MOTM

I suppose my question should be, then, how do I synthesize a cello sound (i.e., without using a sampler)?  It sort of feels like it has a "hollow" sound-- notch filtered?  The sound pitches downwards for each note, but I don't even know what sort of waveform to begin with.

Thanks again!

--PBr

-----Original Message-----
From: blip [mailto:bleep@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:54 PM
To: MOTM list
Subject: Re: [motm] Headhunting


> Anyone remember Front242's "big hit", _Headhunter_v3.0_ (off the 
> _Front_By_Front_ album, circa 1988)?  I've been listening to it a bit 
> recently, and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to make 
> that deepish cello-type sound (kicks in at 26 seconds into the track, 
> and nearly solo'ed at 3:26) (on the MOTM and/or A6, of course!).

i'm pretty convinced it's a sample, possibly through some sort of filter.
it sounds samply, plus the album was made  in the heyday of sampler use in
industrial music. to reproduce it, i might take a cello or some other solo
string preset from a k2000 or something and run it through a 420, or
perhaps two in series (hp-lp).