benga-numbers, on a mission style main midrange synth

[Dystinkt]

anyone know how to get a similar style synth to the main midrange basses in these tunes?

[Genevieve]

Get one of those dirty massive wavetables, 2 of them, and detune them by an octave, maybe more depending on the sound you're going for. That's where that harmony comes from. I think some additional dirt comes from a little bitcrushing and/or saturation -- but not a lot.

[Jack Little]

The cool harmony that makes up most of the character is the major 3rd (i.e. +4 semitones)

For example,

OSC1: 0 semitones
OSC2: -12 semitones
OSC3: +4 semitones

You get that kind of happy harmony from the +4, and that's a good place to start.

The movement sounds like it's coming from both a lowpass filter and a volume automation moving together. For example, you could set an LFO to the cutoff frequency of a lowpass. Then automate the volume of the sound at the same rate. I often do this with 2 LFOs in massive, set at the same speed, assigning the 2nd LFO to the master amp. This way you can balance the LFO shape of the amp between a sine and flat 100% (basically allowing you to adjust the dry/wet of volume automation).

There's a fair bit of distortion in there, too. Best to play around with that after you get the movement going, IMO.

Here's a massive patch of my crack at the sound from the first vid anyways:
http://www.mediafire.com/?7mdoi38pzdwx2lw

[Dystinkt]

cheers guys, very helpful ideas as im at a complete loss to get something like this, ill give the patch a whirl mate!