Love your videos, Demis. I'm wondering if you might consider (if you've got already done one) doing a video on the plucky leads that are so characteristic of the Raz Nitzan vocal trance tracks that are so popular. These aren't used so much in backing arps as much as they are used in the characteristic euphoric trance lead (with evolving LPF cutoff for dramatic effect) after the breakdown leading up to the "drop" at the peak of the track. Literally, every one of these leads is different, but every one of them has similar qualities in that they all obviously have a unisoned "super" oscillator (saw or pulse) on one or both oscillators and a combination of both saw and pulse. Further, in Spire, they both use the perfecto or infected filter character and have little LFO or modulation. I suspect that they may also have a bit of "stacking" of multiple instances of Spire with slightly phased versions of the same patch (to 'glue' them together), then with the requisite delay, reverb, and distortion. I did a similar pluck in the lead for a 'proof of concept' track I released a couple of years ago using only a $5 Android cell phone DAW app with only onboard softsynths and a couple of percussion factory samples. That track is here: open.spotify.com/album/4y3RksTb318Wcqy7fqBSV7?si=U0W0XZBOSciL6pdtvho2ug In my move from Cakewalk refugee using Sylenth to Cubase Pro using Spire, Avenger, Synthmaster, Go2, and the Roland Cloud (as well as Sylenth and a bunch of hardware synths - TI2, Supernova2, JP-8000, Blofeld, AN1x, et al), for some reason I can't now seem to get anywhere close. I think that it's more about the synths and less about the sound design itself, so I guess this is more of a Spire question than a sound design question. A lot to unpack there, sorry. Obliviously I welcome feedback from any other viewers as well. Cheers!!
Thankyou. very informative, & well explained. i haven't really tried much sound design with spire YET, iv'e mostly just picked a preset i like & tweaked it abit, & i didn't even realise there was that other page of options to control stuff with lol .. i shall have a play with it later :)
I like to add white noise on them. Gives it better highs and that "airy" sound when the the cutoff is... All the way up? Would it be "all the way up" if it's not cutting anything? Anyway, you get the point.
Very complex tutorial. I don't have Spire but I have Serum. I've created a few from Hive into Serum...vast difference in the engines running the sound.
This is a demo process of the sound. Sorry if it’s miss leading but I don’t work to precise numbers so the final sound is not always identical unless I show the final preset design in editing at the beginning. 🎛
