 Hey, it's Anfa and you're watching a live tutorial Slash experiment because I haven't tried this yet. I'm gonna try it live I wanted to record it, but recording didn't work very well in OBS. So I thought let's do it live So here we are. I'm gonna make a Neurofunk bass using a search and I've prepared myself a little Drum and bass beat which I've synthesized myself Using Geon kick So that's our background. I also composed a little part for this bass that probably will work well Most of the time I will just play on my keyboard as we tweak the sound and make it and the direct motivation for making this is I watched the tutorial by I'm on a YouTube channel called let's synthesize and he's made this Really interesting Pretty classic sound that you've heard a million times if you'll listen to Noisia Or other Neurofunk acts and I wanted to try and recreate that with surge. Oh Video and audio are out of sync Half a second. Thanks for info. I Think well, I know why because I've tried to correct that recently How about now? Is it in sync more? Okay, that's better That should be better Back to the topic at hand Neurofunk basses so the sound that he made was based on two triangle waves and The thing is with surge we don't really have a triangle wave Oscillator right here What we have to do is use a wavetable and in the wavetable we can find Things like basic and can find a triangle It's not like even more thing At all because it's just a triangle now The tutorial was Leading to using two voices so it's detuned so we have let's add two unison voices And maybe pitch this one octave down Yeah, that's nice We can increase the unison detune Now an important thing would be to make this monophonic and I'm gonna choose the mono ST mode Which preserves like the envelopes and stuff so they continue to the next note and also I'm going to turn up the portamento time and you see because of the Two unison voices in this triangle wave What happens is we have this rhythmic pulsation because one of the voices is a different pitch than the other and they They like phase against each other and they cancel each other out in and out Rhythmically which creates this This motion and when we were playing a higher pitch This vibration gets faster All right, but this is pretty dry so I Let's distort it and The wave shipper comes into play so it's pretty dark and like it sounds like the What about it's hard It sounds like the the basses are overwhelming it so I'm thinking about maybe High-passing the the sound of a little bit. Let's key track this filter Oh Lifeline says unful, please move yourself. Yeah, that's the same thing I forgot to move my face to the corner. There we go. Sorry for the obstruction Alrighty now the saturation should be happier So I think it's still a little bit quiet, maybe we can add some gain with the mixer I'm going to turn down the volume of the of the scene All right, I if it seems like this gain here allows us to wave shape it more But I'd like to try also which is something that I haven't seen in that tutorial I've watched But I want to try it is adding a bit of noise Maybe darker noise I Think I want more gain Alrighty another important part of a neuro bass Is a notch filter. So let's use filter two for that and let's pick a notch Now we could assign this to an LFO maybe so This notch is going to move on its own So Making it more steep Alrighty Now what's going to do with this? Uh, I'm thinking about adding a sub bass to it after all or Maybe we could try and add a flanger Which seems to be a very important part of the sound I'm also going to bypass the filter to the notch filter for a while Huh, maybe I'm just gonna turn it off. I'm not sure Comes I'm not really hearing any effect from this Flanger Maybe I'm going to try phaser. So that's not the same thing or maybe I could try chorus and use it as uh as this as replacement This is okay. It's we should work correctly Actually, it's the same loud Now this feedback is giving us some nice screaming stuff why doesn't This modulation effect has any effect. Maybe it's a bug though because I'm using an unstable version of surge It's version 1.8 nightly So maybe that's that makes me wonder What if I make this whole thing stereo? Now then we have a stereo Strangle wave, but our unison Voices are like hard pan left and right And they don't have this that they'll produce this rhythmic cancellation that we need So that is not a good idea So I am thinking about Let's see if I can add some reverb or maybe all effects just Oh, maybe it was just muted wait I think I've just muted I think I've just bypassed the slot and that's why we had no effect. Of course it is Haha Oh silly me. Alrighty. So here's our flanger. Oh nice. We can add some stereo depth low frequency damping I'm gonna do a retrigger Let's try a lower octave. I'm also going to enable our notch back I'm I'd like to be able to uh control the speed of the LFO with my the Pitch, but I'm not sure if that's possible. Oh, I think it is possible Alrighty, so I can increase the rate with the key track Yep, so our notch is also now I'm gonna mute the flanger Awesome. Our notch is also speeding up as we play higher notes I think I want to add back a little um sub bass to this Oh, wait, I'm changing the assignments of key track. No, no, no Let's right click here and clear this assignment Alrighty, I think I would like to add a little bit of reverb. Let's see. I like the reverb too Oh, it's muted. No pre delay. Let's make it shorter actually, it's A bit crisper and weirder and with low diffusion I like this high build up more Smaller Okay, that's nice. I'd like to use the amplitude generator to Oh Yeah, but amplitude is per note. So I'm going to use a scene or single voice LFO To amble it to amplify the mix of that Sorry for this glitch Now that is enabling my reverb and I'm going to make this into an envelope so that and give it very short I'm gonna turn this way up so you can hear the effect. It's disabling the reverb immediately after I release the note Isn't it a bit quiet? I think it is Alrighty, I wonder what could we do with this noise? Maybe noise Uh Bronx beat says I could make that in serum in one minute low Uh, well, I'm Bet I could make this in surge in one minute too if I Rehearsed it, but I didn't I'm experimenting and I'm having fun Uh nice I I played a little bit with the wavetable um like Morphing modifiers of the wavetable I added saturation and I touched the formant a little bit which Creates this kind of PWM effect inside of the single cycle And that like Gives us way more harmonic content because a triangle wave is pretty Tame it's not as bright as a sort of wave or a square wave. It's very Triangle wave sounds very close to a sine wave and it has it has all the All the harmonics I believe just like this the sort of wave, but it has much less of them I wonder what we can do with this uh hypes filter. Maybe we can make something interesting if I Give it more It's screaming I may try something different like maybe an obxd But that's the 24th decibel. It's a low pass. Ah, it's a low pass high pass k35 high pass. I believe that's uh Oh, I like that and I would like to use the same LFO that we used for our notch filter to modulate this as well So I think it should speed up more when we play higher notes, so I'm going to change this modulation of the key track Oh Oh interesting on On in this high When I play this high the the LFO creates kind of a growly effect because it's starting to approach audio rate Kind of weird I like this a lot. Uh, we can do some extra stuff. I think we could use an air windows to tape maybe to Federal ready I Think I want a little bit more of that reverb when it's active. Yeah Also low frequency dumping at 100 All right, I'd call it a day, especially that's getting late And here is a little drum beat That I've prepared before and this bass line together. Let's see if they play Oh, I muted it. It's unmuted and let's uh Loop it. I'm gonna save this project and let's play it These short notes don't really play nice. Maybe if I shorten them so it's staccato, but also lower them Yeah, I'm not sure if that fits the style Maybe just keep it continuous So that's gonna give us more portamento stuff Thanks for watching. Uh, I hope you've learned something That was a neurofunk bass tutorial experimentation With surge 1.8 nightly I was using ardor 6.2 and this is uh, that's the drum kit These are my own synthesized drums I made tutorials where I show you how I made exactly these sounds pretty much If you want to check that out and they're Mixed here just a little bit of reverb and high pass on the hats and uh lots of our windows mojo And uh, yeah Also, I'm a drone master because that's mandatory. Thanks for watching Also huge thanks to all the people who are supporting me financially That really helps If you would dear viewer would join my content and would like me to make more Please consider Going to patreon.com slash anfa or liberapay.com slash anfa. 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