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by merges » Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:02 am
I'm an amateur at synthesis, but here's a quick attempt.
I would call it a pluck sound. Saw wave based. As it progresses towards the beat drop, its decay is lengthened or sustain level raised (and what sounds like a LP filter opened up to higher frequency and resonance increased, possibly some other spectral FX on the oscillator, but roughly that anyway). All lowered again when the beat drops. This sound has a delay effect on it, probably some reverb too.
The bass is probably a fairly straightforward sine wave / sine+saw (to get the growliness, but there are lots of other ways), with a very low attack and a full sustain level, saturated/distorted heavily and with a resonant LP filter which at 0:15 is turned way down but sweeps gradually towards the beat drop, to expose all of the growly gnarliness of the saturation/distortion/saw partials in the waveform, and turned back down to smooth things out.
Play with any decent subtractive synth and a couple of built-in effects and you'll be able to achieve similar sounds.
