Jai Paul - Jasmine (Demo) | Bass Synth Patch Remake

Remaking the bass synth from the 2012 song "Jasmine (Demo)" by Jai Paul can be an exciting challenge for any synthesizer enthusiast. Here’s how you can create the "Jasmine (Demo)" bass patch and play this iconic sound on most hardware or software subtractive synthesizers (Serum, Vital, Pigments, Prophet, Korg, Moog, etc). We've included the preset download directly for your convenience, but we strongly recommend you use our programming tutorial to recreate it yourself.

Original Audio

The opening and recurring bass in Jai Paul’s “jasmine (Demo)” is a warm, wobbling low-end with a flabby, gritty character that sits under the vocals from the intro onward. We rebuilt it on a synth with layered medium-width pulse waves an octave apart with added noise and a rounded, driven low-pass filter that rounds the sound into an almost-sub bass with saturation. We use a subtle saw LFO pitch modulation to make it sound slightly out of tune, plus distortion for more grit and chorus for unstable width. Community recreations commonly route Juno-style synth emulations through amp/tube saturation and chorus to match the original’s warmth and grit.

Our Remake of The Bass Synth sound

This audio clip is how close we've matched the original tone of the bass synth from the song "Jasmine (Demo)" by Jai Paul, giving you a reference point as you design your own synthesizer preset. Play it as often as you need to familiarize yourself with the nuances of the sound.

Synth Patch Programming Recipe

Getting Started

• Start by initializing your synthesizer to a plain saw with no filter, modulation or effects. For soft synths use the "init"/"default" preset or the the button to reset allx parameters to their default factory values.
• No two synths are exactly alike, so treat the values below as approximate, and use your ear.
• Percentage values (e.g. 50%) represent the relative position of a knob or slider within its full range. The full range of each parameter may differ from synth to synth, so use your ear.

Voices

• Voice Mode: Mono

Oscillator Setup

Oscillator 1

• Mix: 26%
• Wavetable: Basic Shapes
• Wave Frame: Medium Pulse (position 209)
• Routing: Filter 1
• Transpose: -12 st
• Unison Voices: 2
• Unison Detune: 11%
• Unison Stereo Spread: 100%

Oscillator 2

• Mix: 79%
• Wavetable: Basic Shapes
• Wave Frame: Medium Pulse (position 210)
• Routing: Filter 1+2
• Unison Voices: 2
• Unison Detune: 7%
• Unison Stereo Spread: 100%
• Morph:
• Spectral Morph Amount: 51%

Sample Oscillator

• Sample: White Noise
• Routing: Filter 1
• Level: 63%

Filter Settings

Filter 1

• Model: Dirty
• Style: 24dB Slope
• Blend: Low Pass (0)
• Cutoff: 37% (129.71 Hz)
• Resonance: 0%
• Drive: 9%
• Modulations:
• Env 2 → Cutoff

Envelope Settings

Envelope 1 (Amp)

• Attack: 32 ms
• Decay: 86 ms
• Sustain: 34%
• Release: 32 ms
• Attack Curve: Logarithmic
• Decay Curve: Logarithmic

Envelope 2

• Attack: 0 ms
• Decay: 283 ms
• Sustain: 0%
• Release: 90 ms
• Routed to:
• Filter 1 Cutoff (5%)

LFO Settings

LFO 1

• Mode: Sync
• Sync: Tempo
• Tempo: 1/4
• Shape: Triangle (custom)
• Destinations:
• Voice Tune (amount 42%)

Effects Processing (Ordered)

Chorus

• Voices: 4
• Sync: Default (Tempo)
• Tempo: Default (4/1)
• Depth: Default (50%)
• Delay 1: Default (2.0 ms)
• Delay 2: Default (7.8 ms)
• Feedback: 0%
• Mix: 47%
• Cutoff: 2537.4 Hz
• Spread: 0.31

Distortion

• Mix: 44%
• Drive: 85%
• Filter Blend: High Pass (2)
• Filter Cutoff: 47.7 Hz
• Filter: Post
• Filter Resonance: 0%
• Type: Hard Clip

Eq

• Low Cutoff: 116.777 Hz
• Low Resonance: Default (32%)
• Low Gain: 2 dB
• Band Cutoff: 461.029 Hz
• Band Resonance: 25%
• Band Gain: -3 dB
• High Mode: Low-Pass
• High Cutoff: 843.168 Hz
• High Resonance: 23%

Modulation Matrix

• Envelope 2 → Filter 1 Cutoff 5%
• LFO 1 → Voice Tune 42%

Note: the patch settings may slightly differ in the Syntorial challenge.

Explore More

• Jai Paul – Jasmine – Pulsing Bass : r/synthrecipes (Reddit)
• An experiment in recreating Jai’s synth sounds (Reddit)
• Jai Paul synth sound experiment – Paz Spratling (SoundCloud)
• Jai Paul – “jasmine” production discussion (Gearspace)
• Ten Years and 30 Minutes Later, Jai Paul is Right on Time (Okayplayer)

Preset Downloads

Don't want to learn synth programming now? Use our synth preset as your starting point and tweak it from there. Register an account with Audible Genius and download the presets for free for the following synths:

• Vital