Make a Cinematic Pulsing Synth Bass with Serum

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Published 2018-09-17

How To Make a Pulsing, Organic “Motor” Arpeggio Patch From Scratch (with Serum)

A quick walkthrough using Serum to design a pulsating, contemporary analog sounding synthesizer preset for your own collection from scratch. Covers effects, filters, wavetables, LFOs and more! Bass pulse win. Check out my channel for other synth tutorials, tips and ideas for writing music, and software & sample reviews.

0:00 Let's go
0:20 Start With INIT
0:45 OSC A, LFO 1
2:30 LFO 2, WT POS (Wavetable Position)
6:45 Filter, Sub, Noise
8:32 FX
11:52 Unison, Detune, Sync
14:24 Mod Wheel
15:50 Wavetables

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All Comments (21)

@shanehacker609 4 years ago

Omg thank you so much
@barronimomusic6404 4 months ago

My first attempt at Serum - and my first tutorial video. Thank you, what was intimidating quickly makes perfect sense!
@bhaskarville 2 years ago

What a beautifully well articulated tutorial! Thank you Nathan!
@stefanileoni1615 2 years ago

This is really helpful! Thank you for creating this video and sharing to us!
@SetMeFree 2 years ago

Thank you, sir.
@nicolasvigh 3 years ago

Thanks, excellent demonstration!
@PabloFloresMusic 2 years ago

Thank you for this wonderful demonstration!
@Bazmatronics 2 years ago

What a great video! Thank you soooo much for sharing. I'm almost scared to start checking out your other videos. Learnt loads from that one alone. Great work! B
@Gedagnors 3 years ago

This video is beyond EPIC! Thank you!!! Very useful!!!
@landonmatthew 3 years ago

I could fall asleep to this synth sound. Super cool.
@MediaManProductions 5 years ago

Great video Nathan!
@seanpal9374 5 years ago

Thanks!
@alexandershulgin5194 4 years ago

Great!
@chrispantos3559 1 year ago

Thank you for this Nathan! Helped me a lot !!!
@viperwavstudios 3 years ago

Dude you are reaking awesome thank you... it's like impossible trying to find (THIS) tutorial online.. hardly no one does these.. it's like a rare sound no one seems to talk about.. Out of curiosity.. with this how would you slow it down to like 8th notes or quarter notes without it sounding bogged down? What I mean is.. just as plucky.. but at a slower tempo.. I tried slowing it down but it seemed to drag so Im guessing I have to add multiple spikes to the lfo some how? could you potentially go over this?
@saiyabeatz8870 4 years ago

good tutorial, but can u make a video " how to make synth rise up with pitch "not just a rise up, i want that with super crazy intense pitch before the boom comes.. hard to explain
@muso346 2 years ago

Thanks so much for this. Is Serum the go to rhythmic synth sound for soundtracks?
@martin-raison-music-composer 1 year ago

Do you know where to download pulses presets? Thanks :)
@jonathonbarron1406 4 years ago

Your tutorial is awesome. I saved the patch name to the "Carlton Motor Bass". It was used as the foundation for one of my cinematic tracks. You quite literally influenced an entire cinematic score. I named the score after you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sablrq0IS_E
@vicluistudio3320 1 year ago

Straight forward and clear, thanks. Is this the way to make such pulsing drum? https://youtu.be/VqeCmhpcJMQ?t=576 at 9:36