How to make a distorted french electro synth

Hey guys!
This is my second tut and im going to show you how to make those distorted synths that you hear from french electro artists such as justice or sebastiAn!
Just another simple one :) ENJOY!

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[Tekmatic]

Is this Shirobon?

[ProducerTutorials]

@Tekmatic maybee..... :P

[OverDoseOfPassion]

I bought Minimonsta today and Logic can't open it :( it brings up the AU manager and says it couldn't validate them. Help?

[ProducerTutorials]

@OverDoseOfPassion i dunno my, if you payed for it contact customer support :)

[Evi1M4chine]

So to generalize it: It’s a basic 3-saw (different octaves) with a light lowpass filter (medium cutoff), filtered trough a analog sounding overdrive distortion with a strong bandpass in the mediums, and then some thickening compression with a bit of drive, correct? Finally you control the volume anti-parallel to the kick drum, and perhaps add some reverb.

Or did I miss a relevant detail?

[ProducerTutorials]

@Evi1M4chine all right apart from there issnt any cutoff :)

[mezooo2020]

4:03 Damn! that was good :)

[AlGrudniewski]

@TheAPC91 actually, I watched this for searching new ideas and solutions. Not more. I've written a few posts ago I found exactly the same distortion. Also, I want to add you have watched it too ;)

[TheAPC91]

@AlGrudniewski Maybe your lack of skill is the reason why your not satisfied? If you knew your shit, then you probably wouldnt spend hours watching and discussing youtube tutorials. So next time, you decide to be a dick, think before you speak!

But hey! I wont be an ass so heres a little tip: Guitar Rig.

PEACE BITCH!

[AlGrudniewski]

@TheAPC91 I've seen it long time ago, yes it's good, but i know this technique very well. I'm talking this once again I have said only, in this tutorial the saw(sound), and distortion doesn't sound like SebastiAn. So, stop answering with your tutorials, cause i will not watch the next ones cause it doesn't interest me.

Peace

[TheHevquip]

@TheAPC91 Maybe it's because I don't have any of that music up, it's all going towards an album I'm working on. I didn't describe bouncing, I make something out of samples, sample that, chop it, add more samples, sample it, chop it. That is taking files that I edited before and editing them more. Sounds like your idea of "resampling" comes from whatever program you use. I don't use software, so all your points on Destructive and Non-Destructive editing is completely irrelevant to me.

[TheAPC91]

@AlGrudniewski Check out my video "Ed Banger Style in Ableton 8". It doesent helps for the bass, but it shows the chopping pretty good.

[TheAPC91]

@TheHevquip Im sorry for being so awesomly honest with you, but theres not one track on your channel that sounds close to sebastiAn. Oh and resampling is something completely different as what you mentioned. Resampling (Bouncing) means to reload a file that has been edited before by programs like "LiveCut" for example. Non Desctructive and Descructive editing. Think about that.

[TheHevquip]

@AlGrudniewski Like I programmed a patch on my old Korg DW-8000 synth that when run through one of my distortion pedals, sounds just like the bass in sebastiAn's "Walkman" track, so sometimes it's not as complicated as I think :/ My whole point with the sidechaining and sampling was not that it's necessary, but that sometimes things like that are required to get a certain sound or dynamic out of a bassline.

[TheHevquip]

@AlGrudniewski I know what you mean, I'm not a noob either and it's still tough to figure out the distortion and EQing it. I've got various distortion and overdrive pedals for that sake. I get my best sebastiAn bass sounds (before I do the sample and sidechain thing) by plugging a distortion pedal into one of my old analog synths and pulling up an older sounding 80's pizzicato or plucked bass, as MSTRKFRT, sebastiAn, Daft Punk, etc sample a lot of old synths run through pedals.

[AlGrudniewski]

@TheHevquip i'm not a noob man, i was meaning a special sound of his bassline, not sidechaining etc. But i found the way to do nice sebastianish distortion