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damoog · Post by **damoog** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 11:58 pm

i am doing my own cover of the dr who theme and i want to get the lead sound pretty close and maybe tweak it a little

does anybody know of a softsynth preset which pretty much hits the target with this lead sound?

thanks

electro · Post by **electro** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:22 am

you might want to play it with a ribbon controller or XY pad instead of keys.

quayquay17 · Post by **quayquay17** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:31 pm

electro wrote:you might want to play it with a ribbon controller or XY pad instead of keys.

impOscar, there is a preset called screaming glide, or wailing keys or something

i completely forget the name, but there are only like 10 presets, so you will find it...

It has triangle OSC's a good lowpass filter, and really long portamento glide

surfingo · Post by **surfingo** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 6:21 pm

im a scifi fanatic!
original (the 80s version anyways) was an ARP ODISSEY plus a plate reverb.
check this!

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:42 pm

which version are you looking to remake, please tell me its not any of the recent bombastic affairs

blueghost · Post by **blueghost** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:09 am

don't do it

the very original was best because it was original and inspired many of us

I remember there was a jeweller's ad on tv that had a similar and eerie weird effect on me, but completely different. I really needed to know what made that sound and why if affected me on such a deeply esoteric level.

I still get chills...

Count_fuzzball · Post by **Count_fuzzball** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:04 pm

For the lead glide sound, just get a triangle/sine wave, put on some glide and lash a delay/echo effect for good measure.

galwaypark · Post by **galwaypark** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:29 pm

If you'd like to stay true to the Grainer / Derbyshire original, the best bet would be to just grab any VA sine wave oscillator, assign its frequency to a knob and just tweak it. That's how she did it, AFAIK, using rudimentary test oscillator arrays.

I've recently acquired an oscillator box similar to the ones used in that period, (heavy, ugly and military green in colour

) and it's so much fun to play, especially through the tape echo.

In case you are wondering, most of what goes on in the original theme, aside from the main lead theme, is just standard musique concrete techniques of the period - tape loops, tape bouncing, tempo manipulation and splicing 'till the cows come home.

And I sincerely recommend "The alchemists of sound" documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, if you'd like to know more.

Dr Who lead,any softsynths that nail it?