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Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:01 pm
by Noisestorm
Yesterday, I bought FM8, as I heard good things about it, and also that it is capable of making monster bass sounds, such the Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites growl bass. Although I don't want to be copying styles, I did have a look at getting some nasty growl basses, and at first I thought it would be impossible- all I was getting was bell and pad sounds, but after a lot of fiddling around, I managed to get a pretty nice growl bass sound, in the clip below, I have a series of clips, of different tones of the bass. And PLEASE take note that this is the unprocessed, unresampled, un distorted sound, just the raw sample from FM8, and I think if I actually tweaked it for longer I could get an even closer sound, and also bear in mind, that I do not plan to use these in my tracks, I just was curious as to how Skrillex made them in FM8, and decided to try! Let me know what you think, and if you want a tutorial or something, since there is literally nothing on YouTube apart from a basic wobble. It is still WAY off the actual sound, but this is what I got so far!

Here is the clip: Soundcloud

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Basic Sound)

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:16 pm
by Eridu
that`s pretty good! I`d like a few pointers...

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:18 pm
by Blastfome
Nice man! This sounds really good. I've been trying to figure out how to make soounds like that. But as you said, FM8 tutorials don't go very far on youtube :/ haha. You should totally make a tutorial for it! That would be greatly appreciated. I barely even know wut buttons i'm pushing in FM8, let alone trying to come up with sounds like this. I say a tutorial is a great idea :W:

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:32 pm
by hasezwei
so you gonna tell us how you made it or what? cause we already have a "post an interesting sound you made" thread ;)

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:13 pm
by Fbac
A text tutorial on how it was done xD so i can then try it out on my FM synth would be even more appreciated.

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:23 pm
by Noisestorm
Thanks guys! It is still a really rough sound, I'll try to get it sounding clearer, then make a tutorial! I do think FM8 is a really overlooked synth, it can make some really powerful stuff.

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:28 pm
by Codox
thats great man, sounds just like it.

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:43 pm
by raige
Noisestorm wrote:Thanks guys! It is still a really rough sound, I'll try to get it sounding clearer, then make a tutorial! I do think FM8 is a really overlooked synth, it can make some really powerful stuff.
I agree. I almost don't want to touch massive again because the sounds you can make in FM8 just have so much depth. get to work on that tutorial! :corndance:

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:26 pm
by mthrfnk
Pretty awsm man, a nice text tutorial would be good. I'm still trying to get to rips with FM8 too and the few tutorials that are on youtube mostly suck, like that one about creating a wobble.

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:30 pm
by Codox
Yeah i agree with everyone a tutorial would be awesome.

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:36 pm
by Augment
I would like the patch if u dont mind. I find it way easier to break down a patch and learn instead of reading text manuals... :)

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:04 pm
by Grimenoceros
It's not so much the patch as it is automating an EQ to MAKE it "growl" by creating vowel formants. It was all discussed in the thread about Skrillex revealing how he makes his basses, it's still in the first two pages I think. But yes, Noisestorm, that is a very good example and it sounds pretty nice.

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:18 am
by VirtualMark
is this straight out of fm8? or did you automate the eq and add a vocoder afterwards?

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:30 am
by monte-m
VirtualMark wrote:is this straight out of fm8? or did you automate the eq and add a vocoder afterwards?
says in his original post
[...]And PLEASE take note that this is the unprocessed, unresampled, un distorted sound, just the raw sample from FM8, and I think if I actually tweaked it for longer I could get an even closer sound[...]

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:47 am
by raige
btw Noise, grats on getting a track released under Monstercat. they're one of the few labels I follow and you debuted with a solid track.

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:53 am
by GothamHero
I hate those sounds so much, but it is very Skrillex-esque. And all that was done with one day of prior synthesis knowledge, experimentation, and tweaking shit? Very nice work.

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:34 am
by Noisestorm
Grimenoceros wrote:It's not so much the patch as it is automating an EQ to MAKE it "growl" by creating vowel formants. It was all discussed in the thread about Skrillex revealing how he makes his basses, it's still in the first two pages I think. But yes, Noisestorm, that is a very good example and it sounds pretty nice.
I actually haven't automated any EQ's to make this patch, it's just raw FM8, mabye I could try to automate them and get an even closer sound?

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:19 am
by RandoRando
throw some harsher waveforms in there to give them more vowel noise, like a triangle on the dominant operator, or squaew or sawtooth.

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:58 pm
by VirtualMark
Can you post a tutorial or patch?

Re: Skrillex Growl in FM8 (Got A Rough Sound)

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 5:26 pm
by sleightmind
Good stuff! How bout a tutorial AND the patch??