Eddie - Still Healing | Bass Synth Patch Remake

Remaking the bass synth from the 2018 song "Still Healing" by Eddie can be an exciting challenge for any synthesizer enthusiast. Here’s how you can create the "Still Healing" bass 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 gritty, growling synth bass in EDDIE’s “Still Healing” hits at 0:38 and drives the drop with a dense low-end presence. It is characteristically a stacked sawtooth sound with wide octave spacing, run through a resonant, dirty low‑pass filter with a fast envelope creating a sharp attack transient. Heavy hard‑clip/saturation distortion creates the snarling, vocal-like growl.

Our Remake of The Bass Synth sound

This audio clip is how close we've matched the original tone of the bass synth from the song "Still Healing" by Eddie, 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: Mono

Oscillator Setup

Oscillator 1

• Mix: 74%
• Wavetable: Default Saw
• Routing: Filter 1
• Random Phase: 0%

Oscillator 2

• Mix: 57%
• Wavetable: Default Saw
• Routing: Filter 1
• Random Phase: 0%
• Transpose: 31 st

Filter Settings

Filter 1

• Model: Dirty
• Style: 12dB Slope
• Blend: Low Pass (0)
• Cutoff: 29% (69.042 Hz)
• Resonance: 97%
• Drive: 50%
• Modulations:
• Env 2 → Cutoff
• Env 2 → Resonance

Envelope Settings

Envelope 1 (Amp)

• Attack: 0 ms
• Decay: 477 ms
• Sustain: 29%
• Release: 398 ms

Envelope 2

• Attack: 0 ms
• Decay: 322 ms
• Sustain: 0%
• Release: 322 ms
• Routed to:
• Filter 1 Cutoff (59%)
• EQ Band Gain (31%)
• Filter 1 Resonance (-38%)
• Filter FX Cutoff (46%)

Effects Processing (Ordered)

Eq

• Band Cutoff: 271.999 Hz
• Band Resonance: 65%
• Band Gain: 0.47 dB

Distortion

• Mix: Default (100%)
• Drive: 78%
• Type: Hard Clip

Filter Fx

• Mix: Default (100%)
• Model: Analog
• Style: 24dB Slope
• Blend: Low Pass (0)
• Cutoff: 41% (170.69 Hz)
• Resonance: 0%
• Drive: 27%

Modulation Matrix

• Envelope 2 → Filter 1 Cutoff 59%
• Envelope 2 → EQ Band Gain 31%
• Envelope 2 → Filter 1 Resonance -38%
• Envelope 2 → Filter FX Cutoff 46%

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

Explore More

• Still Healing – EDDIE (Bandcamp)
• Still Healing – EDDIE (Shazam)
• Still Healing Lyrics & Credits – Genius
• EDDIE artist page (Viberate)

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

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