Sytrus Tutorial: Make Progressive House Stabs In this Sytrus tutorial, you’ll learn how to make a stab synth. A stab is a sound commonly used in progressive house and trance tracks. They’re usually used in broken chord progressions, and have quick attack and release times. This means they reach full volume very quickly and then come back down to zero volume relatively fast too. You can see below that the volume envelope of a stab looks like a sharp knife or blade, hence the name. If you’re a fan of progressive house or trance, you’ll instantly recognize the stabs in […]

Sytrus Tutorial: Make an Epic Trance Pad Sytrus is one of my favorite native FL Studio plugins. It is a very versatile FM (frequency modulation), additive, and subtractive synthesizer. It’s great for everything from gritty basslines to plucks and stabs. You can even do percussion sythesis with Sytrus. This Sytrus tutorial will focus solely on designing an epic trance pad. Lets get started! Step 1: Setting Up a Default Sytrus Channel Add a Sytrus channel to the channel rack and select the default preset from the list of presets. Bring the Channel rack to the front of your screen. Click […]