The 'help me make this sound!' thread

[ruckus49]

hudson mohawke- ice viper



the plucky transition synth descending at 0:33 and ascending at 0:46. it has kind of a 90s arcade game vibe to it.

[collige]

Okay, I got one of these....

DJ Mujava - Township funk lead... WTF IS THAT THING?!

Way too like... flexing sheet metal sound too be a straght square wave... what makes it sound so wet aside from some portamento? I love that song, sincerely my favorite EDM tune.... Just wanna know outta pure respect...

I'm pretty sure that track was done on an analog synth and that's what giving it it's warmth.

[Ennayess]

The high pass wobble that comes in @ 0:55. I've been trying a mixture of square's and tri's, adding distortion > high pass filter with lfo > eqing. I'm getting close but no cigar with that method.

Any help would be great, cheers.

[sine-drone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWKbTZCGRyY

the weird bass line that starts to come in at around 6 seconds, doesnt sound like wobble, but may be wrong.
thanks

[BananaBomber]

Hmm been trying to get this sound for a long time now :/ i can hear the subtractor in it and i also know that these two producers use reason :/ any pointers

its main synth in this


also used in this

Cheers guys any help is appreciated

[jsaxton]

trumpet noise at 0:14

how do you do it?
i know its a synth as when there live there using all these keyboards

[tripwire22]

that kick ass Lead synth

[iambullet]

that kick ass Lead synth

I might have no clue at all but this sounds to be like a regular synth sound put through one of guitarizer VSTis, I don't know, Slayer2 or something like that. I think it definitely has a guitar-ish sound

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Just like to start by saying,Thanks alot for this thread.Its helped me out loads and gave me shit loads of new ideas to keep me inspierd.It is an awesome idea........Anyway enough of the butt kissing.........The thing i wanna ask is how does datsik make that sound at 0.32sec,its like a spin back or something.is it like an envolope attached to the main pitch of the bass and the lfo rate to give it that slowing down and pitching down effect? sorry if this is an absolute N0ob question btw,im just interested to find out how that effect is made.Thanks in advance for any help.It will be much appreciated.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpAePSP- ... re=related

[Ennayess]

The high pass wobble that comes in @ 0:55. I've been trying a mixture of square's and tri's, adding distortion > high pass filter with lfo > eqing. I'm getting close but no cigar with that method.

Any help would be great, cheers.

bumpty bump

[Invalid]

hi been trying to get this sound for a while now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkImhuplI6g

its at 55 seconds

[kejk]

hi been trying to get this sound for a while now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkImhuplI6g

its at 55 seconds

It's a very distorted low synth. Hi-pass is pretty high ans add several really short delays, 12ms, 14ms, 16ms, 18ms as insert effects. They should be pretty dry.

[NilsFG]

I still wonder how SP:MC, Verse, Icicle, ... make those crazy bassy synths they always seem to use in their tunes...
Examples: Flip the coin, darkstar (http://www.myspace.com/bentheverse), Icicle - Xylophobia, Ill Kontent or things like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCbTKlxZoP0 (the synths/pads each time after the snare).

Not here to rip of their styles but I want to experiment with it, do my own thing

Bumpy Bump.

[Primal]

Can anyone help me make this...

The synth sound that comes in with the bass and rolls with it. It starts at 0:45-6 and it's high pitched, it sounds really simple but I can't nail it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF5P3MVmQwo

[DjTrainWreck]

Hey yall ive been wondering how to make this spacey sound like in the background of this song



It starts off at 2 seconds and carries on throughout the whole thing

[iambullet]

Something like frequency modulation and a rising highpass I guess

[crunkedxup]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wYnI5Yv8-U

ok this bass sound was used in EVERY grime/bassline instrumental i can think of when i was growing up. in that case i can imagine it being really simple but can anyone give me guidelines on how to emulate this sound exactly, like is there glide on this or what?

thanks in advance.

[tylerblue]

I was wondering how many layers of waveforms and which ones you might use to get something similar to the lead synth in this track? (comes in at 0.55)

Thanks!

[zapruderpedro]

Hey yall ive been wondering how to make this spacey sound like in the background of this song

It starts off at 2 seconds and carries on throughout the whole thing

sounds like a ring modulator to me

[knell]

Hey yall ive been wondering how to make this spacey sound like in the background of this song



It starts off at 2 seconds and carries on throughout the whole thing

ewww, not a fan of this song...

however...

an easy way to get a similar sound would be to take a subtractive synth (w/ two oscillators, hopefully)

OSC1 = square
OSC2 = sawtooth, or anything (different results but all sound cool)
(EDIT: also, you want the phase of OSC2 to be maxed out, 127, if you will..)

lowpass filter, set to LP24 or something similar with a low low frequency cutoff, high resolution

put the mod envelope on osc2, invert it, and set a high attack, decay, and sustain, and put release about midway

filter env = A-0, D-high, S-0, R-low
amp env = A-0, D- high, S-mid, R-low

bump up the filter envelope velocity, and slightly bump up the EXT Modulation of the LFO and the FM

set the LFO rate to pretty slow (like 8/4)
assign it to FM
sine/sawtooth wave
amount a little less than half

EDIT: dont forget reverb, and some compression if you need it


hope this makes any sense at all... let me know if you need clarification on anything