Hey Mike, Welcome back! It sounds like you have it spotted. I had just typed all of this up before I saw your reply, but it sounds like people might be interested in getting this type of sound more generally so I'll post it anyway.
It could come from any Pitch Envelope Generator (in Yamaha terminology), which basically modifies pitch over time, like an air raid siren. It's really fun to play with these. It's one of my favourite things about the AN1x. In terms of it being a cheap synth, it looks like the Casio CZ had similar functionality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_CZ_synthesizers On some synths with sophisticated LFO routing you could probably do the same thing with as well if you slowly modified pitch, but it would be less straight-forward to get these results - like you might need to do that on one oscillator and have a similar oscillator that fades in without the LFO at the sustained pitch. There's probably 17 other ways you could do it with other implementations as well. Tristan On 13 July 2010 05:39, Mike Taylor <disconihil...@gmail.com> wrote: > The sound comes from a Korg rompler, likely an X5d. > > If you want to do the 90's Mills thing, the formula is: 909, Yamaha > QX21, Akai S3000, EMU Carnival, Yamaha DX100, Yamaha TG33, and an > early 90's Korg rompler(doesn't matter which one). > > I have heard that Neil Oliverra did Sountrack313 on an X5d, and that's it. > > The gear used on old Mills records and Soundtrack313 is stupid cheap > these days, the hard part is being disciplined enough to work though > the interfaces. It is a hell of a lot easier to move some colored > blocks around in a DAW. > > mt > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Daniel Troberg <erasemu...@gmail.com> > To: kent williams <chaircrus...@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:32:01 +0200 > Subject: Re: (313) string synth sound > well, I still think that the synth patch on these both youtube clips > comes from the > exact same source. that is, a preset or something, on the stuff they > used. and no, > its no modular synth. no its not beefy analog. because most of the > stuff used were > on the cheap side. or gotten cheap. . Im thinking this would be some > kind of sampler > patch or something in that direction. ,, surely someone has dug into > this before. > listen to the clips again, name that synth ,, thats what controlling > my brain atm. >
