Hey friends, another tutorial up on designing claps from scratch, ground zero, no samples. It’s a bit heady but there are a lot of principles in place that can be utilized outside an mpc. That being said, we cover a few different approaches depending on your preference of design.
Would be super grateful if you could sub to the channel if this helpful.
I made some bass tutorials on the live two back in the day but it was such a pita to design as there was practically no modulation outside doing it by hand on a sequence.
Since there are global lfos and a visual parametric eq now, we’re way closer! I do wish there were at least 8 bands and we had an ott but I’ll take it. Erosion/noise carrier ring mod would be nice too.
If anyone’s wondering- use detuned saw waves and a noise layer inside a drum group osc. Use the drum filter as a notch, then use subtle distortion and clipping with the drum fx. For the inserts, create a formant filter with vis eq 4 x2, add a flanger, bass utility, I used the flavor pro for vinyl noise on top and then soft clipped it.
Pro tip is to set your modulation up before you start designing. So go to q link edit, envelope followers and make them slow lfos or randoms, that way you can use the drop down menu and not have to navigate away from the page while designing.
I did experiment with some fx to bring out the high end as compression just killed it but yeah, we may just have to wait for an mpc ott