing, thanks for sharing your knowledge! I have the grandmother, but can’t get the growl. I’ve watched the vid so many times, step by step. I get a growless weak wah effect. The perils of being an amateur I guess. I wish there was a way to see the hash marks on the knobs. They reflect the lighting which makes it hard to tell the hash Mark settings. In other words, the reflection looks like the hash mark. Anyway, thanks so much for all the work you do making these videos!

@onceuponasynth you can also set the switch under the volume knob to the middle position so that the envelope retriggers each time you press a key

Cheers! Have a good weekend :)

I got my GM last week... Your contents are very very helpful for me!! Thank you very much! GM is god of synth TT..

Dude, you should do kind of the same type of this video but with radiohead! Would be appreciated.

THAT is a great sound. Inspirational! I'm really enjoying this Grandmother series. Keep it up!

Close. I think you're at the wrong octave though. Needs to be 1 higher. Edit: just seen a other comment that says it's two oscillators, 2 octaves apart so go one lower as well.

Instead of using the envelop generator to shape / modulate pitch of OSC, could you use the mod/LFO section? I was thinking it would be cool to impart the vocal/wow effect using the mod wheel as an input method with left hand, essentially playin the single notes with right hand, but imparting the vocal with left, super cool video thanks for sharing!!

Showed up in my recommended so congrats! :D

Kinda cool but the sound is way off lol. The only thing right is the filter.

The Grandmother is an amazing instrument, but I really feel that the MS 20 handles this better. That being said, there are definitely things that the Grandmother does that the MS 20 couldn't.

At about 1:15 you do a "feedback" routing chain, and you call it "distortion", pretty sure the effect you're hearing is phase cancellation due to having two voices panned mono, this is not distortion tho, its simply just a comb filter effect by having two identical sounds with slight phase variation, layered together. Distortion is a byproduct of either very aggressive compression, or saturation due to clipping an analog device. Just wanted to clarify

are you gonna do Moog Matriarch tutorials?

Cool patch! I’d use 2 stacked cables from env through attenuator to osc2 pitch and hp freq to make it more vocalish

Brilliant! Thanks for teaching us all the basics ❤️

Great video as usual ... *One question: When you plug the mixer OUT to the hipass filter IN, then the hipass OUT back to one of the mixer inputs (noise IN): Why isn’t the synth silent? Doesn’t plugging something into the mixer OUT “break” the normal audio connection that goes from mixer to lowpass filter, and from there to the VCA and then the audio output? (At least that’s how I read the signal flow chart in the manual.) ....What seems to be =actually= happening somehow is that the audio signal from the mixer is getting multed (without the mult!) to both the lowpass filter (through the “normal” connection under the hood) AND to the mixer OUT jack (and from there to the hipass filter, then back into the mixer to create an intentional feedback loop). Thanks for any modular wisdom on this issue....!

When you were messing with the high pass filter it sounded exactly like their tone in their song “rollin and scratchin”

Mas o menos, igual no tiene que ser el sonido exacto, pero me gusta para que de ahi partir para hacer un buen remix

This was really awesome!

pretty sure the sound is just a default patch on the microkorg (like a few daft punk songs are)

Love this channel, So very good.

DOPE!!!

How to do the angry sound by noise and high pass filter on matriarch?

Can you make this patch on the Deepmind 12 and make a video of it please

I tried to do this on my Roland Gaia SH-01. The Architecture is a bit different, however there is enough features to re-create the patch - In theory at least. It's a VA, so maybe that's why I cant get quite the "growl" from the HP filter. Is that specific HP filter sound a moog thing, or should it be doable on a low end VA like the SH01 as well?

Could you provide any tips on making this patch on the matriarch? Many thanks!

Step 1: Buy an MS-20

I don't care if it's Daft. I've only had the Gma for a few weeks and didn't know it be this aggressive without outside help. I dig it.

Love Once Upon A Synth but here is a very accurate recreation of Daft Punk's "Da Funk" lead synth patch with Moog Grandmother! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Cd2U_-7jwNU.html

Could you do the same but show on the grandmother how to make that sync lead sound from Robot Rock?

Love the sound of this...Which modules would achieve this screaming filter sound in eurorack form?!

Around The World leads pleaseee

This is so beast

What is the ending song? I heard it in some of your other videos and I find it sweet and mesmerizing :)

You should make a video on some Mort Garson sounds

Do G Funk lead please

The GM is a beast

3:48 you're actually getting quite close to the laser harp sound here. I wonder how close can this thing get?

Didn't they sample the sound?

when you bring in the hipass filter, it seems like the sounds drops one octave at 1:10 ? why ?

Amazing

Tweaked the resonance and ended up with a cool sound...It's hard to replicate and find that sweet spot, but I'll be fine once I get it. I'll be good.

I don't play keys or own a synth. Idk why I'm watching this but it was interesting. Great melody from a great song :P

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!

Nice

Just turned all the knobs all the way up... and called it the day.. ;)

Wow Wow !

I feel like it needs just a nib more of resonance and distortion

i dont own a grandmother, but i think its best to add less portamento,

"you can hear here the sounds are really WOW"

On sight

I think it sounds even cooler than the original

Your patch may sound similar for the untrained ear but it's missing all the raw structure in the attack and release. At today nobody was able to reproduce the perfection of the daft sound of Da Punk

You can do it robot rock?

Original kid kudi pursuit of happines synt

Close, but you nail it when you just take a more simple patch and run it through an overdrive: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4-SpUFCKNFw.html

I dont know how it was done but I cant help but feel it was a manipulated sample of a bass with a wah wah. Could be wrong ay

Sounds like Pursuit of Happiness too.

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Why didn't you just patch an LFO into the highpass?

Gee, you found the cash to buy the grandmother... lucky you. If I’d have the doe though, I’d buy an OB-6. I know, it’s not the same stuff, but still. Btw, hum, this isn’t what DP sounds like.

Still seems a little soft. It needs to be a little sharper to be right.

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Very very close!

5:31

no!

This patch does not sound like Daft Punk’s one!

Jeez… is this little synth really worth a grand? 😬😬 $1,000 is a lot of money for a few keys and smattering of controls 😳😬

nah...

This video hurts my teeth.

Pretty far off, and a facecam. Wew lads