Hello and welcome to our first tutorial.  
This is Tron from Homegrown Audio...
This time we are going to make a kick and a bass with Serum
and to put them both in phase together.
Lets get started...  First of all let´s open Serum.
Set your tempo to something that you would like...
Now..... Open "Basic Shapes" on the oscilator A
And you want it to start always from the same place so 
Random all the way down
Envelope 1 we want the attack right down
so it starts right away, and that´s it!
Envelope 2 ...... (also attack down to 0.0) 
Well, we will get to that later.
LFO 1 is going to be our main AMP ENVELOPE
So turn volume down (to 0) on oscilator 1
and assign LFO1 to it.
You want it (LFO1) to be on envelope mode and 1/8th)
Now lets go to envelope2 ( LFO2 ) 
This is going to be our pitch envelope and, again...
We want it on 1/8th and ENV mode.
Assign this to your coarse (CRS) pitch. (OSC1)
So, the kick is "OK" .. meh... 
But i want more hi frequencies on it.
Thats why i wanna use ENV2 (actually env2 this time... )
Set the sustain right down,
and we want a Decay of roughly 1 to 5ms
This envelope should be UNIPOLAR (matrix tab)
That already sounds pretty good. 
Now, lets make a midi part. I´ll paint some notes.
Its important that your kick (midi notes) are in the middle 
part of the keyboard
This way, pitch up and down will cover all the spectrum
Now, LFO 1 or Amp envelope, we have here the attack, 
the sustain, and this slope down is the release.
We can really get it all the way up to the 8th,
with this point... 
LFO 1 or amp envelope will act as an EQ
You see, the left side is hi freq and right side is low freq
 
as opposed to an equalizer.
Now, lets make the bassline.
We are going to open up another serum.
So, this is a Sawtooth" already  
 but i dont like the ramp up so...
Im gonna change it to another waveform.
I like to experiment with different wavetables.
(ANALOG / BS2 - Acid)
Again, RND (random) all the way down,
and lets catch the (transient) of this wavetable right at 
the start...
Env2 and Env1 need 0 attack
so they are very snappy
their decay roughly 1/16th  
Now.. Turn on the filter, and assign env2 to cutoff
i also prefer this modulation on unipolar (shift+alt click)
Resonance all the way down.
Filter is LP12
sustain (env2-filt cutoff) is gonna shape the bass
so you want to adjust it untill you are happy with it
Lets see how kick and bass interact with each other.
ill open s(M)exoscope which is a free plugin from 
Smartelectronix.
Set the time to 0.033
it depends always on bpm but it is a safe bet
if you are doing this kind of style
the spikes in the end of the kick and beggining of first 
bass note  
We will adjust the phase on the oscillator  on the kick 
drum.
moving this phase knob...
you can really tune the kick and bass together. 
that already looks partially in phase...
(Gently moving the phase knob and listening and looking at 
the oscilloscope untill i get something like this...
if we adjust the phase on the oscilator, the sine can turn 
360º
this is a very non destructive way to deal with phase.
Lets open  (DMG) Equilibrium 
Let´s look at this bassline on the spectrum analizer
there are some uneven harmonics that i would like to make 
even. 
sort of like with a ruler...
instead of using an eq, which is a very destructive way of 
handling this,
lets use the table edit on serum
every one of these bars is a harmonic 
included the fundamental, which is the first one.
if u turn one down all the way that harmonic will disappear
messing with these harmonics you can even out the spectrum 
without any phase issues from EQ...
you can really go in depth here.....
ill just mess a bit with the amp envelope.
Finally, the side chain.
i like to use LFO TOOL (XFER) for sidechain (ducking) 
compression.
i like to do steep curves, this way i can feel the dynamic
you can see how kick and bass are perfectly in phase.
if you want, turn up the snap on LFO TOOL.
and just have a little bit more control in between steps.
grab holding shift bottom right corner on lfo tool
you are able to stretch it all the way.
its useful to check timing and how tight your bass is
