Patch Request: Prodigy - Poison (Pluck)

Patch / Preset Recreated

Hi!

I have always been fascinated by the Prodigy Poison pluck sound but still can't figure out how it is made. It starts playing at 0:29

I think it is layered with a bassline here.

I would really like to know how to recreate it in Serum or Vital.

Taivo Seppa

1 year ago

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jleveque

@Joe you should totally turn this into one of your 1-minute tutorials!
Would also love if you could share your serum preset, so we can see the wavetable positions you are using

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Joe Hanley

I'm pretty close. Tweaking the filter is important, but also getting just the right waveform too. Try this:

Oscillators: Two oscillators, one octave apart, using the Basic Mg wavetable, set to a pretty thin pulse wave. You'll have to really tweak the pulse width to get it just right.

Amp Envelope: About 1000 ms release

Filter: Band Pass 12db, set to about 115 hz. Res to around 40%. Drive to around 60%. Modulate it with...

Filter Envelope: Sustain 0, Decay/Release around 480 ms. Bring the mod amount up to the top of the Cutoff range.

Mod Wheel: Route it to the Filter Envelope Amount and use it to change the amount of squelch on each note (they may have done this another way, but it works for our purposes).

Reverb: Fairly wet, medium sized room.

It really does boil down to tweaking the wavetable position and filter settings. But this should get you pretty close.

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Taivo Seppa

Sorry, the video in first post is not very good example because sounds are not isolated enough.

The album version is better because the sound is isolated here. Starts at 29s

It seems like it is a Roland JD-990 vintage expansion patch 208 EML Wobbler (as explained at 1:33)

Master Tune 431.2Hz (-35cent)
Legato
Moog + Jupiter 8 (+1 oct) waveforms
hi resonace BandPass Filter (modulated by Envelope, LFO and velocity)
Played on E

However I haven't been able to replicate it on Serum close enough (used Analog -> Basic Mg waveform).
I even deconstructed the video and discovered that VPS Avenger even has exact waveforms, but my attempts were even further off on Avenger.

I think I cant get the filter modulation right.

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Joe Hanley

Sorry for the very late reply! I don't hear any new sound come in at

0:29. Are you referring to the one that comes in around

0:40?

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