I'm making a remix of this song, not a signed artist, amateur level stuff you could say: Link here and skip to 1:25.
Now I want to make my lead sound close and similar to the one that is used there but I can't figure out what kind of supersaw / squares mix is used or whatever. I'm not great at creating sounds but how would you recreate this lead?

I hear there's some gliding, so portamento is surely on but I might be wrong. Maybe I'm getting tricked by the other sounds and I think the sound is different than it actually is? This should be super easy to do in Avenger, Sylenth, Z3TA or anything really

 

Yeah, it's basically a supersaw (with portamento) layered with an electric piano.

 

Ok so as I thought. Then the question is: how to change the character of the supersaw itself? I mean there's not only "one" supersaw. This one is clearly different than another one, and another one in another song, etc. What are the parameters? Or it's all about the effects used, EQ, etc ?
EQ certainly is important I do recognize that

 

How to change the character? You can layer/stack other sounds/synths, EQ, distort, filter, add noise, flanger, phaser, etc etc. There are endless possiblilities.

 

Yes, thanks (layering always my favourite). My problem is that I can't really figure out what are the characteristics in that particular saw

 

IMO you can layer a square (shorter PW) wth the saw. I remember the trick where you put a LFO on a higher rate (35-40 Hz) that modulates the fine pitch of the sq OSC (or both). Had serum on a track and tried something quick & simple. Here is it after adding distortion, rev, delay.. is this kinda what you're looking for? Can post the patch if you use serum (of course you should tweak it, use a different synth..)
https://clyp.it/jlllo1ql

 

Yeah it's kinda what I'm looking for. Other than the weird radio effect/EQ it's exactly what I'm going for. I'll try to layer a square and add some vibrato, thank you
(don't have Serum! a bit too heavy for my caveman PC :D )

 

..yeah, I was just throwing FXs on the sound ;D ..and I think serum is not the best for this (too harsh imo). That's why I suggested other synths. Maybe sylenth would work better but I don't have it on this comp. Will try on the other if I'll have some time later ..that's how I learn things too anyway ;)

edit: now I see i've put a filter/eq on it just to get closer to the sound on YT - totally unnecessary if you want a clean/orig sound.. and it makes a mess /w so many freq

 

Last edited: Oct 29, 2018

iv listened the part, its not a portamento, its the glide amount in the synth options panel,
the note was a synth chord, or it just a detuned lead, or it added more voices, reverb, chorus, set to unison, to makes it fat

 

what you guys think about this?
https://clyp.it/frhttspb

 

Basically this is it (the end part). Don't know how close to the original you want to get, but you could try to transpose the saw osc +1 octave and balance.. (I think the original has this "whistle" character - not sure anymore..;)

 

Yeah I have a good starting point now. Only problem would be to make it mono compatible... right now it almost disappears lol
Thanks a lot everybody