I want to prepare a base so we can play with my band a cover of this song:
I have a Korg R3 and Garageband.
Can you hear the "choppy" synth at the beginning? How could I reproduce it well? Which kind of sound / effect should I choose?
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Sign up to join this communityI want to prepare a base so we can play with my band a cover of this song:
I have a Korg R3 and Garageband.
Can you hear the "choppy" synth at the beginning? How could I reproduce it well? Which kind of sound / effect should I choose?
The rythmic effect can be achieved by filtering some signal through a lowpass VCF (12 dB/8ve, little resonance) heavily modulated (~ 800 Hz down to 20 Hz) by a sawtooth LFO. That gives the basic "choppy" thing. Then you can try all kinds of stuff to get the actual sound; perhaps start with a PWM-square or sawtooth VCO and ring-modulate it with a triangle after the VCF, then a fixed bandpass filter with a little saturation.
I think it's just a standard power chord played on guitar, possibly looped, then fed through a low pass VCF with some resonance, modulated by a sawtooth LFO. Some additional equalizing should give you a really close approximation.