I'd just like to point out that you're wrong on both counts.Dave N wrote:There is some stepping that indicates it's a digital synth. The resonance makes me think of Albino. The way it sounds i think it's not a vintage emulation. It's also not a hardware synth as they normally pack some more punch in the lower frequency's. Could it be Albino?
Explanation A: There are lots of analog synths that have stepping. Any analog synth that uses digital control, for example, like many Akais, 80s Rolands, Some Korgs, ect.
Explanation B: Hardware does not "normally pack some more punch in the lower frequencies"... Analog sometimes does, but digital hardware tends to be more or less the same as digital software in general tone, unless the hardware has inferior converters to your soundcard, at which point it usually sounds noisier, and depending on how the anti-aliasing works (or not), either duller and more boring, or crunchier.
My own personal opinion is that it doesn't really matter if I get this wrong, as I'm certain this synth sound could be done on just about any synth under the sun with pretty damn close results (well, any synth with a filter), but my guess is that it's an analog/digital hybrid, most likely an ESQ-1 or SQ-80. Something about the tone reminds me of my old SQ-80, with its heavily bandlimited oscs (making for a relatively lo-fi and dark initial sound) followed by a curtis analog filter, which explains the organic nature of the filtersweep in the sample.
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