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This is some of the first dubstep I ever heard, and I still find the synth on this track the most amazing I've heard. I've been trying to figure out how they got that sound, and I just don't think it sounds like anything I've heard before. It's kinda organlike, but the attack is like when you mute a distorted guitar. So you soundengineers, help me!

Thanks.

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I'm pretty sure its not a synth, its a sample of a flute. I've got some overblown flute samples that sound just like it, a little filtering and you could get the exact sound I reckon. This was the first tune I heard that properly got me interested in dubstep, and that sound was a mystery to me until I stumbled across the flute samples

Damn, I hadn't seen that coming. Thanks for reply! Do they do the same thing on other tracks?

coki uses reason 3, and the bassline sounds alot like it was made on subtractor, in my opinion at least

I'm pretty certain its a subtractive synth sound. I've made a similar one, i had a standard wobble patch, then upped some of the non sine oscillators an octave or two, add a bit more resonance and you've got that hollow sound. As for the LFO, it isn't a smooth sine, got to be a saw/sine LFO. The way it kicks in is sick tho, think he prolly knocked a pitch mod on it and maybe a resonance mod aswell linked to a inverted saw LFO.

Thump Rat wrote:I'm pretty certain its a subtractive synth sound. I've made a similar one, i had a standard wobble patch, then upped some of the non sine oscillators an octave or two, add a bit more resonance and you've got that hollow sound. As for the LFO, it isn't a smooth sine, got to be a saw/sine LFO. The way it kicks in is sick tho, think he prolly knocked a pitch mod on it and maybe a resonance mod aswell linked to a inverted saw LFO.

I think I'll stay with the flutes for now :p

There is no way in hell that is a flute sound. WTF??? Listen to when the filter opens up. Its a subtractive synth. Have fun with your flutes samples but you're never gonna get a sound like that with them

the synth itself sounds like FM synthesis to me-- probably the maelstrom in reason. the flute on top of it, though, sounds like a flute.

its blatantly a flute. not the bassline though, obviously. but the noise over the top is an overblown flute, i got samples that sound just like it.
its a badboy tune regardless of what synths/samples were used to make it

the melody sound (not the bass) sounds, imo, like a filtered piano sound, with a slow attack on the filter. i came up with a similar sound some years ago fiddling around with a piano sound in my exs24 sampler+filter.

anyway, dope sound.

It sounds like a flute sample, where the original is mixed with the same sample tuned two octaves down and then filtered. But who cares? Make your own sounds...

I tried the thing with the flute samples, and it sounds somehow similiar to said DMZ sound. The samples I got are shitty and scratty though.
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The point of this forum is to discuss production.

nekkroteukh wrote:is forum is to discuss production.

Yeah, but it's generally of little use to ask how one specific sound in a certain track is made. There are lots of ways to make all kinds of sounds, including that one. What you should do is trying to get the skills to make your samplers and synths make any sound you imagine or - even better - sounds you never even thought of in the first place. It's called experimentation. Now get working!

Oh, I will!

TeReKeTe wrote:the synth itself sounds like FM synthesis to me-- probably the maelstrom in reason. the flute on top of it, though, sounds like a flute.

Yeah i was gonna say FM. Got bare FM bass sounds that if you put through a analog style filter will give you this sound. Infact subtractive synths will get you this sound if you mess with them enough.