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How to create this Muse "uprising" sound?
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 11:30 am
by pkarr
Hi everybody, I'm in a cover band and we will play "Uprising" by Muse. Could you help me to create this synth lead sound on my kronos please? or maybe someone has a patch? I'm a newbie in sound programming. Thank you so much for your help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Vs_lmt_wY
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:28 pm
by jeebustrain
My band plays this (or used to) and I have it already programmed. Which sound are you looking for, the intro, or the minimoog sounding lead in the 2nd chorus? I'll have to double check, but I think I am doing that on my V-Synth, but it's simple enough to recreate on the Kronos.
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:03 pm
by pkarr
Thx for your help.. I need the main lead sound, the one who is played in the intro and in the verses. For the arpeggio, i found a preset in the kronos and i play it.
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:46 pm
by SanderXpander
Who needs a 20k 200 pound Buchla modular!
Re: How to create this Muse "uprising" sound?
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 2:59 pm
by nooncheez
pkarr wrote:Hi everybody, I'm in a cover band and we will play "Uprising" by Muse. Could you help me to create this synth lead sound on my kronos please? or maybe someone has a patch? I'm a newbie in sound programming. Thank you so much for your help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Vs_lmt_wY
We do this song too. In fact, we click track it and I created a sequence with the entire bass line and the drum hits/claps. Here's my recipe:
Lead - a combination of three analog-ish sounds:
1. Analog strings (I-C036), volume at 98.
2. Pulse Morph Lead (I-E067), volume at 45.
3. Crossover Lead (EE-058), volume at 108. Can't remember where I got this sound, but obviously downloaded from one of the popular add-ons. I forced the OSC to legato with a portamento time of 43 on both oscillators.
EDIT: Crossover Lead is from the HD-1 XPansion Sounds Vol 2.
The lead has clearly some portamento but not on all the timbres. Took a lot of trial and error. I don't know what Muse used on this but made some assumptions since a lot of their synth sounds are derivative of old-school analog gear.
I also used a distorted bass sound from the HD-1 XPansion Sounds Vol 2 for the bass and run it through a OD/Hyper Gain Wah, Stereo Compressor and Exciter/Enhancer IFX to get a mix of the bass with the fuzz sound. Set at 70:30 wet/dry. Tweaked other settings in the OD/Hyper Gain Wa to get that crunch.
Here's a quick n dirty sample of what I came up with:
https://soundcloud.com/nooncheez/uprising-kronos
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 3:43 pm
by pkarr
Thx so much nooncheez.. i'm looking forward to try it.