the only drum sound design tutorial you'll ever need* 

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I am now legally obligated to never watch another drum sound design tutorial.

i swear if every youtube tutorial was made as great and comprehensive as this one we'd have a LOT more good producers. great job datphing!!!

After the phrase "This is not what we want. Unless, of course, it is, in which case good job" I wanted to give you couple dozens of likes

Subscribed for using the FL startup noise as a censor sound. 10/10.

This guy needs to win a grammy award...

Holy s* this type of humor just makes my socks all wobbly and moist and stuff.

the way he EQs stuff hurts

thanks oomfie i wont ever watch a drum synthesis tutorial ever again

its really nice to see a tutorial where a giant head is not staring into the camera and into my soul

1:00 i love how you played extratone here

Informative, straight to the point, easy to understand, with good sense of humour and valid knowledge If this isn't the literall definition of a perfect tutorial video, then I don't know what else could be

the best snares are a literal distorted sinewave that lasts less than 0.1 seconds

Multiband delay is possibly the most fun i've had with FLstudio in a while, REALLY good for spectral/wet sounds

For the metallic hihat sounds you can also experiment with a ring modulator

Amazing video. Best I have ever seen. Uses Le Phonk. No complaints!

9 mintutes... 9 minutes. To the point, insanely random humor that is funny enough to keep your eyes and ears glued but not distract you from the point of the video. Just striking the perfect balance. It's just great. They don't make 'em like you no more. You have my sub. You're absolutely killing it.

1:07 you got me for second

at this point I just want you to become a regular RU-vidr, the editing of this is just SOOO on point and tickles all my... uhh .. wth does it tickle I don't know ITS FUN TO WATHC OKAY

1:03 Immediately hooked me with this joke lmao

one thing you missed ab the snare section is that you can make the noise LFO have a bit of an attack so that the tonal part of the snare "sidechains" to the noise making it duck out of the way for the tone

finally my music can have drums now!!1! thanks disphing

I've been experimenting with drum synthesis for about 3 years now and I can safely say this; if you wanna make the best sounding snares, it's best to make it so that the transient and the noise tail have their individual operators. Meaning you can have a very punchy transient (preferably noise looped) and fade the noise tail in, so that the snare can punch through. You can also add some soft clip distortion, a highpass _right_ before the fundamental and you're good to go!

Btw (I came back to this video cause I wanted to try and make some of the sounds you have shown)... Everything you have shown and stated in this video can be 100% applicable to any DAW/Wavetable and I was able to create all of the drum sounds you have shown. Amazing job making this video, you have shown me and everyone else the 'secrets' to making our very own synthesize drums to use in our tracks. P.S. I'm going to overcharge people for the sounds I have created on gumroad now. 🙂🙂💀

literally while watching this tutorial i had like this weird sudden realization and now im making music again, thanks so much disphing! youve got me out of this pit of nothing all with 1 tutorial :)

thank you disphing maybe my snares will suck less now

3:57 le phonk jump scare 😱

Dude you have no idea how long I've been trying to figure out how to begin with electronic drums, this is actually THE most helpful production video I've found 💗💗💗

Just fyi, the really short reverbs are functionally just a comb filter (it's a stack of allpass fiters with a bunch of feddback) with feedback, so that's another easy way to get that specific metallic sound.

Welcome, to T.O.D.S.D.T.Y.E.N. The Future of Music.

i'm gonna put this into my "watch later" playlist and i hope that the title may be true

now this is a W tutorial

Cool video! Love how you're using easily available effects to get some pretty cool sounds.

Amazing work, definitely gonna follow what's to come !

wow, that skin looks so good it made me think it was vital

This is the best video in reference to this subject. Straight to the point & easy to follow!🤝

This is such high quality. I dont agree/do some of this processing but the editing and jokes are great

bill wurtz eliminate (srsly though this is insanely helpful & incredibly high effort, keep killing it !!)

the transistions keep getting better and better. that alone has convinced me to subscribe.

Bro, i just extremely love it simple and neat style tuts, keep it up :) ❤

love everything about this vid: - educational content - flow + scripting - editing (how catchy the video is) taking this as reference man, also thx 4 teh lesson ☝🤓

seeing lephonk in this video made me very happy. Love that plugin

the goat, straight to the point we need more ppl like u. thx u ! ! !

Subscribed. You have a bright future ahead of you bro, serious talent here

A+ bang to buck ratio. No unnecessary info. Reminded me to pay more attention to the eq

Gained a new sub, I enjoyed your banter and deliver and it were also informative. Keep up the good work, I'll be sure to check out more of your videos.

First time watching your videos, loved this :)))

this is by far one of the best and funniest sound design tutorials ever, u have earned urself a new sub

I got 3 comments to make here! 1.- Another way to get this metallic quality to sounds is to use a flanger, set the rate to 0 so it doesn't move around and play with the delay (high feedback will enhance it more so play with that too!) 2.- I think 808 hihats are just white noise with a high-pas and high resonance. I've achieved very similar results by doing that, but I think combining that with the detuned square waves will sound dope af! 3.- Since you brought up multiband delay, a cool trick I like to do with it is go to the presets tab, go all the way down and click "randomize" and just use the morph knob to go between the 8 banks! You can get some pretty gnarly textures with that! Anyways great video! I've always struggled a bit with drum synthesis (particularly with snares) and seeing tips from someone is really helpful, so thanks! :D

The "LAAA dootedootedo LAA--" really caught me off guard

this is the best drum instructional video I've ever seen!

This was a great tutorial! I've thinking about making something similar but tbh this video is prolly better than I could've done.

So you mentioned detuning and high passing a square wave to get metallic sounds. This is an adaptation of methods used in older analog drum machines (Roland's CR-78, TR-606, and TR-808 are popular examples) wherein 6 square waves would be detuned and ring modulated against each other, producing a bright metallic sound with no additional processing needed. An alternative that I recommend is using Serum's chaos oscillator (found in the global page), cranking it all the way up to audio rate, and setting it to modulate the coarse pitch of a square wave. This will potentially save you a filter slot, allows you to keep the metallic sound in mono, and gives (IMO) better results straight off the bat. 🐱

Came up in my recommended as I was searching for sound design stuff as I’m a complete noob, although I’m still unsure with a lot of the terminology I really enjoyed the video and I’m gonna come back and watch it again once I’m more clued up👍😂 keep it up dude

this is really useful as someone who has no fuckign idea what they’re doing thabkyiuu!!!!!

8:11 Mans started to sound like one of those TTS tutorial videos . 💀😭

thank you for the plugin recommendation

such a mind blowing video

Love the editing!

That was great fun bro. 👍👍 you clearly have done something to please the algorithm gods.

Nice explanation and edition, thanks bri

Love the style

This is super helpful thanks for sharing your knowledge! :D

HELL YEAH ANOTHER GOOD MUSIC CHANNEL WOOHOO

Sick! Thanks for the tips

The uranoid clip caught me off guard lmao, also nice video

I love when drums go blonk

Thanks for everything ❤

Loved the video, goofy and educational lol, you deserve more subs my dude!

excellent video bruvva

bro your serum looks like vital

Amazing tuto. Thanks for sharing.

This got me from using samples without any idea how they work, to using samples with some idea how they work

Perfect combination of entertainment and education! Keep it up 🎉

Pretty sick tutorial

The pitch envelope of the kick drum synth section can be solved by adding two envelopes. One for the main pitch and the other shorter one for creating transients. Modulating the same parameter with multiple envelopes is one of the techniques for creating sound effects

as a sound design enjoyer thank you for this video!

1:06 that legit got me.

thanks for the reverb trick on hats.!!

Surely putting the envelope on unipolar also helps

Okay time to get Serum! 😎 I recently wondered if possible to do an entire track with Serum alone, you just answered that.

i was shocked when i saw the amount of subscribers, great video!

thank you this thing

that was hella funny nd informative lmao gj

Very helpful and fun tutorial, also love how the video is paced haha :D

Great video! There aren't a lot of well edited, high quality videos like this on RU-vid that cover production fundamentals. However, I would have appreciated a focus on drum transients, especially in snare drums. Snares are mostly body and tail, but (as you probably know) the reason your initial snare has no impact is largely because of the lack of a "click" at the start. That's the transient, the high energy waveform that comes from the initial impact of the drumstick on the snare drum. As you refined your drums, I could hear that transient being created indirectly through effects and envelopes. Your method still resulted in a good snare, but I think the process could be less mystic if the transient was mentioned.

Heard your Walk Away remix a few months ago, saw this in recommended, saw your name on it, and immediately subscribed, shit hit me like the DiCaprio pointing meme.

Tanks! It was not just useful, but also fun :)

what a legend

thanks this thing for the drum tutorial

Lovely the cello reference! Ty for the knowledge (:

Epic tutorial, i love it XD +1 sub

Thanks

Nice receipts! On a side note, it would be great to have all of the sounds played together as part of a real track or a loop.

I generate all my kicks in Synplant 2, highly recommend it

Another thing you can try is is convolving your drums with other samples, using an IR reverb plugin. Think of it as an extremely complex EQ with insane Q settings. Try convolving a snare or topper with a different high-hat sample for instance, or really anything that has the material quality you're looking for, and the drums will inherit the quality of the IR sample. I've even gone as far as to create my own IR sample pack for this purpose.

3:22 Yo you kinda killed that ngl 🔥

bloody fantastic chap!!

thanks i will be using this whole video in my new tearout banger heavy drop and it'll play at the background of the whole track at approximately -16db with a reverb and eq boosting the specific frequency of 457 while i change the tempo of the audio to start at 110bpm and fluidly increase to 180 by the end of the song. Thanks

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