Tennesseen - Jazz Every Day | Pad Synth Patch Remake

Remaking the pad synth from the 2023 song "Jazz Every Day" by Tennesseen can be an exciting challenge for any synthesizer enthusiast. Here’s how you can create the "Jazz Every Day" pad 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 swirling pad sound that comes in at 0:00. Unison square and sine waves with lots of randomised modulation for harmonics, filter sweeps. Additional phaser, chorus and reverb and noise layer. These pads are usually built from a synth and then resampled down into a chord to then be played back in a sampler creating that retro audio pitch down effect

Our Remake of The Pad Synth sound

This audio clip is how close we've matched the original tone of the pad synth from the song "Jazz Every Day" by Tennesseen, 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 8

Oscillator Setup

Oscillator 1

• Mix: 0%
• Wavetable: Basic Shapes
• Wave Frame: Rounded Square (position 42)
• Routing: Filter 1
• Random Phase: 54%
• Unison Voices: 5
• Unison Detune: 11%
• Unison Stereo Spread: 100%
• Modulations:
• Velocity → Level

Oscillator 2

• Mix: 0%
• Wavetable: Basic Shapes
• Wave Frame: Rounded Square (position 42)
• Routing: Filter 1+2
• Random Phase: 67%
• Transpose: 12 st
• Unison Voices: 3
• Unison Detune: 10%
• Unison Stereo Spread: 100%
• Morph:
• Spectral Morph Amount: 59%
• Spectral Morph Type: Harmonic Stretch
• Modulations:
• Velocity → Level

Sample Oscillator

• Sample: Pink Noise
• Routing: Filter 1
• Level: 9%
• Keytrack: On
• Bounce: On
• Modulations:
• Velocity → Level

Filter Settings

Filter 1

• Model: Analog
• Style: 24dB Slope
• Blend: Low Pass (0)
• Cutoff: 52% (380.134 Hz)
• Resonance: 83%
• Modulations:
• Random 2 → Cutoff
• Random 2 → Resonance

Envelope Settings

Envelope 1 (Amp)

• Attack: 73 ms
• Sustain: 100%
• Release: 629 ms

Random LFO Settings

Random 1

• Style: Perlin
• Sync: Tempo
• Tempo: 1/1
• Destinations:
• Filter Fx Cutoff (amount 76%)

Random 2

• Style: Perlin
• Sync: Tempo
• Tempo: 1/1
• Destinations:
• Filter 1 Cutoff (amount 70%)
• Filter 1 Resonance (amount -24%)

Effects Processing (Ordered)

Chorus

• Voices: 4
• Sync: Default (Tempo)
• Tempo: Default (4/1)
• Depth: Default (50%)
• Delay 1: Default (2.0 ms)
• Delay 2: Default (7.8 ms)
• Feedback: 0%
• Mix: 65%
• Cutoff: 1598.5 Hz
• Spread: 0.39

Compressor

• Mode: Default (Multiband)
• Mix: Default (100%)
• Attack: 77%
• Release: Default (50%)
• Low Values
• Low Gain: 16 dB
• Low Upper Ratio: 90%
• Band Values
• Band Gain: 9 dB
• Band Upper Ratio: 86%
• High Values
• High Gain: 16 dB
• High Upper Threshold: -29 dB
• High Upper Ratio: 84%
• High Lower Ratio: 18%

Phaser

• Mix: 97%
• Blend: 2
• Center: 231.2 Hz
• Feedback: Default (50%)
• Depth: 720%
• Phase Offset: 0.17
• Sync: Default (Tempo)
• Tempo: Default (8/1)

Eq

• Low Mode: High-Pass
• Low Cutoff: 131.717 Hz
• Low Resonance: 39%
• Band Cutoff: 480.550 Hz
• Band Resonance: Default (45%)
• Band Gain: -3 dB
• High Cutoff: 2170.317 Hz
• High Resonance: Default (32%)
• High Gain: -6 dB

Filter Fx

• Mix: Default (100%)
• Model: Analog
• Style: 12dB Slope
• Blend: Low Pass (0)
• Cutoff: 47% (261.626 Hz)
• Resonance: 24%

Reverb

• Mix: 52%
• Size: Default (50%)
• Chorus Amount: 5%
• Chorus Frequency: Default (0.250 Hz)
• Time: Default (0.000 s)
• Pre Low Cutoff: 48% (281.436 Hz)

Modulation Matrix

• Random 1 → Filter FX Cutoff 76%
• Velocity → Osc 1 Level 80%
• Velocity → Osc 2 Level 69%
• Velocity → Sample Level 36%
• Random 2 → Filter 1 Cutoff 70%
• Random 2 → Filter 1 Resonance -24%

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

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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