Saturday, November 9, 2024
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Distorting Oscillators in Serum is EPIC for bass music!


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Today we’re diving into Xfer’s Serum and discovering the magic that occurs when you distort 2 oscillators together. I love this sound design technique for Dubstep & all sorts of Bass Music.

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38 thoughts on “Distorting Oscillators in Serum is EPIC for bass music!

  • This video just radically changed my perspective. It’s so obvious that I can’t believe I never realized it, but pitching the simpler oscillator up rather than the crazier wavetable is a huge revelation. When I think of basses I always think, “okay I need a sine sub”, and I do, but for the meat of the sound for some reason that carried over and I thought when mixing osc a and b the more complex wave table should be on top even if it’s just saw and sine. But the more complex wave table just starts with so many harmonics and the distortion on the simpler oscillator on the bottom has its own harmonics that clash in the pitched up range less musical ways. By putting the simpler oscillator on top, it reintroduces a tone in the key, so letting the distortion on the interactions create the complexity in the upper frequencies gives those nasty harmonics from the lower wave table the musical context again.

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  • Love it, just copied this into my Serum and made some one shots! These are my favorite videos you make! More basss sound design please ( in Serum)! Looking to make some fat squishy saw basses.

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  • ive been noticing how big sounds are actually really simple but smart ways of interaction, this tutorial is an amazing example of that. thanks so much for sharing !

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  • I'm only 2 mins in, but these sounds bring me back to the late 2000s/early 2010s. Nice and gritty.

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  • thanks so such, you teach me a lot of the ways how to think about waveforms, your videos are so inspirational.

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  • Hell yeah! thanks for uploading this.
    I've been experimenting a lot with basic wavetables recently, in hopes of stumbling upon the right sounds for that 2011-2012 Trash Electro bass.
    I've found it near impossible looking for presets since I don't know what search terms are supposed to be used, and i always end up on a goose chase. So why not just mess around, its a lot more fun anyways to fill in that sound design session time frame.
    ✌????????

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  • Two seconds into the tutorial and Ive totally remade the lead synth from Eptics “Nightshade”. You know the one ????

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  • I love how this channel doesn’t just give you the “manual” but teaches you how to read the “manual”

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  • that's a Croockers Bass or Heddy Lead after the dubstep producer Spag Heddy who used it a lot.

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  • Hey Guys, any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂 I'm new to making heavy ass bass music and I've just moved to Tanzania. Some of the afro beats is wicked but also bass heavy. Can anyone help point me in the right direction of making some heavy ass Reese bass with some strategically timed LFO movement on the cut off to create a kind of subtle growling like womp womp womp womp womp, wo wo womp womp womp womp, womp haha Hope this makes sense I haven't a track example but I can here it in my head.

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  • is this the same idea as noise basses? like forcing wave forms to interact without an fm or anything like that? chee uses them to make those thick bois if that didnt make and sense lol

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  • classic crookers-style bass! and a very good tip. i love to do this with portamenteau or a pitch attack, creates some super cool lead sounds !

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  • I've been doing this, layering 808s and higher-end sfx to create some cool brutal impacts. Was inspired by a video game I've been playing.

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  • loved this. short, to the point and just a really nice food-for-thought jumping off point for having some fun :)))

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