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I'm new here (recently upgraded from NP5 to NS4) - but astonished at how many threads in this forum where you geniuses with ears crafted atom by atom by a divine being (as opposed to having evolved from lesser beings as Darwin described) have conjured up presets used for so many 80s/90s tracks!

So... challenging you to flex your skills for this one.

I've got the pad (starting in the intro and continuing through the verse) sounding pretty nice based on an existing synth preset.

I'm struggling with the following bits (both there in the intro).

1. A sound for the the synth lead hook that essentially kicks the song off.
2. Underneath that there is a simple Dm triad broken chord that keeps playing using a different synth sound, it's a bit stringy but also plucky (I'm rubbish at describing).

Anyone that can help with this would be a god amongst men. My attempts at getting these down are embarrassing!

Hi uretha,

one of the more tricky songs...
I try to realize it with a triple split:

lower zone - pad sound
middle zone - "plinky lick" - fading vice versa with the other sound for the prechorus (a gated and phased sound...)
high zone - the well known e-piano-hook...

thanks to the Layer II-button
for the last chorus I altered the middle zone with another synth layer - so you got the brassy sounds ...

For the lazy ones: I prepared the transpose button with 1 semitone up just like the the transition before the guitar solo...

Hope you like it, for the mp3 - as usual a little bit of help from the EZ Drummer3... (by the way - for playing everthing one the recording you must have three hands...) and sorry for the mistakes - it's a "quick and dirty"-take (2 takes...)

Regards
Tim

• shattered dreams NS4.mp3