"Phase Mod" Anything With Serum - My Secret Bass Design Technique

My Serum Masterclass:
www.serum.dawnation.net/serummasterclassocheckout?sl=serumphasemodsmc
The School of Bass (Sound Design Masterclass): www.bass.dawnation.net/schoolofbassinfopage?sl=serumphasemodsob
In this tutorial I show you:
How to modulate any parameter in Serum with any waveform
How to import perfectly tuned waves into Serum's NoiseOSC
How to use keytracked Serum FX on non-Serum audio sources
Follow Au5:
www.au5music.com/
soundcloud.com/au5
TheAu5/
Au5music

[@SteveDuda1]

9:49 you got it!

[@au5music]

You're a genius, Steve! Thanks for blessing us with this spiritual technology, stoked on what's to come :)

[@zenith_journey]

legend, steve! so cool to see you involved with the community

[@estartica6352]

How do we do it though because that sounds super useful

[@Ginkeh]

thanks for making this brilliant instrument, much love :D

[@Zentamusic]

I've seen this addition in the plugin it's great! although right now I believe the noise in can only be mono is there a fix for this?

[@noid7598]

I love it when great producers share their knowledge on producing, but it must not be easy to share these secrets with everyone else. Much respect to you, and thanks for the fantastic tutorial!

[@splatsquatch3934]

yeah that mentality was just a product of first generation producers......95% of homies holding things down nowadays have learned from those dudes sharing, or from YEARS of struggling, and therefore theres no second thought when it comes to sharing information/ helping out

[@oxymoreproducer]

I think he does't care bcs anyone can use his tips better than him. And beacause he's the King, of course.

[@Ibbys_space]

@@splatsquatch3934 this actually nearly happened with another tutorial, i think it was his iconic bass thing, he said something on it iirc oh, and yeah neuro production is definitely something lacking in tutorial and assistance! glad its been getting better in the recent years

[@splatsquatch3934]

​@@DuskfoxOfficial nobody's individuality worth anything at all is dependent on one technique or 'secret'... plus one day AI will be able to bridge every possible technical outcome so the playingfield is growing ever and ever more balanced, and unique music in no way can depend on a secret technique

[@mhe123321]

4:36 "Some will sound more profound than others" *snorts cocaine* *short pause* "Heres another example!"

[@komplex69]

Hahaha brill

[@crossdubz.producer]

hahahahah

[@sennadesilva6192]

Underrated comment lmaooo

[@pestiiimiep941]

I took a shit while i was watching this...at 5:35 i simultaneously shat in the exact same pitch. I think i've opened a wormhole or something.

[@semaphor6643]

That intro is the sexiest thing

[@K14-z1w]

FUCK YEAH I REPEATED A LOT

[@nano7586]

Reminds me of the playstation intro for some reason

[@RezziiiCute]

oh hi

[@CoberlightShow]

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[@foxflavor62]

Right?

[@JerryBanfield]

Wow I just found this by searching for "mapping mod knob serum ableton" and I got a whole lot more than I expected! Amazing tutorial I liked and subscribed!

[@BodyOfPlayMusic]

Learned a lot from this bravo!! "So si-i-i-i-i-ick" at the end lmaoo

[@samredman401]

You’re a beast. Would be cool to see you do some work with vr someday

[@PseudoSignal]

For anyone who can't get their waveform to loop seamlessly: I found that I had to render/freeze the MIDI to 48K 32-bit audio for it to loop without clicks. Any other configuration would lead to audible clicks as well as imperfect behaviour as a modulator in Serum. Once the audio had been rendered, it still looped perfectly once converted to 44.1K 16-bit. For some reason though, freezing the Serum MIDI with those settings never yielded the same result. I'm using REAPER but I'm guessing this might also occur in other DAWS - perhaps even Ableton. Hope this helps. Also - get Au5's sound design course ya shmucks

[@lostinthefilesystem610]

I'm still getting clicks. Also when he demos his sine at the beginning of the video you can hear clicks

[@muresancipri]

That's the best intro I've ever seen...thank you for this amazing tutorial :)

[@astodone9022]

That profile pic matches what you said so well lmao

[@reflect7559]

I had no idea this possibility even existed. Yet again I'm blown away! This is all so clever!

[@joeyveewow]

Shit no wonder all your music sounds so good. You're a master of your craft!

[@DestinyAwaitsChannel]

Wow that's a sick intro!

[@drorbazer7531]

The outro is even sicker!

[@VyletPony]

Not only are you someone who is really well versed in legitimate sound design, but you are perhaps one of the few musicians that teaches their audience WHY things sound the way they do rather than "hey do this it sounds cool lol".

[@ShadowWalsh]

Buddy at my work likes to say being a producer is just pushing a button and that's it, can't wait to show him this as I have no idea what the fuck you're doing 👍🏼

[@kosixmusic]

Shadow Walsh lol same here, it makes me want to quit seeing how ingenious he is.

[@abii5791]

MY FUCKING GOD .Its first time i did not understand what a guy was doing on serum. Legend.

[@Rzn8B58]

That's dope af. I've been trying to figure out how to make a stomach growly farty buzzy bass kinda like you hear in pixel terror tunes and I had no idea where to start and this video shows me where to start. Muchos gracias!

[@thedjjudah]

This is really cool! If you like this, get into Reason! It's been able to have live audio modulation since version 4. All you have to do is run audio into thor, run it out as a cv signal, and modulate what you want!

[@EquatorAU]

Dude this is insane, never even thought this kind of modulation was possible without some insane automation and LFO work. Your view and take on synthesis is so interesting to learn from, loving the videos dude

[@AutonomusTunes]

Using midi from external instrument > serum fx for keytracked effects alone is a HUGE DEAL for me. Thanks Austin!

[@colonelbuendias]

Sir, your voice sounds like someone to be trusted when acquisition of knowledge is concered, so i clicked on thumb-up 30 secs in.

[@cipri_muresan]

What an epic intro, tutorial and ending tho

[@BookooZenny]

6:54 "Very neat." I'm subbing for that moment alone haha

[@2gunzofficial593]

HOLY FUKKKING SHIT YOURE SUCH A G FOR THIS IVE BEEN WONDERING FOR LIKE A YEAR AND A HALF HOW TO GET THIS EFFECT FROM MASSIVE IN SERUM 💚

[@drorbazer7531]

Those recent tutorials are excellent and exceptionally explained! Those have taught me things I haven't even thought of before. Keep 'em coming!

[@AmexEU]

I've been producing for 20 years now. I'd say my knowledge and skills are somewhat decent. But after watching this I feel like a total n00b. How are you coming up with these ideas? Guys like you have a deep understanding of what is actually going on. Respect :)

[@dieterkalt4281]

you are light years ahead, great tut again. more more more. bless you

[@patrickbooth8009]

Brooo that Vocoding at the end was amazing Austin. Thanks for the tips and tricks, I will definitely apply this to macros in my favorite patch bays.

[@weerotv]

BRO CHAPEAUX. NO WORDS FOR YOUR AMAZING MIND.

[@EEKmusic]

amazing video!

[@morpheon_xyz]

Dude, just came across this video of yours from years ago, and just realized that what you said at the end of the video may just be what you've shared on your Instagram the other day? 🤔 Nevertheless, awesome video, and thanks for sharing these weird intricate tips and things, because I've come to realize that music production is more than just notes and sounds, but also the weird and whacky things you discover along the way, and just straight up out of the box usage for various different things. And that's one thing I know you do a lot, and I appreciate that 😌

[@jtnicholson333]

Your intro is actually fricken amazing! XD

[@kozacsaba]

yea the noise mod thing was cool but aux mod is the thing i was looking for for ages and started thinking its impossible... I always learn so much from these videos aside from the topic it's mainly about

[@fulcrumofficial8391]

I actually imported a lot of single cycle shapes in the noises just for FM, especially if I wanted double FM and the sub shapes weren't exactly what I wanted to use, but I never thought I could use it to modulate it directly, sometimes it creates FM but not necessarily, that's a really cool technique

[@DUSKOsound]

I thought I got pretty far into Noise Osc experimentation until I saw this. DAAAAAAYUUUUMMMMNNN. Thanks homie!

[@marlonscloud]

You are my fav EDM artist. So different and inspiring. Your tracks always give me chills. How do you produce the sound that sounds like a creaky door opening in one of your monstercat releases?

[@RemAtmos]

Could you be any more vague? lol

[@kagune6585]

1 minute into the video and I understood why this guy is a genius.

[@QQ-nd1gn]

Your tutorials are next level man. I really appreciate this

[@richardsomerville5725]

I used the Adventure Kid Waveforms, they are single cycle already so lots of fun too be had with all of those as the noise Osc. Plus the VST 3 format will let us use external audio as a source.Once Live 10.1 is released(can use VST3's) and Serum becomes a VST 3 synth/fx.(if its not already..Steve?)Cheers Mr S

[@blaeke64]

Thank you so much. I've just watched two tutorials by you and already learnt a bunch of new stuff. Love your work.

[@filippetrucha5422]

maaan your tutorials are amazing, thanks! wish there was more videos like this!

[@NokturnalMusic]

Omg I love this thank you for these tutorials. I love the intro and especially the hilarious outro.

[@AlbertSirup]

hei thanks, this is super helpful! Love to see a tutorial with a deep technical understanding of digital synthesis.

[@mod3no]

Amazing tip Austin! Thank you for sharing this with us, can't wait for more tutorials.

[@imryangallus]

been searching for this info for months! So glad I finally found it :D

[@manstructions110]

WE NEED MORE OF THIS AU5

[@rlclick284]

THIS IS INAVATIVE MAN GREAT JOB LOVE ALL YOUR WORK TY FOR HELPING USE NEWBIES OUT WITH GREAT KNOWLEDGE!

[@oklol9004]

Huh. Always thought it was pronounced Aus. Like in German. Or deadmau5

[@huuttaanngg]

I am sooo happy i stumbled upon you my friend. Wow. Subscribed lol. 👌

[@Vevemusic]

holy shit dude, this is absolutely INSANE

[@thunderlightcreations568]

Idk about Ableton, but in Reaper you can modulate any VST parameter by essentially sidechaining it to another audio track. If you set the attack and decay of that sidechain to zero, you can get a similar effect to here, but with live audio.

[@Ilike2run4fun]

Finally figured this out! Awesome tutorial :D

[@SquareWaveMidis]

your intro looks so frikking cool

[@TheEwashere]

Im still learning so this went way over my head! Left a thumbs up tho. Gonna save it for later!

[@shane5003]

without going into great detail like Meredith tried - phase over time IS frequency. if a sine wave is the modulator then the interpolation is effectively equivalent. So we may as well see this latter part of the video using the variable delay as MIDI sidechained FM. Unfortunately we don't have the capacity to set up a complex modulator here with another FM operator by modulating the modulator a.k.a. frequency modulation index. If we dump a sample into sampler and in the oscillator tab turn on FM we get a pretty good darn control there but unfortunately we have to load in an entire sample so we don't have real time, and although we get an ADSR we can't modulate the modulator. This concept keeps coming up and it just seems like nobody's made one. Then I start thinking will shit maybe I should just do it and Max so I have it… But is that really true nobody has made this?

[@TheOmoncreiffe]

Very nice technique, I used to do the same thing with the audio in of FM8 but this way looks much more interesting

[@au5music]

I've tried that a long time ago, but kept encountering a problem. When I routed a modulator into the audio input it would take the plugin at least 1 full minute to produce an effect. How successful was the FM8 method for you?

[@SlayerDarkRaver]

Awesome tutorial. Also showed me a better way than creating new midi tracks to be able to trigger serumfx :)

[@rcfanatic101]

Genius! Never would've thought of that myself.

[@k-nizmmusic7097]

I love your music,and the tutorials are awesome.I really wish you streamed on twitch :-D

[@aichi337]

epic intro!

[@TtopMusic]

How did you figure out 245.28?

[@au5music]

BPM/60 = Hz C4 = 261.63Hz *60 = 15697.8 BPM (too high tempo) /64 = 245.28 (reasonable tempo that works because it's a factor of 15697.8)

[@TtopMusic]

Thanks so much for responding & explaining!!!

[@sam_music555]

Do you studied engeneering, at a music school or are you freaking good at math ? lol best serum trick i ever seen, i love your music Au5

[@au5music]

samuele 55598 I'm just a huge nerd with a passion for music and science. Self taught.

[@trve_vmbra]

Passion for music and science ? Huge nerd ? Dude, I need to meet you ⎝´• ꔢ •`⎠

[@michaelmarhal]

thanks for the video Au5. I watched the entire thing! (i own serum too!)

[@ichhalt902]

That's insane! Thanks for sharing :)

[@artsea]

damn dude, this is sick! so keen to try this out now!

[@rhoderachel1190]

Fucking badass dude, excellent tutorial! Love the ending too haha

[@DevashishGuptaOfficial]

This totally blew my mind.

[@timelderhorst530]

Great channel! This inspires me to make more music

[@TheOfficalAndI]

The big difference to just using lfos is the keytracking right? Though wouldn't that be possible if you used the midinote parameter as an aux source?

[@CoberlightShow]

Thank you for cool tutorial!

[@ShroomheadOne]

this is fucking sick holy balls

[@tomaszzielinski4521]

Awesome tutorial. Damn you're smart!

[@etobio2459]

Oh please keep making these!

[@entzijams]

Awesome technique! Thanks!

[@grantcoffman2698]

Soooo Siiiiiiikkkkk wublewubblewubwubwubwub hahaha awesome sound design and sounds great layered at at the end.

[@baronvonbeandip]

I'm not a native Ableton user so it took me a long-ass time to figure out that external instrument MIDI routing... and then it's in this tutorial lol

[@brisvegan89]

You're an absolute legend for doing these! One request - if you could slow down your talking a little bit it would be helpful. Just because you're giving us a lot to take in :)

[@sionnachs_workshop]

Epic tutorial! I have a feeling if you turn on the x4 quality setting you will hear much more resolution in the sound, particularly in the high end. For FM sounds it does anyway, and it makes a really big difference. Interesting what you did with the external instr device. Are you sending midi information AFTER the operator, or is the midi info and the audio from operator coming side by side? I guess it's whatever way serum listens to it's inputs?? Nice lil head spinner anyway lmao

[@D-One]

Very interesting videos! Subbed 🙌🏼

[@gost2763]

The best tutorial!

[@Ginkeh]

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing the knowledge

[@Tarnith]

You should take a look at Bitwig's audio rate modulation. It does exactly what you're looking for, and allows CV like routing between any parameter of a VST and any audio source (including live audio)

[@Hockeyguyman]

Very advanced technique, genius actually. Au5, I've always said you were the most talented producer there is, even back in the day. I've been producing for 5 years and this shit, along with the hyper growl tutorial are baffling. I doubt you'll answer since this video is so old, but what instruments did you play growing up? When did you start producing? I've noticed my 15 years of piano helped me so much when I got into producing

[@au5music]

Thanks! Classically trained in piano for a decade and then bass guitar for another decade

[@gackz]

every time i watch an au5 tutorial i have to replay the intro at least 15 times

[@DetiousMusic]

Keep making videos man!

[@ONSTART]

dude that's so creative

[@arseniy]

This is so great. Thank you :)

[@Gorflaxsack]

Awesome tutorial.

[@toxy3580]

first time i've seen an intro on youtube that wasn't shit nice work

[@billchristiansen8042]

Brilliant. Thanks so much!

[@thec4ke]

Nice, I never knew Live could route track midi to effects on the same track.

[@andrewcrabtree7410]

Absolute Goat thank you

[@IlReivillo]

Thanks man that's so inspiring

[@AdamNoya]

Thank you very much for this.

[@loginman2000]

I guess this is the trick I've been needing. Only thing is idk how to get a sine perfect for the noise channel in FL lmao

[@MeesterGgaming]

did you figured it out already? I have the same problem xD

[@mcharbo8726]

@@MeesterGgaming Me too :P

[@spookz4469]

Hey is there by any chance you can link the noise file? i tried doing this in FL studio and things just didnt sound right,and i tend to get confused on alot of these tutorials. thanks !

[@fivepercentfornothing]

yeah same

[@dwabado]

this blew my mind

[@paullambert7376]

I looove the sounds you're getting out of this technique!! Unfortunately no matter what I do, the samples I make of the sine waves for use in the noise oscillator always seem to make a little static noise when it the sound loops. Is there a way around this??

[@heinrich3370]

I Don't understand how he can put so much high end and movement into his sounds and have it not get all swishy and lose all of its attenuation when it gets uploaded to soundcloud. But everytime I hear an Au5 track on soundcloud it sounds pristine. My mind is always blown.

[@stumm_and_laut]

So any progress on modulating samples or live recordings? Cause I've been wondering about that for a while myself. Thanks in advance!

[@willsmithers3172]

awesome vid