How to make bass sounds with a synth like Moog Grandmother

[@JukkaTarvonen]

01 Basic synth patch: Single sawtooth wave 0:00:28 02 Bass patch with one oscillator 0:00:40 03 Bringing up oscillator 2 0:02:30 04 Glide/Portamento 0:03:38 05 Vibrato 0:03:53 06 Adding Resonance/Emphasis 0:04:18 07 Envelope: Release 0:05:03 08 Tuning up or down to fifth 0:05:31 09 Adding Noise 0:05:59 10 Pulse width modulation 0:06:15

[@Nidhooggrs]

@Joel Roy shut up

[@whateverman999]

This video was so well organized, simple and helpful! Looking forward to checking out more of your stuff

[@habdman]

I'm just 15 years old and I already fell in love with that synth

[@Sambo85_]

then keep up lil bro and start playing man ! Its time for a new funk star ;)

[@habdman]

@@Sambo85_ haha funk star, well I'm actually a begginer with the keyboard

[@dandykaufman2]

grandson :)

[@metaspherz]

You're fortunate to live in a time where you have such a big variety of affordable synth choices. And of course, you also have youtube where you can find free courses to learn music theory and learn how to play from the best musicians. Experts say that it takes up to 10,000 hours to master an instrument so now is a great time to start practicing your chords, scales, modes and have fun doing it. Also, it helps to have an uncluttered and eager-to-learn brain. That only happens in your youth so make every minute count! In a few years, other musicians may be begging you to play with them! Good Luck!!!

[@Zeldamarie1482]

You look 30

Wasted no time, everything was easy to understand and informational, great video and you earned my sub.

[@TundrahSounds]

One of my favorite channels, and very informative without being too detailed. I want a grandmother.

[@ericbelluche9503]

You so answered a lot of questions that I had with this video! Namely, how to make the Grandmother sound like a Minimoog!! Thanks for the great content.

[@jpromano_]

Such a simple design yet amazingly powerful and sounds so good. I want one.

[@KahyohBe]

Hello, Thank you~ I just picked up my Grandma Moog yesterday and this video has totally inspired me to get busy creating Thanx 👌🏾

[@analoglofi2399]

Fantastic tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to put this together!

[@FatherandSongs]

You convinced me to buy one Grandmother with all your videos ! ETA on 2 August !! Thanks a lot

[@ThinkerThunker]

This would make a great series for OUAS. Finding a synth sound in a song then re-creating or approximating that sound with different synths. Just so we can see how you deal with the limitations of each synth you have.

[@lommelinn]

sounds beautiful! if you could make a short video on funk bass playing techniques, that would be awesome

[@thebyte0f879]

Hey man, I just wanted to say thank you for this tutorial! Your videos are always interesting and informative, and I have never gotten bored watching them. Hopefully you have a nice day! -TheByte

[@onceuponasynth]

thanks, glad you enjoy them!

[@abstract0407]

I just noticed I'm his 1k like on this video

[@localtrack1966]

Great tutorials, very well explained and helpful, thanks for that! I have the Moog Grandmother a week now, what an incredible beast!

[@AlessandroCarn]

Your "let's get started" has become a youtube classic :-D

[@onceuponasynth]

lol

[@AlessandroCarn]

By the way, I love these synth patching tutorial because the workflow is relevant and applicable to almost any synth with a similar architecture. For example: I own a Behringer Neutron and I am able to replicate a very similar sound based on the tutorial. Very nice work!

[@allaboutbryce]

Just purchased this synth and you are my new go to guy on ideas for it. Thanks!

[@lenoquo9312]

that sound at 5:40 is incredible

[@studentsmusic]

Great. As a synth pro im a real follower of your competent videos since quite a time. Thanks so much for your contribution to this wonderful community! Moog Grandmother is really superb and the recent matriarch even more. Somehow a moog renaissance is going on...

[@muhammadiq]

Bro, would you create tutorial on how to properly reset/setup the Grand Mother for the first use and the use of Fine Tune.

[@robk.4653]

Yes, please. Just getting into Synthesis and my Grandmother arrived 2 days ago. I'd like to know what a solid "vanilla" configuration for this instrument is, that way I can come back to it any time I want, clear my head, set everything back to "square one" as it were, and then tweak step by step. I think this would go a long way in helping me understand what happens with the signal when I make even the slightest adjustment. Thanks!!

[@LouisSerieusement]

your sound design tutorials are really awesome, well thougt, fast, efficient and inspiring

[@onceuponasynth]

thanks!

[@directed6924]

I fell in love with the Grandmother after comparing it head to head vs Subsequent 25. It just sounds more alive, more organic, more expressive and more powerful. Maybe due to the absence of digital controllers inside. Pure end to end analog. Not possible to achieve this level of complexity, depth and fatness with soft synths.

[@adam.recording]

Plus the fact that the modules are based on vintage moog circuits. The oscillators are the same as the minimoog

[@CA-xs6sr]

Fantastic video, learned a lot from your straightforward yet informative approach.

[@peckerwood7921]

you made a content just wat i vebeen lookin for in dense youtube forest

[@maxderackermann]

really amazing! 8 very good and sensibly invested minutes!!

[@Feanarth]

Is it just me or does that sweet portamento baseline instantly urge you to listen to Daftpunk?

[@emilioguzmanor]

This is exactly the video I was looking for!

[@doobyboy21]

Best freekin bass Moog song is Music And Lights or ever Just An Illusion by the english band Imagination !

[@markywillsmusic]

5:48 sounded sickk 😎

[@hightower196X]

Brilliant! Perfect explanation of the classics! ❤️

[@jayreeh2341]

I need some techno synth/leads/bass patches!! if you can on your next video show some patches!! PLEASE AND THANK YOU

[@carlhitchcock7556]

superb video - cheers

[@Hhajsjeieirhrbbr]

would love to see some Hydrasynth tutorials

[@gorillabraudcast474]

U should post pics of these patches. It's hard to hold the phone while trying to tune the keyboard. Awesome vids though. I just got granny yesterday

[@YounusMogul]

Thanks, this was really useful!

[@soundbwoy8750]

the best

[@fabkie]

0:19 - 0:29 I love you man.

[@captainsickooso7087]

Thank you for this video!

[@SteeloBeats310]

Fantastic !

[@RogerioValgode]

Cool tutorial! Thanks a lot.

[@mpmi7588]

I'm Subscibing because I'm gonna get one. I hope u answer all my questions bro. You are NASTY with it. U must be the grandson

[@valdiskrebs566]

Very instructive, as usual!

[@BBoyRocTee]

synth mastery. well done!

[@TenThumbsProductions]

So good, again!

[@stefanhansen5882]

Great tutorial! Just subscribed! :)

[@tillschroder6992]

Oh this thing sounds sweet! If I only had the money.. 😂

[@helado.killer]

I hear the sound loses low frequencies when you add resonance to the filter. I hear this in other demos as well. Why is that? It adds bite, but the low bottom is gone.

[@derekflow]

I suppose it makes sense in the context of a song/performance, the added resonance is probably going to make it louder so I guess that would help it sit in a mix better

[@tajik.yassin5203]

Bro the video is nice. I’ve been contemplating on a midi / synth I can use that’s different but I can get that same sound and more in real-time to make my sound phat in your face. My choice of genre is trap & RnB, hip hop, instrumental & sound design. I like this synth it has a nice organic sound to it and you can create your own sound. Can you do a video more for trap hip hop using the grandmother or some funky 80s RnB that was heavy moog sounds.

[@tajik.yassin5203]

? I’m in the process of getting ready to purchase a moog and I want to get the right one that fits my style of creating music and sound design. As for music I want that classic moog of the 80s RnB / Funk.Some bass lines samples I really like are share my world by Mary j Blidge, J Dilla, jagged Edge and many more. As for sound design do they have patch sheets so I can reset that exact patch again. With some examples what would you suggest. I really miss the voyager but the matriarch has caught my attention unjust want to see some more RnB type flow

[@ctsguitar]

What is standard ADSR setting? I'm a beginner with this synth.

[@maxes3792]

amazing tutorial. especially explaining how to get a kinda “bass guitar” sound. awesome! and sounds awesome! more of this please!!!

[@MikeHunt90731]

I m using a Behringer 15 watt amp with my Grandmother and its producing too much echo, im running no effects pedals. What would you recommend to get a crisp sound, just like what you are playing now, thank you

[@daniws1972]

thanks

[@edariuscarpenter9897]

does anyone know if you can design sounds like these on the Korg Minilogue xd? i want to make more funk/smooth sounding bass but i got a lot to learn so its kinda hard to pull off

[@guinaoliveira__]

I can do this on roland gaia, with the same parameters ?

[@fricze]

Couldn't you use LFO oscillator as source of sine wave?

[@2HimTru]

Wow. Wish that the Moog Grandmother could be hooked up to "a 5-String Bass Guitar with Markbass Amp" option rather than limited to the keyboard.

[@montyeyesclosed]

I mean if you had one of those basses, you could hook it up into the GM and almost use it as a pedal!

[@pianoturnerrobert]

Wow how much is that one is it midi? Thx

[@Ori0n1975]

Is this without effects?

[@geoffreymerrifield5666]

Looks awesome. Great job and helpful for folks like me! Is it true you can’t save patches? That’s a shame if true...I really like the layout of this synth. The color panels, etc...

[@theopacalypse]

wish i could play the keyboard so good

[@Quodge]

Hey! I heard somewhere that the GM has sine waves but you just said it doesn’t, can you confirm this please?

[@onceuponasynth]

So the oscillators don't have sine waves. But the LFO has a sine wave, and it tracks V/octave so you could use it like an audio oscillator. Also, the self-oscillating filter can also produce a sine wave. So basically if you want an audible sine wave you need to sacrifice either the LFO or the filter. Of course you can always start with the triangle and filter out the high harmonics to approximate the sine wave. In general audio sine waves are not very useful in subtractive synths. Hope that helps.

[@mitchellprice7282]

Would you recommend this over the behringer model D?

[@thes.wilsonchannel203]

Mitchell Price Both are very different synths. If you are a beginner go for behringer.

[@vonproductions4607]

Time to get 1,000 bucks 👍🏾

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

When you demoed the PWM it sounded like you were modulating the pitch as well by accident. Was it just me hearing something?

[@onceuponasynth]

It's quite possible I had the vibrato still on by accident 😅

[@gedoumazoutsuki]

is it just me or the first patch you made at 0:20 is kinda singing? haha

[@pianoutx]

Do you prefer Grandma? Or sub 25...

[@tomalebine2778]

Can anybody tell me what scale he is playing?

[@EduardoSilva-wk4gk]

he's just playing the pentatonic scale

[@tomalebine2778]

@@EduardoSilva-wk4gk thank you! It's taking me a whole to get all my music theory down

[@EduardoSilva-wk4gk]

@@tomalebine2778 ahah i feel you, just keep on playing, experience will bring all these sounds into your head, as soon as you listen to 2/3/4 notes the scale will just pop in your head, even though you might not know it theorically :) (keep on studying it nevertheless!)

[@CLaw-tb5gg]

If the Grandmother was polyphonic - properly polyphonic, not paraphonic - and didn't cost silly money, I think it would be my perfect synth.

[@ikedewinter1213]

How much does this instrument cost

[@aydenstacey4559]

Ike De Winter this specific model costs 900.00$

[@dimitriskampas305]

4:13 🥵🥵🥵

[@michaelpowell7120]

Bass? where?

[@LosVasallosDeLaMusic]

😳

[@tee-botheewok716]

If you listen to Lakeside's Fantastic voyage. Therws the electric-bass and the simple synth pays along to create the bassline. Is that a simple waveform played on a synth?

[@redle88556]

How do you learn all this stuff? Is it just years of slamming your face into a keyboard or what?

[@daveyboiyeah]

i'm the thousandth liker!

[@orfeasmusic]

So helpful, thank you!