Rising hard punchy wobble synth thing?!?

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Hear this sound on a lot of tracks and have no idea how to make it, have no idea what its called, or how to describe it so I feel examples are in order hahaha

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Sure there are many other examples but these two sprung to mind :smile:

Im on Logic and donā€™t run massive so if anyone has any help/ideas, it would be gladly appreciated

Safe! :smile:

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Could just be a bass with a longer attack time, probably an lfo or something on there to give it the wobble

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Cheers for the reply!

I kinda figured that, just concerned to how they might make the punchiness of each wobble :slight_smile:

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Some kind of distortion maybe? Truth be told Iā€™m still in the process of figuring things out so I may not be the best help haha

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The distortion being used here is "bitcrushing"
Look up a bitcrushing vst, thereā€™s one with three sliders on it thatā€™s a greenish colour, itā€™s the simplest one and the only one I bother drawing for because these days Iā€™m a CPU conservationist, but once you get your head around it you can get onto some others like ā€œgeektronicā€, which have cool additional features.

When going for these types of basses with an LP filter envelope/LFO on the cutoff, youā€™ll probably want to turn up the resonance.

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i swear its to do with the shape of the lfo like you want a square or a saw or a triangle or something so each wob has like no attack, idk how to explain it better but ye basically dont just use a sine for the lfo shape try a sharper looking waveform

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Yeah you can do that, I just use envelopes because I like to play it at different rates without having to automate the LFO/have different instances of the patch.

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those pads sound really similar lol

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actually that catacombs tune sounds like a total copy of the original Soundman, what the hell

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Basically sawtooth LFO pattern on the filter. A bit of resonance. Maybe try to send the LFO to the pitch a little bit to add a little bit of pluckiness. Also there is an envelope on the filter with a long attack AMD maybe sent slightly to amp gain too. It has a bit crusher on it for graininess. I think a good base sound would be detuned squares.
I havenā€™t tried it but off the top of my head that will get u close. Sorry about the random order and thought process.
Also that catacombs thun g is a propper bite

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Ere yar lads I have no idea what I was on about saying I got a similar soundā€¦

After a few weeks I came back to itnot realise that I am nowhere near, just canā€™t get it!