I am trying to figure out how to make skrillex / excision type growls (fwiw I'm not trying to replicate skrillex growls exactly, I have some components that make me unique as an artist, I'm not trying to bite skrillex 100%)
I see lots of newer videos of people trying to make growls with wavetable synths like Serum but I also see older videos of people using FM8 and Massive for the same task. Can both kinds of synths make the same sound?
Wavetables and FM seem like very different techniques, unlike, say, additive vs subtractive, where you could easily end up with similar sounds unless you do anything super unique in the additive synth, which is why I am confused that people seem to be using them interchangeably. also I am having a hard time finding info about how wavetable synthesis works on YouTube. Through trial and error with Serum I have an idea of what it does but I'm confused by how a wavetable synth like Serum/Massive and an FM synth like FM8/Sytrus (my personal favorite) could make similar sounds, since they seem to serve completely different purposes.
I already have a free copy of Sytrus (an extremely powerful FM synth which lets you create an individual envelope / LFO for every parameter: phase, pitch, volume, compressor bands, etc) and I've made some heavy growls with it (Imo) but I also can't find literally any Sytrus dubstep tutorials either. I can figure out how to apply most of the stuff I see people doing in, say, FM8 to Sytrus pretty easily, but it seems odd no one is using Sytrus to make growls (or anything really, nobody on youtube ever uses Sytrus lol)
Submitted November 01, 2017 at 03:20AM by macbookprofan https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/7a1v3f/why_is_it_that_fm_synths_and_wavetable_synths/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Wednesday, November 1, 2017