Hi all, I’m relatively new to synthesizers and love this demo - https://youtu.be/HnqwH3Raa1Y?si=oJefN-5r860G-Dm9
I understand much of the sound is due to the reverb, but there’s a distinct high-frequency character to this pad that I’m hoping the Super 6 could replicate.
It just feels absolutely huge and rich - is this possible on the Super 6?
Any perspectives would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for what may end up being a very naive question.
Lovely sound and a great performance!!
You can get something along those lines using the Super 6. Based on what enyrismusicFR starts off with, it sounds like 2 saw waves pitched an octave apart. On the Super 6, that would be DDS1 with a Saw at say 16’ and DDS2 with a saw wave at 8’.
The envelopes are both slow developers, so I would set them as shown below to start with:
ENV2 is assigned solely to the VCA, and ENV1 is to be used for the VCF. The main takeaway from these profiles is that the filter release should be just a little longer than the VCA release, and both should probably have relatively high (but not max) sustains and long decays to provide a little movement whilst playing.
The filter is swept upwards quite significantly so you’d probably need to set the VCF Freq at around 35-45% to give the filter envelope ENV1 some room for maneuver, setting the ENV depth slider to around 70+%. To get a more exponential attack curve on the filter, I suggest using a direct modulation on the ENV1’s Attack slider using ENV1 as the Modulation source. Adding a positive level of modulation provides a more dramatic upward sweep than the default attack curve. Alternatively, you could play around with the ATTACK HOLD time (AH) on ENV1 coupled with a very high value of attack. Play around with the KEYTRACK switch to find which position provides the best filter balance between the lowest tones and the highest. There doesn’t appear to be too much resonance in the sweep, so I’ve set this to a very low level.
To provide a little more depth to the sound, I’d set the DDS MODULATOR > SUPER (DDS 1) switch to “1/2” and detune the voices by 50% or so.
Set the mix dial to around 10 o’clock to hear some of DDS2 in the mix. Maybe also add a little direct modulation (+ve) to the MIX dial using ENV1 as a source so when you play, DDS2 becomes more prominent as the filter opens up.
Finally, add a decent amount of Chorus to ensure that DDS2 doesn’t sound too reedy compared to the now super saws coming from DDS1 (say II or !+!!). Once you add reverb to this, it shouldn’t be too far off. Bear in mind, we haven’t used any of the Binaural aspects of the S6, so you could switch Binaural off to get 12 Voices in this patch, or maybe keep Binaural on and gently modulate both the pitch of DDS2 and/or the VCA with LFO1. Just bear in mind that the REV2 in the example video has two extra voices, so playing Outro as illustrated by enyrismusicFR will have heroic voice stealing on an S6 in binaural mode!!
This, I think, is a good start towards what you are looking for
Hope this helps
PS: It also looks like enyrismusicFR uses -ve modulation on the VCF Freq. Use a direct modulation (-ve) from the mod wheel on the VCF Freq (on the Super 6 Desktop, this is done be clicking and holding the LFO2 MW button and toggling the VCF Freq slider, then setting the MOD AMOUNT dial to taste.)
