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Create the Blade Runner brass sound in multiple synth apps
One of the first music apps I purchased was Pro Keys by the maker of Sunrizer. By far my favorite preset was "Blade Runner". While I had seen and enjoyed the film, I hadn't known the sound from the opening scene was considered iconic. When I bought Sunrizer, I tried to create it in that app before discovering it was a default preset.
Anyway, while I own a bunch of synth apps I mostly just use the presets, or if I create my own sound it is more trial and error. I thought it would be an interesting, and a way to explore the different synths, to try to create a very specific sound, namely the Vangelis Blade Runner brass sound, in each one.
That should, in principle, be easy. Somebody on Youtbue with a Yamaha CS-70 did a good recreation. He used two de-tuned saw waveforms, an LFO to slightly modulate pitch, a swelling volume envelope, a similar envelop on a low-pass filter, and reverb.
Most synths have most of these. I thought I would try to do this in Argon, iMini, iSEM, Sunrizer, Tera, Magellan and Thor. Out of the gate, though, it is not as easy as I thought it would be. For example, the saw waveforms in Sunrizer seem "fatter" or richer than other synths. Some of the analog recreations have limitations of the original. Not all have reverb.
Has anybody tried something like this? If there is any interest I'll be happy to share whatever I come up with. I am eager to see if Sunrizer can be bested.
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have you tried the vintage analog va bank from sunrizer?
The cs80 named things scream vangelis all over the place ...
It also does the one octave pitch bend...
Yes, I have done something similar, in fact Vangelis Brass is one of the sounds I used. Another was what I called Aragon Bass, the sweeping bass sound from Catherine of Aragon by Rick Wakeman.
I've tried this on a number of synths, iPad and hardware. Most got pretty close -- the tricky part is getting the envelopes right -- but I'm not sure that any of them really improved on that first Sunrizer preset.
Thanks. Is it true that the basic Sunrizer saw waveform is a different beast than the others? It sounded so to me on just the basic Init preset.
I'll look into the Vintage Analog VA Bank as well.