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The Killers - Somebody Told me NS4

Posted: 19 Apr 2025, 11:20
by Nolander
Hi! I'm new in the forum. Any member can share some info to create a good program to this song? I know the lead tone comes from Microkorg (Phaserlead). I'm trying to sample it from de VST... Any help is appreciated. Thx.

Re: The Killers - Somebody Told me NS4

Posted: 23 Apr 2025, 11:48
by timmmy000
Hi Nolander,

do you mean the sound to be heard at 1:20 in the official video?

Regards
Tim

Re: The Killers - Somebody Told me NS4

Posted: 02 May 2025, 15:01
by timmmy000
Hi Nolander,

here we go:
It seems to be a heavily processed sawtooth-synth lead so I use all thre synth slots of the NS4 with various saw-based OSCs...
All of them then further tweaked with flanger or other effects, a little bit of drive and EQ and compression on the lead.
To make it consistent (and helpful for a keyboardist to "support" the shredding guitarists...) I split the keyboard and laid out a Hammond on the lower range, the lead on the upper range... (with scene layer II you can play an organ over the whole keyboard).

Hope you like it.

Cheers
Tim
Somebody told Ld.ns4p
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Re: The Killers - Somebody Told me NS4

Posted: 11 May 2025, 16:48
by Nolander
Thanks so much for trying. The sound is quite far from the original, but thanks anyway. :thanks:

Re: The Killers - Somebody Told me NS4

Posted: 27 May 2025, 08:37
by timmmy000
Hi nolander,

now we're talking: Just like in some other threads ('Jump', 'don't stop believing') there are more than one opinions to the referred sounds (that´s what this forums is for...):
I searched the Internet for a isolated version of the original sound and found these (
Can you explain what you would make different for the desired sound? I only ask to get better and refine the sounds...

Best regards
Tim

Re: The Killers - Somebody Told me NS4

Posted: 08 Jun 2025, 21:49
by westharp
Here is the program I use:

Somebody Told Me.ns4p
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- Low Zone: Single-Note-Sweep on Bb (Intro/Verse)
- Middle Zone: Supersaw-Comp-Sound (Verse/Chorus)
- Upper Zone: Phaser-Lead-Sound (I play the glide using portamento)