Creating Your Own sounds

[KosmonautOfficial]

Hey guys My name is Kosmonaut

I have been learning a lot from people here and there on the forum but I need some help. At the current time I use sample packs and a mixture of my own sounds to make music. I have seen a large amount of tutorials on YouTube, and I think I have got the basic idea of my synths such as FM8, Massive, Sytrus, and Serum. My problem is I don't know where to go when creating my own sound. The style of music I like is Drumstep and Dubstep, I know how to follow a video and turn a nob but I don't know where to start when I do my own stuff.


For anyone reading this who knows what they are doing, is there a certain process you use when you make a dubstepy growl? I have tried just opening up massive and trying out some random stuff but even after about 4 hours of messing around today I don't have much.

I watched this tutorial and it really helped me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9xPbZbjHx4

I put a vocoder on it and some re-verb and I got this http://www.mediafire.com/listen/wtfti8t ... +Alive.wav

I love that sound but I just don't know how to do that on my own. If you are good at making cool growl basses like that what wave types do you usually start out with? What kind of parameters do you modulate? Do you use an automation clip or the performer in massive? What kinds of audio effects do you put on the sound? Any other tips would be great

Thanks for reading, I have a lot to learn <3

[Hashkey]

Hey man! I guess you should follow a good Quality sound design course first.
You need first to learn your synth wave tables inside out.
Sound design in basses is mostly made of filters automation but you need to be Very precise with the bulk of your sound. Try to imagine hearing a sound and breaking it down in various parts. There will mostly be always the bulk core of the sound that you get with one osc then you can add to it with other osc layering. Then it's all up to filtering and dist inside and outside your synth. What I'm saying to you that changed my sound design is don't Try to modulate a shitty sound. Make a full thick sound add dist and then modulate.

[AnimalMystik]

I think that the most important thing is to have a clear conception of the different sound that you hear. So it's good to classify your sample, and sound desgin. per exemple a sample pack of bass is probably less intersting if you don't know exaclty which note are played into each samples. there is also the freesound site which allow you to download a huge amount of samples that you can transform, resclice. Reaktor is also a super way to create new things

[Lucifa]

how do i to yoi pls

[pulsewaves4stopsines]

well, if you want to get really in depth with synthesis and what's at play when you're turning the knobs, filters and creating sounds in a synth...
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

Otherwise, the only advice I have to offer is to experiment, and learn about phase cancellation, and different types of modulation in and out, of course by experimentation and learning how things sound instead of relying on numbers. Start simple, and just work your way to more complex sounds as you feel you are ready to. When it comes to waveforms, sure you can't go wrong with saws and squares, but when you make a good patch, change the waveforms to different waves, and just have fun with it. Analyze sounds, and try to figure out the dominant harmonics when you hear something cool, and never stop learning. If you stick to it, you'll find your own patterns, your own way in synthesis.

If nothing else, phase, filtering and how you apply modulation (like ringmods, PWM, FM, etc.) is what will help you to make powerful synths. If you detune two waveforms too much or too little, the phase cancellation will cause you to lose power, and filtering causes phasing on top of that. So, get intimate with the process of how waveforms stacked on top of each other interact with one another, and learn how to fine tune it to get that bass growl you're after. You'll only learn it by trying, and using your ears.

Whoa, I'm ranting again. Sorry if this is too much info, but regardless, I hope it helps.