Im talking about of that soft instrument (like a soft synthesized piano) "in the very beginning" of the song

I know about 20% of what a synth is so if you give me a step by step mini guide about how to make that sound I can tweak the knobs, fx of my synths ( I have Sylenth, Spire, Serum, Zebra, Zeta+, Massive)

Till now I know, as i said in the tittle,the sound mentioned above is based on a sine wave....(I think so ) help me with the rest please

 

Last edited: Apr 11, 2016

I recommend you to experiment, experiment a lot until you get that sound, trust me its the best way to understand how synths work, go for spire, you should understand first which waves work for which sounds, need a lot of harmonics? go for saws, need bright sounds? go for sines and squares. Try with a sine or a square wave, 0 sustain, instant attack, and experiment with decay. If need more harmonics detune a square over a sine. But just experiment bro.

 

I get a kind of 8 bit sound till now... but nothing similar with the sound of the song I posted above.....I dont have enough time at the moment to learn more about synths, I just need the sound for a track im making

 

if you dont have the time to learn about synths, go for a sample library like omnisphere 2, Korg M1...

 

Electric piano?

 

Open Sylenth, get to the factory patches in bank 3. Evaluate the ones that are labelled `Key`. (e.g. 354). Start from there......Make notes of what changes you make and how they impact your sound. You`ll get there one day.

Sorry but I don`t have this massive synth collection you have.

 

Sounds like a lofi plucky harp or acoustic guitar. Probably easier to go sample based or physical modelling rather than synthesized in this case. I think that would be easier.

If you go syntheszed, you not only need a quick and snappy Volume Envelope but also a Pitch envelope as well too mimik th slight pitch drop of releasing the string after plucking it.

 

Or Yamaha DX7, given the time of song's release?

 

1990. Whoa! Time flies. I was busy driving my moped and hoping to get laid back then.
DX7 was released 1983. That would mean enough time (for The Beloved) to learn FM synthesis and to realize that "less is more". I guess you might be right (electric FM piano).

 

Remember im talking about the first sound at the very very beginning of the song not the second one (lead) that indeed is a fm piano, I think this first sound is a soft sine... Correct me if im wrong

 

It doesn't sound like a sine to me... it has upper harmonics a sine should not have... so If I have to guess, is a filtered triwave

 

To me it indeed sounds FM-ish, too. Try finding some FM bell or FM el. piano sounds. NI FM7 or FM8, or free FM synth Dexed? http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2014/06/15/digital-suburban-dexed/

 

ok I will let you know

 

Very simple FM, to get that class-like attack/timbre: