Hi, I'm Batch. Welcome back to my channel. Today I will be showing you how to make And I'm going to show you how to do it using stock plugins is such a thing even possible Well stock plugins in serum because honestly every producer should have serum it literally does everything You bases it can do leads it can do pads drums could probably make me coffee in the morning Gligit is the only plugin I've bought in the last three years and it's super cheap with splice You can do rent-own honestly and not even sponsored but splice do you do that if you're watching Yeah, we're gonna get into it. Let me show you how this is done Since it's a vocal chop we use an acapelop found this acapelop in the semantics on Holo pack It's got some really cool melodies you never wait for me you never wait for me with any vocal chop What I like to do is I like to transpose it to a certain key that I know I'm gonna be using So for this song I want to put it into G major put it down to semitones, but then I would also octave it up I transpose it to a different key first so I get a nicer tone Versus getting that chipmunk vocal so if I was to do it all the way to 12 semitones one It wouldn't be in the right key and two we get major chipmunk about it Don't want that at all at 10 semitones. We have that nice happy medium. I use Formants here It's trying to find a really nice tone. Next thing I do is I try to find really cool vocal chops inside the sample So I'll go around I'll just pick random spots hit the space bar That would be a cool one there. We're looking for stuff that has really nice transients and a lot of syllables That's cool that can definitely be used You One's with spaces in it cool timings those turn out really well the only ones you want to avoid are the really long wobbly notes Those don't really work out too well or with wonky timing Not those I assemble them into a normal vocal chop something catchy something repetitive sound like this We're taking this acapella and making your own melody you want to turn it into a hook I don't want to do we want to make a chord progression that goes along with it So we're making a new track open up serum and set it just to basic shapes I'm just gonna make a chord progression and since I know the key that I was writing in G major I'm gonna do a chord progression in that key needs to complement you're writing the chord progression for the vocal chop For reference the chords I used are E minor 9 C major 9 A minor 7 and B minor 9 I use a lot of seventh and ninth chord rhythm everything's on the beat So next rename this carrier and then deactivate it get rid of it. What? Why on earth would I do that? chill? We're gonna get to that When I first heard this sound I really needed to know how to make it what I knew from it is it was a vocal chop And somehow scrolls it turned it into future bass chords So I would try it all sorts of different things chopping the vocals stacking them switching around the semi-tone So they sounded like chords. I've tried putting it into a sampler playing the chords on midi But everything I made sounded like hot Garbage until it was after a big show in Montreal I was hanging out at the hotel with a few other producers and over a feast of McDonald's graciously delivered by Uber Eats The topic of this vocal chop synth had come up one producer there this insanely talented German dude He says one word to me. He goes vocal Love it. This is the sound up. Let's get to the good stuff Go back to our beautiful vocal chop here the way it all comes together is with three main components So it's just a vocoder. It's an OTT and it's auto pan that's it First thing we want to start off with is our vocoder what you want to do is you want to set the carrier up here To external we're gonna pick our audio from carrier. That's why we named it carrier What does that mean? What did we just do? So this is why we made the chord progression What's essentially happening is running serum through the vocoder than the vocoder is gonna process it and add harmonics to the vocal based on the chords that we picked So right now it'll sound like this Woo listen to all those harmonics that's rad next thing I want to do is I'm gonna turn on OTT to like really thicken it up Then I'm gonna drive the dry wet until the original vocal chop and the harmonics are balanced Why did I put OTT on before I started dragging the dry wet because the way OTT works is it brings out harmonics in the sound already If you've watched my videos before I've said this the reason I do that is because by having OTT on I get a more accurate version of the sound that I'm without it It's hard to tell. Well when it's nice and thick Well call in the producer police. Hello excuse me Somebody called what's going on here? Yep. Yep. That's the guy He's just copying other sounds and he doesn't want anybody to become unique producers said no one ever I am showing you these things because you're probably interested in seeing how this specific sound was made I mean you wouldn't be here watching right now if you didn't but my point is a great way to find your unique sound is to learn how other sounds I made and then put your own twist to it There's no sense reinventing the wheel instead scrap the wheel do your own thing with it But then to this video I'll be showing you some techniques to make it your own. Okay, you got that sweet back to the tutorial Then for there you just tweak some settings I want to make sure that the vocoder is set to precise make sure your bands are at 20 and up here is a little EQ And you can adjust the levels of the bands here And I just like to cut out the mids a little bit as well just to give the vocal chop and the vocoder harmonics a bit more balance The sound is already super cool So you could leave it like that or to give it that extra little Movement that's where auto pan comes in here using these settings check out what it does to it We're getting way The basis of this sound comes from these settings and through automation So hitting A on Ableton we can open up our automations and you can see for the rate I automated so it stays at a default of 1.8 and then I'll just do little 1.16 to give it that fast movement Just as an accent but throughout it just stays at 1.8 Then the next thing I do is I automate the amount and I keep it around 80% here That just makes sure the effect doesn't come through super strong It's all about that balance of finding the movement versus the sound I turn it off on certain points to let certain longer notes breathe It's a bit of trial and error but you keep listening back to the loop And you can hear certain points where you want it to be wavy or you want it to stop You get a feel for it. It's just practice. That's the sound. That's it. And then a bit of EQ and some reverb Maybe add some trap drum with the good old fake drop And of course the 808 There you have it. That's it. As I said earlier I talked about some cool stuff you can do to the sound to make it your own I'm gonna show you really quick how to do that If we go back into C-Rami you can actually turn the unison up Give it a bit of detune to thicken it up My added a bit of phaser as well using these settings to give it a bit of movement as well And then some hyper dimension to give it some width Hold up really really careful when you're doing this you don't want to go too overboard with sound design inside of serum Because the way the vocoder works is it needs a clean sound to go through it So the simpler you can keep your sound the better just make really really tiny adjustments for the really cool Different sounds you can make. It's all gonna be done in the vocoder for example I've got this format knob that'll really change the tone of the vocoder So if you want something in a higher register you can do stuff like that Whenever I use my vocal I like to put the format down because I've got a lower voice then a female singer So I get to stuff like Of course there's always the dry wet if you want to add more of the vocoder in Deft knob is kind of the same as the dry wet it brings the chords out more So if you want to blend more of the synth sound in there use depth Or if you want less you want more of a breathy sound So many cool little things you can do you can even go into the vocal sample if you want I Change the formance as well all of this can be automated too just experiment But that brings us to an end if you like what I'm doing Please don't forget to like subscribe hit that bell so you don't miss a video I would love to hear what you're making with this sound tweet at me send it to me on Instagram. Here's my links Please follow me please the validation I need is real and yes Yes before you ask the project file for this is free Like I said, it's all stock plugins all you really need is serum amazing. Love it. Thanks for watching catch you on the next one