Callmeyang - Love Bird | Keys Synth Patch Remake

Remaking the keys synth from the 2005 song "Love Bird" by Callmeyang can be an exciting challenge for any synthesizer enthusiast. Here’s how you can create the "Love Bird" keys patch and play this iconic sound on most hardware or software subtractive synthesizers (Serum, Vital, Pigments, Prophet, Korg, Moog, etc). We've included the preset download directly for your convenience, but we strongly recommend you use our programming tutorial to recreate it yourself.

Original Audio

Warm, chordal synth/organ pad opens “Love Bird” and remains under the vocal from the beginning, providing the track’s harmonic bed. The tone is a pulse-based waveform run through a rounded low-pass filter with noticeable resonance and a subtle filter envelope sweep that adds gentle motion. The patch sits in the midrange like a soft electric organ rather than a bright digital pad. You can hear the part throughout the intro and first verse where it supports the vocal without taking the lead.

Our Remake of The Keys Synth sound

This audio clip is how close we've matched the original tone of the keys synth from the song "Love Bird" by Callmeyang, giving you a reference point as you design your own synthesizer preset. Play it as often as you need to familiarize yourself with the nuances of the sound.

Synth Patch Programming Recipe

Getting Started

• Start by initializing your synthesizer to a plain saw with no filter, modulation or effects. For soft synths use the "init"/"default" preset or the the button to reset all parameters to their default factory values.
• No two synths are exactly alike, so treat the values below as approximate, and use your ear.
• Percentage values (e.g. 50%) represent the relative position of a knob or slider within its full range. The full range of each parameter may differ from synth to synth, so use your ear.

Note: the patch settings may slightly differ in the Syntorial challenge.

Explore More

• Love Bird (ft. Lisa Debenedictis) — Callmeyang (SoundCloud)
• Love Bird (feat. Lisa Debenedictis) — Callmeyang (ccMixter)
• Subtractive synthesis (Sound On Sound)
• How to make a pad sound (MusicTech)
• Subtractive synthesis (Wikipedia)

Preset Downloads

Don't want to learn synth programming now? Use our synth preset as your starting point and tweak it from there. Register an account with Audible Genius and download the presets for free for the following synths:

• Grundierung, our free synthesizer VST
• Vital

Comments

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