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Postby BinaryBludgeon » 02 May 2012 16:37

I want to create a powerful, hollow-sounding synth, that could function as a lead, for some future songs. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Hollow-sounding synths

Postby the4thImpulse » 02 May 2012 18:22

"hollow-sounding synth" - I'm not sure what you mean by this, could you give examples of songs that have this sound in them?
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Re: Hollow-sounding synths

Postby BinaryBludgeon » 02 May 2012 18:24

the4thImpulse wrote:"hollow-sounding synth" - I'm not sure what you mean by this, could you give examples of songs that have this sound in them?


Mainly TheLivingTombstone's remix of Party with Pinkie-- That's the sound I'm looking for...
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Re: Hollow-sounding synths

Postby the4thImpulse » 02 May 2012 18:32

It sounds to me like a ring modulated square wave with a low pass, highly resonant, filter with key tracking. Add some verb and distortion to bring out a bit of the mid end.
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Re: Hollow-sounding synths

Postby BronyTuber » 02 May 2012 20:13

the4thImpulse wrote:It sounds to me like a ring modulated square wave with a low pass, highly resonant, filter with key tracking. Add some verb and distortion to bring out a bit of the mid end.


It blows my mind that you can just pick that out like that. :lol:
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Re: Hollow-sounding synths

Postby the4thImpulse » 02 May 2012 20:20

BronyTuber wrote:
the4thImpulse wrote:It sounds to me like a ring modulated square wave with a low pass, highly resonant, filter with key tracking. Add some verb and distortion to bring out a bit of the mid end.


It blows my mind that you can just pick that out like that. :lol:


I will be honest I didn't know exactly how to make the sound but after a short little experimentation with my synth I was getting a similar result so what I wrote should get you started.
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Re: Hollow-sounding synths

Postby thatguyzeke » 03 May 2012 02:12

^ I've started to do things like this. If I hear a synth I like I'll try to remake it in a few VSTis before looking it up. If i can get close without a tutorial, I know I've learned something.
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Re: Hollow-sounding synths

Postby BinaryBludgeon » 03 May 2012 14:21

the4thImpulse wrote:It sounds to me like a ring modulated square wave with a low pass, highly resonant, filter with key tracking. Add some verb and distortion to bring out a bit of the mid end.


Woah... That was awesome. Thank you forever and ever.

[EDIT]: I tried to remake that, but made something different, and awesome. It's basically a synth that sounds different when you give it different chords.
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