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Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to create a hard hitting french synth.
I am looking into something similar to a deadmau5 and justice feel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuC2MUmQaG4

Madeon drops it pretty hard at 1:03 in
I understand that there are a ton of different sounds going, and a lot of sidechain compression which brings out that poppy feel, but I am looking for help on the main synth, and not so much the glitchy details.
I would really appreciate it If anyone has any suggestions for specific vsts or samples that I could look into.
Take care.

resample and chop up analog with some vibrato and distortion

when I first read the title I thought this thread was in the lounge and it would be about something perverted

I find instruments and chain selector are good for doing that kind of chopping between instruments thing - just map the chain selectotor a midi pedal and off you go..

As for synths - many could do that kind of thing - what you got?

I love French music a lot. It is different and good to listen to it.

MacGuffin wrote:when I first read the title I thought this thread was in the lounge and it would be about something perverted

When I read the title I thought it was something they typed out in 2006 but didn't hit submit until this past weekend.

it's funky


for make french house.. you need to trigger the compressor with the bassdrum ...
the house must groove

beats me wrote:

MacGuffin wrote:when I first read the title I thought this thread was in the lounge and it would be about something perverted

When I read the title I thought it was something they typed out in 2006 but didn't hit submit until this past weekend.

^ Comedy gold. If only he had put Daft Punk in the title.

f+ck french music

chapelier fou wrote:f+ck french music

ptdr

funken wrote:

chapelier fou wrote:f+ck french music

sacré blue!

c'mon someone, recreate this classic Daft Punk synth and explain how it's done, it's a good lesson in sound design. Put your money where you mouth is, post the sound.

irony detection fail

Deadmau5 is Canadian, eh?

Watch out for next month's Future Music Magazine. It features Fred Falke in their "In The Studio" series. Looks like a good one.

http://youtu.be/IfkM5oMJ8Fo

Honestly, I have no idea how it was made but if I would like to create such track I would first start looking for the "main sound" (that one which starts at 1:04 with the kick) - it's the key sound, sidechained. Probably it would sound very nice alone, sidechained just with bassline, without all these "small", "extra" sounds. If you find such big preset, sounding nice sidechained, then it's 80 % success

Then just chop it, and try to find other presets, samples, fx to fill the gaps.

I know, this is pretty general but it's what I would do.