Bensley - Shining For You | Lead Synth Patch Remake

Remaking the lead synth from the 2025 song "Shining For You" by Bensley can be an exciting challenge for any synthesizer enthusiast. Here’s how you can create the "Shining For You" lead 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

At 1:06 the track drops a gritty, growling lead synth with an aggressive, square-wave timbre and strong mid/high harmonic content. The tone is shaped by a heavily resonant low-pass filter and driven through distortion or waveshaping with compression to tighten the attack. The part punctuates the first two beats with stacked fifths under the lead notes to add bottom-end growl and perceived thickness. Admittedly our version get close but doesn’t nail it, as you need just the right distortion to really capture this tone.

Our Remake of The Lead Synth sound

This audio clip is how close we've matched the original tone of the lead synth from the song "Shining For You" by Bensley, 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.

Voices

• Voice Mode: Poly 4

Oscillator Setup

Oscillator 1

• Mix: 71%
• Wavetable: Basic Shapes
• Wave Frame: Square (position 154)
• Routing: Filter 1
• Unison Voices: 2
• Unison Detune: 2%
• Unison Stereo Spread: 100%

Filter Settings

Filter 1

• Model: Analog
• Style: 24dB Slope
• Blend: Low Pass (0)
• Cutoff: 51% (358.356 Hz)
• Resonance: 96%
• Drive: 43%
• Modulations:
• Velocity → Cutoff

Envelope Settings

Envelope 1 (Amp)

• Attack: 8 ms
• Sustain: 100%
• Release: 37 ms

Envelope 2

• Attack: 0 ms
• Decay: 16 ms
• Sustain: 0%
• Release: 90 ms
• Routed to:
• Voice Transpose (8%)

Effects Processing (Ordered)

Distortion

• Mix: 99%
• Drive: 74%
• Type: Sine Fold

Compressor

• Mode: Default (Multiband)
• Mix: Default (100%)
• Attack: 100%
• Release: Default (50%)
• Low Values
• Low Gain: 16 dB
• Low Upper Ratio: 90%
• Band Values
• Band Gain: 12 dB
• Band Upper Ratio: 86%
• High Values
• High Gain: 10 dB

Eq

• Low Mode: High-Pass
• Low Cutoff: 338.381 Hz
• Low Resonance: 24%

Filter Fx

• Mix: Default (100%)
• Model: Dirty
• Style: 24dB Slope
• Blend: Low Pass (0)
• Cutoff: 98% (11276.233 Hz)
• Resonance: 0%
• Drive: 20%

Modulation Matrix

• Velocity → Filter 1 Cutoff 62%
• Envelope 2 → Voice Transpose 8%

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

Explore More

• Bensley — SoundCloud (artist page)
• Shining For You — SoundCloud track page
• Bensley – Shining For You ft. Grace Barton (Official Visualiser) — YouTube
• Bensley – Shining For You (alternate upload) — YouTube
• Bensley — TikTok post referencing “Shining For You”

Preset Downloads

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• Vital