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Hi there,

I found this song on YouTube, which has a lot of great and different synth sounds.

Can anyone give some hints on how to mimic some of them on the NS4? I'm new to creating synths from scratch, so I would like to know if there are any common approaches to this, what the base sounds may be called so I can try to search for those names in the standard sounds on the NS4, etc.

For the first 2 distinct sounds I'm thinking something like "Dual Gates" and some 8-bit/mono sound...

Thanks in advance for any tips on how to proceed

• omvemder_ns4.mp3

Hi, I want to encourage you: the nord-devices have many knobs and potis to tweak a basic sound to your likes and the song's needs.
My approach is to get the needed sounds one by one with the useful preset-library-feature:
This first sound seems to be a saw-based synth sound. Start with the easiest way, dial in a synth layer - analog typ, wave - pure saw and tweak the amp env (short attack, quick decay, medium release); a little delay and a velocity-controlled amount of opening for the filter. The rest of filter-opening can be done by assigning it to a pedal/wheel...

The second sound can be reproduce with a square-based sound (PURE SQUARE).

As third sound I would recommend a mixture with a Rhodes (with little Vibe-FX) and choir and a huge amount of reverb (thanks to the new cathedral-verb...).

After finding the sounds I use the copy&paste-function to assembe all layers in one program.

All three sounds can be layed out (3-times-split) like this:
bottom (whole mps3-song) - first sound (bass)
middle (0:31 -end) - third sound (pad)
top (sec. 0:11 - 0:32) - second sound (melody)

I attached my quick version of this song-specific preset and the (not-well live played) hook-lines as mp3... - hope you like it...

Cheers
Tim

Hi Tim,

First of all, wow... that is very impressive, well done

I knew that the NS4 was able to do a lot of things, but I see now, that I need to look more into the basic functions first and then learn how they can shape the sounds.

Also, I need to look into how I can save all the different presets and be able to combine them (and save/restore them) when needed.

Thanks a lot for your work, I'm now well inspired to get on with learning from your approach with the rest of the track and others.

Thanks again, good day