 Hello, Oslo, it's Sink here. It's Halloween, which means that by the rules of the YouTube algorithm I am required to do a spooky video today So what I thought I would do is I would get some kind of Creepy video and then maybe do a sound design soundtrack over the top of it So I asked my friend Mark who's a video maker whether he had some Creepy footage just sort of lying around because he's the kind of guy that would he did he sent me Some stuff over and I cut it together into like two minutes of just sort of uneasy creepy kind of visuals So that left me with the question of what synth I was going to use to create the sounds and as it so happens I have just been sent this Which is the stylophone Gen X1 Those of you familiar with the original stylophone might know it to be quite a basic synth Basically, that's one sound and you play it with this little Stylus hence the name But Dubwreck who now owned the stylophone brand Brought out the Gen X1 which added some of the features that you might expect from a Proper synth so we've got a filter. We've got an LFO on here We've got an envelope and we've got a delay as well So I thought it'd be really interesting to take the Gen X1 and use it as the sole sound source for this creepy soundtrack Although I will also bring in the Palawa reverb, which is just out of shot up there Because you know you need reverb you always need reverb Okay, so I think the place where I'll start for this track is to give it an underlying sense of dread And I think the best way to create an underlying sense of dread is a good solid drone sound so The first thing we'll need to do Is tune this down so we have only got this Range here on the keyboard. We also have this ribbon controller Which allows us to do sort of pure glissando type stuff, which I will come back to you later I think for some other parts. So the first thing we want to do is on the back of the unit Just here there is a tuning control So just bear with me a moment While I tune it so I've just got a tuner on up on my computer screen through the Magic of editing this will probably not take very long at all Close enough for jazz so now I've done that That's some extra low-end but not enough yet So I'm just going to come on to the underside here. I don't know whether it will focus. There we go I think that's got it We've got these three buttons So we've got minus one minus two so those are sub-octaves one octave down two octaves down So let's start by introducing the one octave down there to give us a little bit more Low-end doom Immediately more doomful The other thing that I'm going to turn on here is the one that's marked X The one that's marked X enables pulse width modulation, which will Please the great Nick bat and also make everything sound better because it always does Nice the other thing I think that is good with a drone Is to introduce some kind of slow pitch wobble not very much just enough to make it feel a little bit uneasy So if we go over to the LFO by default, this is going to control the pitch I want it on the triangle wave for smooth for vibrato And we can turn up the depth Maybe drop the rate a little bit as well. Okay, so that's Starting to feel a little bit doomful, but it's too bright at the moment. So let's use our filter to take that down a little bit We can also increase the resonance extra bit of mid-range The resonance on this actually gets pretty screamy if you want it to already here. It's kind of Almost oscillating this But you do need to be careful it isn't robbed too much bottom end Okay, so that's sounding Somewhere decent I think But let's also turn on the delay to create extra drone movement And that's sounding pretty cool now And what I'll do during the performance if you like is that I can be tweaking the filter and Also the feedback level on the delay because this delay will go into self-oscillation so we can create sort of clattering menace Which we can then just back off just by bringing that feedback back And then I think the finish in touch here the seasoning on top I think if I reach across and I'll turn on my Polaro reverb Which is on a hall setting and so do two things one obviously You'll get that sort of long drawn out reverb But the other thing it will do is it will widen the sound as well because it's stereo reverb which I'll leave us with something like this Which I think sounds rather good, I think what I'll do is maybe double track two of these For double doom Okay, so next thing I want to lean into the fact that the style of phone is Delightfully cheesy when it wants to be so I thought what I'd try and do is create kind of a faux Theramint kind of sound to give it the kind of that B movie kind of vibe There's nothing spookier than a Theramint. I reckon so to play in commas And quotes rather the Theramint what we're going to use is this strip here Which gives us kind of like a full Glideable playing surface because otherwise we're not going to be able to do Kind of glissando type of stuff On the main keyboard, which is fine. So let's get our Theramint happening. So the first thing is It's a little bit bright, so let's just Bring that down a little bit and the other thing when we come to actually play it We can use the filter to get that kind of Fading in kind of thing that you can do with a Theramint That we can't do so easily here so next thing let's fake up some vibrato because With the Theramint you're constantly kind of giving it that sort of wobble Which is kind of part of the signature sound. So let's bring in the LFO this time for a little bit faster. So again on the triangle mode Fast on that Push the depth as far as we can without it sounding seasick Probably about there Let's bring in the delay again because you know, it's there. Why wouldn't you? Maybe I feel like a short kind of slapbacky type thing this time. That's feedback. Maybe This level feedback Something like that and let's bring in some reverb again I think this time maybe a spring sound might be nice sort of lean into that kind of vintage vibe So I've set the spring algorithm on the Polaro. I think that will work Okay, so what I think I want next is kind of like a pulsing bass Just maybe like even if it's just one note Just to kind of bring in partway through the track to kind of add to the building menace as the track builds up So I'm tuned Back up, but what we'll do is we'll turn on both the one octave down and that Two octave down as well and we'll put on the Pulse width modulation for good measure as well So that's our kind of our starting point and we'll darken that down because this is a bass And then we'll come over to the envelope the envelope by default is going to affect the filter So if we just bring up the decay a little bit Maybe down there a little bit of resonance, I don't know about you, but that's Quite a cool kind of classic bass sound So I was thinking rather than actually having to play a pulse Don't don't what if we just get the delay to do it? So let's slap that delay on and we'll just crank the delay time Bring up the level Yeah, the delay is not pristine We'll play it like that just try tweaking the Get the feedback so we're getting Four pulses and then I'll replay each time hold it down. Let it build up And let's give it some review as well. Just to keep with the theme I think maybe the plate algorithm this time be nicer did lay went slightly longer, but it is what it is I think and we can probably affect the filter Manually as the track progresses, I think that'll do very nicely indeed Okay, I think we're on the home straight here but I want to introduce a couple of other kind of effect II kind of things just to Bring about a great sense of unease in the listener And I think probably one way that we can create unease is by using kind of Fibrato and sort of out of tune II kind of sounds and we're just going to sweep them in now weave them into the track I think so Back at our kind of There's already some for our two on the kind of our bass line track here Well, let's bring about some vibrato. Let's go fairly deep. I think probably also maybe We played them On there maybe a little bit. Anyway, that's way too bright at the moment. So let's darken that down Let's also use the envelope we crank the attack and decay will get a natural filter sweep because the envelope is Normal to the filter and give it some delay a bit more resonance wider depth I think darker and more resonance perhaps Something like that and let's give it a little bit of reverb Maybe a room reverb this time Something like that. I think Okay, so I think I want to create one more kind of effect And then it's kind of the effect of skin crawling. So I'm thinking kind of like a something creepy crawly And I think the way I'm going to do this is by using the square wave on the LFO Do it quite fast and maybe adjust the rates to play and just kind of drag a sound Down here I've tuned up really really high Because I figure creepy crawly things of my pitch. Don't know. I might adjust the tuning. It's really high up at the top There isn't it too high? Probably too high Yeah, something like that. Okay, so let's Bring the rate up fairly high on the LFO and the depth up fairly high Actually, I'll have the pulse with modulation on just because I haven't for a while Faster than that. It's way too bright. So let's just bring the filter down some things I think like that That sounds not great at this point. I think I only need some delay It has almost like a Metallic sound to it So I think something like that. Maybe with a shorter delay time We need to be tweaking that delay time and getting those kind of pitch-bendy things happening Yes, so tweaking the rate and the delay time. I think there and Let's come full circle and I'll put a haul reverb on that perhaps Yes, I think that'll do very nicely Anyway, I hope you found that interesting and enjoyable and a little bit spooky as well If you did make sure you hit the old thumbs up button and make sure you subscribe to the channel So you don't miss out on any upcoming Synth fun on the channel and also make sure you check out the finished video Which will be linked in the description and also probably the thing will pop up there if I remember to do it You'll find it on the channel anyway. Thank you to Dubreck for sending this over for me to have a play with I've had good fun with it If you have any questions, of course, you can just drop me a line in the comments below and other than that Thank you so much for joining me as always take care and I'll see you again soon