How Did Ben Bohmer make that sound and glide ?

[warren louder]

Hi and thank you in advance )

I've messed around with glide and Bohmer type Dive presets but this is incredibly unique, if you listen to Ben Bohmer - Begin again CHORDS



Would really love to get some advice on this very please )

Thank you so much
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[BertKoor]

I've messed around with glide and Bohmer type Dive presets but this is incredibly unique, if you listen to Ben Bohmer - Begin again CHORDS

Dive? did you mean Diva?

In the video you posted, from 0:30 onwards what I hear is just simple portamento aka glide, and imho not so unique. Some notes glide from a lower, some from a higher note.

If you engage glide / portamento on a monophonic synth (with just one voice) then it always glides from the previous note you played to the new note.
On a polyphonic synth it is somewhat random. A new note gets allocated to a voice which is free. It is then up to luck whether the previous note it played was higher or lower than the new note.

So what I guess is that Ben Böhmer just plays the notes he wants (not a single one per take, but using two hands) and let randomness do what it has to do.

Not done here, but what I have seen some players do for dramatic glide effect, is first set volume of the synth to silent. Then put a whole hand on the lowest notes, so all voices are guaranteed to have played a low note. Then switch on the volume and go play notes in the middle and upper range. They have to come from far away.

[warren louder]

Hi Yes typo it is the Diva synth.

Interesting information I will study this and see how I can approach these suggestions. There is also a new plugin call fluid
which you might want to look at for interest sake I thank you very much for your time and help on this
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