hey everybody,

so I stumbled across this tune, the other day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG5aSZBAuPs

do any of you guys and girls have some info on how to get/synthesize that kind of sound? seems to be a rather common new school r'n'b sort of thing.

anyhoo, thanks in advance, everybody.

have a nice evening!

 

This is a pretty straight forward sound here m8

You've got two options here, if you want to be lazy, just load up Massive and search for a preset called "Parts", which IMO that's what everyone's using atm judging by the fact that you said "seems to be a rather common new school r'n'b sort of thing.", by the way, don't forget to turn off the macro named "Add Voice".

If you want to go and take a quick shot at synthesizing this sound, you should grab a 2 OSC synth and get a sawtooth running about and another osc in an higher key to give it more harmonics. That done, grab a LP filter, filter it to taste,add a big ammount of portamento (I find something between 400ms and 500ms to do the job) and ...probably wouldn't hurt fitting an env follower to open the filter a bit.

On another tip..and as I'm a bloke who likes the old school methods, I just tried to recreate it and got pretty close by sampling the intro pad from this tune Source Direct - Snake Style

Throw it into your sampler, lowpass it, use some crossfade looping, stretch the sample thru all the keyboard and just add portamento to taste.

Cheers

 

thanks for the insight. I'll try that right away!

 

No problem. Let me know if you ended up achieving what you wanted

R

 

thats just a Pad or Oregon Neo Soul kind of sound and then using the Pitch Bend

 

... getting there! thanks again.

 

just for shits and jiggles did you get the sound you were trying to achieve???

P.s BTW Ontario has the best beef lol

 

I did, indeed. What RM123 pointed out was extremely helpful, I just played by ear after that. Definitely used "portamento" instead of "pitch bend", though!