DIGITONE Bass Tutorial

[@DunnoBro92]

So i dont wish to sound homosexual, but you have very nice hands.

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, thank you very much =P I've heard I have a pianist's hands, but I wish they came with a pianist's skills too.

[@robertsyrett1992]

It's ok to sound homosexual, that's one of the nice things about living in the 21st century.

[@johannasbjoernson918]

the gay okay decade. - but complimenting someones hands on a 30-minute synthesizer-tutorial that, apart from the synthesizer, shows only hands and the voice commentary regards what the hands do and the synthesizer plays what the hands say and the sound moves along the ways that the hands moved and you hear what hands hand you and remember the sequence to repeat with your hands too what those hands did in the videou.. nothing sexual about handing a 'thank you' to the hands that feed you. - I wrote a poem.

[@IvarTryti]

@@johannasbjoernson918 thank you very much, that's hands down the best poem I've read on my phone that I held with my hands!

[@tonegoober]

"i dont wish to sound homosexual' *REPRESSION ALERT*

[@PreRendered]

Your sound design and composition skills are some of the best I've seen on the Elektron sequencers. Thanks for the education.

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you so much Nick! I'm glad you like the tutorial

[@duadugan125]

True. Thank you. We appreciate it!

[@SphericEl]

Love the way you program you song examples and the speed you work. Watching happy birthday was a real treat 🎁

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks a lot, man! The happy birthday melody was really fun to use as demo melody =p

[@SphericEl]

Thank you Ivar! I've just re-watched this vid again,and it turns out to be actually on my birthday. (A bit of synchronicity) Well worth the 2nd watch.

[@trigasurge]

Thank you! For someone just getting into Digitone, i really enjoyed the format. Really like the notebook sketch as you explain intent. Sounds are amazing. Especially the sound you created in the preparation for the tutorial, at the end!

[@mikedevlin2048]

Great video and information... My Labrador was sleeping in front of my subwoofer.... until the first kick came in 🤣😁🤣

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! Hehe, poor dog. I'm sorry, didn't mean to startle him!

[@gracescale]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! You're 1000 times better than all those Red Means Recording or Cuckoo, explaing during 2 hours things that you show in 4 minutes. Super efficient content!

[@benoitdewandel]

Waouh, please one thousand tutorials like this.

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, thanks man :P. I have a few ideas for new Digitone tutorials: making leads, making pads and velocity sensitive patches, making drums, and one for general elektron sequencer tricks, maybe. None of it's planned yet, though!

[@benoitdewandel]

@@IvarTryti thanks in advance 😜

[@alien_brain]

i love this tutorial! you are the bass guru. you have ignited my drum and bass career

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, thank you very much! I'm glad the tutorial was helpful :)

[@IslandGhost]

The depth you go into on this tutorial is great. Very interesting indeed.

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you, Island Ghost :). I try to explain it in a way that I'd understand after years of not having used the Digitone :D

[@passioncontrolledoscillato3739]

Really insightful! I havent seen this detailed tutorial in youtube ever! I appreciate the hard work you put in these videos!😎👊

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! It was a lot of fun to make, but man does it take a lot of planning and practice. I recreated the bass patches from scratch several times before recording, and each time they turned out different :P

[@bicycleninja1685]

nice beat. Love the bass sound

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you very much!

[@johngilbert184]

Thank you Ivar. I have just bought a Digitone and this is going to be so helpful as I think you have achieved great sounds and seeing you doing it is excellent. Excellent video too.

[@TheArtistisIrrelevant]

Excellent tutorial, thanks for sharing!

[@andrewbingham3449]

Very helpful, I really appreciate your thoughtful tutorial here!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you, glad you found it helpful =)

[@hexwavemusic]

Holy shit dude those bass sounds are incredible, that last one literally killed me. I'll try some of this out myself sometime!

[@jonhoeuce]

Man, that patch you made by accident is crazy. I hope I will recreate it by accident too while playing noodling with the last patch you explain in the video.

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! It's even easier to trigger happy accidents now that you can randomize parameter pages :D. It's mostly down to luck, but it's a fun way to make patches.

[@tonibuenavida]

just awesome, like the skills and the final results, good one man

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you very much, Toni!

[@yeahrightbear8883]

Wow this is so awesome. Thank you so much for this!

[@IvarTryti]

My pleasure man, thanks for watching

[@kwaping]

Wow 10:00, big difference in the sound!

[@leetronix]

Like the logical way you look at this, very much the same as myself by breaking down the mapping structure and then putting together a flow chart or workflow. Either way really enjoyed this :)

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks! When making the tutorials I try to make it so that *I* understand it after a year or two of not using the Digitone. I don't always think in this exact order every time, but these are bits of information that I can use deliberately once I know about them. Thanks for checking it out, man :)

[@dangerbird64]

By the way, yes, PLEASE do tutorials on lead and drums!

[@IvarTryti]

I'll have to give that a try soon :D

[@dangerbird64]

You are really great at doing tutorials. I learn so much! thank you!

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for watching man, I'm glad it was helpful :)

[@solaryzer]

Great tutorial ... excellent bass sounds , drums were great also , cool track towards the end :-)

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you, SJ! The track at the end was fun to make :D

[@exdvayne]

Happy to see I'm not alone using the HPF with a resonance amount to boost the fundamentals of bass sounds, the digitone seems very weak on the bass department without using this trick IMO (I'm a bass addict haha). Very interesting video anyway, I think its the most educational digitone video I saw, that didn't try to be purely educational, and still as a bass addict, I love that you did this about BASS! cheers

[@TechnoAssassin-vx6zf]

just had mine delivered…..working perfectly with overbridge in ableton, along with the syntakt and A4 MK2 👍🏻😎

[@AOC_dawlesspuzzle]

4:18 - super saw.. thank you for explain..

[@IvarTryti]

My pleasure, Martin! Thanks for checking it out :)

[@hummahumma3585]

Great tutorial! I would be definitely interested in tutorial about pad sound.

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! Thanks for the input, too =)

[@pchangsta]

This was super helpful, thanks for the inspiring tutorial!

[@tekton1229]

Nice bass sounds!

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks!

[@goodnoyz]

Really enjoyed this video Ivar. I don't have a Digitone myself. Infact, non of my hardware involves menu diving except for a Zoom multistomp. I would like to dip into the world of either the DIgitone or the Octatrak at some point though, so I always watch with interest. Thank you for the video.

[@justcox]

Thanks for your efforts! Really great work!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you, Christian! I hope it was helpful or interesting =)

[@strangersun7721]

Love your music. First time watching an informational video from you. It's excellent! I'm going back through slowly and trying to understand things you are doing that are very different from how I work with the digitone. Such a vast device. For example how you enter trig notes for the "cheesy" baseline. I always end up playing things in live and then holding down a recorded trig and adjusting the note on the trig page of I want to change it. You're doing something else there that seems to involve the "add notes" page.

[@Unifono2012]

great sounds. thanks for the tutorial

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks, man :D

[@stpixie70]

I like this bass sound. 🎹😇

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you, Egill! :D

[@zamplify]

Fantastic tutorial, ty!

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you, zamplify!

[@djibdjib]

So useful and nice! Will you do a tutorial on lead creation ? Thx a lot for your huge work !

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you very much! I'm trying to put together a leads and pads tutorial right now, actaully :). I hope I can get it filmed this weekend, but I can't promise anything!

[@djibdjib]

@@IvarTryti Take your time man :) but i will be the first to view this tutorial :) thx !!!

[@IvarTryti]

Hey, I just uploaded a leads and pads tutorial. Lemme know what you think! kzbin.info/www/bejne/amPTe3psfNJom9U

[@djibdjib]

Ivar Tryti woaw ! Exactly what I was looking for ! Thx a lot !

[@sw_909]

This is the best Digitone tutorial on youtube! One question I have - if you were using the Digitone just for a bass sound would you increase the locked voices to 8 and unison to 8?

[@IvarTryti]

Sorry about the late reply! I haven't found a good use of unison higher than 3. I think unison 2 is the sweet spot; it widens the sound nicely without getting too busy. The higher the unison, the more busy it becomes, and I have a hard time using that kind of sound. Instead of high unison, I prefer to add an extra note an octave up to get a bigger sound.

[@sw_909]

@@IvarTryti Thanks for the reply! This is something I've been experimenting with lately so I really appreciated your opinion. I have found that sometimes with some types of bass sounds the Digitone can sound quite weak and not punchy enough and I think getting the voicing and the unison right is key.

[@7177YT]

nice one! thank you!

[@IvarTryti]

I'm glad you think so. Thank you :D

[@modulatethecarrier]

Hello Ivar, thank you so much for making this video! It was really helpful and taught me a lot. I just want to mention, that the X and Y outputs do not represent carriers. They are our sound outputs. Your carriers in algorithm 2 are actually your C and B operators. You know this, because they have a line directly connecting them to the sound outputs, X and Y. Your carrier outputs sound, and your modulators modulate that sound. It's important to note that your operators can be both a carrier and a modulator at the same time. For example, on algorithm 1, your B1 is both a carrier and a modulator. You can see that it has a line directly connecting it to your X output, but it also as a line connecting it to C. So it is both outputting sound, and modulating sound at the same time. See here to learn more(kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZeVYWanmM-oa9k) Either way, this was really well done! I hope you have an awesome day.

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for watching! You're right, I'm using the wrong words here. When I'm talking about X and Y I'm calling them carriers, because I associate carriers with the "end result" that we're hearing. I should be calling them the outputs instead. Thanks for the heads up, man. Also, your video has some of the best visual aids I've seen explaining this! Great explanation :)

[@UANOBODY]

Genius 🔥🔥🔥

[@Mariedu01]

amazing ! thank !!!

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for watching! :D

[@lergeworkman5208]

Bangin tutorial, man. I'm a little bit confused about how you created that drum stutter, though. Did you say that the arpeggiator was involved? Sounds super tight.

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you, Lerge! The drum stutter is made when you enable the arp and set its speed to 1/32th notes. It will repeat at that speed as long as you're holding down the trig. Since you can't parameter lock the arp, but you CAN parameter lock the sound/patch, you can save a normal version of the kick and an arp enabled version of the kick. Whenever you want a stutter kick, hold the trig where you want it and sound lock it to the arp enabled kick sound.

[@lergeworkman5208]

Ivar Tryti Got it. That could also work with stabby synth sounds too. Thanks for explaining!

[@brokenpoolhall]

Love this! Is It possible to create two saw waves, one an octave below?

[@Jack458111]

Damn that started sounding phat it no time

[@tonymahoeney]

Currently saving up money to get the digitone and many orher things. I love the way you fly through the set up, how did id take you to get comfortable with it?

[@IvarTryti]

I had been using the Digitakt for half a year before I got the Digitone, and because of that it didn't take more than a week until I felt comfortable with the basics of the Digitone. It took me longer with the Digitakt because it was my first piece of Elektron gear, but I think both are straight forward enough that you can make nice loops within hours of using them (given you're watching tutorials, too) :)

[@jamesmeustache7740]

Can you explain real quick what is exactly that you do when you sequence the bassline with the "add note" button ? I feel like i'm missing something here. For me I just add a note than change the pitch with a paramater lock when you seem to do something much faster but not sure how you do it o.O

[@IvarTryti]

When you press TRIG+ADD NOTE, you enter a mode where you can toggle which notes that plays on that particular trig. Whatever note you press here is toggled on, and you can see which notes this trig will play in the upper right corner of the screen. When I add notes to the trig, I often add the wrong note, so I press it again to toggle it off. I'm also doing a lot of copy and pasting of trigs, because I want the new trigs to have the same properties, like note length. I then press TRIG+ADD NOTE to change the notes for the new trigs I copied. Hope that was helpful! Edit: parameter locking the note value is actually my favorite way of adding notes, but the Digitone doesn't preview the note so I can't hear if I chose the right note. The Digitakt does preview the note value, so I use that method there =). The add note feature on the Digitone is technically better though!

[@jamesmeustache7740]

@@IvarTryti Awesome!! thank you man you're a king! :)

[@kylewall8521]

What does filter keytracking do exactly? I turned it up to 100 and I lose the sub bass.

[@IvarTryti]

It makes it so that the filter cutoff changes depending on which note you're playing. The lower note you play, the further down the filter cutoff is set. Same thing when playing higher notes; the filter cutoff is moved up. If you're losing the sub bass, you just have to move the filter cutoff around until you get the sub bass back. The main reason I like using filter keytracking is so that, if I have a sound with low cutoff to get a nice and big bass sound, then the higher notes will almost disappear because they're being filtered out. With filter keytracking, the filter cutoff will follow the notes and you'll get almost the same loudness no matter what note you're playing.

[@kylewall8521]

@@IvarTryti thank you for this, I've learned alot from your videos and I've applied this knowledge to tracks. Thanks again!!

[@whitenoisefromelectronicto1728]

Great tutorial to follow with the digitone at hand! By the way, how does Unison work? That really confuses me

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you very much! Whenever you play a note with unison enabled, it'll use X amount of voices and pan then slightly left or right, and also pitch the notes a tiny bit up or down at random. It's a quick and easy way to widen the sound, but it does use up more voices. I also think the LFOs will have slightly different phase, which helps make it sound a bit less stilted and robotic. I usually only set the unison to 2, because it basically means that when that track plays a note, I only have 6 voices left to spread across the other 3 tracks. And in my opinion, the higher the unison, the less each new voice adds to the overall sound, so my favorite setting is 2.

[@whitenoisefromelectronicto1728]

@@IvarTryti thanks a lot, that makes sense! I do happen to get some voices stolen here and there and I always find it difficult do understand why

[@WalkingHeadPro]

can you do a "how to acid bass on digitone" tutorial? THANKS!

[@IvarTryti]

I can't promise anything, but I CAN say that high resonance, high overdrive and high *master overdrive* gets you a really aggressive and acid-like sound :D

[@jendrikschmidt]

How does it sound in the mid range within a mix anyone?!

[@kylewall8521]

How do you make the sounds repeat like that? Do you record it with an arp and then save it in the sound pool?

[@IvarTryti]

Yeah! I save two versions of the same sound: one with arp, and another without arp. Then I sound lock them in the sequencer.

[@kylewall8521]

That's really dope, something I wouldn't of even thought about.. j just wanted some sweet bass sounds and I got this :) thanks for your insight.. it would be sweet to see a video about copying patterns and chaining..

[@IvarTryti]

@@kylewall8521 Thanks for watching man, glad it was helpful! I have a few digitone tutorials planned, but haven't started working on them yet. Is there anything in particular you're wondering about? I don't use pattern chaining often, but I do copy patterns a lot!

[@kylewall8521]

@@IvarTryti just a general video about pattern chaining and copying/pasting patterns would be great :) I haven't seen much on that, cuckoo explained a bit in his tutorial video but it was quick, I have the mac pro tutorial video with Thavius Beck, which is great but he didn't say anything about this..

[@keremk]

thanks a lot. ))))

[@IvarTryti]

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

[@naumchomsky8840]

21:30 sounds like Pharmakon.

[@IvarTryti]

I had to look it up. Haha, sweet! Thanks :)

[@naumchomsky8840]

Look up "Intent or Instinct."

[@Bestmann3n]

do you also make percussion/drum sounds? if so... more tutorials?

[@IvarTryti]

A Digitone drum tutorial has been in the back of my mind for a very long time, but I've never gotten around to make it. I can't promise anything, but my next indepth tutorial like this will likely be on how to do drums :)

[@RoyYarom]

does it have keyboard tracking? (that filter)

[@IvarTryti]

Yeah, you can enable filter tracking in the setup menu (FUNC+TRG gets you there).

[@RoyYarom]

dope, I thought about getting the digitone keys

[@IvarTryti]

@@RoyYarom Nice! I've never tried the Digitone Keys, but I hear the keyboard is very nice and the extra macro knobs are really convenient.

[@RoyYarom]

@@IvarTryti I need a 3 octave master keyboard, than replace my old dx7 fm synth with that digitone so it'll be easier to program, and it'll be also connected to OT and AR on Elektron (their sync is perfect together with no lags)

[@guanxianchen]

Hey Ivar! I realise you have a sound patch by the name of 'smooth bass'. Just wondering if you made that preset or was it bought off a certain sample pack? It's exactly what I'm looking for 😁

[@IvarTryti]

Thank you! I made that patch from scratch. I don't have the DN here, but I think I made it by using the 2nd algorithm, set the B operators all the way to the right (16 and 16) and max feedback and max operator B volume to get a harsh and noisy sound on Y. Then set the harmonics so that the C operator looks like a saw, then slowly increase operator A's volume so that X sounds like a slightly buzzy saw. Then set the mix aaaaalmost all the way to X, so that only a bit of the harsh noise of Y comes through. If you want a BOOMY bass, set use a hp filter with a bit of resonance so that the bump is somewhere low so you're basically boosting the bass. To soften the sound, you can go into the 2nd filter page and roll off a bit of the high end there. Lemme know if that was confusing, I'm more than happy to (try to) clarify =D

[@guanxianchen]

@@IvarTryti hello Ivar!! Super duper appreciate your detailed reply man, truly. I'll work on it with those info you provided, think I should be able to navigate around that! Thanks so muchhh!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@IvarTryti]

@@guanxianchen Hehe, my pleasure man! The general idea is to have 1 "saw" sound and 1 noise sound and mix them together and filter out the high end, so if my tips sound a bit off just explore from there and see if you can find the sweet spots :D

[@guanxianchen]

@@IvarTryti got it mate, super appreciate it again!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@guanxianchen]

Hello Ivar! I just wanted to let you know I tried out the suggestions from you but wasn't able to achieve that bass smooth bass' tone from your video, maybe I'll revisit it again. I really loved your 'smooth bass' patch sound! This is unrelated but in one of your videos I remember you mentioning some ways to get rid of the 'click' sound on certain steps besides increasing the attack. I seem to have click sound at the start of certain bass notes. Could I tap onto your expertise and asked you here quickly? Thank you so much!!!

[@Gu1tar1st]

Happy birthday is in 3/4.

[@robertsyrett1992]

Heeeeeeey! I'm learning stuff already, the unison page was one I never looked at. Do you save all your sounds to the sound pool? Because it would be great to share some of these patches.

[@IvarTryti]

Glad to hear it! :D I don't save all my sounds to the pool, only the drum sounds. Each track can have its own sound per pattern, which is usually more than enough. For the drums though, I need to constantly switch sounds, so they are great candidates for saving to the sound pool.

[@alien_brain]

please sell a pack of bass sounds that are rude and noisy. please. there is no noisy bass pack for digitone.

[@IvarTryti]

Haha, thanks man :D I've been playing with the thought of releasing a sound pack for the Digitone, but I feel I need more patches to justify it. One day, hopefully!

[@benoitdewandel]

Make a patreon to have the possibilities to help you in your time investments

[@IvarTryti]

Thanks for the suggestion, man. I have to check it out =)

[@JonesZavalaphotobooth]

simply seeing the length of the video, and your diagram... you just convinced me not to buy one (: thanks