Chords for Serum Tutorial - Huge Sounds With FM Warp Mode

Hey guys, this is Echo Soundworks with another tutorial for adsrsounds.com and in today's
video we're going to be checking out some tips and tricks, or a tip and trick rather,
on how you can really gritty up your basses and make them more digital sounding inside of Serum.
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So a while back I did a tutorial in Massive actually and I showed some, _ an idea on how
you can make your basses more digital sounding using the modulation oscillator and the filter frequency modulation.
I got some questions coming through on that video asking, is this possible in Serum?
Well it is and it isn't.
You can do a very similar type of effect but you do it in a different way inside of Serum,
so that's what we're looking at.
So right now I have a pretty generic and basic just two oscillator, kind of a saw bass pulled up.
Let's listen to this real quick. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _
[C#] _ _ _ _ So to my ear it's kind of falling into the [G#] realm of maybe hip hop or pop, but definitely
not EDM genres like dubstep, complex or electro.
Well let's look at how we can make this kind of have that sound without having to change
wavetables and go to the effects and do some crazy distortion.
So your warp knob here, your warp mode, this is where you'll find things like bend plus,
bend minus and if you're a Massive user or [F#] a wavetable synthesis user, you should be
familiar with this idea.
What it's going to do is it's depending on what mode you select, this knob will pinch,
pull, push, move the wavetable in the direction which is dependent on what mode you choose.
So if I select bend plus for instance and turn it up, see how it's kind of _ pinching
the outside edges of the wavetable in?
So now if I just have this and I'll keep it on bend plus for this [F#] demo, _ _ _ _ _ it's not going
to do a whole lot because this wavetable isn't an intricate wavetable, it's just a saw wave,
it's a one cycle saw wave.
There's nothing for it to really blend with.
But when you use what I'm going to show you next, it's helpful to load up bend plus, bend
minus or even sync, you can get some cool results but play around with it.
So right now go to your second oscillator and choose FM from A and now check this out. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ [D] _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [N] Alright, so just like that it turns into a really gritty digital sound and these are
just saw waves.
So you can imagine how potent this can be if you're using a more intricate or in-depth
wavetable that's kind of already digital sounding.
This becomes just absolutely huge.
So what this is doing _ is in oscillator _ _ A it'll give you FM from B and in oscillator 2 it'll
give you FM from A.
You can only have one on at a time.
See if I go to oscillator A and try turning it on, it'll remove it from oscillator B but
what it's doing is it's applying some FM synthesis or some FM magic to the other oscillator.
So it helps in my opinion if I just have FM from B on right now and I don't have a warp
mode selected, _ I think it helps to _ have one of the warp modes selected as opposed to just
keeping it off.
So here it is without the warp [F#] mode. _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ And here it [E] is with like, we'll do bend minus.
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ And it just got huge.
So I can show you really quickly this idea of if I load up a _ different shape here, we'll
keep it on _ _ _ _ _ half and now I can do envelopes so it just re-triggers but I can put this
on like my cutoff and we can [F#] do things. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [D] _
_ So now it's that EDM gritty bass.
If I turn this FM from _ B off and the blend off, [F#] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ again now it's like back to that kind
of analog sounding saw.
So use this, try it out.
If you mess around with it on wavetables that are more digital sounding like these [F#] type
of things where you have a lot of information, it becomes a really powerful tool.
So I'll show you that.
We'll do FM from A, I'll select bend plus here. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
_ [B] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [E] _ Right, so you can get some really cool effects.
So check that out.
It's the FM from A or the FM from B in either oscillator A or B.
You have to have both oscillators
active and I like using it in conjunction with another warp mode as opposed to just
keeping it on off.
So if you have any questions or comments, let me know below and I'll get back to you
as soon as I can. _
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