How to make Stephan Bodzin's Singularity with an analog synth | Moog Subsequent37 + Ableton Live
This week's a special treat: we do a "how to make" for Stephan Bodzin's signature track "Singularity", BUT we don't use virtual instruments - instead we use a real synthesizer. The classic Moog Subsequent37 makes exactly the kind of sounds you need to recreate this deep house / deep techno masterpiece.
Particularly this is a masterclass in a particular workflow that involves tweaking an analog synth driven by a pre-programmed MIDI sequence sent from Ableton Live. The key magic happens when you can get lost in sound design, and hunt for sweet spots that give you goosebumps.
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A note on the gear:
- The pedal I use with this Moog is the Audiothingies DoctorA (great performance pedal!)
- The audio interface I'm using to send MIDI and record audio is the Steinberg UR44
Project file can be found here: we.tl/t-XHmetSgpQ7
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Contents:
0:00 Let's talk about Stephan Bodzin
0:55 Setting up the synthesizer + workflow
2:06 The one most important thing about this workflow
3:33 Putting down some Bodzin drums
5:06 The Singularity harmony
6:55 The bass pattern comparison in and out of the box
9:00 Jamming on the bass
12:24 Using this as audio in Ableton
14:12 Jamming on the arp
15:20 The adding whitenoise to the thundertoms
17:08 Listening to the whole loop together
18:45 Sweet spots and signature sounds
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@doflamingo85
2 жыл бұрын
i wish i could have some 1 to 1 with you oscar.... i seems you are fully booked. please let me know when you will have some spare time. got 6 song to mount in a live set and a lot of other project. it would be amazing to have some guidance.
@Jeandesonnyofficial
2 жыл бұрын
Do you provide physical classes at your place?
Man.. You are one of the best teachers of electronic music there are around.. And I consider the whole world.. You are f. good. As soon as I can afford it, iI will take classes with you. Yes, Oscar,, keep doing these good videos.. You are doing very good.. Keep it up.
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
Such high praise, THANK YOU
@bigwhoooosaaaa5700
2 жыл бұрын
I agree
@josephendtrain
Жыл бұрын
+1 on this. Really love your content Oscar! Thank you for this
Your video is a masterpiece. Your energy is amazing! Your skill is apparent Your teaching is grounded :D Yes, this became a poem Keep up the good work!
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
Roses are red Violets are blue Your poem was sweet So thank yooouuuu 😁
@jamg6311
3 жыл бұрын
Everything FVC said
@ottonelli_music
Жыл бұрын
@@OscarUnderdog 🤣 love your energy man
@dirtycutmaster
Жыл бұрын
I accidentely read "p*rn" in your comment. Now here we are, tell me I read wrong. If I just knew which freaking knobs to turn...
I love how you can hear Stephan tweaking the knobs in real time in the songs, you can hear the out of tune "mistakes", makes it so real!
I just started randomly watching your videos and now I understand synths. Dude you're a great teacher.
I think you just made the best argument for hardware synthesizers I've ever seen
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
Ow, mission accomplished haha. Now I have to spend my time going back to convincing people why they shouldn't spend all their savings on expensive stuff 😁
@Ninjjadog
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I want one ❤️
@Channel15901
3 жыл бұрын
Or you get a midi controller from eBay for 20€ and you can do the same with your vsts while recording the Jamsession internally
@thomas_rellum
3 жыл бұрын
@@Channel15901 you’re right! And I will add hardware is quite limited and frustrating sometimes
@31pas0
3 жыл бұрын
@@Channel15901 or you could ride a shitty but convinient car, live in a cheap apartment but really close to the center of the city, etc, etc. But it doesn't mean you should, just depends on what you want:)
I owned a sub37 for a few years but Had to sell it because of Corona lockdowns ruining my Business :/ That synth is a Work of Art. Absolutely juciy sounding,monstrous Low end and the Quality of this Handmade synth is unmatched, Moog is Worth every penny
I just got my Sub37 this past Friday and cannot agree more on how easily you can get away just tweaking away to scalp new sounds. I’ve already created a fair amount of my own sounds. Thank you for this awesome video! More awesome inspiration!
I cannot say enough about these videos! Oscar, your passion for this art form is clear and thank you for sharing your knowledge so freely. There is no doubt your channel will contribute a world of good to the electronic music community. Thank you, thank you!! Keep up the outstanding work!! Churr from NZ!
I’m so new to all this. YT recommend this video after I did a lot of searching about the sub 37 which I just bought. Had no idea that Ableton could play through the synth. Thanks for the demo 👍Amazing stuff.
these seat squeaks are the best bodzin sounds imo :D
lovely patterns music and sweater-wise
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
That's what I like to hear 😁
It’s such a warm and beautiful sound.
I could literally watch that jam section for hours. Amazing how one small riff can generate so many sounds. Love these videos Oscar ✌🏻
note to self! "the key to making everything in your music sound glued together.. there's one invisible chord progression underlying all of the music that expresses itself through the different instruments"
This is seriously one of the best channels i came across concerning fresh and usefull techniques in music production. And from Belgium :-)! Awesome work man!
I think you really had a ton of fun with this synth. Nicely done, thanks for sharing!
This is the best explanation of Bodzin's workflow. I am in! Much appreciate for this!
Thank you thank you! This video is inspirational. The perfect deconstruction of an epic track and its techniques. I can't say how much I loved watching this and learning from it. Now I'll jump off to my Moog and play!
Dude, I love you. I got into hardware synths a year ago but I had trouble to turn my patch ideas into music. This video and the workflow depicted within was really inspiring for me. Thanks :)
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
Happy to hear that :)
so good so good so good!!! thank you, this is the workflow I've been looking for.
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
Niiice, share the result of what you do with it!
I agree with the advantages of using a hardware synth. I used to have a few when I've started playing around with synths. They were very limited in terms of modulations. So, I sold them to buy midi controllers, because I liked the capabilities of soft synths. The problem was just that: the screen, the configurations, and you know, with hardware synths, I was just a button-press away from playing any time. Computer just doesn't have the same feeling.
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
I agree with this very much! The immediacy of the hardware controls just have something very musical about them.
Excellent video and walk-through. Wow!
Nice, Bodzin's signature sound ...
This video really helped me to understand how to use the moog, awesome work!
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers Sean!
Thank you very much! You've great teaching skills.
Well, I was on the fence between a Pro 3, Peak, and Subsequent 37. Guess which one I ordered today. Oscar should have gotten a commission. (Everyone was basically screaming "Get the Pro 3!!", and I love the Pro 3, but... the sound of that 37, even in this impromptu scenario... was just undeniable. The Pro 3 will have to wait.).
Oscar - you are doing a great job. I just discovered you a few days ago and its exactly what I needed.
Love it! Thanks so much for the great content!
Wonderful video, thank you!
Looks like such a nice way to work to get varied results from repeats
I'm sitting next to a beautiful Moog Sub37, so I extra love you for this one!
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
love you right back honey 😘
Awesome, thank you!
Thx a lot for this explanation, very inspiraring to try this out with my sub37
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
And when you're done with it, send it my way for a loan 🤣 returning it to the shop hurt my soul...
Plus 1 for thé séquencer pull-over 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
bro! you're a beast! thanks for all your videos.
Another amazing video. Also I really like those info graphics where you show the routing. I think this will be my new favorite sound related channel, now.
@allyouracid
Жыл бұрын
One year later and I can say with confidence that this has indeed become my favorite sound related channel. And I don't even use Ableton Live (or much of any other DAW, for that matter), but what you explain is just so versatile that I can adapt it to my dawless setup no problem.
Such an inspiring video... Thanks so much.
11:32 He's peering into my soul
Great video as always, thank you! So inspiring!
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
Let's do a video on your PO setup once you're a bit more comfortable with it 😁 people deserve to know about this madness.
You are the man Oscar !
Very inspiring !!
Quality 😎 great to see you getting lost and having fun in the process 🙌
Brilliant. I love your videos. I used to teach music tech and I still learn TONS from your videos. You're a brilliant teacher. Thanks! :) PS - Cool jumper!
You are like a magician who shares the other magicians tricks ! Thanks for all your amazing videos 🙏🏻
@OscarUnderdog
2 жыл бұрын
Haha I hope the other magicians don't take offence :D
Thank you Oscar! Saludos desde Panamá!!!
Thanks for this ! I don't have a Moog but I sequenced this on my eurorack and had a great time !
Great stuff well done !
Amazing video my friend. You've give me so many ideas to work with. Thank you 🙏
Great work ✌🏼🙏🏼
so clear and precise teaching :)
Thank you for this video !
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure Etienne!
Omg Oscar, your sweater looks like a piano roll and I can’t unsee it now. I want one! Great video and thanks for reinforcing my need for an analog synth. :D
great - thanks for your explaining!
Extremely nice Video-thank you very much!
Great video !! Thank’s
your video is well explained love it man!
Nice work !
You are a genius!!
Thx a lot for that interesting video!!!
That thing just growls like no other. The Tribute Edition is by far the best.
Sooooooo Good !!!!!!!!!!!!
Great content! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Oscar you are the best. There's no one out there better suited to these videos. You've helped my production so much. Can we please get a Nathan Micay tutorial soon?
great session thanks
You truly know the craft to be sure! Thank you for demonstrating how important REAL INSTRUMENTS are. Software is a great tool but I feel the soul is being frozen in the prison of the mouse.
best video on how to actually enjoy playing with synths!
@OscarUnderdog
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you think so!
This video is a great example of the idea of knowing how to use your synth. As we can hear, having a moog doesn’t automatically get you the sound of Stephan Bodzin. Instead you actually need to learn how to use it
You are the best and my fav...you are my Inspiration Maschine 👍
I'm so grateful for this information and the way it's delivered! I read a few comments and All I can say is..."Ya, What everyone else said!"
@OscarUnderdog
Жыл бұрын
☺️❤️thanks!
Great video!
Possibly the best dressed man out here. Great video as always AND huge congrats on 1000 subscribers!
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
Hahaaaa got my fresh new sweater on for the special occasion😎🦕
@duncansmith6318
3 жыл бұрын
That sweater looks like some kind of m4l sequencer plug-in.
BEST CHANNEL ON KZread 🙌🏻🙌🏻
this guy is so adorable and also a good teacher
@OscarUnderdog
2 жыл бұрын
🥰
I LOVE my Moog sub25!
✊🏽 le son est juste monstrueux !
@OscarUnderdog
2 жыл бұрын
🧟♂️
Ah, Music City... ❤🤘
I'm going to record some A4 sweetness this weekend - another great video.
Oh my God, 10:40 gave me the chills from another universe
Bodzin freakin rocks
You're going places mate. All these videos are creme' de la creme
@OscarUnderdog
2 жыл бұрын
Cheers Angad 💚
@9753zing
2 жыл бұрын
@@OscarUnderdog have looked at your online school, if only the timing was more suitable for me in Australia
Would love to see a break down of a track from Demuja! Love all your content and lessons!
Great work, Oscar!
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers Hulky Baby ❤
Recreated the whole song on my sub37 sampling into my AKAI mpc one! Worked like a charm! Would love to see you braking down the audiotent subzero advertisement!
Great vid! I particularly liked the trick for routing the toms through the noise source on the Subsequent 37. One very minor nitpick - it’s pink noise rather than white noise on this particular synth.
Thanx for video
Great tutorial! I'm trying to make my signature sound using the limited equipment I have: Arturia's Minibrute 2 + DrumBrute Impact. Always loved this Bodzen track & sound
Great vid! If you cannot afford a Sub37, you can get Bodzin style sounds, with any synth and setup a parallel distortion channel with a guitar pedal followed by an Eq. 😊
welp, this just sold me even more on the subsequent 37
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
😭
And you just made Bitwigs comping feature make so much sense. I've been automating CC for too long.
The bass line supposed to be said - Primitive! 🤣 Pretty simply well rescued! 😂 Amazing Videos! 🤩Thank You! 😎
Thx a lot Oscar. I tried to rebuild this without a hardware synth and I can say that one also can come quite close to this sounds with the arturia mini v3 plugin in ableton controlled with the knobs of a midi keyboard asigned to the different parameters of the synth.
Geat video Oscar ! I asked for a Stephan Bodzin in the comments of a previous video and I got one 😁
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly, that was the trigger for me 🤗✌ it used to come up a lot in the bootcamps when we talk about chord progressions, how this track is just a simple 2 chord progression. In class I would typically do a remake of the bass in softsynths. I figured it was time to really nail this topic once and for all 😄
Wow, your videos are amazing and there's no channel or source quite like them. I've been dabbling in Ableton for a while and as an avid techno-fan without any music education (can't even read notes) I'm having a hard time expressing my musicality using virtual buttons and knobs. [insert I have no idea what I'm doing meme here]. Trying to get information from other sources and learning about stuff like syncopation is very useful to start understanding how sound and music works from the foundation up (which is basically the only tool I have: really understanding what is going on and why), but there's just no coherence and progression in the stuff I pick up at various random times, so in the end I'm just stuck at the same place where I want to express musicality but have no way of putting into effect what I feel, only that I understand slightly better why it sounds good :D So your channel looks amazing and I will definitely follow one of your courses to get a basis in workflowing creativity into something that is tangible enough to be tweaked with. My thoughts were to buy something like an M-Audio Oxygen Pro 49 so I can make creating music more physical, because just moving my mouse and clicking doesn't give quite the level of control I'm looking for. Sorry, this became a super-long comment without any real point. So let me just reiterate that I'm thankful for your amazing videos, you reignited a spark that I'd written off and I hope to take one of your courses soon (or if this pandemic is behind us see you in Amsterdam at De School or something). Finally, if there's one musical thing I haven't figured quite out which keeps on giving me goosebumps it's the modulation of the melody in Patrice Bäumel's Serpent from a simple melody line (say, at 2:04) to something that sounds polytonal (around 2:31). It's amazing. Thank you and have a great day!
Your channel actually popped out of nothing in my YT. I was a little shocked, as i first thought that someone has recorded me. You really could be my twin-bro 🙂 However, your videos are amazing. Your explaining things much better then almost all others i know so far 👌
@OscarUnderdog
2 жыл бұрын
Which one of us is the evil twin then? 🙃
Thanks for this insightful video! Would love to see a recreation of Versi by Andy Stott :)
MORE SYNTH!!!
Oscar, you need to help MUSIC CITY out by BUYING THAT MOOG!! I think it's in the best interest for all of us if you do. I mean, what, you're not in love with it? Come on now. If you can create an artistically moving tutorial, just think what you could do with it on your own in the wee hours of the night, if you know what I'm saying.
Sensei Underdog
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
Wax on, wax off 💅
Your chair glides could definetly make nice FX hahaha! Love your channel keep it up! ;)
@OscarUnderdog
3 жыл бұрын
😁✌