faetal on 11/7/2020 at 08:38

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YOu have a Pro 3?

ENVY

Child Of Karras on 12/7/2020 at 09:59

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Finally a topic I can relate to. XD I'm into keyboards and synthesizers since I was a child, mainly focussing on ROMplers and virtual analog synths.

Here's my current gear list:

Yamaha S90 ES
Yamaha PLG150-AN board
Yamaha AN1x
Yamaha QY100
Yamaha QY70
Korg Kross 2
Korg X5DR
Quasimidi Sirius
Roland V-Synth XT
Waldorf Rocket

Synths that I owned before:
Yamaha S80
Korg X5D
Roland JP-8080
Roland JV-1080 (only for a few weeks)

Synth that I currently have temporarily:
Waldorf Kyra

Mainly doing trance and related electronic music, sometimes rock, pop, whatever I feel like.

PigLick on 14/7/2020 at 12:03

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so are we doing more synth stuff? whats next

demagogue on 14/7/2020 at 15:10

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Aja's list is where everyone can see it, but don't worry, I can get this. ;)
The next two things he listed were an airy sound, then a cold sound.
Somewhere down a bit he also listed a piano voice, and I brought up a guitar voice (specifically steel guitar, but probably any guitar would do), which is a bit more concrete.

Anyway, for airy... I made two voices that could fit that description, but the first one (Lonely Pyramids) probably fits better, so that can be my official entry:
Lonely Pyramids - (https://soundcloud.com/user9513654/lonely-pyramids/s-id9yeMUhtt2)
Aqueous Dark - (https://soundcloud.com/user9513654/aqueous-dark/s-vTFn700GogZ)

And for cold, I came up with this:
Clear Waters - (https://soundcloud.com/user9513654/clear-waters/s-gvxO6TYUJYx)

I'm kind of tired now. I can edit in a description of how I made these later.

demagogue on 14/7/2020 at 23:26

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Sorry, I made them in Absynth because that's what I know best. I'm making patches on it all the time even without a contest.

One thing I really like is that you can draw your own waves by hand, and now I want to do that all the time to get exactly the amount of buzz or hum that I want.

Yeah I love how that Aqueous Dark patch came out. It's like you're deep underwater as some benign but massive and incomprehensible aura passes by.

It overlaps two oscillators, the first a really broad shallow sine wave (it was supposed to be a wavetable morphing 2 wave forms, but now I see that I apparently didn't set the timing, so it just stays on the sinewave; but it's okay because it sounds good) going through an 8-pole LPF with the cutoff at about 4K. And the second Osc that really gives it its character is a lopsided sinewave I'd made earlier that alternates a wide wavelength with a thin one (screenshot below). Nothing special about the envelope; the attack is a bit delayed.

It goes through a 3x panning delay* with a -6db dropoff each retrigger that I think really gives it the ethereal quality Then there's a sinewave LFO on the filter cutoff & resonance cycling every .5 seconds at ~60% attenuation for both, and a second LFO cycling every 1.2 seconds that's wobbling the pitch .17 cents. I always put a tiny amount of pitch wobble on most patches I made, even if it's nearly beyond hearing, I think so it doesn't sound too clean or stable.

* Edit: technically multitap. I don't think it retriggers unless/until you let up on the key, but it seems to change the sound even if you do hold it down. It has 50% feedback, which adds to the effect. And it also has its own filter setting which I think damped it even more.

Edit2: Here's a (https://i.imgur.com/qfGOIBQ.jpg) screenshot of the dominant osc wave. It's a really expressive sound! I just kept shaping the wave until I arrived at this.