Author Topic: How can I "make" a Massive scream Filter  (Read 8760 times)

MACH

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How can I "make" a Massive scream Filter
« on: May 09, 2016, 12:13:03 am »
I understand how it works. It's basically a low pass where the resonance "imitates" the placing of the root note, the second and the third harmonic. My question is how can I mimic the result with serum or another plugin or effect?

I think that maybe FM can reproduce this behaviour, but sadly I'm not used with messing with it.

And of course, I know that I can do it manually with an EQ, but just seems like unecessary labor to me.

Anyways, any help would be apreciatted. =D

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Re: How can I "make" a Massive scream Filter
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2016, 08:09:08 am »
the scream filter is only massive i think, thats what it has, makes it special and not what other synths have

r u talking about automation? it is what it is man and you gotta do that manually lol




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Re: How can I "make" a Massive scream Filter
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2016, 12:45:05 pm »
Haven't tried it but it looks to be a resonant filter with inbuilt distortion? In serum the distortion FX has a filter, so you could try to keytrack the frequency of that filter. You can do that by modulating the frequency with the "Note" modulation source.

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Re: How can I "make" a Massive scream Filter
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2016, 11:19:12 pm »
Always wanted to try this and I just did with ...less than perfect results.
Basically the scream effect is mimicking a resonant peak, only instead of putting the peak right at the cutoff, you can move the peak around relative to the cutoff. The extra peak created by the scream knob is also going under some fairly heavy distortion, and I think that distortion is only on the peak itself.

To recreate this in Serum, I simply whipped up a LPF on a standard saw, then went into the FX section, turned on the EQ and Distortion, then moved the distortion underneath the EQ. Choosing either band in the EQ, set it to peak mode, crank the gain, turn the Q to be around the middle, and then modulate the frequency of it with the same modulator as the cutoff for the LPF. After that, try something like Hard Clipper or Tube distortion and crank the drive.
The result is a little gimicky, and not quite the same, most likely due to the fact that the distortion is acting upon the whole sound, and also i think when i did it i just needed some tweaking to the actual modulation, but I believe that's pretty much the idea.

In all honesty, it's probably better to just use Massive whenever you need the sound of it's scream filter. You can always resample if need be, and I think to get the sound exactly the same would be way more effort than it's worth.
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