[How to?] : 2 Unlimited - "No One" Synth tone (1994)
-
- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 6 posts since 21 Feb, 2020
Hi everyone,
I wish to know how did they create the main tone from that song :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnGjkua8yns
I consider that tone very well suited for the song. It's very rich, catchy and dreamy.
I did try some things things, but it appears to be more tedious to reproduce than I thought at first glance. The closer I get was with an Emulator calliope sample layered with a saw synth, but the tone in that song is actually richer and it has a special character to me. I tried with Serum to import the wavetable from the calliope sample, adding noise and filter but I can t nail the special character I'm hearing.
I don t know if it s wavetable synthesis, FM, sample, layers, but maybe one specialist here could help to find out?
I wish to know how did they create the main tone from that song :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnGjkua8yns
I consider that tone very well suited for the song. It's very rich, catchy and dreamy.
I did try some things things, but it appears to be more tedious to reproduce than I thought at first glance. The closer I get was with an Emulator calliope sample layered with a saw synth, but the tone in that song is actually richer and it has a special character to me. I tried with Serum to import the wavetable from the calliope sample, adding noise and filter but I can t nail the special character I'm hearing.
I don t know if it s wavetable synthesis, FM, sample, layers, but maybe one specialist here could help to find out?
-
- KVRAF
- 5664 posts since 7 Feb, 2013
One of my favourite songs from my childhood.
Sorry, can't held you with the exact sound, my guess is that it must be a preset from some of the rompler workstations they had in the 90's.
Using a calliope sample for the base sound actually seems a good idea, the sound also has some kind of "warmth", I'd probably use a tape simulator like Satin to approximate it.
Sorry, can't held you with the exact sound, my guess is that it must be a preset from some of the rompler workstations they had in the 90's.
Using a calliope sample for the base sound actually seems a good idea, the sound also has some kind of "warmth", I'd probably use a tape simulator like Satin to approximate it.
You may think you can fly ... but you better not try
-
- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 6 posts since 21 Feb, 2020
Thank you for your answer. Maybe someone who owns one of this romplers from 90s may recognize that preset, if it is one of it.
At first it made me think about D50 or Kurzweil K2000. It's strange cos when you hear that tone for first time, you may think it's one basic tone from any 90s keyboard, but when you compare it at let's say, D-50 presets, you realize their tone is actually very specific, or maybe it's just me? I have a nostalgia thing with that song so it may be the reason I'm not objective.
Concerning the beat, it was sampled from James Brown "Funky Drummer", pitched and enhanced with drum machine kick and hi hat.
At first it made me think about D50 or Kurzweil K2000. It's strange cos when you hear that tone for first time, you may think it's one basic tone from any 90s keyboard, but when you compare it at let's say, D-50 presets, you realize their tone is actually very specific, or maybe it's just me? I have a nostalgia thing with that song so it may be the reason I'm not objective.
Concerning the beat, it was sampled from James Brown "Funky Drummer", pitched and enhanced with drum machine kick and hi hat.
-
- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 6 posts since 21 Feb, 2020
I did and found nothing, but thanks nonetheless
-
- KVRian
- 518 posts since 23 Apr, 2017 from Eastern US
Sounds like a Fairlight vox type sample.
Art Of Noise Moments In Love used the same sound
Art Of Noise Moments In Love used the same sound
Many paid and free VSTs as well as Kontakt libraries. As well as HW synths/drum machine and acoustic instruments.
-
- Patchmeister
- 1774 posts since 3 Nov, 2010
Sorry
I'm a dumbass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vRUCI0ICaE
This was the video I THOUGHT it was but I was WAY off!
I'm a dumbass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vRUCI0ICaE
This was the video I THOUGHT it was but I was WAY off!
CHOOSX Remakes on my Youtube Channel
-
- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 6 posts since 21 Feb, 2020
Thank you, I think you are totally right.Music Bird wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 7:12 pm Sounds like a Fairlight vox type sample.
Art Of Noise Moments In Love used the same sound
I've tried with an emulation of the Fairlight Syn Vox and it's exactly the tone. I've uploaded the result to Soundcloud, I'll post it here.
I've learnt a lot about the story of that sound in that article :
http://archive.is/ZvWet
Last edited by damien9494 on Sat Feb 22, 2020 4:58 am, edited 3 times in total.
-
- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 6 posts since 21 Feb, 2020
Thank you, I'm gonna watch it.
(The guy got the beard of Rick Rubin, he has to be good)
Last edited by damien9494 on Sat Feb 22, 2020 5:03 am, edited 2 times in total.
-
- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 6 posts since 21 Feb, 2020
- KVRist
- 308 posts since 9 Jul, 2008 from SOUTH AFRICA
Which Fairlight Emulator did you use here?damien9494 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 8:33 pmThank you, I think you are totally right.Music Bird wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 7:12 pm Sounds like a Fairlight vox type sample.
Art Of Noise Moments In Love used the same sound
I've tried with an emulation of the Fairlight Syn Vox and it's exactly the tone. I've uploaded the result to Soundcloud, I'll post it here.
I've learnt a lot about the story of that sound in that article :
http://archive.is/ZvWet
The notes you don't play creates the silent gaps for you to hear the notes you do play
- KVRian
- 527 posts since 4 Dec, 2019
How many layers did you use for the lead sound and what are they?damien9494 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 8:47 pm Here's my version:
https://soundcloud.com/user-162165751/m ... ted-no-one
- the Sararr sample
- a type of saw? Which settings?
- Anything else?
C'mon, there must be something that you do in your life besides sleeping or working? And then for the first time he was really thinking and what did he reply: I watch TV!