"Traditional" Sounds

cymbaline · Post by **cymbaline** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:35 am

I know it kind of defeats he purpose of having a synth, but I dont want to go out and get another sound module. So I was wondering if anyone out there has been able to make a convincing acoustic piano sound, or flutes or anything that sounds like more traditional instruments?

I found a pretty cool patch that I modified that sounds very close to the strings on the famous melotron from abbey road studios, and Im putting together a nice little set of sounds to load that I'll put up here once I have a decent amount together. But I thought that traditional sounds would be a cool addition as well. Thanks!

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:52 am

Flutes, Organs, even solo strings are easy, compared to creating an acoustic piano sound. the piano is so harmonically complicated that even FM and Additive synthesizers can't make a suitably realistic emulation, although they get much closer than the radias could.
Electric pianos are all the rage though, and Radias excels at them!

by the way are you refering to my mellotron strings patch ('mellotron jam')?

cymbaline · Post by **cymbaline** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:35 pm

Yeah I read up on it at http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm and it does seem pretty hard, though not entirely impossible.

I wasnt refering to your patch, but I'd like to check it out! I have the abbey road refill pack for Reason, and I love mixing the Mellotron strings and flutes, they makes an awsome yet eerie sound. If I could get that going on the Radias, then I could use it in live situations....

btw I am still super exited that my Radias is working again, so Im going extra crazy with it to make up for lost time!

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Mon May 18, 2009 11:52 pm

well you can find some of my sounds on the download section here at korgforums:
http://www.korgforums.com/?show=1
And i'll sure be releasing more to come. The melotron sound there was based on listening to 'Watcher of the Sky' by Genesis, but doesn't quite get there. then it doesn't sound like other mellotron string sounds either, so I guess its somewhere inbetween.
Anyway, you won't get anything perfect, but a good start is the strings sample in the PCM section for osc1, add some drive or pickup waveshaper, or ring mod, then compressor (actually I prefer the limiter, which i've been using for organs a lot, its very punchy!) cabinet simulator and possibly tape delay, rotary speaker, reverb, or phaser.
my patch also used a very slow LFO routed to the pitch, which adds that great unstable motor detuned character when mixed in with your tracks...

dr_boehm · Post by **dr_boehm** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:24 am

Hi cymbaline,

i have made some (i believe very convincing) sounds in that direction, e.g. a useable piano sound. If you leave your mail adress i will send them to you.

Bye, Dirk.

cymbaline · Post by **cymbaline** » Tue May 19, 2009 9:25 pm

Hey that sounds great, I'd really like to check out the piano since thats supposed to be incredibly hard to do.... only thing is that I dont like posting my email on the net...you can send me a private message on the forum though...

Thanks again!

dr_boehm · Post by **dr_boehm** » Sat May 23, 2009 12:21 pm

Hi cymbaline,

sounds uploaded to this web site.

Ciao, Dirk.

diegombass · Post by **diegombass** » Sat May 23, 2009 2:51 pm

dr_boehm wrote:Hi cymbaline,

sounds uploaded to this web site.

Ciao, Dirk.

Hello,

Can you write the link of that download?
I don't know how works this website, because I uploaded some sounds of the R3 and they are in nowhere... maybe it's in the need to pass a very very thick filter...
I don't know, but I'd like to listen your sounds! Is it for radias or R3?

Thnx

dr_boehm · Post by **dr_boehm** » Sun May 24, 2009 10:52 am

Hi,

the sounds are for Radias. Send me a private message with your email adreass in this forum and i will send you the sounds.

Bye, Dirk.

diegombass · Post by **diegombass** » Sun May 24, 2009 12:42 pm

Ough!
I've got a korgR3...

Thnx anyway