Best Donk Bass Tutorial Pt 1

How to program the classic FM "donk" synth bass – also known as gont, pipe, or bamboo bass – as heard on countless hard house, scouse house, bounce, and hard bass tracks...

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[austint]

Insanely underrated channel. So much knowledge in one vid.

[YestinHarrison]

3:05 lol, FM being actually PM in so many cases absolutely did my head in when i was a teenager. i heard that looping kick get faster and faster until it was a bass tone in röyksopp's vision one & figured all right, so to replicate that i'll take a saw a few octaves down and feed it into a sine, imagine my disappointment when all i heard was an out-of-tune sine with some little clicks sprinkled in. when you know it's phase modulation going on, it makes sense -- PM is (loosely speaking) equivalent to FM by the *derivative* of the modulator, which, in the case of a perfect digital saw, is a constant. donks aside, if anyone is looking for "proper", intuitive FM results to play with, the free & open source surge has you covered. it's just A into B, but A and B can come from several different engines incl. VA, generic wavetables, or even a baby 3-operator OPL-style setup, so there are weeks worth of sound design sessions to be had from just the FM mode.

[purpltm]

Instant subscribe within the first few seconds! I always love finding gems like this... happy Friday!

[Borntoproduce]

Love a good donk. That was my favorite sound for years. Great vid Owen :)

[klementus]

This is a very good and inspiring video! After watching it I decided that I definitely need to make a real Donk Bass, although it is not even my favorite sound. 😆

[apoplexiamusic]

PUT A DONK ON I love the shout out to the Plogue Chipsynths, those are awesome! I made demo tracks for both Chipsynth MD and OPS7, such good FM synths

[joseangelrey]

Oh, I've been waiting for this so hard, finally here!!!🎉🎉🎉

[markorichardson]

Great video, you seem to have got your head around FM pretty well, any idea how to achieve this on the KORG Volca FM2, I know it's got a sick donk in there somewhere! 😀

[thedemyex]

brother doing gods work
thanks for spreading the word of the donk

[SMF-]

no way! i just got that halion update! thanks man

[DJBathtub]

I just mostly sample stuff as that’s why I enjoy but this is fascinating stuff mate.❤

[morg]

Love ur channel mate just getting started with prod and you’ve got all the sounds im tryna make

[davierae]

Superb. Interesting to see how it all comes together 👏🏼

[planetweed]

In Operator you can adjust the oscilator phase ; so you can not only invert the waveform but also get all the phases in between, can dramatically affect the outcome ...

[mitchiemasha]

You know what you should follow up with! The Tribal Church stab. No Donk track is complete with out some of those super sharp stabs thrown in as a contrast!

[Powhart]

I was just thinking that I need some Donk bass in my production and here You are! Thank You YT algorithms ;)
PS: wonder if I can make that sound on Digitone?

[stuartc]

Great work but talk about a cliff hanger I would have liked to have seen the envelopes on that last fm8 patch just to mess around myself whens P2?

[MXVDJ]

epic bro, could you maybe upload the FM8 patch? 🙏

[DSamp]

That sine wave variant looks a lot like a sine-cubed function.

[MythosTube]

"Yeah, yeah it's sick that, yeah that's good.
Wait hold on a minute, pull it up, stop.
You know what you wanna do with that right,
You wanna put a bangin' donk on it!". - Blackout Crew