ID'ing a synth sound
January 20, 2016 10:20 AM   Subscribe

In Bad Lip Reading's "Rockin' All Night Long" there's a synth riff (0:58 in this video) that I love. How do I get that sound?

Because I don't know enough about synthesizers, I haven't had much luck duplicating it in Logic Pro X.

If you know what it is, that'd be amazing.

Even if you can't identify the precise sound, if you have synthesizer clue, I'd love guidance on how to get a sound like that.

You can't go wrong by assuming I'm an idiot and don't know a sawtooth from an oscillator.

Thanks!
posted by scrump to Technology (4 answers total)
 
What I hear around 0:58 sounds like an arpeggiator.
posted by Radiophonic Oddity at 11:29 AM on January 20, 2016


0:58 sounds like an old trumpet sound off a Casio synth to me. Like the one here.
posted by merocet at 12:25 PM on January 20, 2016


If you mean the short little five-note riff, it sounds like a cheesy old brass synth patch complicated a fair amount by some autotune and/or vocoder (blended with the vocal line that immediately follows it).

And yeah, it's a bit familiar, like it was one of the standard instruments on those old 80s-era Casio keyboards.
posted by neckro23 at 12:44 PM on January 20, 2016


Best answer: Do you mean the arpeggio, or that squawky synth that comes in right after? For the first one, it sounds like it's just a higher-pitched synth, layered over both a male and a female voice that have been autotuned pretty intensely (intense autotuning on vocals can give you sort of 'horn' sounds). To get that high-pitched arpeggio, I'd try a triangle + square wave mixture (same pitch, not octavized) with short attack/sustain/decay and a bit of release, plus a bit of chorus and reverb. The squawking is from some kind of filter sweep oscillator (low-pass?) with a ton of resonance, I think.
posted by en forme de poire at 12:30 AM on January 21, 2016


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