How To Make The Synth Bass from "Da Funk" by Daft Punk
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2023
- In this video I use my vintage Korg MS-20 with a Boss Super Overdrive to show you how to recreate the synth bass from Daft Punk's "Da Funk."
Anthony's musical touch as both composer and performer is connected with some of the most influential creative minds over the last 40 years. He’s composed and conducted original orchestral scores for over 80 feature films including Young Guns, Internal Affairs, The Man From Elysian Fields, 15 Minutes and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for his symphonic work "In the Family Way", written over one thousand TV commercials in a myriad of musical styles, co-founded Levels Audio Post (LA's premiere post production facility) and performed and arranged on big-box-office films and influential hit records such as Michael Jackson's Thriller.
His extensive work as a young arranger, orchestrator and performer for Quincy Jones, Jack Nitzsche, Lamont Dozier, Arthur Rubenstein and Giorgio Moroder was vital in launching his own career. His early years pioneering modular analog synthesizers along with his wide-ranging music scholarship positioned Anthony at the center of the music technology revolution. He attended the University of Southern California School of Music as a piano and composition major.
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Already one of the best synth channels on UA-cam.
As a young musician and synth nerd, these videos are invaluable! Much appreciated.
Man, this is one of the records that introduced me to electronic music. I think I was 11-12 when I heard this song for the first time on a burned cd. I had never heard anything like it and was instantly hooked. I'm 36 now and still chasing this shit
Nicely done. I had a crack at this sound a few years back, such a classic.
One funny thing, whilst (as you said), it sounds exactly like an MS-20, their gear list from that album has since emerged and there's no MS-20 or Yamaha CS-15/30 that seemed to be the most obvious choices.
Much to my surprise reading their gear list, it may have been a Juno-106 into a Waldorf Miniworks 4-pole in bandpass mode!
Unless they deliberately omitted gear from the list, of course, which they may have done.
Had this sound programmed on the original MicroKorg, and kept that patch slot memorized and part of the «do not overwrite»-sounds for years.
This has been the best explanation on how to make this sound!
Brilliant, I love the way the Boss Overdrive adds grit to the envelope release tail, as the filter closes. You found the perfect sweet spots on everything and it’s an honour to watch you work. Almost sounds like the EDP Wasp synthesiser. Thanks for sharing.
Your wee summaries at the end are super handy, of course anyone can rewatch a longer tutorial technically but I actually make notes from your summaries!
I’m not really into EDM or synth’s but find your videos just fascinating and very educational, and I think you are a brilliant genius.
Factoid: The foots (32', 16', 8', 4') come from organs like the Hammond B3 which are derived from pipe organs, emulating the size of the pipe. Great choice of songs, great content! Daft Punk Forever!
When looking at old synths (or emulations of them) it always amuses me when the knobs had those indications in feet. Did the early synth makers not believe that their users would understand the concept of octaves (-1, -2 etc)? It seems crazy that they thought that referring to lengths of pipe (with an Imperial measurement, no less) made more sense!
This channel is a life saver
These breakdowns are incredibly useful to fully understand how the different pieces of a synthesiser work together to produce sounds! Thank you
Love the details, thanks for such cool videos. And remember: September 1985!
So fantastic!
I know you hear this all the time, but I really appreciate how you simplify terms/procedure to get where you need to go sound-wise. When you said "what sound am I trying to make" a light bulb went on. I know that's obvious, but too often I sit behind my gear and twiddle knobs without direction. Yeah, I'm trying to build a bass line or lead, but having a destination is much better. This was a difficult concept for me (and an obvious one) to grasp. I'm a bass player; dialing a sound is as easy as moving my right hand around. Sound synthesis is a little more difficult for the moment until I build the knowledge base that you've so generously provided with your time and expertise. Thank you for explaining the "duh."
Science, feelings, art... what a combination, Maestro!
This has channel has swiftly nested itself in my favorites list. Kudo's to Anthony breaking down iconic synth sounds in a highly educational way.
"... a gentle distortion ..."
What a perfect description!
And, of course, nicely done video.
This is one of my favorite synth bass lines ever! Thank you for covering it.
I'm getting better at hearing what's going on in synth sounds entirely thanks to these videos.
That’s what I like to hear 👂
@@anthonymarinellimusica friend wants to know lady in my life synth patches fro his uni finals, do you know what these are or can you ask?
This is so awesome!
You make it seem so simple! That is an insanely accurate recreation of the sound. The way you show how things behave with and without the parameters you're changing is educational gold. I kind of know all these things but the way you present them makes them clear as day. This channel is priceless.
Anthony's the coolest! Thanks so much for these videos.
You really nailed it and your explanations are superb. Thank you!
You're an incredible teacher. These videos are a goldmine.
Fantastic synthesis lesson, thank you!!
Congrats. Great vids. Thanks for your tutorials. Much appreciated.
I am learning so very much! Thank you. Just a master class in programming every time. All the nuances.
Absolutely invaluable information for me or anyone else blossoming as a musician in this "synth renaissance" we're currently in. Love the channel and I'm excited to hear more filthy bass lines being recreated!
Are we in a synth renaissance?
Masterclass! Thank you for such an informative breakdown.
Also super cool to see the man having programmed seminal hits and grooves. Respect
Very cool your series. I learned a lot from your videos, thank you!
Couldn't make it happen for the premiere, but watching right now. Excellent as always. Thanks for sharing your sound design and programming art!
Love your logical approach to analysing and recreating sounds, I've done this myself for years for my own music and covers.Excellent as always Anthony 👍
Dialectical ingenuity at its finest.. You have an amazing ability for expressing your ideas with such clarity. Thank you for sharing this with all of us.
Best teacher on UA-cam truly. I appreciate how you go over what something would sound like without and then with the changes variable really drills into my mind what I will use in my future in devours!
I love this! I'm learning so much from your videos - please keep it up!
Wow, I see what you mean about the 'real' bass coming in later in the song. The switch is very effective, I have to agree.
Sounds about right. I aldo had a go at this sound once but I did it bit different. I used saws on both oscillators, but I tuned osc2 to the fifth to make a power chord, then I turned osc2 down to 16" and osc1 one at 8" so it played the fifth below the root. And I also overdrove the sound by running it back into it's ext sound port, great source of overdrive right there 😊
I really enjoy the content you're putting out, Anthony. After I watched one of your videos on creating bass patches on a 2600, I spent the next 4 hours recording a new song on my Odyssey. Keep doing what you do!
This man has knowledge that few on the planet have and HE’s JUST GIVING IT TO US!!!!! 🫡
Gracias por tan buena explicación en los detalles del sonido! 🎉 que buen video
Welcome everyone to the echelon of synth tutorials. This is actually insane. Thank you sooooo much Anthony !!!!!
I’m excited for this
Great video! I love my MS-20 mini!
It literally reminds me of the lead "guitar" synth from Lady Gaga - Paparazzi, the one that's panned from left to right in the verses.
Hey Anthony !
For the saturation just patch the phone jack to the Ext In and tweak, you’ll have the exact sound 😉
You can just put the signal out into the ext in too. You’ll need to listen thru the OUT just after the « SIGNAL IN » 😊
thanks for the amazing music you've created that shaped my ears during all my childhood
Awesome!
I vaguely remember, when the reissues of the MS20 came out, youtubers showed a trick for the distorsion rather inside the MS20 instead of external effects. I think it was about modulating the resonant filter by a pretty fast LFO.
I also love these videos I was watching all of yours here plus the Thriller documentaries on that other channel. Awesome source for musicians. On this video I would loved to see more of the actual knob positions - cause I can try to.listen with the ears and probably should. But since the two filters with their resonance and envelopes are not that easy to tweak as many on many other synths it's not to easy to copy. So either a sheet at the end or better lighting for the black panel of the MS20 would be handsome. The MS 20 also has some setting which would be interesting to determine. For instance you didn't really explain how you set the resonance or peak for both filters. And what I also did not understand was whether you use the same envelope for both filters and at which level or if you don't use any or even the second one for the high pass.
Yep totally. You can drive it with some patching
You are smart. I enjoyed this video. Thank you
Amazing ❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥
Amigo eres genial, saludos desde México 🇲🇽❤️!!!
How have you not got more subscribers yet?! Amazing channel, love the videos!
great - thanks!
Korg ❤
MS20 😍
Nice breakdown. Subbed.
I’m a middle aged dude about to buy my first “real” synth (Arturia Minifreak most likely) Just found this video and instantly subscribed. This is the info I’m hungry for!!!
Great video 👍
I'm a synth head, but only after stumbling across your videos I really got into PWM. Keep it up, love your channel!
What? You are a maniac! This is my jam!
Need a video on how to run synths through pedals properly. Line level, instrument level, DI box? I don’t know all that impedance stuff yet
Sweet! I was able to recreate this perfectly using a Moog Grandmother. Great tutorial!
Anthony, you have bionic ears! Brilliant breakdown, thanks. 😁
Many thanks master.
This was great! I've always been curious how they achieved that sound. I would love more Daft Punk synth breakdowns if you were interested in doing more, specifically the base tone on their song Voyager (But really, any song/sound breakdown those robots have made would get my click!) Thanks for what you do and have done for music!
We can all learn from Anthony!
While you can make a similar sound on many synths, yeah I think the MS20 sounds closer to the original than other synths I've seen used, such as a Juno 106. One of the best synth sounds of all time too, IMO.
Can’t believe that you own a MKII MS-20! 😳😳😳
I have always wondered
loving these videos, the sound you got is very very close to the legendary hook
why do you call it a bass sound though? i'd call it a lead sound, as you said, the bass sound comes in afterwards
It’s a bass sound used as a lead.
makes sense@@markaprill6501
You're right, they did use an ms20 but if I remember correctly they used a Boss Hm2.
I don't know why I never thought of it using an overdrive
Thank you. Just my 2 cents, the second VCO is tuned 2 octaves above the first one. I do it on my Minibrute 2
"wow"
Very good! Small nitpick: I think there is glide applied in the original which is missing in your demo.
Hey Tony, I've seen some patch it through the External Signal Processor and just driving it hard that way. But my guess is they used a pedal after all as that was just how thing often were done back then. I used the Boss Bass drive on the TB303, best acid sound (ODB-3 I think it was) The benefit was wet/dry + EQ knobs.. More pedals! 😂
Note that Daft Punk was formed from the ashes of an indie-punk band (it's how they got their name) so they definitely had some guitar pedals lying around the studio.
man, you are killin' it. you'll be too big on here to read all the comments one day so i'm saying hello while i can. appreciate you!
Hahah thankyou
Amazing man as usual! I have a MKII MS20, so cant get that filth that you can get out of the filter (My MS10 can do it though), so it was a bit more complicated to do, but in the end, I got the result! Cheers mate! Also, what are you using to hold all your MS stuff up stand wise?
Awesome, so accurate. Thanks for breaking it down so well. Any chance you could break down The Cars - Let's Go? Might make a good sync episode?
The Pro3 has a great 'Cars sync' thing as a default patch! (U1-P4) - I love playing that!
(It's actually pretty simple. -- Beowwwhh! [Envelope!])
Could you please do more videos about Daft Punk?
if you haven't already I suggest reaching to a youtuber by name of Andrew Huang. He's also an analog/ digital synth kind of guy. Such an interesting musician. He also loves using WEIRD sounds and tones.
❤❤ can you do Zapp Rodgers ' more bounce ' bass? 🎉
🌷🌷🌷
Can you do a video for the 2nd bass on this song?
I believe they used the Roland Metal Pedal for distortion, give it a try and thanks for the video.
Yes metalzone 2 on a tb 303
The tb303 line is a different part of the song
Would love to see you create the other bass sound on this song!
👌👍from God's own country. Kerala
Anthony, can you do a breakdown of Ultravox's Vienna and explain how they made the bass stabs at the beginning. You know, what the song is known for. Would love to see that.
Kick drum from the Roland CR-78, thunderclaps from the Synare 3 drum synth (the one that looked like a flying saucer).
@@AutPen38 Cheers!
@@EdEditz There's an old video of someone recreating 'Vienna' with old drum pads here: ua-cam.com/video/bbtR452_elw/v-deo.html. As I understand it, the "thunderclap" sound uses the noise filter (which was one of the presets that was often used for making snares and hats) on the Synare, so it's basically white noise filtered and pitched way down. It's incredible what you can do with a hissing sound and envelopes for filters and pitch!
@@AutPen38 Cool! Thanks for that. I want to try and replicate that sound on my B2600 synth. :)
@@EdEditz Nice. Good luck!
Anthony! God dammnit! I can't believe this you're seriously a god amongst men... Thank you SO MUCH for making this videos. Genuinely this is the power of the internet, im so psyched you're just sharing these experiences.
I would also be interested in the other side of music, the life lessons, they day to day, the sessions you've sat in on. Super super interesting stuff. Lots of love from Cairo
D.P. are fans of yours
It sounds better than the original 😳
I like to play this on my sub phatty, your version sounds more authentic to the original though. Do you have an Access Virus? I'd love to see you design some sounds on it. I bet they'd be amazing Great hoodie too.
Everybody loves the MS-20 filter they just don't know it. If that's the original MS-20 you can make it distort by just turning the resonance all the way up on the filters. At least that's how Alex Ball recreated Da Funk 🙂
I think the Boss ds1 gets quite close to the tone
I have a VST of MS-20 - is there a similar patch?
wait so, would you say one of the important aspects of this sound the continuous lowpass to highpass? you had a word for that....... how would you emulate that on something like a 2600 which doesn't have that (even though I think it has the ability to high pass with some secret techniques?)
There's a patch I'd love to find.
Tangerine Dream, "Tangram" at 6:55 of "Set 2" (second side).
- It might be a guitar thru a synth? Can you find that? (I've only got a Pro3 for mono)
And, hell, find any of those tones on TD's Tangram? Some of my favorite tones ever. (Often Moog?)
(Though a couple are definitely guitar.)
TSynthks
Damn this channel is a gold mine! One of my favorite songs of all time and here you are breaking down this amazing sound. I am speechless. This is the best breakdown I've seen of this yet as I'm sure like you are that this was what they actually used back in the 90s. This is hugely different from the many others I've seen using VSTs and DAWs.
Isn't 8' two octaves above 32'?