Patch Request: How To: Pad / Melody Tones

The breakdown of the patch thought process is simply amazing! This is, by far, the closest anyone (that I know) managed to come by. Wish I could present this to Jean Frank Cochois, if he would be reachable from the general public, but I for one want to really thank you for your effort Joe!

This one was HARD. It seemed simple but I had to experiment a lot with this one, with both the patch and the notes, and I still think it's not all the way there.

In the end I had to use two tracks, one for the upper notes, and one for the lower notes, so that I could turn the lower notes down a bit. Same patch for both.

How It's Made

• Synth: Serum
• Oscillator: Sine wave, 3-voice unison with mild detune and even blend and 50% width. Random phase start set to 0, and phase set to 0, so that the unison starts with a bit of an attack transient
• FX: Slow chorus to create more wide movement and fluctuations. A strong compressor AFTER the chorus, to create an even-ish volume but also to fight with the fluctuations from the chorus and unison, creating unpredictable and uncomfortable movement.
• Filter: This comes after the chorus/compressor. Moog LP 24, Cutoff at 283 hz, tons of res so that it self-oscillates a bit, full drive. The fluctuations from the chorus/compressor will fluctuate the amount of filter drive to add even more uneasy movement
• Modulation: Envelope routed to cutoff with a 2.21 second decay. Very little mod amount so that beginning of each note is just a little bit brighter than the rest
• EQ: Generous and wide boost at 93 hz. Beef up the bottom end
• Notes: For the higher synth it's A for the highest note, with F and D below it. And then the lower synth continues downward for a big chord, starting from the top and going down: Bb G Eb D Bb G Eb D. Turn the lower synth down a bit
• Overall volume of the collective synths should clip every once in a while creating little static spikes. Kind of gives it a vinyl like feel

Funny thing is, this might've been done in a much simpler manner, using some random synth or effect. However, it's still an interesting exercise in creating that unpredictable and kind of uncomfortable fluctuation in sound.

Attachments

I-Wanna-Know.fxp