Techno Sound Design / 3 Analog Synth Bassline Techniques

[@meilstone]

The minilogue xd sequencer is really underrated! Thanks for bringing up some of the more interesting ways of using it!

[@IhorMedia]

It really is underrated! Thanks for watching!

[@mack_solo]

11:55 - YESSS This is so good - not only was it a great little insight, but the overall process and presentation are top notch - the live sound creation with immediate feedback and relevant commentary, not to mention the instant head noddin banger. Well done! This is how tutorials should be done. 👍 Thank you for sharing.

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you so much for such kind words of feedback! It means a lot! ✌️

[@derekmoffat]

Amazing, this is what i needed being new to synth's and not having a clue about my new minilogue. again thank you for this, love it.

[@radical_ans]

I love that all the variation in the first bass like is largely in tambre. Reminds me of drone music with some rhythm.

[@antoineguilbeault8025]

You just motivated me to fire up my minilog XD. I have not used this synth in a while. Thank you

[@IhorMedia]

Glad to hear that! Have fun!

[@christianwinter3127]

Absolute legend. This has gotta be the simplest, clearest and most helpful guide yet. You’ve transformed my XD experience. Thanks

[@IhorMedia]

Glad to hear this! Thank you!

[@xpo3oxhitherto149]

Nice one, bro! The "long gate bass" section is pure inspiration for me. Muchos thankos 🙂

[@nximusic]

Damn Ihor, been vibing with you the whole day today, awesome stuff! My minilogue xd is arriving tomorrow, looking forward to apply all the theory you taught me!

[@IhorMedia]

Nice! 🤘

[@grandmasterjo1]

You always make Simplicity sound so amazing. 👌👌

[@gavinstubbs5361]

Well, I was heading to bed, but I think I’ll fire up the moog phatty instead… Top work as always - loved it!

[@IhorMedia]

"I was going to bed, but..." happened so many times to me lol. Thanks for watching!

[@jaguarvssnake]

I love your Digitakt videos and didn’t know you had anything for the XD. These two are my small setup right now, so this was exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

[@IhorMedia]

Great! I love the XD!

[@SHLDMusic]

Great sounds and So much flexibility in the xd for bass sounds! I love it (as well as my Pro-1) 😉

[@lewisdraper2858]

Great funky video.

[@fasteddygeerden]

These types of videos are verry helpfull to me. Thanks Ihor

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you very much for your support!

[@MrDarkSky176]

love how informative and chill your videos are man!! keep it up!

[@quantum_ocean]

you demos are very easy to follow!

[@ohcibi]

Whenever I watch these vids and Ihor goes "Nice", I am like "did I just say that?"

[@IhorMedia]

Nice! ❤️

[@keivkeiv]

Really polished video, nice job Ihor

[@IhorMedia]

Thanks!

[@macstar8317]

Great video, thanks. I'm new to making music and recently bought a TR-8S, Minilogue XD and Keystep Pro. This has given me some new insight into how to use the XD and ideas for basslines. Sub'd!

[@IhorMedia]

Thanks!

[@marcinetic640]

Well explained and inspirational. Great!

[@equalequalslopezcartoons3702]

Thank you so much for these I really only use my modular for bass and they have been helping a lot.

[@IhorMedia]

Glad it was helpful!

[@the_cursor]

Thanks, Ihor. I learned something today.

[@IhorMedia]

Glad to hear that!

[@kirkleblanc5899]

Smooth tutorial! Thanks for sharing.

[@effiksmusic]

Nice shirt 😻 and helpful video. I appreciate your thoughts you share during the step by step tutorials.

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you! Shirt is from Superbooth and it was super haha! Glad you like my tutorials!

[@morgancrooks2962]

Loved this so much. Please do more of these soon! Also could you do a video that describes the Digitakt portion of this, and what you did to create some of the drum sequences heard in this video?

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you so much for kind words! More to come for sure! If you are interested in learning Digi - I have plenty of videos about making music on it too ;)

[@morgancrooks2962]

@@IhorMedia For sure, I’ve been checking all your Digi videos as well! More with both please hahaha!! 🙏

[@midigek]

Perhaps as TIP for the viewers here, myself don't have one of these (yet), but I think that the KORG NUTEKT NTS-1 can also produce the monophonic sounds you made because both use the same sound engine (XD=Polyphonic / NTS-1=Monophonic) NTS-1 is not that handy in use compared with the XD but if you wish the same beautiful sounds, effects and filters as the XD is the NTS-1 a cheap solution. I just want to mention the viewers on this. And Ihor, als always a good tutorial ! Thanks for sharing !

[@IhorMedia]

This is a very good tip. Thanks for sharing. Essentially all of these 3 patches I made are monophonic (I forgot to switch the first one into mono tho, however it was fine, because notes were kinda far apart). Considering the price of NTS-1 it is a good alternative for such sounds. Thanks for watching and taking time to share your idea! I appreciate it.

[@jfphotoandlife8287]

Thank-you 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@aleksandrlukin565]

Excellent stuff!!!

[@Gruftgrabbler]

Holy Shit I have the original Minilouge and have never seen before that the xD is that more powerful. I have never really used the sequencer on the minilouge because I always thought of it a "not good"

[@IhorMedia]

It is rather a weird sequencer. There are some very good applications for it!

[@Video_cut1]

Игорь, привет! Хорошие видео. Спасибо!

[@IhorMedia]

Привет Виктор! Спасибо!

[@Video_cut1]

@@IhorMedia вопрос: был ли опыт работы с Pioneer Toraiz SP-16? И какой сэмплер по твоему мнению лучший для создания техно? Oktatrack мне нравится но очень замороченный и экран маленький-эта часть очень важна для меня.

[@brunosugga3244]

nice!

[@gia7676]

Great amazing sound

[@suntzu6122]

Excellent man. Perfect content tbh.

[@D3MOR]

Awesome 💥💥💥

[@TechnoNates]

Great video again! Your content is really simple to follow and offers great value! May I ask about your routing in your setup? Do you run a hybrid dawless/daw setup? If so, how is it routed? I struggle a bit with what goes into my mixer or interface and so on...I'd like to be able to multitrack in my daw but also leave it out and record stereo directly from my mixer.. What is your approach?

[@IhorMedia]

That is a struggle I always have. It really depends on the situation. Most of the times I do not even multitrack my creations, but just record the master. On all my videos for sure like that. Multitracking is always complicated for me. I run out of inputs in my interface and so on. My latest solution to that is a (weirdly enough) DJ mixer! I got XONE 96 (crazy expensive tbh) and it has an audio interface in it. So I multitrack 4 stereo pairs from it. Pretty much like that now.

[@JDVVV378]

Thanks for sharing 😁

[@IhorMedia]

My pleasure!

[@Ravenseyes10]

I just realized I can’t do what you’re doing on my minilogue because I don’t have the xd version… only an 8 step sequencer instead of 16..

[@IhorMedia]

It might appear like limiting, but there are still plenty of things you can do with 8 steps!

[@leonidfedoseev3521]

It seems like it’s unable to do the first bassline on Elektron Analog Keys/4, because there is no flanger. What to use instead of flanger?🤔

[@IhorMedia]

Perhaps delay with very fast time should do a good job!

[@leonidfedoseev3521]

@@IhorMedia thank you- will try👍

[@m00ftak]

damnit! my original minilogue isn't cutting it anymore since they released the XD

[@IhorMedia]

I've heard that the original is as good as XD! Isn't it?

[@m00ftak]

@@IhorMedia It's missing the built-in FX as well as the drive on the filter which seem like they add a lot. Alas!

[@IhorMedia]

Oh! Does it not have built-in FX? I didn’t know that. But that’s kinda fixable by going into a DAW or FX unit. Though I get the point. It’s good when everything inside the box. Also in this video I think I relied too much on the FX rather than synthesis. I’ve got such a comment and I agree with this. Nothing wrong with that. But that made me want to make another Minilogue video and do not rely on Fx that much!

[@m00ftak]

@@IhorMedia It's very helpful to see how you use fx in general but I'd definitely enjoy another video focusing on the original minilogue!

[@leonidfedoseev3521]

Looks very easy to do) But it’s not. So the question is: what’s your education ? Where did you learn to create sounds and then make music/arrangements from it?

[@IhorMedia]

Hey Leonid! Good question. I am a self-study guy pretty much. Back when I was a teenager I learned a lot by listening, analysing and learning how to play different songs on my guitar. Later on I discovered electronic music and started doing pretty much the same. A lot of listening, analysis, practice. And of course KZbin tutorials, etc.

[@leonidfedoseev3521]

@@IhorMedia hard to believe) Thank you for your tutorials!

[@asmr6773]

👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏾👍🏿

[@Antoine-dk5fs]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😀👍👍👍

[@АнтонЕфремов-д7э]

Найс, найс... Это не то слово. ТО слово - это "Ахуенно"! ))) Да простит меня Олимп

[@IhorMedia]

Спасибо!

[@АнтонЕфремов-д7э]

@@IhorMedia Если без шуток, то спасибо за "науку". И за контент (from init sound to ... я ещё не видел, особенно с найс звучанием)))! До покупки сего девайса смотрел всякое... Но благодаря этому видео понял, что покупать ещё один синт (берингер дипмайнд 6/12) рановато, ибо и и здесь можно извлечь отличный саунд. По крайней мере для того, чтобы осознать, что писать партии - не VST собачий)))

[@IhorMedia]

@@АнтонЕфремов-д7э я рад, что понравился формат и звучание! Мне очень нравится фокусироваться на минимальном сетапе и да, выжимать из него побольше.

[@jimabbey9544]

edm crap noises a total waste of a good synth!

[@andersborum9267]

Sequence from 11:45 to 13:30 is absolutely insane; the overtones in that sound are absolute stunning. Imagine taking this sound to a professional setup in a club .. if you listen carefully, you can hear the subtle details of the reverb in the top of the sound. Love it.

[@IhorMedia]

Thanks Andres! I like this part too! I hope I'll take my creations to the professional setup in a club eventually!

[@vznquest]

indeed, that's a big sound

[@trescon5989]

just bought the minilogue xD few days before and i can tell the space reverb is REALLY beautiful

[@andersborum9267]

@@trescon5989 seriously, I'm almost about to a minilogue , then program a similar pattern like in the sequence and just have it running 8 hours a day ;)

[@meilstone]

It reminds me of Jurassic Park, very powerful sound! 🦖

[@Vohniak]

instant sub man! even though I don't have minilogue I was able to use your tips and transform it on Volca Bass and Nu;tekt to get similar sounds, amazing job and very cleary shown, thanks!

[@beardjams]

Really good stuff Ihor! I really enjoy your logical approach to synthesisers and sound degisn; keep it up!

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

[@jonathandaugherty1597]

Hey Ihor, I loved this video and wanted to ask: could we get a tutorial on how you made the beats on the ACID Bassline portion of this video? I can't get enough of that beat and would love to know how you made it!

[@IhorMedia]

Hey Jonathan! Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it! In this video I just used 909 kit. And made a quick beat with kick, low tom and a few hihats. Nothing too special! Perhaps one catchy thing was with that low tom sound on track 3. I threw a few triggs here and there and then recorded low pass filter cutoff movement with my hand. It recorded a lot of param locks. Then I started removing some trigs and param locks after recording. Up until it sounded "cool" haha. You could probably check "Beats from Scratch" or "Techno from Scratch" videos on my channel. In those I go into all the details of their creation. You might find a lot of different tips and tricks there!

[@jonathandaugherty1597]

@@IhorMedia Thank you! It sounds like there was a bit of swing on the drum pattern, too - is that so?

[@IhorMedia]

@@jonathandaugherty1597 what a catch! Yes, there was 52% swing

[@M1L31]

yesss! I love it! more of this kind of videos please. espacially on the patterns or trigs it self! was really helpful I crafted this on my Analog Four - was really fun!

[@IhorMedia]

Glad you could apply similar things to another synth! Thanks for watching and your comment!

[@matthiaskruger556]

Hey man, nice video! I'm rather into dark wave/electro/industrial than techno but still learned some useful tricks! will definitely try on my minilogue

[@fefelatulipe650]

Damn Ihor, this 2nd beat and bass is a banger actually. Love the naughty tom rumble. Thank you again for these demos techno wizard

[@IhorMedia]

Techno Wizard haha! Thank you!

[@josej-i6c]

Great explanation!! and bassline!! how do you conect xd with digitakt (the setup).Thanks a lot!! Cheers!!

[@dspmusik81]

Not only is the teaching clear and sound design is excellent… but I think my favorite part is bass face and “…nice.”

[@IhorMedia]

Nice! ❤️

[@yourcitysleeps]

This is awesome! Thank you so much! 🎹⚡🎛️

[@imissmykids4206]

This is such a good video! It helps I have a minilogue xd too;) subbed👍

[@AntonArhipov]

I'm itching to get Minilogue XD now!!!

[@BackspinZX]

My favorite challenge is to take a given synth and try and figure out how to make it Acid™ properly. Always a fun sound, and a fun time. Great video!

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you! Some synths do not "acid" that great tho haha! But indeed it is alway fun to try!

[@R206]

Nice!

[@harponderous5259]

nice!!

[@quintenoorschot3500]

How does it automatically sync to the BPM of the Digitakt? What settings did you use?

[@IhorMedia]

On the Digitakt you have to enable in MIDI settings to send clock and transport. On the Minilogue you have to configure receiving those. I think those settings are called something like "Rx" for receiving on the Minilogue.

[@sabansabanovic9750]

Ihor were r u from?? you surname on my language means flood so keep us flooding in these amazing videos😀

[@IhorMedia]

I am from Ukraine with quite a few Polish roots! Flooding since long time lol

[@TheGreatPanicker]

I know you're using the minilogue, but this should translate to the monologue, right?

[@IhorMedia]

I think some of the techniques should!

[@Wyrmfyr]

Nice!

[@ronsone8373]

♥️ as every week! More sound design please

[@IhorMedia]

♥️ Nice! More to come my friend!

[@davidgreenhouse9715]

Good stuff!!! I gave up music production quite a few years ago now but I’m thinking I might have to indulge!!!!

[@Levitator07]

Brilliant man! Love your demo. Know exactly how to make that minilogue sing!

[@marktwomey5083]

This is great. Actually explaining the sound design. Subbed.

[@frankvaleron]

Great tutorial. I have the minilogue xd and I love it. But I can't do that!

[@DragonAxiom]

Great content!

[@CSW82]

Brilliant, learnt loads. Thanks.

[@djrockid]

superb!!!!

[@martintaylor9205]

Ihor always enjoy your explorations, XD is such a sonic designer unit, be great with a looper 4 channels layering sounds while a loop plays altering XD modes to reloop Loike it lots🆒👍🎶🎶🎶🔱🇬🇧🇬🇧🌈🕸🌀

[@IhorMedia]

Oh yes! This guy with a looper is a beast! I might make another video and use the Octatrack as a looper! Thanks for the idea!

[@Haschkey]

lovely as always!

[@GeneralKenobi69420]

Great video but why your room gotta look so dark lol

[@IhorMedia]

Thanks! My studio with too much light looks not that great haha

[@soejrd24978]

That Long Gate Bass is real goood, also happy you keep some of the gear accessible

[@IhorMedia]

Thanks! Long Gate is my favourite technique to get carried away!

[@dustyrhodes1655]

Thank you so much! This was extremely helpful for me! ❤️

[@IhorMedia]

Glad it was helpful!

[@arunningjourney1460]

Perfect timing, just picked up my minilogue today :D

[@IhorMedia]

Haha! Nice! You will love it!

[@TTETETETETTEETTETEET]

great tutorial! Thank you! May i ask which sample pack you used for the drums sounds? I was looking for some sounds like these!

[@IhorMedia]

Hey Alexis! Thanks for watching and kind words! The sample pack is Devine 909 from Elektron. My favourite 909 pack actually.

[@TTETETETETTEETTETEET]

@@IhorMedia Thank you again!!! This pack sounds awesome! :)

[@Sunnytalor]

Great video as always! can you recommend on the ultimate companion small synth to digitakt for techno? i'm thinking on digitone..

[@IhorMedia]

Hey Sunny! Much appreciate your comment! Regarding the small synth there are so many choices, man. To be honest any small synth is good for techno, I wouldn't recommend a specific one! Digitone, DB-01, Minitaur, Mother 32, and many more! All of them are good and special in their own way.

[@Sunnytalor]

@@IhorMedia @Ihor Thanks for the reply. Will love to see DT DT combo video in the future.

[@Erkkiboi]

I love the piece of garlic next to the maraccas

[@IhorMedia]

Haha! It definitely looks like a piece of garlic!

[@davidpinto1195]

OMG you got it man, am learning so much and most of all it's inspiring and sometimes for me thats tthe hing I struggle with more than getting the sounds I want but well thats another strugle lol

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you very much, David! Check my latest video, it is about careless jamming that I love so much. If I struggle a lot with music production, I get bored and discouraged. And this is a perfect time to let it go and do some mad jamming instead!

[@davidpinto1195]

@@IhorMedia yeah yeah I watched, I have a po33 and I think I can make similar stuff with it but I think that po12 worths it, I mught get one the thing I heard is after a while you get bored of the same sounds

[@igorfabris9196]

Jeeeyyy Ihor. Your expression during tuts is great. Great tutorials even for us old farts 😂. I am almost 40 years in music production and I'm still enjoying in your tutorials. Keep up a good work. All the best from here 👍

[@IhorMedia]

Wow! 40 years in music production!! Thank you very much for your kind words! Glad you enjoy my content!

[@penalvalouis554]

What is the sample of the third voice on digitakt ? it's very hot

[@IhorMedia]

It was a 909 low tom sample. I threw some triggers here and there, overdrive, and then recorded lowpass filter movement with my hand. Came out dope actually!

[@penalvalouis554]

@@IhorMedia thx mate, ur a killer !

[@wimvandenborre706]

Wow! Very good tutorial! Gonna try it on my XD right now! Love from Belgium, keep up the good work!

[@IhorMedia]

Have fun!

[@wimvandenborre706]

@@IhorMedia tx! Small tech question, how do you see the effect parameters on the display? When i choose depth and time i don't see for example elay times on the display

[@wimvandenborre706]

ok found global param 6 but now to put it in notes in stead of MS? :)

[@wimvandenborre706]

ok it works now, don't know how :D

[@IhorMedia]

@@wimvandenborre706 haha! Nice that you figured out. To have delay in note divisions you have to select BPM based delay.

[@dani538]

Hi Ihor, love the sounds and video. But I have a sidenote for some feedback. The sounds depend a lot from the on board Minilogue XD FX. Therefor makes them less ideal for a lot of simple Analog Synthesizers. Yes you could recreate a lot of the pre-FX sounds. But they probably will sound different without the FX. You would need some FX pedals to do so.Would be fair to mention that in the video or slap the FX on at the end and mention that with FX they sound even better. Just keep up the quality of your videos man.

[@IhorMedia]

100% valuable and reasonable feedback. I will take this into consideration while crating other videos. Thank you Daan for taking your time! Much appreciate your feedback!

[@jonathanyoung6397]

Because of you, I just bought a Digitakt! @ihor would you ever consider doing a video on programming various drum patterns? You always have such amazing grooves and I would love to learn from you! Thanks for your content, it’s incredibly inspiring and IMHO you are the most talented EDM producer on YT

[@IhorMedia]

Thank you, Jonathan! Your kind words mean a lot to me. About the drum patterns. What do you really mean by that? Like different genres, or different variations within the same genre? Or like in general how I make beats? Thanks in advance!

[@jonathanyoung6397]

@@IhorMedia whenever I program XOX style it sounds pretty lame, yet you seem to get amazing techno grooves out of your digitakt in no time. I would love to see you walk through how to program different techno drum patterns on the digitakt (and other EDM styles too perhaps) but really go step by step. Like “for the kick, I’m going to place it here, here and here”. I know this sounds basic but no one ever actually shows these essential steps on YT and I think you’d be great at it!

[@IhorMedia]

@@jonathanyoung6397 thanks a lot for elaborating. I think I do something quite similar in my Beats from Scratch series. Where I start from a blank pattern. Have you watched those? However I like the idea that you shared about covering different drums patterns from different genres even. I really appreciate you sharing this with me!

[@WhateverNullPointer]

@Jonathan Play with dynamics, for example not every hihat with the same velocity. I dont know the digitakt but record your fingerdrumming and then quantize if you're out of sync. Your drums will sound less static that way. Also a little swing can help. @Ihor The long gate bass sound amazing! Just bought the minilogue xd and stumbled upon your video

[@pederhorner]

You are a wizard of sound. Thank you!