Creating a growl bass WITHOUT using Sytrus or FM8

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Shaloxeroligon wrote:Without going into too much detail, I know how to create an FM growl bass in Sytrus. You modulate (as in, apply the waveform of one to the other) a sine wave with a triangle wave and a high-frequency sine wave, and then automate the modulation amount of the triangle wave.
I would be very interested for you too please go into more detail!
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fluffy_little_something wrote:Terrible, but if that is growl, hm, sounds a bit like a formant filter to me.
It does sound a bit like a formant filter, but I think it often isn't filtering emphasizing a particular frequency and then another, but the actual partials being synthesized spreading further apart because the ratio between them is increasing? Modulating frequency ratios in an FM synth would do that.

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Here, this guy explains it much better than I could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PVQdYq ... 318383DAE0
Check out my YouTube channel for vocal effects tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/user/Shaloxeroligon1

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Hey thanks, Shaloxeksajdf;lkhja (I gave up)
That was an awesome video, very helpful and has made me more interested in FM synthesis, which now makes me interested in this topic, and am hoping that a freeware FM synthesizer comes up. because, PFFFT, I'm not paying $180 for Sytrus! It's good, but not that good.



But I'm also a cheap ass :hihi:

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ntom wrote:Hey thanks, Shaloxeksajdf;lkhja (I gave up)
That was an awesome video, very helpful and has made me more interested in FM synthesis, which now makes me interested in this topic, and am hoping that a freeware FM synthesizer comes up. because, PFFFT, I'm not paying $180 for Sytrus! It's good, but not that good.



But I'm also a cheap ass :hihi:
Try these:
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2011/09 ... u-plugins/

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That site is where I started. I've already tried a few of them, and I wanted to see if anyone else had better luck than I before I went through and tested them all myself. I mean, I'm totally fine with doing my own research, but I like not reinventing the wheel if I don't have to.
Check out my YouTube channel for vocal effects tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/user/Shaloxeroligon1

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ntom wrote:Hey thanks, Shaloxeksajdf;lkhja (I gave up)
That was an awesome video, very helpful and has made me more interested in FM synthesis, which now makes me interested in this topic, and am hoping that a freeware FM synthesizer comes up. because, PFFFT, I'm not paying $180 for Sytrus! It's good, but not that good.



But I'm also a cheap ass :hihi:
Should've gotten Sytrus when it was on sale ($40?).

Anyway, I'd forgotten about Ganymed and Vivaldi. Check them out at:
http://blog.jewe.org/?p=675#ganymed
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after watching that video and reading about what you are trying to achieve I can think of a couple of reasons you may be having trouble:


firstly the behavior of sytrus which makes the guy use a triangle wave instead of a sine seems to be a bug in that it is behaving as a square wave and not a sine wave as you can clearly hear from his video. So I would suggest you try a square wave instead of a triangle for your high frequency modulator if you are looking for that sound, but any harmonically rich modulator should work which brings me to my next point.

The strange vowel like movement of partials in these sounds you are trying to make is acheived most easily by internal aliasing in the fm engine. The old Yamaha fm synths (and also later synths of theirs) had insane amounts of aliasing which would cause a fold back into the audible spectrum of frequencies that have risen past the nyquist frequency of your synth. Many newer synths have used neat programming tricks to cut down on or eliminate aliasing internally in their oscillators and that makes the sound you are going for harder to obtain without using a sample rate reducer somewhere in your signal path. These types of sounds can be created by sending any thing with lots of high frequency harmonic movement through a sample rate reducer. Try hard sync'd or distorted resonant sounds with high cutoffs through any run of the mill sample rate reducer and you will hear those same types of vowel like modulations going on.

Hopefully that helps you move in the right direction. I just wanted to point out that the info in the video posted was incorrect in many ways and didn't address where the sound you want actually comes from.

ps sorry for all the typos that are probably in this post.

JJ
Don't F**K with Mr. Zero.

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That's very helpful, actually. I generally know how vowel formants work, but I didn't know that this process in Sytrus was a result of aliasing. And now that you explain it, it makes sense, because I believe Sytrus was based on an old Yamaha synthesizer. Not 100% sure.

Anyway, I will try your method to see how it works. Thanks for the feedback.
Check out my YouTube channel for vocal effects tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/user/Shaloxeroligon1

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Ah_Dziz wrote:These types of sounds can be created by sending any thing with lots of high frequency harmonic movement through a sample rate reducer.
I have trouble bringing the quality back afterwards.

It seems like someone here would take advantage of this gap in low cost synths and make a dedicated growl synth for us. While you're at it, could you make a thick zapper too? I have fun chaining stuff together and trying to break things, but I'd rather have something that works out of the box.
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Did something like this a long time ago with one of my synths (though the synth was in embarrassingly early stages)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n61DjnkqRJo
if you really want a free way of creating a decent growl then use some rough distortion like fruity waveshaper on any basic synth, layer a lot and add different fx on each layer (eq carefully too). The synth doesnt matter you can create the sound you want using fx, routing, layering etc.
EDIT: Synthmaster CM, Curve CM & Zebralette are capable of making growls just by using the synths alone (incase you prefer purely synthing things out)

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Try saw osc with a square osc 1 octave lower. Add a notch filter and smash it with a bitcrusher and other distorition (camel crush is free). Mess around with a bandpass filter modulated on top (LFO Tool is the best IMO). Usually I do this with an expensive synth, but it should work with almost anything I would think. Refine the elements and I'm sure you can get a decent result.

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The best free digital synth for such sounds IMO is Carbon 2, but you need to install the free Reaktor player then the free Reaktor Factory Selection.

Reaktor synths are unrivalled in this field. For me it is much easier and faster to get the sound I want from these synths.

Sometimes, I need a monster's sound or a scary voice and Razor/Prism/Massive (ok this is not a Reaktor one :hihi: ) are the commercial ones that I like for any digital sound, but I also highly recommend Carbon 2. I can easily buy it for $50!! It is really a powerful synth :borg:

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Apply low pass filter with cutoff modulated (sync it to 1/4 or 1/8) from 50 to 400Hz with resonance cranked up high (around 50%) to a saw wave (or any harmonically rich sound.Then run it through sample rate reducer (mda Degrade should be enough in its default state). To smooth any unwanted artifacts, apply chorus at the end. For more fun automate filter cutoff modulation rate.
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Alchemy just put out a free mini version of Dance & Trance that will load into Alchemy Player. The patch SubMinimal can do a talking bass. In the track below, I moved the remix pads around 3, 4, 7, and 8. I ran the bass through scuzzphut6, dfx Buffer Override stereo, Baxxpander, and YOU WA SHOCK. I mixed dfx Buffer Override 50/50 just for the lo-fi, but this plug does other neat things.

Open this in another window.
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/t0n69jn ... y+Bass.mp3
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