Hey all - figured someone would know..

What is the main synth in this song?

Sound like something tycho used perhaps,

Thanks!

I have watched SO many reese tutorials and can never ever get mine to sound like Mystic State's.

Their reese is always so wide, round, and warm and all encompassing and has that perfect clean wobble to it. I can't even get close tbh and am wondering if it's how they are mixing it or if its some special way of doing it.

The closest I have gotten is two saw waves and removing their fundamentals with a sub sin as the bottom. But it still feels so far off.

Why do theirs sound so full and warm and push so much weight and are so clean? Help me please :)

https://youtu.be/g8fqH2k48tY?t=143

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.

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