dannydawiz
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How do I recreate this ambient lead at the very beginning of the song?
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How Do I Make This Ambient Lead?
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Complex Reality
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It sounds like there's a bit of a thin pulse waveform (there's probably more to it) with a short decay. Some reverb or release might do nicely to get a sound about identical to this. You could also take a look at the waveform and try to make an (almost) identical waveform.
The main thing in the end is to make your own unique sound, although it can't hurt to know how a sound could be made/recreated from scratch.
The main thing in the end is to make your own unique sound, although it can't hurt to know how a sound could be made/recreated from scratch.
steffeeh
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I'm not sure about the original waveform, but it could be a plain saw.
But add a lowpass envelope that goes quite a bit far down, until you only have the fundamental left, and make sure the sound is already a little dull a the beginning of the plucky strum.
Setup a basic 70% sustain and short decaytime to the volume envelope to make it hit a little harder, and increase the release time so you have a consistent fundamental sounding through the performance.
Oh and make the patch monophonic (no glide).
Experiment with Velocity linking on the filter cutoff and perhaps on a volume knob, as you hear each strike on every beat sounds a little different, and not like it's fading away as if it would have been a delay, that is clearly Velocity linking
Then add some light downsampling to the sound.
But add a lowpass envelope that goes quite a bit far down, until you only have the fundamental left, and make sure the sound is already a little dull a the beginning of the plucky strum.
Setup a basic 70% sustain and short decaytime to the volume envelope to make it hit a little harder, and increase the release time so you have a consistent fundamental sounding through the performance.
Oh and make the patch monophonic (no glide).
Experiment with Velocity linking on the filter cutoff and perhaps on a volume knob, as you hear each strike on every beat sounds a little different, and not like it's fading away as if it would have been a delay, that is clearly Velocity linking
Then add some light downsampling to the sound.
hamudj
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Thats easy with Pro Tools XPAND2. Just use one Piano and put a dely with 1/8 left and 1/16 right or 1/4 right or left the way you want. Then add reverb maybe with the Air Spring reverb of Pro Tools. add Musicbox or Kalimbas every 1/4 Note and add an accent with a pulse wave. You can send me P.M. with your favourite sofware i can send you the preset and the keys. or you can prepare one Midi File i send you the project file.
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