How I Create Dubstep on Analog Synths (without a computer)

In this video Anthony shares how he would approach making a Dubstep synth line, 100% analog. Using his vintage MS-20 and Vintage Dr. Click.
Anthony's musical touch as both composer and performer is connected with some of the most influential creative minds over the last 40 years. He’s composed and conducted original orchestral scores for over 80 feature films including Young Guns, Internal Affairs, The Man From Elysian Fields, 15 Minutes and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for his symphonic work "In the Family Way", written over one thousand TV commercials in a myriad of musical styles, co-founded Levels Audio Post (LA's premiere post production facility) and performed and arranged on big-box-office films and influential hit records such as Michael Jackson's Thriller.
His extensive work as a young arranger, orchestrator and performer for Quincy Jones, Jack Nitzsche, Lamont Dozier, Arthur Rubenstein and Giorgio Moroder was vital in launching his own career. His early years pioneering modular analog synthesizers along with his wide-ranging music scholarship positioned Anthony at the center of the music technology revolution. He attended the University of Southern California School of Music as a piano and composition major.
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[@SxAde]

I love to see that a producer like you, who actually worked on MJ's Thriller, can show some appreciation for newer genres like dubstep, that to many are just noise. And it talks so deeply to me because I love the 80s, and I love dubstep. Thanks for making these videos and for sharing your experience.

[@JeffPalmer83]

That MS-20 sounds absolutely monstrous. Love it!

[@outsider_anesthesia]

CRUSHED IT

[@Doctormix]

DAAAAAMN this is soo goood!!🤯🤯

[@TheInterGalacticFederation]

loving these demo/instructional. clear communicator. my new fav channel. would be good to have the intensity of the modulation fade in with each new note.

[@gustave1928]

Congrats ! Thanks for that trick. Old school really worth it. Dawless for ever !!

[@dafunkycanuck]

Very cool! Love the tempo display on the Dr. Click. Wicked jam too!

[@oswaldorbitous5950]

Very creative approach, love it. It's great to see how much fun you have. Rock on!

[@rosalindwebb7729]

Fabulous thank you for sharing.❤

[@mikegeary8056]

I do something similar with my modular. I’ll use a clock divider or gate sequencer with a speed or rate input. I’ll use a stepped voltage to increase and decrease the rate of the gate outputs. It’s instant IDM.

[@chetplease]

thanks for making these videos, highly enjoyable, super inspiring

[@colinrussell2017]

After watching this video I used a clock divider to send different note lengths to an Intelligel Planar (vector mixer/quad paner) to send to a filter. I can either use the joystick on the Planar to improvise what notes I send to the filter or use CV to automate things. This video was VERY helpful!👍 Thank you!

[@leecheneler6202]

great approach and methods, and it looks like you are having so much fun making this music!

[@jason.martin]

This is very cool, i have not seen anyone try this on analogue!!

[@theleastsignificantbit4794]

These tutorials are amazing. Liked and subscribed.

[@KickzNBeatz]

Thank you for another great lesson 🙏🏼

[@KingMJForeverAndEver]

Cool ✨✨✨

[@FutureFenyx]

Awesome again!!! Always great to see what’s next from you!

[@sirioth]

Amazing lesson, killed it man.

[@_D0PES1CK]

That filter knob is so meaty.

[@marcoguerra5637]

Waiting right here

[@DavidsStockMusics]

Great fun :)

[@Snaggletoothsound]

Anthony and team… wanna say thank you again for these videos! The content and insight is top notch!!! I would really love to see some lower end gear being incorporated as well as other interesting CV hacks like this dub step video! Tighter close ups on gear and what Anthony is doing would also be appreciated 🙏

[@lukezen81]

This is incredible. Authentic tones and musicianship, played by hand and by feel. Keep 'em coming! I'd love to see a progression of this video where you continue building and adding layers. Thanks to the whole team for putting it all together for us.

[@andyd.1793]

Very cool approach and concept. I enjoy your videos very much✊🌟

[@dangerousnashville]

Can’t wait

[@insektgod]

Thank You!! Instant Subscribe and Like... loving the enthusiasm breadth and utility of information on this channel. You're massively appreciated.

[@CaptainKush24]

Shoutout KISS 🔥 ❤ nice hoodie!!

[@Zothiqueness]

That was fucking impressive.

[@wackerburg]

Reminds me of my favourite band - #TheProdigy 🐜🐜🐜

[@BrokenArrowSchoolofModernMusic]

Sounds awesome. You’re awesome.

[@mtnoblesavage]

The Master at work, I'm just blown away, so cool man,

[@Autistic_Artist]

Next I would really love to see how you would make psytrance on analog synths. Unfortunately everything i see out there is made on a computer but i don’t use computers

[@lxxwj]

all the early goa stuff was made on analog synths im p sure, like hallucinogen, pleiadians, and astral projection

[@MattyFez]

Trance makes heavy use of Roland TB303 and JP8000

[@TheXxjmpxxx]

☝️ I agree on TB 303. I also think the Roland boutique JD-08 is a great analog choice. Loaded with 90s pads, leads, and sounds of that era

[@impbox]

JD-08/JD-800 is all digital.

[@areminfoxxtrot1064]

Psytrance should be fairly easy on hardware, I know an MPC and a single synth can do it fairly easily

[@Twobarpsi]

Wow! This sounds so brutal!🤘

[@hanzvolt]

Awesome video!! I kinda do the same thing!! I make music with Dubstep and Trap influence and I use vintage beasts and newer analog monsters

[@baddriddimworkshop]

the electric druid's tap tempo lfo chip with time divisions (oh sorry multiplications) and phase shift is a great tool for that kind of stuff, there are modules out there using it....

[@XxChrisxXBedofRazors]

I love this!! I have a Prophet 12, Polivoks, and a MatrixBrute. They totally will rip it up for an all-hardware synth dubstep jam. Is there a modern alternative to that Doctor Click rhythm controller? it's so awesome...

[@DG-ss1gc]

I’m exploring this too, in a daw they are using LFOs . And mapping cutoff in automation.

[@David888B]

That is a wicked sound.

[@matiaslanzi6132]

Someone almost got killed for not muting the drums, Lol!

[@machinenoise9622]

Absolutely badass

[@facundofontela316]

me encanta este canal, gran descubrimiento

[@thejayce]

So many layers of awesome in this. The MS20 sounds like a friggin beast. I also want to point out how amazing it is that the tempo on the Dr Click looks like an odometer. So is the Dr Click sending CV to the filter on the MS20? I'm still a little confused on what CV is.

[@bob-rogers]

CV is short for Control Voltage. The Dr. Click is making clocked-looping envelopes which it sends as voltage. It's patched into the MS-20's filters so it opens and closes them in time.

[@cassettedisco6954]

Saludos desde México 🇲🇽❤ AMIGO, soy el like número 100!!!!

[@ImFigure]

I love this!

[@CrimsonButterflyBand]

Oh yeah 🤘 The Polivoks in my little studio is used for the same goals)

[@CJ-gp9yh]

Analogue psytrance recreation would be epic

[@kaitlyn__L]

I must admit, what with the font being quite square I had been misreading “click” as, er, something else! This sounds sick as heck though 👍 the MS-20 rhythms and filter sweeps kinda remind me of Rollin and Scratchin by Daft Punk!

[@FreqBand]

Sometimes I'll run a copy of the drums through a comparator or a follower, which gives me an extra gate to work with to add a sub-melody or an accent to play with.....and by it's nature, its sync'd rhythmically.

[@phenchlor]

Hello, Anthony! Love ur videos so much, can you please explain how to make synth bass from song N95 by Kendrik Lamar, at 2:55 u can clearly hear only this bass and drums, its a pulse soundwave as i undestood, maybe i am mistaken

[@LangleyNA]

Very nice, Anthony Marinelli! I feel like I'd expect the amplitude level to drop/reduce between each modulation provided by the Dr Click machine. Maybe that emphasis is desired only at some places in a mix, however.

[@jedkleebaum7235]

Wow

[@Guitarist888]

Anthony this sounds so amazing! And it’s very creative! There’s nothing like the sound of analog! Is there another device out there to similar to Dr. click?

[@Zaccyonline]

I can’t find a doctor click anywhere, it looks solid fun!

[@mikezewin]

"Hi I'm Anthony Marinelli, and at 5m09sec I'm going to melt your mind"🤯😵🤯. Wow!!! Sir! Please release some tracks of this kind we can download! Do a Lazer light tour!!... Rabbit in the moon, skylab2000..... 18 months into electronic music synth adventure This channel has been the most enlightening and inspirational! Wow.

[@eancurtis9333]

Awesome

[@NexxuSix]

Very cool and interesting! Makes me wonder if this can be emulated in Ableton with the CV tools? *Inspired!*

[@mastaboog749]

I use a my korg emx 1 groove box to make dubstep but I have a ms20 reissue maybe I'll try this!

[@fatlann]

hey, just want to remind you that you create a pre-techno movement with Michael Jackson's Thriller within analog synthesizer programming. I'm so glad you started posting on the internet, people have been trying to find you via threads for quite awhile! you have changed the course of music theory forever by your work, and helped usher techno from a disco era to an 80s kickoff at age 22 alongside Michael. thank you, music theorists/historians/artists/producers/engineers are grateful for you! your popular sound then went into The Wizard's hands, and young teenage high school Belleville at the time after The Wizard's hands: then going into hip hop legacy, J Dilla + Slum Village. you just helped me piece together music history, and theory trace, thanks so much! Godbless you!

[@sinkcat0113]

Oh this is gonna be fun

[@sinkcat0113]

Fun!! It’d be interesting to see deep house with analog synths something like OCULA

[@sinkcat0113]

Oh and it’d be an interesting challenge to see you try and make something like the artist Lenno he uses a lot of analog sounds to make really unique house tunes

[@pauljs75]

Could also throw some bitcrusher effects into that with a S&H using a fast enough trigger rate. Although I saw it demonstrated on a computer, my loose understanding is that there are analog S&H units. Might be neat to play with at some point.

[@donnydarko7624]

You dont need to do micro edits. You can make dubstep basslines on a 2 oscillator wavetable synth, and technically you could build a analog wavetable, but it would probably be prohibitively costly to do so if you made analog wavetables with more than a couple waveforms per wavetable. Morphing between waveforms within a wavetable could be done with an lfo.

[@isaiahromero9861]

If you want to check out some other cool modern synth music, you should really check out death grips. Not sure if youd LIKE them, but they undoubtedly have some really interesting sound design and synth work, especially on tracks like "Fuck Whos Watching" "Death Grips is Online", "Hacker", and " The Powers That B"

[@Skooma4u]

I wish I could do dawless stuff without breaking the bank lol

[@bujooo.]

love the video, try putting drums through overdrive/fuzz/distortion 🙂

[@starmachines]

Very cool tut. \m/ Anyone know of a software equivalent to the Doctor Click? I've been looking for something like this, but for individual tracks/instruments, mapped to MIDI controls.

[@ruvimperna5532]

bro just get better drum loudness on snare and kick, boost high frequncies on hats, low cut them to remove low-mid mud, then add a heavy sub bass underneath the growl, and make it follow the gate. Boom now ur making real good dubstep on analog xD (oh and volume sidechain for when kick and snare hits to duck down everything else. a little bit at least)

[@Tremuska]

This is classical dubstep. I was expecting brostep which everyone knows as dubstep. But i like techno house too. Nice cyberpunk feeling.

[@susz8108]

Hi Anthony can I suggest for the next thing could you try to recreate 90s trance bass like in the latest calvin harris song.

[@roseutterback5755]

Bro u should get a mono machine or the analog from elektron it dubsteps so easy with its parameter locks the other synth is the bass station 2 in afx mode instant wobbles

[@dangerousnashville]

Going to wait tho

[@joni.sirvio8867]

more like industrial, but still cool synthing

[@asdfgh-fy9fk]

Which drum machine did you use for the jam?

[@anthonymarinellimusic]

My linndrum

[@GeorgeLocke]

But how do you make Dub on Stepsynths? Kind of a let down...

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

well my dude it not hard you can do with just a saw wave ngl and dub synth is just a lot of reverb and filter delay

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

I make a lot of dubstep and dub reggae stuff so I know a lot no cap

[@GeorgeLocke]

How much is a saw wave NGL and why are they only made in Andorra? (jk) (i am clever) (I am my own dude)

[@frankferrer]

"Simple as that"

[@bob-rogers]

That sounds fun. Are the drums in a DAW? They sound really live.

[@Guitarist888]

0:51 he clearly said he doesn’t do a lot of DAW. It’s obviously a drum machine. Probably a Linn-Lm1.

[@ChrisP3000x]

A drum machine from ......1980.

[@user-we2bk6qb3n]

ms2000

[@thebestimusic9107]

you dont have LFOs on analog? 😮

[@theMansalad]

In this case instead of using an LFO to modulate the filter, he's using the DR. Click as a modulation source as he can adjust rhythms for the modulation with a single button press instead of a relatively precise LFO rate control.

[@thebestimusic9107]

@@theMansalad oh i see 🔥🔥🔥 thanks! it does make sense haha

[@genepozniak]

Sorry, but that's an acid "WOW," not a dubstep "WUB." :-( Nice try though. :-)

[@mitchelstephen7536]

Hahahaha..Nice solution to an analog "problem".

[@Noone-of-your-Business]

I appreciate the effort, I really do. But this is just no contest against Skrillex.

[@lazyrobotlabs]

This....this isn't dubstep.

[@SamplersAndThings]

This is not dub step bro

[@Orionka1016]

Brostep, not dubstep