{"id":56390,"date":"2025-01-15T08:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T08:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.syntorial.com\/?post_type=preset-recipe&#038;p=56390"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:54:16","slug":"daft-punk-derezzed-lead","status":"publish","type":"preset-recipe","link":"https:\/\/www.syntorial.com\/fr\/preset-recipe\/daft-punk-derezzed-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Daft Punk \u2013 Derezzed | Titre principal"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}"},"genre":[347],"preset-type":[365,455],"synthesizer":[375],"class_list":["post-56390","preset-recipe","type-preset-recipe","status-publish","hentry","genre-electronic","preset-type-lead","preset-type-gritty","synthesizer-primer"],"acf":{"synth_recipe_type":"Song Remake","syntorial_lesson":true,"tutorial_video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7l7GbyVlLvw","artist_name":"Daft Punk","song_name":"Derezzed","original_performing_instrument":"","original_song_link":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m4lkg-vdsgY&start=11","sound_description":"Daft Punk's \"Derezzed,\" featured on the 2010 \"Tron: Legacy\" soundtrack, is distinguished by its aggressive and textured lead synthesizer. This sound is crafted using layered sawtooth waves at different octaves, enhanced with substantial distortion and modulation effects. The result is a gritty, dynamic lead that propels the track's energetic rhythm. You can hear this distinctive synth lead prominently at the beginning of the song.","audio_clip":"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/audiblegenius\/daft-punk-derezzed-lead","recipe":"<div><h3>Voices<\/h3><ul><li>Voice Mode: <span>Mono Legato<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h3>Amp Envelope<\/h3><ul><li>Attack: <span>0 ms<\/span><\/li><li>Sustain: <span>100%<\/span><\/li><li>Release: <span>20 ms<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h3>Oscillators<\/h3><ul><li>Oscillator <span>1<\/span><ul><li>Waveform: <span>Saw<\/span><\/li><li>Volume: <span>40%<\/span><\/li><li>Pitch: <span>+3<\/span> Cents<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Oscillator <span>2<\/span><ul><li>Waveform: <span>Saw<\/span><\/li><li>Pitch: <span>+1 Octave and -5 Cents<\/span><\/li><li>Volume: <span>60%<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Sub Oscillator<ul><li>Waveform: <span>Pulse<\/span><\/li><li>Pulse Width: <span>100%<\/span><\/li><li>Pitch: <span>-1<\/span> Octave<\/li><li>Volume: <span>20%<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Unison<ul><li>Oscillators: <span>All<\/span><\/li><li>Voice Count: <span>2<\/span><\/li><li>Detune Range: <span>1<\/span> Cent<\/li><li>Stereo Spread: <span>50%<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Reset All Oscillators Phase On Note Start: <span>Yes<\/span><\/li><li>Noise Volume: <span>20%<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h3>Filter<\/h3><ul><li>Type: <span>Low Pass<\/span><\/li><li>Cutoff: <span>60%<\/span><\/li><li>Resonance: <span>65%<\/span><\/li><li>Key Tracking: <span>50%<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h3>Distortion<\/h3><ul><li>Drive: <span>61%<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h3>Phaser<\/h3><ul><li>Mix: <span>50%<\/span> Wet<\/li><li>Feedback: <span>60%<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h3>Delay<\/h3><ul><li>Mix: <span>35%<\/span> Wet<\/li><li>Feedback: <span>0%<\/span><\/li><li>Time: <span>1\/32 Note<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","observations":"<em>(tutorial video transcript)<\/em>\r\n\r\nSo to start, we\u2019re gonna reset the synth so it\u2019s just a plain old saw wave. And we\u2019re going to mix in a second oscillator that\u2019s also a saw wave, but one octave higher. So first I\u2019m going to set this saw for oscillator two up to 12 semis, one octave. And then listen to the sound as I mix in the second oscillator.\r\n\r\nSo you hear that bright top end suddenly come in, and we\u2019re mixing it so it\u2019s about 60% oscillator two, 40% oscillator one, so you want a little bit more of the top end than the bottom end.\r\n\r\nNext we\u2019re going to take this higher oscillator, and we\u2019re gonna de-tune it down six cents. So it kinda thickens the sound, it adds a little bit of pulsation and smearing to it. Now, when you de-tune two oscillators and you have the Start button on, you get a very pointy, hard attack on each note. Without getting too much into the science behind this, this is because, with Oscillator Start on, every time you play a new note, both oscillators\u2019 phases start over. And this creates a very quick volume boost right at the beginning of each note, and thus creates this attack transient, this sort of hard, pointy attack.\r\n\r\nNow, for this patch, we don\u2019t want that, so we\u2019re going to turn the Oscillator Start button off. That\u2019s on, here\u2019s off. Makes it a little smoother. Next we\u2019re gonna bring the sub-oscillator up, and this is one octave lower than oscillator one, and it\u2019s set to a saw wave. Or sorry, a square wave. So that gives us our bottom end. And then to further smooth the transitions between notes, we\u2019re gonna turn Legato Mode on.\r\n\r\nNext we\u2019re gonna distort the sound. Now, if I just turn the distortion up right now, it doesn\u2019t sound very good, take a listen. It\u2019s a very trashy, kinda papery, distortion. So what I like to do is turn the Cutoff knob down first. \u2018Cause basically, what distortion does, among other things, is it adds its own high end to your sound. But if you already have this bright high end in there, then it just sort of mixes the distorted high end with the original high end, and it just kinda sounds nasty. So we\u2019re gonna turn the cutoff down. So it\u2019s a nice round sound, not much high end left on it, and then bring the distortion up.\r\n\r\nNext we\u2019re gonna add some resonance. This really sorta shapes the sound, thins it a bit, and pushes the distortion out, it kinda brings out the distortion. Now, right now our lower notes sound pretty good, but our higher notes still sound too rounded, they\u2019re not bright enough.\r\n\r\nSo whenever you have a part like this that spans a couple octaves, you can run into that problem quite often because the filter applies its cutoff kind of unevenly across your keyboard. Like right now, our lower notes sound nice, nice and bright, but our upper notes sound too dark. So that\u2019s what Key Tracking\u2019s for.\r\n\r\nWhen I turn Key Tracking up, the higher notes are gonna get a lot brighter, but the lower notes pretty much stay the same. This is because the lower notes are near middle C, and Key Tracking doesn\u2019t change the brightness of middle C, but as you begin to play notes higher and higher above middle C, Key Tracking brightens them more and more. So these lower notes that are very close to middle C barely get brightened, and the notes that are two octaves above middle C get a lot of brightness added to them.\r\n\r\nSo now we have a nice uniform brightness across the entire range. Next, we want to spread the sound out. Right now it\u2019s right down the center, but the sound should be kind of wide, so we\u2019ll use Unison, we\u2019ll turn that on and we\u2019ll increase the spread knob to widen the sound.\r\n\r\nNow that did a good job of widening the sound, but it also added that really kinda awful wobbling sound in there. This is the interaction between Unison to Distortion. Distortion typically doesn\u2019t like a ton of pulsations from de-tuned oscillators. But we need the distortion, so we turn the de-tune amount down, so there\u2019s not as much movement.\r\n\r\nSo now we have our smooth distortion and our widening. What\u2019s also kind of a nice side effect is this slow de-tuning makes it so that some notes pop out to the right side, some notes pop out to the left side, which is what the track actually does. So now the sound kinda feels like it\u2019s moving left and right, but it\u2019s also still strongest in the center.\r\n\r\nNext we\u2019re gonna add a little white noise. Kinda trashes the sound a bit. And then some phaser. So it\u2019s fairly wet, but the range of the phasing is a little too extreme. So the feedback we\u2019re gonna turn down. So now that phasing sound doesn\u2019t stick out so much.\r\n\r\nAnd then lastly, our delay. We\u2019re gonna use a slapback delay, which kinda makes it sound like it\u2019s in a small room or a basement. So first we\u2019re gonna turn up the mix knob. So by default you get several repeats, but a slapback delay is just one single repeat, so we turn the feedback all the way down. So just one repeat for every note you play.\r\n\r\nAnd then a slapback delay is also very fast, so right now we\u2019re at a quarter note, we\u2019re gonna crank it. No delay: Delay: So that\u2019s your basic sound. Now, when you listen through the track, the sound is definitely changing, it\u2019s got subtle changes probably with the filter and a few other things. So it\u2019s different depending on what part of the track you\u2019re listening to.\r\n\r\nBut one of the best changes that I like about it is this mix between the highest oscillator and the middle oscillator. It changes, like earlier in the track: It\u2019s more like that, it\u2019s mostly this oscillator, less of this oscillator. But then, as you get deeper into it, that higher end kinda starts to stick out. And that\u2019s \u201cDerezzed\u201d.","sources":"<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2013\/12\/18\/how-to-recreate-the-daft-punk-derezzed-synth-lead\/\">How To Recreate The Daft Punk \u2018Derezzed\u2019 Synth Lead | Synthtopia<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/synthctrl.com\/blogs\/blog\/how-to-sound-like-daft-punk\">How to sound like Daft Punk | Synth Ctrl<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sInItxhYXwo\">Massive Tutorial - Daft Punk 'Derezzed' Synth Lead | YouTube<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","community_thread_url":"","patch_id":"","decade":"2010s","release_year":2010,"syntorial_essentials_lesson":"Key Tracking","syntorial_essentials_level":"30. 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