Members KennethNishimot Posted February 29, 2008 Members Share Posted February 29, 2008 Alright, this thread was inspired by another remarkably similar thread, but bear with me here. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:39fwxqldldje Click on the little speaker icon next to the track "Every Day" There's this weird guitar sounding synth timbre, I reckon it's some sort of FM synthesis with portamento distortion and a wah, but I got no idea. Anybody have any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mintbeetle Posted February 29, 2008 Members Share Posted February 29, 2008 You are referring to the short, stacatto sound that more or less repeats two notes throughout the clip, right? I would guess it's a saw oscillator or two, without much filtration. Very short attack and release, full sustain on the envelope. There is a bitcrusher or some other highly digital distortion. I don't think you'd need FM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundwave106 Posted February 29, 2008 Members Share Posted February 29, 2008 There's this weird guitar sounding synth timbre, I reckon it's some sort of FM synthesis with portamento distortion and a wah, but I got no idea. The staccato sound is like an atypical acid sound -- try a single sawtooth with a high-res filter enveloped and distorted -- run through a reverb unit and you're done. I think the Bassstation can do this type of sound very well, for instance, or any ol' TB-303 type softsynth. The other sound is a square wave type patch with a pretty open filter, from what I can tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members greaseenvelope Posted February 29, 2008 Members Share Posted February 29, 2008 Yeah, when I listened to the audio I was expecting some typical RDJ enigma but this was a pretty straightforward sound. Can anyone tell me how he gets his lead sounds in, for instance SAW II and I Care Because You Do? The melancholic strings and voices that give each of the tracks on those albums a completely distinct emotional character (particular in SAWII)? I think he was at that time probably a master of FM programming unequaled by any save Eno. I heard somewhere that the AFX stuff is a lot of old sequencer tracks from the early days (MC-4 tracks maybe?) fed into different synths at novel tempos. Can anyone comment on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members setAI Posted February 29, 2008 Members Share Posted February 29, 2008 remember- RDJ used a lot of his own DIY synths and software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundwave106 Posted February 29, 2008 Members Share Posted February 29, 2008 remember- RDJ used a lot of his own DIY synths and software And, reportedly, Matrix 1000 presets in Selected Ambient Works II. I'd buy some sort of FM too... some textures are similar to Eno's Apollo, which is reportedly heavily DX7. When I had a DX27, I didn't think of it as ambient goodness (quite the opposite), but there's a load of difference between a 4-op and 6-op machine, and I didn't have a reverb back then that worked very well with the "crank dry/wet ratio to 100% wet" deal, that you need for a SAW II type sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members program_insect Posted February 29, 2008 Members Share Posted February 29, 2008 pretty sure you can only get a sound like that by hand-coding a duplexed Mersienne generator with bivariable feedback and feeding the results into a discrete 32db/oct transitional harmonic filter. The reverb in this clip is unquestionably the room sound from an ancient Druid burial chamber (painted green, of course). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ElectricPuppy Posted February 29, 2008 Members Share Posted February 29, 2008 Pfff. The room is obviously yellow. Go back to your casiotone, n00b. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members syncretism Posted February 29, 2008 Members Share Posted February 29, 2008 remember- RDJ used a lot of his own DIY synths and software Or so he says. Electronic artists spend as much time obfuscating their production techniques as they do making music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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