[Colin1970]

Hi all, I’m trying to recreate a human sounding voice sound like an ohh or ahh sound, like from the main track for the movie Lost River, I want to recreate the whole song and upload for others to listen to. You can here the synth voice from the very beginning up till the fat synth bass begins.

[Joe Hanley]

Best way to get that vocal vowel is with a formant filter. You can take any waveform you want, run it through it through the formant filter and tweak it’s cutoff. Or the filter might have a dedicated control for choosing/shaping the vowel, depending on the synth you use.

If you don’t have access to a formant filter, cranking a low pass filter’s resonance, and carefully setting the cutoff, can also push out a vowel-esque character in the filter.

This track’s patch also has a noise layer. It sounds like it’s a separate patch, running through its own filter. It’s really bright on the first two notes, but gets shaped more like the pad on the 3rd note, and adds a breathiness that makes that 3rd note sound even more human.

[Joe Hanley]

By the way, to embed a youtube video in the post, just copy and paste the youtube link. No need to put it in a link tag.