The Only Synth Sound You'll Ever Need

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MY GEAR:
DAW (Music making software): Logic Pro and Ableton Live
Studio monitors (speakers): Yamaha HS8's
Headphones: Audeze LCD X (open back)
Camera: Canon 80d
Computer: Mac Studio with M2 Ultra chip and 2 TB hardrive
Midi controller (keyboard): Komplete Kontrol 61
Interface: Scarlett Clarett 2 pre
Desk: a cheap one from ikea
Chair: also a cheap one from ikea
My favorite plugins that I use the most:
XFER Serum
Sylenth 1
Nexus 3
Kontakt
RC 20
Valhalla Shimmer
Valhalla Vintage Verb
Shaperbox 3
XFER OTT
Fab Filter Saturn 2
Fab Filter Pro C 2
Arturia Pigments
Baby Audio Comeback Kid
Output Thermal and Portal
LABS Soft Piano
Hardware that I use behind the scenes but not in videos:
Elektron Octatrack (my fav)
Elektron Digitakt
Korg Minilogue XD

[@mantastic]

Dude your enthusiasm, wonder, and joy at making sounds is fantastic!

[@dzmo-official]

I totally agree, man

[@kitschbreeder8546]

seriously

[@SomeMaxiboy]

Man your reaction to your own chords at 2:57 was so honest and sincere that that by itself made me hit the subscribe button. I totally vibed with that instantanious kind of "look what I found in my creation" like you have something pre-existing inside yourself that only needs to be looked up, or found. Cool moment 🥰 Cherish these moments.

[@SayyyyyWhat]

his reaction @ 2:58....priceless!! I know dat feeling...

[@beare2461]

3:03 what a nice kick

[@RisetotheBottom00]

You have a knack for simplifying the whole process of music production

[@trphousevo]

and i love it

[@alenparismusic]

I know many professors who pompously play the role of producer teachers, but have no taste in music. You are the only one with excellent musical taste, who subtly feels and really understands music. I'm not used to just praising anyone, so don't take my words as a compliment.

[@Baywood]

All I gotta say is your coaching program changed my life and turned music into a full time career for me... and then you post these incredibly inspiring tutorials that feel like Christmas every time I watch! I get so inspired and creative with every vid!! Here before a million views!

[@JonoTheVoiceofAustralia]

Such a good succinct tutorial, showing you how to make beautiful sounds quickly and effectively. Thanks Alex!

[@Avinix]

I wish I had this video when I started producing almost 6 year ago. This is too perfect. I can't even explain the feelings I get when I listen to those sweet sine pluck synth chords.

[@seckinaktunc]

The thing I enjoy most about watching videos is your enthusiasm. I love the way you say the word "HEAVEN", lol. That's how I know that you really dig whatever you are doing in that moment.

[@markqualter5016]

Really lovely stuff and such clear explanations. Thank you.

[@user-rx6wo1hz1f]

I really enjoy watching your lessons since 2015, you are truly a very valuable teacher. greetings from Uzbekistan

[@peteclose]

Every time I watch one of your videos I learn something really significant. Sincere thanks!

[@tkanderson-antwerp]

Very nice stuff in this post... once again support !!

[@practice_Chinese_yoga]

Beautiful sounds for sure!

[@its_ermann]

WONDERFUL. Thank you for sharing with us!

[@dxnnybxnd]

Dude. Your progressions always give me major feels. Respect. 🙌🏻

[@orangejuice_kw]

Sounds absolutely amazing. Respect for your tips! Made this on Vital today.

[@harrisonyoutube]

It`s very beautiful synthwave. Thank you for tutorial!

[@augusteghislaindupin]

you're so good. I have no words. I'd love to have just a 1/10 of your knowledge and hear. I bow to you.

[@MrDanielh3410]

That's beautiful thanks!!

[@chxbbofficial]

I love these short easy tutorials! ❤️🔥

[@LarsLentz]

That was so good - thank you for showing me this!

[@milanblaha6466]

Absolute amazing work 👍🏻👏🏻🔊🔊🔊

[@GlitchmanVGM]

The atmosphere tip with the sine wave reverb ducking was very clever! I'm definitely gonna use that one! Thanks for this awesome video! I added this to my favorites. 😃👍

[@Khalilonthebeat]

Incredible vibes ! Looks so damn effortless .. 🙋🏾‍♂💫

[@Callyourmother2787]

I love your channel so much. Never stop

[@charlessolly7750]

Thankyou for making this - I really enjoyed it and it’s made me more confident with going beyond presets and pathing my own path on serum. God bless

[@danic.3760]

More or less I already knew all these tricks except for the atmosphere one, that was magic, with the unison and the massive reverb 1 note sounds like a full chord. Nice work as always.

[@brianinfante9757]

WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNISON AND THE FULL CHORD?

[@LarcosMusic]

this is amazing ohmydays, I will 100000% use this in my upcoming sessions, love 🙏🏽

[@alexfucku4039]

Your enthusiasm is contagious!

[@dzmo-official]

Sure is! It definitely re-inspires me to do stuff!

[@pokernightcoordinator6766]

Amazing! Thanks so much, this is great

[@juanmalc7]

this is GOLD! Thanks bro

[@ranradd]

Really nice. Gotta try it.

[@Drawin-Circles]

I thought it was kinda meh at the beginning, but with the bass and atmos it really comes together.

[@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69]

Nice Alex still dropping production tip videos!

[@viljamei4291]

Please release this! Its too good! 😭🔥

[@SchibbiSchibbi]

wow, these sounds amazing!!!!!

[@joriksson]

Right after this video I twicked my current project with a new bassline synth. This is exactly the sound I've been loking for, thanks! The previous bass preset used the envelope mostly on the on the osc volume, but with the filter it works much better, leaving the base note sounding constantly in sub-bass range

[@janjezek9333]

How did you always make these heart touching melodies? Is this intuition, voicings, sold-your-soul magic, mathematics, or behind the scene trial and error? (Or all of them?) Please make some videos of these, this is (one of) your strengths 🤩

[@fmaylinch]

After spending a lot of time and money in courses, I think that this is something very difficult to explain. Or I am a bad student :) Anyway, I think that Rome tends to omit the why, and just shows the how. Maybe he just doesn't know, and he learnt by practice and intuition like, I suspect, most do. I think that Rome sometimes knows the why but he doesn't explain it, maybe because the videos would be too complex, boring and long, or just because he wants to save those tips for his paid students. But beware. As I said, I've paid some courses, and most of that money has been wasted. Now I don't pay anymore until I see proof that I will learn something useful.

[@Sky_666]

He tends to use minor scales a lot, plus it's something you can learn from his other tutorials on chord construction, after watching many of his videos I can say that I now make better chords with similar vibes to the ones he creates.

[@AlexRome]

Haha thanks! That’s a huge compliment. It’s a bit of everything you mentioned. There is some bit of trial and error you don’t see in preparation for each video. For example, sometimes I’ll write 5 to 10 melodies in search for a good melody to use in a video and it takes me multiple days to find one. Sometimes (like in the video above) I’ll write a single melody and get lucky. I should definitely make a video on this. It would be a fun video that I think would be creatively inspiring.

[@fmaylinch]

@@Sky_666 yep, minor scales are very common in electronic music.

[@fmaylinch]

@@AlexRome that would be really useful; how you do that trial and error.

[@hydralicious9315]

Very nice. Thank you.

[@PaulRacz]

Thank you, Lobot!

[@theshelbypalace]

love this!

[@synthoelectro]

This is what I do when making electronic music over the years when making laying in MIDI when composing. You're essentially creating space which helps greatly when mixing, as freqs are not hogging the mix. This video is highly impressive.

[@patrickr.5821]

Nice one Alex!

[@MarianGamer]

Excelente video.

[@lambadalasse]

holy s... this video is the one I have looked for....an entry tip into Deep House Melancholia which i loooooove...thanks a bunch

[@henryonyema6664]

Great teacher

[@vegazal]

wow, love it!

[@Starbrou]

Man long time no see your videos This one got me back Great content thanks!

[@DjLeonSKennedy]

so nice!

[@Banoffeeee]

love this kind of vdo, extremely useful, please do moore of this hahaha...really appreciate the content!!

[@CaptainVelveeta]

One of the things I appreciate about your mixing is when you find something 'good' you use it. I have a bad habit of finding a great sound and then saying, "that's good but I'm gonna see if I can find something better" MAN!😖 I waste so much time just looking for 'better' when what I have is more than sufficient.

[@channelofstuff6662]

i learn alot from you in each video.

[@barcx77]

Maaaan, thats fire

[@Kick_Solo]

Yours sounds so much better than mine, I've tried to tweak it to exactly how you did but for some reason yours sounds waay better

[@darrenrobinson8317]

kool sounds!!!

[@JRonmusic]

you make it look so easy

[@dennisklaes9509]

Pretty good for minimal or simplistic house/techno stylez.👌

[@wasiuuu1]

i like that one, its very touchy melo, love it , thanks for showing 💖💖👍👍💖💖

[@VitShimko]

Love when you vibe to the chords youve just made haha

[@bevh]

Great video bro - love your work. Inspired me to make videos too. You can really tell you have a passion for this - it bleeds through in your personality! Keep up the hard work bro much love from New Zealand.

[@melsonlong]

That sine pluck gave me chill idk why

[@Peter-gu9ph]

0:24 wow your student Danccer getting signed with Paul van Dyk - that's amazing - exciting news!!! Congrats Danccer! I've been a huge PvD fan for many years...

[@xch1nox16]

Love coming to your videos when I've got creative block

[@bevh]

Criminally underrated video to be honest. Had to comment again cause I love it so much

[@DANCCER]

THANKS for your shoutout. I just learned from the best. 😉

[@simranjeetdhaliwal8653]

AMAZING!! KUDOS

[@ethanhenley4376]

Yo, this is super helpful! Just wanted to let you know that when you hit your desk my windows shook from the bass! You may want to hi pass your mic so it doesn''t make all the subs go crazy. thanks for the content!

[@One_of_Many750]

I’ve Recently Gotten Into Sound Design, Using Nexus, And It’s Really Fun To Do!!!

[@SnowAngelfish]

Nice tutorial. Not a fan of the chord progression and bass in this but it shows the simplicity of music making.,,i like using arpeggiators for bass lines too.

[@VidaMusica]

The way I smiled when you brought the soft sine wave up an octave at 2:57

[@arenniamusicstudio5538]

Amazing tips, i started producing a few months ago and i learned a lot from you. Thank you

[@PAAYNE]

Awesome, keep going and you'll make it buddy!

[@arenniamusicstudio5538]

@@PAAYNE Thank you very much, u have some nice skills too. I subscribed to ur channel too :)

[@foursamm]

Oh!!! That synth sound is straight cash $$$$$!! Great vid.

[@xinluliu5804]

it's great

[@Musicsharmony]

thanks perfect

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

I feel it in my soul!! I want to follow along, my setup is getting there, got the Mac with Logic, controller and now I guess I need serum, desk and some plastic plants for Christmas 😀

[@AlexRome]

In the meantime, you can use Logic's built-in synth called Alchemy. Alchemy can make these sounds just as effectively.

[@DonMcHardy]

It's "that sound"... this video provides the recipe for the awesome sauce. Thank you, Alex!

[@Chehli]

I love this sound. Especially when its a saw with a little fade in on the attack, relativly fast decay, plus some crunchy distortion. soooo good it makes by brain tickle cause it sounds orange lol

[@davidmcginnis16]

Sick!!

[@theradiationispositive8981]

Thanks bro 😁😁

[@L8_8]

Its like heaven

[@jubalclement]

Felt funny on just looking at thumbnail , but u nailed it , Great and simple lesson for Electronic music ❤️🇮🇳

[@michaelschmitt3739]

Awesome mix from scratch in literally seconds. Love the final tracks all put together as well. You mentioned "Ducking". What is that? I love the effect it had on the Bass line. smooth.

[@NowaboMusic]

Ducking is also called sidechaining. When you sidechain an instrument track to another track (usually the bass drum), the instrument will get quieter whenever the drum hits.

[@ilmmusic9371]

Maaaannn!!!!!! damn, its great !

[@drummerAVA]

I’ve been thinking about buying Serum for a while… and I think this just sold me on it 😳

[@BlackAera]

Sine-based sounds are the fuckin best. That lead is heart melting.

[@aidandalzell3812]

Dude I am fucking COOKING with this shit! You've saved me as a producer!

[@djflipsoul7432]

Thats a hit

[@maxmustermann2417]

Kinda clickbaity, ngl, but still solid lessons. thanks man!

[@fmaylinch]

Did you hear how that click sounds??? It's heaven!!! 😂

[@PhO3NiX96]

Kinda always but I think we click on his videos cause he genuinelly likes doing music and watching someone do something they love is always fun

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

You should not lie by default so the ngl is unnecessary 🤣👍

[@JoeyFTL]

Show them what they want give them what they need

[@billymays8864]

its the youtube game bro

[@Cjdubz4]

This shit is fire bro

[@fritsvanzanten3573]

1:32 that 70% is pretty essential 😉

[@medwards8857]

I’m interested.

[@tunneltrance]

you should make more Serum tutorials! or perhaps a Sylenth1 tutorial. Very cool video I appreciate the knowledge

[@Venomnarzeka]

please, do some dubstep tutorials. You are awesome, and you helped me get better at music production!

[@dhruvalance1323]

Súper fínese man.

[@Horizon_Sounds]

3:02 "Did you honestly just hear that"😂😂😂

[@icebox9203]

OMG Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuperb. This is all I can say. ❤❤❤❤❤💯💯💯💯💯💯🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@awedee.0]

ahhh the good ol' deadmau5 init preset

[@StevePaulSounds]

It’s pretty much Odesza who are there with royksopp and jon Hopkins as my fave electronic acts. Which basically means I love you. I’m gonna make that serum investment I never used much come to life!