How to Skrillex (2024 Edition) 

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Hands down my FAVORITE sound design channel on YT. You put SO much love and quality into every piece of content man. Nothing can compete with your long form content and the way you explain everything. Thank you!

even if I don't specifically wanna remix Skrillex or "copy" his sounds, this gives a REALLY good guide for a plethora of little tricks that even as someone making music over a decade, I had no clue you could do especially with the vocal harmonizing and splitting it between the "voxy synthlike vocals" and the blend of the real voice was something I hadn't thought of. often I think more about adding effects to go further and further but bringing back in those elements that you can lose from making something "electronic" has such a harmonizing beauty to it. Thank you for this vid :)

I didn’t even want to watch this vid but clicked and stayed for the whole thing , great content and lessons

The extra little tips you gave after explaining each technique is the real sauce here, ur the man

Really sick video, thanks for sharing these techniques. Going to go try this serum & vocoder combo!

I love this, my fav channel for producing/sound design techniques! keep it up

amazing video full of so many amazing tricks, the vocoder one specifically blew me away, I have to try that on my own vocals, sounds amazing

Im digging the new release. Great bass patches everywhere

Super insightful and well-presented stuff!! Tyvm

thank u for the class! it was inspiring and I learned some cool stuff :) I do struggle a lot trying to designing cool basses even with some years of practice

Very informative vid. Great job mate

Always love your videos man thank you.

That vocoder trick is sick!!!

That vocoder trick made this whole video worth it. That's actually awesome!

So helpful thank you!

Hey, I signed up for your course and I have to say, LOVE IT. Can I put in a request for some chord theory stuff? The extension you use are alway amazing and it would be great to HACK those too!

Good work as always Tom

Thank you for this gem of a lesson!

Great tutorial and I like the drum perc sound as well

That vocoder tip was great never knew how it worked or how to use it

woww the amount of knowledge available to us now compared to 2013 is incredible. i remember skrillex tutorials and tutorials in general were so much harder to follow back in the day

killed it once again big dawg

too cool man thank you for sharing

Fun tip, you could use shaperbox3 on the rumble bass and do the lfo and noise follow all it one place!

Nice. Actual nuggets. Subbed

Dude this is my bible, amazing video, very clever sound design, inspiring af, greetings bro!

this was super sick, freaking wanna know how to do that drop on real spring i can't wrap my head around that

Yeah, FM bass with sine waves, he definitely likes them a lot. Thank you for sharing these tips!

The vocoder was sick, thx

amazing video!

love your stuff Tom! bought the new serum pack as soon as i saw the email

Great content 🔥

actual useful fast paced videos WOW

Excellent

That rc20 noise automation is so clever, I'm so gonna steal that idea haha

Badass video!

This taught me a lot about some EDM techniques. As pop/emo musician before, this is very helpful. Thanks for posting!

Useful video, thanks a lot!

Thank you man ❤

lovely tutorial.

May I ask about your Live theme? It looks lovely. Great tutorials btw, subscribed!

awesome video! do you know how to recreate the lead riff sound from real spring ??

That vocal design!!!! WOW!

Super cool stuff

The vocoder trick is so cool! Didn't know you could do this. Also I really like your light Ableton skin. How do you get it?

12:23 just brings me to my knees without fail

Awesome video!

I dont know shit about making music, but that audio at 13:10 with a "I just wanna rock" type bass on the first pause would sound amazing. thats a really strong sound, id love to hear a song made out of it

if i take anything away from this video its definately the vocoder trick as well as the chopping. i knew that stuff before, but you made it such an interesting element, which highly affected my though process about it. Very very nice video, you got one subscriber more ;)

Bro I never thought to use rc-20 for texture like that. Definitely putting this to use.

I talk Spanish and see it strange and funny to me that an English speaker use a Spanish vocal in the tutorial, hahaha, now I understand how it u feel that when we use English vocals, good tricks, greetings bro

Gold

Great Video, how did you get your abelton to look like this?

subbed happy to find you

Amazing video

L'usage commun du vocoder est d'attribuer à une ligne de chant ou à une phrase parlée une ou des hauteurs, ignorant donc celle(s) qu'elles avaient auparavant. En appliquant toutefois du vocoder à une ligne mélodique, et en prenant soin que la suite d'accord qu'on lui associe soit dans la même tonalité que celle-ci, il est possible de situer le dry/wet aux alentours de 60%, voire d'écrire des automations sur ce paramètre. Ce faisant, on harmonise donc la mélodie initiale par l'effet audio, d'une manière intéressante puisque cette harmonie ne se manifeste qu'en même temps que la mélodie, et possède un timbre particulier et un volume que l'on peut tout deux moduler. Enfin, cette technique appelle à être couplée à l'utilisation d'un synthétiseur MPE qui en dévoilerait le plein potentiel.

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To be brief, This video is great

Nice one, some great tips n tricks 🫶🏻

INSTANT SUB! NICE!

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that fade out white screen always makes me nervous thought my ableton crashed :D

this is fire

this made me want to switch DAWs immediately. I think i will actually. THANKS FOR SUCH A GREAT VID

this is on point

Rather than automate the reverb dry/wet to bring the tail in could you not save time and create a side chain on the reverb with the bass as the side chain input? Should, in my mind, sound very similar. Great tutorial btw!

I don't listen to Skrillex that much, but I instantly recognised the FM bass from Faithless' "Insomnia". Definitely a staple from their sound.

Thanks again a true man of science

your take on the rumble bass was pretty much what I imagined it'd be

Was hoping for a tutorial/similar sounds on the sort of poppy percussion in RATATA I love that part of the song

Vocoder Trick (more precise) - Vocoder, Auto Pan, OTT. 🔥

@SynthHacker have you noticed that sometimes with 'time based' plugins like LFO Tool and Kickstart you'll get some delay on the envelope?? ie: So the 'ducking' is actually slightly off time, etc. I've noticed this mainly when it follows plugins with latency... but wondering if you've seen the same.

How do you get LFO tool to show the waveform?

What is the main program you're using to run all of this through?

I don’t understand much of ableton but I wonder how do you that vocoder trick in FL

Hey man, i just started this video and i'm already wondering what color template you're using on ableton? :D It looks really nice

best video

How do you make the porter robinson X skrillex bass tho , there is like soothing sub kinda thing idk what it is , but it would be really cool if someone tells how to sound design that

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I believe that the rumble noise bass is just a fm synthesizer with velocity automation But good work around

RC-20 for years and didn't know how to use that noise follow. Amazing.

can you show how he does the kingdom hearts/good space vocals

aswesome video

You can actually just go into the wavetable editor and remove the fundamental there instead of highpassing. I'm surprised more people don't do this.

Does anyone know of any alternative plugins for Ableton Sampler that can chop up samples and map them to keys that I can use in Reaper? The reasamplomatic is good but lacks this feature

I'd like to grab the sample pack with the "UK Dub Bass" preset - I'm unclear which pack to purchase on the site. Can you help please? Thanks!

Bro is a Wizard

Damn, I followed the steps for the FM bass from this tutorial but mine sounds trash and nothing like in the video.... hmmm....

im gonna figure out a way to bring back coki type dubstep. Mark my words, i will do it.

The new album is heat

Can you please share your ableton theme sir? Also thanks for your great contents❤

RUN FOR DEM LYFE

drum kit

2:00 another, better way to do this or things similar to it is with Texture by Devious Machines

Can I do this in any DAW?

hey just wondering why do you assign the vocal chops to a drum rack instead of drawing in the midi with simpler itself?

Great video! Think you missed a couple things that as a producer stand out for me: 1. The use of pitch bends in combination with FM synthesis... There's bucket loads. 2. Call & response - most of the tunes are based on Call & Response technqiues which constantly overlap and interject

Result???

Hey. What is that ableton theme? looks sick.