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The Bell Piano is the trickiest. Try this:
Oscillator: FM between two sine waves. Raise the carrier (the oscillator on the receiving end of the FM modulation) Semi to 12 (1 octave). Dial in a small amount of FM. This way we get mostly a round sine wave for the body of the sound, with a layer of bright belly FM on top.
Amp Envelope: Set Attack to 0, so that you hear a little “pop” at the beginning of the sound. Long Release
Unison: 2 voices, wide Spread, mild Detune. And set it so the voices Phase starts over with every note, and then quantize the chord notes so that they start at the exact same time. This will make that starting “pop” really prominent.
Chorus: Wide, 50% mix, Medium Rate. This will soften and spread the sound a bit more
Reverb: big Size, About 30% Mix
Voices: Poly, 4 voices.
Bass
Oscillator: Saw
Filter: Low Pass, 24 dB, turn the Cutoff way down, and crank the Drive. You’ll have to play around with the Cutoff and Drive a bit, but essentially you’re going for a really round, saturated bass
Pad
Oscillator: Saw
Unison: 4 voices, medium-wide Spread, Detune strong enough to make it kind-of wobbly
Filter: Low Pass, 24 dB. Turn the Cutoff pretty far down, and turn up the Res quite a bit. We’re looking for a nice round sound, but the Res will shape it by pushing it out in the low-mids a bit.
God bless you man! I really mean it, it was taking me forever to try and get close to each of these sounds on my own and even then I was a long way off! How long did it take you to figure each out?
On a side note you mention the voices in “Unison:” to be 2, and at the end you say Voices = 4? What do you mean by that?
God bless you man! I really mean it, it was taking me forever to try and get close to each of these sounds on my own and even then I was a long way off! How long did it take you to figure each out?
Bass and pad took a few minutes. The bell piano was more complex and required some experimentation with the FM settings, so maybe 10 minutes.
On a side note you mention the voices in “Unison:” to be 2, and at the end you say Voices = 4? What do you mean by that?
Unison is when you duplicate an oscillator and detune the duplicates away from each other in order to create a smearing and pulsating effect. You can choose the number of duplicates (in this case 2). In Primer there’s an actual Unison setting. In many synths, instead of having a Unison section, there will be a Voices/Detune setting in each Oscillator.
Voices = 4 refers to the overall number of synth voices, i.e. how many notes you can play at once. It’s usually found near the Voice Mode (Mono, Poly)
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