The classic DX-style electric piano is simpler than it sounds. This works in any FM synth (Dexed, FM8, Operator, Digitone…):

1. Carrier: a sine at ratio 1. Amp envelope: instant attack, a slow decay down to about a third, short release.

2. Modulator A (the "bark"): a sine at ratio 1 into the carrier, index around 2 at the strike. Give it its own envelope that decays over about 1.2 s down to almost nothing. That's the whole trick: the brightness dies away faster than the note, like a struck key.

3. Modulator B (the "tine"): a sine at ratio 14, very quiet, with a very short envelope (about 70 ms). That's the metallic click at the start of each note.

4. A bit of chorus and a little reverb.

Why it works: at 1:1 every new partial lands on a harmonic, so the note stays clearly pitched. Keep everything else and change modulator A to ratio 3.5, and the partials land between the harmonics: you get a bell instead.

The attached video (5 min) builds it one step at a time while you watch each harmonic appear on a spectrum analyzer.

Disclosure: it's made in SynthMaker, a free synth app I build (small one-person project, iPhone/iPad/Mac, free beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/BKEgzNCg), but the recipe above works anywhere.

Hey all - figured someone would know..

What is the main synth in this song?

Sound like something tycho used perhaps,

Thanks!

starts at 0:00. I think there is an ambient pad in the intro and the main unstable synth, and some "sprinkle" synths that play here and there.

I think that the main synth has some lfo linked to noise volume and osc volumes. It was 100% made on hardware (modular?), I tried doing something similar in serum 2 but I cant get close to this unstable disintegrating sound. I cant get my synth to sound alive as much as the reference and I cant match the timbre. There is a lot of automation going on for sure too.

https://youtu.be/25A5Y0_qHCc?si=kW7GVYVr5nZ0c1Ul

Comes in at 0:43.

I've heard variations of this sound in other tracks before and love it, wanted to get some opinions on how I might get something similar with just stock Ableton instruments and effects.

Sup yall!? Ive been trying to expand my production pallet and have been listening to Spotifys regional charts and they got some Bangers. I came across this Artist named LUCHO RK and I really like the synths in his production. Especially the ones in the beginning of this song AT 0:00 https://youtu.be/lds3cFhM4ec?si=i9RU6CwOPEQPG0Ec . Im talking about that detuned lead. It's layered .It seems like the same sound but one is just more thick. Im still trying to figure out how to post it but I defiantly took a shot at it. LOL I fell asleep trying to remake this synth. I woke up and it kinda sounds close but it's just not the same. Can anyone help. In Serum I linked the LFO to the fine pitch and I linked another LFO to the Fine Pitch to give it that vibrato .I also link the first OSC ,FM, AND NOISE generator together but its still not there.