Nalin & Kane Beachball Organ Bass and percussion

[Trancit]

Hi there,

I am on a retro trip and I heard many samples of this organ bass sound but can somebody tell me how to synthezise this... I know, there was a patch in the Yamaha AN1x Hardware, which sounded very close, but honestely I don´t have any clue how it worked...

Same for the percussion sounds of the same song starting at 01:09... what kind of percussion instruments are they from???

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tn_OJ7iHKM

[xh3rv]

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 3#p5807985 - this is the general way towards the bass organ pluck. I think some tracks with this sound are sampled plus LP-filtered, but a VSTi can get to the same place.

The percussion sounds like congas, seems like sampled slices and pretty processed in any case. I think I'm hearing 'sample' in the subtlies of timing - transient lags a bit and the decay seems post-verb, but anything is possible.

[Trancit]

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 3#p5807985 - this is the general way towards the bass organ pluck. I think some tracks with this sound are sampled plus LP-filtered, but a VSTi can get to the same place.

Thx for quick response and the links, but I don´t know, if this is really the right way...
To me the beachball organ sounds like clever layered and detuned sine waves... don´t think there is anything LP filtered...
My problem is, that my own trys leaded to nowhere ... I don´t have any clue how to detune the sines...

The percussion sounds like congas, seems like sampled slices and pretty processed in any case. I think I'm hearing 'sample' in the subtlies of timing - transient lags a bit and the decay seems post-verb, but anything is possible.

Do they really sound like congas...? I don´t have any clue of percussion instruments

[xh3rv]

Thx for quick response and the links, but I don´t know, if this is really the right way...
To me the beachball organ sounds like clever layered and detuned sine waves... don´t think there is anything LP filtered...
My problem is, that my own trys leaded to nowhere ...

It is very sine-y, for sure. The FM oscillator with no FM here is a sine. The square-wave oscillator provides just a touch of harmonics. It's mostly filtered out by the LP-filter; when the LP is more open at the start it gives a plucky attack but when that closes it makes only a very subtle contribution to the sound.

This can be done in a lot of synths, it's a surprisingly tweak-able scheme - IMHO it's a great sound to test the subtleties of oscs and filters and envelopes with.