How to Recreate the Iconic Underworld Born Slippy Intro on Novation Summit and Montage/MODX

video upload by Scott's Synth Stuff

"Underworld's intro to their huge hit Born Slippy is one of the best known intros, with an iconic stab and pad sound. Dance floors the world over go crazy when they hear that identifiable sound and chord sequence. In this video I show you first how to sound design these sounds, using my Novation Summit, and then again on the Montage. However, you can use my explanation to recreate the sound on most any synthesizer. I then show you how to play the chords."

Remaking Underworld's Dark and Long below.

0:00 Intro
0:45 Born Slippy
1:38 Deconstructing the Sound
3:49 Bitimbral Sound Construction
4:57 Creating the Stab Sound on Summit
6:38 Adding Filters
6:55 Envelopes
8:49 Effects
9:59 How to Play the Chords
11:11 Creating the Pad Sound on Summit
12:09 Envelope
12:29 LFO Modulating Filter
13:30 Effects
13:59 Putting It Together
15:19 On the Montage
15:50 Stab Sound in AN-X
17:24 Stab Sound in AWM2 (For MODX)
19:36 Pad Sound
20:36 Reverb

How to Remake Underworld's "Dark and Long (Dark Train)" on the Roland Fantom/Fantom-0

video upload by Scott's Synth Stuff

"In this video, I take one of the earliest songs "Dark and Long (Dark Train)" by my favorite band, Underworld, and remake it in my Fantom-6. If you have a Fantom or a Fantom-0, you can do this yourself! I show how I picked the sounds, then go through the various parts and create sequences in the pattern sequencer. Once I'm done, I put it all together and show how it can be performed! You could do this on any multitimbral synth with a sequencer (MODX or Montage), using a DAW like Abelton, or even using a looper!"

0:00 Intro
1:49 Picking the Sounds
2:36 Recording the Drums
5:45 The Bass Line
6:43 Adding Delay to the Bass Line
8:14 Recording the Synth Stabs
10:35 Recording the Vocal Ahhh
11:34 Recording the Pad Sound
12:14 Playing Back the End Result!
15:46 Summary