Whiney synth sound from early 90's in Reason?

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Can anyone help me get this sound? I'm talking about the really high pitched synth sound you hear in a lot of early to mid 90's hip hop, like the sound on Nuthin But a G Thang, Murder Was The Case or You Know How We Do It (Ice Cube). That really high pitched sound. I'm trying to do it in Reason but I don't know how to go about it. Anyone got a sample of it I can load and map across the keyboard or a patch or something? Thanks.
 
try the sine flute wave in the mono patches in the malstrom

or use the hyperbottom bass, the higher octaves do the job.
 
not exactly, unless you sampled it as a one-hit and pitched it up w/o time-stretch and lost a bunch of the quality,
the pure sine + a little portamento is gonna give you the Lil Jon sound, but to get the Dre sound (Nothin but a G Thing, Dopeman) you need probably a little bit of saw with that, and something to give it that blimpy sound, maybe a triangle, I guess, I'm not sure but a pure sine in the high octaves (which is a what a high bass patch is) is not gonna give you the bounce or grime in Dre's Synth, it will just give you a whistle-type, flute-type sound that is crystal clean (Master P's "Act a Fool", Youngbloodz' "Damn")

you can also listen to "Big Poppa" (for some odd reason I can't remember the name of the damn song but the hook is 'love it when you call me big poppa') Chucky Thompson was going for that Ice Cube vibe and used that synth sound for the melody
 
Stefano Dimera, can you give me a little bit more in depth description? Are you saying use the Hyperbottom on the Subtractor, then add a triangle/saw to the oscillators?
 
Stefano Dimera said:
not exactly, unless you sampled it as a one-hit and pitched it up w/o time-stretch and lost a bunch of the quality,
the pure sine + a little portamento is gonna give you the Lil Jon sound, but to get the Dre sound (Nothin but a G Thing, Dopeman) you need probably a little bit of saw with that, and something to give it that blimpy sound, maybe a triangle, I guess, I'm not sure but a pure sine in the high octaves (which is a what a high bass patch is) is not gonna give you the bounce or grime in Dre's Synth, it will just give you a whistle-type, flute-type sound that is crystal clean (Master P's "Act a Fool", Youngbloodz' "Damn")

you can also listen to "Big Poppa" (for some odd reason I can't remember the name of the damn song but the hook is 'love it when you call me big poppa') Chucky Thompson was going for that Ice Cube vibe and used that synth sound for the melody
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you're right on that one. the dre synth does sound a bit thicker than the "goodies" or "bluebery yum yum" type of synth.
 
You could try adding some distortion/ scream effect to it maybe.
 
Not that I know of in Reason, but they have something like it in Hypersonic.
 
Yea Hypersonic has that gangsta whine. You can make it sound like the 90's synth or what lil jon uses.
 
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