http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2NJzT-19lE
we all should gather here for this tutorial to happend please post the track u would like to know,also say my name is a nice track from him.
While I’m all for delving into Porter Robinson, there is a glitch step house tutorial that covers a lot of what you need to know. See also the most current post in the tutorial section by me about one of his sounds.
What I’ve realized over the few months I have been trying to figure out his style and technique is that there are a lot of things that trick you.
For one, his sounds seem really complex, but with a little knowledge and time, they’re pretty simple. I replicated almost perfectly his “Less Go” remix bassline with Ableton’s waveshaper and some multiband distortion, compression, and eq’ing.
Thanks to SA, I figured out his heavy pluck sound too.
The thing is, the crucial and difficult part comes when you’re putting the elements together. First of all, make sure you kick drum is massive. That’s the biggest part. Second, don’t ride your bass WAY over the kick. Sidechain and compress and make sure it’s just above or at the level of the kick, and hi-pass just so you cut out some of the muddy kick frequencies.
Also, you’re going to want to figure out Mixing between your glitches. What distinguishes the pros from the rest is mixing, not sounds. Anybody can just download presets these days. So the point is, the levels and size of all the elements is what really matters. Their interplay can make or break a song.
I know these are pretty vague suggestions, but hopefully they help anybody who happens to look at this.
[quote]Flaxo (11/02/2011)[hr]While I’m all for delving into Porter Robinson, there is a glitch step house tutorial that covers a lot of what you need to know. See also the most current post in the tutorial section by me about one of his sounds.
What I’ve realized over the few months I have been trying to figure out his style and technique is that there are a lot of things that trick you.
For one, his sounds seem really complex, but with a little knowledge and time, they’re pretty simple. I replicated almost perfectly his “Less Go” remix bassline with Ableton’s waveshaper and some multiband distortion, compression, and eq’ing.
Thanks to SA, I figured out his heavy pluck sound too.
The thing is, the crucial and difficult part comes when you’re putting the elements together. First of all, make sure you kick drum is massive. That’s the biggest part. Second, don’t ride your bass WAY over the kick. Sidechain and compress and make sure it’s just above or at the level of the kick, and hi-pass just so you cut out some of the muddy kick frequencies.
Also, you’re going to want to figure out Mixing between your glitches. What distinguishes the pros from the rest is mixing, not sounds. Anybody can just download presets these days. So the point is, the levels and size of all the elements is what really matters. Their interplay can make or break a song.
I know these are pretty vague suggestions, but hopefully they help anybody who happens to look at this.[/quote]
I’m also a big fan of porter robinson. You definitely want to do the glitchstep house tutorial. That is something that both Flaxo & I lobbied for here on SA for the same reason that you posted this thread up.
On that note… Everything Flaxo said was spot on. Just remember that making this style of electro takes patience. In the beginning it wont sound that great. But once you get your sounds gelling together… you will be able to feel it. From there make sure that you keep it interesting. its really easy to lose your hook. remember to stay with it. Practice mixing because it takes a while to get good at.
On a side note…
A normal house track that I do has like 30-40 sounds in it.
My last electro house track had 120 sounds in it and it was only halfway done…
Haha, weeelllll
I’ll say this
I ran a multivoiced saw wave through ohmicide, a waveshaper, boosted 140 Hz and 10 Khz for sparkle, then Oxford inflator to make it really slap.
The pluck is a similar set up, but without the waveshaper and play around with the filter cutoff with an envelope filter’s attack.
@flaxo,do u mind a little more dept,muti saw ? how does the ohmicide works ,a tutorial on it would be awesome
[quote]blazin_beaver (03/03/2011)[hr]@flaxo,do u mind a little more dept,muti saw ? how does the ohmicide works ,a tutorial on it would be awesome[/quote]
What he means by mutivoiced saw waves are cranking up the voices in your vst if you are using Sylenth The voices are located under the stereo Knob…Ohmicide works by splitting the audio in many bands low mids and highs it kindoff looks like a multi compressor well anyways you can apply distortion to anyone of the bands its a great plugin saves you a lot of time from re sampling…
Heres a good tutorial on making those thick bass tones
[url]How To Make a Dada Life Style Bassline In Sylenth - YouTube
it even has a bit with Ohmicide also look at his videos he has some good tutorials that i think you might like…
And look i found another one 
[url]- YouTube
Also i tend to layer my bass tones if i were to use a saw i would make a crunchy sound with no low end…Then a nice mid over driven sound…i high-pass that at around 200hz to remove any low end then layer it with a Phat *** Sub i do this to prevent masking ( When 2 sounds occupy the same frequency) i also layer some bass patches and change some parameters in the synth like the cutoff resonance etc…
I would also recommend Watching Tech tips 5 Distorted Saw Sound
and tech tips 6 The Royskop tutorial it has great layering and modulation tips
I’m just saying… I totally started the nzmusic101 appreciation here
[quote]Flaxo (04/03/2011)[hr]I’m just saying… I totally started the nzmusic101 appreciation here[/quote]
I Posted his youtube channel in a tutorial pack i posted a long time ago So i win
Is that Tom Cosm’s new channel? Subbed to his site about a year ago. Don’t go on there much but he’s had some great series of ableton tuts. The bassline one was great, lots of different styles covered.
[quote]Subject 1 (04/03/2011)[hr][quote]Flaxo (04/03/2011)[hr]I’m just saying… I totally started the nzmusic101 appreciation here[/quote]
I Posted his youtube channel in a tutorial pack i posted a long time ago So i win :D[/quote]
we nzmusic101 and I used to play hopscotch at recess in grade school so I WIN 
[quote]J.HiZ (10/03/2011)[hr][quote]Subject 1 (04/03/2011)[hr][quote]Flaxo (04/03/2011)[hr]I’m just saying… I totally started the nzmusic101 appreciation here[/quote]
I Posted his youtube channel in a tutorial pack i posted a long time ago So i win :D[/quote]
we nzmusic101 and I used to play hopscotch at recess in grade school so I WIN [/quote]
I was the sperm before him SO I WIN!!!