Synthesis of this specific sound?

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Hey,

Recently came across this track from Phara and it reminded me of his live set I seen last year. Its the sound that come in around the 50 second mark

Was basically those hypnotic bleepy sounds for an hour and I absolutely fell in love. Some people hate that stuff but I thought it was excellent!

Been trying to make these sorts of sounds but can never get close. Sounds like FM to me?

Does anyone have any idea of a machine that can create these sort of tones? I was obviously thinking Digitone… maybe it’s not even FM?

Anyway, if anyone has any sort of insight that would be cool.

Cheers

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I like Phara. I know he uses a Korg EMX1. Sounds like that to me, through some external fx.

The filter overload gives it away. Very characteristic sound.

On the EMX1 there is no FM, its VPM instead, similar, but not the same thing.

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Video not available for some reason…

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Anything with a clock (MIDI or otherwise), an arpeggiator/sequencer/sample and hold, sine or triangle wave, and a delay.

(So, most synths, Elektron style boxes, etc.)

Just need the waveform. Control pitch either randomly or cyclically to some division of the clock, tweak envelopes to taste.

Apply some delay at another division of the clock. (Maybe dotted)

You could use LFOs to bring things in and out perhaps as well.

The tones may be FMed a bit or possibly sample rate reduced.

I did something similar(ish) here at around 9:14 (Digitakt only, single cycle wave…)

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I knew he used one but wasn’t aware of the VPM. Useful knowledge. Thank you.

Now im after one… :grin:

:beers:

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Thank you :innocent:

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There’s a certain VA algorithm on it that allow morphing between waveforms, and changing the pitch of one of the 2 ocilators at the same time. Sounds absolutely bangin. Could be that too.

It sounds like the EMX1 mod delay, then a nice reverb (as the EMX1 reverb is terrible)

I could be wrong.

As @J3RK pointed out, fairly easy to do with almost any synth.

Uneven step length sequence helps too, 7 against 16 for example.

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I somehow knew the answer would be Korg before playing the video. Any time in the last 20 years someone has wanted not just any cool bleepy sound but a SPECIFIC cool bleepy sound the answer has been Korg. I ended up with an MS2000 for the same reason.

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Yes, 5, 7 are great for odd, and for even 8 steps is nice, especially with a rest or two.