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Amazing Serum-based growl that come out different everytime.


Hyper Growl Serum Very Metalic, Agressive & Au5 Sounding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stvc9zR3-KA
1.Take a simple delay.
50 Simple Delay Simple Delay 2.Put it in an FX rack. Au5 Ableton Sound Design Course.
3. Map the aFeedback
1. Pick sound source. to a MacroThis could and set be the feedback
a plugin, range
sample, to 0%-30%
loop, etc.
Bass Jam Ableton/Any Plugins 2. Creat 4. Linka new the audioDelaystrack. Au5 Ableton Sound Design Course.
3. Set 5.
InputSet ofthe Delay
new Audio Mode
Amazing repeating sound that can be applied to any sound.Track to, "Time"
to Resample.
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4. soundthe Ms.
Enable atnew Delay
the Audio
exact to a Macro.
Track.
time the midi triggers it https://youtu.be/5ChRCtHQ0tU?t=4237
5. Turn on At Loop 7.brackets
the Map
exact the
midi Dry/Wet
and notset to a Macro
them
frequeny forasa well.
desired length.
1. Create Audio FX Rack.
Comb Screamer Chorus & Auto Filter 8. Duplicate
The LengthSimple Delaymatter
doesn't
2. Put in a 3 Band Crossover.
50 times. Au5 Ableton Sound Design Course.
6. Press 9. Place
record and an
startOTT or Limiter
affecting the at the end.
orginal
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a chorus. Song,source.
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Pipe Resonator Corpus 7. You can do this 4. forBring
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Ableton times
Rack desire. down
with Try todifferent
Corpus.0.01 ms.FX and techniques. https://youtu.be/yoRp2-6sjQE?t=143
8. Once done, 5. extend
Bring the new
highpass on audio
Delay file1 out20HZ.
to to its full length.
This is a preset inside 9. of AbletonBassfor Chorus. It'sLibrary.
perfect for making metallic
Yo Man! Chorus sounds.
10. GoPlay through
Save
6. Set
with thedelay
Bass XYJam
Jam
Pad 2 to
and
in Fix
User
to find
evoke Mode amazing
Nuggest sounds
of Glory.
7. Dry/Wet to 100%
This is an EXTREME variation of Au5's Technique, "Static Chorus
Static Chorus Monster Serum FX 8. Feedback to 0%
1. Create a Static Chorus as metioned in the reference video
9. Amount to 0.00 ms.
https://youtu.be/u4e1YrNkLvQ
Same concept as the static chorus, 2.Create butanthe FXoriginal
Rack. sounds is split into 3 bands,
10. Rate to 0.03
Multi-Band Static Chorus Monster Serum FX 3. Map theandStatic Chorus
the entire staticLFO
11.
RATE,
chorus
Polarity rackDelay
setis to 1, Delay
applied
+
2 & Master
to each band. Volume
to a Macro.
12. Map delay 11.toCreate Macroaand 3 set range
band crossover. to 0.01 ms - 2.68 ms
4. Add an OTT after the Static Chorus.
Multi-Band Frequency Shifter Frequency Shifter 2.
5. On
13. high
the
Duplicate
Put an
this
autoInsert
band,
as many
filter after
Frequency
times
Chorus
as you Shifter.
see fit. Au5 Ableton Sound Design Course.
3. Map the 13.Knob
Fine Set it on to High Pass mode
6. Automate the
1. Create LFO,
a bass Delaypatch,1Frequency grab 2aShifter
&orDelay to to a Macro.
get Insane
loop/sample. results.
Vocoding Bass 2 Bass Vocoder 15.
4. Contrain14. Increase
range to Res
-500
2. Create a second bass patch, loop or sample.
Map FilterFrequencyKnob to same macro
tohz49% to 500
as Chorus
hz.
Delay.
Au5 Ableton Sound Design Course.
5. Duplicate 3. Vocoder Shifter
1 bass toRackso that
the other. there is two.
Mid/Side OTT OTT 6.16. Constrain
Duplicate
4. Using the Formant 21.frequency
the Auto Create
Filter range
Shift can
FX shifters
evoke
to 120hz -mid
to theunique
really
1.20khz
band.
results.
2. Create Au5 Ableton Sound Design Course.
7. Invert the ranges on mid band so2 the Chains fine in knobRack rang is: 500 hz to - 500hz.
3. On first Chain, insert Unitilty and bring the M/S Balance down to 100M
Sine Compression Operator, Auto Filter, Glue Compressor This creates the IconicOTT.
4. Insert Neuro Funk Bass. https://youtu.be/tLIsi8GEI0g
5. Map OTT amount to Macro 1.
Frequent Granulator Granulator 2 This helps create the Frequent
6. Map OTT Output to Macro chopped up, granulated
2. sound. https://youtu.be/_VVXdx4ZFeQ
7. On second Chain, 1. Create insert Utility,
sound, orand usebring M/S Balance Up to 100S
Loop/Sample.
Convolution Fusion Convolution Reverb Pro 2. Grab 8. Insert loop/sample.
another OTT Au5 Ableton Sound Design Course.
3. Insert 9. 1.
Map OTT Reverb
Convolution
Put Serum
amount Pro
FX on to
to Macro onto first
a Sound.
1. sound.
10. Map OTT Output Macro pro2.
Comb + Serum FX 4. Insert 2nd sound
11. 2.Insert
5. Tweak settings
Turn intoonconvolution
EQ filter,
Eight
tothefuse
and
on
the
goreverb
this
two
tochain
Comb
sounds
Impulse
+
only.
together.
section.
3. Turn Resonance Knob
1. Creat 12.aSetall
trackit to way
and Seteroup.
import And
Mode.
drum make sure Wet is 100%
loop.
4.
2.As you play with the Cut off Knob, you will tosee orthe effect.
Vocoder Drums Vocoder 13. Turn on
Have x4 Highpass
another track andwith set a theBass frequency
Patch, Loop 100hz, to remove
sample. Au5 Ableton Sound Design Course.
low sideonto
3. Put vocoder content. drum track.
1. In order for this to work, this has to be a sound that is triggerd by midi
Tuned Corpus Corpus 4. Select External and select the bass track.
and must be intune.
5. Play with settings to achieve a unique mix of the drum rythm and bass tone.
Texture Warp Stretch Ableton 2. insert Corpus.
Stretching a sound in Ableton while using texture mode gives insane results. https://youtu.be/4AkBJto6ndc?t=402
3. Click the little triangle in top left corner.
4.1.Select
Have Midi
a pure from sineand waveselect playing in Serum
the channel theatinstrument
a low octave.is on.
Thick Serum Sub Serum 2.
5. Turn
Now on corpus the distortion
will resonate unit at in the frequency.
FX Panel.
3. Select Diode 2. and make sure Wet is 100%
Time Based Glitch Ableton When
4. playyou
withpush Time to
the drive based FX with saturation,toit make
at saturation/distortion evokes amazing
your glitchTHICK!.
sub sound effects. https://youtu.be/RtHVoc63W3Q

.png Serum Table Serum You can upload any .png file into serum as a new wave table. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU2OgcY9SHI
When you edit a wavetable, you can squarify
Squarify Serum it and create transformer style sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jRx87Vv9c

Multi-Band Vococder Formant Vocoder This gives a sound the formant movement, without affecting the highs or lows. https://youtu.be/XiQr-lO2obs?t=1147

Zynaptiq Morph Morph 2 This fuses sounds together using math... and its beautiful.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVSXqQ9QFz8

Valhalla Shimmer Pad Shimmer You can turn anything into a beautiful pad by turning up the three knobs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlofTbfJkwM

Comb - Serum This is similar to the Comb + technic but gives it a much ore metalic feel. https://youtu.be/mMcRRoXadK4?t=556
You can phase mod literally anything inside of serum
Phase Mod Anything Serum With this technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CELN2_AmmCU

DJ Scratch Ableton You can create a DJ Scratch with anything. Using basic Ableton devices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH3ryAEP308

Haunting Vocals Ableton The Classic reverb reversed into itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWZseqNs47A
1. Create as many notches as you can inside of Pro R.
Pro-R Comb Filter Pro-R 2. Map the frequency knobs to each Peak to a 1 macro in an FX Rack. Au5 Ableton Sound Design Course
3.
1. Create
Take 1 different ranges for
noise. Perferble eachnoise.
a Bass peak.
Multi-Band Vocoding The Vocoder Vocoder 2. Chop it into 3 bands. Au5 Ableton Sound Design Course
3. Put a vocoder on each band.
4. Now bring in 3 more sounds on 3 different Channels.
We will call these other sounds Bass A, B & C.
5. Vocode the high layer of the original sound to Bass A.
6. Vocode the Mid layer of the orignal sound to Bass B.
7. Vocode the low layer of the orginal sound to Bass C.
8. Map each formant knob in each band to a macro to control all at once.
9. Have Fun
In Serum, when you have a wavetablet that has a warp alogrithm on it,
Render OSC Warp Serum you can resample that wavetable so that it creates a new wave table.
This
Much likeiswith
achieve by click
Rendering the Warp,
OSC Menu button
you caninalsoSerum in the
render topentire
then right corner,
wavetable,
And then withscrolling
all of thedown and clicking, "Render OSC A" if you
etc. are on
Render Wavetable Serum OSC A or
wavetable
"Render OSC
movement,
B" if you
warp,
are on
detune,
OSC B.
This is ahcieved the same way as the Render OSC Warp function, except you
RC 48 has a preset
select,called RobottoSoup.
"OSCIt B"
turns anything
are onyou put
A.it through into
Robot Soup RC 48 "Resample
well...
if you OSC 3rd Party Masterclass
And "Rsample to "OSC A" if you are on OSC B.
Put Uhbik G on Anything,Robot Soup
and play with it. It's absolute insanity.
Grain Pitch Shifting Uhbik G Esspecially when you crank up the iterations. 3rd Party Masterclass
Take Any plugin. Put an LFO Midi on every single parameter that you so desire.
LFO Midi Bass Jam Any Plugin Then set all of the LFO Midis to different times.
You can Record
get the thelegendary
madnessPaul
and Stretch
find the software
nuggets of in aGlory.
VST Form.
Paul Stretch VST Paul Stretch This stretchs things in the most beautiful way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aog6quZnsjU
The time stretching algorithms inside of Kontakt are legendary.
Kontakt Time Stretch Kontakt The reference video shows you how to import the sample, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t08yyroD8rQ
But doesn't do it justic with showing how powerful it is.
Limiting Silence Limiter Taking thewith
Playing theparts
silent time of
and formantand
samples knobs will give
limiting themyou crazy results
to kingdom come https://youtu.be/dKGmAT3iFMk
Gate Keeper is a volume automating plugin that you can put on anything.
Gate Keeper Rhythm Gate Keeper It's fantatisc for helping generate rythmic ideas to go along with your sound design.
Guitar Rig has one of the most beautiful reverbs.
Reflektor Design Guitar Rig: Reflektor It's called Reflektor.
It best functions in the Special section.
Vehicle Noises Igniter This plugin The
allows you toand
textures generate
tones high
reallyquaily vehicleasounds
help create to then process.
new sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3beG832loc8

Razor Vocoding Razor The vocoding in Razor is amazing, esspecially with Bass noises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOU9h3Iqdrg

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