Crafting TR-808 Toms for Melodic Techno | Synthesizer Tutorial

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Welcome to this comprehensive tutorial where we delve into the art of creating TR-808 style toms for your melodic techno tracks. The TR-808 toms are iconic in electronic music, and in this video, we'll be using Phase Plant to build our patch. However, whether you use Serum, Vital, Pigments, or another synthesizer, the principles remain the same, focusing on the foundation of a resonating filter. Join us as we break down the patch, exploring the schematic, and reverse engineering the TR-808's Low Tom section.

Throughout the video, we'll guide you step by step in designing the patch with a trigger pulse, resonating high-pass filters, pink noise, and saturation/dynamic control. You can tune the Toms with a knob like the classic TR-808 drum machine, but I will also show how to setup key tracking to play the toms like a more traditional synthesizer instrument. Plus, we'll explore special FX, such as sample rate reduction, to add that extra touch to your techno tracks. Stay tuned for a demonstration and a closing jam session. For more in-depth music production content, don't forget to subscribe and follow along. See you in the next video! 🎶🔧 #SynthTutorial #MelodicTechno #TR808Toms #MusicProductionTutorial #ableton #phaseplant

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