well i think my saw+comb+hp is a bit closer in this caseFathomSynth wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 9:10 am I just stumbled into this thread and thought I'd resurrect it since I'd always wondered the same thing myself. What synth did he use? There are several iconic sounds in this track including the air chords, scratchy bass and weezy lead.
The only people who would really know are Dee Dee Halligan and Karin Hartmann Eisenblätter the German music producers who wrote the song before selecting Haddaway to sing it when he was signed to their label Coconut Records in 1993.
The track is notoriously difficult to simulate using software since the sonic complexity of the iconic chords are probably from real hardware electronics not just noise added to a soft synth. I've tried it many times myself with several different soft synths by adding noise and it just doesn't sound right. I strongly suspect they used a hardware synth for both these chords and the sharp bass, one of the most famous bass sounds of 90's eurodance.
I recently added spectral distortion to Fathom so I thought it might be a good time to take another swing at those chords to see if I could get closer to the real Haddaway sound, here's the result.
https://static.kvraudio.com/files/3302/ ... s_love.mp3
https://sndup.net/gsj5/
(btw ignore the melody if that helps you its prob not in the right key and def not bpm, i just put notes in to show the patch)
that would be a comb filter.excuse me please wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 9:35 am PS Sound is too high and it's more like a plucky sound with a gentle attack. Some filter movements going on, think that causes the "phaser" sound.