Funky disco sounds?? mp3 inside

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hi
im looking to make this kind of funky disco keys...
especially the sort of chord that comes in after the stabs on the first clip, the sort of rising filtered chord...

Is there any VSTs that are good for these kinds of funky sounds? maybe some sort of keyboard... NI elektrik piano or something (ive never heard it so just a guess)

heres the clips

http://www.hardtofindrecordsrecordstore ... 9193_1.mp3
http://www.hardtofindrecordsrecordstore ... 9193_2.mp3


thanks

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Any bread'nbutter VA (virtual analog synth) should do, e.g. Synth1.
Look for any one in your current arsenal that has seperate envelope generator for the VCA and VCF. The filter (VCF) has a slow attack (so attack set high) while the amp (VCA) has a faster attack.
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BertKoor wrote:Any bread'nbutter VA (virtual analog synth) should do, e.g. Synth1.
Look for any one in your current arsenal that has seperate envelope generator for the VCA and VCF. The filter (VCF) has a slow attack (so attack set high) while the amp (VCA) has a faster attack.
Yea i could tell that.. but theres gotta be more to it than that.. how do you make the actual sound? would i use some kind of keyboard preset, or simply a saw wave (or a couple?)
is there lfo of any kind?

i just thought as its a much used sound, there might be VSTs that specialise in old funky keyboard sounds

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Kye wrote: Yea i could tell that.. but theres gotta be more to it than that.. how do you make the actual sound? would i use some kind of keyboard preset, or simply a saw wave (or a couple?)
is there lfo of any kind?

i just thought as its a much used sound, there might be VSTs that specialise in old funky keyboard sounds
The sound is nothing special, you can make it with normal substractive synth. You can perceive it as on old funky keyboard sound because it's in this context (retro style disco track). But in fact it's pretty normal sound you can get using any vst synth. I guess it's just saw wave, not much resonance and cutoff somewhere above the middle. Then play with the envelopes as Bertkoor suggested. I can't hear much lfo there but a slight pitch modulation (vibrato) on the osc's might sound even more funky :)
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Here I made a similar sound:

Chord

I made this with Juno-60,
so basically it's a saw wave + square sub oscillator (1 octave down), vcf around middle, resonance almost at zero, envelope to vcf where attack is long and decay, sustain and release are at zero. Then slight lfo modulation on the pitch.
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Yeh cheers sounds good. suppose its just all in the chords. thought it must be something more complex just because of the context its in in that tune..
sounds bit 'wetter' in the original tho, how would i achieve this? maybe a tiny touch of chorous?...

sorry, what were the two chords you used? im rubbish at music theory, im gunna need to learn it if i want to create anything funky lol

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Kye wrote:Yeh cheers sounds good. suppose its just all in the chords. thought it must be something more complex just because of the context its in in that tune..
sounds bit 'wetter' in the original tho, how would i achieve this? maybe a tiny touch of chorous?...
Yes chorus helps, and maybe a hint of reverb ... Actually I could've got closer if I had engaged the chorus in the Juno-60 but for some reason I decided to record it dry :p
Kye wrote: sorry, what were the two chords you used? im rubbish at music theory, im gunna need to learn it if i want to create anything funky lol
I'm not theory expert myself but it's basically 1st inversion of F6 chord (A as root note) or depending how you want to see it 3rd inversion of dmin7 :) so the notes I played are A-C-D-F and the second chord is the same just played octave higher.
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cheers man, youve helped alot!
is there anywhere on internet that has a list of some simple chords etc? i remember there was a really good website but cant find it anymore, had like a keyboard on it and some options to chose notes.

lol i've always just chose random notes until it sorta sounded OK, not knowing what they were or anything

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