Synthesizer Solo (Electro-Funk Style)

Sounds are all Logic:

Drums: EXS24 (samples from the old Sequential Drumtraks drum machine)
Guitar: two tracks, played live on a Gibson SG
Everything else: My own ES2 patches

Enjoy!

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• keyboard
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• apple
• funk
• electro
• jazz
• fusion
• soul
• rnb
• disco
• improvisation
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[chazzles93]

Very well done. Do you think it's possible to solo well on a 'keyboard' without pitch bend instead of using a synth? Some people are asking me to join their new funk band and I just wanted to get some insight before I decided. I don't think I could get a sound like that out of what I have.

[KeyboardMan1977]

@chazzles93 I personally wouldn't like soloing in this style without a pitchbend. To many of my "licks" are based on pitchbend use. BUT, if your keyboard has a legato/mono mode with portamento (or "glide"), then you could get a lot of the same effects, with some practicing... :) Good luck! Thanks for watching!

[mugabesunny]

how did you make that nice lead synth sound? do you have any tips for making this. did you use specific vst? thanks

[KeyboardMan1977]

@mugabesunny Thanks for watching and commenting!

The lead sound is Logic's ES2 Synthesizer, it basically works like all the old analog/subtractive synths. Three oscillators, two filters, two LFOs and three envelope generators.

I'm using two oscillators for this sound; osc1 is playing a square wave, and osc2 is playing a pulse wave. The width of osc2:s pulse wave is controlled by an envelope generator (very little), making it a bit thinner over time. (to be continued...)

[KeyboardMan1977]

@mugabesunny The same EG is also controlling the cutoff of a 12dB/oct low pass filter with a bit of resonance on it, it's doing that very commonly heard "aow" effect (though not so much of it). Both the filter EG and the amp EG has a bit of attack time to smoothen things out.

There's an LFO (trigged by the mod wheel) controlling the pitch of both oscillators, giving the sound some vibrato (allthough I like to play the vibrato using pitch bend most of the time, as you can tell from the video).

[KeyboardMan1977]

@mugabesunny (3rd and final part... LOL) Phaser, reverb and delay, and also I mixed in a bit of a pure sine wave after all the filtering (the ES2 has this function, very good for stabilizing a sound).

That's basically it. It's got that old-school analog vibe to it, but with a bit of different flavor, I guess.

[ElmoDoesCrazyShizzle]

I'm trying to make Madeon-esque house and this helped SO much. Any tips on how to make that bass and pad, mainly the bass?

[gamlefilm2]

request:

/watch?v=hJiKvkZUmXI

Can you play some of that solo( soli)?

[KeyboardMan1977]

@StopTheMoti0n :) Thank you!

[StopTheMoti0n]

excellent! now i remember why i subbed!