Serum Neuro DnB Bass Tutorial (Skope, Billain, Spor, Culprate)

[@poolmaster-not3253]

This was the most insane bass I've ever re-created, I know this was posted a few years ago but super props to you my man! I've been using serum for nearly 2 years now, and I've never learnt so much about the software until today, thankyou!

[@VenusTheory]

Glad the video was helpful! Serum is quite powerful - I'm sure as you get more to grips with it you'll be very surprised at what it can do!

[@dreadnot427]

Great Video! My favorite part is when you say "...which sounds like this" and there is no sound. I gets me every time

[@jamiemarshall125]

I noticed that a few times lol

[@midioutput]

and then i just dragged this thick neuro bass sample into the wavetable editor...

[@VenusTheory]

Haha yep! Any neuro one shot should work! I've also had a lot of fun with distorted 808s that I've bounced out and used as a wavetable for similar sounds!

[@zodiac909]

And then what happened!? *While I roast marshmellows over campfire*

[@williamchisholm2032]

I got a little stuck here as I have no neuro one shots or any type of similar sample. I ended finding a pretty fat distorted 808 that I liked and serum would not let me drag it in so I finally just searched through serum until I found a decent sounding bass and fucked with it in the editor until I liked it. It was kinda fun lol

[@Jarg-d6l]

@@williamchisholm2032 you can just sample one out of any neuro track really.

[@mitch150]

jesus Christ that bass deserved the sub (no pun intended.. lmao) Why dont you have more subscribers holy freakin A... Your tutorial was easy to follow, you know exactly what youre doing but you dont ramble, you keep the settings vague so people get their own results and there is no post.... and its a heavy sick bass... thank you!!!!

[@VenusTheory]

Haha glad to hear it dude! Have fun with the bass!

[@MrFakefall]

How times change

[@caelinmoore8558]

I loved that you took the time to explain your thought process each time you modulated a parameter! A lot of times people rush through tutorials and just say "this here, that much, great, this next" and by the end it's really hard to have grasped anything other than numeric settings, but this was fantastic, especially for those of us who feel a bit lost when it comes to building sounds from scratch with sound design. Thanks for sharing!

[@VenusTheory]

Glad to hear it! That's a big part of why I started the channel as I felt a lot of other production channels just spouted presets without any reasoning.

[@Ibbys_space]

this one's the best tutorial that i've seen, exactly the sound I was looking for that i couldnt see many others recreate

[@steveanddunks]

Hands down the best tutorial I've ever seen. Thanks so much for sharing. You are a true gent! Really well explained and even I could follow it, with limited knowledge. Just in case it hasn't been pointed out, sometimes the sounds of the bass didn't play, but that didn't matter too much, as it would play the next time, strange! thanks again

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! Glad to hear it was helpful! And yeah in some cases I just cut things out so you're not listening to the same thing 3000 times to keep things to the point and not pack a video with redundant information.

[@rikk9370]

omg, your voice. And the growl is eargasmic

[@VenusTheory]

Haha glad you liked it!

[@SungazerDNB]

creepy

[@nebroskitheraut6705]

Better than other Neuro Bass Tuts! Thnx may dude!

[@Frobbl]

I looked for a Billain kinda bassline tutorial for so long, thank you so much! Subscribed! Hope you'll do some more sound design tutorials. I love these so much. You never stop learning watching sound design tutorials.

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you liked it dude! And for sure, I may do more like this in the future!

[@elbo7755]

Every time I was following this tutorial I was gassing to my self from the sound that were being made. Brilliant tutorial man, got yourself a beautiful sub!

[@VenusTheory]

Haha thanks dude, glad to hear it!

[@IAmStefanNixdorf]

Amazing sound and great tutorial, really helping me out here!

[@VenusTheory]

Hey dude! Glad to hear it! Just checked out your music, great stuff! Back Talk is dope!

[@IAmStefanNixdorf]

Thanks a lot man, appreciate it!

[@renyutv]

ive been looking for a good video of this sound before diving into serum, thanks so much. those guys are legends

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you liked the video!

[@happymonster9098]

Wow, just every minute of this video is gonna be hours and hours of study for me, thank you so much!

[@VenusTheory]

Haha glad to hear it! Enjoy!

[@tomashcroft7024]

Great video. Thanks for making it simple.

[@jordanwatkins6111]

Man I've been looking for a tutorial this good for a long time, amazing stuff and real informative!

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you liked it!

[@mysteriousfleas]

You're doing a great service with these tutorials, I'm learning so much.

[@VenusTheory]

Glad to hear it!

[@saro2431]

At 5:00 --> From where could I download/buy this wide Bass-samples? Thank you very much for the tutorial!

[@Beehunker]

Just the way I like to start my morning, beefy bass!

[@VenusTheory]

Nothing beats cheesy beefy glory.

[@MonsterDubClub]

Awesome sound! Cheers for the tutorial 😃

[@VenusTheory]

Thanks dude, glad you enjoyed it!

[@devinb2104]

Thanks Cam!

[@williamchisholm2032]

Lots of fun. Ended up making a pretty dope little 4 bar loop. Now to turn it into a song lol

[@VenusTheory]

Nice! And for sure haha, that's always the challenge. I do have a video about turning ideas into tracks though!

[@williamchisholm2032]

Venus Theory I’m all over it!

[@afonsosilva3465]

awesome , cant wait to try it out on some tracks!

[@DJBigJoeDaddy]

Another smashing tutorial. Nice one m8!!!

[@VenusTheory]

Glad to hear it!

[@d3vinity]

Bless ur soul

[@sebprovision]

Good concise video dude, well done and thanks for sharing :)

[@VenusTheory]

Hey man! Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! I'm not a very entertaining KZbin person, but I try and cut out the fluff since that's what annoyed me with tutorials haha. More to come soon!

[@sebprovision]

Venus Theory Absolutely dude! I'll be watching, liking it so far. big ups! 😊

[@NickShillitoMusic]

Really really great video man :) gonna do some resampling of this

[@VenusTheory]

Have fun with it!

[@LogicControl]

Stellar work, thank you!

[@bieralchemie3363]

Awesome tutorial! Thanks a lot for sharing. I wonder why my wave table (Video: 2:26 ) doesn't sound as fat as yours, did you put any effects on it at that point? I tried to rebuild your wavetable as precisely as possible, because I was wondering why mine sounded that less good.

[@vincentvandeperre1670]

just one thing the bass sounds good but try having a clean sine sub under it it will sound allot better in the club

[@floridahiker1503]

I also add a clean sine with a sharp attack and fade to my kick drums.

[@someonesomewhere4446]

oh yeah FM noise is awesome, I didn't know this trick ;)

[@VenusTheory]

It's pretty neat stuff - I'd also recommend loading in your own samples as noises as that can provide really interesting results as well!

[@matt7212]

actually really impressive. thank you

[@VenusTheory]

Thanks dude!

[@Explonith]

This intro is a banger, is there a full version?!

[@newschooldnb1995]

Came for the voice, stayed and subscribed for the tutorial

[@VenusTheory]

Haha thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@zlostification]

"...and today we are here to like and subscribe....".the meaning of life

[@NessunDorma732]

this is insane thanks!!

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you liked it!

[@lakshaithani268]

holy shit this is insane - you should try to get this track released!

[@VenusTheory]

Haha thanks, I may get around to making some DnB for fun someday!

[@luciferincestus666]

Great stuff! Great for time efficiency

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you liked it!

[@gabrielcozzens426]

sick tutorial man! ay chance you could post that bass one shot? would be very helpful

[@VenusTheory]

+Gabriel Cozzens Hey dude! Sorry, which one shot? Or did you mean the patch itself? I'll have to dig around and see if I have it still. Glad you liked the video!

[@gabrielcozzens426]

Venus Theory the bass one shot that you load into oscillator 2! If you do have that or can upload the patch that would be wonderful. Thanks man :)

[@VenusTheory]

Ah gotcha haha. Not sure why I thought you meant something else. I dug around and I don't have the patch anymore since I rarely save them, but I might have that bass one shot in one of my folders somewhere. If I find it I'll let you know!

[@gabrielcozzens426]

Venus Theory sick thanks dude! Or if there's another one that would work well also. Cheers

[@СтасКарелин-з6е]

your voice like: "FUCK IT! I LIED! ITS DRUM AND BASS! WHAT YOU GONNA DO?!"

[@VenusTheory]

It's also like a car commercial....all the time....forever.

[@komodinotubesco]

Really good tutorial imho

[@chrisnice7025]

great tut man

[@VenusTheory]

+Chris Nice Thanks dude! Glad you liked it!

[@MusicWorkflowAcademy]

Could you share the preset?

[@scottkehres9768]

Amazing tutorial. I immediately subscribed in the first minute. One question, would you be able to send me that crispy fm g2 bass sample that you placed in the OSC B?

[@VenusTheory]

Hey dude! I actually am not sure where that sample ended up, I haven't had time to go hunting around for it on my hard drives. However, I do know it was made in FM8 with some Sines, a Square, and white noise FMing that. My sine compression bass tutorial covers how I made that sound though, so you can make something similar to get more in the right neighborhood, or just drop in some random one shots and see what happens!

[@bordercollie1524]

Thank you so much you learned me so much thank you thankyou thank you

[@VenusTheory]

Glad to hear it was helpful!

[@bordercollie1524]

@@VenusTheory yes it was i made my first song thanks to this tutorial , but i got a problem when i weant to drop files into OSC B in serum it says file error , i got it in .wmv not in mp3 i cant find anything at google , do you know how to fix this problem ? thank you have a nice one

[@johndoe8225]

Feels like you kind of glossed over a pretty crucial part of this sound's design with that one-shot sample. How did you make / get it? I tried working it out on my own, and got pretty close for a novice attempt, but the end result from using it sounds nothing like the neuro bass you end up with. If you could share the one-shot, or elaborate on how it was made, I'd really appreciate it!

[@VenusTheory]

Hey dude! I actually did look for it, but I think I deleted it a while ago when I was purging some junk from my drives. That said, I do know it was made in FM8 with 2 sines, a square, and white noise all FMing in some way. I may have the samples on a backup drive somewhere though, so if I ever dig around and find it I may post that (and the other basses seen in that folder) eventually. However most of it was just resampling a bunch of times, my first video (the sine compression tutorial) is really how I did it, so you can check that out for some more information on making those types of basses.

[@johndoe8225]

Thanks for the quick reply! Just knowing what the technique is called to produce the sound goes a long way. I'll check out yours and some other videos on it to see if I can nail it down.

[@omkarayushbisht]

when he didn't overdub his voice

[@zacklinton1716]

your the like the shroud of bass design

[@VenusTheory]

I'm also the funniest person in my house!

[@herbertgrunsteidl8430]

@@VenusTheory feels badman

[@herbertgrunsteidl8430]

@@VenusTheory really liked the vid tho :)

[@87_North]

Good tutorial, but it's not exactly helpful when even if we're making a different variation of your sound, that you add a COMPLETELY finished one shot bass as an oscillator, and then not upload it for us. I love the concept of this type of synthesis, but you're leaving out a major part if we can't re-create what you're doing. Sure I can get my own, but this isn't exactly from scratch.

[@BingBingBongBong]

Jordan Rago could you be my daddy...?

[@ToxikDnB544]

But why would you copy a sound when its better to have your own

[@gergobodrogi8547]

@@ToxikDnB544 To learn the method by reproducing the theory?

[@ToxikDnB544]

@@gergobodrogi8547 He told you the theory: import a crispy fm bass oneshot

[@pinapple_pizza]

Serum has similar stock wavetable

[@KaslexMusic]

fucking dope! thanks man!

[@VenusTheory]

+KaslexMusic Glad you liked it dude!

[@svoiton]

Thanks !

[@JoeDhirk]

Nice one

[@Peterzwegat8844]

great tutorial!!!

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@thibautcama4224]

Dude that's brillant!

[@VenusTheory]

Thanks man! Glad you liked it!

[@vincebu6441]

Dnb is the most challenging, the rest are easier.. Doing dnb live is also the most challenging. Most important though!! I'm here for book learnin for my grade 10..

[@cromatik2364]

Needs more views

[@VenusTheory]

+Cromatik Haha thanks dude, glad you enjoyed the video!

[@cristiankuzon3814]

I made a totally different sound to this one but I liked great tutorial thanks

[@VenusTheory]

Glad it was helpful! And that's a good thing haha, the point is to show the idea and not to give you something to copy directly. Happy patching!

[@silkproduction]

is it your vox at pendulum's blood sugar predrop?

[@VenusTheory]

Haha it is not! But you're probably the 10th person to say that now, maybe I should hit up pendulum haha.

[@ogonek]

Good tutorial. Regards!

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you liked it!

[@face.]

i feel like you'd do a great beavis and butthead impression

[@VenusTheory]

huhuhuhuhu that's cool In all seriousness I have the great cornholio down to a science

[@flyoverfredusa]

awesome man

[@VenusTheory]

Thanks dude! Glad you liked it!

[@jaesindnb6197]

Awesome!!!!!

[@VenusTheory]

Thanks dude! Glad you liked it!

[@thegr8orangeofficial591]

I am speechless

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you liked it!

[@giu8495]

kikstarted my music career

[@VenusTheory]

Haha glad to hear it!

[@monat_son]

subscribed!

[@VenusTheory]

Haha welcome to the party!

[@mmmulder]

Thank you

[@VenusTheory]

Haha you're welcome!

[@Blackriver124]

Hey dude! Loved the video, but when I import my own sample into serum, normalize it and morph it, i get a lot of noise when moving the wave table position. Little clicks here and there but when I bind it to an LFO it gets really overwhelming. I tried crossfading the edges of the samples in serum but that only made it sound meh. Would you have any tips? Thanks!

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! With certain complex sounds (especially longer samples) or sounds with lots of DC offset/movement this can cause some hard clicks in the wavetable. In those cases there are a few options: - Try other sounds - Shorten the sample to a smaller segment - Find the 'good part' of the wavetable, cut the rest out, then morph again on that remaining section - Manually fix the clicks by redrawing the waveform at those points Personally, I'd just find the best sounding part of the wavetable, keep only that, and then re-morph it to fill the entire table. Hope that helps!

[@gyur6]

loved that apathetic voice tone paired with pure professionalism. sbscrbd

[@VenusTheory]

Haha thanks, glad you liked the tutorial!

[@viktorkadza]

i wanna full track of this!

[@VenusTheory]

If I'm ever in the mood to make some DnB I'll have to use this bass idea haha

[@thisisMRJAMES]

can you do a vid on arps, like in wave music? I know some of them are shit but there are a few people doing interesting things with arps. such as klimeks, skeler, ect the list goes on. not particularly how to make arps just how to make interesting patches

[@VenusTheory]

Yo dude! I'll be revisiting the Wave series here sometime this year, so I'll be sure to note that down for the series!

[@TheQuantixXx]

is there a tutorial of the sound of youe intro? i really dig that one :0

[@VenusTheory]

Hey dude! Not an exact tutorial of that exact sound, but that was a bass that was resampled using Kontakt - I have a few Kontakt videos that demonstrate how I go about doing that! But basically, make yourself a big ol' reese patch, and resample using Kontakt and all it's cool filters and whatnot.

[@jordanwatkins6111]

Question, is it possible to turn the macros controlling things like the lfo rate and such into an automation clip? Currently my midi is broken, so trying to work out the best way of creating patterns with different modulation without having to hold down a key and tweak the macros using a mouse!

[@VenusTheory]

Hey dude! Certainly! In Cubase, you can click the W button in the top left of a plugin to 'write' automation to a lane you can then tweak. Just hit play with W active, and tweak a parameter. In Ableton, you should be able to right click and show/create automation or whatever it's called there haha.

[@jordanwatkins6111]

Venus Theory that's amazing, thanks so much man! really appreciate the helpful and answers and actually giving a response to yt comments haha

[@VenusTheory]

Haha no worries at all dude!

[@TommyGunOZ]

I got to 3:21 and when I turn my WT POS it doesnt morph the actual graph like yours but i cam hear the change... but at this stage i get a sound nothing like yours ;/

[@VenusTheory]

Huh, that's weird. Sounds like a bug maybe? Maybe ask Xfer support (if they have a support team) or make sure Serum is up to date. That's really odd though. But keep after it and I'm sure you'll get something close or something you're happy with! Don't forget post processing too, that's really important with basses!

[@romash11]

where did you get the sample that you loaded into serum oscillator 2?

[@VenusTheory]

Hey dude! That was just a bass I made myself. If I remember right it was something I made in FM8 and resampled a few times or something along those lines.

[@d0943]

i see billain i click

[@Andrei.x8]

so without that one shot sample it basically sounds nothing like what you presented. Tried using similar stuff but it's just way off. Also that 20 minute tutorial on sine basses you recommended watching to get that kind of sound is also using a lot of stuff that's not available if one's using a different DAW. I appreciate the knowledge sharing, very exhaustive, but maybe make all the included items available when making something so complex, especially when it is the core of the whole sound.

[@VenusTheory]

Well, I'd argue that's the point here really - the idea is a process, not a thing to copy. If you're having trouble with it though I'd use the first custom waveform with some unison, FM that with a square or some other basic waveform and automate a few things, then render that and import to OSC B which should give something in the same ballpark. For the most part, it's all about experimenting and seeing what you come up with yourself.

[@david6833]

where can i find these samples u use at 5:21? an answser would be great i know this video is a bit older haha

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! I actually made these basses myself. But, you could use any bass one shots for that, or just make some neuro-y patches to import yourself!

[@byronjudson1199]

can I download this because its super complicated to make ahah

[@VenusTheory]

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man how to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man. Fishing isn't that hard." - Ron Swanson In all seriousness though, I don't provide patches typically as the point of this channel is to teach the ideas and principles of sound design and making stuff so that you can take that and make it your own. However, there are plenty of free serum packs and other channels that offer downloads for the patches! Just not really the point of the channel, so I don't save them to post later haha. The patch isn't too crazy though, mostly it's a matter of experimenting with different samples and sound sources as a modulator for the first oscillator. Everything from there on is just a matter of what you think sounds good!

[@blaeke64]

But jeheeeeesus those DRUMS. Lovely loop

[@VenusTheory]

For sure! I believe that is from the Cinematic DnB pack from Samplephonics (pretty sure, at least). Highly recommend that pack!

[@grvyrdsmusic9185]

is there anywhere we can download these patches or wavetables?

[@VenusTheory]

Hey dude! Didn't save the patch actually since the point of this video was just to show some ways to make basses like this one. But if you toss in some neuro one shot or something random and just futz about with osc1 similar to what I did here it should get you close!

[@fabulousk9014]

i dont have the bass sample as you so i cant do the sound, thx a lot

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! Sure you can! You can import any bass one shot, some foley, or whatever you want to create this type of sound. In this case, I just made a quick bass using FM8 and used that as a wavetable. If you're not super keen with sound design quite yet, you can bounce a Serum preset you like to audio, then import that as a wavetable.

[@fabulousk9014]

@@VenusTheory alright i i will try, what do u do with the lower freqs in this sound, they are kinda very uncontrolled, i already thought about putting a sub underneath

[@VenusTheory]

@@fabulousk9014 Yo! For most basses, I find using multiband compression (waves C4 is my favorite for this) is a good way to stabilize the spectrum a bit instead of EQing. That said, you could certainly EQ out the low end and supplement with a sub instead or do some bandsplitting!

[@fabulousk9014]

@@VenusTheory alright, thx for the nice answer anyway, i was too fast to judge then!

[@fkeyzuwu]

didnt work too well for me lol, i guess i need to try more

[@VenusTheory]

Trial and error is all part of the process haha. Importing different sounds may help, or using different import modes may yield better results!

[@ignaciosagrariofurest8736]

7:28 nothing sounds. 7:31 Cool!

[@VenusTheory]

Haha yeah, timelapsed that out for the sake of length.

[@musiksegar2902]

Can we get that loop?

[@VenusTheory]

Hey dude! Don't actually have it anymore. However, definitely try out any one shots you have lying around, or some from sample packs! Lots of interesting sounds to be made with this method.

[@jonathangallant-mills6434]

So it's not all magic?

[@VenusTheory]

The real magic was in your heart all along

[@rokthatsun]

I thought this kind of bass only in brostep😂

[@yaroslavnazarenko3376]

9:34

[@AmenSaw]

Billain, like Villain :v

[@VenusTheory]

Well now I know haha

[@hypnauticamusic]

9:34 Gnarly lol ... sample that and make a reese.

[@VenusTheory]

Haha I may have to try that. Forgot to edit that out!

[@TheGKFront]

You are so handsome

[@swerynjanowiak9885]

who watched it on 2021?

[@beaulachance7439]

Excellent tutorial. I did end up using it for a track: soundcloud.com/subceratops/robocallers Came out great thanks to you!

[@VenusTheory]

Glad to hear it dude! And well done, cool track!

[@BingBingBongBong]

Your voice tells me you’re excited. But your facial expressions (lack-thereof) and eyes tell me you’re bored. SO I AM CONFUSION!

[@VenusTheory]

Welcome to the struggle of being me.

[@Barnet310]

You’re the kind of guy to eat sand for fun

[@VenusTheory]

Usually I just like to kick kid's sand castles over, but I may have to try eating them instead next time.

[@Barnet310]

you hero

[@renyutv]

savage

[@reecednbfamilyofficial]

By the way it’s “Reece” not Reese, it’s out of respect for the UK drum & bass genre unless we want to give all the credit to the US, which we do not want! DnB is born & bred in the UK so it’s Reece ☝🏻

[@VenusTheory]

It is! However, search rankings don't really like that spelling haha.

[@gerrardxavier]

Ethan Hawke is a really versatile actor.

[@VenusTheory]

You know it!

[@cameronrout3147]

sucker