<p dir="ltr">Sounds like audio-rate filter FM to me.<br>
Did they use an Akai AX-60? :-)</p>
<p dir="ltr">/mr</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Den ons 14 aug. 2024 19:58Jacob Watters via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> skrev:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>That sounds like a bit crusher to me. Have you tried that?</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#444444"><b>Jacob Watters</b></font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#444444"><a href="http://jacobwatters.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">JacobWatters.com</a></font></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 1:45 PM <<a href="mailto:rburnett@richieburnett.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">rburnett@richieburnett.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi synth fans,<br>
<br>
I'd like to pick your brains about how a particular synth sound was <br>
created... I've always liked this sound that features on a number of <br>
Jam and Spoon tracks (Rolf Ellmer & Markus Loffel) from the 90's and <br>
early 2000's. It sounds like a resonant lowpass filter sweep but there <br>
is something else to it, and I've never heard anything quite like it <br>
anywhere else. The resonance seems to have a dirty and distinctly harsh <br>
"scratchy" sound to it which I think works nicely in the genre they used <br>
it in. It appears all over their album "Tripomatic Fairyfales 2001" <br>
like it's their trademark sound! I'd love to know what piece of kit is <br>
used to produce this sound if anyone knows?<br>
<br>
I'm guessing it might be the result of filter FM or some kind of <br>
overdriven digital filter, but I've never managed to get anything like <br>
this out of any of my filters, digital or analogue. Or maybe it's some <br>
post processing like decimation, although it doesn't sound quite like <br>
aliasing to my ears either.<br>
<br>
The best example I've found is at the start of "Follow Me":<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfR7o8NI2W0" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfR7o8NI2W0</a><br>
The synth starts at 0:00 and is initially quite smooth and clean <br>
sounding while the filter is closed down, but gets really scratchy from <br>
0:30 onwards as the filter opens up.<br>
<br>
There are other examples in "Tripomatic Fairytales 2001" too:<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvf4wwDpaCw" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvf4wwDpaCw</a><br>
The synth starts at 17:35 but getting scratchy from 18:20 throughout <br>
that song.<br>
The synth starts on another track at 49:00 but getting scratchy from <br>
49:10 onwards to the end of that song.<br>
<br>
Any ideas? This has been bugging me for about 20 years, so I'm all <br>
ears! ;-))<br>
<br>
-Richie,<br>
<br>
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