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Tom Sawyer challange
Would anybody be able to reproduce tom Sawyer's intro synth sound in any IPAD synth?
Antony Marinelli has a short and specific "how-to" for doing it with a real Oberheim.
The patch is actually very simple, but the filter sound is everything. I haven't found an ipad synth that can come even close to it. So far I've tried Synthmaster 2 (hopping the SVF would o the trick), Nambú and Flowtones with good sounds results, but they all far away from the real one. I know there is the OBX from Disco DSP but i won't want to buy it without hearing first its filters.
Anyone willing to try to replicate this sound in an Ipad synth?
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Love Anthony’s YouTube channel.
There’s also this, but no AUv3: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/isem-synthesizer/id673921187
I’d just recommend getting the DiscoDSP, which is great. I like the original OB-Xd not the version 3.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ob-xd-auv3-synth/id1465262829
You can also get kind of close with Zeeon (another great synth).
ISEM is AUv3
You’re right. I haven’t used it so long I didn’t notice. And after opening it up just now it seems pretty flaky compared to OB-Xd… I’d still recommend OB-Xd over iSEM.
In what way flaky? IMO, it is one of the better virtual analog synths.
I did that long ago as an experiment to learn Drambo and because I like the song a lot.
I took this video as my reference, which I find sounds quite different from what our dear Marinelli has played at the end of the video:
If you listen closely, it sounds more like there are 2 separate resonant filters involved with their peaking frequency set apart by some offset. So that's what I did, and I got very close. For me, the sound is more important than the actual hardware setup used back in the days.
Are we talking about the big bass sweep or the lead? Because that bass is a Taurus, and that can absolutely be approached... if nothing else than with the Moog software.
I was thinking model D could handle that sound i’m sure. It’s not the miniMoog but the same-ish.
Exactly! that's the first thng I notticed, two sweeping filters with a micro delay of one from the other. Very different sound... tks.
The sweeping bass... the lead must be the minimoog, right?
The lead probably is a minimoog, yes. It's been a while since I watched him play it.
That bass sweep, though, is a Moog Taurus. Really just a foot controlled mini. As somone else has pointed out, the model D app could probably do it, and the system 15 most certainly. Whether it would have the cojones of the original is another question, but that's where engineering comes in.
Okay good, so I’m not crazy. I always assumed it was a Taurus, or else how would he play it while playing the bass?
Yes it is, the sound is somewhat similar to the beautiful synth lead in FZ's "Cy Borg" on Joe's Garage, which I recently made on my Sub37 too.
Yep. More here:
Model D has a Minimoog Classics preset pack with a Tom Sawyer intro.