Darius - Omeo | Chords Synth Patch Remake

Remaking the chords synth from the 2014 song "Omeo" by Darius can be an exciting challenge for any synthesizer enthusiast. Here’s how you can create the "Omeo" chords 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 chord stab in Darius’ “Omeo” is a meaty, heavily unisoned saw-wave synth with light filtering and slow modulation of detune. It first appears at 0:34 as paired stabs where the second chord in each pair is noticeably less smeared, indicating LFO modulation of unison detune. The tails carry a fluttery delay that gives the stabs their fluttering finish.

Our Remake of The Chords Synth sound

This audio clip is how close we've matched the original tone of the chords synth from the song "Omeo" by Darius, 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 5

Oscillator Setup

Oscillator 1

• Mix: 71%
• Wavetable: Default Saw
• Routing: Filter 1
• Unison Voices: 6
• Unison Detune: 1%
• Unison Stereo Spread: 51%
• Morph:
• Wave Morph Amount: 7%
• Modulations:
• Lfo 2 → Unison Detune

Filter Settings

Filter 1

• Model: Ladder
• Style: 24dB Slope
• Blend: Low Pass (0)
• Cutoff: 82% (3534.198 Hz)
• Resonance: 21%
• Drive: 28%

Envelope Settings

Envelope 1 (Amp)

• Attack: 2 ms
• Sustain: 100%
• Release: 299 ms
• Attack Curve: Logarithmic

LFO Settings

LFO 1

• Mode: Trigger
• Sync: Tempo
• Tempo: 1/16
• Shape: Triangle
• Destinations:
• Voice Tune (amount 32%)

LFO 2

• Mode: Sync
• Sync: Tempo
• Tempo: 1/2
• Shape: Triangle (custom)
• Destinations:
• Osc 1 Unison Detune (amount 18%)

Effects Processing (Ordered)

Eq

• Low Mode: High-Pass
• Low Cutoff: 126.544 Hz
• Low Resonance: 33%
• Band Cutoff: 410.656 Hz
• Band Resonance: 20%
• Band Gain: -7 dB
• High Cutoff: 2377.748 Hz
• High Resonance: Default (32%)
• High Gain: 3 dB

Delay

• Mix: 17%
• Delay 1
• Sync: Default (Tempo)
• Rate: 1/16
• Delay 2
• Sync: Frequency
• Frequency: 3 Hz
• Feedback: 53%
• Filter Cutoff: 97
• Filter Spread: 19%
• Style: Stereo

Reverb

• Mix: 16%
• Size: Default (50%)
• Chorus Amount: 5%
• Chorus Frequency: Default (0.250 Hz)
• Time: Default (0.000 s)

Modulation Matrix

• LFO 1 → Voice Tune 32%
• LFO 2 → Osc 1 Unison Detune 18%

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

Explore More

• Darius – Omeo (Lofi Chord Stab) — r/synthrecipes (Reddit)
• How to recreate the synth sound playing chords at 0:34? — r/synthrecipes (Reddit)
• Patch Request: Darius – Omeo (Chord Stab) — AudibleGenius community

Preset Downloads

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• Vital

Comments

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