How to make some sounds from Trentemøller ‘Moan’ with DRC

ATTENTION: All Pre-Gain values for DRC in this video need to be lowered by 0.250.
This is because this tutorial was made with an older version of DRC which had a different tuning on the saturation stage. We have corrected the values in the Ableton session.

Intro 00:00
Bass Sound 01:03
Noisy Sound 02:40
Music 13:35
Final words 14:14

Two years ago we kicked off the second season of our DRC Sound Design Tutorial series with one of Denmark’s finest exports, not the premium lager Carlsberg, but Copenhagen’s beloved indie/dance crossover, DJ and producer Trentemøller. This week we’re taking on another Trentemøller track, one that we spotted in the YouTube comments as a suggestion (thanks Jonathan!) 2007’s ‘Moan’.

It’s one of our tutorials that features a small disclaimer up front about not being able to accurately recreate all the sounds using only DRC, but it didn’t stop Lucas having a go to see what could be done.

We’re making use of a new YouTube feature on this video to bookmark the different sections of the video with timecodes, which now appear in the play position bar on the video, all with titles, so you can easily navigate between them without needing to scroll down to the description for the links. This means that if you want to hear what you’ll be creating before you get started, you can have a quick listen by clicking the ‘music’ bookmark first, then easily jump back to the start of the first sound part of the video.

We hope this enhances your tutorial experience, let us know in the comments!

Download the Ableton project from this video:
https://www.imaginando.pt/uploads/goodies/tutorials/trentemoller-moan-project.zip

DRC – Polyphonic Synthesizer:
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FRMS – Granular Synthesizer:
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FRMS on Google Play – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imaginando.frms
FRMS for Desktop – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/frms/downloads
FRMS Product Page – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/frms

K7D – Tape Delay
K7D on App Store – https://apps.apple.com/us/app/k7d-tape-delay/id1460245991
K7D for Desktop – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/k7d/downloads
K7D Product Page – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/k7d

DLYM – Delay Modulator:
DLYM on App Store – https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dlym-delay-modulator/id1381246923
DLYM for Desktop – https://www.imaginando.pt/products/dlym/downloads
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