Nico Castoldi - Bolantis | Organ Synth Patch Remake

Remaking the organ synth from the 2018 song "Bolantis" by Nico Castoldi can be an exciting challenge for any synthesizer enthusiast. Here’s how you can create the "Bolantis" organ 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

That classic house organ in Nico Castoldi’s “Bolantis” enters at 1:28 with a rounded, pulsing chord motif. The tone is centered on a square-wave core with wide unison detune to produce organ-style movement. A low-pass filter softens the upper harmonics, giving the patch a warm, vocal quality.

Our Remake of The Organ Synth sound

This audio clip is how close we've matched the original tone of the organ synth from the song "Bolantis" by Nico Castoldi, 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

• PATCH CHALLENGE: House Organ (Audible Genius Community) — notes that Bolantis features the organ at 1:28
• Stream Premiere: Nico Castoldi – Bolantis (Recordeep SoundCloud premiere)
• Nico Castoldi – Bolantis (YouTube upload)

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:

• Primer, our free synthesizer VST
• Vital

Comments

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