In this tutorial
My notes from this video
The first thing is to realize you have different waveforms. People just use the saw wave they get loaded up with, but you get analog waveforms here and they're there for a reason. They're taken from analog synthesizers and they emulate that feeling.
So when you're making a psy bass, for example, consider using the Basic_McB instead of the normal saw wave. You'll see it gets a little bit more snappy, so I just start off with this one instead.
The second thing that really helps is playing around with the unison, the detune and most importantly the randomization of the phase. When you put this on random, the waveform is going to start at random points. The more you get this down, the more it will be narrowed down into that region.
So if you add a lot of unison and take down the detune, you get a very narrow, squeezed and phasey warm saw. That's a very nice trick. I like to add a little bit of detune and really enjoy that detune sound, with a little bit of that warm analog feeling.
Go into the filter section and realize there are dedicated analog filters. Instead of the low series you could use the MG low series, and then two filters that everyone always forgets, the French low pass and the German low pass. They give you a more analog feeling because they're analog filters.
In this case I create envelope 2 and add that to the cutoff. With the French low pass, if I add a lot of resonance and a little bit of drive, much more is going on. There are these random spikes in the filter, which emulate an analog feeling a little bit more.
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Analog Techno Tutorial
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