Benny Benassi - Come Fly Away | Keys Synth Patch Remake

Remaking the keys synth from the 2008 song "Come Fly Away" by Benny Benassi can be an exciting challenge for any synthesizer enthusiast. Here’s how you can create the "Come Fly Away" 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

The heavily unisoned sawtooth chords that run throughout Benny Benassi’s “Come Fly Away” form the track’s main harmonic bed. At 2:21 the synth’s low-pass filter is gradually opened, increasing brightness. The patch uses many detuned saw voices with a pronounced attack transient created by a filter spike combined with a quick amp swell. Overall the sound is thick and wide from heavy unison and slow filter automation.

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 "Come Fly Away" by Benny Benassi, 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 allx 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

• Benny Benassi (Wikipedia)
• Benny Benassi Feat. Channing – Come Fly Away (Discogs)
• Benny Benassi – Come Fly Away (Readdork credits)
• Benny Benassi’s “Come Fly Away” Is An All-Round Blissful Jam To The Clouds (Nexus.radio)
• Instagram post referencing JP-8000 used by Benassi

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:

• Vital