[TUTORIAL] How to sound-design psychedelic glassy/metallic lead & percussion with SERUM & PIGMENTS2

Hello internet,
Today I'm going to show you how to sound-design psychedelic glassy/metallic lead & percussion using both Xfer-Serum and Arturia Pigments2.
The techniques used in this tutorial completes the [How to make Tristan/Nano records style metallic percussions in (OR OUTSIDE) Ableton Live] tutorial I've made a while ago specially the fact that I've made a mistake in that tutorial and I've corrected it in this one.
I hope you like it :)
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[@Projektor_music]

i was asked to make the same sound and I was messing with this sound for like 2 hours on stream and didn't even got close! thanks for this!

[@olliepsy]

I think it might be the same person who asked us both x) Anyways, I think it would be best if we could give each others some visibility on the future topics were going to discuss in our videos so we wont post the same things twice the same week ;) (if you feel comfortable doing so for sure :) )

[@Projektor_music]

@@olliepsy Yeah. that's a great idea even though having 2 people cover the same sound might be cool (to see different approaches). I'm working on a discord server for content creators where we can discuss topics like this but I'm not really getting much traction... maybe that can help here?

[@adriankohres5623]

Lol I've been searching how to make this sound for months now!

[@olliepsy]

I'm really happy to hear you found what you're searching for in here dude ;)

[@psyduselbst7612]

Same here! Insta sub, really like the way you explain everything :) good stuff!

[@olliepsy]

@@psyduselbst7612 🙌🙏

[@viktorf3911]

This is the most inspiring and deep tutorial I've seen for a long time! Thanks man, just opened many doors!

[@bourianboubbov9937]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and spending the time to make these tutorials. Much appreciated!!

[@olliepsy]

you're welcome Bourian, I'm really happy you like them, thanks for your support ^^

[@theuzhaamtak574]

Killa tutorial. Thanks a lot

[@earthman_]

Thanks for sharing your skills, dude. Keep on going this.

[@HypnotiqueRecordings]

Awesome tutorial that’s too done in so many ways . Thanks a lot .

[@olliepsy]

You're welcome Hypnotique Recordings, really happy to hear you like it 👽

[@DaddaPsy]

The original sound is used from the formant complex oscillator mode on the virus TI i believe. I saw someone saying the Sundial wavetable in formant complex mode will create this sound. Since I don't own a Virus Ti I can't test this for myself though... Thanks Ollie for showing us an alternative approach

[@olliepsy]

I've read somewhere online the same thing, but since I don't own a Virus TI I can't really tell (and non of my friends has one) :/ Anyways, am really glad you like this one dude :)

[@raavanhitech]

Another banger!

[@rogue_psytrance]

No way !!!! Thanks a lot! Awesome video and tutorial man! Really appreciate that you make this based on the sound that i asked for!! Keep going with this content, Thanks

[@olliepsy]

You're welcome dude ;)

[@PoulLarsenmusic]

I love spectra sonics music

[@JohnDoe-xy6sl]

Thank you for this man, there's not a lot of tutorials on psytrance productions. 👽👽

[@olliepsy]

You're welcome Raul, am really glad you liked it :)

[@larsomat2]

Great tutorial! I learned quite a bit. Thanks.

[@olliepsy]

You're welcome Lars, cheers :)

[@wernerhannefeld2636]

A great tutorial! I searched how these effects are called for months. If i could like this tutorial 1000 times i definitely would. Do you know tracks or DJs which have A LOT of these sounds? Almost always these effects come as really short inserts. Ideally i would listen to this for hours. Maybe i am asking for too much, but let's try)

[@ishan123321]

Thank you so much , I used to keep asking artists about this glassy sound haha.

[@TK-oi6rv]

Thank you so much

[@cstribal]

THANK YOU!

[@RafaelSouza-ke8km]

Amazing tutorial bro!! 🤘🏻👽🔥

[@olliepsy]

Thanks dude :)

[@paxtibi]

Nice job mate! Cheers for the info.

[@olliepsy]

🙌🙏

[@IncredibleScienceLive]

Really useful tricks, thanks

[@olliepsy]

Thanks dude 🙏

[@TheEliyacohen]

Awesomee thank you sir

[@odrauaude]

Less talk more Psy !

[@hackerdossinais6978]

hello my great friend! Congratulations for your tutorials, I come here to leave a tip or idea. what do you think of doing tutorials on burn noise style synths? it would be nice

[@roxy5855]

as i own an acces virus i can confirm that the sound is the formant shift function of the access virus. But anyway this is a GREAT tutorial, love the sound you create and love to learn how to do such sounds in synth VSTs!

[@olliepsy]

Niceee, I had doubts about what I read online (that only the virus can make this sound), really happy to hear your input on the video, thanks dude :)

[@jimipatalano1094]

Hello. Can you provide some more detail on how to get that glassy sound using the f-shift on the virus? You are referring to the airy sound that comes in at 0:56-0:57 (right when the kick comes back in) and not the earthy lead that comes in one bar later at 0:58 right? I find it simple to get the earthy lead with f-shift, but the airy bell like sound eludes me. Does it require using a particular wavetable? Someone below mentioned Sundial. Any bones you can throw would be much appreciated.

[@roxy5855]

@@jimipatalano1094 Just try different wavetables. and than set a 1/16 SH LFO to modulate the formant shift, maybe also modulating the pitch of the formant OSC. With the rigt modulation and the right wavetable, you´ll get exactly there (-:

[@diegolanzoni]

@@roxy5855 do you use delay and phaser from Virus? I tried to set delay time there but I think it's impossible, there are some standardised ms... Because of this the sound design that I did doesn't sound like in this video... If u could help me, I'll be thankful!

[@theorockenstrocly8190]

Merci du tips ;)

[@olliepsy]

De rien mon gros ^^

[@philippebackprotips]

Dope. Will try the parallel bandpass mod thing in Hybrid3. That thing has quite some tricks up its sleeve and is not given its fait place in psytrance!

[@olliepsy]

Dude I totally forgot about Hybrid3... been sitting in my VST folder for more than a year now and never really touched it !!

[@dubraja6469]

whomever disliked the video is a playa hater! This guy is giving us game and people gotta dislike the video smh

[@nxghtshxde]

8:30 wow the idea with the filter envelope is great, makes the lead sound kinda ghosty :D

[@olliepsy]

🤗🙏

[@BappinProductions]

5:45 any tape style delay plugin will do, ie H-Delay, ValhallaDelay Tape/HiFi modes etc. Edit: killer tut btw 😊

[@olliepsy]

Yeah I guess so, because I am a huge fan of SoundToys and all of my delays are basically Echo Boy or Ultratap, andwhen it comes to "effects like these ones" I use the stock delay of ableton, I didnt really get the chance to test other plugins for these type of sounds and thus I didnt wanna say stuff am not sure about in my video x) Ps : thanks a lot dude, am really happy you've liked this one :D

[@Khaayam]

Thank you for the tut. The metallic sound is basically from bell sound that gets grained in Ableton synth delay. Any other third party delay plugin you could recommend for this? Cheers

[@olliepsy]

@babbin production just suggested H-Delay from waves or Valhalla Delay, try those out and please tell me about the results, am curious ;)

[@BappinProductions]

@@olliepsy Echoboy is nice too, basically any delay with a tape mode that introduces some pitch modulation, to get that wonky feel to it.

[@BappinProductions]

Colour Copy by u-he has a really nice character too. It's modelled after bucket brigade delays, with an onboard LFO that can modulate the delay time and cause those nice pitching effects

[@skribble9444]

At min 5:50. it works with the delay of serum but the sound of the ableton delay is wayyy better... :( some alternatives?

[@TheFujac]

cool.... there's a square wave LFO preset in serum

[@olliepsy]

Yeah, am just too lazy to go there so I draw it haha ^^

[@luisfeliperamos4954]

Awesome! As a virus ti owner i can tell its the most close to virus sound i ever seen

[@olliepsy]

Awesome, am really happy to know that I was that close to the hardware, I don't own the TI and so I can't really tell, I wasnt even 100% sure the sound was made on the TI :D

[@luisfeliperamos4954]

@@olliepsy keep doin this job bro, you are helping a lot of people... You also should make some tuts on forest/nighpsy syntha

[@cstribal]

correct me if I'm wrong...on the maths you did you pickthe freq for F1 but then you are playing with F2.... is this a mistake?

[@olliepsy]

at all, actually you can pick whatever frequency you like, I prefer F2 because the results of the math will be the sound I wanna hear, you can experiment and see for your self the different results ;)

[@sjoerdb8574]

Not so fast my friend :)