Valorant OST - Valorant Theme | Bass Synth Patch Remake

Remaking the bass synth from the 2020 song "Valorant Theme" by Valorant OST can be an exciting challenge for any synthesizer enthusiast. Here’s how you can create the "Valorant Theme" 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

At 0:03 the Valorant main menu theme opens with a heavy low-end growl that reads as a saturated, distorted bass resembling a processed bass guitar. The sound is gritty and midrange-forward, achieved through heavy distortion, tight compression and a short, resonant filter envelope that produces a “meeow” bite. An approximate synth recreation uses two pulse waves with slightly different pulse widths, light unison/detune, a resonant low-pass filter envelope and aggressive distortion and compression. Riot’s production notes and interviews describe industrial, electronic and heavily processed elements in the OST.

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 "Valorant Theme" by Valorant OST, 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: 64%
• Wavetable: Classic Blend
• Wave Frame: 192
• Routing: Filter 1
• Random Phase: 0%
• Unison Voices: 2
• Unison Detune: 4%
• Unison Stereo Spread: 75%

Oscillator 2

• Mix: 67%
• Wavetable: Classic Blend
• Wave Frame: 220
• Routing: Filter 1
• Random Phase: 1%
• Unison Voices: 2
• Unison Detune: 4%
• Unison Stereo Spread: 100%

Sample Oscillator

• Sample: White Noise
• Routing: Filter 1
• Level: 17%

Filter Settings

Filter 1

• Model: Dirty
• Style: 24dB Slope
• Blend: Low Pass (0)
• Cutoff: 31% (82.002 Hz)
• Resonance: 57%
• Drive: 50%
• Modulations:
• Env 2 → Cutoff

Envelope Settings

Envelope 1 (Amp)

• Attack: 0 ms
• Sustain: 100%
• Release: 398 ms

Envelope 2

• Attack: 0 ms
• Decay: 203 ms
• Sustain: 19%
• Release: 187 ms
• Decay Curve: Exponential
• Routed to:
• Filter 1 Cutoff (45%)
• Distortion Drive (28%)
• Filter FX Cutoff (70%)

LFO Settings

LFO 1

• Mode: Sync
• Sync: Seconds
• Frequency: -3s
• Shape: Sin
• Destinations:
• Env 2 Decay (amount 7%)

Effects Processing (Ordered)

Distortion

• Mix: 65%
• Drive: 86%
• Filter Blend: High Pass (2)
• Filter Cutoff: 904.5 Hz
• Filter: Post
• Filter Resonance: 23%
• Type: Hard Clip

Compressor

• Mode: Default (Multiband)
• Mix: Default (100%)
• Attack: 100%
• Release: Default (50%)
• Low Values
• Low Gain: 21 dB
• Low Upper Ratio: 90%
• Band Values
• Band Gain: 10 dB
• Band Upper Ratio: 86%
• High Values
• High Gain: 14 dB

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: 28%
• Cutoff: 3729.3 Hz
• Spread: 0.34

Eq

• Low Cutoff: 107.871 Hz
• Low Resonance: Default (32%)
• Low Gain: 5 dB

Filter Fx

• Mix: Default (100%)
• Model: Analog
• Style: 24dB Slope
• Blend: Low Pass (0)
• Cutoff: 51% (356.498 Hz)
• Resonance: 16%
• Drive: 22%

Modulation Matrix

• Envelope 2 → Filter 1 Cutoff 45%
• LFO 1 → Env 2 Decay 7%
• Envelope 2 → Distortion Drive 28%
• Envelope 2 → Filter FX Cutoff 70%

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

Explore More

• How It’s Made – VALORANT’s industrial, electronic beats set the right tone (ESPN)
• VALORANT — Moonsailor (soundtrack project page)
• Interview: Jesse Zuretti | Steinberg
• Valorant (Wikipedia)

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

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