Future Bass Sound Design Explained
Sound design pro Thomas Cochran delivers in-depth Future Bass sound design video tutorials that show you how to create the sounds that drive this popular genre, plus gives you the skills needed to create new sounds for your productions. These videos are designed for beginner Future Bass producers or anyone looking for an introduction to how these sounds are made.
Bass
• Heavy 808 Bass (15:28) - Learn how envelope modulation and distortion are used to shape an 808 kick drum from scratch with Serum. This video also covers how to compress, saturate, and add low end harmonics to make your 808's have more impact.
• Sub Bass (08:23) - This video covers a simple, yet important, Sub Bass patch that can be layered with the other patches from this course to add fullness and impact to your drops. This tutorial also covers how to make full sounding subs though effects processing.
Chords
• Soft Keys (13:25) - Learn how to transform a simple sine wave style oscillator into an ambient keyboard sound using pitch modulation, chorus, and reverb. This patch is great for use as a melodic chord sound in an intro or breakdown.
• Detuned Keys (12:50) - In this video, lean how to make a detuned keys sound for the drop section of your tracks. This patch makes use of heavy detuning and wavetable modulation to get a ghostly sound.
• Super Saws Pt. 1 (14:02) - Watch how to make a modulated super saw patch. This video covers how to layer different synths to create a super saw sound and the effects processing used to carve out space for each layer.
• Super Saws Pt. 2 (12:20) - In the second part of this video, you'll see how to add a bass layer to the super saws and how effects are used for adding clarity and punch to the sound, plus learn how to create a sidechain effect using the utility plugin inside of Ableton.
• Hyper Saws Pt. 1 (10:06) - This video shows how to create a thick hyper saw synth patch. Learn how the different layers of Serum are used to create a cohesive synthesizer patch.
• Hyper Saws Pt. 2 (12:05) - Now that the different layers of the hyper saws are in place, explore how dynamics processing and distortion are used to create full sounding hyper saws. This video also includes the types of chord progressions that are used on hyper saws.
Leads
• Drop Arp Lead (11:01) - Noe see how to make a compressed arpeggio lead sound for a drop section that utilizes white noise to create a distortion effect and multi band dynamic processing to add crunch.
• Textured Lead (11:19) - In this tutorial, learn how to use the noise oscillator in combination with wavetable oscillators to create a textured lead sound. This sound can be used in a drop or breakdown section.
• Saw Lead (10:44) - In this final video, watch how to create a saw lead that can be used for alternate sections of a drop. This lead features custom envelopes created with the LFO in Serum for additional sound shaping and character.