What synth can make 80's sounds like this?

http://soundcloud.com/powerglove/telecom

I'm mainly interested in a the lead sounds. Thanks in advance if you know!

for the 'brass' lead, try Uno 62 (free) or the Synthix from XILS Lab (for money, but worth it.)

for the slap-bass sounding thing, maybe the SQ8L (free)

and the little formant-ish vox synth sound... hmmm... maybe The Deputy ? (free) It's got some nice vocal sounding possibilities.

You may have more luck with rompler type things, or maybe Wusikstation, but try the free ones first just in case

No modern synths can reproduce the sheer awesomeness of that track! I think you're going to have to break out some shoulder pads, a perm kit and build a time machine if you want to recreate that level of authenticity.

Just kidding...

The Arturia & KORG synths would be a good place to start. I'm not sure but those may be some Linn drums.

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Synapse Audio-DUNE.

OP-X Pro II

http://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/description.html

every synthesizer can produce those. you must mean where can you find presets that include all eq and effects already set up?

90% of those sounds are the chorus and other effects. you can't get any more basic than those.

Thanks so much for the responses guys! Tell me that song isn't rad

i should have also mentioned that it might work well if you just email the author.

assuming they can remember.

Did you catch the comments on there...?

rad? That's so late 80's early 90's.
Yea it's definitely a great recreation of that sound from then.
The brass is king there.

Needs more compr ession!

Yes, virtually any synth with decent filters can create similar sounds - it's all in the wrist action!

When disco was queen! Let's boogie!

SFAM

The lead is a Jupiter 8 sound. Here it is in alchemy :



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf9qtcRS13I

discoDSP Discovery Pro or Corona synths will do.

There is a dedicated brass bank for Discovery Pro, check the demo.

The lead can be easily recreated with Surge for example.
Use a Pulse/Square waveform and modulate pulse width via LFO.

Thanks guys. My preset designing skills are pretty basic. I can make bass and simple pad and pluck sounds but I have no idea how to create fake 80's style brass sounds. So the reason I asked what synth can re-create this specific brass sound was because I was just going to find a preset and learn how to tweak and make my own from there. There's almost too many tutorials out there for creating EDM type sounds but not many for other genres.