Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

[Genevieve]

I don't like Skrillex at all. Like, at al, but that was actually pretty good. Would sound good in some hard edged drum & bass.

[deafblindmusic]

+1 for FM8, monster synth, in fact anything in the Komplete Synths package pretty much rules...except Pro53, that's #yawn#

[hasezwei]

+1 for FM8, monster synth, in fact anything in the Komplete Synths package pretty much rules...except Pro53, that's #yawn#

wut
pro-53 is great, if you get the hang of it you can get really awesome sound out of it. maybe not an allrounder like massive but definetly great in what it does.

[Insahn]

I too would like to further understand FM8. I really couldn't get anywhere close to what you came up with. +1 for patch and tutorial!

[mthrfnk]

I had another go at this today but my end result came out quite distorted and muddy, still hoping you make a tut for this.

[Noisestorm]

I'm just trying to perfect the sound, tutorial coming soon! Got it sounding a lot clearer and with less random high feedback noises.

[Jacob15728]

So when you use FM8 or any FM synth, do you actually design specific sounds? Like, when I want to make a sound in Massive I usually "visualise" it in my mind then I have a clear pathway in my head of how I plan to make that sound.

I understand what FM synthesis is and how it works, but when I'm playing around with it I always just mess around until I get something good. I can never actually figure out how to make a sound without doing a ton of tweaking and messing around first. I'd like to learn FM synthesis but this has been discouraging me alot. Is that just the nature of FM synthesis or can you actually get good at it?

[Grimenoceros]

It's not so much the patch as it is automating an EQ to MAKE it "growl" by creating vowel formants. It was all discussed in the thread about Skrillex revealing how he makes his basses, it's still in the first two pages I think. But yes, Noisestorm, that is a very good example and it sounds pretty nice.

I actually haven't automated any EQ's to make this patch, it's just raw FM8, mabye I could try to automate them and get an even closer sound?

Hell yeah, if you did all of that without any tweaking (I failed to read the OP thoroughly, it seems), then you're ahead of the curve. Slight pitch bends and automated EQ peaks to form more exaggerated vowels, while coupled with some finely tuned distortion, phaser and chorus, could get this sounding as close to the bass as you can get without being named Sonny. I wouldn't mind a tutorial either only because I'm (STILL) not very proficient with FM8 and have been painstakingly trying to learn its interface.

[Towany]

Dude that sounds so good, bit of resampling and some touch ups and that should sound ace! Please put up a tutorial if ya can!

[Frostie]

nice one noisestorm! i would try it but FM8 is dear as fuck

[Eridu]

You know if you dont have the time to make a tutorial you can just post the patch.

[Gramilion]

Bigups mite!
great sound, it obvious that if you'll add a filter like EQ/change the frequency, the sound will be much more complex
waiting for a tutorial!

[Fbac]

nice one noisestorm! i would try it but FM8 is dear as fuck

Hopefully we can use the tutorial on other Fm synths tho XD

[[asterisk]]

Tease?

[tylerblue]

The clip in my signature uses FM8

[Ascian]

I'd prefer some tips on how to get that snare sound!

[Woodllem]

The clip in my signature uses FM8

dayuuummm

[[asterisk]]

The clip in my signature uses FM8

^ I second that Tyler, doooope drop man, lovin the sleight vocals there too. Hope you post that release here when it's finished and picked up, which it will be I'm sure, or pm me so I can buy it.. but in the mean time have any FM8 tips for those of us whom that synth makes feel like busted noobs??

[Sparxy]

yeah you can get sounds like this directly out of FM8. I only started getting to grips with it last week. You can get the vowels SO easily hahaha, there is an effect labelled "Talk" and literally just does YOYs lol

Still, I had alot of fun bouncing bits out of FM8 and resampling, you can get some mental stuff coming out of it

Look at tutorials on FM synthesis as a whole and not necessarily specific to FM8 it will defo help

[Fbac]

any tutorials you'd recommend sparxy??

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=222794
Heres a list of some posted in 2008,, the soundonsound ones are good if not abit technical.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr00/a ... ecrets.htm
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm
educational film from 1983 - http://synth.tk/ (makes u thankful we have software and arnt running typewriters to input xD)

bass sounds with operator - http://www.sequencer.de/ableton/fm_bass_operator.html

post 7 is a tut on Fm8 - http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.ph ... did=627070