[sdiy] Mystery synth sound

[Mattias Rickardsson]

Sounds like audio-rate filter FM to me.
Did they use an Akai AX-60? :-)

/mr

Den ons 14 aug. 2024 19:58Jacob Watters via Synth-diy <
synth-diy at synth-diy.org> skrev:

> That sounds like a bit crusher to me. Have you tried that?
>
> *Jacob Watters*
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> On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 1:45 PM <rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi synth fans,
>>
>> I'd like to pick your brains about how a particular synth sound was
>> created...  I've always liked this sound that features on a number of
>> Jam and Spoon tracks (Rolf Ellmer & Markus Loffel) from the 90's and
>> early 2000's.  It sounds like a resonant lowpass filter sweep but there
>> is something else to it, and I've never heard anything quite like it
>> anywhere else.  The resonance seems to have a dirty and distinctly harsh
>> "scratchy" sound to it which I think works nicely in the genre they used
>> it in.  It appears all over their album "Tripomatic Fairyfales 2001"
>> like it's their trademark sound!  I'd love to know what piece of kit is
>> used to produce this sound if anyone knows?
>>
>> I'm guessing it might be the result of filter FM or some kind of
>> overdriven digital filter, but I've never managed to get anything like
>> this out of any of my filters, digital or analogue.  Or maybe it's some
>> post processing like decimation, although it doesn't sound quite like
>> aliasing to my ears either.
>>
>> The best example I've found is at the start of "Follow Me":
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfR7o8NI2W0
>> The synth starts at 0:00 and is initially quite smooth and clean
>> sounding while the filter is closed down, but gets really scratchy from
>> 0:30 onwards as the filter opens up.
>>
>> There are other examples in "Tripomatic Fairytales 2001" too:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvf4wwDpaCw
>> The synth starts at 17:35 but getting scratchy from 18:20 throughout
>> that song.
>> The synth starts on another track at 49:00 but getting scratchy from
>> 49:10 onwards to the end of that song.
>>
>> Any ideas?  This has been bugging me for about 20 years, so I'm all
>> ears! ;-))
>>
>> -Richie,
>>
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