Ott - The Queen of All Everything | Lead Synth Patch Remake

Remaking the lead synth from the 2008 song "The Queen of All Everything" by Ott can be an exciting challenge for any synthesizer enthusiast. Here’s how you can create the "The Queen of All Everything" 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

The vocal-like lead in Ott’s “The Queen of All Everything” appears at about 1:02. It is a thin pulse-wave lead run through a low-pass filter with a pronounced resonant peak and driven into distortion. The filter cutoff is manually modulated (mod wheel) to create the opening/closing, vocal quality. A large reverb adds spaciousness to the part.

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 "The Queen of All Everything" by Ott, 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
• Legato: On
• Glide Time: 0.021 s

Oscillator Setup

Oscillator 1

• Mix: 71%
• Wavetable: Basic Shapes
• Wave Frame: Thin Pulse (position 256)
• Routing: Filter 1
• Unison Voices: 2
• Unison Detune: 5%
• Unison Stereo Spread: 0%
• Morph:
• Wave Morph Amount: 55%
• Wave Morph Type: Pulse

Filter Settings

Filter 1

• Model: Analog
• Style: 24dB Slope
• Blend: Low Pass (0)
• Cutoff: 56% (520.684 Hz)
• Resonance: 80%
• Drive: 20%
• Modulations:
• Mod Wheel → Cutoff

Envelope Settings

Envelope 1 (Amp)

• Attack: 0 ms
• Sustain: 100%
• Release: 187 ms

Effects Processing (Ordered)

Distortion

• Mix: Default (100%)
• Drive: 63%
• Type: Default (Soft Clip)

Reverb

• Mix: 43%
• Size: 100%
• Chorus Amount: 5%
• Chorus Frequency: Default (0.250 Hz)
• Time: 2.007 s
• Low Shelf Cutoff: 29% (67.647 Hz)
• Low Shelf Gain: -6 dB
• Pre Low Cutoff: 40% (161.684 Hz)

Modulation Matrix

• Mod Wheel → Filter 1 Cutoff 29%

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

Explore More

• Interview with Ott (psybient.org)
• Ott & The All Seeing Interview (Project Revolver)
• Producer Interview with Ott (YouTube)
• Skylon – Ott (Discogs)
• What piano preset does Ott use in certain songs? (Reddit)

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

Comments

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