I’d like to try to recreate this synth sound and would be grateful for any tips to kickstart my efforts. At first blush it sounds like a sample-and-hold situation, but it repeats. I’m thinking trigless trigs on the filter would do the trick. Any advice is appreciated.
Here’s the track:
If it’s the opening sound, it sounds like a kind of Formant Filter.
The opening sound is the one, it plays throughout. Is it possible to emulate that on the A4?
You can try, but needs a lot of fine tuning probably.
I would use filter two in peak mode, filter key tracking set to 32. Then modulate filter two with a random lfo set to hold.
Set resonance of the peak filter pretty high, around 64 as a starting point. The resonance is where you could get this sound from.
Use filter 1 to get rid of the highs.
Now scan through the frequencies with both filters in combination to find the right spot.
They have to interact in the right way…
Yeh, they probably did that.
Recorded it, sample a decent melody out of it and loop it.
Sound wise, probably just a saw wave that’s been overdriven and run through a reverb (fast decay) mixed like 20/80 weighted in the reverbs favour.
I use that kind of sound often enough but with a long reverb decay. It can be very local on the keyboard only working decently with in an octave. Hit and miss. It can sometimes sound formant like.
You could get the repeating pattern by parameter locking the filter cutoff to some semirandom-sounding pattern. High resonance as others have mentioned.
Just an amazing song, in my top 10 ever.
Great song, not heard in a while. Sounds like it’s using osc hardsync, prob made with a moog (song’s from 1977). Could maybe get close with the A4’s Osc Sync, with velocity controlling the pitch of the controlling osc.
Underworld’s Rez uses a similarish sound (harsher but same technique) so I bet you could find a tutorial for creating it and adapt for A4
sounds like a MuRF to me.
one for the behringer 2600
nice! and that does nothing to help my gas for the 2600
just had a mess around with this sound on the AK, not convinced its osc sync now, prob just resonant filters as already mentioned further up.
made this, it’s in the ballpark… ?
certainly in the ballpark. Very nice.
Filter resonance is key here imo, the oscillators not so much
Nice work!
here’s the sound if it’s of any use… use with the arp (speed x6, range 1) for single notes
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I’d say that was a slam dunk, and you are swinging on the hoop 
Brilliant 
Thanks everyone for your input, I’ll take a stab at it this evening 
Excellent rendition!
I’m sure the original was a Minimoog, and may have been made by recording individual notes with a cool s/h pattern and then splicing them together… or maybe the modulation was from something like an ARP sequencer?
Thank you
the pitch(es) of the resonant filter(s) is(are) definiteley not random. (maybe random but quantized to scales). the filter trickery is obviously on the bass instrument. can´t even say if it´s a synth or a real bass. but input signal and filters are definiteley seperated. my guess is its a highly compressed signal of a real electric bass fed into a resonant filter, thats played with a cv- keyboard that controls the (quantized?) pitch of a sequencer… haha - i´ve got no idea, just guessing. but it´s not a murf. murfs didn´t exist back then