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dannyqt18 · Post by **dannyqt18** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:41 pm

I was always curious as to how this particular sound was made, i tried remaking it but never came close to the real thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsCXZczTQXo

you can hear it at sec 24

any ideas ?

danielmm · Post by **danielmm** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:55 pm

It's a Hammond B3 organ sound, no?
dano

dark_virus · Post by **dark_virus** » Thu May 01, 2008 12:17 am

I have a soundfont with this exact sound! I can UL it, in case you just want it. But, if you're after synthesizing it, forget this post.

EDIT: I LOVE this song!!

dannyqt18 · Post by **dannyqt18** » Thu May 01, 2008 8:49 am

i'm actualy interested in the exact sound, so i would really apreciate that upload

but if anyone knows the instrument used that would be great also

dannyqt18 · Post by **dannyqt18** » Thu May 01, 2008 9:13 am

nea bro, i'm doing a cover after the song for a local band, summer's coming and i'm tight on time. i have been close to recreating it trough guitar shanks and filter effects as a work-around but like i said i wasn't that happy with the result.

yea, great song !

living sounds · Post by **living sounds** » Thu May 01, 2008 9:24 am

I always loved the synth line in that song. It's a squarewave with pulsewidth modulation. Listening to the bass in that song now, I think they used a Microwave I. Or a 4-OP-Yamaha FM-synth.

living sounds · Post by **living sounds** » Thu May 01, 2008 9:29 am

I know, just wanted to add my two cents.

dark_virus · Post by **dark_virus** » Thu May 01, 2008 3:08 pm

living sounds wrote:I always loved the synth line in that song. It's a squarewave with pulsewidth modulation. Listening to the bass in that song now, I think they used a Microwave I. Or a 4-OP-Yamaha FM-synth.

The only VSTi I could reproduce this bass near-perfectly is ODO's B-Station. Amazing bass synth.

I love those FM basses from this era.

@dannyqt18: check your PM. I don't think uploading it is hurting anyone, since I DLded it from sf2midi.

danielmm · Post by **danielmm** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:16 pm

dark_virus wrote:
living sounds wrote:I always loved the synth line in that song. It's a squarewave with pulsewidth modulation. Listening to the bass in that song now, I think they used a Microwave I. Or a 4-OP-Yamaha FM-synth.
The only VSTi I could reproduce this bass near-perfectly is ODO's B-Station. Amazing bass synth.

I love those FM basses from this era.

@dannyqt18: check your PM. I don't think uploading it is hurting anyone, since I DLded it from sf2midi.

The bass comes in before the 24 second mark. What is it you are actually after?
dano

Barbarossa · Post by **Barbarossa** » Wed May 07, 2008 10:50 am

What is love!

Great song, great voices, fantastic sound selection, geniously produced. I've analyzed that one to death 15 years ago.

At that time i got closest to the hookline chordsound by tweaking a Korg M3 patch, called "NiceNEasy" from the "Synth1" expansion card.
The bass is not FM, but a sawtooth and i came quite close with the M3 sawtooth, too. The 16th-delay seq is a sawtooth, too.
The 1/8 note arpeggio is a layered and heavily phased square/vox sound.

tranel · Post by **tranel** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:59 am

dannyqt18 wrote:I was always curious as to how this particular sound was made, i tried remaking it but never came close to the real thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsCXZczTQXo

you can hear it at sec 24

any ideas ?

For a moment there I thought you meant the Howard Jones classic "What is Love?" then, much to my disappointment, when I clicked the link I got Haddaway...

Barbarossa · Post by **Barbarossa** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:49 am

And? Where's your contribution to the thread topic?

aallvor · Post by **aallvor** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:53 am

Barbarossa wrote:And? Where's your contribution to the thread topic?

He's trying to say you all have terrible taste in music

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:19 am

As dano mentioned already, sounds pretty much exactly like an overdriven organ (not necessarily a B3). Should be rather easy to accomplish using any VST drawbar organ plus a little bit of extra distortion.

My god, what an ugly song.

olepro · Post by **olepro** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:39 am

danielmm wrote:
dark_virus wrote:
living sounds wrote:I always loved the synth line in that song. It's a squarewave with pulsewidth modulation. Listening to the bass in that song now, I think they used a Microwave I. Or a 4-OP-Yamaha FM-synth.
The only VSTi I could reproduce this bass near-perfectly is ODO's B-Station. Amazing bass synth.

I love those FM basses from this era.

@dannyqt18: check your PM. I don't think uploading it is hurting anyone, since I DLded it from sf2midi.
The bass comes in before the 24 second mark. What is it you are actually after?
dano

The sound that comes in after 24 sec. Not the bass sound !
Read the first post

How to make the "what is love" sound ?